Deadline Approaching

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Okay, people. Just to remind those of you who DON'T have amnesty to post whenever it's possible (and there are several such people, thanks to chronic illness and missing computers, because 2009 has been a truly horrible year):

The deadline for femgenficathon is October 15, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

You have a week to go.

There will be no more extensions.

While I won't bar anyone from future participation if the story is posted late or the person defaults, I would strongly prefer that the stories be posted by the deadline.

Also, next year, the ficathon will be much shorter. I listened to you guys this year about keeping the deadline in October, and that has been a failure. Evidently handing out prompts in April and having a deadline in October does not work; it gives people too long to forget about Femgen and to become distracted by other obligations, both connected with ficathons and with real life.

So next year, Femgen prompts will be handed out starting on May 15 and ending on May 22. There will be seventy-five prompts--no more, no less. The most stories we've ever had people post in one year is seventy-four, and all other years have produced appreciably fewer stories, so seventy-five prompts should be more than sufficient. The deadline will be July 31, as it was during Femgen's first year. I think that's time enough.


Crossposted to gehayi

Paradise Lost [Star Trek XI; Christine Chapel; PG]

[velvetmouse]

Title: Paradise Lost
Author: velvetmouse
Characters/Fandom: Christine Chapel, Star Trek XI (Reboot)
Rating: PG, for mild language and innuendo
Warnings: Spoilers for the movie; references to TOS
Word Count: 6461
Prompt: 29) Suddenly I laugh and at the same time cry / And in pleasure many a grief endure / My happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchanged / All at once I dry up and grow green -- Louise Labé (circa 1520/1522 - 1566), 16th-century French poet of the Renaissance.
Summary: Sometimes hell can sneak up on you; other times, it announces itself with bells and whistles.
Notes: Many many thanks to my awesome betas, fringedweller, who patiently corrected my newbie mistakes, and Sherry, who is, as always, the other half of my brain.
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( Paradise Lost )

kirsteena In Memoriam (Torchwood, Toshiko Sato, PG)

[kirsteena.livejournal.com]

Title: In Memoriam
Author: kirsteena
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG
Prompt: Prompt #49:
Someone, I tell you,
will remember us.
We are oppressed by fears of oblivion
yet are always saved
by judgment of good men. -- Sappho
Word Count: 3859
Summary: Jack, Gwen and Ianto discover something she has left behind.
Author's Notes: Thanks to the wonderful verdant_gt for beta reading.

( In Memoriam )