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Aug 21: Sign-Ups & Nominations Close
Aug 23 (or earlier): Assignments Go Out
October 1: Assignments Due
October 8: Work Reveals
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A Sorceress’ Kit Was Discovered in the Ashes of Pompeii
The box of small trinkets was likely used to perform fertility and love rituals and to look for omens about birth and pregnancy. [...] Since there were no gold or precious objects in the trove, which wealthy citizens of Pompeii liked to flaunt, the cache of charms was likely not owned by the mistress of the house or a member of the family. Instead, the owner of the sorceress’ kit was likely a slave or servant.

I'm so fascinated by this. There has got to be a story here. Roman-era urban fantasy, anyone?

The Last Human (in a Crowded Galaxy)
Absolutely adorable webcomic about a vicious alien spider predator adopting a human baby and then having to figure out how to deal with things like, say ... are their mouth bones supposed to fall out?! Eventually it grows a plot involving other alien parents/kids and becomes, if possible, even cuter. There is also a book, which the comic is apparently adapted from, and while I feel as if prose can't possibly capture the utter charm of the illustrations, I went ahead and bought it because the comic is in mid-storyline and I'm desperate to know what happens next!

Sparkle Text
How to make text sparkle in DW posts. Use wisely.

The Order of the Avengers Part 1 and Part 2
Fanart of the Avengers in medieval fantasy style. These are amazing. I can't get over the detail.

AO3 Everything App
Scrapes data from all recent exchanges to find all requests for a given fandom or character. (I did notice that it currently default-sorts by due date, so if for whatever reason an exchange doesn't have a due date, it comes up on top even if it's over. That's pretty minor though.)

Kindletrends
Putting here for my information mostly, so I can find it later - a Kindle genre analysis service for authors, similar to K-lytics, that I'm thinking I might look into possibly using. Or at least look through their free data to see if any of it is relevant to my own market research.