THANK YOU B2MeM coordinators, volunteers, etc.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

While we still have 48 hours left in which to fulfill our last prompts, the final BINGO number has been called.  So please you, do post here your thanks to the archive mods, stampers, taggers, card creators, and all the other awesome folks who have volunteered their time and efforts!

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[huinare.livejournal.com]

This was my first B2MeM event. I'm very pleased with all the wonderful stuff I was able to read and write this month and the interactions that took place, all thanks to each of you wonderful folks.

I especially wanted to thank-

Dawn, for her tremendous output of time and energy, her encouragement to newbies like myself, and a couple amusing musical interludes,

Rhapsody, my kickass stamper,

Indy and Lignota for the epic tagging job they've undertaken,

and the card-makers in general for providing prompts that are going to keep me busy for months to come. (Particularly whoever is responsible for the 'Alternate Viewpoints' card, that's my favorite).


I'm looking forward to next year!

[febobe.livejournal.com]

A huge, huge round of applause for everyone involved...but most especially to dawn felagund and rhapsody, who have been really great to me this month...and to all the participants...esp lindahoyland, whom I've loved getting to know better and am happy to be LJ friends with.... It's been a wonderful ride and I wouldn't hesitate to be part of something like this again!

*hugs hugs snugs all around, and celebratory carrots and lettuces for everyone's plot bunnies! plus massages for tired stamping and typing hands!*

Love,
Febobe :)

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

I want to thank you everyone who made this possible. Those who planned this, made the cars, made the banners, and stamped the bingos.

Special thanks to Dawn and to Oloriel. =)

This was wonderful!

[willtherebetime.livejournal.com]

Also want to thank everyone involved! It was my first B2MeM so I will be back next year! Cookies of various types for you all!

[burning-night.livejournal.com]

akfjsghifrdsgbfsiojbvfu EVERYONE WAS AMAZING.

This is seriously one of the best things I've ever done in a fandom, it was scarily well-organised and ran clockwork-like, and the hard work of the mods and organisers has been staggering. The biggest BIGGEST of all THANK YOU's goes to everyone who made this possible; epsecially Dawn, our ringmaster and ruling overlord and my amazing stamper, everyone who stamped and modded, everyone who tagged and everyone who made cards.

And an especially big thank you to everyone who wrote, and an even BIIIGGER one to everyone who read and/or commented on my work! I've really enjoyed talking to people and really felt like I got to know more members of the fandom after this event!

I CANNOT WAIT for next year! You can be certain you'll be seeing me then!!

[aliana1.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAAAAAY

Thank you so much to the amazing Dawn, as well as the whole SWG mod team and my stamper Russandol. This was very first B2MeM. I'd been out of the fandom for the past few years, and this was a great kick-start to get me back in and get me writing, whether or not fuzzy "inspiration" struck. I wrote a lot of stuff that was out of my general comfort zone, a lot of stuff that surprised me, and a lot of stuff that was just downright fun to create. More importantly, I got to read so many others' work, and talk to them about it. Thanks also to everyone who generously took the time to read my work and offer comments--March was so full of writing, that I'm seriously impressed that anyone even had time to read other people's stuff.

Huge thank yous to everyone.

[allie-meril.livejournal.com]

Team B2MeM: you did great. :D This was a riotously fun challenge, and I'm so happy to have gotten the thrill of participating, even if none of my pieces are posted yet (WHERE IS MY THIRTY SIX HOUR DAY I ASK YOU.).

Special thanks to Dawn, for being the ringmaster, and my stamper Russandol, for keeping my cards updated every time new inspiration struck.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

I have rarely been so challenged, so frustrated, so elated, so gloriously drowning in words. This month has been amazing, and even if I am still finishing up the last of the themes, I'm deliriously happy. I've written some of the best pieces I've ever put together. Oh, there has been some dreck, but there have been some pieces that I've sat back, looked at, and breathed a sigh of total happiness.

Shout out THANKS to:

DAWN - You simply amaze me. You simply amaze me!

RHAPSODY - My stamper par excellence. Always faithful, always there with cheerleaders, thanks and more thanks.

The other behind-the-scene moderators and stampers - rock on! You kept things moving and with the volume of stories that were getting posted, that was pretty darned amazing!

All of the card makers - Your challenges made my day. My husband almost divorced me because I was so involved in writing for the challenges, but your prompts pushed me fabulously.

I send a special thank you to whoever conceived of Maglor in History 1. That card led to so much research, delving into hidden archives, checking calenders, maps, battle plans, historic documents. I LOVED it!

