Post by Gelquie on Jul 2, 2015 15:24:25 GMT -5
After some time, this thread comes to announce the return of Spirit Weeks!
The following schedule is tentative (but the themes are in this order.)
Themes will end 11:59pm PST on the last day listed for the theme.
Spirit Weeks is an event where we each dress our forum profiles up according to a particular theme. There will be 5 themes, and each theme will last 3-4 days, and will be immediately followed by a new theme. Spirit Weeks have been held for a few years in the past and is now making its comeback! There is also a photo booth included people have taken of their profiles, which will also be encouraged in this event. If you'd like to see the old Spirit Weeks threads to get the gist of what happens, the links are here:
2013, 2013 Photo Booth, 2011/12, 2010, 2009, and 2008.
Spirit Weeks requires a bit of set-up. The first thing we'll need to do is find themes, which is where you come in! In this thread, you will nominate themes for what our profiles should be. When I have enough themes, I will close nominations, go through the list to trim out themes that won't work or are duplicates, and do a few rounds of polls to determine which themes are most popular, and thus which five themes we will use. After that, I will determine a time for Spirit Weeks to begin.
When nominating, please try to avoid duplicates as I will have to delete them anyway. I will also do my best to not have repetitive themes. Please also try to be general and avoid exclusive themes; for example, you may love My Little Pony, but not everyone does, or they may not watch it, and those people will only be excluded during the days the theme is running, and so it does not qualify as a theme. A category that is inclusive of dressing up as My Little Pony Characters is “Cartoon Characters”.
In the past, I have asked people to exclude themes that have been used in recent Spirit Weeks events in the past. However, as the last Spirit Weeks was a good long time ago, you are free to re-suggest themes those themes. I will still want unique themes, but past used themes will now not be tossed out. And as always, you are free to suggest themes that have been nominated in the past that may or may not have made it to the polls. For instance, if someone nominated “Insects” and it didn't make it, you are more than free to suggest it again.
Besides that, you can nominate as many things as you want as many times as you want. Feel free to look in the threads for the past Spirit Weeks for ideas.
As for when this will happen, I normally take an audience poll. This time, I have an idea of it happening in August, possibly late August depending on how long the set-up takes. It would also happen after the completion of Carrie's event The Town. If anyone has issues or concerns with this, let me know.
More information will be added to this post as we go along. For now, let's get started!
Current Stage: Over; thanks for participating!
List of Nominations - This list will be periodically updated with all nominations suggested so far, in case you want to check if your nomination is already on the list. It is in alphabetical order. ^^
Spirit Weeks Photo Booth - Post screenshots of your profile for each theme!
Polls are now up! Vote for your top 5. The 5 categories with the most votes will be part of Spirit Weeks.
Notes:
Impersonating a Forumer (or more!) - If this category is selected, please ask the forumer(s) you have in mind if they don't mind you impersonating them. When it comes to this category in general, be polite. =3
During that theme, you will borrow aspects of other peoples' profiles to put on your own. You can change as much or as little about your profile as you want. For clarity's sake, please put something on your profile indicating who you really are.
So that latecomers to this theme aren't stuck without people to mimic, it's highly recommended that you put the general details of your profile somewhere where people can see it, such as in a personal diary post.
NTWF Dares - If this category is selected, there will be a thread set up to collect dares ahead of time, which other forumers will suggest, and which participating forumers can add to their profiles when the time comes.
The following schedule is tentative (but the themes are in this order.)
- Theme 1: Impersonate a Forumer (or more!) -- Saturday, Aug. 22 (at 12:01am) - Tuesday, Aug. 25
- Theme 2: Video Games -- Wednesday, Aug. 26 - Saturday, Aug. 29
- Theme 3: Original characters -- Sunday, Aug. 30 - Wednesday, Sep. 2
- Theme 4: Comics/Webcomics -- Thursday, Sep. 3 - Sunday, Sep. 6
- Theme 5: Animated Movies -- Monday, Sep. 7 - Thursday, Sep. 10
Themes will end 11:59pm PST on the last day listed for the theme.
Spirit Weeks is an event where we each dress our forum profiles up according to a particular theme. There will be 5 themes, and each theme will last 3-4 days, and will be immediately followed by a new theme. Spirit Weeks have been held for a few years in the past and is now making its comeback! There is also a photo booth included people have taken of their profiles, which will also be encouraged in this event. If you'd like to see the old Spirit Weeks threads to get the gist of what happens, the links are here:
2013, 2013 Photo Booth, 2011/12, 2010, 2009, and 2008.
Spirit Weeks requires a bit of set-up. The first thing we'll need to do is find themes, which is where you come in! In this thread, you will nominate themes for what our profiles should be. When I have enough themes, I will close nominations, go through the list to trim out themes that won't work or are duplicates, and do a few rounds of polls to determine which themes are most popular, and thus which five themes we will use. After that, I will determine a time for Spirit Weeks to begin.
When nominating, please try to avoid duplicates as I will have to delete them anyway. I will also do my best to not have repetitive themes. Please also try to be general and avoid exclusive themes; for example, you may love My Little Pony, but not everyone does, or they may not watch it, and those people will only be excluded during the days the theme is running, and so it does not qualify as a theme. A category that is inclusive of dressing up as My Little Pony Characters is “Cartoon Characters”.
In the past, I have asked people to exclude themes that have been used in recent Spirit Weeks events in the past. However, as the last Spirit Weeks was a good long time ago, you are free to re-suggest themes those themes. I will still want unique themes, but past used themes will now not be tossed out. And as always, you are free to suggest themes that have been nominated in the past that may or may not have made it to the polls. For instance, if someone nominated “Insects” and it didn't make it, you are more than free to suggest it again.
Besides that, you can nominate as many things as you want as many times as you want. Feel free to look in the threads for the past Spirit Weeks for ideas.
As for when this will happen, I normally take an audience poll. This time, I have an idea of it happening in August, possibly late August depending on how long the set-up takes. It would also happen after the completion of Carrie's event The Town. If anyone has issues or concerns with this, let me know.
More information will be added to this post as we go along. For now, let's get started!
Current Stage: Over; thanks for participating!
List of Nominations - This list will be periodically updated with all nominations suggested so far, in case you want to check if your nomination is already on the list. It is in alphabetical order. ^^
Spirit Weeks Photo Booth - Post screenshots of your profile for each theme!
Polls are now up! Vote for your top 5. The 5 categories with the most votes will be part of Spirit Weeks.
Notes:
Impersonating a Forumer (or more!) - If this category is selected, please ask the forumer(s) you have in mind if they don't mind you impersonating them. When it comes to this category in general, be polite. =3
During that theme, you will borrow aspects of other peoples' profiles to put on your own. You can change as much or as little about your profile as you want. For clarity's sake, please put something on your profile indicating who you really are.
So that latecomers to this theme aren't stuck without people to mimic, it's highly recommended that you put the general details of your profile somewhere where people can see it, such as in a personal diary post.
NTWF Dares - If this category is selected, there will be a thread set up to collect dares ahead of time, which other forumers will suggest, and which participating forumers can add to their profiles when the time comes.
