Final lap: the checkered flag is in sight! Congrats, fish friends, and thank you for joining us for the inaugural round of Be A Goldfish: A Ted Lasso Multimedia Microbang. With over 150 fics and a number of gifs, artworks, and other contributions, we're delighted to call this event a success.

Let's wrap this up. as we prepare to swim off into the sunset of this final day, a few announcements:

Don't forget to log your final entries using the Entry Submission form. Feel free to share them on our Discord, too! You're also welcome to crosspost here on Dreamwidth or on tumblr. 

Everything will close tomorrow. This includes this year’s AO3 collection and the comment and entry forms. You still have roughly twenty-four hours to get your works in under the wire if there’s anything you’re still working on or you get bit by that last-second-inspiration bug. So you’ve got until then get all your works posted, logged, and otherwise squared away.

We've opened the Event Summary & Banner Claim form, and we ask that you fill it out by 7 July in order to receive your banner. Curious about the awards? Check out what's available here.

Don't forget to fill out our Post-Bang Survey, too. We're first-time event hosts, so feel free to let us know how we did, what you loved, and what we might improve in the future.

One more big thanks! We appreciate you, we're proud of you, and we're so pleased we got to share this event with you. Go ahead and put your fins together for yourself and your fellow goldfish! Truly, from the bottom of our little goldfish hearts, thank you to everyone who joined us for the first, but hopefully not last, round of Be A Goldfish! 

TGIF! Drumroll, please: welcome to the final week of the first-ever Be A Goldfish: A Ted Lasso Multimedia Microbang. We’ve had an incredible round, full of fun, friendship, and fanworks, and participants have collectively created over one hundred works! Let’s keep the spark alive in these last few days with two more prompts. Give one a whirl, try both, or mix it up and blend them. Write a fic, make art, or try something totally new! Check out our FAQ for inspiration.

How do people outside the Ted Lasso gang perceive the goings-on at AFC Richmond? Create with that external perspective in mind.

AND/OR:

Use the lyrics from a favourite song as inspiration for a work.

Feel free to brainstorm, discuss ideas, and make friends in our Discord, or let us know what you’re cooking up in the comments here or on tumblr. As always, we’re excited to see what you create. Stay curious!

Week four and we're feeling just fine! We've had another great week of Be A Goldfish: A Ted Lasso Multimedia Microbang. How about a prompt to keep things interesting?

Feel free to brainstorm, discuss ideas, and make friends in our Discord, or let us know what you’re cooking up in the comments here or on tumblr. We’re excited to see what you create. Stay curious!

Try something new. Experiment with a form you’ve never tried; check out our FAQ for ideas. Write a haiku, make a zine, or put on your apron and cook up a Ted Lasso inspired recipe!