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March Meta Matters Challenge 2025

March Meta Matters Challenge banner by thenewbuzzwuzz

The kickoff to this year's March Meta Matters Challenge is just 4 weeks away! As usual, the challenge involves identifying and copying over meta you've created to a second site in order to ensure its preservation. There will also be several prompts for creating new meta. ( Read more... )

Feel free to ask questions about the challenge, locations, etc. at our announcement post and then look for our opening post on March 1!

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Please feel free to promote this fest to fandom, ship or character specific discords or communities! The more the merrier!

A black and white clip art of a quill, writing the words 'Meta Manifesto'

Navigation: Dreamwidth Community | AO3 Collection | Discord

Works are revealed!

Thank you to everyone who participated; there are some amazing looking works in the collection. The collection will stay open, so feel free to add anything that didn’t quite make the deadline.

Also, feel free to leave any feedback on this post!

Meta Manifesto 2023

Please feel free to promote this fest to fandom, ship or character specific discords or communities! The more the merrier!

Navigation: Dreamwidth Community | AO3 Collection | Discord

This fest is to motivate the creation of ship, character, fandom or adaptation (or other!) manifestos.
There is a zero word minimum to allow for people who wish to submit video, audio, image or other manifestos.
There is no signup, tagset, prompts or fandom restrictions. Please make sure to tag all your works responsibly.
Write a manifesto, post it to the collection and bask in your success!

Deadline and Work Reveal

11.59pm EDT Saturday 27th May 2023

When is that: Countdown Timer
There will be no anon period.

( RULES AND FAQ )

(Rules based on those from @bethefirst and Out Of The Auditary)

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Navigation: Dreamwidth Community | AO3 Collection | Tumblr | Discord

Works are revealed!

Don't forget to check out the collection bookmarks!

Thank you to everyone who participated; there are some amazing looking works in the collection. The collection will stay open, so feel free to add anything that didn’t quite make the deadline.

Also, feel free to leave any feedback on this post!

Meta Manifesto Fest 2022

Please feel free to promote this fest to fandom, ship or character specific discords or communities! The more the merrier!

Navigation: Dreamwidth Community | AO3 Collection | Tumblr | Discord

This fest is to motivate the creation of ship, character, fandom or adaptation (or other!) manifestos.
There is a zero word minimum to allow for people who wish to submit video, audio, image or other manifestos.
There is no signup, tagset, prompts or fandom restrictions. Please make sure to tag all your works responsibly.
Write a manifesto, post it to the collection and bask in your success!

Deadline and Work Reveal

11.59pm EDT Saturday 28th May 2022

When is that: Countdown Timer
There will be no anon period.

( RULES AND FAQ )

(Rules based on those from @bethefirst and Out Of The Auditary)

New Meta Feed on Dreamwidth

Thanks to someone's comment on one of my meta posts I discovered that there is a fandom meta newsletter over on Tumblr, so I created a feed here on DW that anyone can subscribe to.

Meta Manifesto 2021 Fest

Please feel free to promote this fest to fandom, ship or character specific discords or communities! The more the merrier!

Navigation: Dreamwidth Community | AO3 Collection | Tumblr | Discord

This fest is to motivate the creation of ship, character, fandom or adaptation (or other!) manifestos.
There is a zero word minimum to allow for people who wish to submit video, audio, image or other manifestos.
There is no signup, tagset, prompts or fandom restrictions. Please make sure to tag all your works responsibly.
Write a manifesto, post it to the collection and bask in your success!

Deadline and Work Reveal

11.59pm EDT Saturday 29th May 2021

When is that: Countdown Timer
There will be no anon period.

( RULES AND FAQ )

(Rules based on those from @bethefirst and Out Of The Auditary)

The March Meta Matters Challenge Reopens for Year 2

Just a reminder to everyone who has ever created any meta that the

marchmetamatterschallenge community will be up and running again to help get you going (or started!) on archiving your meta works on AO3.

While creators have often used multiple sites to host their works, one type of work has generally been left out of fans' efforts at archiving and preserving fanworks -- meta. In many cases, meta posts have not been copied anywhere else other than the location where they were first posted, leaving them hard to find and particularly vulnerable to loss.

So what if we can make a small dent in getting it saved? The March Meta Matters Challenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history. While new meta is also encouraged, the priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved.

This is a month long event that kicks off on March 1. There are no signups and anyone can participate, whether here at Dreamwidth or elsewhere.

If you have any questions about MMM, look over how the challenge works, or visit our FAQ or leave a comment!

Also, if you enjoy meta? Check out the over 250 works archived in 2020.

Collection Revealed

Navigation: Dreamwidth Community | AO3 Collection | Tumblr | Discord

Works are revealed!

Thank you to everyone who participated; there are some amazing looking works in the collection. The collection will stay open, so feel free to add anything that didn’t quite make the deadline.

Also, feel free to leave any feedback on this post!

DISCORD SERVER

Meta Manifesto now has a discord server!

https://discord.gg/K6RqUkx

Feel free to join if you'd like to chat, share ideas, give each other advice or cheer each other on while participating in the Fest (or in general!).

(Joining is not required and all fest updates will be shared here on the comm. This is purely for those who feel like being social! Joining announcements have been turned off, and lurkers are welcome.)

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META MANIFESTO 2020

Please feel free to promote this fest to fandom, ship or character specific discords or communities! The more the merrier!

Navigation: Dreamwidth Community | AO3 Collection | Tumblr | Discord

This fest is to motivate the creation of ship, character, fandom or adaptation (or other!) manifestos.
There is a zero word minimum to allow for people who wish to submit video, audio, image or other manifestos.
There is no signup, tagset, prompts or fandom restrictions. Please make sure to tag all your works responsibly.
Write a manifesto, post it to the collection and bask in your success!

Deadline and Work Reveal

11.59pm EDT Saturday 16th May 2020

When is that: Countdown Timer
There will be no anon period.

( RULES AND FAQ )

(Rules based on those from @bethefirst and Out Of The Auditary)