#halfamoon

[collsssss]

Title: Faith Vidder: DarthPorg Vidder Summary: SPOILER WARNINGS Star Wars The Clone Wars and Rebels This is a tribute to a former Jedi Ahsoka Tano.

This vid is in the format of a character tribute, and as such, it is a great character primer for Ahsoka Tano, covering her story from The Clone Wars through Rebels. It showcases her padawan training and her bond with Anakin Skywalker. While she ultimately leaves the Jedi Order, her Jedi education instills in her the ideals that ultimately lead to some of the more significant acts of rebellion against the Empire.

#vidrec #star wars #ahsoka tano #fannish50 #halfamoon #Youtube

[fanwork-exchange-promos]

Halfamoon 2024!

Posted by: cmk418 Half a Moon is a fourteen day challenge celebrating female characters in fandom, which will run from February 1 through Valentine's Day. Fanfiction, vids, recs, art, picspam, icons, meta, fanmixes, and outside links to content fitting the theme of this community are all welcome--the only rule is that the primary focus must be on a female character or characters. Please see the intro post for more information. Come join us at halfamoon on February 1! comments via The Fandom Calendar https://ift.tt/fTvnZRN

#Halfamoon 2024!

[yeonshy]

८. ･ ͙．p͟a͟s͟t͟r͟y͟ u͟s͟e͟r͟n͟a͟m͟e͟s͟ ᰍ ｡ ͘ ᳞ ✽

halfamoon -> from spanish "medialuna" (croissant) and "media luna" (half moon)

heartssant -> from "heart" and "croissant"

santberry -> from "croissant" and "berry"

mermelune -> from "mermelade" and french "lune" (moon)

strawbyeol -> from "strawberry" and korean "별/byeol" (star)

cuyustr -> from korean "우유/uyu" and "custard"

milkyss -> from "milk" and "kiss"

ponenkku -> from korean "포포 또는 케이크?/popo doneun keikeu?" (a kiss or a cake?)

dulcedelove -> from "dulce de leche" and "love"

amourolls -> from french "amour" (love) and "(cinnamon) rolls"

swirlyroll -> from "swirly" and "(cinnamon) roll"

byeolscu -> from korean "별/byeol" (star) and "custard"

dreamsofcream -> yk 😺

cinnamour -> from "cinnamon" and french "amour" (love)

cookiesandtea -> yk 😺 x2

mookies -> from "moon" and "cookies"

iheartshaped -> from "heart-shaped (biscuits/sweets)"

dotzzel -> from "dough" and "pretzel"

rollsoflove -> from "(cinnamon) rolls" and "love"

p-almeritas -> from spanish "palmeritas" (pretzels)

flcura -> from "flour" and "flora" [c = o]

donupaa -> from "donut" and spanish "dar upa" (childish and playful way of saying 'to carry someone')

raspbwr -> from "raspberry"

lacuuit -> from french "lacune" (lagoon) and "biscuit"

misulade -> from italian dessert "tiramisù" and "mermelade"

#☆ user ideas #random users #cute usernames #tumblr users #twitter users #usernames #user ideas #aesthetic usernames #messy users #soft users

[sisterdivinium]

I wrote a little something for the halfamoon Dreamwidth community in the spirit of celebrating female characters.

With a prompt such as Black/ White/ Shades of grey, of course my mind could go no other place than, well, Suzanne, Jillian and doctor superion :)

#doctor superion #mother superion #jillian salvius #ehhh i'm not using the main wn tag for this #and yes hello i'm alive. i've just been quiet because i've been exhausted and feeling burnt out (again) #but i'm slowly trying to regain my footing and today there will be a thing and a drabble to post

[sidleyparkhermit]

Dust off your Not Tumblr accounts and your favorite female characters, Half A Moon starts on Thursday! Here's this year's prompt list to help you get ready.

#fests and ficathons

[sharpestasp]

HalfAMoon is a 2 week long celebration of lady characters in all fandoms! We invite you to come, take a look at prompts, and see if you might want to join the celebration!

Runs from Feb 1 to Feb 14, and will have daily prompts/themes.

