Somewhere Over The Rainbow

halfamoon will be underway from February 1-14. Please consider joining us either as a creator or a cheerleader for this 14 day fest celebrating female characters. The daily themes are in a pinned post on the community page so you can jump right in or get ahead of things or be a rebel and do something completely different.

Hope to see you there.

Here's what's happened in the last week and change:

( update )

If you're around and about, I'm running some word sprints over at 1_million_words on LJ starting at 1:30 CDT.

Grab some prompts or some WIPs and come join me. Post is here

halfamoon is happening this year! 14 days of celebrating women with art, writing, recs, meta, etc. This year's fest has the following themes, which will be posted every other day:

War and Peace
Politics
Time and Space
Arts and Letters
Borders
Sickness and Health
Games We Play

You can create something on one of the themes or create something on your own between February 1 & February 14. Check out the intro post for more info. Come join me!

It was a good year for oz_magi - 16 wishes in all, 21 stories for Magi proper, 8 stories and 1 artwork for the Party in the Dress Factory.

I wrote things:
Sleep Kissing - Miguel Alvarez/Ryan O'Reily for the Party in the Dress Factory
Sleeping In - Claire Howell/Sean Murphy for the Party in the Dress Factory
Good Enough - Tobias Beecher/Ryan O'Reily for the Party in the Dress Factory
Transformations - Tobias Beecher/Chris Keller/Kareem Said
Seize the Day - Richie Hanlon/various

People wrote me things:

trillingstar wrote Season's Scuttlebutt, which showcases the prison rumor mill as it relates to McManus & Murphy adding layers of intimacy before finally getting to the couple in question at the end. It's lovely and I may not get the names "Moses" and "Goose Guy" out of my head any time soon.

shabby86 wrote this for the Party in the Dress Factory, where Sean gives Tim a present to remind him of their first date (with a lovely memory of the date)

vanillalime wrote this for the Party in the Dress Factory, in which sets of keys are exchanged and two of my favorite pairings are showcased. ETA: Now with a sequel in which Sean, the closet dom, makes an appearance.

Check out these and any of the other great fics at oz_magi

Come take part in the Snowflake Challenge this year! It's a lovely low-key way for people involved in various fandoms to interact.

Here's the link to the Intro Post if you want to see what all the fuss is about.

Hey fellow OZ peeps who may not be on DW. They are running a new OZ drabble tree over at oz_wishing_well on DW. There are several entries already, but come on over and give the OZ drabble tree a hug (and a hundred and so words).

Here's the entry - OZ Drabble Tree Needs A Hug

The Halfamoon Fest (14 Days of Celebrating Women) is currently running over at Dreamwidth. For those who have never participated, Halfamoon is a festival that focuses on women characters and artists. This year there are prompt tables for reccers, podfics/audio creators, writers, and artists. Even though we're a few days into the month, you can still go back and work on items from previous days or just go off the table altogether.

Come join in the fun over at halfamoon!

Twelve (or rather twenty-four) incredible wishes have been submitted to Oz Magi and are ready for the claiming. Here's the post

It's nice to see the diversity in the prompts this year- lot of Alvarez/O'Reily, some Alvarez/Mukada, a couple McManus/Murphy, a Schillinger/Robson, and, of course, a bunch of Beecher/Keller. If it sounds like a lot of fun and something you want to jump in and create for, go ahead and make a claim. Claims are open through Friday.

Nice to see "the little fandom that could" still chugging along.

Well, it's been a little eventful in the world in the past week or so. I am working on adjusting to the current normal, knowing it might change any day now. The biggest adjustment has been with church- since gatherings over 10 people are not recommended, church has essentially shut down, which means no services and no choir practice until May at least.

Hockey has been done for a week. I haven't started walking into walls yet, but it's only a matter or time. On the bright side, if they decide to suspend everything including the playoffs, the Blues will be the reigning Stanley Cup Champions for another season.

I'm still going into the office. We're in the service industry so heaven forbid someone's heat or a/c goes out while they are practicing their social distancing while being cooped up with the kids. I am asking if they've been requested to self-quarantine, because I'm not sending any of our techs into those situations. (My main worry is when the two owners get back from Florida next week. They're pretty good about maintaining distance).

I'm organizing a write-in/gathering of sorts at 1_million_words on Saturday. You can find the details here. It'll be good for me because even without going out, I have not been using the time to write, so that needs to happen.

Also, someone posted about the Comfort Challenge at story_works and I thought it looked interesting.

Hope you all are doing okay despite the weirdness. We'll get through this.