fest and meta links

three_weeks_for_dw is an annual thing to celebrate Dreamwidth, which opened up around this time three years ago, and add some fun content here. The person who set it up isn't around this year but it's nice to see the tradition continuing anyway. Here are three multifandom fests that I would especially like to pimp:

-Transfic Mini Fest 3, hosted by torachan, is accepting prompts and fills: "Prompts do not have to be "about" being trans. They can be something as simple as a pairing or a pairing + word/kink/lyrics. The point is simply to have more stories starring trans people."

-The Female Character Trope Fest 2, hosted by such_heights is now taking prompts and will open for fills on Wednesday.

We all like our thoughtful characters studies but let's also have some ridiculous fanworks about ladies huddling for warmth in Canadian shacks, undercover in a gay bar, or getting turned into cats.

-The 3rd Annual Femslash Mini Meta Fest! hosted at fem_thoughts. Post some short meta about femslash!

sqbr has kicked things off with a good post about some if the challenges of writing "happily ever after" femslash in historical fandoms like Pride and Prejudice: Lovers in a Dangerous Time.

And finally (not Dreamwidth- or fest-specific) here is a wonderful and uplifting post by fire_juggler: Meta: Confessions of a Podficcer with a (mostly) ex-speech impediment.

Remix Redux fic: Waking Up Stories (A Dancemix with Dragons) - Morgana-centric gen

Title: Waking Up Stories (A Dancemix with Dragons)
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 4378 (same as the original! and yes, it did take me several extra hours to get that to work out)
Rating: PG
Characters: Morgana, with girl!Aithusa, Kilgarrah, Uther, Arthur, Hunith, and Morgause
Contains: series 4 spoilers
Notes: Remix of Here Be Dragons by selenak, written for Remix Redux 2012. Thanks to flammablehat for beta and encouragement, and to Selena for writing and participating in the challenge!
Summary: Each parent has their own version of this story. If they wanted their children to fall asleep, they should have talked about something else.
Link: Read it at the AO3!

Remix Madness fic: Son of Camelot (Quiet the Whispers Remix) - Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot

Title: Son of Camelot (Quiet the Whispers Remix)
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 2369
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Arthur/Gwen, Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot
Contains: selective acknowledgement of series 4 canon, brief reference to potential of dubcon, OCs talking smack about Gwen
Notes: Remix of Son of Camelot by arobynsung, written for Remix Madness 2012. Thanks to themadlurker for looking this over for me, to arobynsung for writing and participating, and to my Twitter followers for putting up with my laments.
Summary: Camelot needs more people like us.
Link: Read it at the AO3!