I misunderstood the point of this ride

( You're the BEST. )

Specific preferences/prompts/etc by fandom, in alphabetical order (absolutely not order of preference, I wouldn’t even know where to start):

( Professor Marston and the Wonder Women )

( That Inevitable Victorian Thing )

( Wayfarers )

( Wayward Children )

( The Witch Family )

...and I'm stopping. I get excited, but hopefully it's not overwhelming? Optional details are optional! Have a blast, dear author. <3

Oh my gosh, I am so sorry this took me so long. The last couple weeks have been completely overwhelming at work, etc, and I’ve struggled to find the bandwidth. I hope it hasn’t caused you too much trouble!

( But anyway, thanks! )

( Fandom/pairing specifics! )

I’ve been thinking about posting here again (for things other than exchange letters) a whole bunch lately, especially with rumors of Tumblr’s increasing instability as a platform, and my lack of motivation to check out this Imzy thing. Oh, I’m sure if that’s where the next great migration lands, I’ll wind up following. But in the meantime, I miss this space, the sense of having a stable ’home’ for my fannish/private self online. I doubt I’ll ever post more than sporadically, since a lot of my internet/social media time is taken up by my more public persona, but even so.


Anyway, speaking of exchanges, sign-ups are open for femslashex, and you should totally get in on it. It’s become my favorite annual fannish event, for fairly obvious reasons ... all femslash, massively multifandom, and includes fanart. I really like this trend in fanwork exchanges, even though there are a fairly small number of fanart pieces every year; I’m not sure if it’s the problem with outreach to fanartists (this is definitely an issue, and one I’m at a loss with), the number of people only requesting fanfic, or both. (Request fanart, people. Please? I mean, I get wanting a story, but we make nice things toooo, and we want to make them for you!)


Also, possibly because I’ve become a heavy Goodreads user in the past year (and am thus much more conscious of what I’ve read when), I find myself wanting so many small SFF book fandoms lately. So I made a fairly tl;dr post over on my tumblr with some recs for books you should read and sign up for in exchanges! And now I’m going to crosspost it here.

( The Craft Sequence, by Max Gladstone )

( Wayfarers, by Becky Chambers )

( The Arcadia Project, by Mishell Baker )

Yuletide, here I come.

Ooh, I have had a week. It's been long and tiring and mostly dark and rainy to boot, and I've been singularly unproductive in spite of just having taken on some new (creative) professional responsibilities. This is about as grateful as I've been for Friday in awhile, especially since the femslashex archive opens today at 8pm EST! There are currently 179 new pieces of f/f fanfic & fanart all ready to go; I'm so excited! (My own contribution will be here, though naturally I'll do a post here as well when I may.)

I'd say things have slowed down a bit, but that's not true so much as that I've been working more on deadlines than at my own pace. Here's a small roundup of exceptions and the like ...



( Revisiting Rachel Summers. )

Oh, speaking of X-Men comics, I've also been listening avidly to Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, which does what it says on the tin in an entertaining, clever and deeply nerdy way. Highly recommended.

Meanwhile, on a more contemporary note: ( A tiny Braeden tribute. )

Last but very definitely not least, my contributions to the little fanartremixexchange! Which deserved to be bigger, so I really hope the idea catches on! ( And for extra fun, I was matched with ataratah. ;) )

Huh, I've been doing a lot of color work lately; I suppose that's good practice? I'm never fully satisfied with any of it (except sometimes the flats), though; I might make an effort to go back to more of my b&w inks for the next little while. Coming up: tw_fallharvest, teenwolf_bb, allydiareversebang, and teenwolffemslashexchange. Um. Oops?

So I almost didn't watch the current season of Teen Wolf (which might have been a wise choice) because I was so sad and frustrated about Allison Argent's death. She was my favorite character, and I was not at all happy with how she was handled in 3B; even given that Crystal Reed wanted to leave the show, she was one of the main characters and deserved a much better closing arc. So as the new season was approaching, I started daydreaming about a spin-off. I mean, we have werewolves and banshees ... why not ghosts?

It's a shame that I can't find a functional reversebang, so I can try to get someone to fic this properly ... but I'm just going to go ahead and make so much art.

( Here's a montage of 'excerpts' from the 'pilot episode.' )

And of course, there's the promotional image I posted awhile back, and ghostly embraces! ataratah even drew this lovely piece based on my original musing. I plan to do a whole bunch more "excerpt" images (although probably not another whole episode's worth). I guess I kind of needed an ongoing fandom project? :D?

