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[ariestess]

Here we are, officially in our second week of the initial creation phase. Here's hoping everyone's busy creating, or plotting, or outlining, or whatever else it is that you do in the early stages of creating!

So to start things off, we would love it if everyone could introduce themselves, and pimp out their fandom, talk about their characters, etc. We will be having an "official" pimp your fandom post next week, so don't panic if you don't have any info to pimp your fandom here. This is primarily to a little "meet & greet" so we can all find out what everyone else is doing. And if you get excited by a project, let the person know!

Back in 2009, havocthecat made a sample form you can use, if you're more comfortable with structure. Or you could do a more freeform comment. Or you could introduce yourself over in bangalittle or your personal journal, and drop a link in the comments here for us. Whatever makes you the most comfortable!

I'm going to post mine in the comments here, so you can see an example of one way it can be done. Again, the stuff in the text box is just a guideline. Feel free to take it, leave it, alter it. :)

<b>Name</b>: <b>Fandom</b>: <b>Pairing</b>: <b>Why did you choose this pairing?</b>: <b>Other fandoms</b>: <b>Anything else you want to tell us about your fandom?</b>: <b>Any fun links about your fandom or pairing to share?</b>:


And speaking of bangalittle, feel free to pop on over and post about your project. Squee, bitch, moan, freak out, plead with the muse(s), whatever. Just remember that when you're posting there, we ask that you follow these three simple rules [that I'll add in an intro post over there, too].

• no flames or hate speech of any sort. act like an adult, even if you don't think like one.
  
• don't go about spoiling people for shows/canons whose fandoms are currently operating under spoiler warnings. it's just not nice.
  
• don't post fic/links to fic that are unrelated to your tlb project. there are many other places you can do that.

Comments

[damkianna]

Name: damkianna/damkianna
Fandom: Avatar (2009)
Pairing: Trudy Chacon/Grace Augustine
Why did you choose this pairing?: I began thinking about this story in the context of a response to a Trudy/Grace prompt on such_heights's Female Character Trope Fest, and now that I've started really planning it, sort of unexpectedly, I seriously do ship it. :D
Other fandoms: My major fandom right now is Avatar TLA, but I am also working on fics for source whose title does not contain the word "avatar". Really! More generally, I am a n00b; I've lurked for like a decade, but I only started posting fic last year. I've written femslash before, but it was fairly short - nothing like this!
Anything else you want to tell us about your fandom?: I feel weird calling it "my fandom" when I sort of hate the canon - I mean, the movie's pretty, but there are so many, many things wrong with it in just about every other way. But I got sucked into it by using a Yuletide prompt as an excuse to rewrite the entire movie, and there's so much potential in the beginning of the story that the movie utterly fails at pursuing! I can't tear myself away. /o\
Any fun links about your fandom or pairing to share?: I'm not actually properly in the fandom, but there is a movie script draft on IMSDb - some of the bits that got edited out between that and the final version were pretty interesting in terms of Grace's backstory. And if you want to check out fic, I highly recommend ashen_key, she is pretty fantastic (all her fic, really, not just Avatar).

[oparu]

oh I am excited for this!! I love Grace Augustine and I've been waiting to find fic about her. Awesome stuff.

[damkianna]

Oh, yay - I hope you like the end result! :)