Welcome to halfamoon 2010!

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Welcome to the 2010 halfamoon challenge. The rules are the same as they have been for the last two years (see the FAQ/intro post), but we have a lovely new header and promo banners by taraljc, which you can snag here. Post away!

New halfamoon layout & promo banners!

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Based on the 2010 layout, I've created new promo banners you can use to promote halfamoon in your own journals and comms!



( promo banners behind the cut )

Women of Power Rangers Celebration Post

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( "It's Morphin Time!" )

Picspam: You're Not Alone (Meredith/Izzie) Grey's Anatomy

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I love Meredith and Izzie. I love them individually and I love them even more when they're together. I also suspect they might be harboring a secret femslashy love for one another. These are my top 12 Meredith/Izzie scenes. I dare you to deny they're adorable.

Warning: Post contains spoilers through episode 6.12, "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked."

(all mushy and warm and full of secret feelings...)

Fic: And I Have Touched the SKy [Supernatural, PG-13]

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Title: And I Have Touched the Sky
Author: nimueailinen
Fandom: Supernatural

Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers through "Abandon All Hope", post-death character death, blatant abuse of ellipses.
Characters: Jo, Ellen, Castiel, with a guest appearance by an unnamed Reaper
Summary: Jo gets until sunrise to say goodbye. One-shot, ~1900 words
Disclaimer: If I were Kripke, they'd still be alive.

She opens her eyes, and there is fire...

The Unpopular Woman Love Post

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

Well. Another year, another halfamoon fest of awesome. Another chance to celebrate the characters who are unappreciated and unloved.

( About & Rules )

( Threads )

Revised halfamoon layout & promo banners!

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A note on the promo banners and LJ header:

It was pointed out to me this morning that the graphics lacked the awesome Asian ladies, so I've revised the Science Officers to include Torchwood's Toshiko Sato.

However, Photobucket appears to have cached the old versions of the images. Because I didn't want to break links for folks who have been using the promo graphics to help promote the comm and the fest, I've tried to keep the file names the same.

So until I can sort out the Photobucket issue, here are updated links to the new banners:

science officers
vertical banner
large banner

I apologise for the confusion, and hopefully I'll get this issue resolved shortly!

Detective Comics/Batwoman fanmix

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Detective Daughter: a mix for Kate Kane

Here @ my journal. 

33 Stargate Atlantis, Castle, & Stargate SG-1 Women Icons

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Here @ kleahs 

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[alexseanchai]

Four older works appropriate to this comm, all for Supernatural.

"Still I'm Dreaming", Jo Harvelle and Anna Milton (or possibly Jo/Anna): I'm so used to being wrong, so put me where I belong

"Hyssop", Michelle Montgomery: watching the butterfly go towards the sun, I wonder what I will become

"Crazy Circles", Cassie Robinson: life is like a merry-go-round, painted horses riding up and down

"Move Your Feet to the Marching Drum", the young woman whom Ruby possessed during S3: fight until you die or drop, a force like ours is hard to stop

Drabble Offers

[ciaimpala.livejournal.com]

This is my first time participating in halfmoon, and I think its really amazing!

Like some really amazing people have already done, I'm offering drabbles to people who want them. Leave me a prompt, with the character(s) you want, the prompt (a word, a song lyric, etc.), and a rating.  I will write femslash and crossovers as well :)

Fandoms I can do:
Alias, General Hospital, Leverage, Eureka, Bones, Grey's Anatomy, The Pretender, Fastlane, Life, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Dirty Dancing, Lie to Me, Empire Records, Ever After, Glee, Supernatural, Harper's Island

Various fanart from prompts

[alias_sqbr]

These were all drawn for people who responded to my post Fanart prompts: not skinny youngish white people.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Kendra stakes a vampire for yvi. Because she never got to in canon.