#HalfAMoon

[thisbluespirit]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Obi-Wan Kenobi's Mother Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi's Mother, Original Characters Additional Tags: Community: 100_women, Community: halfamoon, Mother-Son Relationship, Sacrifice, Jedi, Stewjon, Backstory, Pre-Canon, Community: allbingo Summary:

She's never been this brave before...

#fanfic #star wars #prequel trilogy #obi-wan kenobi #obi-wan kenobi's mother #backstory #pre-canon #halfamoon #100_women #allbingo #gen #angst #jedi

[halfamoon-challenge]

Halfamoon Review Hunt

What's a Review Hunt?

1. Go out and post a review to woman-centric fanworks.

2. Then drop a link to your review in the comments to the LiveJournal or DreamWidth posts.

For every review you get points. If you leave a review with 23 words, you'll get 23 points. Only your own words count, quotes from the work don't.

In the end your points get tallied up, and the person with the most points wins.

There are concrete prizes for this!

The person with the most points wins a $20 Amazon voucher, sponsored by @tielan

The person in second place wins a $5 Amazon voucher, sponsored by sl_walker So you have the chance to win something and creators will get more feedback - it's a win all around! The review hunt will run until Monday 13th, 22:00 Central European Time. What's that in your time zone? If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Have fun!                                    

#halfamoon #halfamoon challenge #halfamoon review hunt

[tielan]

Halfamoon Prompt Challenge

Day 8: Unsung Hero

The unsung hero is a woman who’s a hero but goes unrecognised. Her accomplishments, when listed, are significant on their own, but when attached to her name go unnoticed.

This is her day to shine and be appreciated!

Graphics, gifsets, meta, links, fics, graphics, art, and recs - anything is welcome about any female character. All prompts are simply places to start - don’t feel that you have to stick with the ideas asked, or with the character displayed in the header! Go for your life! And when you make your post, don’t forget to tag it with “halfamoon challenge” so we can find it!

#halfamoon challenge #halfamoon #halfamoon prompt challenge

[collsssss]

Halfamoon Day 6 - MUSIC [vidrecs]

Below are five fanvid recs. None of these are particularly recent, but they're favorites of mine and I thought I'd share. They're from all over the board, fandom-wise, but all feature some pretty fantastic female characters and were all made by some pretty fantastic vidders.

Title: Raise Hell Vidder:walkthegale Fandom: Jurassic Park movies Music: Raise Hell by Brandi Carlile Summary: Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth.

The editing and timing in this is just so well done! The ladies (and the dinosaurs) really shine in this. And, randomly, Brandi Carlile is one of my favorite singer/songwriters.

Title: [VID] Que Sera Sera Vidder:ohvienna Fandom: Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Picard Music: Que Sera Sera (Cover) by Pink Martini Summary: "Whatever will be, will be…"

This is a wonderful character study of Seven of Nine incorporating her arc from child to Borg to the recent series (s1 of Picard). I think she's one of the most fascinating characters in Star Trek and this vid really showcases her journey.

Title: Back to Avalon Vidder: jetpack_monkey Fandom: League of Their Own (1992) Music: Back to Avalon by Heart Summary: I know I'm going home.

The editing is fantastic and the vid narrative is built so well - the build to the game, the heart-warming moments in the bridge, and the ending with the real-life ball players.

Title: [Vid] This Time's Everything Vidder:odessie Fandom: The X-Files Music: This Time's Everything by Amy Macdonald Summary: Here she goes again. (A Scully vid.)

The editing is incredible and this vid showcases her perseverance so well.

Title: Stayin' Low Vidder:hollywoodgrrl Fandom: Alien movies Music: Stayin' Low! (Bee Gees vs. Lil Jon vs. De La Soul) Summary: Hopin' she can sock it to me one mo' time.

Ellen Ripley is badass. This vid has ALL the swagger and it's one of my all-time favorites. Mind the gore (in case someone hasn't seen the movies? IDK). Vid also contains a lot of quick edits, fast cutting, and light flashes from source material.

#vidrec #fanvid #fannish50 #dreamwidth

[actiaslunaris]

“Heartlines” - a Legend of Korra vid - action, drama

"Your heart is the only place that I call home." Korra's search for accord with the Avatar Spirit.

