Sassy Minibang 2012 is over!
That's all folks, it's a wrap! We are DONE! :D
Art by the fantastic vicious_sock, please leave feedback in the comments.
A Big Thank You to all the wonderful writers, artists who participated, and all the betas and pinch hitters who volunteered their service, without you guys this minibang wouldn't be possible! We truly treasure every single fic and art, you're all aces! Thank you!
We also want to thank the wonderful eosrose, who gave us an amazing podfic. The podfic can be found here.
Of course, a special thank you to vicious_sock for drawing all the gorgeous promotion art for us again this year. All the promotion artwork for Sassy Minibang 2012 can be found here
Last but not least, thank you to all of you who pimped our comm and commented on the fic/art. Thank you for being one of us. :)
If you haven't read all the bang fics yet, the 2012 masterlist is up. You can find it here.
Some stats for this year:
The author drop out rate this year was a staggering 71% (compare to 45% last year and ~60% for other big bangs). More than a third of the drops outs occurred around our 2nd check-in, which was shortly after the new season premiere. On the other hand, none of our artists dropped out this year. Our overall sign up number for authors and artists went down this year as well.
Currently we do not have any plans for a round three, we are big believers of going out with a bang (pun sort of intended?) and not a whimper. We feel that this round is a perfect note to end sassy_minibang on.
However, we still very much appreciate your feed back. Is there anything we could have done to increase participation and keep people from dropping out? We admit our marketing campaigns on tumblr, which is where fandom is heading, wasn't terribly successful. Also, was there any support to could have provided to writers? If there is anything you think we could have done better, please let us know.
Thank you again for making sassy_minibang such a success, You guys rock! We truly treasure every single fic and art you guys created for this bang.
Finally, from the bottom of our hearts, the mod team wish every one of you a wonderful 2013 and beyond! ♥