Merlin challenges and other stuff!

[sophinisba]

Merlin challenges

-lilian_cho and netgirl_y2k are helping me run camelotremix, and signups are going well! I mean, slowly, but we don't need to have a huge number of people, and also I know of a few people who are working on getting their fic listings organized and planning to sign up later. We have some AWESOME writers already though, and other awesome folks who have decided the challenge isn't for them but who are posting about it and spreading the word anyway. Also mrs_leary made us some banners so we can start using those as soon as I can figure out the coding. :) Thank you, you guys! I am really happy about this!

-camelotsolstice is going to run again! I'll be sitting out this round but yay for more Merlin fic and art! Lots of people should sign up!

-I am seriously considering signing up for merlinfemfest! On the one hand, the next few months will be busy between remix modding and serious rl stuffs. On the other hand, Merlin femslash! And again, lots of awesome people's signing up! Makes me want to join in! What do you think?

It's a bit unfortunate that so many of these fests happen in the last few months of the year (in the case of most of these exchanges it's because of Christmas, though camelotremix is going up in October rather than August just because I was too disorganized to get it started in June like I'd hoped to do), meaning we're all creating while the show is airing and we don't know from week to week whether our epics are going to be jossed. IDK maybe some people enjoy that kind of excitement but I would much rather write during the hiatus. I remember last year I had a hard time getting through the episode "The Sins of the Father" because I was so afraid it would contradict the giant Hunith/Nimueh fic I was writing for themadlurker (in which Nimueh was Merlin's dad!) for camelotsolstice. As it turned out that didn't happen until the last episode, at which point I'd already finished and turned in my fic so I was more relaxed about it, but damn.

Of course, I say that but I actually wrote way more Merlin fic during those last few months of 2009 than I have before or since. I mean I wrote 8000 words of a post-season-2 Gwen fic but I never did follow through and finish it, and I'm sure it'll be jossed once season 3 starts, so…well, that's a shame, and exchanges can be stressful but they do help us get things finished and posted, so yay for exchanges and deadlines.

-kinkelot is having a tentacles challenge! I think Merlin is a challenging fandom for bringing in tentacles (not like The Faculty or Star Trek or something) but people have managed it and I hope there will be more soon.

-Eeep only three more weeks until the main deadline for kink_bingo! (Okay I know it's not a Merlin challenge but I'm writing Merlin fic for it so.) Besides writing I need to get back into podficcing. I've filled a bunch of squares already but I'll be sad if I don't make a bingo.

Other stuff

-Take Me Home by such_heights has all my favorite femslash ships in one happy vid! Suitable for dancing! (Hey gamerchick I think you would enjoy this!)

-Old Spice Man/Merlin parody or fusion or something by villainny. Hee!

-I watched episodes 2 and 3 of Sherlock and continued to think they were well done and clever and that Sherlock was really disturbingly hot, and yet I had to sort of put a lot of my politics/ideas aside in order to enjoy the old school slashy vibe, and that was a weird feeling. So I'm okay with the show being over for now.

-I watched the movie Murderball and concur with gamerchick's post about it: it is neat to see a movie about people with disabilities that doesn't follow a traditional script of brave souls overcoming adversity in an inspiring way. This is a movie about badass athletes who do wheelchair rugby and it's, like, not my favorite kind of movie in that I'm not into contact sports or movies about guys being assholes, as some of these guys were, and yet there were parts of this that were awesome and the whole thing kept my interest and I mostly liked it.

-Some other things I have watched/am watching and will talk about in comments if you ask me to: Treme season 1 (♥ ♥), The Wire season 1, half of Legend of the Seeker season 2, most of Leverage season 3, the first two episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Inception (twice).

Comments

[glass_icarus]

Hahaha, I hear that! It is a bit slow-starting, I am just very over-excitable when it comes to A:TLA. xD

This exactly. *sigh* I don't know. I am thinking about camelotremix especially because I dropped out of Remix this year, but- I have epic plans that more fests might derail? Augh. :|

[sophinisba]

If you sign up for remix though your fics will be in the mix and someone else will have a chance to do something cool with them! *tempts*