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All the stress over school has finally led me to illness. Oh, weather-change cold! I thought I could avoid you, but it was not meant to be. That's my life in a nutshell right now, Death Plague plus work plus finals looming, so here are some other things going down:

» ff_exchange assignments are out. I have mine and I love them with mouth even if it's going to be a...challenge? This is not something I do every day, and I am afraid of FAILURE and my recipient hating what I create and and and. On plus side, I really like the prompts I wrote out, so just in case! Dear gifter, who is perhaps lurking around these parts like a stealth tonberry! ( Read more... )

Of course, now my assignment is to get the posting tutorial up for the overachievers who finish their work the first WEEK (I am so jealous of these people), help with organizing CD lists from the previous round, and get beta organization going in my awesome batcave known as the FFEX gmail contact list.

I will say that, for anyone who uses Doink!/FFEX like their own personal Big Bang (cue every mod looking neither guilty nor ashamed of this fact), this tag might be pertinent: oh shit it's a long final fantasy fic get in the car!. I love freefom tags. <3

» There are so many Big Bangs happening. owlmoose and I are working on getting megaflare_ff/megaflare_ff set up for June and there's hardmode which is a more easygoing Gaming Big Bang (10k versus Mega Flare's 20k). I have to keep repeating to myself that I CANNOT SIGN UP FOR BOTH because I do NOT HAVE TIME. No matter how much I want to write epic Phoeix/Miles political drama with bonus romance and wouldn't this be the perfect—NO, SELF. Back away. It's not like it won't come around again.

For megaflare_ff I am going to write epic Seifer/Zell, who is surprised! Right now it features a ton of GF meta, and some mind reading, and I have no clue how to get it to happily ever after from "well, you're annoying and I don't like you much" but I am hopeful. I will basically be writing seventhe every day going, "please share the latest erotic mind-reading ideas you've come up with" because she was the one who told me this idea was not doomed. I have also put chaosraven in my blackberry under !!!!!! EMERGENCY CHARACTERIZATION HELP !!!!!! so when I am doubting myself I can text her panicking. This is how I roll.

» AO3 is calling for artist feedback, so if you're a fanartist, please chime in! I think even people who view a lot of fanart would have interesting things to say about browsing it. I am ridiculously excited about the future of AO3 and art. \o/

» I missed it when it was first announced, but the judges for Nerds Hearts YA 2010 is posted. This is really awesome to see. I mean, this tiny idea I had that I thought might do some good for lesser-read and unknown books, look how it's grown! Damn, guys, they have people like Liz from A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy consulting who is one of the first book blogs I read that I still find so valuable to my education as a reader and a librarian hopeful. There's tons of book blog BNFs that I have never even interacted with playing this round! I am so sad I didn't feel like I had the time to volunteer to judge, for fear of letting everyone down (I have read exactly eight books this year and only three of them were for fun). Maybe they will take me back in the next round! Meanwhile, everyone will probably get sick to death of me talking about this project, so be prepared for me to natter and host giveaways of the books for people who want to read them (uhhh but maybe I should ask permissions first) since I fail at reading YA myself. *g*

So excited! \o/ Is it starting yet? Now? How about now?