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Whenever I see someone saying AtLA fandom needs to be revived, I want to say "you're going to eat those words after the live-action movie comes out".

It also automatically turns me off of participating in anything with that label. Mostly because it strikes me as "you don't really pay attention to the fandom, do you?". I regularly post fics. Pux posts fics. Spyri posts fics. "Guide Me Home" updates several times a month. "Another Brother" is still going strong. Rin does writing memes all the time. othellia has an icon post every Friday. Whenever there's a new trailer for the live-action movie, there's a lot of wank discussion on the comm. There's racebending. Ali Wildgoose has some sort of Jetko AU going on. There's several active and high-traffic Avatar groups on dA. This is just the random stuff I can think of off the top of my head.

For a "dying" fandom, it's awful lively is all I'm saying.

Reminder: Jeeko Week

Jeeko Week begins in a week.

Request Meme Etiquette

Someone posts a request-a-fic meme! Shiny! You make a request! Shiny! They write for you! DAZZLING!

You never respond.

*brakes screech*

Yeah, when you do that? You're being a dick. Someone went to time and effort to write something just for you, based on the prompt you gave. It may not be what you wanted, but even if it isn't, you should still say 'thank you'.

You know why? Because it's hurtful to ignore, intentionally or not, something made specifically for you.

But I am disorganized, you say! I forget these things! I cannot be expected to keep track of things!

Well, the simplest method is to stop participating then. But we'll assume you don't want to do that.

- make a folder in your inbox specifically for the e-mail notifications you get of meme-fics that you haven't replied to yet. go through and clean it out every week by replying
- if you have a Paid account, adjust your message settings so the only entries that go into your LJ inbox are the threads you're tracking on request-memes. go through and clean it out every week by replying
- open the meme-fic in a new tab as soon as you get it. don't close the tab until you reply.

This isn't rocket science. A little extra effort on your part is all it takes to not hurt people you presumably don't want to be hurting.