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For anyone interested, fe_exchange is holding their holiday fic/art swaps. If you're interested in doing it this year, sign up fast!

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Also, is anyone interested in possibly restarting the periodic theme challenges? I figure it'd be a good way to keep the comm alive and all that good stuff. Let me know here (or via PM or messenger) if you have any input on things, or ideas, or anything, really. 

Hey everyone!

Since LJ's been so sporadic lately, I'm extending the voting time until Wednesday, August 3rd at midnight EST. If you're not sure if your vote went through, please comment again - if I've seen it already, I'll just discount it, so no worries.

Voting post is here and is open to all members and watchers.

Your delightful failure of a mod, raphiael, apparently forgot how to work calendars!

The correct ending date for the "Apology" fic/art challenge theme is Sunday, July 24th, not Saturday as initially announced.

So if you have some magical WIP in progress, or you want to throw something together now, you have until midnight tonight to post it. We only have two entrants thus far, so . . .what do you have to lose, right? Right!

Hey everyone!

I've been debating whether or not to continue with the theme challenges here, since there are so many active FE comms, and since there seems to have been a resurgence in Magvel interest there anyway (yaaaayyyy~).

So I've made a little poll, and I'd be much obliged if you could take a moment to fill it out!

If you have any other thoughts/suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.

ETA: For the purposes of this poll, anyone who is named or shown within the game is considered a canon character. So a piece about the early heroes of Magvel, or about Nada Kuya, or about that one family that almost gets eaten by spiders? Totally okay. A fic predominantly about Joshua's long lost sister, or about Jim-Bob the swordsman from Caer Pelyn, or whoever, would not fall under this.

[Poll #1753976]

Sorry for taking a while to get to this.

Our first challenge is over, and it's up to you all to decide who the winner is. I'll be using a similar format as FE Contest uses - select a story for first, second, and third place (no more, no less). Stories assigned 1st place will get 3 points, 2nd, 2, and 3rd, 1. The story with the most points wins.

Votes will be screened. Anonymous and non-member/watcher votes will not be counted. You may vote for your own story.

Voting will be open until Sunday, June 5th. Please vote!

The submissions:

A. Mercenary, by rethira
B. A Tea Party for Two by crimsonmorgan
C. Lotus Queen by xirysa
D. To Bear the Mantle by lacunose
E. Until Midnight by nagasasu
F. The Making of a King by taywen

Awesome stuff, everyone :D

Hey everyone!

We've gotten some awesome submissions for the "Royalty" theme challenge, but there have been a couple requests for an extension. Since I know this is exam/cram/not-fun season for a lot of us, I'm going to push the deadline back to May 30th. All submissions must be in then, and I will post the voting at that time.

Please remember that we have no word minimum or maximum, and that art is absolutely in the running.

Uhm, happy Magvel-ing! :D

Magvel Challenge #1: Royalty

After considering all the opinions and ideas of the comm, crimsonmorgan and I have decided to open up the comm's first challenge.
The theme is "royalty", and you may take that in any direction that sings to you.

The rules for this challenge:
1. Art and fic are both welcome.
2. You may also use your piece for other comms/challenges, but you may not enter an old piece (as in, posted somewhere before this challenge began).
3. Canon characters are not a necessity - the only requirement is that it takes place within the world of FE8, or an AU thereof.
4. There is no minimum or maximum word count for 'fic.
5. There are no rating restrictions - however, please tag your work appropriately.
6. The deadline is April 30th, 2011 at midnight EST. Entries will be judged by screened-comment voting by members.

Prize will be a sweet, delicious banner by raphien and bragging rights as the one, the only winner of the first magvel community challenge!

Questions, concerns, and all other matters related to this may be posted here.

Editing to add that I (raphien) will be handling the vote counts and such, and am thus excluding myself from participating. It is open to everyone else.

Everything is officially set up and ready to go, so feel free to post!
(If anyone has any other genre tags they'd like to be added, please let me know.)

As you may already know this is a community where you can discuss characters and meta, pimp fics and art, talk gameplay, ask questions, and everything else you can come up with. The only rule: it has to be connected to Magvel/FE8 in some way.

( Rules and fic/art header behind the cut! )