April Showers of Fannish History
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| Event: | April Showers of Fannish History |
| Participants: | Archive of Our Own, Fanlore |
| Date(s): | April 1–30, 2011 - 2018 |
| Type: | |
| Fandom: | multi-fandom |
| URL: | April Showers Challenge tag at AO3 |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
April Showers of Fannish History (also known simply as April Showers) was an annual month-long challenge on the Archive of Our Own and Fanlore, both projects of the Organization for Transformative Works, that ran on AO3 and Fanlore between 2011 and 2015, and on Fanlore only in 2017 and 2018. After 2018, it was discontinued[1] as the challenge was less impactful without its AO3 component, and the Fanlore Committee made the decision to focus on other events.
The challenge was first issued in 2011. For each day of the month, a different fandom was highlighted and announced via the ao3org and fanlore_news Twitter accounts and the AO3 Tumblr. Fans were encouraged to import their works related to these fandoms into AO3, and add relevant pages and stories to Fanlore.
The challenge did not take place in 2016.[2] It returned in 2017 and 2018, but was run as a Fanlore-only challenge in both years.
For other Fanlore challenges/festivals, see the IFD Fanlore Challenge, the Fanlore Bingo Challenge, June Bloom, and Stub September.
2011
The first April Showers challenge was announced by AO3 on April 1, 2011[3] and by Fanlore on April 5.[4] See April Showers - The Masterlist at AO3 News. The featured fandoms for 2011 were:
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Week 0-1 (April 1–9) |
Week 2 (April 10–16) |
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Week 3 (April 17–23) |
Week 4 (April 24–30) |
2012
The second April Showers challenge was announced by AO3 on April 1, 2012[5] and by Fanlore on April 4.[6] The featured fandoms for 2012 were:
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Week 1 (April 1–7) |
Week 2 (April 8–14) |
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Week 3 (April 15–21) |
Week 4 (April 22–28) |
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Week 5 (April 29–30) |
2013
The third April Showers challenge was announced at the OTW blog on April 1, 2013.[7] The AO3 Tumblr also promoted and participated in the challenge; see the Round Up. The featured fandoms for 2013 were:
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Week 1 (April 1–6) |
Week 2 (April 7–13) |
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Week 3 (April 14–20) |
Week 4 (April 21–27) |
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Week 5 (April 28–30) |
2014
The fourth April Showers challenge was announced at the OTW blog on March 31, 2014.[8] The selected fandoms will be highlighted on the AO3 Tumblr and both the AO3 and Fanlore Twitter accounts. In addition to posting fanworks for the selected fandoms to AO3, users are also encouraged to post recs for the fandoms to the April Showers Recs (2014) collection.
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Week 1 (April 1–5) |
Week 2 (April 6–12) |
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Week 3 (April 13–19) |
Week 4 (April 20–26) |
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Week 5 (April 27–30) |
2015
The fifth April Showers challenge was announced at the OTW blog on March 31, 2015.[9] The selected fandoms will be highlighted on the AO3 Tumblr and both the AO3 and Fanlore Twitter accounts. In addition to posting fanworks for the selected fandoms to AO3, users are also encouraged to post recs for the fandoms to the April Showers Recs (2015) collection.
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Week 1 (April 1–5) |
Week 2 (April 6–12) |
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Week 3 (April 13–19) |
Week 4 (April 20–26) |
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Week 5 (April 27–30) |
2017
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Week 0-1 (April 1–8) |
Week 2 (April 9–15) |
Week 3 (April 16–22) |
Week 4-5 (April 23–30) |
2018
Rather than spotlighting one fandom per day in April, Fanlore created a list of editing tasks, one for each day of the week. Fen were invited to carry out the day's editing task on any of the spotlighted fandom pages for that week.[10][11]
Daily editing tasks:
- Sunday (Day 1): Add ships to your chosen fandom page
- Monday (Day 2): Add some fanwork links or recs
- Tuesday (Day 3): Add links to fan communities
- Wednesday (Day 4): Add some links to meta or discussions
- Thursday (Day 5): Add some info about common tropes for that fandom
- Friday (Day 6): Add some more canon detail to the page
- Saturday (Day 7): Add some information about fandom and fanon
Spotlighted fandom pages:
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Week 1 (April 1–8) |
Week 2 (April 9–15) |
Week 3 (April 16–22) |
Week 4 (April 23–30) |
Badges
Day 14
Day 30
References
- ^ Help:Participating in April Showers
- ^ "Fanlore, April Showers, & Fannish History". Archived from the original on 2022-01-24.
- ^ "April Showers Challenge - shower us with your fannish history!". Archived from the original on 2022-06-17.
- ^ "April Showers on Fanlore and the AO3!". Archived from the original on 2022-01-26.
- ^ "April Showers of Fannish History!". Archived from the original on 2021-02-12.
- ^ "Wiki in March, April Showers, and policy page clarification". Archived from the original on 2022-01-25.
- ^ "April Showers at the AO3 and Fanlore!". Archived from the original on 2015-11-23.
- ^ "April Showers is here!". Archived from the original on 2015-11-13.
- ^ "It's Time for April Showers!". Archived from the original on 2015-09-08.
- ^ "It's time for April Showers 2018!". Archived from the original on 2022-06-18.
- ^ It's time for April Showers!, announcement on Fanlore, 1 April 2018.