halfamoon 2011 is now open!

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Welcome to the halfamoon challenge 2011. The rules are the same as they have been for the last three years (please see the FAQ/intro post), and once again we have new headers by the talented and generous taraljc.

We also have an AO3 collection this time around. You don't have to post your works to the collection or the AO3 to participate in halfamoon, but if you would like to do so, it's here.

Happy posting!

Female Character Friending Meme

[anenko.livejournal.com]

I held one of these on my LJ/DW, and it was a ton of fun. I hope halfamoon likes the idea, too.

Name:
I am: [whatever personal info you feel like sharing]
Fandoms:
Favourite female characters:
How are you fannish about female characters? [fic, meta, icons, picspams, etc.]
Free space: [anything goes!]

<strong>Name:</strong> <strong>I am:</strong> <strong>Fandoms:</strong> <strong>Favourite female characters:</strong> <strong>How are you fannish about female characters?</strong> <strong>Free space:</strong>

"Female characters" involves anyone who self-identifies as female.

Fanmix: A Song of Ice and Fire (Brienne of Tarth)

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

(no) loyal knight & true: a brienne of tarth fanmix

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman?
(Catelyn Stark)

In this light she could almost be a beauty. In this light she could almost be a knight.
(Ser Jaime Lannister)

Honor. The point is honor.
(Brienne of Tarth)



(DL, track list, lyrics and book quotes after the fake LJ-cut)

Battlestar Galactica links

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I made a list of fic recs for Battlestar Galactica: gen(ish) stories about women who weren't in the opening credits.

I don't have any links for gen stories about D'Anna Biers/Three, and very few for Sixes (not Caprica). So if you can add to my list, please comment here or there.

I also ended a thirty-day meme about favorite female characters with a tribute to the women of Battlestar Galactica.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles graphics

[goodbyebird]

My entry for dreamwidth's ladiesbigbang(which I fully recommend you guys check out), consisting of 17 wallpapers and 44 icons.





The rest here :)

Fic - Merlin (BBC) - Daily Duties

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

Title: Daily Duties
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Length: 303 – 3 interconnected drabbles with headers
Status: Complete
Spoilers: Through 3.10 to be safe
Synopsis: Three interconnected drabbles about the interconnected lives of three women.
Author’s Notes: Written for halfamoon .
Disclaimer: I do not own this interpretation of the myths and am making no profit from this.

Read on Live Journal

Read on Dreamwidth

Ficlet: Enchanting Attire

[nancybrown.livejournal.com]

Title: Enchanting Attire
Author: nancybrown
Fandoms: Harry Potter / Wizards of Waverly Place
Characters: Harper, Luna
Rating: G
Summary: Fashion sense transcends silly boundaries like that between humans and wizards.

Whedonverse Vid Recs

[streussal.livejournal.com]

I put this together over winter break, so they're all from 2010.

Multi
So What by scifi_tv_addict (Recurring women of the Whedonverse)

The Fear by aycheb (Summer Glau meta vid)

Buffyverse
Queen Bitch by thedothatgirl (Lilah. Most appropriate song title ever.)

Bite You by astartexx (Darla, Darla/Lindsey. Never fight an inanimate object. Or how Darla broke Lindsey.)

Slayer by thedothatgirl (Is this how a slayer dreams?)

Dollhouse
My Skin by llenka (Sierra aka Priya.)

I Used to Rule the World by aPASSINGthought (Adelle)

Firefly/Serenity
People Got a Lotta Nerve by obsessive24 (River and the War)

Made Up Love Song #43 by such_heights (Kaylee, ensemble.)

Underappreciated Women of BSG picspam

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

This is a picspam I made last August, celebrating the unsung heroines of Battlestar Galactica and characters underappreciated by fandom or canon.



picspam here!

[Fanvid] Various sentai and kamen rider seasons

[scifisentai]

I'm not much of a vidder but realising this was coming up prompted me to get cracking on something. The clips are mostly from the various sentai seasons but there's a couple of clips from Kamen Rider Double and the KR Decade section of Movie Wars - so slight spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen those - and a couple from Ultra Galaxy as well.

