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Happy April, everyone! This month, Fanlore and our sister project, the Archive of Our Own, are hosting a joint challenge: April Showers!
On the AO3, users are invited to import their older works: every day of April, a different fandom will be featured, focusing on fandoms with a sizable presence outside the AO3. Check out the AO3 news post for more info on the AO3 side of the challenge!
On Fanlore, contributors are invited to play along and preserve the fannish history and culture of those fandoms! Document the works you uploaded, or record your memories and reminiscences! Talk about the communities you used to be part of (or are still going strong!), the archives and sites and challenges and cons; create profiles for the fans who made an impact on you; revisit fandom debates; or just add whatever tidbits you can think of in that fandom about characters, ships, other fanworks — whatever fannish history and culture you want to share!
Fandoms will be featured in groups of six, one per day. At the end of each group, we'll post to this community with a list of the fandoms that have been featured and resources to help you work on them. We'll be making oral history subpages for each featured fandom, ready and waiting for your memories!
If you'd like to follow the fandoms as they're featured each day, check out the @ao3org Twitter account for daily tweets highlighting each fandom!
You're also welcome to work on any other fandoms in the spirit of April Showers — the more the merrier!
Watch this space for updates; we're looking forward to hearing from you!
On the AO3, users are invited to import their older works: every day of April, a different fandom will be featured, focusing on fandoms with a sizable presence outside the AO3. Check out the AO3 news post for more info on the AO3 side of the challenge!
On Fanlore, contributors are invited to play along and preserve the fannish history and culture of those fandoms! Document the works you uploaded, or record your memories and reminiscences! Talk about the communities you used to be part of (or are still going strong!), the archives and sites and challenges and cons; create profiles for the fans who made an impact on you; revisit fandom debates; or just add whatever tidbits you can think of in that fandom about characters, ships, other fanworks — whatever fannish history and culture you want to share!
Fandoms will be featured in groups of six, one per day. At the end of each group, we'll post to this community with a list of the fandoms that have been featured and resources to help you work on them. We'll be making oral history subpages for each featured fandom, ready and waiting for your memories!
If you'd like to follow the fandoms as they're featured each day, check out the @ao3org Twitter account for daily tweets highlighting each fandom!
You're also welcome to work on any other fandoms in the spirit of April Showers — the more the merrier!
Watch this space for updates; we're looking forward to hearing from you!
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