#it's time!

THE DRAW DRARRY BADLY CHALLENGE IS NOW OPEN! JANUARY 20 - FEBRUARY 14 The DDBC is the Drarry fandom’s uniquely goofy, chaotically inclusive art fest inviting every fandom member to draw our boys badly. Authors, readers, reccers, and artists are all warmly bidden to make imperfect art, because the fun of making fanart is for everyone! Fandom is better with more people making art of the characters we love, so grab the nearest pen and draw something gloriously jank. Make it fluffy, make it smutty, but above all make it fast and silly! The DDBC was established by @l0vegl0wsinthedark in 2018. With her blessing, I’ve hosted it since. For y’all new to the fandom, hi, I’m Jules! I have MS and my hands don’t work very well. I make fanart by cutting paper blocks with a straightedge paper cutter. The first DDBC was my gateway to becoming a fandom artist, and I’m here to hold the banner for everyone’s right to make art, no matter what. No experience? No fancy art supplies? No dexterity? Excellent. Make it cheap, make it unpolished, make it shaky, but make that art. Especially given the way generative AI is being forced on us, making deliberately lopsided and lumpy art is gorgeously human. Scrawl a pair of stick figures with a ballpoint pen and it will be better art than anything that could ever come out of AI, and you didn’t have to waste any water to do it! The Rules: — Draw a piece of Drarry art. — Draw it as badly as possible. — Post your terrible art and tag anyone you want to do it too! — Tag it "draw drarry badly challenge" so it can be found with the rest of the fest. — Please tag me, @julcheninred, directly in the post so I don’t miss it! It’s my joy to reblog everyone’s wonderful bad art! If you’re already known as a skilled artist here, draw with your non-dominant hand, or in the dark, or with your foot! If this is your first DDBC, please do jump in! Many of the pillars of the fandom have made something exuberantly inelegant for DDBC. Have a look through past years’ submissions under the Draw Drarry Badly Challenge tag. Reblog this post to spread the word. Pick a scene from a fic, or a favorite trope. Break open a box of crayons and have at it! Who are the fandom newcomers? Who’s been around for a while but has never drawn Drarry badly in a previous year? Tag them in! I look forward to seeing everyone’s Bad Drarry Art! 🙌

We can’t wait to hang out by the fire, roast marshmallows, and read stories together!

💫We are going to track #halloweenhex as well as #witchesnet so make sure to tag us in the first 5 tags. ✨⭐To further your creativity consider listening to the playlist specifically created for the event. If you’d be interested in last year’s halloweenhex posts, you can check them out here. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to send us an ask! 🥰

Breakage I go down to the edge of the sea. How everything shines in the morning light! The cusp of the whelk, the broken cupboard of the clam, the opened, blue mussels, moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred— and nothing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split, dropped by the gulls onto the gray rocks and all the moisture gone. It's like a schoolhouse of little words, thousands of words. First you figure out what each one means by itself, the jingle, the periwinkle, the scallop        full of moonlight. Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story. —Mary Oliver