( Vid behind the cut )

BtVS/Babylon 5 X-over Fic: Returning Home by Kerkevik

[kerkevik.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I wrote this just after last year's event, so I thought it would be appropriate as a first entry this year :-)

~~~

Returning Home
by
Kerkevik


Title: Returning Home
Author: Kerkevik
Prompt: Written for the Circle prompt @ open_on_sunday
Rating: PG
Pairing: Femslash is implied
A/N: This is a Babylon 5 / BtVS crossover, but AU for both. It is a reduction from a story idea (originally to include the ref: "Inspired by the Circle prompt at open_on_sunday."), surrounding speculations I shared with someone I met, quite casually, about Lennier's fall from grace, and possible redemption, in S5 of Bab5 but, just for the hell of it, I decided to MasterChef''it, and turn it into a proper drabble. I'm hoping, after doing a little research on Babylon 5, to do a longer story, based on the original idea. I won't tell you what the inspiration for the format is, but as a kind of cryptic clue... let's call it a 7-inch disco remix (I'd actually be willing to pm the not-too-much-longer original form of this to anyone who's interested. Call it the contrast-and-compare DVD extra option... (Yes! I know I'm a whore! But I do work cheap, so there is that :-)...)
Characters: A Witch, Two Minbaris, and a Slayer... maybe?) (Okay, who can spot the Firefly joke hidden somewhere in there :-) ... ?
Disclaimer: None of the characters belong to me... Dang, and blast it!!!



He approached the women, wizened with age; eyes still blazing with life, nervously, yet full of hope for his redemption.

"Well Lennier," asked the ancient black-eyed witch; Delenn gripped her arm.

Bowing his head, to avoid the witches eyes, he handed her the PADD.

The witch nodded and, despite her vivid facial scarification; seemed to smile as Delenn took the PADD and asked; curious, "This is not a Minbari name."

"A nickname, beloved."

For the first time in Lennier's memory, the ancient witch Tara Maclay cried; then laughing aloud, she said, "The first Slayer on Minbar for countless generations is called Buffy!"


Hope you enjoy,
Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.

Sci-Fi Women Daily Community

[krissie678.livejournal.com]

Come and check out sf_women_daily, a daily picture and appreciation community for the strong female characters of the sci-fi genre. Feel free to post any sort of picspam, artwork, positive discussions, etc. Please no fanfiction.
 

600 Supernatural Icons

[aithine]

Super Women of Supernatural by Aithine

This was my ladiesbigbang project: six hundred icons for thirty-two awesome women from Supernatural; no explicit pairings, though some relationships (canon and fanon) are mentioned in passing.

Spoilers through the end of season five. Mentions of canon character death. No explicit violence against women depicted.



Super Women of Supernatural: Icons by Aithine

icons, Supernatural, LOTS AND LOTS OF LADIES

[alexseanchai]

Also for 100_women: one hundred icons of one hundred women of Supernatural. And counting, 'cause this is too much fun to stop at a hundred and I've got a season and a half left to play with.

VID: Tightrope (multi-fandom)

[such_heights]

Tightrope
by such_heights
fandoms: Avatar: the Last Airbender, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Merlin, Star Trek XI, Stargate: Atlantis, Torchwood.
characters: Katara, Mai, Anastasia 'Dee' Dualla, Cally Henderson, Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, River Song, Molly Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Guinevere, Nyota Uhura, Jennifer Keller, Gwen Cooper.
music: Tightrope - Janelle Monáe
content notes: none
summary: You dance up on them haters.
notes: made for halfamoon 2011.

Download and streaming links, notes.

Xover Fic Rec: The Sisters of Paradox by Robert Black

[kerkevik.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I thought, that it would be nice to offer up a rather excellent BTVS/Who crossover fic; not just any ordinary crossover because it is also a crossover between the televised BtVS (post-Who Are You? & pre-New Moon Rising) and it's original unaired spec pilot - complete with Riff Regan's original Willow.

It also features Sarah-Jane Smith, from the eras of the Third & Fourth Doctors, but the character as she was portrayed in the books that carried on the tradition of Doctor Who when the old show ended; as well as an original character from those adventures.
http://www.altfic.com/subtextfic/buffy/robertblack/sistersofparadox1_3.htm

http://www.altfic.com/subtextfic/buffy/robertblack/sistersofparadox4_6.htm

http://www.altfic.com/subtextfic/buffy/robertblack/sistersofparadox7_9.htm

http://www.altfic.com/subtextfic/buffy/robertblack/sistersofparadox10_12.htm

http://www.altfic.com/subtextfic/buffy/robertblack/sistersofparadox13_15.htm

http://www.altfic.com/subtextfic/buffy/robertblack/sistersofparadox16_18.htm

******

Hope you enjoy,
Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.

My HalfAMoon 7 -- Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy)

[arobynsung]

I'm doing a series on 7 female characters I love that I'm calling my HalfAMoon 7. It's a mini-spam, a favorite quote, a brief explanation of their awesome, and ten icons.

First up: Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy)

THE SHORT VERSION: I want to be Miranda Bailey when I grow up.

Half a Moon banners!

