Fancake

Fancake is a thematic, multifandom rec community on Dreamwidth. It allows open posting for members, with some limitations laid out in the rules, such as a limit of three recs a day per member and no self-recs or WIPs. On the first of every month, a new theme is announced.
The community's extensive tagging system allows users to search by fandom, story length (in words or minutes), or theme. To allow searching by all of these plus pairing (or gen), character, creator, and reccer, the recs are also tagged at Fancake's Pinboard. Recs are mostly for fic, with podfic and a few vid and fanart recs in the mix.
Jerakeen made the first posts to the comm on December 11, 2010Fancake 11 December 2010 Accessed 10. November 2021 and the first recs were posted December 15, 2010 after the announcement of the first theme, Amnesia.Fancake 15 December 2010 Accessed 12/15/11 Fancake celebrated its first year anniversary on December 15, 2011.Apocalypse/Dystopia Round is Closed
Starting with round 20, the mods decided to try a new theme selection process: 
Fancake celebrated its second year anniversary on December 15, 2012.Minor Characters round is now closed. Also, fancake is officially two years old. The mod revealed some stats about Fancake in its 2 year run:
* We held 24 rounds, with 24 different themes,
* We posted 2,497 recs,
* We recced fanwork in 405 different fandoms,
* We had 168 different reccers,
* We built our DW membership to 554 members, 864 subscribers,
* We had a lot of cake (no statistics on this one yet, we're working on it.)
In early July 2019, jerakeen expressed the wish to step down as the comm's moderator and asked if anyone would be willing to take over.jerakeen: time to pass on the torch... Accessed 11. July 2019 Punk volunteered and became the comm's new mod.jerakeen: New Beginnings Accessed 11. July 2019 Fancake celebrated its ten year anniversary on December 11, 2020.Fancake is Ten! Accessed 10. November 2021
==Fancake Rounds and Themes==
Fancake has monthly rounds. The first round began on December 15th 2011,"And we have lift-off!", Fancake, 15 December 2010 and the first 36 rounds ran from the middle of one month to the middle of the next. Round 37 was only two weeks long, so that future rounds would start on the first of the month."Round 37: Amnesty", Fancake, 15 December 2013 On January 1, 2014, with round 38, the schedule was changed so that themes would last an entire calendar month.Round 38: Research Accessed 10. November 2021
Themes are voted on by community members. Suggestions for new themes are collected every December and then voted on in a massive Monster Poll.2021 Monster Theme Poll Accessed 10. November 2021 Those that qualify move on to the monthly polls that determine the next theme. 
Currently, every round has a single theme. Nine rounds every year have new themes. There are also two (April and August) annual Flashback rounds, which revisit a theme from the comm's early years, and an Amnesty round every December, where works that fit into any theme ever used in the comm's history can be recommended."Community Guidelines", Fancake, 22 July 2019 Between 2013 and 2019, the comm had Cupcake rounds in place of the current Flashback rounds, which had a different theme every week for a month, with the final week devoted to Amnesty."Cupcake Round! 34A: Creator Recs", Fancake, 16 September 2013 
As of August 2021, there have been 129 rounds, covering 143 themes (four themes have been repeated as flashback rounds, and there have been 21 amnesty rounds or amnesty weeks as part of cupcake rounds). The first Fancake theme was "Amnesia". A full list of Fancake's previous themes is maintained as a Google Doc.Fancake Themes With Tags Google Doc 
The first 12 Fancake themes, covering the comm's first year of operation, were:
* Round 1 - Amnesia
* Round 2 - Telepathy
* Round 3 - Superpowers
* Round 4 - Crossovers/Fusions
* Round 5 - Genderfuck
* Round 6 - Marriage
* Round 7 - Mythical Creatures
* Round 8 - Polyamory
* Round 9 - Hurt/Comfort
* Round 10 - Rare Pairings
* Round 11 - Science Fiction
* Round 12 - Apocalypse/Dystopia
==Fan Comments==
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== Recced Fics with Fanlore Pages ==
* Maternal Instinct, a gen Sentinel story by Autumn Skies.
* Jedi Harris, a BtVS/Star Wars crossover by The Dark Scribbler
* Will We Last the Night, a Sokka/Zuko ATLA story by CSHfic, VSfic
* Commander Fox's Ultimate Bucket List, Fox/Mace Windu Star Wars story by Blackkat
==References==
Category:Recommendation Sites Category:2010s