A tip for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, when you choose to play: To get all the cut-scenes, interactions, and story for a certain truly lovely character, approach the snowy Hebra region from the west, not from the east. Indeed, when the time comes, make it easy and just start from where the glowing quest marker is. They put it right there for a reason.

I, unfortunately, continued my "Explore first!" kick into Hebra and so blundered into Condé's story from the wrong side. Not that any option is wrong as such in an RPG or even JRPG, but... I've seen videos of folks playing this charming, intriguing section, so when I blundered into a certain spot and got compressed dialogue skipping that much more personal and exciting introduction to the character, I knew what I'd lost. You won't want to miss it.

That said, exploring Hebra thoroughly brought me fun discoveries that I was unspoiled on, probably because the people who streamed and wrote wiki entries when the game come out last fall had played the main quest at speed, rushing through straight to the end for reasons like not getting spoiled and satisfying their followers, and so missed some interesting tidbits, including about Condé himself. ( Spoilers (and one fanfic idea) about Condé )

Yes, it's a delightful game. Playing as Zelda is fun. Echoes are fun. The plot and lore are fun. If Condé and Dohna are richer characterizations than Link and Zelda, well, that's a peril of a "silent hero," I'm afraid.

Our first round of post-deadline pinch hits are all claimed! Thank you to all our pinch hitters. <3 Remember that anyone who isn't signed up but is only pinch hitting can leave prompts at our treats for pinch hitters post! This is a great place to look if you're interested in creating treats.

As later pinch hits come due and as I contact some creators with questions, there may be more pinch hits coming. I have four new ones available!

Ideally, these would be due 18 July at 23:59 US Eastern time, one day before our planned reveals date. However, it's possible I'll have to delay the collection opening to make sure all participants are covered, so if you know you can take one of these pinch hits but will need longer than the 18th, please let me know, and we can discuss.

If you can claim one of these, please comment with your AO3 name and the number of the pinch hit you want. All comments are screened.

( CLAIMED - PDPH 9 - NoPixel (Web Series), 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Crossover Fandom, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime) )

( PDPH 10 - The West Wing, Neko no Ongaeshi | The Cat Returns, Severance (TV) )

( CLAIMED - PDPH 11 - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Fairyland Series - Catherynne M. Valente, Gilmore Girls (TV 2000), Hadestown - Mitchell, Tam Lin - Anonymous (Song) )

( CLAIMED - PDPH 12 - Original Work, Original Work, 悪役令嬢の中の人 | Akuyaku Reijou no Naka no Hito | The One Within the Villainess (Manga), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) )

Challenge #2

Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like

I'm not sure if I would categorize it as romance per se, but the one thing I love about summer in the northeast, where it's not warm year-round, is being able to go to an outdoor pool. I swim laps in an indoor pool, both in summer and the off-season, but I love being able to sit at an outdoor pool and read and relax. I joined a gym out where my mom lives several years ago, anticipating that I would need to move in with her, or at least stay with her for long periods, to help her out. The gym has both an indoor and an outdoor pool, and the outdoor pool deck is one of my favorite places in the world, and something I don't have in the city. The members are a mix of families with young kids, families with older kids, young couples without kids yet, and seniors, and it's fun to watch the kids play in the fountain in the family pool. It's surrounded by trees, and it's really just a lovely place to be when the weather is nice. It's definitely one of my top enjoyments in life.

As for the creative side of the challenge, I've never been much of a poet. So instead I'm going to share some summer-themed haikus by Bashō:

In bright summer moon,
and with softly clapping hands,
I herald the dawn.

Summer in the world
floating on little waves
of shimmering lake.

Orchid is breathing
its pungent incense into
a butterfly's wings.

Previous Days
Day 1

Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Friending Meme * Challenge #1

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

( Sunshine Revival Challenge #2 )

Check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.



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This is not a mistimed April's Fool joke. We are one week out from our assignment due date! Where has the time flown? Perhaps that's another case for a plucky detective to take on…

Assignments, including pinch hits assigned prior to Friday 27 June, are due on Friday 11 July at 11:59pm EDT [ In your timezone + Countdown ].

The first batch of pinch hits claimed after the default deadline (that was Friday 27 June) are due Friday 18 July at 11:59pm EDT [ In your timezone ].

Please be aware that if you do not turn in a work and do not default, you may be banned from participating in the next round.

This exchange allows extensions; however, I will not be granting extensions if they are requested after the assignment due date (Friday 11 July). If you need an extension, please ask before this date!

