Beyond the Roundels

... oh and it's a fic_rush weekend again! If you're writing (or whatever) and need some cheering on or accountability or what have you, hie on over to fic_rush_48 where the action is (and the penguins).

Before I forget again, it is a fic_rush weekend!

If you want cheering on while you write stuff (fannish or origfic, or NaNo, or essays or whatever, or, hey, make icons*, or do laundry, we won't tell), or to cheer others on in similar attempts or just to pour out writerly woes to sympathetic souls, head on over to fic_rush_48 and comment on the latest hourly post to join in! All welcome.



* Which totally sometimes have words on anyway!

Still catching up!

Day 5

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Some comms of my own:

tardis_library - a Doctor Who reccing comm, made as a successor (but different from) the lovely calufrax (now inactive, but with an amazing backlist that is still one of the best ways to get at gems from the Teaspoon Archive) - recs from all corners of the Whoniverse, posted anywhere, and in any media format. I'm so pleased with how this has taken off - more people & more recs are always welcome!


historium which I have just set up as a central hub for all history fandoms, whether RPF or fictional to meet, post stuff, or use as a launching pad to set up more specific comms. It's had a great beginning & I need to get back to it once I am a little more recovered.


tic_tac_woe or Apocabingo - a panfandom mini bingo challenge (using a tic tac toe 3x3 card) with all apocalyptic prompts! No deadlines, just sign up for a card & then end worlds/countries etc. or save them as you wish. (Fictionally, obviously.)


who_allsorts - as an extra, because I meant to only include three, but I've a soft spot for this one. It's another Doctor Who community - an old-school prompt table with claiming, but with bite-sized tables. You can sign up for up to two at once and claims are very flexible (anyone can make the same claim, pairings/characters/eras/themes are all accepted, so you can choose how wide or narrow to make it). I created it with the object of enabling more DW content of all kinds, and I still think the prompt tables are very pretty!


Not-by-me communities:

hc_bingo - still my favourite bingo, despite frequently being terrified by the prompts! It's very flexible about interpretation of prompts, and fills can be comfort, or hurt, or hurt/comfort as you please, and any fanworks are eligible. It runs once a year, but there are fun amnesty challenges and you only need to create one fanwork a year to stay eligible for the next round. It's been the perfect excuse to write a lot of things, and I've really enjoyed the Amnesty challenges when I've taken part. (Which are open to anyone if that works for you better than a bingo.)


fic_rush - we need to sort ourselves out for another round soon, but this 48 hour actual ficathon (i.e. writing marathon) has been a wonderful supportive & social ingredient of my journalling life ever since I first plucked up the courage to join. There are ninja penguins, alien fish, glowsticks, and writerly pasta and attempts at galactic domination, but you don't have to worry about that. I mean, until and unless the penguins get you...


I enjoy recs and reccing comms, the main two of which I follow here are fancake (though I never can get myself together to post for a theme) and gensplosion for gen recs (which I have recced for, but am bad at doing), both of which have led me to some excellent fic, and both of which are panfandom.


There are so many comms I like! Here are, quickly, some more:

who_at_50 (general DW comm, despite the name)

Bingos - ladiesbingo, trope_bingo, allbingo and genprompt_bingo. (Of these I particularly like genprompt_bingo (which takes any kind of fills, despite the name, it's just that the prompts are gen prompts) but they're all good in their different ways.)

Icons - iconthat, icontalking, icon_library, icons10in20, icons & fandom_icons. (A mix of challenge and general posting comms.)


Which is probably enough from me, but I still like comms. And that's even before we get to all the exchanges or my other comms I run or co-mod...

1. It is snowing!!! I mean, there is white stuff on the ground, although currently it is more snowing sidewise and not doing much, but I could totally build a snowman in my backyard, which is more than I could have said since I don't know how long. (I live in the NE, but by the sea in a valley, so snow is normally mythical stuff you get up on the hills.)


2. In the nicest possible surprise ending to the recent fic_rush query, Beth came back! \o/ Anyone who is a former member of fic_rush or who would be interested in taking part in future rounds (where we encourage each other to get (mainly writerly*) things done over 48 hours), should hoy themselves over to fic_rush as soon as they are able. All are welcome.



3. I've looked up more weird stuff for my WWII generals fic in the last two days than I have for anything for ages. (I mean, there's stuff where all you need is canon, and fic where you read whole books, and fic where you keep looking random things up... and then there's fic where you really hope nobody's monitoring your Googling too hard because they might be getting the wrong idea, and this one turned out to definitely be the latter.)


But fic_rush anyway, people! ;-)

(Goodness knows where those ninja penguins might have got to over the past year - it's going to take some time to gather them back in...)


* Up to and including laundry, applications, essay, art, icons...