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...before sign-ups close for the SCC Back to the Future Ficathon. We may never get a third season, but if you want to write your own version of what happens after the finale of season two, you should join up!

I'm back from Xiamen, arriving back in Shanghai at 10:49 pm last night (after a 23 hour train trip in a carriage full of students in 3-level bunk-bed compartments of which I shall not speak of again), utterly exhausted and dying for a shower. This morning I had a early morning classes, so I'm still not recovered, having slept for only about 3 hours ( Read more... )

Check out red_packet, a CNY-themed fanfiction community. I'll let the maintainer, bantha_fodder, explain it in her own words:
We're just short of the new year, and there are lots of party plans and new year resolutions and things. But in just over a month, another new year will be here, and inspired by eic_fic and bravecows, I would like to present to you red_packet, a community for Chinese New ( Read more... )

fahye is proposing a Muggle Studies Challenge, and gauging the level of interest at this post:
What with the Potterdammerung and a fic idea that burrowed itself into my head and then refused to go away, I've been thinking much more than usual about the nature of Rowling's wizarding universe: more precisely, how it differs from the Muggle universe. Where ( Read more... )