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Weekly Pond Newsletter

We have been busy little bees this week!

Old Business:

Angel Fish Awards - The post for June went up this past week and you can click here to see a long list of awesome fic recs!

SPN Rewatch: Fanfic Edition - We had another great chat this weekend about 2.15 Tall Tales and 2.16 Roadkill! Click here to access the Archive and see all of the things we discussed from each episode! Also, the theme docs are now up to date and fully cross-referenced. Feel free to add any notes of your own to the episode docs, and if you see any errors like incorrect links, send a message to @mrswhozeewhatsis!

Competitive Writing Sprints - Admin Michelle hosted a two-hour session of writing sprints where 5 participants wrote a total of 7207 words over 4 sprints!! The leader of the pack was @rainythursdaynight with a whopping 2629 words written! Congrats to them and to all those who joined us! Admin MJ will be hosting another session of sprints next weekend on Sunday, so you'll have more chances to compete!

Reader Insert Writing Challenge: Gender Studies - A couple of weeks ago, we announced a new writing challenge, focusing on gender stereotypes. The idea was spawned from teaching ourselves how to write a gender-neutral reader-insert character. In order to be more aware of what gender stereotypes need to be stripped away, we can lean into them by writing the same trope or prompt with both genders. If you're interested in doing this challenge, drop a message to @mrswhozeewhatsis! For more info on this challenge, click here!

Last week's #TweetFicTues prompts -

New Business:

Looking for Manta Rays outside the US - Here at the Pond, we have a lot of ideas for things we'd like to do, but we're short on the manpower to do them. It has also been brought to our attention that because most of us are in the US or Canada, most of our events are not at a great time for our members in the rest of the world. If you have been a member of the Pond for a while and you would like to be in service to your fellow Pondies, then send a message to one of our admins! For more info about this, click here! We can't wait to hear from you!

Manta Rays in the Discord server - Admins Marie and Michelle will both be spending some time hanging out in the Discord server next weekend! Marie will be there Friday evening, 9pm EDT, and Michelle will be there Saturday afternoon, 4pm EDT. These will be informal chats, but if you have a topic you'd like to bring to the table, we'd love to talk with you about it!!

Competitive Writing Sprints - As we said above, Admin MJ will be hosting some writing sprints next weekend on Sunday morning! Come participate, add words to your WIP, and win fabulous prizes!

Fishing For Treasures - Next weekend is FFT weekend here at the Pond, and this month we're celebrating RPF fics!! Submit a link to the blog here, or drop a link in the #fishing-for-treasures channel in the Discord server to get your favorite RPF fics reblogged next weekend! Deadline for submitting those links is Friday at midnight, EDT!

Sun Spin online concert - Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor from Smallville and friend to the #SPNFamily) and Rob Danson are having an online concert next weekend on Stageit.com! Click here for more info and to buy tickets! For more music links from our members, check out #the-music-room channel in our Discord server.

(Divider by @glygriffe!)

That's all for this week! To see all Pond events, and also other SPN-related things like conventions and online concerts, check out our Google calendar! Click here for a static view in Eastern US/Canada time (desktop only, no mobile app access, sadly), and click here to add our calendar to your own Google calendar! We try to keep it as up-to-date as possible. If there's something you want to see on the calendar that's not there (maybe a convention we missed, cast birthdays, or something similar), send us an ASK and let us know!

Hope you have a great week! - From your Admins and Manta Rays, @manawhaat, @mrswhozeewhatsis, @mariekoukie6661, @thoughtslikeaminefield, and @heavenssexiestangel!