FicWars and Challenges

What is a Mini/Big Bang?

Last month the mods of this blog ran a general interest poll to decide what type of event to run. The votes were split fairly evenly between a Big Bang, and a Mini Bang, and we decided to run a combo event.

How will this work?

There will be two tracks for participants to choose from; a Mini Bang or a Big Bang. Whichever track is picked, will determine the timeline and requirements of their challenge.

Mini Bang Track Requirements:

Mini Bang Writers will be required to submit a fic that is between 10k and 20k words.

Mini Bang Artists will be matched with a Mini Bang Writer and be required to submit between 1 and 3 pieces of art based on the fic.

Big Bang Track Requirements:

Big Bang Writers will be required to submit a fic of minimum 40k words, with no maximum word count.

Big Bang Artists will be matched with a Big Bang Writer and be required to submit between 2 and 5 pieces of art based on the fic.

As of right now, we are only allowing one sign up per person. However that might change if we need to balance the number of writers and artists.

Accepted Types of Art:

Traditional art as long as you are able to submit a high quality scan

Hand drawn digital art

Photo edits/manipulations

GIFs

How we Define a Rarepair:

Any ship that has under 5k works on AO3, excluding cross over works. We are excluding cross over works to account for things like kinktober where the rare pair gets maybe five hundred words of focus.

If you voted in our polls you might have noticed originally we said under 10k fics, but we didn’t realize how much sterek’s popularity skewed the results. To account for such a juggernaut ship, we moved the limit down.

Schedule:

All Writer Sign Ups Open: March 1

All Artist Sign Ups Open: April 3

All Sign Ups Close: May 3

All Writers First Check-In, and Summary Due: May 10

Summaries Posted for Browsing: May 13

Summary Claiming: May 27

All Artists First Check In/All Writers Second Check In: July 1

Mini Bang Start Posting: August 1

Last Check In for Big Bang Participants: August 17

Big Bang Start Posting: September 1

We are leaving sign ups open until a week before the first check in. This is to allow writers a chance to get a head start on their fics, and hopefully reduce the number of writers who have to back out due to unforeseen circumstances.

Have someone you want to work with in mind already?

We are allowing for a writer and artist to sign up as a pre-matched pair! So if you and your mutual want that push to finally work together, you can sign up as a unit.

Rules:

No AI. If a participant is caught using AI, they will be blocked and banned.

The ship you are creating for must have less than 5k works on AO3 (excluding crossovers)

All works must be tagged accurately at the time of summary, and when posting to AO3. (If the tags change between summary and posting, that is fine.)

If you are interested:

Follow this blog! We will be posting updates and silly event promo posters we made on this blog. We will also be posting the links to sign ups at the start of March.

And be sure to reblog this post to get the word out!

We’re really excited to run this event and we hope to see you all there!

Artists be sure to check your emails. The last matches went out this morning, and your writer’s contact info will be in the email we sent.

Folks we have started sending out matches to the artists! It’s going to take some time for everything to come in because we are still waiting on a reply to an email, and the mod sending out the matches had some errands to run. But all artists should get an email by tonight with the contact info of their writer.

The mods are almost done matching artists with fics, but two artists still have not submitted claims. The mods have sent out an email to you two asking for you to make a claim, but this is a PSA in case the emails didn’t go through.

We have to close the form by tomorrow so we can get out the official matches on time.

See below for the google form for claiming.

Alright everyone, it's that time! We hope you've enjoyed looking over the summaries and mulling on which ones you are interested in. The time has come for you to give us your picks. Below is the google form link for claiming. Lets get paired!

Are you guys excited? We are!

This is one last reminder to read through the summaries and make sure you have the correct numbers for the fics you’re interested in. Please make sure you’re only picking from the track you signed up for!

Hi everyone!

Just a quick reminder that summary claiming opens on May 27.

Please review the summaries, even if you think you know which ones you’re interested in. When we initially posted the link to the summaries, there was one missing. It was added in by the next morning, but that meant the numbers shifted on some of the summaries. We want to ensure you’re claiming the right one.

When the time comes, we will post a google form link. Be prepared to choose at least three summaries you’re interested in as there is no guarantee you will get your top choice.

Hi Everyone!

Summary claiming happens on May 27th, so you have plenty of time to read through the summaries and decide which ones you are interested in. Make sure you stick with the summaries for your track of the event, and keep a few in mind because you are not guaranteed your number one pick.

Some folks have reported that our email with the link didn't go through, so we will post it below for anyone that missed it.

Happy Browsing!

Our apologies, it seemed we missed a summary when we sent the link to the list.

Hi everyone! Check your emails, we sent out a link to an Ellipsus doc so you can read the summaries and start thinking which ones you want to claim.

If you haven’t received the email, check your spam folder because in the early days google didn’t like us sending links and kept marking us as spam. If you didn’t receive it and it’s not in your spam folder let us know and we will figure out a way to get it to you.