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Witcher Commenting Event & Community Engagement
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this post
https://www.tumblr.com/jackironsides/695848734097031168/i-know-you-werent-the-op-but-just-in-regards-to?source=share
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jackironsides https://tmblr.co/MmqYopDMAChexGfcDtadnfA reblogged a
few days ago about the lack of engagement with fanworks.
Comments are great. Commenting can be hard (more on that later) but receiving them is great, right? We want to support each other as a community and continue to squee about our blorbos and meow meows together.
(nostalgia time) I come from the old livejournal days where it was usual to see conversations happening in comments for days or weeks on end, even on short fics. People writing ship manifestos, fannish newsletters, community recommendations and commenting on those too. People reccing fic and meta. Things just were a little easier to find and engage with. Things didn’t get so lost in tags or in a discord server you didn’t know exists.
I have been thinking about the ways we could be social and connect to each other again and comment more. I love the Witcher Flashfic discord server because there are “Live readings” that groups of people perform on your fic while your story is under anon for the week. It’s incredibly fun to both be the author watching this anonymously while people READ YOUR STORY IN REAL TIME (or during a backread). And it is SO MUCH FUN fun to read a story together and comment WITH PEOPLE. Riffing off your squee and comments about the style, the plot, the characters in a fic. It’s like a book club! It’s so much fun.
A DREAM:
So I got to thinking. What if we tried something something similar to discover, read, and comment on fanworks TOGETHER? I have this dream:
A Comment Crawl, a la pub crawl. Except instead of pubs, we are visiting fics and art and vids and everything else and leaving comments on it together. (Fanwork Crawl doesn’t roll off the tongue the same way, okay…!). Target all kinds of fanworks: fic with no comments, few comments or are older than 6 months. Fanart that only has reblogs but no one ever told the artist what they like about the piece, not even in tags. Etc. etc.
We could put up a list of fanworks that are recced/nominated based on a theme and give people that window of time to read and compose a comment. Then we go and drop our comments on the AO3, tumblr post/etc during a designated window of time. Build off each other’s squee in the comments like I KNOW we do in discord. Let the creators see our avalanche of love and squee together.
Commenting can be hard and stressful when you don’t know what to say or think or what the creator is looking for.
Maybe you don’t know how to comment on a fanwork you’re unfamiliar with because you’re not an artist or a vidder or cosplayer or don’t know how to show an author how much you enjoyed the story.
This can be taught! There’s even work that longlivefeedback
https://tmblr.co/MU13S4JmwHBmO5ys-oD2Q1w has done in 2018 where they
created a COMMENT BUILDER
https://longlivefeedback.tumblr.com/post/170952243543/now-presenting-the-llf-comment-builder-beta
TEMPLATE that we can modify for Witcher related squee. For your
personalized squee. Remove that inhibition and hurdle to comment and show
love for the things that you spend all that time reading, reblogging and
dropping links in discord.
We can learn from writers and artists how any scrap of feedback is going to mean the WORLD to them. And we can learn how to make more technical comments on things, too!
I have created a survey to gauge interest in A Comment Crawl for Witcher fandom. Please fill it out here if this sounds like something you would like to participate in or help organizing. I would really love help on this if it’s something people want to try!!
I also have a ton of ideas about how create engagement through writing recs lists and creating fannish teams to go on treasure hunts to go together and look for fanart, fic, fandom-inspired jewelry, gifsets/etc based on a theme and then write a recs list to the public community. Link/tag the creators so they know how much their work is being loved on by other people!!
Is this reccing thing something that sounds like it might be fun for you to
participate in?? fancakeofficial https://tmblr.co/Ms7wNzfCKchPMYxBH7soVwA
is a pan-fannish reccing community that sort of inspired me in my thinking
in how great it would be to have more recs in Witcher fandom in a more
centralized way. They have a presence on tumblr, twitter and dreamwidth and
people have been submitting themed recs for years and it’s definitely a
community I go to when I am looking to see what other people liked and to
find something new. And sometimes my stuff gets recced a decade after I
made it! It’s fucking WILD and amazing feeling!! I would love to see
something like this for Witcher fandom if possible..
Truly, recs are like… comments and kudos turbocharged because someone went out of their way to tell other people why your fanwork is great and get more eyes and squee on it!!
There is so much excellent rare pair fic out there in Witcher fandom. There’s amazing character-driven stories and hidden gems in the juggernaut pairings. There’s some fucking incredible femslash out there, omfgggg. So many of these stories get lost amidst the volume of fanworks and don’t get comments or squee and it’s can be so lonely. There is SO MUCH INCREDIBLE ART AND VIDS AND COSPLAY and gosh, so much amazing creativity out there.
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So yeah, I would like to try to figure out a way to bring people together and comment together and squee together that can happen more outside of discord where the creators can see, squee and even participate with us!!
Anyway. This is very rambly and I am probably forgetting a million details because my brain has been on fire because of 10,000 other things. BUT I am putting it out there!! Hoping some folks would like to hear me out and try something like this.
Signal boosting is greatly appreciated!! If we build it, will you come??? Leave me your details in the survey! Let me know what you think!!
P.S. If you are a rare pair writer there is another round of [Bad username or unknown identity: witcherrarepaircommentexchange] https://tmblr.co/MrJ2-mnFfwDqcn4CdSXGe4g will be open for nominations again in November so PLEASE be sure to check that out!
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