R&J / RetJ Week is back for round 2!
This fest is meant to be a relatively low-pressure (and hopefully fun) way to celebrate the fandom! The style of this event will be similar to a fest or a fandom week and is open to creators of all kinds of fanworks: fic, art, fanvids, graphics, gifs, crafts, etc.
Claiming opens: June 20, 2020
Claiming closes: July 11, 2020
Posting Week: July 12, 2020 – July 18, 2020
Short version: everyone who wants to participate will claim a ship or a RetJ production off the claiming lists and create a fanwork of any kind to feature their claimed ship or RetJ production. At any point during the posting week you will post your work (or works – feel free to make multiple!) on your own blog and tag it with #RandJweek. We will reblog everyone’s works here.
There will be two lists, one for ships and one for RetJ productions.
If you claim a ship, you will create a fanwork featuring that ship. (The characterizations/what you use as canon does not need to be RetJ. You’re welcome to base your fanwork on the Shakespeare play or any movie/tv or theater/musical adaptation you like.)
If you claim a RetJ production, you will create a visual fanwork (art, edit, gifs, video, etc) featuring that production.
The idea behind the RetJ production claims is to feature the prod as a whole. You’re welcome to focus on some parts of the production more than others (e.g.: if you create a gif set, you can have a theme like “dancers” or “solos” if you so choose. Since we don’t have a characters list, you’re welcome to focus on a specific character/actor.) However, if you want to focus on a specific ship, please claim from the ships list.
In order to claim a ship or production you will need to send an Ask off-anon to this blog. We will reply to you privately to confirm if you got the claim. Claiming is first come first serve. The mods will update the post with the claiming lists as often as possible to reflect what has or hasn’t been claimed yet.
If you would like to claim/create a fanwork for a ship that is not on the official claims list, you are welcome to do so. Please send in an Ask in the same way you would to claim off the list.
Double claiming (i.e. claiming ships that have already been claimed) for a ship will only be allowed after ¾ of the ships on the list have been claimed. Double claiming for a prod will only be allowed after 2/3 of the prods on the list have been claimed. Once the minimum requisite has been claimed, we will open round 2 and all ships and/or prods will be available again until they are claimed for a second time.
Max of 2 claims per person per list (so each person can technically make up to 4 claims if they claim two ships and two prods).
Once the posting week begins, go ahead and post your work on any day of that week that is convenient for you! Make sure to tag it with #RandJweek. We will reblog everyone’s work here!
Why are we requiring claims and not allowing double claiming until a certain percentage of the list has been claimed?
Basically, we are aiming for a diversity of content. As it often happens, some ships and some prods are more popular than others and tend to dominate the fandom in the day-to-day. We would like to give a chance to the smaller ships and the lesser-known prods to shine!