Nordipalooza 2020 - Brainstorming
Sep. 24th, 2019 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoBeen thinking about some adjustments I plan to make for Nordipalooza fest next year. (Yes, it's super early to be considering this stuff, I know.) It's probably a little obnoxious that I change things every year, but... oh well!
For 2020:
+ Run primarily on DW. Will throw an initial announcement and the usual deadline reminders on tumblr, but it's mainly going to be DW.
+ Going back to signup via googledoc again.
+ Assignments will be delivered via email. Possibly will provide an option to deliver via DW PM instead? Unsure/undecided about this.
+ Submissions can go on DW or Ao3 collection; it will be allowed to use either or both, like last year. Crosspost links will be included in the final submission link roundup.
Running it simultaneously on tumblr and DW was an interesting experiment, but it was too annoying for me to want to do it again. This fest typically takes place at one of the busiest times of year for me, so the more I can simplify it, the better.
This fest never pulled in a lot of people who make fanart, so there's really no need to try to cater to the fanart-producing crowd anyway. If somebody wants to submit fanart, I can walk them through the process of uploading to Dreamwidth. Or they can submit via email and I'll post it via the mod account, like we've done previously.
Plus, there are a lot of things about the Nordic 5 side of Hetalia fandom on tumblr that I find kind of irritating. So. Better put my efforts where I want to put them, and if the only people who end up participating are me and a few of my friends, that's fine. ;)
For 2020:
+ Run primarily on DW. Will throw an initial announcement and the usual deadline reminders on tumblr, but it's mainly going to be DW.
+ Going back to signup via googledoc again.
+ Assignments will be delivered via email. Possibly will provide an option to deliver via DW PM instead? Unsure/undecided about this.
+ Submissions can go on DW or Ao3 collection; it will be allowed to use either or both, like last year. Crosspost links will be included in the final submission link roundup.
Running it simultaneously on tumblr and DW was an interesting experiment, but it was too annoying for me to want to do it again. This fest typically takes place at one of the busiest times of year for me, so the more I can simplify it, the better.
This fest never pulled in a lot of people who make fanart, so there's really no need to try to cater to the fanart-producing crowd anyway. If somebody wants to submit fanart, I can walk them through the process of uploading to Dreamwidth. Or they can submit via email and I'll post it via the mod account, like we've done previously.
Plus, there are a lot of things about the Nordic 5 side of Hetalia fandom on tumblr that I find kind of irritating. So. Better put my efforts where I want to put them, and if the only people who end up participating are me and a few of my friends, that's fine. ;)
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.
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Date: 2019-09-25 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-25 11:37 pm (UTC)Plus, sometimes the changing landscape of the fandom necessitates some adjustments.
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Date: 2019-09-26 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-26 11:44 am (UTC)This upcoming round will be the 7th year I'm running this one, and the biggest difficulty is keeping participation levels up. But since it's a fest, not an exchange, it's pretty easy and I don't run into any of the problems of modding/logistics that would be involved in such a case.
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Date: 2019-09-26 09:18 pm (UTC)I haven't written Finland in awhile, excited to try my hand at him again. (Then again, Sweden My Love...)
As if you've run this for 7 years! Feels like just yesterday I was writing for it in 2014, but the time really flew by. Ngl, kinda think it deserves a mention in the Hetalia fanlore page for that alone.
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Date: 2019-09-26 11:56 pm (UTC)TECHNICALLY the fest has run for 7 years, but I have only run it for 6, because there was that one year when Gelaecter did it by herself. But. Let's not get fussy. xD Now that you mention it, I'm not sure if there are any other legacy events from the LJ era still going. :|a Or at least, I don't hear about them, which doesn't necessarily mean they don't exist.
...Also I had no idea that there was a Hetalia fanlore page. ?! Though now that I think of it, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.