The kickoff to this year's March Meta Matters Challenge is just 4 weeks away! As usual, the challenge involves identifying and copying over meta you've created to a second site in order to ensure its preservation. There will also be several prompts for creating new meta. ( Read more... )

Feel free to ask questions about the challenge, locations, etc. at our announcement post and then look for our opening post on March 1!

Title: "To show you a smile": An Eizen x Edna ship manifesto
Author: maulester
Fandom: Tales of Series
Pairing: Edna/Eizen
Ao3 link: link 
Dreamwidth link: link

title: True Love Can Exist Even in the Darkest of Hearts
author: miscellaneous_section
fandom: Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
pairing: Cravex/Mortdred
Dreamwidth | AO3 | SquidgeWorld

Title: "Having You by My Side Makes Today Perfect: The Pearlina Manifesto"

Author: bedes

Fandom: Splatoon

Pairing: Pearl Houzuki/Marina Ida

Dreamwidth Link | AO3 Link | SQWA Link

It's less than a month until the kickoff for this year's March Meta Matters Challenge! As usual, the challenge involves locating and copying over meta you've created to a second site in order to ensure its preservation. There will also be several prompts for creating new meta.

Check out our FAQ or ask questions about how to participate. Or just subscribe to marchmetamatterschallenge and look for our opening post on March 1!

As part of the March Meta Matters challenge over on marchmetamatterschallenge, I've written about the character Wednesday Addams in the recent series Wednesday. Many of the parts touch on character relationships, and the parts dedicated to specific characters typically discuss possible ships for them.  The Episodes installment offers many questions and divergence points that may assist complicated ships.  Wenclair is the runaway favorite, but I tried to touch on as many others as I could too.  All links have been archived with the Wayback Machine and/or Archive.fo.

Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 1: Introduction
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 2: Ethnicity & Linguistics
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 3: An Outcast
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 4: Thoughts and Feelings
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 5: Relationships
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 6: Solitary Accomplishments
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 7: Trust and Betrayal
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 8: Connected Characters
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 9: Enid Sinclair
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 10: Eugene & Morticia
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 11: Thing
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 12: Tyler Galpin
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 13: Xavier Thorpe
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 14: Wednesday's Quirks

See also an overview of the series as a whole.
* Overview
* Interesting Aspects
* Episodes
* Promising Crossovers
* Relevant Dreamwidth Communities
* Memorable Fanworks
* Wednesday Prompts

This series has a high number of compelling female characters, compared with other canons. If you're looking for a new fandom with strong fanwork potential, this is well worth exploring.

The March Meta Matters Challenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history. Join us in March to start archiving your work!

Participants will be locating past meta work and copying it over to a secondary location to ensure its preservation and improve its access. Everyone will work at their own pace and set their own goals for the month. Prompts for new meta will be offered and check in posts will encourage participants to keep going with their older work.

Visit the community for more information and join in on March 1!

...for year 3! The marchmetamatterschallenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history.

While new meta is also encouraged, the priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved. That's also why the challenge will be using the Archive of Our Own as a destination site and collection host.

This will be a month-long event kicking off on March 1 with bi-weekly check-ins. March Meta Matters will close on April 1.

Find out more about the challenge through our introduction or the FAQ. Feel free to leave questions on either post.

Just a reminder to everyone who has ever created any meta that the marchmetamatterschallenge community will be up and running again to help get you going (or started!) on archiving your meta works on AO3.

While creators have often used multiple sites to host their works, one type of work has generally been left out of fans' efforts at archiving and preserving fanworks -- meta. In many cases, meta posts have not been copied anywhere else other than the location where they were first posted, leaving them hard to find and particularly vulnerable to loss.

So what if we can make a small dent in getting it saved? The March Meta Matters Challenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history. While new meta is also encouraged, the priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved.

This is a month long event that kicks off on March 1. There are no signups and anyone can participate, whether here at Dreamwidth or elsewhere.

If you have any questions about MMM, look over how the challenge works, or visit our FAQ or leave a comment!

Also, if you enjoy meta? Check out the over 250 works archived in 2020.