Holistic Brotzly Prompts

It’s welcoming in every possible way. Stylistically, it’s charming. Tired of the stubborn, aging homicide detective who’s battleworn and haunted by shadows of his past? Here, have the same angstabilities but wrapped up in a tall, nervous but lovable british guy who wears brightly-coloured jackets that not-so-subtly make up the pride flag. Swap out rainy gutters and black swamps for magical lands, a prince with candy-coloured hair and a homicidal dirt muppet with an inexplicably endearing personality. Story-wise, it’s meticulously detailed. Remember in season 1, where Dirk is driving his stolen car and explaining his holistic thing to Todd and almost runs over Gordon Rimmer who’s holding a bunch of missing dog flyers? And the messages it sends are all so perfect. You’ll find your place in the world so long as you keep fighting. Are you a drug abuser? You can still get yourself on the right track. Riddled by anxiety that threatens your future dreams? You’ll find your crowd and the anxiety won’t hinder any chance of you getting recognised as a universal badass.

Take care of your body: take plenty of breaks between work periods, and make sure to do hand and arm stretches before and after long periods of writing/drawing! Speaking as a person who’s been knackering their body for years and really put their hands through the wringer on last year’s Bang, you do not want to fall into neglect! Stay hydrated, get up and walk around, keep your body healthy and your mind clear and sharp!

Hi, Bangers!

So, as you (hopefully) know, the first Big Bang check-in is coming up soon- in just over a week’s time, in fact, on May 13th! For this, we need you to email us to confirm your participation, and include in this email:

A current word count (hopefully you’re at least 5k words in by now!)

A WIP

A summary of your story, including pairings, rating and triggers

Now, that last part is pretty important, because this is the summary that will be viewed by artists looking to claim a fic for the challenge! Basically, it’s your elevator pitch, so you wanna give people a good idea of what your fic’s about, and make it appealing- but also give them fair warning of what it entails, we don’t want anyone being caught off guard!

As an example, here’s the summary I wrote for my Big Bang fic last year:

Hi, Dirktectives!

This Sunday, May 20th, is the Beginner Bang deadline, which means a whole bunch of awesome artists and writers who’ve been working super hard the last couple of months are gonna finally post all their work! I’ll be queuing up reblogs of all the art and fic posts I can find on this blog- if you want to make sure we see it and share it, make sure to @ mention us in the post and tag it with #DGHDA Big Bang, #dghdabigbang or #DGHDA Beginner Bang. Also, don’t forget to add your fic to this year’s Ao3 Collection so people can find all your wonderful stories from the side bar of our blog!

Can’t wait to see what you’ve all been working on! Thanks for being absolute stars <3