Fig Tree Fanwork Fest

Entries for collaboration in the "Bang" Experience - Deadline Extended!! Greetings, figs! Your chaotic moderator hasn't done much with this blog since first making it! The deadline for entries in the "Bang" part of this Fest was meant to be between today and the end of July! However, since I was lacking in warnings and reminders, I have elected to extend the deadline for another week! So - if you want submit a fanwork for the fest to be assigned to someone else to work with and create something new from - and are willing to return the favor to another "Bang" enthusiast - please submit the fanwork by Monday, August 5th!! Then by the 7th, everyone who's submitted something for collaboration will have someone else's work assigned to them, and they can work on completing it up until the end of the event on August 31st!! To submit a fanwork, either message or submit to this tumblr blog, of it that's difficult for any reason, just send a DM to Windmill on Discord and I'll try and work with it! In your submission - please include a) if you have a preference for what kind of fanwork you want made for you - ie, you only want an art piece to go with you fic, or if you're OK with any type of media (other than what your original fanwork is), b) what you're willing to create!!! Based on media or based on content!! Ie, maybe you are only a writer or only and artist. Maybe you don't like drawing ships or dealing with particular characters or situations, or you particularly LOVE certain ships, characters, situations, etc. Please let me know if you have any questions!!! Happy creating!! -Mod Windmill

Hello and welcome, lovely figs and anyone else who found this blog!! This blog is here to be an archive for collecting all the cool things we create this summer for the Fig Tree Fanwork Fest - the first fanwork fest for the members of the Fig Tree Discord server, the followers of Lady Glasses and all thing Tolkien!! Our first year, 2024 (may there be many more!) the Fest will run from August 25th to August 31st, and we'll post our works throughout the week! If you have a submission for the fest, please tag it with @figtreefanworkfest and it'll be reblogged here! If you don't have a tumblr or don't want to do that for any other reason, you can DM me (Windmill) or ask a question here and we'll figure out another way to post your work to the archive!! Most likely, I can simply create a post for it here in this blog, and credit your name!! Your works for the Fest can be any sort of SFW content based on any part of Tolkien's Legendarium. Want to write about characters from the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, or the Silmarillion? Go for it! Want to explore an obscure time and place in the history of Arda? Awesome! Want to have something based on one of the Unfinished Tales, or content in the History of Middle-earth, or lore you learned from one of Tolkien's letters? Cool! As long as it's SFW - pretty much anything goes! AUs and crossovers are A-OK, as long as there's a significant focus on worlds/characters/concepts originally created by Tolkien! And of course, any kind of media is welcome - fanfics and art, naturally, will be the big headliners, but if you want to write a song, make a gifset or a moodboard, make a video or some kind of presentation - whatever you come up with, as long as you can post it - is welcome!! For those of you who were interested in collaborating and having more of a Bang experience - there's a couple of options. One, you privately figure out with other members who you want to collaborate with and arrange how it will work with them! Or two, you can finish one of your works by the last few days of July - 29th to 31st should be a good range - and then we can assign everyone who wanted to collaborate to make art/fic based on one of the works submitted during that time! You can specify what you're comfortable with - writing, making visual art, both, or something else - and what content you want based on your first submission, and we'll do our best to make sure everyone who wants to have the "Bang" experience can create based on another's work, and also have someone else create something based on theirs! We also have optional Themes, helpfully provided by the wonderful Kaesy!! These are based on plants that appear in Lord of the Rings and their meanings - plus the fig tree XD! These are starting places for inspiration and quite open-ended. You can choose to create based on them or not! Sunday (Aug 25th) - Potato - benevolence; Holly - foresight Monday (26th) - Lobelia - malevolence; Mushroom - suspicion Tuesday (27th) - Fig tree - prolific; Belladonna - silence Wednesday (28th)- Weeping willow - mourning; Oak leaves - bravery Thursday (29th) - Water lily - purity of heart; Apple - temptation Friday (30th) - Oak Tree - hospitality; Pine - pity Saturday (31st) - Stonecrop - tranquility; Tamarisk - hope Anyway, that's about all I think you need to know?? If you have any questions about any of it, don't hesitate to DM me (Windmill), ask questions on the server, or ask questions here! Happy creating, hey day, namarië and all that! <3 - Mod Windmill