Music is “Heartlines” by Florence + the Machine. Made for Half a Moon. Contains flashes.

#korra #legend of korra #lok #halfamoon challenge #fanvid #vids:mine #crossposted #mine #flashes cw

[olderthannetfic]

It’s International Fanworks Day and also the 30th and final post in this series. If you follow my tumblr, you know that my true fandom isn’t buddy cops or Highlander or any of those things. No, my true fandom is...

WANK

No matter which bitchy piece of fujo-course nonsense you’re looking at on tumblr, no matter which debate about WNGWJLEO or women in slash or fanfiction vs. media you're reblogging, your grandma was having that fight in a zine somewhere in 1985 and at Escapade in the 90s.

Here’s a vid review from 2002:

"History Repeating," [...] was an Amanda vid. In-fucking-credible. Who knew? Who knew I could like Amanda? Who knew there were fresh HL clips I hadn't seen a thousand times before in HL vids? (Of course, as someone pointed out, she had her own spin-off.) This rocked--sharp, fast cutting and pretty, pretty shots, with a hot bisexy vibe running through it. And, you know, people like to say that there's all this self-hating misogyny in fans--you know, that women hate shows about women, hate women characters breaking up the OTP, etc. But when you see a femme-centric vid like this bring down the house, you really have to wonder. Is it misogyny, really, or is just that we usually see a bunch of crap representations of women in media and resist them?

So on the theme of There Is Nothing New Under The Sun, here is a selection of past Escapade panels on gender, representation, and problematicness:

1993 - Anti-Feminism in Slash Fandom (Or, how 'it was never this good with a woman' syndrome... where are the women, and why do we care?)

1995 - Why Lesbians Read Slash - (What's the attraction? Why do they care? Why do they write it?)

1996 - Character Bisexuality: Convenient fiction or character trait? (Is this a good compromise between "We're not gay, we just love each other" and "I was gay all along and just faking it with women"? Or is this too easy? Special mention for the stereotypical bisexual villian who's evil, sexy, and can come on to everyone.)

1996 - Female Heroes: Female Empowerment, or male power in women's bodies? (Give a woman a gun and make her really tough. Wow, cool! yes, or no? Are we celebrating women, or are we merely putting breasts on male action heroes? Heroines under discussion may include (but not be limited to) Sara Connor, Ripley, Vasquez, Thelma & Louise.)

1997 - Gender Astigmatism (The Gender Continuum: in what we read, in what we write, and what we are, there is always a connection with a point on the gender continuum. How do our definitions of "feminine" and "masculine" influence our creativity? Where do bisexual characters fit in? (besides there, you dirty-minded person!)

1998 - Xena: Does Girl-Slash Get Us Going? (Xena is the first show with a feminine couple to be really popular. What kind of slash fans are interested? Does gender orientation matter? Or do slash fans love slashy couples regardless of their gender? Can m/m fans be 'converted' to f/f fans?)

1998 - Bastards & the Women Who Love Them (When Methos says, "you live to serve me," any normal '90s woman says, "I don't think so!... or does she? A happy contemplation on the virtues of handsome thugs.)

1998 - Slash: a Continuation of Women's Writing, led by Constance Penley (In case you didn't know, in her recent book NASA/TREK (yes, the slash is intentional), she addressed slash as a continuum of women's writing, combining women's romance, and the male quest romance. Join her for a discussion of slash -- where it was, where it is, where it might be going.)

1998 - The Trauma of Slash Fans in Het Fandoms (Or, what to do when find women doing all that cool, tough-guy stuff you love.)

1999 - Male Slash Fans - Welcome Voice, or Infringement? (Slash is written by women for women — or is it? The Internet has attracted new fans, including the "male slash fan". Who is he? What does he think of what "we" do? Do we care?)

2002 - Femslash (General discussion on female/female slash fiction. If Buffy wanted something cold and hard between her legs, why didn't she just choose silicon?)

2003 - Slash: Feminist political act or really good porn?

2005 - Where have all the lesbians gone? (When some slash lists explicitly state m/m only, where do you go for femslash? Are there any hot femslash couples? Pimp your femslash fandom here, or bemoan the lack of strung female characters in the current conservative social climate.)

