Fannish Friday: exchanges

[lirazel]

If you were going to design an exchange of any kind (or even another kind of fandom-participation event), what would it be?

I have so many ideas that I will never do anything about because I don't have the time! The dream is a classic film fic exchange--movies made between the dawn of cinema and, like, 1965 or something. I think that would be so cool!

I'd also like to do an exchange for fic about MDZS/CQL women because there's never enough of that! I'd like to do a Robin McKinley-exclusive exchange, but there definitely wouldn't be enough participants for that! There might already be an OT3 exchange out there for all OT3s ever, but if there isn't, there should be! Or a kdrama exchange! Or one for books about girlhood (everything from L.M. Montgomery to Judy Blume!) or (if it doesn't already exist) a female friendship/enemyship (basically anything not-romantic) exchange.

The possibilities are endless, even though the time, unfortunately, is not!

I'd love to hear about the kinds of fandom events you'd organize if you had the time/energy or if the audience for it existed!

Comments

[adriennefae]

There used to be a time travel exchange and I'm sad that it seems to be gone. I would love for there to be a replacement, maybe one that includes both time and dimensional travel as I love both and there's a fair amount of overlap? Or maybe some kind of "characters meet other versions of themselves" exchange or fest that incorporates both of those things as well as things like clones, AI duplicates, things like Star Trek-style transporter accidents or whatever the other fandom equivalent of that is. I also just generally wish that more people (or, more specifically, more people in my fandoms) would sign up for the fests that already exist...

I would love a female-character gen exchange too, if you or anyone else ever ran that.