Please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns. Our rules and guidelines have information about defaulting and extensions.

We have deliciously mysterious pinch hits that are available for creating problems to be solved!

Happy creating! See you in a week. 😅

Many thanks to brightknightie who put this on my radar!



Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.

Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Getting the serious stuff -- and the huge elephant in the room -- out of the way, I'm trying to just keep living my life while The Sword Of Damocles hangs over my head (a feeling many of us are sharing no doubt). I'm continuing to take enjoyment wherever I can, helping where I can. I'm very concerned about the amount of people that are and will be experiencing food insecurity, so I've been and will continue to donate to a couple of local groups in my neighborhood: one serves hot meals, both at their facility and delivering to homebound, and the other distributes packaged food and sundries in the park every Saturday. And of course I'm donating to orgs like the ACLU who continue to do great work. Looking for other ways I can help.

Starting on July 14, I will be attending Karen Attiah's "Race, Media and International Affairs 101" class. She used to teach the class at Columbia, but they cancelled it because DEI (eyeroll). She took a survey on Bluesky to see if people would be interested in attending it as an independent series on Zoom and there was overwhelming interest. She's posted information on the class here (she's calling it Resistance Summer School). Summer session filled up, so she was offering a Fall session too and not sure if that has filled up yet. There's different pricing tiers and depending on which tier you choose there are certain perks. It looks to be a really interesting and informative class, so I'm looking forward to it.

I'll be continuing to swim and work out and do my best to stay fit. And reading. Lots and lots of reading, both serious stuff and light-hearted poolside.

On the creative side, I've taken up needlepoint and completed my first project. I started small, with a bookmark, and while the result is kind of sad (and the backing that came with the kit didn't fit the canvas well so I had to cut, and I have issues cutting in a straight line), it's not bad for a first try. And at least I chose a cute pattern. I'll be continuing to try different canvases.

( not quite a masterpiece under the cut )

I also wrote a story for intoabar, which I got some nice feedback on:

Title: Serendipity
Author: lightbird
Prompt: Fa Mulan goes into a bar and meets... Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)!
Fandoms: Mulan (1998), Avatar: The Last Airbender
Word count: 872
Rating: T
Summary: When she walked into the tea shop, she immediately recognized the girl sitting at the table...

And I'm already working on another story, which I hope to finish this summer.

Here are some recent fannish things I've happened to see and would like to share!

Spotlight: Volume 1 of the fantasy webcomic Aurora by Red of Overly Sarcastic Productions comes out from Andrews McMeel on July 29. New to you? A band of diverse misfits thrown together by circumstances try to save first themselves, then each other, and eventually their magic-ridden world, journeying much like a D&D party, interacting much like a superhero team, with many of the self-sacrifice, power of friendship, and metaphysical/moral themes I love. Already enjoy? Pre-orders can get an exclusive sticker sheet. Check it out.

Ficathons, fests & communities

• Create & engage
  • fkficfest, the annual Forever Knight fanfic challenge, finished revealing its stories in June.
  • sunshine_revival, a summertime sibling of snowflake_challenge, is in progress. No commitments, no deadlines, yes friending-meme. Let's engage with each other here on DW!
  • julybreakbingopresents, a month-long bingo-prompt fanwork game, has sign-ups through July 7.
  • fallingforyoufallexchange is a fanwork exchange celebrating falling in love in fall. Nominations through July 21; sign-ups through July 31; due September 15.
  • no_true_pair, a "Mad Libs"-style challenge community, is hosting a "No True Crossover" mini-event through July (with amnesty thereafter).
  • beauty-beast-week is an open celebration of Disney's Beauty and the Beast with posting August 18-24.
  • trope_of_the_month's July theme is an amnesty (create works for any previous theme).
  • pinchhits is a forum for pinch-hits in exchanges. For example, fandom5k is seeking pinch hitters.
  • whenisitdue tracks many more events than I note here!
• Enjoy & share
  • fancake (themed fanfic recs); July theme: "working together"
  • gensplosion (gen fanfic recs)
  • het_reccers (m/f fanfic recs)
  • fanart_recs (fanart recs)
  • recthething (fanwork recs)

Sidelight: I've preordered tickets for Superman (2025) and The Fantastic Four (2025), fingers crossed for both (be good be good be good), but I also want to support original and non-genre films. I looked for what to see this holiday weekend and found... nothing? I hadn't known what The Life of Chuck might possibly be until its run ended, only that it had famous people in it, so I unfortunately missed that. I'm not into horror. The reviews of Pixar's latest are poor. Are there no dramas, historicals, comedies? Just the Nth Jurassic Park and Mission Impossible sequels? To be fair, there is a men-race-cars movie. Still. Eeek, Hollywood.