So...at the risk of repeating myself a few thousand more times...THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

- Erulisse (one L)

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

A very big thank you to everyone who made this event so special.Dawn and her team have given us a wonderful event, which has inspired so much creativity.
I've had a great time and am sorry that it is over!

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

After writing pretty solidly for months, the idea was to fill a few of the B2MeM prompts and otherwise take this month off, instead of which I have over 30,000 words written, some good, some bad and some due to be deleted as soon as I get back to them, but all of them were the most joy I've had of writing in ages. Part of the pleasure has been seeing what came of each idea rather than rushing to tidy things up, give them context and post them --- that's still to come. It's all been utterly self indulgent and I've loved every minute of it!

Huge thanks to Dawn and all the SWG mods and stampers, to the writers who have created such a sense of camaraderie on this com, and special thanks to Rhapsody for sharing the experience. You are awesome, dear.

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

I doubt anything I'd say could properly describe how much I enjoyed my very first B2MeM. To all of you, who made this possible - mods, stampers, card-makers - I'd like to say thanks for all the hard work you put into this event.

Thank you, Dawn, for letting me know about this year's B2MeM - I probably wouldn't even know this was happening, if it weren't for you.

Another big thanks has to go to my official stamper - rhapsody, I think I've mentioned before that you were absolutely amazing this month, but it deserves to be said again. It was a pleasure working with you. Thank you for all your cheerfulness, kindness and support. I never imagined that a simple "will stamp" could make my day ten times better until I met you. *hugs*

I also need to thank everyone, who left a comment on anything I posted this month. Thank you for taking the time. You can be sure I will return the favour sooner or later. ;)

This has been one month of my life I won't forget so soon. I still find it hard to believe I've written so much. What I am most proud of is, that many stories I wrote took me out of my comfort zone and forced me to explore something different. There are characters I barely noticed in the books, but still ended up writing about them - and what's more important, I enjoyed writing about them. It was really fun and I hope we can do this again one day. There are still many prompts on those cards I'd love to do. But for now I am glad it's all over. I need time to finish all the stories and to start reading what everyone else wrote. ;)

This was truly an incredible experience. Thanks again to everyone involved in this, including all other participants. You're the ones, who made this event so special. :)

[zdenka]

*flail* I cannot even say how much I have enjoyed myself this month. I tried b2mem for the first time last year, but got overwhelmed and dropped out early on. This is the first time I've made it through the month (wait! I still have six more prompts to write!). ;-)

Many, many thanks to the mods for a fabulous job, to oloriel for cheerfully stamping all my cards, to all the other stampers as well, to my co-tagger Indy and everyone who did such a great job tagging their own entries that I had nothing left to do ;-), to the brilliantly evil creators and designers of the cards that I have been happily obsessing over all month, to everyone who commented on one of my entries, to the other participants for their beautiful and thoughtful writing, to Dawn for making me feel welcome, and to b2memsupport for encouragement and enabling. And anyone I may have inadvertently left out, because right now I want to throw happy confetti at everyone. :D

[moetushie]

Wow, okay, deep breaths. Let me sort through my feelings right now.

This has been an amazing month for me. Mostly because this event was so much fun, especially since it really pulled me out of my writing comfort zone. (Or not-writing comfort zone, since I am more comfortable not writing.) But I've really enjoyed working on these prompts, reading all these amazing stories by all these authors that only a year ago I thought of as (excellent, excellent) names on a screen. But seeing you all here, working through your prompts (and frustrations!), it really inspired me.

So, thank you, Dawn! Thank you, card-makers! Thank you, oloriel, for your stamping prowess! Thank you all for providing such wonderful stories that I know I'll be going through for the next couple of days. You're all awesome!

(Even you, Elleth! I have to admit, the primrose path is very nice this time of year.)


This has been great! I'm definitely doing again next year. ♥

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to say thank you to everybody who made this month possible!

[harrowcatliz.livejournal.com]

Ditto from me. See above! Thanks one and all, especially those doing the organising, for lots of lovely reading. Sorry the reviews have dried up a bit due to illness but I am still reading.

[hhimring]

I had not expected to participate nearly as much this year as I ended up doing. It was quite an overwhelming experience!
Thank you very much to Dawn and the other mods for their sterling efforts, to Rhapsody and the other unwearying stampers, and to the heroic taggers!
Thank you very much also to those who created the cards and an extra thank you to the creator of the Women of the Silmarillion card.
I thought the b2mem community was amazing--such an onrush of productivity by writers I had encountered before and by those I had not! And I loved lurking on b2mem support as well...
I've fallen behind on reading and commenting, so I'm looking forward to catching up on that--and also very much to the time when some of the WIPs that were reported but not posted begin to see the light!

