GASP, coming up for air, to say that Snacky has allowed all the Narnia Fic Exchange prompts to be revealed now so that anyone who wants to right a story for Madness can do so.  And it's funny, there always certain themes and this year, there are many prompts with tell me a story where The Last Battle Never Happened, Worldbuilding, AU, and Mythology ( Read more... )

So, I've been traveling and completely forgot to signal boost the Narnia Fic Exchange.  Sign ups close on Sunday and there are also sign ups for betas and pinch hitters.  It's awesome. 
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The 2015 Three Sentence Ficathon is now CLOSED, with over 4,100 prompts, fills, and comments.  It's been a great exchange and thank you so much for the whacky crackfic, the moving short fic, and the amazing cross-overs.  You all are great.  I won't freeze this -- go ahead and continue to fill any prompts that interest you and comment on fills made ( Read more... )

Welp, I'm ages behind on everything, and  have been writing up a storm on the things that pay the mortgage.  Also, getting older sucks and I've been struggling with a whole string of health-related things.  Nothing overly serious, at least not yet, but all requiring management.

I fell into binge watching The Librarians, I love Agent Carter, got ( Read more... )

We've started a Thunderclap for Athena's Daughters 2, an anthology about diverse women written by diverse women (and believe me, we're a really diverse bunch).  Would you please lend the support of your blog, Tumblr, Facebook, or Twitter to supporting this wonderful publication by Silence in the Library publishing?  If you sign up, on December 16, ( Read more... )

I'm just going to borrow/copy/plagiarize the excellent summary of
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In the past I've written in response to International Women's Day. If you have a fem-oriented prompt, please leave it, and I'll try to write something cheerful and fun and maybe it will have the added bonus of jump-starting the rest of my downcast muse.

EDIT -- please feel free to signal boost, fill any prompt that catches your eye and cross post ( Read more... )

Two signal boosts!

The terrific pan-fandom Remix Redux 2014 will is on.  I am thrilled and so grateful to the admins for picking it up again.
And Halfamoon, 14 days of celebrating women is open as well, on LJ and DW So go post your awesome ladies recs, content, and meta!  I have found some of my favorite fem-oriented vids there, so go forth and ( Read more... )

I've been following this on and off since 2007 but did not realize until I saw a Salon article yesterday that the problem has persisted.  Almost 600 dogs and cats have died since 2007 after ingesting jerky treats most made in China.


As the US FDA states on its website:

Within hours of eating treats sold as jerky tenders or strips made of chicken, ( Read more... )

The Narnia Fic Exchange has begun and wow, the first story that went up is a knock out.  The Meeting of Three Powers written for
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