Harry Potter: Cho Chang, wizard lawyer for yiduiqie

Outsiders (DC comics): Thunder and Grace Choi watching a movie for gretel

Seven Moments Of Teyla Emmagan Awesomeness

[tielan]

In the spirit of halfamoon's Celebration of Female Characters
(and as my late choc_fic 100 Days Of Colour entry):



ENTER THE PICSPAM

"Five Things" Comment Fic Offer

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If you name a prompt and a female character from one of my fandoms (please see below), I'll try to write one-sentence-style comment fic for them. I won't promise to write every prompt, but I'll try to do as many as I can.

Example prompt: Farscape, Aeryn Sun, five times Aeryn got drunk and maudlin

Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin), A:tS, BSG (new), BtVS, Doctor Who (mostly nu Who), Farscape, Firefly, Heroes (Season 1 &2), Jane Austen, Life on Mars, LOTR, Mad Men (seasons 1 & 2), Merlin (season 1), Slings & Arrows, the Swordspoint trilogy (Ellen Kushner), Torchwood (season 2 & CoE), T:SCC, Veronica Mars (mostly season 1), the Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)

ETA: Castle, Star Trek: AOS, Tamora Pierce's Tortall novels (preferably SotL or Immortals), the Téméraire series (Naomi Novik)

Four Lwaxana Troi Icons

[senmut]

I made these for ariestess, but I wanted to show them off here in celebration of a wonderful woman.

Chuck fic: Ellie vs. the Skinned Knees [Ellie Bartowski]

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Title: Ellie vs. the skinned knees
Author: dotfic
Fandom: Chuck
Rating/characters: PG, Ellie, Chuck, Bartowski parents, OC's, preseries
W/C: ~1,000
Spoilers: no particular episodes

a/n: Written for the halfamoon 2010 Impromptuthon, for latxcvi's prompt, why did Ellie become a doctor?

Summary: Some things she can fix, some things she can't.

For weeks Ellie lived over and over in her head the moment when he tripped and went sprawling to the sidewalk.

(no subject)

[eudaimon.livejournal.com]

In the next fourteen days, I'm planning on writing a drabble a day about the ladies of Criminal Minds

The first one is Emily Prentiss - our mothers made us into swimmers.

JLU Drabble: Royalty

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Title: Royalty
Author: nancybrown
Fandom: Justice League Unlimited
Character: Vixen
Rating: G
Summary: Drabble. Two crowns.
A/N: Written for halfamoon.

More stories with this character back at my journal.

fic: god help you if you are a phoenix (Star Trek AOS: Gaila & Uhura)

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Title: god help you if you are a phoenix
Author: thistlerose
Fandom: Star Trek (Reboot / AOS)
Character: Gaila and Uhura (implied Gaila/Kirk and Uhura/Spock)
Rating: teen
Disclaimer: Not my characters
Summary: Gaila had no idea Nyota had been reassigned to the Enterprise. She thought she’d died on the Farragut.
A/N: 1,100 words. This is just something that occurred to me after my last rewatch.

She ran to the spot where she’d seen Nyota, half-expecting her to have vanished, since that was what ghosts did.

Stargate Community

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In honor of halfamoon, this month's prompt over at sg_prompts is "woman's work". Hopefully we'll have an entry or three showing just how much the women of the SG world(s) kick ass. *g*

Any and all entries will be able to be found with this tag when created.

Thanks!

Female Characters at Fanlore

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I'm in no way officially connected to Fanlore, but I do sometimes get bitten by the wiki bug and spend several months at a time poking around on the site. Fanlore is still in beta stage, and is significantly lacking in some areas--and articles about female characters (along with het and femslash pairings) are definitely scarce.

I want to do a little project as part of halfamoon, and it occurred to me that maybe other members of the comm might be interested in doing this with me. If your favourite female character doesn't have a Fanlore page of her own, create one! If she has a stubby page, add a bit of info! If you aren't comfortable editing the wiki yourself, drop me a line and I'll edit the wiki for you.

* See the articles about TOS and Reboot Uhura for an idea of what a fleshed-out article might include.
* See Naruto's Haruno Sakura for an example of an article which is currently a stub.

