Yes, point taken about it being so different it's actually a new Bang entirely. We'll see what others think but it doesn't have to be linked to the Reversebang or seen as an evolution of that challenge - the main connection is the current mods! From what I've experienced, most of the people who express definite interest in doing a complement in the party post do sign on, but we'd also have a guarantee that all creators would get a minimum of one complement. The spreadsheet is totally stolen from elsewhere so it may well contain weirdnesses which is why we need feedback to fine-tune it. I assume by outrageous you mean that's too many tracks required for the fanmix? I don't make fanmixes so I wouldn't know. How many tracks would be a reasonable number for a "primary" project, do you think? 20 songs? (Thinking about how much time and effort a long fic would take to write, or a long podfic to record and edit, or a detailed artwork to finish). Yes, each team is centered around a primary fanwork. That fanwork will contain various things to inspire people making complements. But the people making complements might not be inspired by the same thing so there's no overall theme for that "team", although the team's generally named after the primary work. So, say Busaikko's art from the last Reversebang was a primary in this new Bang - it would give rise to a team called "Team Space" (the 5 artworks of SGA women against space backgrounds). For complements, someone might write a set of 5 short AU fics setting the women back in the C19th, and another person might do a fanmix with a couple of tracks representing each artwork, and someone else might write meta about women in Stargate canon, and in the history of science. Linked, but not necessarily on the same theme. People can be as varied and creative as they like. As to "how might one write a fic based off of metalworking/macaroni castles, etc?" - I'm sure it's possible! Like I said, the complement doesn't have to be a literal interpretation of the primary work. It's more like the complementers riff off the team's central work, rather than faithfully interpreting it in some definitive way. I've certainly seen it in reverse, where a primary fic led to a complementer making jewelry for one of the characters, and I've seen knitted complements, although sadly, no one's done the macaroni sculpture thing yet. :)
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From what I've experienced, most of the people who express definite interest in doing a complement in the party post do sign on, but we'd also have a guarantee that all creators would get a minimum of one complement.
The spreadsheet is totally stolen from elsewhere so it may well contain weirdnesses which is why we need feedback to fine-tune it. I assume by outrageous you mean that's too many tracks required for the fanmix? I don't make fanmixes so I wouldn't know. How many tracks would be a reasonable number for a "primary" project, do you think? 20 songs? (Thinking about how much time and effort a long fic would take to write, or a long podfic to record and edit, or a detailed artwork to finish).
Yes, each team is centered around a primary fanwork. That fanwork will contain various things to inspire people making complements. But the people making complements might not be inspired by the same thing so there's no overall theme for that "team", although the team's generally named after the primary work. So, say Busaikko's art from the last Reversebang was a primary in this new Bang - it would give rise to a team called "Team Space" (the 5 artworks of SGA women against space backgrounds). For complements, someone might write a set of 5 short AU fics setting the women back in the C19th, and another person might do a fanmix with a couple of tracks representing each artwork, and someone else might write meta about women in Stargate canon, and in the history of science. Linked, but not necessarily on the same theme. People can be as varied and creative as they like.
As to "how might one write a fic based off of metalworking/macaroni castles, etc?" - I'm sure it's possible! Like I said, the complement doesn't have to be a literal interpretation of the primary work. It's more like the complementers riff off the team's central work, rather than faithfully interpreting it in some definitive way. I've certainly seen it in reverse, where a primary fic led to a complementer making jewelry for one of the characters, and I've seen knitted complements, although sadly, no one's done the macaroni sculpture thing yet. :)