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

Based on the 2011 layout, I've created new promo banners you can use to promote halfamoon in your own journals and comms!



( promo banners behind the cut )

your invitation to endless wonder

[minkhollow]

First: hi! I've hung out in the Unpopular Women Love Posts a couple times previously, and this year I come bearing... I don't know what yet.

But first, I come bearing a Warehouse 13 fandom primer. I was considering doing it anyway, and then there was Myka in one of the new headers! (She's third from the right on the red one; Claudia's first on the left on the blue header.)
( Syfy's little show that could, and the ladies who make it awesome )

Icon offers

[ciaimpala.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone!

To help celebrate this amazing community, I wanted to offer to make everyone who wanted one an icon of their favorite female character. You can leave your request here, and, if you have a photo you want used, that as well. Every 5-10 icons I get requested (if I get that many), I'll put in a post when they're done so people can see and claim theirs :) Feel free to request more than one if you have more than one favorite female character you'd like an icon of.

 

The Unpopular Woman Love Post

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

Friends, halfamoon is here again! For me, that means it's time for The Unpopular Woman Love Post.

( About & Rules )

( Threads )

In other words, this post is all about celebrating and loving our favorite unloved women. Now, love away!

Note: So for some reason there seems to be spontaneous comment screening going on in this post. I'll be unscreening everything I see, but poke me if I miss something!

video: CROSS THE LINE (multifandom)

[heropower.livejournal.com]

( CROSS THE LINE )

Fanmix: Merlin: The Women of Merlin

[fly-to-dawn.livejournal.com]

( ... )

VID: Infinite Legends (The Legend of Zelda)

[eralkfang.livejournal.com]

Title: Infinite Legends
Source: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998), The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2003), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006)
Characters: Princess Zelda Hyrule (x3)
Music: “Infinite Legends”, Two Steps From Hell.
Summary: Three women, two countries, one name–Princess Zelda Hyrule. The legend lives on.

Download, streaming, lyrics and notes are all at my journal here.

The alchemy true human beings know - Shujian Enchou Lu

[lilacfield.livejournal.com]

Huo Qingtong plans to rebuild her home. Post-novel. Written for eid_ka_chand in 2010. Shujian Enchou Lu © Jin Yong, et al.

( The alchemy true human beings know )

Vid: She's a Rebel (Multifandom)

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Vid: She's a Rebel
By: kaydeefalls
Fandom/Characters: MANY. 81 ladies in 40 fandoms.
Music: "She's a Rebel" by Green Day
Summary: She sings the revolution, the dawning of our lives. A kickass ladies vid.
Notes: Created for halfamoon!


Embed + Download - She's a Rebel


Fandoms: Across the Universe, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Casino Royale, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Donnie Darko, Firefly, A Fish Called Wanda, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hotel Rwanda, How I Met Your Mother, Inception, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Iron Man, Life, Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, The Matrix, Merlin, Monsoon Wedding, Moulin Rouge, Much Ado About Nothing, Pan's Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl, Pride and Prejudice, Queer as Folk UK, Sarah Jane Adventures, Serenity, Sports Night, Stardust, Star Trek 2009, Torchwood, West Wing, X-Files, X-Men, X2. :D

Fic: D'Ancanto (1/8) Rogue [X-Men Movieverse] Rated M

[xenokattz.livejournal.com]

Available Chapters: One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight

Fandom: X-Men Movieverse (X1-3, XMO:W)
Characters: Rogue(Marie D'Ancanto) + cast of dozens
Rating: Mature (Samuel L Jackson-level strong language)
Summary: Drugs. Multi-state gangs. Mutant-killing virus. Civil unrest. Plot to assassinate a racist senator. Just another Tuesday for Marie D'Ancanto, NYPD detective in the country's first Mutant Crimes Task Force.
Disclaimer: All the characters you can recognize belong to Marvel Entertainment. The movieverse versions also belong to Fox, Brian Singer, David Hayter, Zak Penn, Bret Ratner *cough*,Gavin Hood, David Benioff & Skip Woods. The pictures aren't mine either; they're gacked from Anna Paquin Online and various Google searches.
Author's Notes: This was supposed to be for femgenficathon 2010. My prompt was #117: Wherever fate demands me...I will go. -- Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (1814-1873), 19th-century Cuban author. To the moderator, gehayi, I regret very much not being able to meet the deadline for this ficathon because it's one of the best things out there. It's possibly my favourite ficathon. Even though I didn't overtly use my prompt, it did affect the whole story. Heck, it's the whole reason why this story is half a year late & 40,000 words over the original outline. A frillion also thanks to lithiumlaughter who beta'd this monstrosity not only for (very many) spelling & punctuation errors but also for plot holes, dangling subplots and accurate characterisation. And she did this THREE TIMES. Percy, you are awesome.

