I still really want to organize a Rumbelle Big Bang but there’s no good time to schedule it that doesn’t overlap with all our other events. 🙁
What’s a Rumbelle Big Bang? The way it’s capitalized makes me think it’s a thing I should know about, perhaps because ‘big bang’ in other fandoms but I’ve never heard of it. I’m curious, hope that’s ok.
Also, leaving aside the events that stretch year round, do we really have events that cover every single month? That’s kinda impressive and really cool!
A Big Bang is a fic and fanart challenge that lasts 2-3 months. It works like a lot of our other events with a list of prompts sent out for fic writers. Alternatively, you can pair up people and have fic written for someone’s prompt. After the first month, the writers post a short summary of their fic, much like what you’d see in a summary on AO3 or a fic post. Then artists are paired up with a fic and they make art for the fic, based on the summary. The fics are intended to be longer (at least 10K words) and then fandom gets a deluge of longer fics and art.
I know this fandom has no problem with writing longer fics and we have some incredible artists. But we have so many events I have no idea when we’d ever fit this in. A lot of fandoms back on LJ days did this over the summer or winter hiatus for their shows. It was a way to fill in the time and then have a huge celebration a week or two before the show came back.
Oh that’s cool! What about in between Mantis Menagerie and RCIJ? We had Rumbelle is Hope in May this year so it might just sneak in. Hmm I seem to recall there was also a bit of time between RCIJ and Rumbelle Revelry. I did the OUaT Positivity event but that wasn’t a Rumbelle specific event. Does anything happen after RSS in January/February time?
This is hard, I can’t think of what to suggest, but it does sound like such an awesome premise. I can understand why you’d like it to happen. To be honest I don’t know the schedule of events well enough to work out when there might be time or not. You are probably right that there is no good time which is a shame. It sounds like fun!
Thanks for explaining what it is anyway 🙂