It officially is, but only slowly actually gets there. The very banner text is authors-only: "Write, damn you, write". The round before last, every chat notice, every call for WIPs, every general cheerleading threads - they were all only oriented at authors. I've pointed this out to the mods and, like you said, was told this was something the volunteers there would have to do, which I agree it is. For that reason, I think it's very important that all members of that comm are aware that there's artists in their midst, and that if artists aren't very present right now it's partly because a great deal of them took one look at the comm and saw it wasn't calling to them.
This is a vicious circle, but one that already got a lot better last round because friends and I got up and posted and poked people more. It made me feel like an arrogant and annoying twat to always have to say in chats "and artists!" whenever people talked of posting participants and only meant writers. But I think it helped a bit. This year, it'd be very nice if more people remembered by themselves or if others artists stepped up. That's also why I'm not really for having a different comm for artists and for writers. For one we share a lot of elements, and secondly a big part of the problem is the separation everyone makes and being invisible. Doing our own things in another place would help with neither of those things.
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Date: 2012-01-08 04:32 pm (UTC)This is a vicious circle, but one that already got a lot better last round because friends and I got up and posted and poked people more. It made me feel like an arrogant and annoying twat to always have to say in chats "and artists!" whenever people talked of posting participants and only meant writers. But I think it helped a bit. This year, it'd be very nice if more people remembered by themselves or if others artists stepped up. That's also why I'm not really for having a different comm for artists and for writers. For one we share a lot of elements, and secondly a big part of the problem is the separation everyone makes and being invisible. Doing our own things in another place would help with neither of those things.