Last year, on Nov. 5, I launched this community with high hopes of creating a thriving home base for fanworks featuring characters from South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. It was a lofty goal that came crashing down a short time later, thanks to a) my lack of commitment and b) a lack of community activity. I'd like to fix that this time around ( Read more... )

Hi, there, watchers and members of Purnima!

Now that yuletide is over and we've enjoyed all the South Asian-themed fiction that came from it, I thought it would be a good time to start the ball rolling on generating fic within this community!

Thus, our first themed challenge: Holi, The Festival of Colors. (It's a link to Wikipedia. I couldn't help myself ( Read more... )

Major, major apologies for all those who joined and/or watch this community. Real life intruded, so what was meant to be this great venture to house South Asian-themed fanfic sort of fell by the wayside ( Read more... )

Hi, everyone! Welcome, again, to purnima_fic. I'm glad to see some new members trickling in. Since one of the basic problems with focusing on characters and actors of South Asian origin is that many don't *know* what shows feature them, I thought it would be prudent to make a list that we can continuously add to ( Read more... )

Welcome to Purnima, a community for fanworks based on characters and actors of South Asian origin!

Love Bollywood movies? Intrigued by The Good Wife's Kalinda or wondering if Greek will ever tell us if Rebecca's mom is desi? Cursing the fact that there's just not enough good fic about some of your favorite Indian, Bangladeshi or Pakistani ( Read more... )