Happy Monday -- aka BEST DAY EVAR, 'cause it's New #YASummerShowdown Challenge Day! I say this every week, but THIS IS MY MOST FAVOURITE CHALLENGE YET. Check it out on the Hub Tumblr -- which also has a new face (great job, Alexis)!
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's look back at the week that was in #YASummerShowdown! AND WHAT A WEEK IT WAS.
The results from the Week 4 polls are in -- and it's a #FYAPGH sweep for top honours! (Click to enlarge any of the images below.)
In second place are submissions from #ATXFYA, #SFFYA, and #NYCFYA!
Third place goes to #NYCFYA (times two) and #ATXFYA!
Thanks to all the clubs for participating! And LOOK -- some of the postcards have already arrived at their new homes!
#FYAFreeAgents' Julie shows off her postcard from #SFFYA!
It's Choose Your Own #YASummerShowdown Adventure for the teams, as they were given the choice of Harry Potter related tasks for this week's challenge. Either way, the results are obvi spectacular.
OPTION 1: THE DAILY PROPHET
The teams designed a front page for The Daily Prophet -- incl. moving photos! WIZARDRY! (Or, y'know, GIFs.)
"Ministry of Magic declares #ATXFYA "Team to Beat"!" AND HOT NEVILLE SIGHTING.
The #SFFYA edition of The Daily Prophet. May or may not be delivered by Jack Kelly.
#FYAVBC has the scoop on the Quidditch World Cup! (Timely!)
OPTION 2: FLOURISH & BLOTTS
The teams also had the choice of designing slipcovers for Hogwarts textbooks. And as we already knew, the teams are v. good at gettin' crafty. WITCHCRAFTY!
#FYADFW: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and The Monster Book of Monsters.
#FYAFreeAgents: Numerology and Grammatica, Potions, Herbology, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Divination.
#FYAON: The Standard Book of Spells, Advanced Potion Making, A History of Magic, Year with the Yeti, and Numerology and Grammatica.
#FYAPGH: Spellman's Syllabary, Ghoul Studies, Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, and Fancy Xylomancy.
#FYAPDX: Unfogging the Future, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Encyclopedia of Toadstools, Standard Book of Spells, and Magical Drafts and Potions.
#FYAVWA: Ravenclaw pride, Herbology, and The Monster Book of Monsters.
#FYADC: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Wandering with Werewolves, The Dark Forces, Unfogging the Future, Advanced Potion Making (times two), A History of Magic, and Standard Book of Spells.
PHOTO HUNT
And because I love a theme, y'all -- let's kick off this week's Photo Hunt entries with MAGIC!
A #FYAFreeAgents husband performs Magic Under the Glass!
The #FYAFreeAgents also give us The Magician's Elephant!
Tricks illusions may not have been involved, but the other photo hunt submissions were plenty magical, too.
#FYANYC's take on Fire with Fire by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian.
This week's #FYADC/#FYAFreeAgents collab: The Ring and the Crown by Melissa de la Cruz.
#FYAON has A Matter of Soul-Stealing Dolls on their hands... (A Matter of Souls by Denise Lewis Patrick)
Boy band invasion in #FYAPGH! (The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George)
#FYAVBC with rakkaus ja muita vieraita sanoja! Or so says Google's Finnish translation. (Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan)
#FYAVWA brings Beautiful Music for Ugly Children (by Kirstin Cronn-Mills) on the actual airwaves!
The prayer tree, with #FYADC and #SFFYA. (Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta)
LOLOLOL at #FYANYC's take on A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
The Diverse Cell Phone Energies of #FYADC. (Diverse Energies edited by Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti)
OMG! He's in love with a #SFFYA geek! (OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek! by Rae Earl)
They've been CRUSHING IT with puns, but this one takes the cake: #FYAPGH were liars thrice over. (We Were Liars by E. Lockhart)
And of course, the always fun cover restagings.
#FYANYC's thematically appropriate Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
You really need to read about the making of #FYAPGH's Winger photo.
Likewise, check out #SFFYA's photoshoot for These Broken Stars.
#FYADC, let down your hair! (Cress)
#FYANYC's badass restaging of Grave Mercy.
AUTHOR EVENTS
It's also been a great week for author signings in #YASummerShowdown!
#FYANYC with Rainbow Rowell (Landline).
#FYAON with Nadine Vaughan Williams (FireCat!).
#FYAPGH with Maggie Stiefvater (Sinner).
#FYAPGH with Anthony Breznican (Brutal Youth).
MIXOLOGY UPDATE
The cocktail recipes have been distributed, and the teams are in party planning mode! In fact, #FYANYC just had theirs, and they were PREPARED.
SHOWDOWN SPOTLIGHT
In case you missed it, all the freeze-frame fist pumps for #FYAPGH. And can Little Lord FYA become the official #YASummerShowdown mascot?
#SFFYA continues to build on its lead, while AWWW SHIZZ -- #FYADC is gaining on #ATXFYA! But there are mega points for grabs in Week 6, so there are plenty of chances for the other teams to catch up!
That's it for Week 5, Muggles! Catch y'all back here next week!
