Beginning on February 1, 2019 we will be trying something new on the forum to celebrate our favorite Land Before Time characters – a character showcase!
Each month one of the major Land Before Time characters will be showcased on the forum’s news header, will be featured in our active topic buttons, and will have a special showcase topic dedicated to them.
These showcase topics are not meant to be overly formal matters but rather are supposed to be open for fanworks and discussion about these characters. That being said there are some basic rules for posting in these topics that will be enforced to keep things moving smoothly:Rules:1.Within each showcase topic, people can discuss the characters, post fanart of them, or post short fanfics concerning them.
2. To prevent the topic from being overburdened with long posts, any fanfic concerning the featured character should either be limited to less than 1500 words, or, if the story is longer than that, you should host it on a fanfiction hosting site and link it here with a brief description of the story.
3. There will be no set contest for the resulting fanfics and fanart in the showcase topic (this is just for fun), but they can be cross-submitted to the respective prompt challenges if they also qualify for the active monthly prompt for that challenge. For details on those challenges, and to check what the requirements for those are, you can find the fanfic prompt challenge rules
here, and the fanart prompt challenge page
here. Also, regardless of qualification, the resulting showcase fanfics will be added to the fanfic prompt challenge masterlist as an addendum so that they can be recorded for posterity.
4. The showcase topic will not prevent the discussion of other characters elsewhere in the forum, but the discussion and fanworks in the showcase topic should be limited to the featured character.
5. And, of course, the
usual forum rules shall apply.
Schedule:The schedule for showcase topics this year shall be as follows:
February 2019:
Littlefoot ![:)littlefoot :)littlefoot](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/littlefoot_smile.png)
March 2019:
Cera ![x(cera by RockingScorpion x(cera](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/cera_wuetend2_by_rockingscorpion-d9nxkrc.png)
April 2019:
Ducky ![:sducky :sducky](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/ducky.png)
May 2019:
Guido ![:facepalm By Sneak :facepalm](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/1_Guido_Facepalm.png)
June 2019:
Petrie ![:opetrie By Flathead770 :opetrie](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/PetrieSurprised.png)
July 2019:
Spike ![:SmugSpike :SmugSpike](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/e7001182.png)
August 2019:
Shorty (What? No Shorty emotes?
![:olittlefoot Design by Ducky123; Digitized by Flathead770 :olittlefoot](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/olittlefoot.png)
)
September 2019:
Chomper ![:OhYou Chomper :OhYou](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/e7001181.png)
October 2019: Ruby
![:thinking By Flathead770 :thinking](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/RubyThink.png)
November 2019: Ali
We look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with in this new feature of the forum.
If you have any questions feel free to leave a message in this topic and we will get back to you as soon as possible. ![:yes :yes](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/in-yes.gif)
Edit by Mumbling: added links to existing Character Showcase topics.