2007 - Femslash: The Other Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name (Femslash. It's a work that makes some of our hearts leap for joy and inspires complete and total disinterset—or even dislike and disdain—in others. Where can we find the good stuff? What makes it good? And what's up with the haters?)

2007 - SGA: The Women of Atlantis (What do we like about how the women of SGA are written and portrayed, and what makes us wince? What do we think about how their issues are being woven into the show's narrative?)

2008 - Gay is Not Slash (...even though slash is sometimes gay. The current argument about m/m romances by women as taking recognition *away* from male gay writers, depends on m/m writing being intended as gay lit. And slash, for one, isn't, even if there can be overlap. What overlaps? What doesn't? What examples do fans like?

2009 - Female Character Stories: Halfamoon, Full Moon or Just Moony (F/f slash, and other stories centered on female characters, are gaining visibility in fandom. Are there things fens will write about women that we won't about men? (Given MPreg, *are* there?) Should f/f be like m/m, or is it unavoidably different?)

2011 - My ***** is Not Ideologically Driven, But is it Homophobic (Slash fandom often sees itself as a mostly liberal community. IDIC, right? But recently there's been a slash backlash: it's anti-feminist, a 'symptom' of internalized misogyny. We're 'erasing' the women characters after all. Is slash homophobic? Does slash fandom appropriate gay culture? Is it awesome and ennobling as it makes us happy in our panties, or is all that self-hatred bubbling just beneath the surface of our porn?)

2012 - Natural Woman (We've lamented the lack of strong, believable female characters (who dress appropriately). But now we have them: Gemma Teller and Audrey Parker; Salt and Haywire; we've got Bechdel-passing women who look like they can throw a punch. Still, most of them are in the sci-fi or action genre, so are we really seeing progress? And what are we doing with them, as fans?)

2012 - Don't Call It a Bromance (It's Just Canon) (TPTB are increasingly aware of slash, and bromance is regular fare on TV canon these days. Does overt bromance make the fic and art hotter or just vanilla? Is there an anti-slash backlash in our shows? Is the emphasis on men's relationships making women disappear? Inquiring minds want to know. If you have answers, theories, or just want to squee, join in the fun!)

2014 - (The End of?) Ladybashing in Slashfic (Slashfic used to regularly feature bashing of female characters. Now, blatant bashing seems less fashionable. If you recognize this trend, let's talk! Were most ladybashing fics ones for juggernaut pairings in megafandoms, or were they everywhere? What's causing the change: more women in leading roles/ensemble casts, fic writers being more conscious to avoid bashing ladies even if they're not their favorites, more willingness to blame show writers' bad writing (instead of the character being just bad/evil/stupid) for bad female characters, or something else entirely?)

2015 - Fifty Shades of Fandom (Fifty Shades of Grey has become the representation of fan fiction in mainstream culture. It’s bad fan fiction, and it’s being used to ridicule women while making millions off women readers and viewers. Can we connect with these women: proto-fans who would love to read, and maybe write, great fan fiction if they found it? Can we use the FSoG phenomenon to expand our community? Does keeping our doors closed and our mouths shut perpetuate both monetization of our fan culture and misogynist scorn?)

2016 - Who Are We? (How do we define ourselves in this age of so many OT3s and team orgy pairings? Does m/m/f count as "slash"? Is slash-only space slipping away? (And would that be bad?) Do m/m and f/f belong together more than they do with m/f? Is "Media Fandom" a valid term any longer? Who are we if we start shipping het?)

2016 - Ladies Loving Ladies. (There would seem to be enough queer women in fandom to write/want more f/f. Do lesbians write f/f, m/m? Both? Do straight women? Or are we still missing the iconic female characters and relationships that create a great slash fandom? Did they figure out the answer to this question at TGIF/F and if so, what is it?)

2016 - By Us For Us (Fic, even kinky slash, is practically mainstream these days. The ebook revolution puts publishing within reach of almost anyone. Sundance hits have been filmed on iPhones. So why aren't fangirls making more media? Or is it happening right under our noses? Is this a place where our women's gift economy does our community a disservice? Discuss what's out there, what we'd like to see, and what's holding us back.)

