Week 10 - March 5th to March 11th

[akamine_chan]

Community News and Announcements

• Announcements
  
  • The Organization for Transformative Works is holding its second annual membership drive. This is the perfect time to contribute to this worthy organization. See this post for more details.
    
• Awards
  
  • The 29th Genie Awards are scheduled for April 4th in Ottawa. Nomination highlights include four for Normal (including one for CKR), six for Passchendaele (including one for Best Picture and one for PG).
    
  • Best Motion Picture Nominees.
    
  • The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts have announced the winners.
    
  • Paul Gross, Robert Lepage among arts awards recipients.
    
  • The Writers Guild of Canada has announced the finalists for the WGC screenwriting awards.
    
• Chats
  
  • Next week's C6D chat will be held on March 14th and will feature Whiskey Echo Part 1, starting at 8 PM EST. Contact sisterofdream for more information.
    
• Conventions
  
  • Muskrat Jamboree 2009 has been scheduled for April 3rd and April 4th, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts. Registration is closed. Muskrat Jamboree is a mutli-fandom, slash-oriented con. Check out the con community muskratjamboree or contact a member of the con committee brooklinegirl, driense, kageygirl, misspamela or mrsronweasley for more information.
    
    
  • Muskrat Jamboree is now Twitter-ified. See this post for more details.
    
    
  • Song selection for the Friday night dance party is going on.
    
    
  • Information about the charity raffle.
    
• Communities
  
  • bsg_pornbattle is holding a porn battle. A porn battle is several days of ruthless, frenzied porn creation in all forms - fanfic, art, vids - based on fan-submitted prompts, and the posting of those works to a LiveJournal community for all to enjoy. Please stop by and check it out.
    
  • the_gross_news is a newsletter for all Paul Gross topics and discussions on Live Journal other than his work in Due South.
    
• Movies
  
  • Cancon family dramas, horror and docs to screen at MoMA.
    
• Politics
  
  • Ottawa to merge TV and Web funds.
    
  • CBS, NBC buy Canadian TV shows to save on costs.
    
  • New federal media fund to promote HD, web programming.
    
  • Canada rejects cutback on U.S. series buys.
    
  • Minister of Heritage Visits Flashpoint Set.
    
  • Flashpoint set hosts announcement of Canadian TV funding changes.
    
  • Ottawa announces Canada Media Fund; will promote programming on all platforms.
    
  • Ottawa announces Canada Media Fund.
    
  • Canadian biz mulls TV fund change.
    
  • CBS, NBC Buy Canadian TV Programs to Save on Costs.
    
  • Some urban thoughts.
    
• Television
  
  • Rebecca Romijn to star in ABC pilot.
    

Battlestar Galactica

• Challenges/Ficathons
  
  • bsgficexchange runs until April 1st, 2009.
    
  • bsg_pornbattle is hosting a battle. Prompting runs from March 20th to March 23rd and posting run March 25th to March 29th.
    
• Fanfic
  
  • Bonfire (Kara, R) by akamine_chan.
    
  • Untitled (Kara/Leoben, PG) by lyssie.
    
  • Something Infinite (Sam/Leoben, PG13) by zooeyrye.
    

BMcD

• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • Mutant, magical Canadian filmmaker creates zombie romance.
    
  • From Pontypool to the Metaverse in 98 minutes: A Conversation with Bruce McDonald.
    
  • Interview: Bruce McDonald.
    
  • A-list director makes a B movie.
    

CKR

• Vids
  
  • godess_jessie created a vid to Fire (Sexy Dance) by Paulina Rubio.
    
• Screencaps/Pictures
  
  • existchall posted an arm picspam.
    

Crossover

• Fanfic
  
  • Twofer (Multiple fandoms, multiple characters, PG13) by llassah.
    

Flashpoint

• Fanart/Icons/Etc
  
  • cold_ember_32 created some icons from episode 1x01.
    
• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • scriggle posted a link to a HD interview on Hulu.
    
  • euphoricagony posted a link to an article entitled 'IGN Goes Shooting With The Stars'.
    
  • wraithfodder has been collecting links to articles: Part 05 and Part 06.
    
  • fragmentpieces posted a link to TV Guide's 10 Reasons To Be Watching Flashpoint slideshow.
    

Flower And Garnet

• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • Canadian Film Review: Flower and Garnet.
    

Hard Core Logo

• Fanfic
  
  • Going down big (Joe, Billy, G) by eledhwenlin.
    
  • Untitled Scorching Hot Spanking Comment Fic (Billy/Joe, NC17) by llassah.
    

HD

• Miscellaneous
  
  • euphoricagony has created a HD media archive. See this post for more details. Please take a moment and thank her for her hard work in assembling this.
    

La Femme Nikita

• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • waltzforanight posted a television post for the episodes Gray and Choice.
    

Multi-Fandom

• Ongoing Challenges/Ficathons. See the schedule for more details.
  
  • 3some_ficfest
    
  • bsg_pornbattle - ends March 29th.
    
  • ds_c6d_bigbang
    
  • ds_snippets - Challenge 103 round up here.
    
  • ds_snippets - Rapid Fire Challenge. See rules.
    
  • flashslash
    
  • kink_bingo
    
  • movie_100
    
  • rounds_of_kink
    
  • slashthedrabble
    
  • slashtheimage
    
  • smallfandomflsh
    
  • smut_bingo
    
  • writers_choice
    

PG

• Screencaps/Pictures
  
  • meresy posted a picspam from PG's appearance on the Hour with her TV boyfriend George.
    

Pontypool

• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • Pontypool.
    
  • Night of the living dread.
    
  • Pontypool.
    
  • Language, politics, love mingle in Bruce McDonald's zombie film Pontypool.
    
  • Shut Up or Die.
    
  • New Stills From Pontypool.
    
  • Pontypool Review.
    
  • Zombies bring out the best in Bruce McDonald
    

RPF/RPS

• Fanfic
  
  • Everybody Got Their Somethin' (CKR x HD, R) by hurry_sundown (links to a closed community).
    
  • Working (CKR/HD, NC17) by faycequevoudras.
    

Slings & Arrows

• Fanfic
  
  • alt.shakespeare.burbage (ensemble, PG) by inlovewithnight.
    

Surveillance

• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • Trailer for Lynch's Surveillance.
    
  • Surveillance.
    

Tin Man

• Fanfic
  
  • The Consequences Of Choice Part 16, Part 17 (Cain/Zero, Jeb, Alyssa, Az/Cain, NC17) by godess_jessie.
    

Twitch City

• Fanfic
  
  • Easy Cheese (Hope, Newbie, Convience Story Guy, PG) by dugrival.
    

Wilby Wonderful

• Fanfic
  
  • Away, and Home Again (Duck/Dan, PG13) by nos4a2no9.
    
  • Stuck (Buddy, G) by mizface.
    
  • Part and Apart (Duck, Dan, Sandra, G) by mizface.
    

Please let me know about any broken links, incorrect information or anything that was missed. Submissions are welcome. Contact the moderator at c6d_weekly at livejournal dot com or akaminechan at gmail dot com.