Window Shopping for Fests, Exchanges and Big Bangs

[boundbooks]

So, browsing around the internet like one does, I find myself window-shopping for events that I'd love to see over in Dramione fandom! fandomcalendar and bigbangindex are great for fannish window-shopping, and here are some cool events that I'd love to see for our ship.

A Reverse Big Bang - Working off a piece of art, authors write a story of 10,000/20,000 words or more.

A Career Fair Fest - like the Harry/Draco Career Fair, where the theme is that the characters have to have unusual careers. No Aurors, Unspeakables, Potion Masters, etc, but instead things like lion tamers, bakers, etc. I love the suggestion in the H/D Career Fair banner: health inspector and pastry chef! :D

Fairy Tale/Myth/Folkhlore-themed Big Bangs - I've seen these more in Supernatural fandom, but I think they're neat ideas.

What are some types of events that you'd like to see?

Comments

[musyc]

I'm going to second/third/nth the AU thing. We see hardly any of those that aren't "Voldie Wins". Love those, yes, but more variety would be fantastic. (She says, with four different sets of notes in her WIP folder. >.> )

[boundbooks]

I feel that we need to run around kidnapping mods - or cloning them in vats - so that we can have more fests/exchanges/who knows what. :D

[starlight_x_a_x]

:S I would flail so much if there was an AU fest! I always thought the problem with a fest would be more how many people would actually write for it and how it would be run i.e. open sign ups or prompting etc. Clearly I'd be eager for a fest but as much as I wish I could, I cant write to save my life. I am most disappointed with myself for that :P