2017 - LGBTQIA+ in Slash Fandom (Queer fans have always been here. In a subculture often defined as "for" straight women, what do we as fans have to say about non-straight, non-cis, and non-conventional sexuality and gender in fanfiction, in fandom, and in the larger culture?)

2018 - Confronting the Tensions Between Slash and Queer Representation (Slash fandom thrives on homoerotic subtext. Many queer fans are unwilling to settle for this quasi-representation. Part of every slash fandom seems loudly invested in their ship becoming canon. Some are queer fans who want actual textual representation in their favorite shows, and some are fans using queer politics to fight ship wars. Then the “slash is not activism” posts make the rounds. Is slash activism? Is advocating for slash ships in canon the same thing as advocating for queer representation?)

2018 - Representing Slashers (What does "representation" in the media mean to us? We know what more gay or POC representation means, but what about slash fandom, which is largely female and focused on bodies that don't resemble our own? Would better female characters in media better represent us? Or male characters written for a female audience? Come talk about the intersection of slash, personal identity, and media representation.)

2018 - Anonymity in Slash Fandom: Choosing to Hide (Why do the majority of slash fans hide their hobby? Is it fear of blackmail? Embarrassment? Fear of losing employment? How does this affect your happiness? How does this affect your security? What would an ideal world look like? Who would/have you told about your interest in slash? Who would you never, ever, tell?)

2019 - Fandom Post-Slash? (In an era of "ships" and #pairing #tags on Tumblr and AO3, has the "slash" label lost its meaning? Same-gender pairings are as popular as ever and fans still ID pairings with a virgule between the names, but how many fans still call m/m and f/f slash or femslash? How many fans identify as "slashers?" Het and slash were opposing binaries which few fans crossed. Are these barriers breaking down? What purpose has the term "slash" served? Has fandom moved

past it and, if so, what does that mean?)

#escapade 2020 #escapade con #fandom meta #fandom history

[ao3feed-carolmaria]

by Merfilly

Carol flirts like Maverick.

Words: 100, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain Marvel (2019)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Carol Danvers, Maria Rambeau, Talos (Marvel), Soren (Marvel)

Relationships: Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau

Additional Tags: Drabble, Flirting, Community: halfamoon

#carol/maria #carolxmaria #maria/carol #mariaxcarol #ao3feed #fanfiction #space wives

[queensweasley]

@halfamoon-challenge Day Six: Choices •• Jyn Erso (Star Wars)

What chance do we have? The question is what choice? Run, hide, plead for mercy, scatter your forces? You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission. The time to fight is now!

#halfamoon challenge #jyn erso #star wars #jynersoedit #starwarsedit #my aesthetics #*aubane

[schmirius]

Glorious by @such-heights​ (February 2009) – lj debut / meta

music by Muse made for halfamoon, a two-week celebration of female characters

Fun facts - there are 24 fandoms here, and approximately 50 different heroines make an appearance. [...]

It's a story that too much of our media seems compelled to tell, and it leaves Rose Tyler weeping on a beach and Donna Noble breaking apart because her male-given power is just too much for her. It leaves the women loved by the Winchesters sacrificed and killed and destroyed, burning up on the ceiling, and it makes sure Morgana's visions are bundled away so that no one has to listen to her. It makes Claire Bennet invincible just so that they can mutilate and kill the pretty blonde cheerleader again and again and again. Women are threatened and turned into victims and imprisoned and violated with such regularity, as though there can be no other story for these characters, and I'm tired of it.

This song made it to a playlist I listen to pretty often because of this vid, which fills me with tremendous, breathless wonder -- there’s horror, and it’s fucking horrible, but yes, absolutely -- comment on it, recognize it.  Make another story from it and in spite of it and because of it.

#vids #been trying to Use My Words to say Hey I Like This #so mm #i like this #also? #my end of time problem #let me fucking show you it

[sharpestasp]

Here’s the masterlist of all the fanworks and recs that were posted for 2020′s HalfAMoon

#halfamoon #ladies #go take a peek #and reblogs appreciated #so the other creators and reccers #get some more eyes