Gaara x Naruto Fan Day 2014!

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Mark your calendars!
This year’s Naruto x Gaara Fan Day is Monday, July 28th 2014

The Fan Day is a fairly free-form, annual fest for celebrating our love for Naruto and Gaara and their relationship (platonic? romantic? both, neither, whatever? as long as they’re together). The goal is creating and showing off new fanworks and appreciating other fans’ work, spreading evidence to potential new shippers that these two characters are perfect for each other, and meeting more fans who ship what you ship and making new friends.

What can you do now:

• Advertise it! Reblog this post on tumblr, make a post on your blog at other sites, let your friends and their friends know. The above banner is free to use. Here’s the above 500px wide version, and here’s a 450px wide one hosted at photobucket, whichever one fits your blog better.
• Start preparing what you’ll post on Fan Day. Any form of fanworks is accepted, as long as it’s made by you. If you want to use another fan’s work (an existing piece, or collaborating to make something new together), be sure to ask permission first, and credit them; we don’t want to generate art theft. Sharing your old work is fine, too, but the more there exists of Naruto x Gaara fanworks in the world, the merrier.
• Fanart, fanfic, headcanon text posts, cosplay, screencaps, manga colouring, gif sets, graphics, crafts, fanmixes, AMVs, rec lists, photos of shippy merch you own, anything you have for sharing. There’s no limit to how many different things you can post, either.
• Help inspire other fans’ contributions. Post prompt lists or challenges, or hold a contest with posting scheduled for Fan Day. Tag your post ”Naruto x Gaara Fan Day”, and start tracking the tag to catch further announcements and eventual Fan Day entries.

What to do on Fan Day:

• post your creation(s), and tag it- - LJ- "Activity: Fanday" | Tumblr- "Naruto x Gaara Fan Day"
• cross-post it everywhere else you have an account. We will create a master list to detail out all the submissions.  At the end of the day there will be collection posts listing everyone’s contributions on tumblr, with another to follow on Akki no Ai, and the group ArtOfNarutoAndGaara at deviantart, but these are not the only sites you can post to. Don’t worry if you run late, your work will still be included.
• enjoy the sudden abundance of ninjalove, and let your fellow fans know how much you like their work ♥

If there are any Gaara x Naruto communities out there who would like to join the fun, let us know and we'll be sure to advertise! Or if you have suggestions/requests, drop us a line! We look forward to hearing from you!

Alternative announcements: Tumblr | Deviantart