Finished since the last reading post
The Blunders of Our Governments, where the passing of time meant no very recent blunders were discussed, but also perhaps has changed the perspective on some of the things considered successes. The chapters discussing reasons for the blunders were perhaps even more interesting than the chapters on the blunders themselves.

How to Survive a Plague by David France, which covers some of the same ground as And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts, which I've read before, but more from a New York City and the ACT UP and related activist point of view. Very interesting, informative, and moving.

Currently reading
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, which has been a good bus read—my bus journey to work isn't really long enough to really get into a book, so anything with longer chapters tends to be a bit frustrating, but this one works really well.

Reading next
No idea—I've got a few books on the shelves I could pick up, some e-books as well, and I should have a library reservation coming my way at some point.

sunshine_revival '25 Challenge #1: "Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025."

My fannish goals for the rest of this summer include:

• Participate in everywoman, the fanfic exchange starring women characters, when it comes along. I will definitely offer D&DC, TLOZ, and BSG78; others' requests will influence what else I may list.


• Build a pattern of recommending something once per week on recommendation communities, and then including a wrap-up of my recs here in my own journal in my monthly "Enthusiasms" post. (Or give it its own monthly post?) Probably usually in recthething, but it could be any suitable recs community. (Is it appropriate to cross-post recs to multiple recs communities? Maybe at staggered intervals?)


• Finish writing and post an odd TLOZ piece I'm thinking of as: "Three Gerudo Ficlets in the Past of Tears of the Kingdom, Before Age of Imprisonment Totally Josses Them." ( Read more... )

At the end of the year, of course I plan to participate in hlh_shortcuts, the annual Highlander fanfic exchange.

Catching up on TV whenever, I plan to watch Andor (season two) and Ironheart (season one). I wish that they released one episode per week, not tranches of episodes! I find one-episode-per-week so inviting, and these tranches so overwhelming, that I end up putting off watching these, while I am of course wholly caught up on the current season of Grantchester. Back-watching TV, I will continue my one-episode-per-week first-time viewing of Babylon 5. (Again, if you mentally classify the special effects as meant for stage instead of screen, this show does much more than merely "hold up;" I feel that it beats the heck out of most of what we have today. Storytelling, acting, episodicness and continuity...)

I already have my pre-sale tickets for Superman (2025) and The Fantastic Four (2025), of course. (Please let me say again that folks should consider watching Thunderbolts*; it's rich and satisfying in multiple layers. I'm disheartened that so many people skipped it. It's well-made and deserves better.)


How about you...?

Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Friending Meme *



Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

( Sunshine Revival Challenge #1 )

Check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.



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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

Use this post to help you navigate your way through the challenge. Consider it your visitor's map of our cheerful sunny carnival.

Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Friending Meme

The Challenges

Challenge #1 - Lights On!

Maybe you struck up a conversation while you waited in line for the roller coaster. Maybe you and a questionably large group of friends all tumbled out of a van and walked in together. However it happened, you're now here at the Carnival with your friends. The best experiences are all the richer for having fun and interesting people to share them with. Let's all get to know each other and make some friends to hold our hands during the scary rides or split a basket of fries with.

Feel free to post your answers in the comments or on your own journal and share a link. See you around the fairgrounds!

Basics
Name:
Age:
Location:
Other blogs/socials:

Dreamwidth Stuff
What do you post about?
How often do you post
What communities, if any, are you involved in?
What kind of accounts do you like to follow?

Fandom Stuff
Fandoms:
Favorite Characters:
Ships:
Things you're into but not fannish about:

I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff
Explain your username:
Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer):
What's your vibe?
What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….):
Opening song on your summer mixtape:

<b><u>Basics</u></b> <b>Name: </b> <b>Age: </b> <b>Location: </b> <b>Other blogs/socials: </b> <b><u>Dreamwidth Stuff</u></b> <b>What do you post about? </b> <b>How often do you post? </b> <b>What communities, if any, are you involved in? </b> <b>What kind of accounts do you like to follow? </b> <b><u>Fandom Stuff</u></b> <b>Fandoms: </b> <b>Favorite Characters: </b> <b>Ships: </b> <b>Things you're into but not fannish about: </b> <b><u>I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff</u></b> <b>Explain your username: </b> <b>Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer): </b> <b>What's your vibe? </b> <b>What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….): </b> <b>Opening song on your summer mixtape: </b>

Hello detectives,

This is your reminder that you have approximately two weeks until works are due! They are due on Friday 11 July at 11:59pm EDT [ In your timezone + Countdown ].

The first batch of pinch hits claimed after the default deadline (that was Friday 27 June) are due Friday 18 July at 11:59pm EDT [ In your timezone ]. We have amazing and deliciously mysterious pinch hits that are available for creating problems to be solved!

Please be aware that if you do not turn in a work and do not default, you may be banned from participating in the next round.

Please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns. Our rules and guidelines have information about defaulting and extensions.

Happy creating! See you in two weeks. :)

Take a peek behind the curtain: beyond the bright lights of the carnival midway are the mods keeping the rides running and the queue's orderly. Today we want to feature the mods so you know who you'll be hearing from throughout the month and give them each a little shoutout. \o/

abyssal_sylph:
Hi! I'm Abyss & am excited to let the sunshine in with everyone here this July :3 Young-adult, queer mess, but most of all, a fandom brained person how adores seeing ppl be excited about their fannish things. Hope that there'll be lots of sunshine this year!

endlesstwanted:
Hi, I'm Chase — your typical nerd who started writing fanfic in a gym while skipping PE practice and never quite escaped. I collect cinematic traumas like they're Infinity Stones, ship rarepairs like it’s a paid job, and attempt to fix canon like I’m duct-taping the bumper cars mid-collision. Also, very hyped to be part of Sunshine Revival this year! See you in the comments (while I possibly discover my next hyperfixation) ^^

florianschild:
Hi, you can call me Flori! Summer is my favorite season BY FAR so I'm incredibly excited for this fun way to combine my love of summer with my love of Dreamwidth. <3 As far as my own journal goes, I mainly post about books I read and lately I've been trying to analyze why I love angsty pretty boys so much. No conclusions have yet been reached. :D

muscle_wizard:
I'm Toki o/ A long time hobby writer, lover of fic, food, and queer media. Journal sites have always been my fandom home base and I'm happy to be apart of this challenge. Looking forward to spreading joy and sunshine through the power of comments <3_<3

tellshannon815:
Hi, I'm tellshannon815, writer and occasional icon maker (especially for the less often ficced characters) for many years now. Looking forward to being part of the revival of the challenge this year, to hearing all about everyone's fandoms and maybe discovering some new (what do you mean, I have too many fandoms already?), and to getting to interact with new people!

Thank you mods!

Stay tuned for tomorrow's friending meme...

We're passed the deadline, but we're not quite at the finish line!

We do have a number of extensions, in addition to pinch hits that had later due dates, so I still expect a number of works to be added to the collection in the coming weeks. If you don't yet have a gift waiting for you, it's likely for one of these reasons, but you can feel free to email me just to double-check.

There are 8 post-deadline pinch hits available. These are due 18 July at 23:59 US Eastern time, one day before our planned reveals date. However, it's possible I'll have to delay the collection opening to make sure all participants are covered, so if you know you can take one of these pinch hits but will need longer than the 18th, please let me know, and we can discuss.

If you can claim one of these, please comment with your AO3 name and the number of the pinch hit you want. All comments are screened.

If you aren't signed up but are only pinch hitting, please consider our treats for pinch hitters post!

If you are signed up and have an extension, you may ask to exchange your assignment for an open pinch hit. If you are given that pinch hit and fulfill it, this won't count as a default. Please tell me in your comment requesting a pinch hit if you are asking to swap.


( CLAIMED - PDPH 1 - Blue Lock (Manga), 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Fairy Tail )

 

( CLAIMED - PDPH 2 - The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Tortall - Tamora Pierce, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) )

 

( CLAIMED - PDPH 3 - Path of Night (Podcast), Vampire: The Masquerade - Various Authors (Choice of Games), Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga (Podcast) )

 

( CLAIMED - PDPH 4 - 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Fairy Tail )

 

( CLAIMED - PDPH 5 - 琅琊榜之风起长林 | Nirvana in Fire 2: The Wind Blows in Changlin (TV), Original Work, 永夜星河 | Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (TV) )

 

( CLAIMED - PDPH 6 - Kraven the Hunter (2024), Twister (Movies 1996 2024), The White Lotus (TV), The Accountant (Movies 2016 & 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe )

 

( CLAIMED - PDPH 7 - The Fugitive (Movies), Crossover Fandom, Father Brown (2013), Forever Knight (TV 1992) )

 

( CLAIMED - PDPH 8 - Code Vein (Video Game), 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), Octopath Traveler II (Video Game), 刀使ノ巫女 | Toji no Miko | Katana Maidens (Anime), よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games), Xenoblade Chronicles (Video Game) )

 

I wanted to share that Nintendo is having what I gather is a very rare sale on its online store, with many first- and third-party games discounted through July 9.

With the 30% discount on it, I went ahead and bought The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, which otherwise I would have waited on until I was ready to play it on my Switch 2. (There is no discount on either of the Wilds games, or the BotW DLCs, or of course I would have snapped them up.) I also thought about buying Stray Gods (the role-playing musical), which I've heard such amazing things about, but there are only so many hours in a day outside work, so I'm still thinking.

The last time I personally owned a console (purchased second-hand from Goodwill), my games were on cartridges (a brown bag full of them, also from Goodwill). I do understand that getting games in the Cloud is as risky as getting books or songs or movies or TV in the Cloud, that TPTB could revoke them at any time, and I'm hesitant about it, but a friend in the games industry and his wife told me that this is the way to go now for back-ups and future compatibility and the Switch 2's new sharing system. (I'm still considering getting the Wilds games on physical media, but...) So you will perhaps understand my surprise when I made my Link's Awakening purchase and realized that there was no sales tax* on it, because it is a "service" and a "license," and therefore not taxed the same way that a physical copy on a cartridge would be. I should have observed this many years ago with apps on my phone, shows on streaming, books on Kindle, and goodness knows what all, but I had gone on buying most things in physical form, and it had just never clicked, probably because all those things individually cost so little each, while a single game is expensive enough to notice (and Nintendo's check-out screen is unusually clear).

* Sales tax is set at the state and local level in the US. Your locality may differ.

And it's shooort!

Title: Serendipity
Author: lightbird
Prompt: Fa Mulan goes into a bar and meets... Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)!
Fandoms: Mulan (1998), Avatar: The Last Airbender
Word count: 872
Rating: T
Summary: When she walked into the tea shop, she immediately recognized the girl sitting at the table...

I had different ideas for my assignment for this challenge, but every time I sat down to write I could not even get one word on the page.

I've finally written a story. And fortunately we had an extra week this year because the mod had something going on the day it would normally be due. So instead of last Sunday, it's due tomorrow.

The story is very rough and I don't feel like it's a very inspired idea. It also feels a bit of a cheat. And there's no time to get it beta'd. I'll spend the next few hours going through to see where I can fix it, tweak it, then post.

At least I got something written though, and I can always fix it afterward. And I have an additional entry into my Mulan/AtLA series.

Come one, come all! Step right up to the very first Sunshine Revival challenge!

Is that popcorn and funnel cakes that I smell? And if you listen carefully you can hear the cheerful notes of the Calliope in the distance. You may have noticed we've got some summer carnival sounds and aromas in the air. Which is fitting, since that is our theme this year! Prompts will be inspired by elements of our summer carnival, but don't worry: the prompts themselves are very open-ended and you can write about whatever strikes your fancy.

The format of the Challenge posts will be a little new. Each challenge post will have two prompts: one will be for general journaling (for example, reflecting on personal experiences or sharing thoughts about a topic) and another will be asking you to create something (such as a written or visual work) based on a theme. You're welcome to choose one or both prompts and they are very flexible so if the prompt says "write a story" you can of course write a poem, share a plot bunny, make a mixtape, draw a picture, or do anything else you want; it's up to you how you want to participate!

The Sunshine Revival will kick off with the first prompts on July 1st, but I wanted to say hello and get everyone acquainted before we get started. We'll have a few "pre-challenge" posts over the next few days. Here's the schedule if you need it:

June 28 - Introduction Post
June 29 - Meet the Mods Post
June 30 - Friending Meme
July 1-25 - Challenge Posts every 4 days (7 in total)
July 31 - Wrap up post

I encourage everyone to take some time over the next few days to shake the dust (or pollen perhaps?) off your journals. Clean up your sticky post, add new interests to your profile and remove old ones, consider adding a Transformative Works policy or an AI policy to your profile, and my own special request: Please consider linking to your blog from your AO3 profile! Encourage your friends to do it too! It's fun to find an author you like and then follow them to see what they're reading and doing.

I think that's all for now, but stay tuned for lots more. I'm really happy to be reviving this celebration of summer for the community. I hope it's a lot of fun for everyone!