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The problem with this idea is that it is trying to attack a symptom of the problem, and homogenizing the days is not going to revive them.
This is the second time someone has tried to claim that they have “become” seasons, when every day so far has pretty much started off with an influx and dwindled off to the end. I posted links to all the dates last time but it seems redundant. The idea that the days have changed in their (poor) sense of time is a new one is just plain wrong.
The real issue is that there are the old authors, the missing authors, and the newer authors. The old authors do not have the same excited spark as they did back in year one and year two so they don't feel as excited when the days come along any more. The missing authors are gone, so they aren't going to participate. The newest authors are filing in from other communities, which while fine in itself means they probably care very little about the days as we have celebrated them.
There is a smaller and smaller pool of authors who care to participate currently. Packing up all of them into a week is not going to encourage activity, it's just going to be less guided. If it is just some broad draw whatever theme, it might as well just be the fanart thread. Which is likely to happen with or without change in its current form.
I mean most people who draw something for the threads draw one or two of their own characters and call it done. Slowpoke once drew a constant stream during a chest day, and I have tried to do a cross section of the community every single Day. I have however, bit off way more than I can chew and cannot appear to manage my idealistic super excited route. Once I finish all the ones I promised, I will probably be drawing one for this current day and with me giving up, I wouldn't call it a death sentence but I would certainly say it's a sign of it fading on out.
Although only tangentially related, I think it would be a good time to bring up how conversations about days have worked since the very beginning. There are only four days that have repeated and had more than like 10 drawings, and those are the ones you bring up. Crotch day being the weakest by far. There have been a couple more attempts at days and they fell flat, and the IRC chats have suggested at least 100-200 more themed days over the course of the last 4 years or so. Artists and non-artists alike always have new ideas and throw them around like confetti, but almost nothing really sticks and with the decay of interest and participation I don't even see the 20 new Day ideas a week in the chats like they used to.
Is this bad? Not really. I think the days have been fun and even if they're dying, at least we have quests, and people are still drawing fanart. I think the spirit of drawing fanart is what is the most important, so whatever happens is just kind of going to. Having this kind of dialogue every couple of months isn't really changing it.
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