Carnival of Aros ? What is it?

[atrocious_ar0mantic]

Could someone please fill me in on what Carnival of Aros is?

[roboticanary]

Sure:

The carnival website gives a good summary of what it is and how it works here: https://carnivalofaros.wordpress.com/about/

I'll give you a brief summary.

 

A blogging carnival in general is a group of blogs posting on a chosen topic. The way it usually works is one person 'hosts' the carnival each month/week, setting up a subject and prompts to write about. Other bloggers write about the subject and send their submissions to the host. At the end of that carnival the host puts up a post linking to all the entries. Unless the carnival is always run by one host there is usually a main host above each months host who post each call for submissions and roundup.

The idea is that it makes it easier to find a wide variety of bloggers on a subject.

A more detailed explanation is here: https://www.easytechjunkie.com/what-is-a-blog-carnival.htm

 

As for carnival of aros. its that but for aromanticism. Each month a host sets up a topic, people write about it and send their responses to the host who rounds things up at the end of the month.

The overall adminisration of it is done at https://carnivalofaros.wordpress.com/ . They sort out each month's host through their volunteer to host page, and they link to each months call and summary.

[roboticanary]

Oh, also to add to that, its not just blog posts. They are the most common but sometimes people submit poetry that the carnival inspired them to write, or maybe a bit of video, or fictional writing.