team7Hi all,

I'm moving the content of this journal to http://team7.dreamwidth.org starting today. I'll be closing this journal for good on May 31. Just a heads up :) More in the nature of status updates in http://team7.dreamwidth.org.

I know I haven't been around for the last one and a half years or so, but that should change. Yes.

team7I should really try to analyze these things more.

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EDIT: CHIAKI/NODAME 4EVER. THEY GO BEYOND LISTS. OMG. THE--THE SPECIAL.

team7Ah, fandom, I have neglected you dreadfully. Let me show you my love!

Fic requests?

team7Promised certain people, so:



Yeah, you know, that Kristin.

Lisa Mantchev's "Dance Across Embers" is fabulous.

Have been writing but no time as yet to post it. Will definitely update within the week though. Thanks for your patience.

team7Sorry, PSA once again (regular programming to be back--soon): Please come to Read Or Die's event at the Manila International Book Fair on Sunday (September 2): http://read-or-die.org/bagonglibro

Cosplays, book discussions, performance readings and a lot of forums. Thanks and see you at the Manila Book Fair (by the way, RoD has a booth at the Book Fair -- we're at #377, aisle I).

team7This past month has been toxic.

So very sorry. Will definitely post the next issue of Maybe Sparrows on August 9 (which means we skipped one issue, will not happen again =_=) and will be posting the reading list for the September issue by tomorrow. The next issue of India & The Conundrum was delayed a bit but it should be up by tomorrow as well.

Re: The latest LJ fiasco -- I'll still continue to keep this journal. I'll still post fic and fandom-related entries here. I don't think I'm up to the rigors of creating a new archive or website or re-activating my account at ff.net.

As for my personal/pseudo-fandom activities, I've begun using team7 more and more as a dumping ground for random daily trivia and for keeping in touch with long-time online friends whom I'd follow basically anywhere, and less as as a--how to put it--content-based journal. So it'll stay that way, but I think that, for the most part, my lj-centric days are behind me.

My typepad account is here: http://cocoro.typepad.com (still a 6A service, alas, but it's been pre-paid so there's nothing I can do about it), and that's what I now automatically think about when people ask me where my 'weblog' is. Of course I blog regularly at the RoD blog and I was serious about that group fandom blog.

If you guys are moving elsewhere, or if you keep a blog in Wordpress etc, please comment so I can link you at cocoro.

team7(Sorry to the non-Filipinos in this flist!)

Read Or Die will be holding its July 2007 club meeting at A Different Bookstore (Serendra) on July 28 (Saturday) with the National Book Development Board Book Club and Anvil Publishing . Read Or Die will be discussing its club reading list for July as well as details regarding Ang Bagong Libro and other events and functions the club will hosting at the 28th Manila International Book Fair . If you would like to volunteer for Ang Bagong Libro, please attend the meeting. You can drop by any time between 2PM and 4PM (if you’re not a member, that is. If you’re a member, please come on time!)

At 4PM, the National Book Development Board Book Club will come in to host a book discussion on Romina Gonzalez’s “Welostit and Other Stories,” the club’s Book Of The Month for July. The NBDB Book Club is envisioned to be a high-profile reading group held at coffee shops and restaurants in the metro, and attended by a powerhouse guest list. The club meets once a month and focuses exclusively on Filipino-authored books. All meetings are moderated by Tara FT Sering.

To cap off the afternoon’s events, at 5 PM, Anvil Publishing will be hosting a poetry reading featuring selected poets from their notable roster of writers: Teo Antonio, Marra Lanot, Pete Lacaba, Sarge Lacuesta, Mookie Katigbak, Angelo Suarez, and Virgilio Almario. (I think Vim Nadera might be coming as well along with Ruel de Vera).

Romina Gonzalez will also be coming for the book discussion of “Welostit.” Tara FT Sering will moderate.

As you can see, the July 2007 meeting is a sponsored and co-hosted meeting with other book groups and publishing houses. We’re trying to develop a new template for book meetings which will encourage interactivity between writers, readers, critics, publishers and bookstores. This is the first time we’re doing this so we’ve been fumbling and stumbling as usual — the object(s) of our clumsiness would know what we’re talking about — but hopefully we can improve on it in future meetings to come.

team7Spread the word. XD Just um point them to the weblog: here or to the website of Ang Bagong Libro. Thanks!

When: September 2, 2007 (Sunday)
Where: Manila International Book Fair (World Trade Center)
Organized by: Read or Die / Ang Bagong Libro

Guidelines for Qualification

- All characters portrayed must originate from literary works. Characters that have originally come from anime, animated cartoons, video games, table-top games, television shows, and movies — even those that have book adaptations or novelizations, are officially disqualified.

- Costumes must be tasteful and cover appropriate areas of the body. Absolutely no live weapons will be allowed as props. Fire works and messy props (i.e. confetti, fake blood, smoke bombs) are also not allowed.

- The competition organizers reserve the right to disqualify any entry that they consider to be unsuitable, inappropriate, or irrelevant for any reason.

- Failure to comply with any rule, as well as disregarding written and verbal instructions from the Cosplay Team and the competition organizers, will result in the disqualification of the participant from the competition.

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team7It's for Issue 4 (ISSUE 4 OMG) of India and The Conundrum XD I want to feature Eve's engaging Elegy Of The Willow Sword for the upcoming issue. The deadline isn't until July 30 so if you volunteer now (please~~), I can send you the draft for the upcoming chapter. All we need is a cover illustration + a sketch or illustration for the serial itself.

In the meantime, please enjoy redplasticglass's lovely cover art for Issue 3, which features izkariote's story, the very interesting "Endtimes".

I'm really enjoying the stories running in the magazine and I'm happy that all the writers are still submitting and I'm especially grateful to magicnoire, sub_divided and yukitsu for agreeing to help me with the actual editing. Let's all keep going :)

And to everyone else: If you have a story you'd like to serialize, go ahead and submit~

team7I got sick again and was in and out of the hospital last week (it wasn't that serious but there was some familial drama involved, so). When I recovered somewhat, my first priority was to attend to required papers and organizational commitments. This meant that I could not update Maybe Sparrow or even work on the reading list for Issue 3 :( I'm really sorry about this. I'll post Issue 2 within two days--I'm coding everything now--and push back the deadline for Issue 3. The theme is a good one too: Alternate Histories.

Anyway I think I'll need a co-editor. Don't worry, I'll still do my share of the work and update the website (on time next issue, I promise), but I really will appreciate some help in managing reading lists. What I mean is: As a co-editor, all you have to do is devise a reading list for a particular theme and post it to maybesparrows at least a month before the deadline of the next issue. We'll alternate. Any takers? XD;

Also have a few things coming up. Let's put up that fake publishing firm already so we can have a revolving ah staff. ^^; Or not.

I haven't been paying much attention to fandom-related activities for a while now, but of course I can't not pimp fst_redux, for FST reposts/requests for re-uploads of previously posted FSTS. hemlocke is a genius--I never thought of doing something like this, even when I kept getting metaphorically bonked over the head for not having a system where people could keep track of old FSTs. Anyway, if you missed certain FSTs and would like to see them re-uploaded (hopefully, maybe), go to fst_redux.