#Thraathon

[createforthra]

Create for Thra: 8/30-9/5

In honor of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’s Second Anniversary, we are working in a Great Conjunction (*wink*) with @thra-athon to sponsor a celebratory event for this wonderful fandom.

Starting Monday, August 30, and ending Sunday, September, 5, 2021, Create for Thra is designed to be a celebration and fun experience for fans to submit artwork, fanfiction, and all manner of creation related to the world of Thra and the week’s themes! You can focus on any character you’d like, from one character/ships to the full cast of characters. We are so excited to see what you create!

Here are the themes for the week:

August 30 — Day One: Creature Feature -  Draw or write a story about your favorite Thra-creature, or post artwork of your own Thra-Creature Creation. 

August 31 — Day Two: Original Characters - Introduce us to your original character within the world of Thra. Words, images, sculptures, dolls, puppets... the world of Thra is, as they say, your... gobble? Hm...

September 1 — Day Three: Where in the World? / Home Is Where the Heart Is - Show us your favorite locale on Thra with art or words, or create something about your favorite character in the little piece of Thra they call home.

September 2 — Day Four: Scene Work - Draw/write an interpretation of your favorite scene, or create your own deleted scene from the show. What occurred offscreen that you would have liked to see? What would your favorite scene have looked like from a different character’s eyes?

September 3 — Day Five: What Was Sundered and Undone - The Division of the UrSkeks... the splitting of the Seven Clans... the cracking of the Crystal of Truth. Many things on Thra have been torn apart. Create a piece about this topic.

September 4 — Day Six: "There are many paths laid before us, some good, most bad." - Create a story or drawing about the differing paths Aughra sees. Brea tells her mother to imagine the possibilities - what can you imagine?

September 5 — Day Seven: A Great Conjunction -  “Alright, together then!” From the reunification of the Skeksis and Mystics and the Gelfling fires of resistance, the alliance of the Arathim and the Gelfling, to our favorite Podling Paladin, unity is an important concept during the Age of Resistance. Make a creation about embracing unity instead of continuing division!

It isn’t required to participate for the entire week. If you’d just like to submit a piece of work for only one of the theme days, that’s completely fine! Please be sure that any work submitted is new content.

Rules: 

1) Tag your work properly so that any parties who are either a) too young for certain subject matter, or b) concerned about potentially unsavory subject matter, may make informed decisions about what works they do and do not want to engage with.

2) Character-hate and ship-hate is not allowed or welcome. Any fan of this fandom is welcome to participate. Don’t like it? Don’t read/view it, and don’t comment a bunch of hate on it. End. Of. Story. You will be blocked if you engage in that type of behavior.

3) HAVE FUN AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER!

We encourage you to leave the artist/author/creator a comment if you enjoyed the creation - it doesn’t have to be something long or detailed. Something as simple as “really enjoyed reading/viewing this” will make the creator’s day a bit brighter.

Be sure to hashtag #CreateforThra so we can see it and reblog your creations!

Remember - all characters are welcome! Skeksis, Mystics, Gelfling, Podlings, pluff’ms, and everything in between. 

Looking forward to seeing your creations beginning Monday, August 30.

[thra-athon]

Hello Thralings! 

As you can see, there’s no Thra-Athon this year (There’s plans for next year, celebrating the movie’s 40th anniversary!) 

But we made a partnership with an event celebrating the second anniversary of Age of Resistance! It will take place during all the anniversary’s week. So artists and writers, stay tuned, the announcement will be later in the day. 

Also, I’m putting a little promo here for the Center of Puppetry Art, there will be an online conference on August 29 with the Jim Henson Creature Shop discussing about their work on AOR. Link Here ! 

[kittenderly]

Create For Thra day 1: Creature Feature. 

Behold the Speckle-Rumped Floofer. It appears to be a gentle, bunny-like creature, but when threatened or hungry, its true nature appears! Has been known to swallow prey twice its size in a single gulp. Podling children are carefully warned away from areas where floofers are known to nest.

[ninamiart]

More Dark Crystal fanart. Deet and Rian in the forest!

[dracocheesecake]

*SLAMS FISTS ON TABLE*

Thra-athon

Now!!!!

[feusus]

Are the thra-a-thon competitions ending on Sunday a minute before midnight or right on the day?

(Yeah ! You got me ! I’m one of the organizers !) 

We will send the entries to Cory Godbey on Monday so if you send yours on Sunday midnight, whatever your time zone is, it will be totally alright ! 

