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hs_olympics2012-05-19 02:02 pm
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Team Shuffle & Announcements
Hey shippers!
This is the Team Shuffle post. Feel free to beg, bribe, cajole, and convince others to join your teams here! But hang on a sec, we've got some announcements first.
A lot of you have started bonding on your team comms, which is great! We wanted to suggest a few questions for you to ask while your team is still getting to know each other. All of this stuff is pretty basic and necessary, but you'd be surprised how often people forget to ask!
*Quick reminder that 'male pronouns' and 'female pronouns' aren't really a thing that exist; for example, people who are female use a variety of pronouns, and not everyone who uses 'she/her' is female!
If you haven't joined your team community (and your palhoncho has already created it), please get on that ASAP! If you do not join by June 1, 11:59PM EDT, you will be considered a no-show and your sign-up will be rendered invalid. The only exception is for communities that form less than 48 hours before June 1, 11:59PM EDT; they will be given an extra 24 hours to sign up.
And lastly, some of you know this already, but we're disallowing team switches starting on June 1, 11:59PM EDT. This is in order to give the mods 24 hours to sort out final team rosters and prep the spreadsheets before the games begin in earnest. You can still switch teams after the HSO starts, but you must follow the procedure outlined in the FAQ. If you are not on a confirmed team by June 1, 11:59PM EDT, your sign-up will be considered invalid and you will not be able to participate in HSO 2012.
On May 28, in 10 days, we'll be asking people to contact their palhonchos for a roll call, either on your comm or via email. If you do not respond within four days or arrange for your absence beforehand, you will be considered a no-show and your sign-up will be rendered invalid.
This is the Team Shuffle post. Feel free to beg, bribe, cajole, and convince others to join your teams here! But hang on a sec, we've got some announcements first.
A lot of you have started bonding on your team comms, which is great! We wanted to suggest a few questions for you to ask while your team is still getting to know each other. All of this stuff is pretty basic and necessary, but you'd be surprised how often people forget to ask!
- Preferred pronouns*
- Time zone
- Preferred method of contact/communication
- Media that you work with
*Quick reminder that 'male pronouns' and 'female pronouns' aren't really a thing that exist; for example, people who are female use a variety of pronouns, and not everyone who uses 'she/her' is female!
If you haven't joined your team community (and your palhoncho has already created it), please get on that ASAP! If you do not join by June 1, 11:59PM EDT, you will be considered a no-show and your sign-up will be rendered invalid. The only exception is for communities that form less than 48 hours before June 1, 11:59PM EDT; they will be given an extra 24 hours to sign up.
And lastly, some of you know this already, but we're disallowing team switches starting on June 1, 11:59PM EDT. This is in order to give the mods 24 hours to sort out final team rosters and prep the spreadsheets before the games begin in earnest. You can still switch teams after the HSO starts, but you must follow the procedure outlined in the FAQ. If you are not on a confirmed team by June 1, 11:59PM EDT, your sign-up will be considered invalid and you will not be able to participate in HSO 2012.
On May 28, in 10 days, we'll be asking people to contact their palhonchos for a roll call, either on your comm or via email. If you do not respond within four days or arrange for your absence beforehand, you will be considered a no-show and your sign-up will be rendered invalid.
Team Sollux<>Karkat needs 1 more member for confimation!
Please come to our aid, you the valiant of this fandom, for the ship is fantastic and awesome and deserves the chance to shine that it seldom gets.
You see, Sollux and Karkat would make excellent moirails.
-They talk to each other ALL THE TIME. They are certainly two of the best-friendsiest sets of best friends in Homestuck.
-They don't put up with each other's shit. At all. And they deal with each other's issues in manners that aren't intolerably coddle-ish but undeniably caring in their own ways.
-OK, they care about each other SO MUCH. I mean look at Karkat's history of acrobatic fucking pirouettes off the handle when Sollux is injured/dead. Look at Sollux's (relative) gentleness the last time we see him interact with Karkat.
And look at all the potential we have for fanwork:
-Fluffy happies-- and don't they deserve it after all they've been through?
-Angsty unrequiteds-- FROM EITHER SIDE OMG (I mean both of them have plenty of other ship interests in this quadrant)
-As paired with yummy and delicious matespritships, kismessitudes, and ashen trios
-AUs in which they can be just as awesome as they are in canon
the po22iibiiliitiie2 are endle22
Fics involving this lovely pairing include this lovely specimen plus like a bazillion more
and think of the awesome art too!!!
but all this amazingness can't happen unless we get one more person for our team, so please switch or tell your friends to switch for the sake of Karkat<>Sollux!
Thank you!!!
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