so I was brainstorming what sorts of creativeness I could try for next year’s Mission Day, if I wanted to try and help reclaim that for the fans
which is me being SUPER overzealous, because I only just found out about the existence of Mission Day yesterday
lol who am I to even get involved in this
(BUT who am I to do anything… and yet I still do.)
… For those who are just a few days more behind-the-times than me:
apparently, back in 2016, there was a line in a TRON game which said that May 14 was “Mission Day.” Some fans got excited that maybe something cool was gonna happen that day
akin to the Flynn Lives ARG starting in 2009 where fans were led on a whole fun adventure, following clues through a network of webpages (seriously, if you don’t know about THAT, take a look)
but no, this time it turned out nothing happened, and people were disappointed.
and when I heard about that, my own rebellious side went:
Who wants to do this with me?? Like a fanzine but more… interactive, multimedia
Maybe it’ll take a year, or more, but, like… what if some May 14 you start seeing fanfics posted on AO3 with mysterious clues in them, leading to a webring of Neocities sites all mysteriously connected in their own cryptic ways
Fanlore, fan-made stories, drawings, maybe even animations and games. Fan OCs getting their own place in all of it
Not beholden to whatever f’d up version of the Hays Code the mouse is currently following. So there’ll be all sorts of LGBT stuff, all colors of the rainbow and all colors of circuits….
aaaand THEN
then my brainstorms got tornado-strength and I came back to reality some unknown time later with a mess of crazy plans just for the STORIES that could start this scavenger hunt
(the websites are breeding their own plotbunnies and I will face that later)
(I am still not even slightly convinced that I will have the time or energy for ANY of this)
BUT… there is a whole year til next May 14
so….
just a whole disorganized pile of ideas, starting here