Picspam: Five Reasons to Love Deanna Troi

[tassosss.livejournal.com]

Written for 14valentines  with halfamoon  in mind. Graphic link goes to my journal.

Fic: Fight Like A Girl (Torchwood, PG)

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Fic: Fight Like A Girl
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG
Words: 3398 total.
Status: Complete
Warnings: None. No spoilers.
Notes: A love song to the wonderful women of Torchwood, and also to my adored home city. Betaed by, at various points, dowwdor_shal and plum177.
Summary: Character study: if each of the Torchwood girls is isolated and confronted by something from the Rift, how do they cope saving Cardiff whilst flying solo? Different women find different ways to win, but fighting like a girl doesn't mean you don't fight hard.

Toshiko Sato
Gwen Cooper
Suzie Costello

Art: "You are my Only Home" and "Practicing Ruin"

[leyna55.livejournal.com]

Title: You are My Only Home & Practicing Ruin
Fandom: Final Fantasy 13
Characters: Fang, Vanille and Lightning
Rating: G & PG (worksafe)
Medium: Digital Paintings (x2)
Summary: Originally posted to Porn Battle 11 last week (though completely lacking in porn), but intended for Halfamoon, too.



Find the paintings at my journal

Five Things Comment Fic Offer

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

I thought I might do something again which I already did last year in this community and which was a ton for fun for me.

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 and it might take me a while to actually post them, but I'll try to do as many as I can by February 14th.

Example prompt: Castle, Lanie Parish, five things Lanie likes about working with dead people

Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin), A:tS, BSG (new), BtVS, Castle, Doctor Who (mostly new Who), Farscape, Firefly, Jane Austen, LOTR, Mad Men (seasons 1-3), Slings & Arrows, ST:AOS, T:SCC, Tortall novels (Tamora Pierce - please ask for specific volumes), Veronica Mars (preferably season 1), Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)

For other fandoms, please ask first.

fics, by myself and others

[minkhollow]

There may be something percolating, but for now, I come bearing some Warehouse 13 recs, as well as some stuff I've written in the fandom.
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Fic: eat me, drink me, love me

[july-july-july.livejournal.com]

Title: eat me, drink me, love me
Fandom: True Blood
Characters: Pam!
Rating: R
Summary: She was thirty years old the first time she tasted blood.

eat me, drink me, love me

Fic: Socially acceptable

[narwhalseason.livejournal.com]

My first submission! Ooooh, I hope to write more! (Meaning: run for the hills.)

Title: Socially Acceptable
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice
Characters: Miss Bingley/Jane (mentions to Bingley/Jane and Darcy/Elizabeth.)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: She envies her brother.

Socially Acceptable

Time for the Future (Bang Bang) - Primeval/Warehouse 13 Fanvid

[bella-farfalla.livejournal.com]

Fandoms:
Primeval & Warehouse 13
Characters:
Helen Cutter & HG Wells
Song:
Time For The Future (Bang Bang) by Men, Women & Children
Summary:
The general badassery and awesomenes of my two favourite female characters in these shows - Helen Cutter and HG Wells

( Notes, streaming and download links at my journal )

Drabble: Nobody's Damsel

[senmut]

Title: Nobody's Damsel
Fandom: Adventures in Babysitting
Characters: Chris Parker
Rating: PG
Summary: Chris woke up the next day and knew she would never let another Mike happen.

Here on AO3

Women of the Gate Masterlists

[rachel500.livejournal.com]

The Women of the Gate community celebrates the ladies of Stargate from SG1 to Atlantis to Universe.

Our latest ficathon and art challenge masterlist is here

The complete masterlist for all previous ficathons and art challenges is here

Top Five Star Trek Women Who Need More Love

[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

( Words and Pictures About Awesome Ladies, Under the Cut! )

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Merteuil, Cecile, Rosemonde), Oral Appreciation

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Half a Moon 2011 by zviLikesTV

Show Notes:

halfamoon
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
Dangerous Liaisons (1988), directed by Stephen Frears
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2003), directed by Josée Dayan
Valmont, directed by Milos Forman
Cruel Intentions, directed by Roger Kumble
Se plaire by me

Women In Fandom Gifspam

[bluetooth16.livejournal.com]

This is a compilation of all of the gifs I've made with women's actions as the focus. Various emotions and situations are portrayed. No 'ships are involved and all are safe for work as long as your connection is fast.

Fandoms: Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures Not in tags: John Adams, Undercovers, The Catherine Tate Show

Preview:


( More huge graphics under the cut. Will slow down or possibly even break slow connections! )

Ficlet: Passive Aggression (Mai, Avatar: The Last Airbender)

[sei-shonanon.livejournal.com]

Title: Passive Aggression
Fandom: Avatar The Last Airbender
Characters: Mai, Zuko
Rating: G
Words: 335
Summary: I failed at Porn Battle by writing politicking instead. Prompt: Mai/Zuko, protocol

( Passive Aggression )