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@jughead-jones and I had seriously thought about doing an overall Riverdale Awards that had a section for the Serpents, Varchie, Parentdale, etc, etc, and so on and so forth a while back. Unfortunately, as it would be a rather large undertaking, our best plans fell to the wayside and it never got off the ground. Since that time she’s taken a huge part in other fandoms as well as this one, joining an insane number of source blogs and communities and becoming the gif queen we know and love. As such, she has taken on a role that is active when we need her (she is a gem with doing headers and helping us brainstorm when we need her) but a supporting one to @bettysnooper and I during other times. 

That being said, one of the factors here is that the Bughead Fanfiction Awards in particular take @bettysnooper and I a huge amount of time — particularly in the nomination eligibility checks phase. Doing something like that across all of fandom where we don’t have a full range of knowledge and familiarity would be incredibly difficult, not to mention stressful. In the Serpent section in particular, so many of the fics are exclusively on Tumblr. I don’t even know where we’d start. I think given the depth of content that we aren’t familiar with and our overall time commitments being allocated to Riverdale fandom wide events, it would be unwise for us to try to juggle in a Serpent Awards or a Riverdale Awards. Honestly, we push ourselves way too far sometimes and don’t give our mental health proper care.

Furthermore, I’ve got to be frank, we haven’t had much luck in our endeavors with Serpent fandom exclusive stuff, despite our best efforts. We have put on a Serpent/Southside exclusive event with @riverdale-events Southside Showcase. Unfortunately, this year it got very little participation from the Serpent section of fandom. We made sure to include OC’s, reader inserts, all the Serpents, we really put a lot of thought into planning it and a lot of effort into managing to schedule it into the year of events. There were definitely a few people who took part! They are awesome and they know who they are! But it didn’t seem like there was much of an interest from that corner of fandom as a whole. It’s actually the event we have had the lowest participation in, by far, in the history of running the events. 

We’ve noticed the same thing with the @serpentcentral blog. We really love the Serpent characters and the content that the creators in that fandom make, so we set out to make a source blog exclusively for those fans (who we really enjoy and are so damn talented!) We put out content from the blog and we reblog (what posts we can find) content created by and for the Serpent side of fandom, including OC’s. However, the #serpentcentral tag next to never gets used by that part of the fandom.

Given those things, I really don’t think that us doing a Serpent Awards would end up getting the participation required, even if we could put in the time. The terribly low participation in Southside Showcase and the lack of utilization of serpentcentral has been really discouraging. I know there are people in the Serpent fandom who HAVE been amazingly supportive and participatory (you all know who you are!!). I can’t say enough how much we adore and appreciate those individuals. They are the reason I got so invested in the Serpent characters — their talent and passion is inspiring. It definitely seems like you, nonny, would fall into that group of people. Your ask was very kind, thoughtful, and understanding. In return, I wanted to give it a full and respectful answer.

SO, all that being said, we would 500% be up for sponsoring a Serpent Awards event if anyone wants to put one on. We could make sure that it gets reblogged to our source blogs (of which there are a number) regularly and we’d help promote it. We would would be up for giving whoever ran it our general google doc/spreadsheet framework for how we run an awards session as well as advising on google forms and initial tumblr event posts and such. We think it would be GREAT if there was a Serpent Awards, and we would be more than happy to lend our aid in the above ways, but running something like that ourselves just isn’t something that we are up for adding to our plates right now. If you, or anyone else, is seriously interested in running those awards (and we’d suggest at least a two person team as well as a person willing to make graphics), please, definitely hit us up! We would help how we can and cheer you on.