Hey there! It's Olivia-Savannah here from Olivia's Catastrophe and today, the time has almost come.
October is approaching. And with October comes Gothtober.
This video is about the upcoming Gothtober readathon for 2021. And I’m going to be sharing
you all of the information. So Gothtober is a readathon that runs throughout all of October.
1st October to 31st. And it's hosted by myself, Hannah from LadetteM and Tish from Little Wolf.
And we are here to bring you all the spooky and gothic things for this readathon. So what I’m
going to do here today is run through the prompts and talk about some of the lovely events that we
have set up throughout the month to bring a lot of fun. If you want to join in with us you can check
out the twitter which I’ll have linked down below for the Gothtober readathon. We've also got a lot
of exciting things coming your way and I cannot wait to talk about it. But without further ado
let's get right down to the prompts. So the way that things are split up this year is: we
have two teams but we have a three set of prompt boards. Because we have the team called Team Angel
which is run by me. I am Team Angel. And Team Angel, our hashtag on twitter is #heavenlyhalos.
And we will have a prompt with inspiration from angels. And then we have Tish from
Little Wolf who is running the Demon Team. And the Demon Team hashtag is #hellhounds. So you
can join her team with that. And also we have a third board which is death and death is in
the middle because death works with both the angels and the demons. And Hannah is running
death. It's not necessarily a team that you can join for the games because they are the host,
but death has got its own prompts and you can definitely join in and play along as death in
between. When it comes to doing the prompts you can choose to do all of the angel prompts and
just follow that prompt list or you can do all of the demon prompts and follow that front list. All
of the death ones. But also feel free to mix and match if you want to do some of the angel prompts,
some of the death ones and some of the demon ones. Go on ahead. But when it comes to counting points
for your team you've got to stick to one or the other. We are not competing by how many pages are
read or how many books are read. It's going to be something different and that will be explained a
bit further down the line. But you can get points for doing different things in the readathon.
So let's go through the boards and I’m going to start by going through the angel board as
that is my board that I rule as an angel. I know there are skulls in the background but
rest assured their souls did ascend to heaven because they're here with me. So for the first
prompt on the angel board it's monochrome cover: to read a book that has monochrome on its cover.
The second prompt is large friendship group: read a book with a large friendship group.
The third prompt is consequences: so this one is a bit of an open one.
Read a book that has consequences to it. Maybe characters make choices that have consequences,
maybe there's consequences for actions, whichever way you want to interpret that go ahead to do so.
Four is biblical references: read a book that has biblical references within it or read a book
that's tied to anything biblical in some way or form. Maybe the cover, maybe the title. If it's an
Adam and Eve retelling feel free to go with that. Just anything biblical. Fifth is sentient house:
read a book that features a sentient house in it. And the sixth prompt is enlightenment. You
can read a book that's going to enlighten you in some way. Maybe a non-fiction which will enlighten
you about something new or maybe a character is enlightened along the way of reading a book
and they learn something new about themselves or have some kind of epiphany. Again, for free
to interpret this prompt the way that you want to. And then after that with every board you've
got our staple prompts which are always there. And these are the same on every single board.
So the seventh prompt is a BIPOC read: read a book that has a Black, Indigenous or a person of colour
in it. Then you've got the eighth prompt which is disability rep: which is to read a book that's by
a disabled author or has disability representation within it. And then the next prompt is LGBT+:
read a book with a queer character or an author who identifies as LGBT+. Last one, the tenth*
prompt is also a staple prompt which is film and tv which is to watch something that has an angel
in it for the angel board or a demon in it for the demon board or something to do with death for the
death board. I mean prompts 7 to 10 are the same for everyone. So now I’m going to run through the
demon board which is for Tisha's team. The first prompt: mythology. So it's to read a book that's
got mythology in it and we're trying to avoid Greek mythology. That's the most common mythology
so just try and reach read something different for this readathon. Quote from a classic: read
a book that includes a quote from a classic in it or it's inspired by a classic. Three is murder:
read a book that's got murder in it. Four is found family: read a book that has found family in it.
Five is omens: read a book that has an omen in it. A good omen, a bad omen… your choice. And
six is to read a dark romance book. And then of course, seven to ten are the staple prompts. And
then we're going to move on to the death board. So the death board is the free for all board.
So it has two prompts from the angel team in it, it's got two prompts from the demon board in it
and it's got two prompts that are unique to the death board and only in the death board. So it's
a bit of a mix and match because death is not on a particular team. So the first two ones are from
the angel board which is to read a monochrome cover, to read a book that has consequences in
it. And then the other two that are from the demon board are to read a book with mythology, avoiding
Greek mythology and also to read a dark romance. And then the new prompts that are just for the
death board is to read crossroads: something to do with crossroads. Whether that's having crossroads
on the cover or the characters at a crossroads having to make a decision between two options.
Just crossroads in one form or way. And then last but not least the other prompt is sprayed edges
which is to read a book that has sprayed edges. And then prompts seven to ten are the same as
all the others have been. So for the games and fun we'll have some guest hosts to some of the angel
team. And they will be playing for my team. So for my team I have Ashliegh from A Frolic
Through Fiction joining me. I also have Mary from Mary Among Stories, Kelly from Velvet Library and
also Sabine from Sabine's Book Nook. If you would like to hear about who might be playing
for the Demon Team you'll have to go and check out Tish's announcement video which I’ll link
down below and she will talk you through the Demon Team. We've also got some giveaways set up for you
that you can enjoy but we're also going to have several live shows throughout the month which are
events that may include reading sprints, which may include quizzes, which may include fun and games.
And if you want to hear about some of those events you're going to have to check out Hannah's
announcement video which I’ll leave down below a link to that as well. So that is what I can tell
you about Gothtober so far. I am so so excited and can't wait for the spooky month to start.
Keep an eye out for mid-month where Hannah, Tish and I will be uploading recommendation
videos for each of our boards with some recommendations on what you might want to
read to fulfill the prompts. And yeah, please let me know in the comment section down below:
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every time I have a new video. And you know what they say: onwards and upwards. Excelsior!