That's A Wrap!

[cmk418]

This post marks the end of the 2024 HalfAMoon Fest. It has been a phenomenal year with close to 200 individual posts in some diverse fandoms.

Whether you posted on one day or all fourteen, brought graphics, fics, vids, podcasts, meta, and recs or just came through and commented, thank you for making this a wonderful experience. Thanks also to everyone who promoted the community on their own pages.

I'm slowly going through and commenting on entries and making a masterlist. I'm making no promises on the timing of the masterlist this year, just that it will be up at some point before the 2025 fest.

If you have any thoughts on topics or ways to make next year's fest better, I welcome them in the comments. If you feel like this is something you would like to help out with next year, let me know that in the comments as well.

It has been incredible seeing your creations. Thank you for making the past fourteen days a great celebration of women! See you in February 2025!

Comments

[autisticwriter]

Thank you for hosting this fest. It was my first time taking part and I had a lot of fun writing about characters I sometimes don't focus on enough.

[cmk418]

It was my pleasure. I'm glad you joined us! Thanks for all your contributions.

[lightbird]

Thank you so much for hosting this fest again this year! Great prompts - they inspired me to start writing again (and I finished 2 bingo cards :D ), and I loved all the terrific fanworks everyone came up with in response and seeing all the interesting ways that other people interpreted them.

[cmk418]

Thanks for coming back again this year! I'm glad that the prompts were able to inspire you. Congrats on finishing those bingo cards!

[sisterdivinium]

Thank you for hosting the fest! I'm upset for not having been able to be more present but I'm also rather happy to see that there were almost 200 posts in just some 14 days. That's exciting! This was also my first time but hopefully far from the last, time constraints be damned :)

[cmk418]

I'm glad I was able to talk you into it. Thank you so much for everything you contributed! You helped make this year a success.

Looking forward to seeing you back here next year!

[malurette]

Thank you for hosting this fest once again! It's always a pleasure to take part in it.

[cmk418]

It was my pleasure and I'm happy you were able to participate again this year!

[ryulynn]

Thanks for running this! I forgot to cross-post everything after the first day lol but I definitely enjoyed the prompts and enjoyed seeing what other people made :)

[cmk418]

LOL, it happens. I'm glad the prompts were inspiring.

Thanks so much for participating this year!

[veronyxk84]

Thank you for running this event!
It was my first year and I had a great time. Hoping that next year I'll remember to prepare something in advance and not end up again on February 1st with a “wait, where did January go?” neon question above my head. 😅

[cmk418]

Yay! I'm glad you enjoyed your first time here with us. I'll put posts here and on fandomcalendar sometime around the third week of January, so as long as you're checking your reading page on DW, you should see it.

Thanks for your contributions and we'll see you next February!

[veronyxk84]

I found this community through fandomcalendar so that's good to know. 😊 I check DW daily, I was just very bad with scheduling my fandom activities around RL duties.
Haha, it happens. Until next year! ❤️

[colls]

Thank you for hosting!

[cmk418]

It was my pleasure.

Thanks for showing me some of the hidden corners of the Star Wars 'verse!

[ineffablecabbage]

Thank you for hosting! I had such a great time with this fest. I got to read and write about so many female characters that I normally don't focus on. It was lovely.

[cmk418]

It was my pleasure. I'm glad you had a great time. I enjoyed reading your contributions.

Looking forward to seeing you next February!

[alchemicink]

Thank you for running the event! This was a ton of fun, getting to contribute some things and also getting to check out everyone else's posts too 😊 Looking forward to next year!

[cmk418]

Thank you for participating! I'm glad you had a good time.

See you next February!

[adafrog]

Thanks.

[cmk418]

Thank you for helping to make this fest a success!

[roselynnthornwood]

Thank you for putting this together! I had a lot of fun. ❤️

[cmk418]

It was my pleasure! I really enjoyed your contributions.

Looking forward to seeing you next February!

[luvbarryfefe]

Thank you for putting this together. I hadn't participated in something like this before and I enjoyed it so much. I am excited to see what you come up with for next year. Wonderful!!

[cmk418]

It was my pleasure. I'm glad you took a chance and joined us. Your contributions helped make this fest a success.

I am excited to see what you come up with for next year. Oh, the pressure! Lol. I've got a couple of ideas. Is there anything in particular that you would want to see?

[luvbarryfefe]

I have no suggestions. You did a great job running it!

[sidleypkhermit]

Thank you for hosting! What a great turnout, we even got new people in!

[cmk418]

It was amazing! Is there anything you can think of that we can do better?

(Also is there any way to make that masterlist less of a behemoth? I'm separating by fandom and then by type of creation- art/fic/meta/etc.)

[sidleypkhermit]

I think you did an amazing job! The masterlist was much less ginormous when I ran it so I'm just speculating but here's what I would do with 200 items:

- Do not bother sorting by type of creation, unless it just makes you happier to sort it that granularly

- Go alphabetically by fandom and split it into at least two posts, maybe three or four. Both for your own workload and for the poor schmucks in fandoms at the end of the alphabet.


Thoughts for next time: It may be a little disheartening that there aren't any volunteers for next year popping up in the comments yet, but I think that's mainly because it's a year from now. Make a note in your planner to post a separate call for volunteers in January of 2025 when people know whether they'll be able to commit, and I think you'll get plenty of help.

[lokifan]

Thanks for making this happen!

[cmk418]

You are welcome. Thanks for taking part!

[svgurl]

Thank you for another great year! :D

[cmk418]

Thank you for coming back and participating!

Looking forward to seeing you next February!

[scintilla10]

Thank you for running this for another year! Really appreciate all you do to organize it and make it run so smoothly. <3

[cmk418]

It's my pleasure. Thanks so much for coming aboard again this year!

Looking forward to seeing you again next February!

[spiralicious]

Thank you for hosting this fest. It was my first year getting to participate and it was a blast.

[cmk418]

I'm glad you had fun! Thanks for participating.

Looking forward to seeing you back here in 2025!

[emylilas]

Thank you for hosting it, it was such a lovely event! As others have mentioned in the comments, I just wished I had started working on the prompts sooner because I had plans, but life clearly had different ones! Lesson learnt for next year! Thanks again <3