Fire Juggler

Be prepared for a post of great awesomeness!!!!

Thing the First: Ginormous thank you to everyone who sent me a sparkly pink heart for my profile page!!!!! It was a veritable deluge! So to scarletladyy, crazyparakiss, paraka, waltzing_mice, spike7451, starduchess, morgana_fire, icicle33, uniquepov, kitty_fic, tigersilver, vaysh11, valinorean, teas_me, veritas03, flamingolady, ariannagray, winterstorrm, yggdrasilian, rickey_a, marlina_a, hpfangirl71, nursedarry, nimielle, tabitha666, talekayler, and freakingcrups, big smishy hugs and thanks!!! I felt so loved!!! (If I missed someone, either in the thanking or in the sending of glass hearts, it's not because I don't love you, it's because I am a flake /o\.) ♥ to ALL OF YOU EVERYWHERE!!!!

Thing the Second: OMG! The Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology has posted!!!!! It has 104 women-centered stories from 86 authors, 47 podficcers, and 64 fandoms, and it runs a little over 7.5 hours!!! Since I follow most of the mods on twitter, I can tell you that organizing and compiling this was a huge amount of work, and I for one, am really looking forward to the rest of my week, where I can just sit and listen to short podfics celebrating the awesome women of fandom!!! You can download the whole thing (as mp3 or m4b) or you can download the individual files. So what are you waiting for? >>GO NOW!!!!<<

And to bessyboo, cantarina1, sophinisba, podklb, knight_tracer, heard_the_owl, and themusecalliope, thank you so much for your work on this. It was truly a pleasure to participate, and though it was high-stress for you, it was incredibly low-stress for me! You are all Awesome Ladies!!! ♥

Thing the Third: celestlyn wrote me a Hermione/Luna Valentine's Day ficlet!!!! It's so so so awesome and I love it and just want to hug it tight to my heart! I can't link you to it, because she hasn't posted it (yet), but I will as soon as she does It's >>HERE<< and you absolutely must read it because it is so wonderfully wonderful and fills me with love and gratitude for the awesomeness of celestlyn (in particular) and fandom (in general). ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Thing the Fourth: For anyone who hasn't heard, Washington has legalized same-sex marriage, and New Jersey's state Senate passed a bill to recognize same-sex marriage as well (which Gov. Christie will veto, unfortunately, but I still count it as a win). Are we finally reaching a turning point here? I'm afraid to hope, but god help me, I do! And for a little bit of humor on the situation: Gay marriage — the end of the world?

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