deathmallow and I decided to put together a Hunger Games ficathon, ala the Girl on Fire ficathon from a few months back. Check it out (and add/fill some prompts):


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Just a couple of links for today as I work on chapter 28 of Treading Water (woohoo! writer's block broken!):

via sartorias (aka fantasy author Sherwood Smith) - Harper Voyager is having an open call in October for unagented manuscripts, in particular, they want science fiction, fantasy, and horror for both adults and young adults. I know several of you ( Read more... )

From azelmaroark:

For those of you who live in North Carolina OR for those of you who know anyone who lives in North Carolina, today is the day to VOTE AGAINST Amendment One. The short version is that Amendment One is an evil twin to Proposition 8 from 2008 in California, actually slightly worse than Prop 8 in terms of legal consequences, and was probably ( Read more... )

Originally posted by morgandawn at Stop Cyber Spying Week (CISPA)
Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other groups in getting the word out this week:

"Under CISPA, can a private company read my emails?Yes.  Under CISPA, any company can “use cybersecurity systems to identify and obtain cyber threat information to protect the rights and property” of ( Read more... )

If you're a vidder, please go to this post and help out the OTW in their DMCA commentary. They're looking specifically for instances of the following things you've used in your vids ( Read more... )

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•-In news that is very much relevant to my interests, from otw_news: U.S. Library Of Congress Grants DMCA Exemption for Vidders!! \o/ This just makes me want to go home and vid something. Oh, wait. I kinda always feel that way. But now I know that if, say, Universal discovers some of my vids, they can’t decide to sue me and expect any kind of an ( Read more... )

For the vidders on my flist...

If you haven't done so already, please check out the Creative Junkyard Awards. Round 2 is open for submissions until August 5.

From their website:

Round 2 is now open. Submissions will close on August 5th ( Read more... )

Were you guys aware that the entire run of tv series The Invisible Man is available on Hulu?

So. Much. Love.

Darian Fawkes is so screwed up... :)

kindreds_expats (aka Across the Salt people) - the Helo/Athena vid for that first (and, you know, last) vid challenge at Kindreds is about 80% finished. I may even have a final draft ready for beta by the weekend, since I had an epiphany this morning of what clips to use for the last 20 seconds (out of about 50 remaining).

greycoupon - I've ripped the clips for your Kara ( Read more... )