This is me, pimping out a new exchange going on at bb_and_ww because I know out of all of my flist there's a fair number who have preference for the ignored, disliked and misunderstood characters, not to mention aliens and other beings. Please pimp this out if you think anyone else you know would like it too.

For anyone still interested A) mckay and/or weir from SGA and B) in some festive fannish challenge I pimp this challenge out to you.

If anyone likes the idea of fic for the misguided, disliked, ambigious, evil and alien characters then you've got just about 5 days left to submit prompts. As many as you like, no obligation to write too. The submission ends when the 5th of August has ended everywhere in the world.

Come on over to bb_and_ww and give those characters some lovely prompts! :D

Please pimp this out if you know any one with any love of those kind of characters - it's multifandom after all and more prompts the merrier.

I had quite a bit of fun taking part in Round 1 and here I am pimping Round 2 incase any of you Sanctuary fans on flist might like to join in too. :D





Come sign up here!
(and if you signup please mention my referral, thanks)

For any flisters who like Sanctuary I pimp a new comm, like LIMS but without elimination.



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If you signup please mention I referred you. :)

I point my fellow SGA flisters, those with any fondness for the McKay/Weir pairing, to this here prompt battle.

37 prompts and a subs deadline of 19th December, just in time for a glut of fic before Christmas I hope. Do you worst/best, though really, aren't those both the same thing? lol

This is a post pimping out http://seriouschange.org.uk. It's not intended to be preachy or political, just pointing the site out along with my explanation of why I've signed up.

So there's essentially the two warring extremist sides of the argument about climate change - those in denial no matter what it costs them, because they view change for the enviroment as uncessary and damaging to business/economy/the current way of life, and those who are so gungho for change they think the answer is reverting to older ways of living that radically change all we know.

I signed up to the site because it's about making a serious change without drastic measures to how we live that some would suggest, the middle ground of wanting what's good for the environment without cutting out the technology I love and all the modern aspects of life I enjoy because it's not a focus on the environment for the sake of that but a focus on changes that benefit the economy as much as the environment by bringing us in line with how the 21st century should arguably be.

Personally I don't think the idea of living with a low carbon or even carbon neutral footprint is too far away. The obstacles to this seems to be resistance based on greed of corporations not wanting to change despite any proof it's better for them to, governments supporting them for political reasons and the erraneous perception that changes can't be done without great personal sacrifices, that it will harm consumers and hence the economy.

I'm hoping that what the website ends up doing to get the message out will achieve something in changing the minds of those who have power to make serious changes, to push for laws that support this, to force corporations to do the sensible thing. I might be naive to hope it has serious impact but I think it's always worth trying, especially when it takes so little effort to sign up and there are no obligations on my time apart from those I might choose to accept in the future.

Let me pimp out mwexplosion, which has been created for the McKay/Weir novel(la) writing event soon to kick off, but is also going to have smaller contests in the meantime - starting with our first icontest, for episode 1x01-02 "Rising". Go here for Challenge 1 rules and submissions post.

M/W or SGA graphics flisters, why not have a go? G'on ;)

Two items on the agenda

1. Please awesome flisters who're into Stargate, go create for the sg_rarepairings Prompt Battle. I'm sure you might even be able to recognise a few of my prompts over there, I'm a little predictable, but seriously there's tons of prompts, plenty of variety to choose from and not restricted to only fic either.

2. You can surely manage just 6 prompts (up to 5 character/pairing specific and 1 non-character-specific) for the following challenge? We need more fanart, it would be love, so do your bit and give them some good stuff to inspire! :D



paintedspires is an SGA fanart challenge in which a group of SGA artists respond to prompts submitted by the rest of fandom. There are over 70 artists signed up, and from March 10-16, they're asking for prompts from you! Any character, any pairing, any genre. Click the link! Help them out! Get pretty art in the bargain!