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genarti is the LEAST HELPFUL PERSON EVER. I would just like to announce this now.

Because when I mentioned to her, like an idiot, that I thought it would be excellent if there was a fic-and-art exchange centered around female characters from Fullmetal Alchemist along the lines of the extremely awesome

atla_ladyfest that the equally awesome

meredyd set up last summer . . . instead of doing the helpful thing and reminding me that I am terrible at organization and have no time this summer and am terrified of self-promotion and all those things that go into doing a fandom fic exchange thing, she said, "I WOULD CO-MOD. Also the community name fma_ladyfest is open! :D"

So, uh. I guess . . . um, I guess this is a preliminary interest-gauging post to find out if anyone else thinks it's a good idea to set up a summer--->fall exchange focused on The Ladies of Fullmetal Alchemist: Look, Female Characters Are Seriously Awesome, Sometimes Especially When Hanging Out With Each Other.

Are we completely on crack? Should we really consider doing this?

I guess the two are not mutually exclusive . . .

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Feel free to point people here if you think they might be interested/have helpful thoughts, by the way. And any helpful suggestions would be seriously welcome.

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I am ALWAYS in support of more ladyfests! And I think it is always good to do things that one is a wee bit afraid of!

Of course, aside from pure LADYFEST glee, I'd just make sure that actually doing this is not going to be more stress than enjoyment, and that the timing works for you, since August is pretty busy, right? With work and D*C and other things?

These are EXTREMELY VALID POINTS ALL, which would be the main reason not to do it, I think (well, that or if there was zero interest.) We've been talking about timing - August and September are super busy for me, and we'd have to arrange it so the brunt of organizational stuff fell after D*C and after my big work conference respectively. But I thiiiink we can work out a schedule that will work and not turn us into stress-panicked pillbugs.