That's A Wrap!

[cmk418]

This post marks the end of the 2026 HalfAMoon Fest. It has been a phenomenal year with around 150 individual posts in some diverse fandoms.

Whether you're a newcomer or a returning friend, 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've got a few more comments to catch up on and the masterlist should be up hopefully by the end of the month. Special thanks to sisterdivinium with their help on this again this year.

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 2027!

Comments

[lightbird]

Thank you so much for keeping this going this year!

[cmk418]

You are welcome! Thank you for participating! It's always lovely to see you back for the fest.

[sisterdivinium]

Hands-down my favourite part of the year. I'm super happy that I finally got to participate every single day this time around and I already miss it -- good thing there's always 2027 for yet MOAR women! :)

And it's a pleasure to help, truly <3 I only need to give my half of the list one last look but I believe it's ready to go. Shall I send it to the same email as last time?

[cmk418]

It's mine too. I loved seeing your daily contributions. We will be rocking and rolling again next year. Would it help if I posted the theme list earlier? Assuming I can get it together earlier. Part of me wants to, and part of me realizes that I may be looking down the barrel at 150 10k word fics if I do so (a good problem to have).

Same email as last year will work. Thank you again!

[sisterdivinium]

It's so intense but it's also so FUN! And re: the theme list, I've had one or two conversations behind the scenes and I think no one would be opposed to the list being posted a bit earlier :) I was going to mention it could be a good idea but, at the same time, speaking for myself, I know it can be a pain to come up with one prompt, to say nothing of fourteen different ones, so I can barely guess at how much quicker finding them can even be. If possible, however, I really think there would be no complaint to having a bit more time to write or draw or whatever it is anyone might want to share with us all. People's temptation to write more will be there but, yeah, I'd agree that that's good ;)

Okay, I'll send it to you in a few, then!

[jacquelee]

oh no, I messed up my timezones, I tried so hard. I'm nearly finished with the last chapter, but I guess now I can slow down and post it chapter by chapter one a day instead of yeeting it all out there in the next twenty two minutes like I planned, lmao, since I missed the deadline anyways. This was very fun despite me not making it in the end! I tried something new, it didn't fully work, but yeah, it was fun! Thank you so much for hosting the fest again, it's one of my favourites.

[cmk418]

You did great. I think if people start reading it, they're going to want to follow it to see where it leads. I know I want to. Thanks so much for participating!

[melime]

Thanks for another great year! I'm glad that I was able to slip in just under the wire. Looking forward to next year!

[cmk418]

I was so relieved to see you posting today. Thanks so much for participating again this year! See you in 2027!

[dustbunny105]

Thank you for hosting the event! I didn't participate as much as I hoped but I still enjoyed taking part an I'm already looking forward to next year :D

[cmk418]

I'm so glad you were able to be a part of this and glad you had fun! Looking forward to seeing you next year.

[potentiality_26]

Thank you for running this event! I started more fics than I managed to finish, but isn't that always the way?

[cmk418]

That is usually how it goes. I wrote extremely short fics, but I was still sweating getting them all in by the cutoff.

So glad you were able to join in again this year! Looking forward to 2027 already.

[pattrose]

Thank you for all your hard work. I really enjoyed this community. It seemed like much fun was had by all.

[cmk418]

Thank you for all you did. I loved the moodboards and I really appreciated that you gave feedback to the other participants. That was awesome!

[alchemicink]

Enjoyed this year, as always! I'm hoping to catch up on enjoying everyone else's posts soon.

Thanks for all your hard work!

[cmk418]

Thank you! I'm so glad you were able to be here with us and I really enjoyed your creations.

[malurette]

Thank you for organizing it once again! I didn't have the spoons to post every day this year let alone crosspost, but I did the odd days in my own little corner and I'm on my way to catch up with the even days.

[cmk418]

I'll have to check that out. We definitely missed you around here this year.

If crossposting is an issue for you next year, be sure to reach out and I'll do what I can to help from my end.

[lovelytomeetyou]

This was a lot of fun and a great challenge! Couldn't do 14 in a row due to Valentine's but glad I managed to write 14 pieces and revisit some really old stuff and write very new thins too.

Looking forward to next year! And let me know if there are more challenges like this!

[cmk418]

Glad you could join us.

You might want to check out ladiesbingo for gen or femslash works focusing on female relationships (mother/daughter, siblings, co-workers, rivals, girlfriends, etc.). If you're looking for femslash, femslashfete is a good one. If you're looking for a catch all challenge, allbingo has events each month. And if you're looking to work on getting fics under 500 words (because they only accept fics under 500 words), then sweetandshort is your place.

Have fun and I'll see you back here next year!

[lovelytomeetyou]

Thank you so much! I hope to find something that recaptures the feeling of this challenge until next February!

And so many options, thank you! I'm intrigued by all of them and really like the ones to challenge myself to write less, great suggestion!

Seeya next year! :)

[suzume]

It was great to write a little for this challenge!

[ineffablecabbage]

Always my favorite part of the year! I already miss it and look forward to next year!

[emylilas]

Thank you for organising the event this year again! I wish I could have done more but that was one busy end of January/February on my side!
Since you mentioned thoughts for next year's, I don't know how doable it could be, but maybe if the list of prompts could be shared a little sooner? I know it wouldn't have made a big difference for me this year, but it might have for some.
Thank you again for the event, and can't wait for next year!