Official Week Announcement (and blog announcement!)
Okay okay so, after much thinking over the week that I had the poll up, I’ve made my decision. Smittenshipping week will take place:
May 18th to May 24th!
I went with this week for a couple of reasons, which I'll explain a little further down, under the cut
I'm mainly planning to use this blog for announcements and stuff about smittenshipping week, BUT I do also want to share any content people make, both to hopefully boost the posts and to fill the blog out more. So please tag me in your posts, because I'd love to see them!
I'm also working on a prompts post, which I'll post closer to the time. I wanna make sure I'm happy with it!
Onto why I went with May though:
The Inspiration - I combined a bunch of info about the planets Mars and Jupiter, which resulted in two options - this one and the April week. May 18th as a start day resulted from this, with me merging some data about each of the two planets together.
Votes - May 18th to May 24th was the second most popular option - beaten only by April. I wanted to go with a popular option which leads into why I didn't go with April
April - I've mentioned this option a lot so far, and I probably would've picked it - but it started to hit me just how busy I'm gonna be that week. So much stuff is happening for me, way more than I realised at first, and it's also only a month away. I wanna be sure that I have enough time to set everything up and make sure I'm happy with it all. As nice as it'd be to have it that soon, I just don't think I can make it work
Mars-Jupiter Conjunction - Someone in the replies to the poll mentioned that there was a conjunction between Mars and Jupiter (the planets) in late May last year - and while the dates don't line up perfectly, it means the week would be right before the 1 year anniversary of that. As I said before, it doesn't line up perfectly - but it definitely influenced my decision a little :)