[theworldofthedarkcrystal]

Netflix has new 4k streaming support!!!!

Even if you cannot take part in this weekend’s Thra-athon (happening right now!) in which there is communal binge watching, I highly reccommend everyone take time to re-live the series Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance because netflix recently upgraded its viewing quality as a premium title with premium 4k resolution to be streamed with less blurring and lag!

example unedited screenshot i just took from browser, which usually has the worst performance:

Article source below:

https://netflixtechblog.com/optimized-shot-based-encodes-for-4k-now-streaming-47b516b10bbb

This was only posted August 28th so of course they did it just for us Dark Crystal fans and our Thra-athon!!! <3 <3 <3

[hollyqueue]

Here is my holiday fic for Thra-athon. It's from Shoni's point of view and Rian is a toddler. 

My next fic update will be Wellspring! It's been on hold for other projects/events, but it's coming back soon!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ordon/Shoni (Dark Crystal) Characters: Shoni (Dark Crystal), Rian (Dark Crystal), Ordon (Dark Crystal) Additional Tags: Holidays, Pre-AOR, Toddler Rian, Thraathon Summary: 

Shoni, Rian's mother, appears canonically in The Dark Crystal AOR prequel Quest For the Duel Glave comic series and briefly in J.M. Lee's novel series.

[maddie80]

Watching Dark Crystal for the festive Thraathon. So much more emotional now I have other characters to remember from aor

[createforthra]

Starting tomorrow (and in some places, today)!

Reminder that Day 1: Creature Feature is almost here!

Looking forward to seeing what you #CreateforThra.

[thra-athon]

Me and @createforthra loved all your entries! But there are more Dark Crystal events to come, prepare your ships!

First @stonegrotweek (September 20th - September 26th) for Deet/Rian fans

Then @drenchgrotweek (October 1rst - October 7th) for Naia/Amri fans

We have no official partnerships with these events, but I look forward to see all your creations!

[createforthra]

Today’s Creature Features have been amazing! So much talent in this fandom! Keep ‘em coming!

Reminder: tomorrow’s theme is Original Character! Introduce us to your original character within the world of Thra!

[thra-athon]

The winners of the Thra-Athon Fan Art Holiday Card Contest !!!

Our top prize winner goes to @miuzes-art​ / @vivigthefizzgig​ ‘s "Look Upon My Wonder"! This terrific design isn't just covered in wonder, but also features some of our favourite characters from "Age of Resistance"!

Our second place winner is Flying Cuttlefish's (@Fly_Cuttlefish on twitter/@flying_cuttlefish on Instagram) "Jen and Kira: Winter Cuddles"! We loved this charming illustration featuring the two beloved Gelfling from the original film enjoying a quiet moment together.

And our third place winner is "Seasons Greetings" by Nathan Hullett (nathanhullett.artstation.com). We all really loved the inclusion of a certain frog in this one and the unique style.

Christmas Cards can be purchased from our online shop. We really appreciate your support! The proceeds from these cards enable us to continue to bring you Dark Crystal themed events and helps us support charities in need. 

https://www.thegreatconjunction.com/shop

Thank you Thralings ! 

[thra-athon]

Festive Thra-Athon will be officially live from 17th to 20th December ! 

The show will begin with the announcement of our Fanfiction Contest Winner which will be read by Dan DeWhirst (who performed the terrifying Garthim in Age of Resistance) We will also have a Raffle, a live chat with Lisa Maxwell (voice of Kira), Stephen Garlick (voice of Jen), Cory Godbey and more ! 

Find all the informations here : 

https://darkcrystalpodcast.com/thra-a-thon-is-almost-here-17th-to-20th-december-to-celebrate-38th-anniversary-of-the-dark-crystal/

[thra-athon]

We are so excited to announce that the fantastically talented, award winning Artist & Illustrator Cory Godbey will be judging our Fan Art Holiday Card Contest ! And as an extra festive treat, he will also be giving the 1st place winner a one of a kind Dark Crystal Print . 

Cory Godbey creates fanciful illustrations for picture books, covers, comics, animated shorts, and films. From commercials to documentary films, Cory has worked with a wide ranging series of subjects and styles to create thoughtful, engaging, and award-winning art and animation for over 15 years. You will recognize his beautiful Dark Crystal illustrations from the J.M Lee novels and 'The Dark Crystal Tales' among others.

His work has been featured in a variety of esteemed annuals and publications including ImagineFX, The Society of Illustrators, and Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art.

www.corygodbey.com / @corygodbey​