We're going to have a quick comment weekend at the end of the year! It's going to be straightforward this time, no themes or challenges just comment comment comment!
Fest period: December 29-31 (Friday-Sunday)
Remember that the rules from the main fest apply, so that means that any kind of positive interaction on any platform where you're telling a creator that you like their work counts. Also please try to remember to keep it positive and feel free to track your comments with this graphic if you want!
Feel free to share what works you've been commenting on in the #swcommentfest tag if you like!
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If you wish to track the number of comments youâve made, you can use this tracking sheet (but itâs completely optional):
Remember that any kind of comment/reblog with tags/retweet/rec post/etc can count as one.
If you end up making more than 100 comments/reblogs/recs then youâre welcome fill it in more than once.
Themes & Tracker
Themes are completely optional, but if you wish to, you can use this tracker for daily and weekly themes:
Themes below the cut:
There are two themes for each day. The first identifies a type of work to comment on, and the second identifies a type of comment to make. The themes are completely independent of each other. They are listed as option 1 OR option 2. If you want to follow along with the themes, you can choose one or the other, or both, as you like. Some of the themes could work for multiple types of works, but many of them are more targeted at specific types of work, often written work.
May 4th: Comment on a work you've read/viewed before but haven't commented on OR Ask (while understanding thereâs no guarantee of a reply) what the creatorâs favorite part to create was
May 5th: Comment on a fic under 5K words OR Compliment something specific about a piece of visual art: the composition, the lighting, the palette, the textures
May 6th: Comment on a fic over 5K words OR Mention what aspect of the characters or their relationships you really liked
Week 1:Â Share a new work with others
May 7th: Comment on a work featuring a BIPOC character OR Mention a good in-character moment you enjoyed
May 8th: Comment on a gen/no-romo work OR Quote your three favorite lines of a work
May 9th: Comment on an unfinished fic that hasn't been updated in a while (without requesting an update or mentioning how long its been) OR Make your comment pretty with HTML
May 10th: Comment on a work more than 5 years old OR Comment on a platform you donât usually comment on (eg. Tumblr if you usually use AO3)
May 11th: Comment on a work by a creator with 5 or fewer works OR Reply to a comment
May 12th: Comment on a piece for your favorite trope OR Write a comment of exactly 100 words
May 13th: Comment on a piece by a new creator in the fandom OR Tell the creator how their work made you feel
Week 2:Â Share a work via some form of social media including a note why youâre recommending it to others (and tag the author if they use the same platform)
May 14th: Comment on an old favorite OR Ask (while understanding thereâs no guarantee of a reply) what the most challenging part was to create
May 15th: Comment on a work you haven't read that's more than 1 year old OR Mention what you were doing while you read/saw the work
May 16th: Comment on a work focused on your favorite ship OR Create a short stick figure comment and share it with the creator
May 17th: Comment on a work by your favorite creator OR Leave a comment that uses emojis
May 18th:Â Comment on a work other than a prose fic (art, podfic, meta, etc.)Â OR Describe what you will remember about their workÂ
May 19th: Comment on a sapphic work OR Mention something you really liked about the plot
May 20th: Comment on a piece celebrating a rarepair OR Point out your favorite line
This will be a low-key fest to encourage commenting & interaction with fandom creations, held May 4-20, 2023. Our hope is to encourage people to comment, reply, reblog, retweet, rec, or do any other type of interaction as readers/viewers.Â
While we will have ways to show and track your progress, it is also totally fine to just comment & not inform anyone at all that youâre participating. Be as intense or low-key as you want.
....Aaaaand weâre off! Itâs May 4th here so the Star Wars Comment Fest has begun!Â
Reminder that tracking your comments is optional. But! If it helps you, you can fill in boxes however you like on the above tracker.
If you are doing themes, please check out the Themes & Tracking page.
Todayâs themes are:Â
Comment on a work you've read/viewed before but haven't commented on, ORÂ
Ask (while understanding thereâs no guarantee of a reply) what the creatorâs favorite part to create was.
The weekly theme for Week 1 (ending May 6th) is: Share a new work with others.
Please also check out our Schedule & Rules!
We also want to emphasize that although we have some trackers and themes and things like that, the most important part of this fest is to COMMENT! ENGAGE! REBLOG! RETWEET! SHARE! And everything else like that! If youâre doing that, youâre participating! Thank you!
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We need 34 prompts for this event (2 prompts a day for 17 days). Prompts have been divided into those that focus on the "Types of work to comment on" and those that focus on the "Types of comment to make". We also received a few other types of prompts which will be made into weekly challenges instead. Some prompts were combined or paraphrased, so don't worry if you submitted something and don't see it here! Please choose up to 10 options for each question.
Theme voting!
We need 34 themes for this event (2 themes a day for 17 days).Â
Themes have been divided into those that focus on the "Types of work to comment on" and those that focus on the "Types of comment to make", so you can vote for 20 prompts (10 options of each type of theme).
We also received a few other types of themes which will be made into weekly challenges instead, since there were only a few of them.Â
Some themes were combined or paraphrased, so don't worry if you submitted something and don't see it here!
Thatâs it for the fest! Thank you very much to anyone who showed interest, reblogged, talked about it, and participated.
You are, of course, encouraged to comment, make rec lists, and share works at any time even now that the fest is over ;).
We have a short post-fest survey! Even if you couldnât participate, even if this post is the first time youâre hearing about the fest, please help us out by filling out the form and giving ideas for future events!
Post-Fest Survey
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Edit - Sorry the form was briefly set to âNot Accepting Responsesâ - itâs fixed now!
Submit theme suggestions for the comment fest here! There are three blanks but you can submit as many times as you like.
Remember that although most people will probably be doing the event for fic on AO3, interactions with other types of media (art, podfic, gifsets, etc) and on other platforms (Fanfiction.net, Tumblr, dreamwidth, twitter, deviantart, etc) are also possible for the event, so try to keep prompts general and use words like âfanworkâ or âcreationâ, and avoid platform specific words like âkudosâ or âreblogâ. âCommentâ is fine as this is a relatively broad internet term and you can also use words like âshare with othersâ to mean reblog, retweet, privately recommend in a discord, etc and âheart interactionâ can be used to include likes, kudos, etc.
