heather8615

Anna & I will try to do our best to manage this beast!! Thank you all for your kind words!

I've updated the OP with Issi's latest Catherine icons

The OP is no where near finished, but I'll try to fit in an episode category so we can start that

firewall

Good things come to those who wait. Right, Heather?

Thanks for all the gorgeous icons Natalie and Issi! Love them all.

itsmemandy

Lovely icons everyone
Catherine's smile is the cutest thing I've ever seen

Regbo Girl

Thanks Heather and Anna for all the work on the OP If you need help sometime, I'll be glad to help

heather8615

Good things do come to those who wait! (Hopefully we wont keep you waiting too long )

Thank you Sheila!!!

kerbear28

Here you go, Heather. Ask away.

heather8615

Thank you Keri!!

I've changed up the OP a little. I haven't changed anything yet, just some minor format changes, added in new characters/pairings, and added in the episode section.

I have 2 questions:
1. Should I change the "ladies" sections to individual sections for Greer, Kenna, and Lola (Although technically she isn't a lady anymore)? Or leave it as is?

2. What do you think of the episodes section? I feel like it makes the OP a little long. Anyone have any suggestions to make it look better?

I tried to think of any new people/pairings that need a section in the OP, if I've missed any or you would like to see someone in particular please let me know!

firewall

I think it's best to keep the Ladies In Waiting in one section and maybe cut down on some of the other character sections? Like, we can keep Mary, Francis, Catherine, Bash and LIW and then have a section for other supporting characters, which would include Leith, Conde and Narcisse. In fact, maybe we should title a section Men of the Court and lump those three together, along with Nostradamus and Castleroy.

I think the episode sections are the ones that everyone here specifically wanted, so I think it's OK to leave them, but maybe there is a better way to condense them so they aren't so long?

I don't know. This is so hard.

heather8615

The Men of Court, I LIKE IT! Thanks Rachel! I'll go fix that right now
Are there any pairings/characters I've missed?

This is exactly what I'm struggling with. I want to condense it a bit, but I don't know how to format it that way.
So I'm open to suggestion, anyone have any idea how we could do this?

Regbo Girl

I wish I could help but I have zero creativity for OPs (and it's 3am ). The only thing I can think of to make the OP shorter is to do something similar to what we have in the Frary OP with the past threads, like just have the more recent icons on the OP and the rest linked in a tumblr post?

firewall

I'll do some "research." There are probably other threads we can learn from.

heather8615

Thank you Rachel! and thank you Sheila for your suggestion

A_shiningstar

Ok here are a few ideas I have...probably not any good but just ideas. Not based on research or anything.

For each pairing and all characters instead of having the placeholders for more links (the numbers), maybe just go like 5 numbers or one line of numbers out from whatever the last link was. Does that make sense? Will that even help?

Example the Francis icon last link is currently 44. The placeholders would then stop at 50. by using my suggestion. The placeholders currently go to 60 for him.

Also is the font different or is it bigger in the characters section after Catherine. All the numbers seem larger from Francis and on. Could just be me...?

And while I love the idea of the episodes section...I think it might be a lot of tedious work to do Season 1 like this...and as much as I want that...maybe just do the episodes section for Season 2? Is that ridiculous? I am probably no help.

heather8615

Things might be different font/sizes, I've only moved things around I haven't made too many changes to what it was previously. I will work on making everything uniform
I like your idea of cutting down on the placeholders a bit.

Season 1 sorting can be a work in progress for as long as it takes to finish. My main focus is going to be organizing & reinventing the OP a bit. After we have redesigned the OP, I can work on sorting out the season 1 episodes little by little.
We can start season 2 now, so it doesn't have to be such a huge task later on.

How does that sound?

A_shiningstar

It sounds good. I'm impressed by anyone designing/revinventing and organizing an OP. Great work!