There are a lot of female characters who have very little--or no!--representation on the wiki yet. The Merlin (BBC) ladies, Buffy Summers, Dana Scully, Doctor Who's female companions, or the many awesome ladies of Bleach and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Editing Fanlore isn't always intuitive, but I found the editing cheatsheet and templates pages fairly helpful. I'm no expert at wiki editing, but again, I'd be more than happy to offer what help I can to anyone who asks.

( Fanlore: Project Half a Moon )

FIC: Want and Water (Gossip Girl, Vanessa)

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Title: Want and Water
Author: voleuse
Fandom: Gossip Girl
Character: Vanessa Abrams
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: That thirst has salted me.
Notes: Set during S3

LINK: 521 words

[Picspam] The Awesome Lady Of The Road To El Dorado

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Oh, you bet Chel gets a picspam. She is the only named female character in this movie. And, wow, she was awesome. She knows what she wants and she does her best to try and get it. This girl is clearly thinking outside the box - wanting to know what the world is like outside El Dorado. She's smart, sexy but not sexualised (well done there, character designers), fun and I honestly don't think she meant to cause such a split between Tulio and Miguel. She's a confident but restless girl who wanted to get out and seek adventure.

Warning: Image heavy, spoilers for the movie.

(You gotta knock the ball through the hoop...)

Stargate: Atlantis/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fanfic - Teyla Emmagan and Kira Nerys

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I wrote this for the Porn Battle yesterday and am happy to offer its joyful Teyla and Kira bonding here.

Title: Somewhere Over the Wormhole
Crossover: Stargate: Atlantis/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Pairing: Teyla/Kira
Rating: R
Word Count: 2,580
Summary: Fellow fighters connect when the Stargate team gets stuck on the station.

Excerpt:

Kira did not appear to be well-versed in forms, so Teyla led her through the fundamentals as she would a child on Athos—although, as she grew bolder as Kira did not rebuff her, she indulged in more lingering touches than would have been appropriate for mere tutelage: trailing her fingers along Kira's triceps to shape the bend of her arm, placing her hands between the wings of Kira's shoulder blades and on her stomach to correct the arch of her spine.

By the time their muscles were loose, Teyla had grown warm in more than one sense.

(fic prompts) offer

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In the spirit of the wonderful idea already promoted by some of my peers, I would very much like to contribute by offering drabbles on prompts/requests. Therefore, kindly comment here with:

 

character + prompt + rating
(where "prompt" can be anything from lyrics to a song, and from a colour to a figure)

 

and I'll try my best to reply in comments.

Drabbles will be between 100 and 500 words.

The available fandoms to choose from are:

Merlin, Torchwood, Gilmore Girls (seasons 1-3), BSG (seasons 1-3), Prison Break (season 1), Veronica Mars (season 1), Lost (seasons 1-3), Legend of the Seeker (season 1), Robin Hood (season 1), The Tudors (season 1), Glee, The Southern Vampires (books 1-8), ASOIAF, Kushiel's Legacy, Harry Potter, LOTR, His Dark Materials, mythology (basically Celtic and Greek), fairy tales, Sailor Moon, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Claymore (only the anime), RPF (you can check my list of favourite actresses in my introduction post at my journal).

Femslash Recs

[nocowardsoul]

12 recs in 9 fandoms. Enjoy.

( A Great and Terrible Beauty, Arthurian Legend, Aubrey/Maturin, Bleak House, Emily of New Moon, Gosford Park, Jeeves and Wooster, Twilight, Ugly Betty )

Vid: Cathedrals [BSG] [D'Anna, Laura, Caprica]

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Title: Cathedrals
Music: Jump, Little Children
Video: Battlestar Galactica
Summary: There is a feeling that you should just go home. D’Anna, Laura, Caprica.
Notes: Originally posted August 2008 and remastered for halfamoon. No spoilers past 4x10 "Revelations." During season 4.5, this retrospectively became a reclamation of BSG's mythology, theology and mysticism and the interconnected women at the center of it.

A few notes, streaming and download at my journal.

Torchwood Fic: Holding On

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Title: Holding On
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG-13. Some swearing, but no sex.
Characters/Pairing: Gwen, mainly, and the rest of the team. Gwen/Rhys.
Length: ~5700 words.

