PHILEDOM OLYMPICS WRAP-UP POST

[amalnahurriyeh]

OMG YOU GUYYYYYYYYYYSSSSSSSSS

OK, everybody. I want to start by thanking everybody who played. We had a total of nineteen people earn points, which is pretty impressive. People produced fanworks of all kinds, left comments, played games, and were generally amazing. I'm so proud of this community, which, despite being low-traffic most of the year and in a low-profile, closed-canon fandom, still managed to throw such a rockin' party.

At the same time, I owe about a million bazillion thanks to wendelah1, who took over daily posts when my life took a turn for the craptastic midway through. We never would have gotten through this without her, so, again, all of my thanks, Wen.

Official results have not yet fully been calculated, but I wanted to announce what the prizes are going to be. (Thanks to heartequals for some brilliant ideas here!)

• Every participant will receive an icon and banner to celebrate their achievement! Once this gets done, I'll PM everybody with a link to their shiny new icon and banner.
• The top eleven placers will win the right to pick the topic and form of a monthly mini-fest that we'll run between now and the next 3W4DW! That's right; rather than waiting a whole year, we'll have one discussion post or macro-making party or mini-flashwork-festival or something every month, and the winners will get to pick what we do! If you are one of the top eleven winners, I'll ask you for an email address when I send you your banner, so we can be in touch over the next year.

Thanks to everyone for playing! I will finish the points totals as soon as I can, and get those prizes out! (If anybody wants to help with the graphics...)

Comments

[st_aurafina]

Thank you so much for organising this! I couldn't take part as much as I wanted to, but it was so much fun to see the daily posts, and all the stuff that people were doing.

*cheers*

(If I get this damn big bang done, I would be happy to volunteer for graphics.)

[littlegreen42]

This was so awesome -- and unexpected! I mean, the X-Files fandom, like it or not, is pretty dead these days and it's especially dead on Dreamwidth. But somehow, we made it happen.

[wendelah1]

I know! We were awesome!

What happened to TXF fandom? We were huge only a couple of years ago. Maybe if the movie had been better, it might have kept the momentum going...

We just have to value the people who are still here even more.

[heartequals]

GOOOOO YOU.

Seriously, this was so much fun, you are so great. Props to you for organizing it and running it and props to wendelah1 for stepping in! And here's to an entire year of philedom fannishness!

[rustingwillpowr]

Fantastic ideas! This was fun. Thanks for all the hard work to you and everyone else who pitched in. Speaking of pitching in, I can help with graphics if need be.

[write_out]

I just joined DW, so my participation has been limited, but I've loved seeing what you've all come up with. Love this fandom!

[wendelah1]

You're welcome. Thank you so much for organizing this. I am thrilled to pieces about the minifests. I was hoping something like that might come out of this.