#eddtober 2018

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The Future: Gore and Eddtober

Well, this has been a close call - two votes made all the difference, and I’m glad that we could reach an agreement. 

I know everyone wasn’t keen on the idea, but I want to make this clear right now: I can’t please every party that’s there. I don’t seek to do that. What I want to do, is make Eddtober a safe, neutral place for all ages and creative content. If it means allowing a bit of gore to reach out to more of the community, so be it. (But maybe there’s a day where Eddtober will have gore banned from the challenge entirely - we’ll have to wait and see on that.)

I’ll start up another poll for the next topic soon, but in the meantime, what do you guys believe the types of gore should be held back? Send ‘em in the asks of this blog and I’ll keep due note of it!

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Gore and Eddtober: Vote Results

Well, you guys really want your blood and guts do you.

However, I’m nervous to say this, but I don’t honestly agree with the majority. I still feel like it needs to be restricted to a certain degree, but not to a strong one. Maybe not allowing stuff like cannibalism or excessive amounts of guts, but still permitting blood, body parts and some types of body horror.

I am aware that I have a large voice and impact on deciding on where things should go as creator of the challenge and the admin of the blog, but I don’t want to be on a polar opposite to you guys on where we should stand. We’ll have another round of voting on whether it’s left alone or partially restricted, just to make sure.

https://www.strawpoll.me/16847130

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The Future: Gore and Eddtober

For two years now, gore has been an accepted part of the Eddtober challenge in a move to let artists with darker imaginations to participate and have their blood-and-guts fun too. It has been tagged with the appropriate trigger warning tags with every reblog on to here, alongside the tag of ‘eddtober gore’. It has mostly been in an attempt to keep neutrality on the artistry of the challenge, yet taking the steps necessary to put some barriers. However, over the course of this year’s challenge, there has been some voices speaking out in concern. 

During this time, I’ve had a few queries about the gore, one anon even asking if there could be a separate blog for said art. I’ve even questioned myself on this, especially in regards to more the emotional and heartfelt prompts 26-29, one prompt directly involving Edd Gould as the subject and the other giving room for him to be so also. Whilst there was no gore submitted for these prompts on here this year, it made me reconsider my stance on where Eddtober was on gore. 

With that said...

Should Gore be no longer accepted in Eddtober, restricted, or be left alone as is?

The link to the strawpoll is down below here!

https://www.strawpoll.me/16833913

Personally, I would take the gore entirely out the challenge. A drastic move, but even though I don’t mind the gore now, I know my past 13-year-old newbie Eddhead self wouldn’t. 

However, I won’t do anything until I get your vote on the poll as what should be done. If we are to make choices for Eddtober, we’re going to be doing this together, as a community. 

Choose wisely, you won’t get a second vote otherwise.

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The Future?

Hey Eddheads, it’s time we talk about the future of Eddtober.

No, it’s not gonna end. We’re definitely continuing it next year, but it’s still clearly rough around the edges and stuff needs to be cleared up if we want a safer and more refined version of the challenge.

There’s three subjects that are on my mind right now regarding the challenge: Gore, Shipping and Expansion to Other Sites. Here’s a strawpoll for all of us to vote on what should be discussed first. I’ll check in about a day later and see what the response is so we can get down to improvement!

https://www.strawpoll.me/16822680

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Thank You!

I can’t express how happy, hopeful, grateful and proud I am of you guys. 

It’s been my second year of running Eddtober since I started it in 2017 on my main blog @lemjpanda13, and my first year running it here on this blog. But you Eddheads with your unconventional creativity, whether it be painting, cartooning, writing, game-making or whatever means possible - you make it all worth it. Even with one prompt, some prompts or all, you all make me see that you create for the fun of it and that you want to share out of a genuine excitement to tell your stories or paint your pictures - mentally or literally! 

And before I keep talking, I want to say well done to all of you - especially the ones who couldn’t go on with the challenge because life got in the way. I’m so proud of you for taking the responsibility to draw the line for yourselves and take care of what needed to be done. Be it commissions, health, work, school, family - it called for more attention than Eddtober and I’m proud of you for dealing with it instead of suffering whilst doing the challenge. You’re all brave to go out there and deal with what you had to, it was the best choice you could make. 

When I first began Eddtober, I had a goal in mind: to bring back the sense of love, kindness and community that I had when I first stepped into this fandom a little over five years ago this year. I was tired of seeing the Eddsworld tag and online groups feel like the same, dull, depressing grind of ship wars and discourse - especially on tumblr. 

I missed the community who I loved and who loved back: be they newcomers, fans of kind and genuinely funny fans, comic writers, fanfic authors and so much more. I grew tired of the community (especially the one that surfaced after post-legacy) that constantly over-dramatises bad news, discourses and made people feel inferior because they didn’t like a certain thing or ship. And the content that these people made or influenced others to make just felt over-angsty, over-edgy, and left a bad taste in my mouth. I wanted to hold on a little longer and see hope for the better come to light. 

But I got tired of not seeing it. If nobody else was going to offer that hope, I decided that I would.

I did what I could, and it wasn’t much, really. But when I saw the results of the challenge from others, my hope grew. I got excited about Eddsworld again. I found people who could create fantastic, funny, horrifying, creepy, crazy and overall beautiful works - people who I couldn’t have discovered by diving into the unknown immediately. Eddtober brought out the best of people in this fandom, and I sincerely believe it will continue to. 

This challenge has a long way to go - but this is NOT the end of Eddtober. It’s the beginning. My dream for Eddtober, is that all will give it a go - not for discourse, drama or hate - but for something that has sustained this fandom even before Edd passed on.

A smile, a laugh at a good or dumb joke, and creativity abound - even in years of change, storms and uncertainty, those things have kept this fandom alive. Those things have kept Eddsworld spinning.

I’m so freaking proud of you all. I know Edd would be too.

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Post-Eddtober Q&A!

The askbox is open, this blog is all ears. What do you guys want to know about Eddtober, the challenge, or anything about it, really!

[mightyfoz]

#Eddtober Day 30 + 31  Something horrific and something for Halloween! Excuse my delay on these, they were ready on the 31st, but I was sadly busy and forgot to post them XD Hope you enjoyed this series of arts!!   Wish to join?? Click here!

[kachannn]

Edd's worst nightmare,