Summary: Rhys doesn't get resurrected, and Jack gets the hell out of Dodge as soon as he hears the TARDIS. Gwen and the team have to start figuring things out on their own. AU from "End of Days," with brief allusions to various things that happen after.

This had been hiding on my hard drive for a long time, but sunnyrea's prompt in the Impromputhon (Torchwood, Gwen, some fic from the time between season 1 & 2 when Jack was gone and she was in charge) reminded me of it, and so I finally posted it. It's probably not quite what sunnyrea was expecting, but I hope it's interesting enough.

Holding On

Ficlet: In Plain Sight, 'Steps', G

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disclaimer: not mine
fandom: In Plain Sight
character study: Brandi Shannon
spoilers: er, mid-season two?
length: 500 words
rating: G
summary: Brandi is trying to learn to change herself.

Steps
by ALC Punk!
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[Fic Recs] Because Gaila is awesome! (Star Trek XI)

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I’ve been obsessed with Star Tex XI for the past three weeks today so I am going to hook you up with two of my favorite Nyota and Gaila fic. Because Gaila is awesome and these stories show how, and Nyota is terrific, and she shines!

Lunch and Other Obscenities  by rheanna27 
Author’s Summary: Nyota liked her roommate just fine until she met her.
Academy story about Nyota and Gaila’s first year with sex, food, and culture clashes. This is what fanfic was made for and I’m going to quote the reccer whom I got this from - Why Are You Not Already Reading This?!

You’re Going to Make it After All  by igrockspock 
Author’s Summary: Two indecent exposure citations, one best friend, one amazing sex partner, one unexpected mentor, and a Starfleet-funded study of intercultural sexual norms. Sounds like a normal academic year for Gaila.

And one that's all about Gaila.

Caged Bird Singing  by igrockspock 
Author’s Summary: She takes freedom wherever she can find it, in notebooks begged from clients, stolen ink pens, and pictures of the stars
This story is simply gorgeous and a little heartbreaking and a lot triumphant.

Fic: What's Past Is Prologue (Bleach, Masaki)

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Title: What's Past Is Prologue
Fandom: Bleach
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing: Masaki, with mentions of Masaki/Isshin.
Length: 1,000 words exactly.
Notes: This is based on a wild theory of mine, and will likely be rendered very, very AU at some point.

Summary: There was far more to Masaki's death--and her life--than Ichigo ever knew.

( If things had been different, she would have swept him up and taken off into the skies, running on the air itself and carrying him far, far away. )

Things/times/places prompts

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Idea borrowed from munditia:

If you name a prompt and a female character from one of my fandoms (please see below), I'll try to write one-sentence-style comment fic for them.

Please put prompts in "character, prompt word, rating" format and indicate if you want only gen or anything goes.

Fandoms: Stargate: Atlantis, stargate_ren, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Reboot, Alias, Gilmore Girls, West Wing, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Supernatural, NCIS, Veronica Mars.

Mad Men picspam, pt. I: Joan Holloway

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Mad Men is a show about a particularly noxiously sexist period in American history--the late 1950s and early 1960s--that features some of the best women characters on TV. This picspam is devoted to Joan Holloway, office manager and undisputed queen bee at the advertising agency Sterling Cooper. Conventional to a fault, her mixture of steely-eyed competence and va-va-voom is nonetheless remarkable. Cross Joan at your peril; as far as I can tell, the only way to get out of that predicament is an unwise marriage to a partner.

( I said congratulations, didn't I? Although, sometimes when people get what they want they realize how limited their goals were. )

Missing Scene from Casino Royale

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This fic is rated: G
Fandom: James Bond
Characters: Moneypenny, M
Summary: M has a personal reason to regret making Bond 007.
Word Count: 100
X-Posted: were_lemur, halfamoon
Feedback: yes, please! Concrit welcomed.
Distribution: archiving, linking or remixing ok, just credit me and drop me a line!
Author's Note: this is my head!canon for M.
My FanFic Masterlist
Disclaimer: This is a transformative work.

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