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purimgifts. :D I did this last year and had immense fun -- you give your recipient a "gift basket" of three ficlets and three graphics. Rules and FAQ at the link. (Stories must feature characters who are a) female b) Jewish or c) persecuted by evil viziers -- thanks to A:tLA, I actually have a fandom that qualifies for that last one now! -- and you need not be Jewish to play.) I'm still dithering on whether to sign up; on the one hand, I was really looking forward to not having any ficathon deadlines hanging over me for a while! But on the other hand, I think this is one of the funnest ficathons of the year, and last year I loved preparing my ficlets and tracking down suitable graphics, so ... I DON'T KNOW. *flaily*

In SGA, there is a new community,

rononficathon, that is gauging interest in a Ronon ficathon. I know some of you on my flist are Ronon fans, so if that sounds like something you might like to participate in, hop over and vote in the poll!

sgareversebang is taking artist signups 'til the end of January, and author signups 'til Feb. 20. Still on the fence here, too. I really wouldn't mind the opportunity to do more art! But I still don't want to sign up for more ficathons. My life. So hard.

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I hope you end up doing the Reverse Bang! That is one thing nice about being an artist for this thing, we go first, get our artwork done, and then just chill.

I loved writing for the artwork you did last year! I'm sure other people would share that sentiment lol. I actually am doing Reverse Bang as an artist this year too!

I loved the story that you wrote for my artwork! :) I'm still thinking about it; I guess I have a couple of days yet to decide. And yeah, generally the artwork exchanges/ficathons are not as much of a commitment for me as the writing ones -- at the very least, it taps into a completely different part of my brain, so it doesn't really cut into my original-fiction writing time all that much.

You should do Purim gifts! Because Purim IS ON MY BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR (I've been dancing about this and planning a HUGE party for months now) and the more awesome people who do PurimGifts means there can also be a huge fandom party too. Also, it sounds awesome and I'm finally managing to participate :)

[only now I'm feeling bad that I didn't offer/ask for A:tLA. I knew I was missing something when I signed up]

Oh, excellent timing! :D I hope your birthday is a blast!

I want to sign up ... I had immense fun last year. I guess I still have a few days to think about it.

And I think with the AO3 signup interface that you can go ahead and edit your signup until the matches are made. At least, for Yuletide you could (and I did. A lot. *g*).

THIS is fantastic as my line up when it comes to SGA is as follows:
Sheppard
Ronon
Lorne
in that order.........
Thank you for the heads up.

Sure, happy to help! :) I think more Ronon fic in the world is definitely a good thing.

I am working on a piece of ff featuring Sheppard prominently with Ronon
as his back up..........in fact the rest of the team are there but not as prominently as Ronon..........
I knew when I first saw him in Runner that he and Sheppard would form a tight bond..........and I was right not only in series but
particularly in ff.
Have you read sgafan's Darkness Runs Deep or Coolbreeze1's Possession??
If you have not, do read them. They define Ronon a lot.

I'm not sure if I've read those ... I enjoy both authors' work though. Thank you for the recs! *makes note*

I really haven't been reading much fanfic the last year or so -- I've been working my way through my overloaded bookshelves and the library instead. There's just so much to read in the world, and never enough time to read it all!

Oh dear, don't remind me as I have shelves here at home that I have not read.
Awhile back I belonged to the History Book Club.........I have a number of books covering some of the areas I studied as an undergrad.........
Not any fiction save for LOTR in four volumes........
That is about it in fiction.

What areas of history did you study? History is one of my big areas of interest; I tend to flip back and forth between reading fiction and reading history, biography and travelogues. Last year it was all Ice Age and the beginnings of agriculture; I'm fascinated by the Paleolithic/Neolithic and the raw human ingenuity that's displayed in figuring out things like plant domestication, pottery and writing.

I had a double major:
East Europe & Middle East, but also studied other areas e.g. Russia
(I was very fortunate to have had Basil Dmytryshyn who is an expert in the area of not only Russia but Germany), Tudor England, the Renaissance, etc. My books are a mix of many areas of interest.
When I applied for the Peace Corps they offered me Turkey which was amazing given my major. I ended up in SW Turkey which has some of the richest history.
Later when I was in the Navy and stationed on embassy row, I applied to a grad program at Georgetown in Russian studies, but had to drop out as my job was interfering with evening classes.
What a disappointment.

