As a token of our appreciation and gratitude for the Dokuga Admins and Mods, who are forever giving up their sleep, growing grey hair, babysitting round the clock – all for the sake of us naughty people, Cakeiton and I are announcing the celebration of a Dokuga Moderator Appreciation Day! These lovely ladies have been working hard, since the site was created, to give us a safe, peaceful, happy and encouraging environment in which we can nurture our talent and enjoy our love for Sesshoumaru and Kagome. This isn’t a challenge, more like a festival! So let’s get together, Dokuga, and show our Mods some love!

Here are the rules:

1. Each Moderator/Admin will send us their favourite theme/plunnie (plot bunny, for those who are new to the term). For Mods who want to read GM (18+ ONLY) rated stuff, we will have TWO themes posted: one GM rated, which can be worked on only by members who are at least 18 years of age, and a regular theme, which can be worked on by anyone! The themes for each are posted below the rules.

2. Just pick the Mod you want to show your appreciation for, and write a fic or draw a fanart based on their theme. Stories can be either One-shots (minimum 1500 words) or a Drabble series (10 drabbles ONLY). Please keep in mind that all stories need to be COMPLETE when you post them. If you’re posting a Drabble series, please post all 10 drabbles together.

3. You can work on the themes for more than one Mod/Admin if you like. There are no restrictions on how much you want to contribute! If you’re at least 18, then you can work on GM theme and regular theme for the same Mod, if you want.

4. To all YIMs (people under the age of 18), DO NOT post a GM-rated fic or fanart. Our moderators and admins have ways of finding out if you’ve broken the rules and they don’t look kindly on it. This whole festival is a way to show our gratitude and love for them, NOT create problems that they need to chase down. So comply with the rules, please!

5. Mods are welcome to participate, too, if they want to say thanks or shower some love on other Mods!

6. Once you’re done with your entry, please post it to the site, and also put a link on this thread, so that we can find them easily.

7. And IMPORTANT: Whether you write or art, please ensure that you mention the name of the moderator whose theme you picked, in your summary of the work. It’s a way of stating who you are saying thanks to, and it makes things more special for everyone, especially them!

8. The festival ends at 11:59 p.m. on 30 APRIL 2011. That is, end of April. Dokuga was founded around the 24th of April, and for lack of a more precise option, we’ve settled on April as our Dokuga Moderator Appreciation Month!


There will be a big, beautiful banner, of course. The talented Jupe has generously agreed to create one, and it’ll be posted here as soon as she’s done with it.


Here are the Mod Files:


1. Sugar0o: Kagome as a demon (YIM and GM)
2. Priestess Skye: Prompt: Unnatural (YIM), Unnatural (GM)
3. Creature of Shadow: Wants to be surprised, surprise her! Likes MA fiction more, so we have both categories for her. In art, it doesn’t matter what rating. She does not like too much angst. Happy endings are a must for her and she would prefer keeping Sess as much in character as possible. She would also like it, if people made art for her fics.
4. Miss Kagura: Likes Pandas, Opossums and Firemen. Likes MA fictions a LOT, but YIM entries too!
5. Ladybattousai: She would prefer fanarts to be drawn for her fics. As fas as fanfics go, she likes relationships to be kept platonic, and she likes humour.
6. WiccanMethuselah: She asks for a happy ending and for Sess to be really...Sess...not too OOC. Aside from that, her tastes run the gamut. She doesn’t like cheesy, or too angsty fics, but apart from that anything goes.
7. Tangerine Dream: likes fluffy, romantic, humorous stuff. REALLY likes humour.
8. Rikayu: Theme - Stargazers/Stargazing. She really likes Stargazer Lilies; they are her favourite flowers, in fact. Also, she does not want anything smutty.
9. Velvet Sometimes: She hates love triangles and angst. She likes humour and light, happy fics! She'd like to read both GM and YIM fics, so give her both, peeps! She would love it if someone made art for her fics, too.

PLEASE NOTE: Forthright and Terri-tots have requested that their names be kept out of this list. So please accept their wishes and do not dedicate fanfiction or art to them!


