Snowflake Challenge 2019 | Day 9 - Act of Kindness

[g_uava]

Prompt: Commit an Act of Kindness. In your own space, share what you’ve done, talk about what you’ve done, or simply leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

When I first joined tokusatsu fandom, I acted like fanfiction grew on trees. Now that I've written about 100k+ words of fic for the fandom spanning across three different shows/ships, I know that's not the case. Though I feel like I'm planting a forest whenever I start writing all the fic for a new show and ship.

Today, I've decided to thank the excellent moderators of the Toku Holidays exchange for motivating fans to get out of their comfort zone and write great stories for their fellow fans. I've done so by creating promotional material for their next run - fic teasers for all the fics posted in the 2018 collection for sharing on tumblr and Twitter.

In an email to the mods, I've sent an attachment of:
-Fic teasers for tumblr & Twitter sized to the current optimum dimensions for the respective platforms
-Fic teaser templates
-A Word Document with the accompanying caption & links to the fics for copy+pasting on tumblr & Twitter
-Two screenshots as samples of how the fic teaser + caption would look like on tumblr & Twitter

Fic Teaser Templates

For Twitter:



For tumblr:


I've told the mods that I haven't shared any of the fic teasers so I won't repost the ones I made for other writers here. I'll just share the teaser I made for my fic - to best represent my writing style and the ship, I only took a screenshot of the 6.9MB (way too large for tumblr) GIF that I've embedded in the fic instead of a fic excerpt.



(Phew, I sure feel like I went through a Sentai mecha upgrade episode.)

Comments

[evilinsanemonkey]

this is super awesome :)

[g_uava]

Aww thanks!!

[sperrywink]

They look wonderful!

[g_uava]

Thank you!! :D

[badfalcon]

That is a fantastic gesture! I really hope it makes them smile as much as it does me, and that they appreciate it

[g_uava]

Thanks! I hope so too. I wanted to contribute my non-writing skills to spread the word about the mods' and the participants' awesomeness.

[silveradept]

That is hopefully an appreciated gesture. It took some work to get those done, I'm sure. Something more like a mid-season form upgrade than a mecha upgrade.

[g_uava]

Aww thanks! I was going to just suggest doing more promotion for the exchange on tumblr/Twitter and the challenge prompt pushed me to do more to help realize the idea.

Btw, I'm going through your awesomely detailed December metas on writing at the moment. So much thought-provoking content, so many ideas I want to comment on once I've thought through what I wanna say :)

[silveradept]

Take your time with the December things. They're not going to go screaming off into the aether any time soon. Looking forward to hearing from you.