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phoenix1966

Please take a moment to let us know if you're interested in contributing to another round of Meant To Be. This is not a sign-up, but just a way to let us gauge the potential interest in another round.

The tentative dates will probably be close to the last round, with sign-ups in the first half of October and prompts going up around Halloween, with posting to begin on Valentine's Day.

Here's a link to the rules/faqs for anyone wanting a refresher.

[Poll #2105158][Poll #2105158]
This poll will remain open through Monday, September 28th.

You just know those happily ever afters were Meant To Be!

phoenix1966

To quote Aquarian Dream, shall we "play it one more time"?

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phoenix1966

Here is the roundup for the 2020

spn_meanttobe challenge! Enjoy the wonderful entries and the lovely banner by

swan_song21!

( RPF Meant To Be )

( Supernatural Meant To Be )

phoenix1966

We would like to extend our thanks and gratitude to everyone who participated in this round. I don't think any of us anticipated what state the world would be in before this wrapped, but just remember that you brought a lot of comfort and joy to people when they needed it the most.

The comm will be locked to new postings from members (you can continue to comment on existing posts), but those of you who have WiPs will still be able to edit your posts to adjust word counts and such. In a few days, we will be posting a masterpost for this round and a poll to see if folks might be interested in another round toward the end of the year.

Once again, thanks to all of you for bringing us a much-needed Happily Ever After!

It was Meant To Be!

phoenix1966

We had a strong start to the challenge, but it seems like maybe forces are conspiring against our participants, throwing up roadblocks to the Happy Endings our characters deserve. And maybe having the challenge end near the Ides of March wasn't the most auspicious date. So...

April 14th is the official Amnesty Day for this challenge. And to make it as easy as possible for people, the comm will stay open through that date, so that you can post your creations anytime between now and then. Please don't hesitate to post now if you've finished, but we understand that many of you want to polish up your entry and that takes a little extra time.

This is the last year of the show, so lets do our best to give these characters the endings they deserve!

It's Meant To Be!

phoenix1966

Hard to believe, but we're at the halfway point for posting! We've seen some wonderful art and gotten to read some amazing stories so far, so let's not stop now! I know many of you are chugging away on your creations and we cannot wait to see the rest of them!

We've known and loved (and gotten angry, yelled at and teared up with) these characters for 15 years/seasons. Let's, to borrow some of Jared's recent birthday wishes to Jensen, bring these boys home and give them the endings they deserve! I know we can do it.

It was meant to be!

phoenix1966

Let the good times roll! The Meant To Be season is officially open!

Post entries are moderated. What does that mean? When you post to the comm, your post will not appear immediately, but will go into a queue and have to be approved by one of the mods first. This is just so the comm can be open to everyone's posts (members and non-members alike) and still give us a way to prevent spam. Depending on timezones and such, it might take up to 12 hours or so for a mod to approve the post. LiveJournal seems to be glitching on moderated posts right now, so posting is unmoderated. You should see your entry to the comm as soon as you post!

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email (phoenix1966.lj@gmail.com) or leave a comment below.

If you are not a member of LiveJournal or do not have an OpenID, there is no way for you to post to the community anonymously as far as I can tell. In this case, you can either email us (phoenix1966.lj@gmail.com) your posting details or you can have a LiveJournal friend act as your proxy and post on your behalf.

Please use this template to post:

If you are posting your work to Ao3, please consider attaching your work to the Spn Meant To Be Master Collection. Under the option "Post to Collections/Challnges" add "spn_meanttobe".

Bring us those happy endings!

phoenix1966

This is it, Meanttobers! It's almost time for the posting to begin!

We will open the comm up on Friday, February 14th a.k.a. Valentine's Day and the comm will stay open for thirty days so that you can post when you're ready.

Following tradition, please use this template when posting:

If you are posting your work to Ao3, please consider attaching your work to the Spn Meant To Be Master Collection. Under the option "Post to Collections/Challnges" add "spn_meanttobe".

For those participants who are not LJ members (or anyone having trouble posting), please don't hesitate to email us (phoenix1966.lj@gmail.com) with your info and story/art links and we will post for you. As a reminder, you do not have to post your work to LJ, but you must post your links here first please.

Who's chomping at the bit to post? Give us your best shot and, if you're not quite finished, remember that you've got thirty days left to give the fellas a happy ending! We can not wait to see what you've got!

Any other questions or concerns, feel free to sound off below. Good luck to you all!

phoenix1966

Hard to believe, but we are in the home stretch to posting!

Let me remind everyone that this will be an open posting month (we'll be sharing "How To Post" info in a few days), so if you haven't quite wrapped up yet, there is no need to panic...much. And in case some of you want to add a small flourish or a bit of color to your work,

casey679 has made some cute header and footers available to whoever might want one.

casey679 has also generously offered to customize them if you need it (please contact

casey679 at casey6799 at yahoo dot com for that).

