i’m gonna wait and see how this event goes in the small scale in the two discord servers i’m hosting it in, but i want to do an interest check out here….
if i hosted an event where people could sign up and be paired with a random person to create an au/story together, would people be interested in that?
the idea is ppl sign up as a writer or artist (or either) and are randomly put in writer/artist pairs to then take a month or two and make a thing together. it’s meant to be super low stakes, so the finished product doesn’t have to be super polished—it can be a full, finished art/fic, or it can be a sketch or two and a bulleted outline of notes. could even be a playlist or an edit or something if that’s more your style. so long as you and your partner have talked and developed something together, you’ve successfully participated and completed the event
why? well, the point of art, in my mind, is to connect with another person, and making something with another person is basically my favorite thing to do. with the use of genAI and chatbots like on the rise, i feel like an event NOT about just making a finished project, but instead for celebrating the joy of making a connection and the process of creation, would be really neat
(also to address the most obvious concern i would have, sign ups would include an exclusion option, where you could write down names of users you don’t want to work with so you aren’t randomly paired (as well as the name(s) of your usually creative partner(s), if you have any, so you can meet new people). i’d probs also have something after a few days where people can divorce their soulmate if they find they have absolutely no common interests, their timezones are completely incompatible, or they just don’t get along too well and then reroll or pick themselves from that pool)
i haven’t 100% worked out the format yet, but it would ideally be a pretty informal, laid back, low stakes event. it’s mostly about enjoying the process of creation, especially with another person, and maybe making a new friend in the process
