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Two quick plugs while I assemble a linkspam:

Yup, we're running again! This is our third fabulous year and we're hoping it'll be as good as ever. And as ever we're looking for writers and as many artists as we can get!

Author signups are here and Artist signups are here. Come join us!

Also in its third year is the

sga_genficathon. The format is slightly different this year, but it looks like it's going to be as good as ever.

Sign up here!

I meant to post something before about this, but better late than never!

consci_fan_mo is just the thing for non-NaNoers, or NaNoers recovering from the month's marathon. Short stories, original or fanfic, posted over 21 days in December. And in case you're all out of ideas, there are plenty of prompt posts over at the comm.

Just click on the banner for more details and ideas!

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 )

Sheesh, what a weekend. The other half went down with the bug even harder than I did, so we spent most of it sitting around, feeling sorry for ourselves. The most exciting part of the whole 48 hours was going to an Indian corner shop on the Cowley Road and stocking up on all our spices. Definitely worth it, since they're so much cheaper that way, and we also went into Tesco and bought tinned cherry tomatoes which are possibly the best packaged food invention since sliced bread.

Oh yes. We know how to live.

Being ill so much last week has left me with a huge backlog, not to mention all the fannish stuff I need to get done. And that's without even thinking about all the RL stuff we have to get done by Christmas. I've got a few days off next week and the week after, and boy, am I going to need them.

Anyway. Enough of my rambling, there are invoices to code! How's everyone else? Good weekends? Recovered from Thanksgiving? Not snowed in?

I also wanted to plug

consci_fan_mo to everyone. It's a comm for short fic - 100-2000 words - and it's taking fanfic AND original works, all with sci-fi/fantasy themes. I really can't do better than quote this from the user-profile:

"Three weeks of short stories of the sci-fi and fantasy kind, whether they be fanfiction or original works. The sort of stories you can curl up on the sofa with, while the weather does its worst outside, and can finish reading before your tea goes cold and your biscuit goes soggy in the saucer."

There are prompt posts if you get stuck, or just post whatever's been lurking on your hard-drive, waiting to get finished and out there. Some keen souls have posted already, so get over there and have a look. I'm even thinking of attempting some original stuff, although the thought makes me break out in a cold sweat...

Current Mood: working

For those people who have taken comms off their watch lists to avoid drowning in squee...

The

torchwood_meta discussion is now open. I don't promise there won't be lots of enthusiasm, but I'm hoping we can pick the episode apart a bit more and see what we think.

It kicks off here with me rambling, but don't let that put you off.

Current Mood: hungry

Signalling Boosting

consci_fan_mo

Spring is just around the corner, right?

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