Here they are under the cut, up for grabs!

( Free graphics! )

phoenix1966

(click to see full size)

Chuck's been torturing Sam with a horrible array of bad AU endings he's got in store for him and Dean. Are you ready to show God how much better writing a happy ending can be?!

Valentine's Day - and the Meant to Be Challenge - is a month away, and we're here to cheer you on! Do you need a beta? A sprinting partner? Or just a cheerleader? PM

phoenix1966 (email: phoenix1966.lj@gmail.com )or

casey679, or let us know in the comments below - we're here to help!

Let's give the boys a Valentine month's worth of happy endings that prove no matter what universe you drop them into, the boys are Meant to Be!

phoenix1966

Hope the New Year has started off with a bang for you all and you're now thinking about the Happy Endings you're planning to bring us this year.

While the challenge doesn't require it, a beta reader can be invaluable for many creators. If anyone has the time and is willing, please consider volunteering as a beta for your fellow comm members.

Sign up to be a volunteer beta here by copy and pasting the form into a comment to this post and filling out the pertinent information (borrowed from

spn_reversebang ).

Writers can also put in a request for a beta at the

spn_betas comm!

phoenix1966

As this year's myriad challenges come to a close and many of us are caught up in various holidays that fall in December, we'd like to do a quick, painless poll.

Please take a moment and let us know how you're all doing! And if you forgot what you claimed, you can refresh your memory with this post here.

[Poll #2097609][Poll #2097609]

phoenix1966

One final chance to claim and anyone can participate this round!

Summaries are in two posts HERE and HERE and on Google Docs HERE. so check them out to see what is still available. If a summary is crossed out, it means that it's out of play for both fic and art.

You are allowed to claim a second prompt, even if you claimed one in the first or second round. You are also able to claim your first prompt here as well. If you are doing claimng both your first and second prompt, please make two different entries, labeling one as your first claim and the second as your 2nd claim.

Claims will CLOSE at 11:59am EST tomorrow, October 21st. Here is a countdown clock to help keep track of the remaining time to claim.

Please comment now to this post only with your selections.

Claims are first come first served

Proxy claims are allowed (please specify it is a proxy and put their name in the "username" section)

Each summary can have 1 author and 1 artist (all other media besides writing), either separately or as a collaboration

Podfic/Vidding is welcome, as long as it's part of a collab with a writer

Collaborations are great, but please sign up in the same comment (put both names in the "username" section)

Being part of a collaboration is considered one claim, so only one collab per round

ONLY ONE CLAIM PER PERSON, PER ROUND

Each comment can have your top 4 choices

If you don't get any of your top 4 choices, please make a separate comment with your next 4 choices instead of replying to your first comment

Click here for a refresher on the RULES/FAQs!

Please use this template for claiming:

Anonymous commenting is turned on, spam protection and comment screening has been turned off so, hopefully, all comments will get through in a timely fashion. Your mod is cautiously double-checking everything. Please be patient for your confirmation reply.

Good luck to everyone and welcome back to the happiest challenge in the fandom!

Claims are now closed and this post will be locked! Thanks to all who participated!

phoenix1966

We've received a few emails, comments and messages here and on Tumblr from folks who missed the claims deadline. So we have decided to give people one last shot at a happy ending and offer the fandom a Valentine as the show ends. Who are we to stand in the way of something that's meant to be?

We will offer a 24 hour claim day for anyone interested in participating in this round, even if you didn't sign up for the challnege. That means any and all are welcome to put in a claim for one of the remaining prompts. For those that have already claimed the maximum of two prompts and you think you could handle a third (but please be very sure you can handle it), you are also welcome to grab another and, of course, those who claimed one prompt are also welcome to grab a second.

Open claim day will start on Sunday, October 20th at 9 am EST, in a brand, new post. This is not that post. Here is a clock to help you count down the hours. Prompts can be found here and here (if they have only been claimed for one medium, they will be marked accordingly; those struck through have been claimed for both).

Info on how to claim can be found here. Please familiarize yourself with it.

Bring on that Happy Ending! You know it's meant to be!

This post is now locked. Please make your final claims here!

phoenix1966

Note: Not all authors & artists who claim the same fic are collaborations, and our default assumption is that each creator is doing their own thing unless/until they tell us otherwise. If you ARE collaborating and you have a “?” instead of a yes, let us know and we’ll update the list!

Feel free to reach out to someone who has the same prompt as you if you are interested in collaborating, but please be respectful of the other person if they decline. Understand that the other creator may already have a firm vision of what they'd like to do and it doesn't line up with yours (they want to do a different pairing, setting, etc.).

