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Fuyumi Femslash Week Thoughts
Dec. 29th, 2022 04:34 pmI finished running my first event, Fuyumi Femslash Week! My bar for success was: "Run it and don't stress out too much."
Success! The most important thing: did I have fun? Actually, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would!
PROMOTION/SOCIAL MEDIA
I knew starting out that promotion would be the hardest part for me, because I'm terminally worried about being a bother. So I was in a sort of constant tug of war between that and 'if I wasn't the one running this, I'd want to know about it at every opportunity.' Even though I meant to do more promotion, I wanted to balance that with not putting too much pressure on myself. Ultimately I did what I felt comfortable with and didn't push myself too hard, so I'm happy with that. Social media/promotion is hard and I admire people who are good at it!
In the future I'd try to have a bigger lead time or run it with someone, which I think would be more fun anyway.
OTHER THOUGHTS
I was very happy with the level of engagement that it got, considering the time of year and the fact that it happened concurrently with the Dabi Reveal episodes, so lots of Dabihawks content was also being made at this time. Lots of people enjoyed the work! Especially me! I fuckin loved seeing it!
I had some other thoughts about what I could've done better, but in the spirit of things I'm leaving those out.
FUTURE EVENTS?
I would love to do more events in the future. In the discord there's definitely interest in more WLW stuff, especially Fuyumi-related. There were a few people who were interested in a bang/zine. I'd be thrilled to make something like that happen but I think it's something I would need to work up to; I definitely don't have the expertise to run a bigger event right now.
I would also want to put a lot of effort in, because the best events I've participated in have had active, energetic mods - but I also need to make sure I don't stop actually making art, so I'd need to make sure I can keep a balance. I'll keep an eye open to see if there are any mod applications open for bangs, events and such, and apply if it fits.
For now, the organizer of Miruyumi week can't do it anymore, so I picked it up for 2023 and I'm looking forward to that.
Success! The most important thing: did I have fun? Actually, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would!
PROMOTION/SOCIAL MEDIA
I knew starting out that promotion would be the hardest part for me, because I'm terminally worried about being a bother. So I was in a sort of constant tug of war between that and 'if I wasn't the one running this, I'd want to know about it at every opportunity.' Even though I meant to do more promotion, I wanted to balance that with not putting too much pressure on myself. Ultimately I did what I felt comfortable with and didn't push myself too hard, so I'm happy with that. Social media/promotion is hard and I admire people who are good at it!
In the future I'd try to have a bigger lead time or run it with someone, which I think would be more fun anyway.
OTHER THOUGHTS
I was very happy with the level of engagement that it got, considering the time of year and the fact that it happened concurrently with the Dabi Reveal episodes, so lots of Dabihawks content was also being made at this time. Lots of people enjoyed the work! Especially me! I fuckin loved seeing it!
I had some other thoughts about what I could've done better, but in the spirit of things I'm leaving those out.
FUTURE EVENTS?
I would love to do more events in the future. In the discord there's definitely interest in more WLW stuff, especially Fuyumi-related. There were a few people who were interested in a bang/zine. I'd be thrilled to make something like that happen but I think it's something I would need to work up to; I definitely don't have the expertise to run a bigger event right now.
I would also want to put a lot of effort in, because the best events I've participated in have had active, energetic mods - but I also need to make sure I don't stop actually making art, so I'd need to make sure I can keep a balance. I'll keep an eye open to see if there are any mod applications open for bangs, events and such, and apply if it fits.
For now, the organizer of Miruyumi week can't do it anymore, so I picked it up for 2023 and I'm looking forward to that.
