Fanspecies Week

Fanspecies Week is an annual celebration for all of species author-kind taking place in early-mid August. Each year features five different species and new prompts.

Each mascot is owned by the author of the species they belong to.

## FSW 2020

The first Fanspecies Week, and the only one where the banner species weren't chosen by raffle.

Banner art by Erifin. Flag by Rpboelm.

### Featured Species

* Siren: Umiko Kumasepa
* Throne: Eyriny Matal
* Phosphor: Ephram
* Cootali: Alph
* Cerbus: [unnamed]

### Prompts

As the first year, this years' prompts are identical to the featured species, where each day's prompt was to simply design a character of the respective species.

* **Day 1**: Sirens
* **Day 2**: Thrones
* **Day 3**: Phosphors
* **Day 4**: Cootali
* **Day 5**: Cerbus
* **Day 6**: Show off your fanspecies! / Draw some of your fave designs!
* **Day 7**: Free space! Do whatever you want!

## FSW 2021

After the success of the first FSW, and the stability of the discord server, a second FSW was planned. FSW2021 was to be more organized than 2020.

Banner art by Erifin. Flag by Rpboelm.

### Featured Species

2021 began the tradition of choosing banner mascots by raffle.

* Vodyanoi: Sophonias
* Thogan: Fuu-it
* Golem: Zilmern
* Tox: Bessy
* Sphynx: Hipachis Crea

### Prompts

The theme for 2021 was closer aligned to Homestuck/Sburb than years before or after.

* **Day 1: Dreamselves**
	+ ✦ *Draw your characters in their dream attire, whether on their respective moons or not*

* **Day 2: God tier**
	+ ✦ *Draw your characters as their god tiers! Show off what makes them unique when god tiering!*

* **Day 3: Dream bubbles**
	+ ✦ *What are the dream bubbles like for your fanspecies/character? How do they look like now?*

* **Day 4: Crossover/AU**
	+ ✦ Whether your fanspecies meets another fanspecies, or the canon homestuck cast, or placed into an entirely different fandom/story. Go nuts!

* **Day 5**: **Species swap**
	+ ✦ *Switch it around! Turn your character(s) or a canon homestuck character into a different species!*

* **Day 6: Meme redraw**
	+ *✦ Ah memes, the thing that bring any fandom together. Well, might as well have fun ourselves!*

* **Day 7: Free day!**
	+ *✦ It’s a free day! Do anything you want on this day!*

## FSW 2022

Welcome to the Mixx Multiverse Pageant! Where individuals from all over non-canon-homestuck will dress their best to impress the rest!

Banner art and flag by Rpboelm.

### Featured Species

* Draco-Elgavan: Seklynte
* E-U-In (Tacet): E-id
* Ubaste: Matmiua
* Oroking:
* Dol: Robyn Bass

### Prompts

* **Aug. 11:** Sportswear.
	+ What sports do your characters like? What new and weird sports exist on your species planets? Show us some uniforms!
* **Aug. 12:** Summerwear.
	+ Summerwear for summertime! It's hot out and surely your characters don't dress fully covered in the heat. Show us what they wear to cool off!
* **Aug. 13:** Businesswear.
	+ Professionality, seriousness, and a drive to succeed. That's what your characters should be thinking in this dress. Your boss has scheduled a meeting to discuss your salary, show us what your characters would wear!
* **Aug. 14:** The Talent portion!
	+ Not specifically a dress up challenge but what are your characters great at? Show us their talents or hobbies!
* **Aug. 15:** Eveningwear.
	+ As the night winds down and the contest comes to a close, the last real challenge of the night is to show us your high-class, fancy dresses and tuxes. What would your characters wear to a gala?
* **Aug. 16:** Free space!
	+ Dress your characters however you'd like! Halloween costumes, mashups of previous days, go H O G W I L D.
* **Aug. 17:** The after-party!
	+ Draw your characters hanging out with somebody else! (If someone else drawing your characters is allowed please specify on the first day's post)

### Featured Species

* Clion: Lj'Mosch
* Dryad: Mila Voporia
* Elgavan: Syne Wayve
* Gemscine: Swim
* Bisca: Glasses

### Prompt

* This year's fanspecies week is dubbed "Nepeta Trek"! After the space and alien themed scifi serial television show of a similar name!
* The prompt is just to write (or draw, or some secret third option) a short story about Nepeta! But specifically Nepeta if she were born as a member of your fanspecies, and her life and adventures on that species homeworld!
* The goal is for this to be a worldbuilding exercise through the shared lense of everyone's favorite catgirl

### Alternate Banner

2023 got an alternate version of the banner, featuring Nepeta Leijon as each other character on the banner and swapped into each of their species. It served as the FSA server banner during Sahcon2023 (July 21 - July 22) through the Leo period of 2023 (July 23 - August 22), when it got changed out for the mascot banner.