Continuing from yesterday, Merit Badges.

[featherynscale]

[Poll #921821]

Badges suggested so far:

• Forward Thinker: Planning for retirement, 401k
  
• Homeowner: Having a Mortgage
  
• Overlord: Having at least three minions
  
• Work Ethics: Having time off left at the end of the year
  
• Parent: Birthing and raising a child through age five.
  
• Parent Success: All of your children have moved out of the house. (Either into a college dorm, or elsewhere.)
  
• Grandparent: Your child having a child of their own.
  
• Totaled: Surviving a car accident.
  
• Survivor: Surviving major surgery/life threatening illness
  
• Jailbird: Spending time in jail
  
• Conversion: Changing your religion
  
• Faithful: Avoiding changing your religion for some period of time
  
• Hitched: Getting married
  
• Available Again: Getting divorced
  
• Adults Can Play Too: Carrying over childhood games in an adult form
  
• Bedroom Superstar: (Several suggestions on this one)
  
• Pub Crawler: Knowing your wine, whisky, or beer
  
• Form Filler: Doing your own taxes
  
• Real Job: Holding a job where you earn more than $X, for more than Y length of time
  
• Meet the Parents: Surviving a holiday with your partner's family and not killing anyone
  
• Auto Owner: Paying off a car
  
• World Traveler: Visiting other continents (Maybe a badge for each continent?)
  
• Hangover Helper: Learning to drink without suffering for it later

Comments

Re: Maybe, if...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh, there would absolutely have to be a story in order to get a badge. And yeah, awful badges would be part of the game. I'm not sure if it would be a deal where some person (or team) would award badges, or if you'd just post your claim and then anybody in the group could give you a badge, or what. The second sounds like more fun, but could get messy. I dunno.

Re: Maybe, if...

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

How about the community is closed to post, and the official badges are awarded by the community Mods. To apply for a badge, you post your story. If you are awarded one, The mod posts the badge (in 100x100 format), in a special post, announcing the awarding, linking to the LJ entry of the story, or retelling it (with pictures and what not) behind a cut if it isn't already on the web someplace.

Then, when the Badge winner gets the badge, they can either make it an LJ icon (and link to the community's entry where it was awarded) or they can put it in their profile, again with a link.

I can write up a bit of basic HTML for a table that looks vaguely like a sash, and the mods can include a snippet of cut-and-paste HTML for the badge winner to put it into their sash-table on the profile page.

Also, the Mods can keep the profile for the community updated with the currently available merit badges.

Re: Maybe, if...

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

Again, you win.