Also, speaking of ataratah, here's one more piece of TW fanart based on a hilariously awesome prompt from her. ( Werewolf cabbage babies! )

Gotta dash (new temp job, whee), but before I forget - you guys REALLY SHOULD consider signing up for femslashex! It's a MULTIFANDOM FIC AND ART EXCHANGE, focused on pairings with no canonically male-identified characters! There are so many amaaaazing fandoms. :D I'm so excited! It's great that more fests are starting to include art. <3

Also, this month I'm reccing Teen Wolf over on fanart_recs, which is a great comm you should know about. I'll post a round-up here when I'm done. (Next month I'm doing Sailor Moon!)

Heyyy, sorry for disappearing off the face of the earth (again) ... I had a lovely, very full birthday weekend (with very tolerant friends!) and then things got all busy again, as they do. I have more than half a dozen awesome prompts I'm still planning to fill for the female character doodle challenge, all written safely down in my sketchbook! They might just be a bit staggered. (Convention season has been sneaking up on me, yikes.)

Here are a couple amazing things other people made for me for the fest (jeez I am still all a-flutter, you guys are so GREAT <3 <3 <3):
Bondage interruptus (Sailor Moon; Michiru/Haruka & Hotaru - pretty SFW) by sae
Lydia and ghost!Allison team-up (Teen Wolf), by ataratah
Adorable Utena/Anthy vignette (Revolutionary Girl Utena), by alexmegami

And here's a quick round-up of what I've managed to produce so far:
♥TUXEDO ARCHER♥ (Teen Wolf/Sailor Moon fusion)
Leslie/waffles OTP doodle (Parks & Rec; prompted by analise010)
Alana Bloom puppy pile doodle (Hannibal; prompted by were_duck)
I AM FOUND doodle (Welcome to Night Vale; prompted by rhivolution)

So that was an awesome way to turn young for trees, basically. Love you allll.

All right! I'm thinking this thing will run until the end of the day on Saturday, March 29. (I mean, semi-officially. If you want to share something later than that, well, yes please.) ENTIRELY loose and informal: make fanworks (any kind you like) focused on female characters and/or f/f pairings, share recs, leave prompts/commentfic/drabbles in my comments for me to doodle from (I will do my best! and if I don't get to it by the 29th, I will try to still do it) ... write something based on any doodles I manage to finish/post ... etc. I will be so incredibly thrilled with ANY participation. <3

Feel free to post things and/or link them in my comments here! That would be fabulous. (DW preferred, but LJ is fine too.)

Suggested fandoms list: Avengers (MCU)*, Elementary, Hannibal, Lost Girl, Orphan Black, Pacific Rim, Pretty Little Liars, Sailor Moon, Sleepy Hollow, Teen Wolf, Veronica Mars, Welcome to Night Vale, X-Men (comics)**, Young Avengers

*not Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (sorry)
**my familiarity with recent canon is ... not a lot. but what the heck. potentially of note: my favorite characters/OTP since forever are Rachel Summers and Kitty Pryde.

If we share/have shared other fandoms and you want to do something with one of them, that's cool! These are just the primary/current ones that come to mind right now. Also if you're not in any of my fandoms or you don't know me but you feel like celebrating female characters in ANY fandom, I think that would be fantastic!

<3 <3 <3

Oh hey, my first yuletart piece, a Revolutionary Girl Utena jazz age AU, went up on Friday! I had a wonderful time revisiting one of my favorite old anime fandoms, and doing a bit of costume research is always a good time. ALSO, check out my flipping gorgeous giftart from ataratah! A deeply evocative moment between Teen Wolf's leading ladies (while Stiles snoozes, oblivious). <3

Here's some quick processfest catchup!

Day Four: Challenges. ( Head, meet wall. )

Day Five: Collaboration. ( If there's an umlaut, we flip a coin. )

Okay, I feel like that's plenty for one day; I'll try and get to today's prompt tomorrow, I think. I'm ready to go write now. Is the work day over yet?

I'm having a hibernate-y sort of week, mmf. Determined to stick with processfest, though! Today’s prompt is ( where do you start? )

This feels rather disjointed and poorly organized, but it's my bedtime, so it's going to have to do. And now I wish I could stay up and write! Process talk is always so inspiring.