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Mod Post: April Challenge, project reminders, state of the communities and more!

Don't forget to change your Desktops!

And in the spirit of the season, this month's challenge is simple titled: Fools

Write, draw, drabble, create anything involving Lupin/Snape and any version of the word "fool" you can think of. There is no minimum or maximum word count or effort involved. The deadline for posting your effort is APRIL 30.

We seem to be in a bit of a community slump, so for this challenge, I gathered up some quotes and images to help inspire your efforts. If nothing below helps, you're always welcome to reply here seeking the kind of prompts that will inspire you.

Quotes

Persistency is a fool's best asset.

Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.

Teach yourself and you have a fool for a master.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. - Dale Carnegie

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool. - G.K. Chesterton

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding that limit - Elbert Hubbard

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. - Oscar Wilde

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. - Carl Gustav Jung

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way - Josh Billings

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. - Nicholas Boileau

A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. - Charlie Chaplin

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. - Epicurus

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West

A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man, of happiness.

You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.

The heart is forever making the head its fool. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. - W. C. Fields

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. - Benjamin Franklin

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! - William Shakespeare

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. - H. L. Mencken

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. - Samuel Butler

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. - Robert Frost

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. - Ambrose Bierce

A fool and his money are soon elected. - Will Rogers

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. - George Santayana

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. - Charles Caleb Colton

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. - Otto Von Bismarck

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. - Jonathan Swift

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool - Sir Thomas Overbury

A fool and her money are soon courted. - Helen Rowland

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. - Bruce Lee

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. - J G Ballard

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain. - Francis Kilvert

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. - Michael Korda

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed. - Margaret Mitchell

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. - Andre Maurois

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Think not lightly of evil, saying, 'It will not come to me.' Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil. - Buddha

A fool must now and then be right, by chance. - William Cowper

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. - Robert Bulwer-Lytton

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities. - Julie Andrews

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone. - Thornton Wilder

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was. - Maria Callas

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you. - Cleopatra

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart. - Al Pacino

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. - Earl Wilson

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them. - Knute Rockne

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. - Neil Gaiman

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. - Roald Dahl

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. - Miguel de Unamuno

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. - Lynda Barry

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy. - John Churton Collins

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight. - Chris Bell

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. - Louis L'Amour

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. - Charles Simmons

Tarot cards - The Fool








Ongoing projects you can easily jump into:
Snupin: Bigger, Longer and Uncut - Our version of a Big Bang. Deadline to sign up for writers and artists is April 30, which is also the first-draft deadline.

Chocolate and Asphodel 2: A community project that gathers up creative pursuits for later presentation in a single format. Deadline is July 1.

State of the lupin_snape communities: It's hard not to notice how quiet it's been around here, especially in terms of commenting. Please remember, the only way to encourage creators to keep going is to let them know that you're out there, seeing their works. You don't have to write a book or anything formal to leave a comment on a story or a piece of art. Two words, "Thank you", would do. I know it's tempting to drift back into a lurk mode with the Harry Potter fandom going through adjustments with the end of the series, but as fandom shrinks, your comments are more needed than ever if you want to keep people interested in the pairing we all love so much.

As for the lower number of creative posts, I'm of two minds - 1. It's to be expected for our medium ship to become small with the overall fandom shrinkage or 2. Somehow, the projects we have going on right now aren't inspiring or interesting to the creators still here. If the current community projects and challenges are keeping you away, please remember that the mod mail (lupinsnape @ gmail.com - remove spaces) is always available for you as a clear and direct line to me. If you have any ideas for future challenges or comments on the current ones, you can open a discussion with me at any time. I've always considered these communities as ours, not mine, but if you don't speak up, I have to go with my gut alone. Many great activities here have come from suggestions - The Darkside challenge, the calendars, C&A 1, etc. Please don't hesitate to share your ideas!

Remember, whether you prefer to operate on LiveJournal or InsaneJournal, the challenges and mod posts are made to both communities. And even if you are devoted to one journal system or the other, you can always follow the sister lupin_snape on your journal through a syndication feed. If you are on InsaneJournal, you can add the LJ feed here. If you are on LiveJournal, you can add the IJ feed here.

Finally, the April Theme Search only has one response so far, and that's from posts on both journals. As McKay said, we don't do the searching for you, and anyone can submit a story to the theme list, so if you have a favourite story you want to see on the lists, which people search when they're in the mood for certain kinds of stories, you'll have to add it to the search post. This month's theme search is Werewolf!Snape. Any stories, including AUs and ARs, in which Snape is a werewolf either instead of, because of, or in conjunction with Remus are eligible.

And that's it for now! Thank you, one and all, for still being here and enjoying the community and pairing. You guys are the ones who make this place special. ♥

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