Player Page Updated! | FAQ: "Can I 'Unclaim' Cards?"

[dawn_felagund]

Player Page Updated!
At long last, the player pages have been updated! Now we can all see how deep we're in it come March you can see the cards you've signed up to play all in one place. All card requests sent by this point should be reflected on your player page. (You can check your player page on the SWG or check your player page on MPTT.) Please look to make sure that you have all of the cards you've requested. My comods and I have received hundreds of B2MeM-related emails at this point, and mixups are bound to occur. If something doesn't look right, either leave me a comment here or drop me an email at DawnFelagund@gmail.com and I will fix it as soon as possible.

If you want to display your cards someplace (like your journal or personal website), you are welcome to "hotlink" to your player page on our server. If you need help doing this, just ask. As you earn stamps, we will update your player page so that you can see your progress (and everyone else's!).

FAQ: "Can I 'Unclaim' Cards?"
I've been asked by a couple of people now about "unclaiming" cards. Some of us went a little claim-crazy at the start of the challenge without realizing how many more awesome cards our card-creators would dream up. So ... can you "unclaim" a card?

Yes, with caveats. First of all, remember, you don't have to play a card, even if you claim it. You might claim 20 cards that look interesting but only have time or end up wanting to write for 2 or 3 of them. This is perfectly okay! :)

If you're absolutely certain that you don't want to play a card, I can remove it for you. However, I have to be perfectly honest that, with the popularity of this event and the constant backlog of BINGO cards and player page updates, this is a low-priority task for me, and the challenge may well begin with the cards you don't want still on your player page. If you want a card removed from your player page, just drop me an email at DawnFelagund@gmail.com, and I'll do my best to get this done for you.

Any other questions weighing on your mind? Please ask them here or drop me or one of the other B2MeM mods a PM or email! :)

Finally, for the numerically inclined ...

There are currently 52 53* cards available (I have several more that will be posted within the next few days) that were created by 23 different card creators. That comes to a grand total of 1,248 different prompts/challenges!

There are currently 44 participants who have signed up to play. They have claimed a total of 309 cards (an average of 7 cards per participant).

* I accidentally overwrote the Dwarves of the First Age card when I uploaded an old version of the page. Sorry, havamahal!

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

I figured out what happened! I have the claim.php file saved in two places: in my Dropbox folder, so that I can access it on all of my computers, and on my hard drive on my home computer. I added the Dwarves card while at the ski lodge when my husband went snowboarding, saved it in Dropbox, and uploaded it to the site from Dropbox. Then I went home, added the next round of cards to the version saved on my home computer (without adding the Dwarves to that version), and uploaded that version to the site. Grrrrr, Felagund! :D I'm going to delete that extra version at home so it doesn't happen again. There's no need to make myself more likely to make a mistake (and I'm so used to working on the site from my home computer files that I can almost guarantee it will happen again if I don't delete it).

They're all so wonderful it's nearly impossible to pick just a few of them.

That's why you should claim all of them and then join b2memsupport to commiserate with others of us who have ... um, gone a bit overboard.

>:^D

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

*hangs her head in shame* I think I'll have to do just that, because this is seriously getting out of hand. Not only am I addicted to claiming cards, I'm also addicted to making them!

Help?

(or I might create another 2 or 3 of those little monsters)

[dawn_felagund]

I'm probably the worst person to ask for help because I usually spend a couple of hours each day, at least, working on B2MeM stuff! :D Y'all should stay clear of me; it seems to be catching! ;)

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

Too late for that, I think. :/ We're already doomed.

(Lol! Gollum couldn't resist the pull of the cards either?)

[dawn_felagund]

Silmarils, Rings of Power, BINGO cards ...

Oh, how far we have fallen! ;)

shadowbrides made it. I think it captures BINGO card mania perfectly! :D

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

I couldn't stop laughing when I saw it. Good job!


Silmarils, Rings of Power, BINGO cards ...

Did you notice that's all Fëanor's fault?

- no Fëanor -> no Silmarils
- no Fëanor -> no Celebrimbor -> no Rings of Power
- no Fëanor (and his sons) -> no SWG -> no B2MeM -> no Bingo cards

Just wait till I get my hands on him...

[dawn_felagund]

Did you notice that's all Fëanor's fault?

I'm working on a Feanatics BINGO card, and you just gave me an idea for one of the spaces!

Everything Good Can Be Credited to Feanor

(Everything bad, too, but that wouldn't belong on a Feanatics card!)

Just wait till I get my hands on him...

LMAO! >:^)

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

You're making Feanatics card?! *beams* Oh, yes, please!

Maybe I should reconsider making that AU card I've been working on afterall - just to balance the things. "World without Fëanorians." /~erase Fëanor and/or his sons from Tolkien's world and show how would the events of Arda unfold without them~/ That should please people, who don't like them. ;) (And make them realise how important they really are.)

Just imagine Sons of Fëanor never attacking Doriath. Elwing never has to escape Doriath, doesn't meet Eärendil, Elrond and Elros are never born, there's no Númenor, no Gondor, no Aragorn, no Arwen, no one helps Bilbo and his companions on their Quest, Bilbo never gets the Ring (if the Rings of Power are even made!) and so on.

Or the story about Beren and Lúthien. No Silmarils, no quest? Or if Silmarils are made by someone else, no Celegorm and Curufin and no Huan?

Why would Noldor leave Aman? Would they leave at all? Would Kinslaying ever happen? Would they still cross Helcaraxë? Would the ships still burn?

Who would end up on Thangorodrim instead of Maedhros? Fingolfin?

Shelob and Frodo without the phial of Galadriel?

Would the Valar show any mercy to Eärendil, if he came to Valinor without one of the Silmarils?

Would Denethor be more sane, if palantír wouldn't exist? Would he survive the War? What about Saruman without his palantír?

Who would make the Rings of Power? Who would make Silmarils?

Would Galadriel be the mightiest of Noldor, if Fëanor never existed?

But my favourite has to be Aredhel as Huan's mistress instead of Celegoorm. I think they'd get along quite nicely.

Oh, and no desire to see C&C, no marriage to Eöl, no Maeglin, no fall of Gondolin? Now where's the fun in that?


Oh, who am I kidding? This will never be done. :(( I'm terrible at making prompts.

Just ignore this, please.

[dawn_felagund]

You are much too hard on yourself! I think it's a cool idea, and the cards you've made so far show that you're definitely not bad at making prompts ... or at making nice-looking cards, for that matter! :)

The Feanorians are really responsible for the very fact that we have a story at all! :) If Feanor hadn't taken the Noldor back to Middle-earth, then Melkor would have run roughshod over the people there again, there'd be no Earendil, no War of Wrath, none of the many positive things that came from the Feanorians' role in the world that you point out! To me, this has always been an example of the larger theme that even bad things (like kinslayings) end up doing good or beautiful things in the end.

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

And that's almost exactly what Tolkien says in Silm and puts the words in Eru's mouth. All the evil that was done on Arda had its purpose - to create something even more beautiful. I suppose we could say this was one of the things Fëanorians were meant to do all along. I mean, besides making the whole story more interesting (and tragic).

You are much too hard on yourself!

Nope. I'm just being realistic.