It's that time of year again, ack

[sholio]

It isn't the appearance of Christmas decorations in the stores that signals we're getting all too close to the holiday season ... it's the appearance of signup posts for the Yule/Christmas/Secret Santa ficathons. *g*

hlh_shortcuts (Highlander) is taking signups through Sept. 30.

sga_santa is taking signups 'til Oct. 9.

sheppard_hc just opened signups for their gift fic exchange ('til Sept. 29).

I signed up for hlh_shortcuts (I'm so multifannish, just look at me these days) but I think that's the only one I'll be doing ... well, that and yuletart whenever their signups open, because that was hella fun last year.

I think I already floated the idea of doing a White Collar gift-fic exchange if one doesn't already exist (didn't I?), but in two days I'm leaving for the Internetless Wilds and I won't be back 'til sometime in the first or second week of October, so I wouldn't be able to do anything with it until then. Still, I'm quite open to the idea of running such a thing -- I'll muse about it while I'm gone and see how things develop when I get back.

And I still have to write my girlsavesboyfic story.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I hope Yuletart will happen again this year (I've done it four times now, and it's always been fun), but I haven't seen Glockgal post on LJ/DW recently, only on Tumblr (and bzzinglikeneon has a recent post mention being quite busy with school), and last year by this time organization had already started iirc.

[sholio]

Oh no! I hope it's not dead; I really enjoyed myself last year and I was looking forward to getting to do it again.

[juniperphoenix]

I'm glad to hear you're doing hlh_shortcuts! It's a great fest. (I haven't written for it, but have been an avid reader and occasional beta.)

[juniperphoenix]

By the way, how do you get the LJ community userhead to display on DW? I tried snitching the code from your post, but apparently it didn't work. :P

[sholio]

The code for that is:

"user name=whatever site=www.livejournal.com"

(but in pointy brackets rather than quote marks)

You can also do site=www.insanejournal.com, archiveofourown.org (which I just discovered, actually!) and possibly others. :)

[juniperphoenix]

I knew that much, but for some reason it only ever displays the individual LJ userhead instead of the community one. Weird.

[sholio]

That's weird! Let me try it here, because it seems like in the past I've had it automatically fetch the correct userhead (the community one, the regular one, or one of the custom ones). But maybe that only works when you're crossposting and not in comments. So, testing... hlh_shortcuts

[sholio]

... and that worked. Weird. Maybe what's different is that I did it with a dash "hlh-shortcuts" rather than an underscore?

[juniperphoenix]

Ohhhh, I bet you're on to something there. *tests*

hlh_shortcuts


Aha! That was it! :D

[sholio]

Victory! \o/