Hello The Greatest Showman fans!

Following on from our teaser post about our planned Comment Drive, here’s all the info you need to know about the event and how to take part!

★ WHAT IS A COMMENT DRIVE? Our Comment Drive is an open-to-all event designed to encourage comments on fanwork with goodies to be won in a raffle-style prize draw.

read below the cut for all the event information (it’s a little bit of an info dump!)

🎉THE COMMENT DRIVE BEGINS🎉

That’s right TGS fans, share it far and wide!

The Comment Drive officially starts today

So start sharing those words of appreciation with our amazing fandom creators. Whether it’s a revered artist, new writer, or a practicing edit maker, your comments can brighten their day.

And remember! Comments earn you tickets, and tickets could win you a variety of The Greatest Showman prizes! 

[Look here] for all the information you need to take part, and have fun as you enjoy all that fandom content all over again \o/

Recommended Content

To wrap up the last week of The Greatest Showman Comment Drive, and really show our appreciation for our fandom creators, we're going to be making "Recommended content posts" featuring your favourite fanfictions, edits, moodboards, and works of art.

So send URLs to your favourite TGS Content to @theothersidediscord (via the submit content button) and we'll put the spotlight on them! You can even leave comments while you do it 😉

Small note: You can only recommended other people's work, not your own! Make sure to include a note of the creator's name and the pairing featured in the work if applicable!

Happy recommending & commenting! Be sure to check out our Comment Drive Info Post if you want to take part, there's still plenty of time.

We want to say another MASSIVE thank you to all you amazing TGS fans who took part in our comment drive and put time aside to brighten someone’s day. We hope this will be a stepping stone to keep this little fandom happily chugging along.

But now, the much anticipated comment drive raffle. The more hard-won tickets you entered, the better your chances of winning, and it really showed for some of our most dedicated commenters! So without further adieu:

1st PLACE

2x Physical TGS themed gifts and a digital copy of The Greatest Showman film.

WINNER: @iamlokibitch

2nd PLACE

1 x Small Physical TGS gift, a TGS fanfiction/art request from one of our gift-givers, and a digital copy of The Greatest Showman film.

WINNER:  @schizanthusim

3rd PLACE

A TGS fanfiction/art request from one of our gift-givers and a digital copy of The Greatest Showman film.

WINNER: @crowleysheiress​

In the end, we also decided to include a raffle-drawn runner up/consolation place for one more lucky commenter;

RUNNER UP

A TGS fanfiction/art request from one of our gift-givers

WINNER: @circus-playwright​

Congratulations to all our winners and to everyone who took part! We’ll be in touch shortly regarding your prizes!

TGS Comment Drive: Writers

To round off our list of brilliant TGS content creators, here’s our charitable and talented writers, volunteering their time and skill to fill the fanfic requests of two lucky winners!

1. @crown-of-the-circus-king

Ao3: Gay_jeans

It’s Been Worth It | Feet On Solid Ground | You Have to Keep Turning [...]

Excerpt from: When The Wall’s Won’t Hold

It wasn’t by the power of fortune that she trusted him to take his position back in the show. It had taken months to earn her trust back, bit by bit. He had let down Caroline and Helen as well, but he humbled himself down to his hands and knees to begin working for redemption. Charity had tried to live life as a forgiving person. It took time, but she eventually and wholeheartedly forgave her husband for the ambitions that had blinded him to his original dream: his family. Redemption, however, is another thing than forgiveness.

2. @whiteroserebelsinscarves

Ao3: Waistcoat35

Special Things I Compile | Chasing Figures In The Spotlight | Blinded By The Lights

Excerpt from: Saving Mr Bennett

He still hates it when the spotlights come on, when the crowds begin to murmur in anticipation before anything’s even happened - honestly. He watches their ringmaster with well-disguised (or so he tells himself) interest, as one would eye a wayward bird on the sidewalk or an oddly-shaped cloud. Phineas Taylor Barnum is indeed something errant, something out of place in the grey of the city bustle – a smear of ink gone wrong on a freshly printed pile of newspapers.

3. @silverlynxx​

Ao3: Silverlynxx

On The Tip Of Your Tongue | Fall With You | Never Out Of Reach

Excerpt from: Every Great Dream Begins With A Dreamer

Phineas imagined Mrs Carlyle had once been a woman of warmth, someone who would have reached for her son in a time of mutual loss and reclaimed the abandoned bridges between them. Yet a part of Theodore Carlyle lived on as a sliver of ice lodged in her breast, a cold and constant reminder to prick at her heart whenever it dared swell with too much hope. Too much joy. It was the only reason Phineas could fathom a mother turning away from the outstretched hand of her beseeching son and walking away.

4. @antivanruffles

Ao3: Satine86

Letters From The Sky | Sleight of Hand | Auction

Excerpt From: Ringmaster

His hands darted forward and picked up his little thief, swinging her up into his arms as she laughed and shrieked with delight. Tiny hands gripped the top hat in order to keep it firmly on her head, the brim coming down over her chin until it more resembled a bucket than a hat. She didn’t seem to care about that though.

Settling her on his hip, Phillip gently pushed back the brim so he her could look at her face; her cheeks rounded with a wide smile, and eyes crinkled in amusement. Really it was her favorite game. 

5.  @philippcarlyle

Ao3: Philippcarlyle

Livin’ Out Your Dreams | Fetch - In Three Acts | A Holly Jolly Pre-Christmas

Excerpt From: You’ll Never Be Alone Again

Another knock, then a barely audible sigh. It is this small noise which gets the showman to open his eyes. He stretches – his body unwilling to wake up at this ungodly hour. One hand rubbing over his face, the other at the door knob, he finds himself confronted with blending light. He blinks a few times, a grumble escaping his tired body: sleep, sleep, back to bed, sleep.

But when he adapts to the light, he is wide awake on an instant.

Comment Drive: What it is & how to join

Recommended TGS Content: #1

If you’re somehow struggling to find The Greatest Showman content to comment on in this last push for our Comment Drive (or just looking for more content to consume), take a look at these amazing fics, recommended by you!

× The View From Here by SeraphJewel Teen+ | Phillip Carlyle/Anne Wheeler Philip Carlyle lives a life of comfortable wealth. He is successful and has standing invitations to every social event in town. Yet he is unhappy, stifled in a life he doesn't truly want. Still, it is the only option he has... until a fateful encounter offers him something else.

× Turn it Around (And Then You'll Be Found) by LivingProof Gen | PT Barnum & Phillip Carlyle, PT Barnum/Charity Barnum [...] a series of somewhat connected stories loosely based on the premise of five times Phillip helped Barnum out, and that time Barnum returned the favor. Though in most of these you'd be hard pressed to tell who is helping whom more. And maybe that's the point.

× It’s Cold by Inphinity Gen | PT Barnum/Charity Barnum | tw applies When snow falls over the city for the first time in years, everyone is in great spirits. Well....everyone except for P.T. Barnum. While the rest of the acts enjoy the magic of a snow day, the usually cheerful and carefree ringleader isn't quite himself and his circus family won't rest until they find out why.

🎉 The Comment Drive is officially closed! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who took part and made an amazing contribution by supporting and appreciating the content creators of The Greatest Showman fandom.

We've distributed a load of tickets and have counted well over a hundred comments, and we can't wait to discover our prize winners!

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