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Total posts: 21
Fic/Poetry posts: 10; Meta and articles: 1
GYWO total – month (year): 6,433 (76,597)

September
Small Fandom Big Bang
Trope Bingo Round 5
A Few Random Things
Agent Carter fic: Collateral Damage for a writerverse challenge
Legend of the Seeker fic: Not a Good Idea for a writerverse challenge
Da Vinci's Demons icons for a gameofcards challenge
Haiku: Lightning Strike For writerverse and also published to my writer's blog
Trick or Treat Go to the link, sign up, make and get mini treats for Halloween
Fic: Cobalt is Blue for writerverse and also posted to my writer's blog
A quick rant about ebook publishing (and the self proclaimed guardians at the gate) My rebuttal of a scaremongering and emotionally manipulative article on how not hiring an editor will "ruin" your writing career. I cannot afford an editor and if the choice is to get into an irresponsible level of debt when I struggle to pay even the most basic of bills, or not publish, then I can't publish and that seems wrong. Please feel free to read the post and the linked article, but I'm done arguing with the idea I should "just" save money I don't have, to pay for editing, for a book I intend to give away free/sell for pennies.
The Borgias fic: Wedded Souls For writerverse
Mabon
The Librarians: 8 ficlets The September Writerverse challenge: use book titles as inspiration
Writing Meme
Fic: The Fall of Humpty Dumpty For writerverse
September BAG post Just once a month I make a personal post about what I've been doing last month and what my goals are.
The Novel – beta readers wanted Just because I can't afford an editor it doesn't mean I don't recognise the importance of the kind of feedback I've spent years giving out and have received in the past. Details at the post. So far, no takers.
3 Drabbles for Writerverse Links to the AO3 posts
2 Drabbles for writerverse Links to the AO3 posts
Final posting: Legendland Round Up Battle 20

Professional Blogs

Non-fic posts at Wordpress (lmdee); (rss)

Book Review: UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn

Fic posts at DW (L M Dee); (rss)

Haiku: Lightning Strike
Fic: Cobalt is Blue

Celebrated at the 21st or 22nd of December this marks the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemipshere while Litha is celebrated as the Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. It is of course close to Christmas Day while that is also the feast day of Frau Holle, a Scandinavian spirit who is honored as the embodiment of nature and the woods. There's an article at About.Com on the History Of Yule and the various global celebrations held on or near the solstice.



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Lugh, depicted by Dustin Clare (here playing Gannicus in "Spartacus"), with a background found at morguefile, and a pentacle from banshee arts

Lammas occurs on the first or second of August. It is also celebrated as Lughnasadh. It is believed that Lammas comes from the Saxon phrase hlaf maesse, or "loaf mass."

Lammas is primarily a wheat harvest. It is a cross quarter day, falling between the midsummer solstice of Litha and the autumnal equinox of Mabon.
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Total posts: 21
Fic/Poetry posts: 4; Meta posts: 0
GYWO total – month (year): 3684 (60085)

Beltaine
Mix: Power Dynamics
Spartacus icons for trope bingo prompts
Legend of the Seeker artwork for trope bingo
Meme
May BAG post personal, f-locked
Grimm icons for trope bingo
Revenge icons for trope bingo
Fic: Different Does Not Mean Changed original fic, theme: masturbation, theme: asexuality, theme: relationships
Revenge picspam for trope bingo (hurt/comfort)
Meme
Meme - Characters
Coming Out Trope Bingo
Fic: Literally vs Metaphorically a meta fiction series fic for trope bingo
Revenge fic: Strange Bedfellows
Legend of the Seeker: Journalistic Bias for the trope bingo prompt "epistolary"; Two newspapers report on Richard's actions but from very different standpoints
Photos personal, f-locked
Vampire Diaries icons for trope bingo
Vampire Diaries fic: Call Me, Maybe Trope bingo fill
Trope Bingo Claim

image by Magickal Graphics


Imbolc, also known/celebrated as Imbolg, Oimelc, Candlemas, St Brigid's Day, Groundhog Day, takes place on or near the 1st/2nd of February and is a festival marking a cross-quarter day in the wheel of the year, heralding the first signs of spring.

It is a festival particularly associated with Brighid (Brigit, Bride, or Brigid), goddess of healing, smith craft, and poetry. She was Christianised as St Brigid of Kildare. I posted a music rec for a track about Brigid and the start of spring.
This year, the festival coincides with celebrations for the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Horse, which began on Jan 31st.

I usually give more information - some of it copy-pasted because correspondences don't change, but I always try to include something new; quotes from an article, a personal recipe or photos or story, or just some additional info on correspondences and legendary figures. However since there are apparently no longer readers (no comments, certainly on my most recent Yule post) for these holiday posts I will no longer update the information, but merely link to previous posts:

Imbolc 2013
Imbolc 2012
Imbolc 2011

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Litha is also known as the Summer Solstice, Midsummer, Midsummer Night, Midsummer Night's Eve, Gathering Day, Sun Blessing, Gathering Day, Feill-Sheathain, St. John's Day
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Links to April posts in case you missed anything, and for my own indexing and edification purposes (8 fic/poem related posts. 20 posts total. That's approx 11k words – some of which was written in April, some of which was written previously and is now edited/posted for the first time in my journal - but this refers to posted words.)

Legend of the Vampire Diaries A crossover fanfic
March BAG post f-locked personal where I've been/am at/going
World Rat Day celebrating our furry friends
Fic: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me Aura-verse fic
Snapshot Bingo: Single Line Through Centre photo post
Arrow fic: Lies
Legend of the Seeker - Wizard
Darken Graphic as a birthday gift for dorothydeath
3 Sentence Fics multi-fandom fills from the ficathon
Photo PostFic: Prayer
The Borgias fic: Sed Libera Nos a Malo
Crossover Graphic: Against the Cold A LotS/GoT graphic for the h/c bingo April challenge
Borgias Fic: Here Be Dragons first fic in the "Everything is Better with Dragons" fantasy au
Fic and Art: Bad Dreams Kat-verse
Legend of the Seeker icons for Trope Bingo
Trope Bingo Line Claim
Multi-fandom graphicsMulti-fandom graphics for a deepbluesea challenge
Quick Update - availability I’m away for a few days and may not respond to comments immediately. I've had to post this at LJ as a scheduled post but I'll import all entries and comments to DW as I try to do on a regular basis