u/LoudSize7

G'day, mates!

(Yes, I'm making this post a day late. Got distracted by duties as an auntie.)

This has proven to be a highlight of our events calendar for the last couple of years and we are excited to bring this back for the third year running.

I am proudly announcing the return of the Fandom Showcase Extravaganza!

The Extravaganza is designed to introduce people to new fandoms they might never have interacted with before or learn more about a fandom if you've previously read a fic fandom blind.

We're going to be hosting a series of livestreams on Discord where you'll get the opportunity to introduce your fandom to the rest of us. You get to show your movie, at least one episode of your TV show (how many you show in a single scream depends on the length of the episodes themselves; e.g. if your TV show's episodes are only 15 minutes in length, you can get away with showing more than one), or a brief YouTube video breaking down your fandom (e.g. if your fandom is a video game, you could show a YouTube video that tells the game's story in 15 minutes, or even stream a brief playthrough).

We have a signup sheet on Google Sheets, which can be found here. It's a bit different to last year. The signup sheet now has you choosing your slots. u/tsuki_anne (special shoutout to you for putting this sheet together, BTW) and I have already signed up, so you can see what you have to do. The principle is the same. You sign up with your Reddit/Discord username (which should be the same) and state what you want to stream. When you put in your time and time zone, it'll automatically convert to other time zones in the columns towards the end.

You will need to include potential content/trigger warnings and where you will be streaming from. Streaming services (e.g. Netflix, Paramount+), YouTube, Dailymotion - that's all okay. However, we cannot allow streams from pirated sources.

If you want to take part, but feel you might run into issues streaming (i.e. spotty internet connection), please tell us and we can arrange for someone to host on your behalf. You're also more than welcome to watch any of the streams scheduled if you don't want to host one.

If you miss out or don't feel ready now, that's okay. This is officially a yearly event, and you are free to organise your own streams outside of this event. (We've seen a few organised since the last one.) Also, if you participated last year or the year before, you're more than welcome to participate again. You can either showcase another fandom or the same one from your last stream. This is open for everyone.

Signups will be open until Tuesday May 19th 11:59pm EST. Like I said, you're choosing your slot this time. There will be two slots per Saturday and Sunday. First stream will be Saturday June 6 and the final stream will be Sunday July 26th.

Since these streams will be run on Discord, participation will require everyone (particularly those who want to host a stream) to have a Discord account and be part of our Discord (you can find the link to our Discord under Stuff to Do on the side of the page).

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to ask and we'll do our best to answer. We're so excited to bring this back and can't wait to be introduced to a wide variety of fandoms.

Kind regards,

The Mod Team