It’s finally time to take another stab at a proper GaaLee fest! For those who don’t know, back in 2010 and again in 2011, I attempted to hold GaaLee exchanges that both had to be canceled due to lack of participants. Hopefully, this time will be different! It seems that the GaaLee community is a bit more broad and a bit more diverse and a bit more active! So without further ado:
Sign-ups: May 22nd-June 15th Prompt Claiming: June 16th-June 30th Submissions Due: September 1st Posting: September 2nd-October 1st (depending on how many entries)
Sign-ups for the GaaLee fest will stake place from now until June 15th to hopefully give plenty of people time to see this and take part. We are looking for artists, writers, betas, and pinch-hitters! There needs to be at least 10 people committed to the fest before we move forward with prompts, because a fest really isn’t a fest without people! Once everyone has signed up, prompt claiming will begin. One person per prompt! After that, you will have two months to write or draw your assignment. Betas will be assigned to writers who don’t already have a beta. Pinch-hitters will be contacted as needed.
Follow @puregaalee and the tag #gaaleefest17 for updates! If you want to meet your fellow participants, the aforementioned tag is a great way to do so!
This is a general fest, but in the future, if this goes well, we will have more theme-focused fests and exchanges. In this case, I chose ‘Summertime of Love’ because this is really just about having fun and getting people excited to be involved in the GaaLee fandom again.
Below the cut there is going to be a lot of info, so bear with me.
@bloatedcrayon and I have a happy au where Lee had all four kids and gets to spend their early years in Suna with Gaara, his loving husband. we spend a tremendous amount of time discussing what a tiny snuggle prince Araya is, and also how he was a big baby with an extreme appetite. sometimes his quest for lunch grew so strong that he saw his sister as getting in the way of his meal. here’s a story about that.
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“Metal, what’s wrong?”
“Papa, Araya is a…,” Metal’s sweet almost-three-year-old voice started to answer.
Gaara waited patiently for his darling child to finish that wholesome thought.
“…fat monster.”
Gaara blinked at his oldest son and shook his head.
This has been an ongoing joke between us that Kankuro gets so stressed about Lee and Gaara having so many kids that it’s finally “Climb off Lee,”–It’s become a matter of national security that so many kids are running around
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