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Title: Family Reunions
Author: Amal Nahurriyeh (amalnahurriyeh)
Summary: Things get put back together.
Genre: Gen; Kidfic.
Rating: PG (adult themes, but no violence, one not-for-TV word)
Warnings: None.
Note: This is set in the Caseyverse, the spin-off universe to my fic Machines of Freedom. I'd be happy to give anyone who wants to read this without having read the previous stories a vague sense of the universe.
Disclaimer: Intellectual property is a capitalist fiction designed to oppress the working fic-writer. That said, I don't own them either.

( Dear Mulder, I wanted to let you know that we received the birthday cards. )

As a part of three_weeks_for_dw, we here at philedom will be running a competition, in order to build community, create fanworks and support XF fan creators on Dreamwidth, and generally have a ball celebrating that the First Fandom Of The Internet is still alive and kicking. For the next 21 days, we will run daily challenges, which will accrue points for those playing. Challenges will cover a wide range of fannish activities, from making fanworks, leaving prompts, leaving comments, playing goofy games, and generally having a ball.

Q. How do I earn points?
A. Just complete the day's challenge! (There is no need to complete it on the day listed; for instance, if you post a fic of more than 300 words on April 25, you can earn credit for it on May 1.) For some of the challenges, you will need to post links proving that you, for instance, posted a comment or prompt. For others, your reply to the daily challenge post will count as your points-earning (such as hangman or macro-making).

Q. Who will be judging and running this?
A. I, amalnahurriyeh will take point on this, so to speak. My name is Amal, but you may call me God Wrong fandom there for a minute, sorry. However, if anyone wants to help out, that would be AWESOME; I do, occasionally, have a life that does not revolve around waving my hands around about the X-Files on the internet. (Very, very occasionally.) I will post a running tally of where people are in the race every day, as part of the daily challenge post; if you see errors in my accounting, please mention them as soon as possible.

Q. If this is a competition, then there should be prizes.
A. You are right, despite not having asked your question in the form of a question! We are still determining what the prizes will be, but they may include such excellent things as Dreamwidth points, banners, or...other things. (Ahem. Community members are welcome to help me think up ideas here.)

Q. What is the schedule?
A. The full schedule of challenges is below the cut. If I have magically missed any days or done something like that, please let me know. (Many thanks to heart_equals, rustingwillpowr, and rhi for their help in designing this!) I am in the eastern US; therefore, "daily" posts will be made sometime on the day in question in my timezone. (In deference to the many possible players located to my east, I will try to make them right around midnight my time, since I'm usually up.)


( click to see the whole schedule )

Q. I have another question!
A. Ask it in comments!


In Conclusion:

So, it seems that people are interested in a series of daily challenges during three_weeks_for_dw. The one issue with this is that, um, that means we need a series of challenges! A couple of people have suggested crowdsourcing this, so I'm turning it to the wisdom of the masses.

I'm trying to come up with a point-scoring system. And, of course, if we want there to be prizes beyond UNDYING FAME AND GLORY, we will need to come up with some. Ideas? Thoughts? I, your intrepid mod, have no artistic skills beyond macro-making; perhaps someone else would like to volunteer their services?

Here are some possible ideas for challenges.

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Thanks to everyone for making Squee!Fest 2010 such a success! We will have to repeat this at regular intervals. ;)

Today's Activity of Randomness is inspired by an image I saw on I Can Has Cheezburger? last night. It just begged to be recaptioned:

From philedom 3w4d

So your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a cat or other animal photo, and add an X-Files appropriate caption. You can use ICHC's captioner, or go right to ROFLBot.

Go.