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halfamoon: Rules and General Information

This FAQ was modified (with permission) from anenko’s FAQ for 100_women here.

Welcome to halfamoon!

What’s this community about?

Half a Moon is a fourteen day multifandom challenge celebrating female characters, which will run from February 1 through Valentine's Day.

Do I have to post something all fourteen days?

Definitely not! You can participate as much or as little as you would like, although we ask that if possible you try not to post more than once a day.

Linking or recommending your own stuff is also encouraged, and not all of your content has to be created uniquely for halfamoon. If an older fanwork fits the theme of this community, feel free to post it here.

What can and can’t I post?

Fanfiction, vids, recs, art, picspam, icons, meta, fanmixes, and outside links to all of the above are welcome--the only requirement is that the primary focus must be on a female character or characters.

Gen, het, and femslash (any fandom, any character(s), any rating) are all fine. M/M slash is allowed as long as the focus is on a female character, who is present and active in her own right.

The intent of this community isn’t to exclude male characters, but to celebrate the numerous awesome--but often neglected--female characters in our various fandoms. Therefore, the focus of the story should be on a female character, and *her* life, thoughts, feelings, relationships, and adventures--*not* focused primarily on the males in her life.

If you’re unsure whether it’s appropriate to post something here, please just ask first.

Can I post a story about an original female character?

The purpose of the community is to bring attention to existing female characters, but you can post stories about original female characters as long as there’s a reasonable connection to canon. (For example, fandom: BtVS/Angel, original character: Jane Slayer.)

Does my female character have to be human/humanoid?

No. If you want to write about female dragons, or horses, or sentient living spaceships, or Star Trek’s feminine-voiced computer system, go ahead.

What’s "female", anyway?

Gender identity isn’t simple. So long as your character self-identifies as female, you're more than welcome to post about them. (Stories where a male-identified character is in drag for kink or plot-related reasons do not qualify.) If your character is both male *and* female, you can also post about them here. We are not accepting genderswitch or "always a woman" AU stories. Essentially we are looking for stories about characters who identify as female *in canon*.

What constitutes appropriate focus on a female character is ultimately up to the mods, and our decisions are final.

What is the minimum word count?

There’s no minimum length.

What information should be included when posting? What else should I keep in mind when posting?

Please label your posts in the subject line by type (fiction, vid, recs, icons, etc.), fandom, and the names of your female character(s) and/or pairing.

IF your post

--is graphics-intensive
--contains embedded video
--is longer than a few paragraphs
--contains adult content and/or is not safe for work

PLEASE be courteous and provide such information in your headers (and post the work itself behind an lj-cut).

Again, it’s also fine to post outside links rather than posting on halfamoon itself.

Keep in mind that there is a character limit for the memories function, so if you have too many different fandoms listed on one entry, they won’t all make it into the memories.

Finally, you must enable comments on your entries, or we won’t be able to tag your entry, or add it to the memories.

HAVE FUN!

Comments

[medie]

ah, all right (though you might want to clarify an eeensy bit - not trying to be whiny or anything, oh god, please don't think that - because that comment muddied the waters for me considerably.) I think we disagree a little there (at least, going by your wording - for me, genderbending so is anything but about co-opting - but that's neither here nor there. I'm sorry, I'm probably not phrasing this well at all.

no, I haven't. For me to repost things I've already done that are so old feels like cheating the point of the challenge. It's a hangup for me, but it's sort of a sticker. I don't know, I'll try and get something in before it closes.

Sorry to have bothered in the meantime!

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that muddied the waters for you.

My comment to Alara above was to do with the difference between having something as a main focus and as a secondary focus or background in a story--for example, secondary m/m relationships in a story that's primarily focused on a woman are okay here too--and that's why I explained in my first comment to you that the difficulty with your story is that girl!Spock is one of the main characters in it, not a secondary or background character.

What I said with regard to potential co-opting was intended to explain one possible interpretation of stories with genderswitched characters that was of concern in the context of this challenge, and I respect that you disagree with that interpretation as the exact opposite of your authorial intention when you write genderswap. However, I don't want to discuss it further here because this community isn't the place for that debate. What I should have said in my earlier comment to you was simply this: as the FAQ states, the purpose of halfamoon is to celebrate female characters in fandom who identify as female in canon.

Again, I apologize for causing any confusion with my digression (and for the multiple edits to this comment!).

[medie]

s'okay, I think I just looked at it from the perspective of the story I wrote was from Nyota's perspective and was more about Nyota's side of things and that if the story had been Nyota/Spock, it it probably would have been permitted. But it's not so that's okay.

As for the co-opting, no, it's not really a suitable place/time (and I really wasn't/aren't trying to start anything of that nature here), it was more that the comment struck me a little hinky in that it cast things in a light that's pretty much the exact opposite of the truth. So, it felt like I should say something. :)

and no problem on the edits. I'm sorry it took me so long to answer. Our power was off so I was reading them on my cell thinking "oh crap, she probably thinks I'm upset or something! ack!"