Oh, how fortunate for you! The Turkey assignment, obviously, not losing out on the Russia grad study -- that's really a shame. When you were in Turkey, did you have a chance to go to Cappadocia? Ever since reading about Cappadocia and its unique geography, that's been one of the places in the world I've most wanted to see. (And possibly work into a novel at some point.)

I would love to see the Middle East sometime. Or, frankly, anything east of Austria, which is as far east as I've ever been on the Europe-Asia land mass.

During our holidays, we were teaching English as a second language in a middle school in SW Turkey, we visited various parts of Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Greece.
To this day I don't know how we ever afforded any of it given the paltry pay we received monthly...........but we did, mostly staying in convents, monasteries, backpackers' lodges, kibbutz, and small hotels e.g. in Beruit.
It was quit an experience for my roommate and I.
We never got to Cappadocia, which I regret to this day. I haven't a clue why as we spent time on trains.
I also wish we had booked a ride on a ferry to the islands when we were in Greece. I guess ran out of time or $$$$$
I also wish we had gone down into Egypt as long as we were in So Israel
and I also envisioned a quick trip to Iraq, of course long before the war.
Probably the latter.

Oh, wow, that really sounds like an incredible experience. I sympathize with your disappointment on missing out on those places ... I still regret not managing to get down to Rome and Pompeii when I was in Italy a few years ago. But there's always somewhere else to see, and never enough time (and money) to see it all.

My sister applied to the Peace Corps a couple of years ago but, to her great disappointment, was turned down because of her student loans. Apparently they will defer student loans normally, but she was ineligible for deferment because she had consolidated her loans when she got out of grad school.

I am sorry to hear your sister was turned down as a volunteer.
It would have been an incredible experience for her.
**sighs**
It was not the first time for regrets for me.
In 2000 I went to Nepal and India.
I had spent an inordinate amount of time in planning. I did NOT want a bus tour with a bunch of other people but had read about how it was actually as cheap to hire a car and driver. I did a lot of research on Lonely Planet as I had never been to SW Asia.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/asia
LP is an invaluable source of info on traveling anywhere.
I found a traveling companion also, another adventurous woman who also wanted to stay away from bus tours.
We wanted to do Nepal and Rajasthan part of India.
We would be gone for six weeks total.
Anyway, I made it through two weeks in Nepal, which was entirely fascinating and was well on my way in India when I hit a wall.
We were two and a half weeks into our India trip when things began to go wrong. When we got to Bundi, one of few walled cities remaining in India, things began to take go down hill. I had taken all the precautions, and then some, but began to feel ill. I sought alternative care, Ayurvedic medicine. When I saw the practitioner, he prepared some herbals for me, but cautioned me that if I was not better in a couple days to see an MD. Things continued to deteriorate. Finally when we got to Udaipur, the lake city, I went to the hospital. I was immediately hospitalized for a bad bacterial infection. My travel insurance carrier oversaw all of it including a physician in Calcutta who consulted with the doctor in Udaipur. I was in the hospital for several days on IVs. After I was discharged, I flew home.
I regret to this day that I missed some of the most fascinating areas which were left. Marge went on for the next three weeks with the driver and car to see the areas I REALLY wanted to see.
To this day I regret not seeing those areas which I missed, but the doctor in Udaipur, told me had I gone on I would have died since there was not care where I was going, other than Ayurvedic and I needed IVs etc. which they could not have provided.
BTW my travel insurance carrier, Access America, covered all the expenses, including one way airfare home and then sent me a check for the three weeks which remained in the trip.

Just signed up for sgareversebang. I know I said I'm also trying to avoid signing up for things but I regretted not participating last year.

It was fun, and I'm glad I did it! I might sign up as an artist this year, but probably not as a writer.

what is it???

It's like SGA Big Bang, only the stories are shorter, and instead of an artist picking your story to do art for, you as the writer pick a piece of art to write a story for.

that is so cool................

I'm very psyched about this :D

Not surprised. The writer who wrote Children of the Abyss, which I betad, had some lovely artwork for it...It was on SGA Big Bang.
I still have it............so very cool....

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