Hello~
I had to wait a couple of days to write this because I was out of town for the weekend, but congrats, we made it through our first Crestoria Week commemorating Tales of Crestoria's second anniversary!
When I placed our first interest check to make a fanweek back in April, I never could have expected such a wonderful turnout. I figured that I'd garner enough interest to pique a few of my friends and I who missed Crestoria and we'd have a small celebration for ourselves, yet y'all exceeded my expectations. Not only did we have an amazing turnout among fans, we had, as we like to put it, two cakes as @/teikurefes also had a celebration for Crestoria roughly around the same time.
So what did that mean for us? More Crestoria stuff!!!! People posted fanart, fanfic, food, cosplay, screenshots, memories for both events. It was phenomenal, and I am truly blessed by having enough Crestoria fancontent to make me smile for years to come. When I first bounced the idea about a Crestoria week in the Tales of Exchanges discord, I was a little hesitant on doing it because a) I'm me, and I thought one person can't change things and b) while this is a trend within gaming in general, there is a lot of stigma (and especially notorious within the Tales community) surrounding mobile games, so I wasn't sure if people wanted to celebrate for a mobile game that got shut down within a couple of years. I was gladly wrong LMAO
I would like to thank the Tales of Exchanges discord for getting me out of my comfort zone and encouraging me to make a week dedicated for Crestoria instead of just sitting around and being like, "Well, what if there *was* one-". I want to thank @/teikurefes on Twitter for promoting their week and inspiring more people to share their feelings for the game. I want to thank my team slash group of friends who assisted me with translations, graphics, and countdown art/cosplay signs. They really helped me figure things out and DVD screen ping pong things around to see which things worked, which things didn't. I want to thank my friends slash mutuals on my personal Twitter account for promoting Crestoria Week, even if Crestoria's not their favorite Tales game in the world (in some cases, some of y'all don't even play Tales LMAO). And lastly, but not least, I would like to thank every fan who RT'd/reblogged/liked posts on Twitter and Tumblr or made contributions to our event. Tales of Crestoria's mobile game may have ended, but as long as there are fans who hold love in their hearts for Crestoria, it will never truly die.
For now, our Twitter/Tumblr account will be sparse in posting content until next year 2023. I will be checking our tag #CrestoriaFanweek2022 for late entries and promoting them; I will also be creating a Moment on Twitter for all of our lovely contributions and announcing the giveaway winners in the upcoming week, and the Ao3 collection will remain open for late entries, but otherwise you won't hear from us til around the spring. (Fingers crossed, we wanna start planning a little earlier next year LMAO.) You may see me rt signal boosts for other Tales fanweeks/events or zines unrelated to Crestoria on the account, and that is because I believe in promoting the same love for other Tales games that y'all gave us. Any support is truly appreciated.
To end things off, thank you once again, and I hope y'all have lovely days. Stay safe, stay hydrated, stay bopping fresh.
- Am c:
