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You know, the next person to tell me that Britain has a temperate climate is going to get a ding alongside the earhole.

*shakes water out of brain*

Good lord, it's wet this morning. white_hart, did you get caught in it? I was seriously contemplating going back for my snorkel.

As you might be able to tell, I'm starting to come out of my post-holiday funk and feel like posting and chatting and generally resuming something close to my general posting schedule, i.e. frequent, verbose and random. This is being helped by new fandom enthusiasm (I'm crushing hard on Criminal Minds right now and cannot wait to watch the next episode, knowing that I've still got 1 1/2 series to catch up on \o/ Expect more soon...) and a vague sense that I know where my current WIP wants to go.

Also, general_jinjur, who is of the awesome, has done it again and started a project that pushes every one of my fan-buttons. Last time it was amplificathon. This time it's in_a_name



All characters in any fandom who share a name are eligible for this appellathon. Prompts will open on 26th January, and posting of fanworks (of any kind whatsoever) will be March 20-29th. There's a wiki here to help you with inspiration, and full details of what on earth I'm talking about are here. I had said I'd only participate in 3 challenges this year, but this is the kind of thing I've been interested in for a while, so I might have to add one more to the list...

Also, don't forget that_other_show



People are starting to talk over there, so do head in and see what's going on!

And because I love teasing you, and I know you love them ( some more Morocco pictures )

Since I worked an 8.30-8.15 day yesterday, I'm sadly no closer to having a full Morocco report for you.

But I do have some links:

that_other_show is a new comm set up by rivers_bend as a space for talking about shows you enjoy and want to squee about to other people, but you're not necessarily creatively-fannish about. Since I have a long, long list of these, I've joined and encourage everyone to do the same.

sticksandsnark have opened this year's Rodney/Teyla thingathon, which I may or may not take part in, as scheduling and inspiration allow. Sign-ups close 30th January.

purimgifts is also open for this year's fic gift exchange, with sign-ups here, closing on 22nd January. I had to drop out last year, and probably won't be able to sign up this year, but the variety of stories is truly staggering and well worth looking out for.

On a post that will spoil you hugely for "Vegas", bironic has written the most inspired piece of *cough* fannish Shakespeare. Genius.

One thing I did manage to read on holiday was greyias's SGA Big Bang entry, See No Evil. Run, don't walk, to read this fic. Yes, it's long, but it's fast-paced and I was so caught up that I wouldn't have complained if it had been twice the length. I also convinced my other half to read it, and he loved it too! ( Cut for enthusiastic babbling )

And just because I can, ( A few pictures from the Atlas mountains )