Fandom Inquiry: Possible Interest in a Community?

[themostepotente]

Some of you may recall this thread of mine.

What I was wondering was how many people would be interested in a community that centers around newer, unknown authors/underappreciated authors?

I'm more than willing to put the time into this as moderator, but there has to be enough interest for me to do so.

What say you?

--P

ETA: I would expand this to include fan artists as well.

Comments

[a_belladonna]

Sounds interesting. I agree with those who ask how "unknown", "underappreciated" etc is defined though - it's a tricky question. Perhaps you could look at the average amount of feedback the person receives or something?

[maeglinyedi.livejournal.com]

Right, and how do you know that author X, who only gets 3 reviews on lj, for example, doesn't have her stuff archived over at some pairing archive where there are dozens of reviews from hundreds of readers who have long since discovered her? Does that still make author X an 'underappreciated author'? Just saying. ;-)

[jetis.livejournal.com]

Ah, that reminded me of a friend who had just read A.J. Hall's stuff and she asked me why no one knew of this fabulous writer. And I was like, everyone does as far as I know.

Unknown itself, and then underappreciated is such a subjective term.

[a_belladonna]

Does that still make author X an 'underappreciated author'?
No, I wouldn't say that, just a bit invisible on LJ, perhaps. (But would author X feel underappreciated? Somehow I don't think so, but I have no way of knowing that)
I imagined you'd simply have to do the incredible boring and time-wasting thing and check and double-check on the authors, before reccing them as an "unkown" or "underappreciated" author.

I know that if I was going to rec someone that I thought was unknown/underappreciated, I'd do that. But perhaps it's just me being weird :-)