It's time to make up an obligatory fake holiday! XD I've noticed that everything nowadays seems to have some kind of fake holiday behind it. We got Bowser Day, Talk Like A Pirate Day, Shark Week, May The 4th, Etc. What about a "Body-Swap Day"? I've decided that it should be July 2nd! Why July 2nd? Well, that's the thing about body-swaps, there's no set day of importance when it came to their creation. The concept was already being thrown around over a hundred years ago, it just wasn't fully established into a thing later on.

When I joined the furry/TF fandom back in 2013, body-swapping wasn't really as popular as it was now. Sure, you had some artists/writers doing it as gimmicks, but only a few people were fully dedicated to it. Cut to years down the line and now body-swaps are a more widely accepted kind of TF and the amount of art and stories dedicated to it has quintupled! So, I thought it was time to finally give its own holiday. I chose July 2nd because it's sandwiched between Canada Day and the Fourth of July. I figure that would be a good spot to put it, since it's like a body-swap in that we're "exchanging" cultures during that week. People from America will look up stuff about Canada on their holiday, and vice-versa. Sure, it's a stretch, but I can't really think of a better day to put it on!

So yeah, July 2nd will be the day that body-swaps are celebrated. If you have any cool body-swap art, stories, picture edits, or what have you, that would be a good day to share them. There's tons of characters in all forms of media, so feel free to get creative with what characters you swap! I want to try to get this to become an actual fake holiday, so body-swap fans can have a day to themselves. I mean, there's a TF day, but no body-swap day! So, from henchforth, July 2nd shall be body-swap day. If you like this idea, I suggest sharing this journal around. Spread the word and we'll try to make body-swap day an actual thing! Feel free to spread it around on Discord, Facebook, Twitter, FurAffinity, DeviantArt, etc.

What will I do for body-swap day? Well, I'm going to post a body-swap story between my fursona Jam and Lancer from DeltaRune! And maybe I'll post another swap story if I get the time. XD Keep in mind that this holiday isn't a contest, or anything. I just think it would be cool if we had a unified day to celebrate body-swaps. After all, the internet has evolved body-swaps beyond the gimmick they were in the 70s-90s. Why don't we take the next step and make a day dedicated to it? So, July 2nd will be this hallowed holiday. May we all partake in it and say in collective confusion: "WAIT, IS THAT ME OVER THERE?!"

(Also, I know it's been forever since I updated here, mah bad.)