[paranoidangel]

Thank you so much to everyone - the mods, the stampers (I love how the Colours card has appropriate coloured stamps), the card creators, everyone who wrote anything. I've really enjoyed playing, I'm just sad it's the end of the month, although now I need to catch up on reading all the stuff posted here, and post my own drabbles.

[spiced-wine.livejournal.com]

A huge thank-you to all of you who put your time, patience and hard work into B2Me. You are awesome people. [{{Giant hugs}}}.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Everyone's already expressed my own feelings, so I'll keep it short and sweet: thanks to all the organizers and to Rhapsody, my stamper! It was tremendous fun, this. I look forward to doing it again next year. :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

My first proper B2MeM. It's been been huge fun, and it's kept me going during a house move and an extremely busy period at work. Thanks everyone for fellowship and fun, to the people who made the cards I played for such clever and inspiring prompts that made me try things I never would have imagined trying, to all the organizers, and particularly to Russandol for stamping and Dawn for being smashing.

xx

[foxrafer.livejournal.com]

This has been so much fun, thanks entirely to all of the volunteers who kept everything running so smoothly and gave up so much of their time to organize it all and answer our questions. It was also so great to see how much enthusiasm everyone had who participated.

Special thanks to dawn_felagund and my card stamper, rhapsody11!

[independence1776]

Thank you, everyone, so much! Dawn, Rhapsody, all the other moderators and stampers and my co-tagger Lignota, and everyone who made the cards and anyone else I've forgotten! This was a lot of fun, and crazily imaginative!

So just, to everyone, thank you!

[almaheart.livejournal.com]

As of now, March is my favorite month of the year. Hands down. This was my first B2MEM, and it has been absolutely amazing. Huge thankyous and virtual hugs to everyone who volunteered their time and energy to make this event so wonderful. My many special thanks go to: Dawn, for being the most amazing and wonderful organizer/moderator/cheery bingo-number-announcer. I am in awe of your skills and dedication and want to give you so many hugs! Russandol, for magical stamping skills, and for making me so very happy with multicolored circles. Thank you so much! Rhapsody, for being my last-day stamper. All of the SWG mod team, for keeping this event up and running so marvelously. Lingota and Indy for applying sooooo many tags. I just scroll down and stare. Bravo and well done! All of the card makers, for such creative and inspiring prompts which I will be using these for inspiration for a looong time; they are wonderful!

And thanks to all who wrote and commented and made me feel so at home here. I loved meeting some of you, and I loved reading all, and look forward to the WIPs! I have never felt such camaraderie in a fandom, and it was incredible to experience. You are amazing, and you have all given me many hours of pleasure and happiness this month. Thank you!

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Surely even eleventy-one thanks would not prove enough! Huzzah!

[ladybrooke]

Thank you to everybody who helped with this. It's been one of the most fun things I've ever done, and I'm so sad to see it done.

Special thanks to Dawn, who has stamped all my various cards this month (and at 85 cards, that can't have been easy to keep track of), and to Indy, for patiently explaining the tagging system to me, when I am far slower at understanding things like that then any human should be.

And thank you to everybody who posted on the stories I've had the courage to post :)

[naurring.livejournal.com]

Guess I have to thank Oloriel first, for pointing me here and thereby making a month of insane fun possible. :)

I had planned to use this to get some work done on all those WIPs I have, and in that aspect, I utterly failed. XD Instead I have an insane amount of new WIPs. Some of them are really great though (in my humble and naturally completely unbiased opinion), and I never expected to get so much done, and my previously dead muses seem to have been reawaked (does that give me zombie muses now?), so all taken together - total win. :D

Thank you so much, all of you who made this possible and put time and effort into it, especially to all the stampers, taggers, other organisational people, and naturally Dawn who's day seems to have at least twice as many hours as mine for all the work she does. I'm really amazed how smoothly the whole event worked out!

It was my first b2mem month, but I'll definitely be back next year! :D

(And now I'll enjoy the luxury of going to bed before 2am for the first time since a month. Unknown bliss. XD)

[starli-ght.livejournal.com]

(Thanks, Huinare, for setting this up!)

I would like to thank *all* of you for making this awesome March such a fun month. It's been fabulous! This is such a talented, friendly, smart, kind community and I am so grateful for all of you. Thanks to the mods, the stampers, the card-creators, the writers, the readers, the reviewers-- you are all amazing people, and I am so very glad to have met you!!