Sherlock BBC Prompting Meme

FAQ

2015-06-12T22:18:17Z

Frequently Asked Questions

ABOUT THE MEME
What is a kink meme?
What is a prompt freeze (and when do they occur)?
What’s the meme’s policy on underage prompts and fills?
Is RPF allowed?
Things that we appreciate.
     Nesting your fills
     Titling your fills
     Using subject lines
What are RTYIs and when are they appropriate?
What is the meme’s policy on spoilers?
What is hijacking?
What is kinkshaming?
What is flaming?

COMMON PROBLEMS
‘Why can’t I see my post?’ or ‘Why was my post deleted?’
What happened to my formatting?

PROMPTING
How do I post a prompt?
How often can I prompt?
Why are people ‘claiming’ prompts?

FILLING
How do I post a fill?
I’m interested in filling a prompt, but it’s from one of the older/full parts.
What happens if a prompting post reaches 9500 comments and I’m not done posting my WIP?
I filled a prompt, but it has not been added to the FPP yet. What do I do?
Can I fill my own prompt?
A fill seems to have been abandoned. Can I take over and fill it instead?
Where can I find a beta?

CLARIFYING ASPECTS OF FANDOM (I keep seeing ______. What is _______?):
What is Omegaverse?
People often write ‘Mycroft says X’ in their posts. What does it mean?
What’s with Anderson and the dinosaurs?
What’s with John and Jam?
What is the Wotsits theory?
What’s with Sherlock’s shirt-buttons?
What’s the origin of John’s red pants?
Who is Hamish?
Why does everyone keep implying that Mycroft has a carnal relationship with cake?
What is this otter thing?
What is this hedgehog thing?

MISC.
Useful acronyms
Useful HTML
     Spoiler cuts
     Inserting an image
     Typeface formatting
There are so many good prompts! How can I keep track of them?
My question has not been answered here, what should I do?

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Introductory Post

2015-06-10T21:10:33Z

Welcome to the BBC Sherlock kink meme! We are pleased to have you here. If this is your first visit, please check out our FAQ. Before you start browsing and prompting, please take a moment to read this post; it was written to help you have an optimal experience here.

For any and all questions, comments, or concerns regarding any part of the meme, use the Page-A-Mod post after checking to see whether your question is answered in the FAQ.

General guidelines:

Anon posting is not required, but most definitely allowed. If you think you recognise an anon, keep it to yourself and don’t out them. IP tracking is off, and will remain that way.

Multiple fills are encouraged, and all kinds of fills are accepted! Fic, art, vids, cosplay, interpretive dance--whatever. Go wild! :D

RPF (real person fic, i.e. fic involving the actors themselves) is not supported at this meme.

Concrit is welcome, but kinkshaming, hijacking, and flaming are not tolerated.

Prompting/filling:

Current Prompt Post: Where all the new prompts should go. Check the top of the post to see whether there's a freeze going on.

Overflow post part III: This post is for filling prompts from prompt posts that have more than 9500 comments.

Filled Prompts Post (Parts 1-23): This is an archive created to make it simple for people to browse through both filled and unfilled prompts. When you fill something, you have to use it to archive your fill.

Filled Prompts Post (Parts 24-36): Same as above, but for prompting parts 24 to 36.

Filled Prompts Post (Parts 37+): Same as above, but for prompting parts 37 and up.

Filled Prompts Post (Spoiler-free): Same as above, but for the spoiler-free prompting post.

The meme's Pinboard archive, the meme's Delicious archive (and the guide that explains how the archive works).

Links to previous prompting parts:
Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V
Part VI - Part VII - Part VIII - Part IX - Part X
Part XI - Part XII - Part XIII - Part XIV - Part XV
Part XVI - Part XVII - Part XVIII - Part XIX - Part XX
Part XXI - Part XXII - Part XXIII - Part XXIV - Part XXV
Part XXVI - Part XXVII - Part XXVIII - Part XXIX - Part XXX
Part XXXI - Part XXXII - Part XXXIII - Part XXXIV - Part XXXV
Part XXXVI - Overflow post part I - Overflow post part II

Affiliates / Other links:

sherlock_rants: A place to rant about or discuss anything with few to no restrictions.

sherlock_rpf: This is a kinkmeme for RPF about the show.

sherlockcrit: A multi-fandom betaing/concrit community, with a focus on BBC Sherlock.

sherlockbbc: A community dedicated to the BBC adaptation of Sherlock Holmes.