Edit: (I've written this below as well, but I figured it would be better to add this here too, in case people don't scroll down)

There is NO limit to how many entries you can give in. If you wish to luff on more than one moderator, then you're welcome to submit as many entries as it takes, be they fics, art or both. Just remember to mention in the synopsis which mod you're dedicating each piece of work to. You cannot, however, dedicate one fic/art to multiple mods.


That said, let's get started! Post a link to your fic/art on this thread when it's complete and posted, and remember to give a warning if it's rated M or above!

Yay!! I'm so glad this is up!! Naq, thanks for all the organization!!! It looks great!

this is brilliant! We do appreciate the mommies that keep everything running smoothly and at the same time enjoyable~

Thankee Naq. This is awesome

This is such a great idea! And our modly mods have definitely earned it!

As this grows, can we get updated lists on which mods have received fics/arts to better keep track?

Thank you!

sure!! that can be easily done! thanks for the suggestion!

How come I don't get a bold and pink font? I'm gonna fix that!

...and then you went and chose the wrong pink. ::goes off to re-edit::

T.T I really want to do this. Hmmm.. Maybe if I get my essay done today and tomorrow, somehow get all my math magically caught up, I can! (My hw isn't due for a while in math, so I've been procrastinating. Now, it's piling up.)

If I get all this done, then I'm absolutely going to want to do this!

I think this is an awesome idea! I will force myself to make time for Dokuga Moderator Appreciation Day!!!!

I'm glad you guys like the idea! Just a reminder to everyone who's interested -

There is NO limit to how many entries you can give in. If you wish to luff on more than one moderator, then you're welcome to submit as many entries as it takes, be they fics, art or both. Just remember to mention in the synopsis which mod you're dedicating each piece of work to. You cannot, however, dedicate one fic/art to multiple mods.

Ohh, I'm glad this got approved! I'll definitely try to fit something in before the deadlines. =) Great job on this cakey and naq!

Don't thank us, just participate!

This gives me a new motivation to dust off my sketch pad- I've been thinkin on this angelic Kagome pic to do, but I could draw her as a youkai instead for r0o. She gives us such wonderful eye candy all the time, she deserves some arts done on her behalf .

And if I can scrounge good enough ideas out of the recesses of my currently (and suspiciously quiet) Plunnie Box, there will be fics churned out for the mods who prefer written tokens of appreciation. As for fic specific fanarts..... Looks like I'm going to be spending a lot of time reading over the next few days *sweatdrop*.

I love this idea you two! I'm definitely going to be partaking in this as well. I wonder how I missed this the last two days?!

tankoo!

This one's for Miss Kagura! I'm gonna try to get all of them though. It'll be a new challenge for me!

The Exterminator

I hope you like it! It's not MA, since I've never really tried one of those, but hopefully she'll like it anyways!

Luna wrote:
This one's for Miss Kagura! I'm gonna try to get all of them though. It'll be a new challenge for me!

The Exterminator

I hope you like it! It's not MA, since I've never really tried one of those, but hopefully she'll like it anyways!

Luna! Thanks so much!! Karma for you!

The banner will be up shortly, and I'm PM you with it when its ready. Thanks for the story *goes to read*

Luna wrote:
This one's for Miss Kagura! I'm gonna try to get all of them though. It'll be a new challenge for me!

The Exterminator

I hope you like it! It's not MA, since I've never really tried one of those, but hopefully she'll like it anyways!


woohoo! you get karma, from me too! congrats on being the first one! ::scampers off to read::

Awww this is wonderful! We definitely needed something to appreciate our wonderful and hard-working mods! Time to get the ideas going again.

This is such an amazingly fantastic idea! It is totally worth putting other stuff on hold cos we LOVE LOVE LOVE our Dokugian super mommies!

Super Mommies?! ::rolls:: Me likey the way you put it! Maybe I should change the name of the challenge to Luff On Dokuga's Super Mommies Day... ::smirkle::

<-- Not a mommy. Cop, maybe. Mommy, no!

equipped with sparkling pink baton of forum justice!

ladybattousai wrote:
<-- Not a mommy. Cop, maybe. Mommy, no!


...so...Beat Mom?

Say yes. You get cookies....sparkly, shiny, chocolatey cookies. Yum, yes?