Each preview picture in the claims post will also have a list of characters and a short summary, so that will hopefully give you a pretty good idea of what you're claiming. I can't guarantee that there will be gen or het art, but even if the picture is slightly slashy, like if it's only implied John/Rodney, you could write it a completely platonic gen-fic to go with it.
I'll be pretty flexible as to how the art and the fic go together, as long as 1) the fic includes all the characters in the artwork and 2) if the art portrays a scene, you have to include that as well. Ultimately it will be up to you and the artist you claim to work out how intertwined the art and fic will be.
So I guess the best way to make sure you claim an art piece that you like would be just to get to the claims post early. I'm sorry, I guess that's not much help :(
At the rate sign-ups are going, it's definitely looking like we'll have more authors than artists, so I'm probably going to do two fics per art.
If you do decide to participate, you can request to join the community with your OpenID account, so that shouldn't be a problem. One problem I can think of, though, is that the members-only posts probably won't show up on your LJ friends-page if you've subscribed to the RSS feed. But I'll be sure to send out emails about all the important stuff, so that shouldn't be a big issue.
I realize that it's not an ideal situation for LJ-only users, but I don't want anyone to feel left out, so I'll do my best to work around any problems the OpenID issue might cause.
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I'll be pretty flexible as to how the art and the fic go together, as long as 1) the fic includes all the characters in the artwork and 2) if the art portrays a scene, you have to include that as well. Ultimately it will be up to you and the artist you claim to work out how intertwined the art and fic will be.
So I guess the best way to make sure you claim an art piece that you like would be just to get to the claims post early. I'm sorry, I guess that's not much help :(
At the rate sign-ups are going, it's definitely looking like we'll have more authors than artists, so I'm probably going to do two fics per art.
If you do decide to participate, you can request to join the community with your OpenID account, so that shouldn't be a problem. One problem I can think of, though, is that the members-only posts probably won't show up on your LJ friends-page if you've subscribed to the RSS feed. But I'll be sure to send out emails about all the important stuff, so that shouldn't be a big issue.
I realize that it's not an ideal situation for LJ-only users, but I don't want anyone to feel left out, so I'll do my best to work around any problems the OpenID issue might cause.