Useful resources for Sherlock and LiveJournal.

Sherlock screencaps.

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Overflow Post III

2015-06-10T19:19:23Z

This post is for responding to prompts from prompt posts that are full (or were on LJ), or continuing WIPs that were started on prompt posts that have since filled up or are close to full (or were on LJ).

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The Filled Prompts Post #3: Parts 37 and forward

2015-06-10T18:59:39Z

Welcome to the Filled Prompts Post for Parts 37 and forward.
If you filled a prompt on LJ from Parts 1-23, please use the FPP #1.
If you filled a prompt on LJ from Parts 24-36, please use the FPP #2.
If you filled a prompt from the Spoiler-free post, use this FPP instead.

This is an archive created to make it simple for people to browse through both filled and unfilled prompts.

Let me explain how this works:

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Page-A-Mod!

2015-06-10T18:53:52Z

This post is basically for any and all questions, comments, or concerns regarding any part of the meme. Users can post here to get in touch with the mods without de-anoning.

However, you might get an answer faster if you try looking at our FAQ before you contact us. If the answer to your question isn’t in there, go ahead and ask us!

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Prompting Part XXXVII

2015-06-10T18:49:01Z

This is the new prompting post for the Sherlock Prompting Meme. Prompts from LJ can still be filled there with links here or filled here in the new overflow post.

GUIDELINES

Anon posting is not required, but most definitely allowed. If you think you recognise an anon, keep it to yourself and don’t out them. IP tracking is off, and will remain that way.

Multiple fills are encouraged, and all kinds of fills are accepted! Fic, art, vids, cosplay, interpretive dance — whatever. Go wild! :D

Please do not re-post prompts unless the last time they were prompted was on an older part. Simply put: ONE posting of each prompt per part.

RPF (real person fic, i.e. fic involving the actors themselves) is not supported at this meme.

Concrit is welcome but kinkshaming, hijacking, and flaming are not tolerated.

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Migration and Livejournal CAPTCHA issues discussion post

2015-06-08T15:52:59Z

We're having widespread issues with CAPTCHA on LJ. I've turned it off, but it’s appearing automatically on all posts, even those with fewer than 5000 comments.

In the past, the mods have discussed the possibility of a move to Dreamwidth. Our plans were to wait until we needed to open a new post, then open that new prompting post on DW itself. The older posts would have been imported to DW for backup purposes, but frozen so that new comments could not be posted on them to DW. The old posts on LJ would have been left open so that people interested in filling prompts on them could continue to do so. New comments would have been periodically backed up to the DW posts. This would have left anyone searching the LJ meme for fic with as complete an archive as possible while permitting us the security of having a complete backup on DW.

How will a migration affect the current prompting and overflow posts?
We have had a Dreamwidth backup of the meme for some time. In the past, we have had issues updating comments on posts, and have lost some comments posted directly on DW (by ourselves; no fic was lost, only some testing comments that we made) when updating those posts with comments from LJ. The issues related to that have been solved, but because of concerns like that, I would feel most comfortable opening a new part entirely when we migrate. We could call the first new prompting post Part XXXVI version II and the new overflow post Overflow Post III. People who would prefer to fill on LJ (assuming anonymous commenting is ever fixed there) can feel free to continue to do so on LJ’s Overflow Post II and older prompting posts. Those who prefer using DW alone can use Overflow Post III and the new prompting posts.

How will a migration affect the fic archives? (Pinboard, Delicious)
The plan is to continue archiving fic with links directing to where they were posted on LJ. Fic on future overflow and prompting parts posted directly to DW will be archived with links to DW.

Our extended plans for the archive are to have a second version that contains only links to the DW entries of fics. This is a secondary concern for us because commenting would be frozen on the posts the older fics would be archived on, so new readers could not leave comments on the fics they’d read. Our plans for this archive were to look at the FPP page-by-page entries listing the fics on LJ, look at the appropriate spot on the page on DW, use the link to the fic on LJ to find it in the LJ delicious archive, and then manually copy the entry over onto the DW delicious archive with a DW link. At the moment we do not have enough archivists to work on this, but those are our ideal long-term plans.

I’ve opened this post on Dreamwidth with anonymous commenting enabled in order to hear your opinions and suggestions on this.

ETA:

We're Migrating.

Please tell me here or at the Page-A-Mod post if you've noticed anything I've missed.

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