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Fandom Manifesto/Fandom promo challenge!
Welcome to the first fandom promotion/manifesto challenge of the Historium community! Since this is a community for all fandoms with a connection to history, many of us may have many fandoms the others haven't even heard of, or only have a vague idea of. In this challenge, we encourage you to tell other members of the community about your favourite fandoms, so that others may find fandoms they're interested in and you get more people to share the love with!
The challenge is running until January 15, 2020, but if someone feels like posting a manifesto/fandom promo after that, go ahead! The next three months are just when I'll be encouraging people to do this, and when we hope to get a nice collection of many different fandom manifestos/promos for our members and followers to browse.
We're keeping this pretty chill, so I'm not setting up a sign-up process to start with — but if many of you feel you would prefer to sign up for a particular date, and have me gently remind you if you haven't posted yours by then, let me know and I can set up a voluntary sign-up system. There's no limit to how many manifestos one person can post (unless someone starts flooding the community by posting every day or something, but I doubt it!). I more than one person wants to post about the same fandom, that's all right as well; you may have very different perspectives on it. But do try to keep at least a few weeks between them!
I'll try to post a few of my own in the coming weeks to so it'll be easier for you to get started as well, and see some examples of how to do it. Hopefully the first one will be up within a week. But you don't need to wait for me to post some of mine - you can start as soon as you want to. I'll also keep track of posted manifestos, so you can find them more easily later.
I'm providing a possible template for your manifesto, which I've adapted fromshipmanifestos. As I said, we're keeping things chill, so you don't have to adhere to this format if you prefer to structure your post differently. Feel free to adapt the format if you like, to add categories you need, or to make it simpler. But even if you change the format or use a different one, please make sure you at least include information on the fandom, its connection to history, and any content warnings.
If anything I've written in the template seems unclear to you, or you find errors in it, please let me know in the comments!
After you've hopefully found some new fandoms via other people's manifestos, you can check out the comment fic challenge again to see if you now can write for more prompts than before! And you can always keep posting fills for the bingo challenge (that reminds me, I need to get on with mine…).
A template for direct posting to the community:
Title: [title of manifesto]
Author: [your username]
Fandom: [fandom]
Historical Connection: [era/region/etc.; whatever is needed to specify which part of history this is related to. Please include the genre it falls under, such as historical fiction, historical RPF, alternate history, time travel… just a few words here, you can expand on it below if needed]
Content Warning: any content warnings related to this fandom (you can use your judgement as to what needs warning, but do at least put up warnings for any of the AO3 warning categories
Canon Recap:
a general overview of what the actual fandom is
Historical Connection:
this is where you tell us more about the historical connection of your fandom
Characters:
Here you talk about the most important and/or interesting characters in your fandom
Other information:
this is where you talk about other relevant info on your fandom, such as popularity, ships (canon or fanon), adaptations that people might be familiar with, how to get the source material (legally!) etc.
Meta:
this is the area where you explain why you love the fandom. sell your fandom to people! Tell us why it touches you / excites you / moves you / entertains you, what is special about it, who else might enjoy it in particular.
Fandom Guide:
Here you rec possible communities/blogs, fanart, fanfic, useful sources, maybe a how-to guide for getting into your fandom for newbies, and what you think to be the best fanworks, if the fandom has them.
Below is a the code to copy and paste. If you don't use it and code your manifesto yourself, don't forget the cut tag!
For posts linking to your manifesto on AO3:
title: [title of manifesto]
author: [your username]
fandom: [fandom]
Historical connection: [era/region/etc.; whatever is needed to specify which part of history this is related to. Please include the genre it falls under, such as historical fiction, historical RPF, alternate history, time travel…]
Content warning: any content warnings related to this fandom (you can use your judgement as to what needs warning, but do at least put up warnings for any of the AO3 warning categories
ao3 link: [link]
The challenge is running until January 15, 2020, but if someone feels like posting a manifesto/fandom promo after that, go ahead! The next three months are just when I'll be encouraging people to do this, and when we hope to get a nice collection of many different fandom manifestos/promos for our members and followers to browse.
We're keeping this pretty chill, so I'm not setting up a sign-up process to start with — but if many of you feel you would prefer to sign up for a particular date, and have me gently remind you if you haven't posted yours by then, let me know and I can set up a voluntary sign-up system. There's no limit to how many manifestos one person can post (unless someone starts flooding the community by posting every day or something, but I doubt it!). I more than one person wants to post about the same fandom, that's all right as well; you may have very different perspectives on it. But do try to keep at least a few weeks between them!
I'll try to post a few of my own in the coming weeks to so it'll be easier for you to get started as well, and see some examples of how to do it. Hopefully the first one will be up within a week. But you don't need to wait for me to post some of mine - you can start as soon as you want to. I'll also keep track of posted manifestos, so you can find them more easily later.
I'm providing a possible template for your manifesto, which I've adapted from
shipmanifestos. As I said, we're keeping things chill, so you don't have to adhere to this format if you prefer to structure your post differently. Feel free to adapt the format if you like, to add categories you need, or to make it simpler. But even if you change the format or use a different one, please make sure you at least include information on the fandom, its connection to history, and any content warnings. If anything I've written in the template seems unclear to you, or you find errors in it, please let me know in the comments!
After you've hopefully found some new fandoms via other people's manifestos, you can check out the comment fic challenge again to see if you now can write for more prompts than before! And you can always keep posting fills for the bingo challenge (that reminds me, I need to get on with mine…).
A template for direct posting to the community:
Title: [title of manifesto]
Author: [your username]
Fandom: [fandom]
Historical Connection: [era/region/etc.; whatever is needed to specify which part of history this is related to. Please include the genre it falls under, such as historical fiction, historical RPF, alternate history, time travel… just a few words here, you can expand on it below if needed]
Content Warning: any content warnings related to this fandom (you can use your judgement as to what needs warning, but do at least put up warnings for any of the AO3 warning categories
Canon Recap:
a general overview of what the actual fandom is
Historical Connection:
this is where you tell us more about the historical connection of your fandom
Characters:
Here you talk about the most important and/or interesting characters in your fandom
Other information:
this is where you talk about other relevant info on your fandom, such as popularity, ships (canon or fanon), adaptations that people might be familiar with, how to get the source material (legally!) etc.
Meta:
this is the area where you explain why you love the fandom. sell your fandom to people! Tell us why it touches you / excites you / moves you / entertains you, what is special about it, who else might enjoy it in particular.
Fandom Guide:
Here you rec possible communities/blogs, fanart, fanfic, useful sources, maybe a how-to guide for getting into your fandom for newbies, and what you think to be the best fanworks, if the fandom has them.
Below is a the code to copy and paste. If you don't use it and code your manifesto yourself, don't forget the cut tag!
For posts linking to your manifesto on AO3:
title: [title of manifesto]
author: [your username]
fandom: [fandom]
Historical connection: [era/region/etc.; whatever is needed to specify which part of history this is related to. Please include the genre it falls under, such as historical fiction, historical RPF, alternate history, time travel…]
Content warning: any content warnings related to this fandom (you can use your judgement as to what needs warning, but do at least put up warnings for any of the AO3 warning categories
ao3 link: [link]
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EDIT: Reread, and yaaay! We are! I promise there'll be a few weeks between them!
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