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[toddbaby.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess after that ridiculous post here I feel quasi-confident enough to make a serious one:

Has anyone ever thought about a procedure for requesting characters? To clarify...Say somebody needs someone else to play a character from their canon, even a walk-on. Or wishes to see a character from another canon for plot development purposes. I wonder if there couldn't be a bulletin board system of some kind (maybe even :gulp: another community) for this sort of "casting call."

What do y'all think?

And yes, I have an ulterior motive for asking this, but no, I'm not trying to revive my old and highly controversial debate. So no worries there.

Comments

[balletrat]

I think that actually makes a good deal of sense. It's even sort of thing could also be used to take care of another question that's come up recently - character trades. If there's a relatively unused character whom someone else wants, or wants to see in play . . .

(And don't worry about the number of communities; I've lost track of the number by now, so if no one's counting, then the extra one doesn't exist. Right? Right? *shifty*)

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Erm. I only know the number because I friend, if not join, every one of 'em. We're at 20 now.

Anyway, I recall seeing 'character requests' pop up in the back room from time to time; so long as you're not asking for a potentially controversial character *coughnazicough* I don't see why anyone would have a problem with it.

[toddbaby.livejournal.com]

I was thinking it could be used for character trades, too. :nods: I also thought there could be a template followed that would be posted on the main page of the community, to make it all easier. It would be like checking the classifieds. The only catch, of course, is that people would actually have to read the damn thing. @_@

[toddbaby.livejournal.com]

Anyway, I recall seeing 'character requests' pop up in the back room from time to time; so long as you're not asking for a potentially controversial character *coughnazicough* I don't see why anyone would have a problem with it.

Because I've yet to see that personally work for anybody. Not to mention the fact that I know I often feel awkward posting in the back room - I'd rather know there was something more specific for character requests, personally. The back room's just too much of a general forum...

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

. . .
Yes, you have a point there. I'm just saying that that's the current procedure for how to handle the situation. And the other idea, that it could be a sort of adoption agency for characters whose muns have to drop out but don't want to just abandon them, is a good plan.

[rimestock.livejournal.com]

You could always cross-post to the back room... or make a point of dropping in there to say "Hey, a character has been requested / offered up for adoption, if you've got an interest, pop on over to [whatever you name the community]!"