( Names below the cut... )

phoenix1966

One more chance to claim! Summaries are in two posts HERE and HERE and on Google Docs HERE. so check them out to see what is still available. If a summary is crossed out, it means that it's out of play for both fic and art.

You are allowed to claim a second prompt, even if you claimed one in the first round. You are also able to claim your first prompt here as well. If you are doing both, please make two different entries, labeling one as your first claim and the second as your 2nd claim.

Claims will CLOSE at 11:59am EST tomorrow, October 7th. Here is a countdown clock to help keep track of the remaining time to claim.

Please comment now to this post only with your selections.

Claims are first come first served

Proxy claims are allowed (please specify it is a proxy and put their name in the "username" section)

Each summary can have 1 author and 1 artist (all other media besides writing), either separately or as a collaboration

Podfic/Vidding is welcome, as long as it's part of a collab with a writer

Collaborations are great, but please sign up in the same comment (put both names in the "username" section)

Being part of a collaboration is considered one claim, so only one collab per round

ONLY ONE CLAIM PER PERSON, PER ROUND

Each comment can have your top 4 choices

If you don't get any of your top 4 choices, please make a separate comment with your next 4 choices instead of replying to your first comment

phoenix1966

We've had a great turnout today. This is just a reminder that if you've already grabbed a prompt today, you can grab one more tomorrow.

Round 2 will open tomorrow, October 6th, at 12 pm EST. Here is a countdown clock for the event to make it easier to track the time.

If you signed up and haven't made a claim yet, please feel free to visit the Round 1 Claim Post here and definitely come back tomorrow for Round 2 if another caught your eye!

phoenix1966

It's time to claim! Summaries are in two posts HERE and HERE and on Google Docs HERE.

Please comment to this post only with your selections.

Claims are first come first served

Proxy claims are allowed (please specify it is a proxy and put their name in the "username" section)

Each summary can have 1 author and 1 artist (all other media besides writing), either separately or as a collaboration

Podfic/Vidding is welcome, as long as it's part of a collab with a writer

Collaborations are great, but please sign up in the same comment (put both names in the "username" section)

Being part of a collaboration is considered one claim, so only one collab per round

ONLY ONE CLAIM PER PERSON, PER ROUND

Each comment can have your top 4 choices

If you don't get any of your top 4 choices, please make a separate comment with your next 4 choices instead of replying to your first comment

phoenix1966

Just a reminder that claims open at 12:00pm EST on Saturday, October 5th. A second round of claims will open at 12pm EST on Sunday, October 6th.

Here is when 12pm EST is in various locations throughout the world. And here is a countdown clock to help keep track.

Notes about claiming:

-Claims are first come first served

-Proxy claims are allowed (please specify that it is a proxy claim)

-Each summary can have 1 author and 1 artist

-Collaborations are great, but please sign up in the same comment

-ONE CLAIM PER PERSON, PER ROUND

-Each comment can have your top 4 choices

-If you don't get any of your top 4 choices, please make a separate comment with your next 4 choices instead of replying to your first comment

Click here for a refresher on the RULES/FAQS!

Please use this template for claiming:

Anonymous commenting is turned on, spam protection and comment screening has been turned off so, hopefully, all comments will get through in a timely fashion.

Tomorrow (Saturday, October 5th) is the day!

The previous instructions for claiming prompts will be hidden until claiming wraps up to avoid confusion.

Again, our sincere apologies for this last-minute claiming format change. If you have any additonal comments, questions or concerns, feel free to comment below or email me at phoenix1966.lj@gmail.com

phoenix1966

Even in the worst of times, we look for a silver lining.

Nisaki, our third mod, has been offline for most of the past 24 hours. She was able to get on temporarily today to let us know that her city has been placed under an open-ended curfew and the Internet was cut for a good portion of that time. It's back now, but due to the ongoing political protests, there's no guarantee it will remain that way.

DON'T PANIC. The good news is that Nisaki and her family are okay, even though it's a scary situation for everyone.

The bad news is that besides being a great writer and artist, Nisaki is also our amazing forms guru, and none of us know what her connectivity will be this weekend. Moreover, real life has got to be her first concern right now, for all the obvious reasons.

The silver lining to this (we can hear the cheers from some of you already) is that because of this, we will be using the old method of responding to the claims post with comments.

phoenix1966 will take point on this, with

casey679 providing support and keeping an spreadsheet updated just for folks who want to see an easy summary of the results.

It's frustrating to not be able to offer more than positive thoughts in a time like this, but if you haven't read or seen any of her creations, now's a great time to check them out and maybe leave a positive comment or two. It'd be a nice surprise to be waiting for her when things calm down over there!

Tomorrow, we will post the traditional template we would like you to use for claiming on Saturday. And this will be that rare time we will be emailing all participants so that for those of you not on LJ, etc. will be aware of this last-minute change.