Preternatural Bandom Challenge 2022

Hi, all! 

We’re happy to announce that the Preternatural Bandom Challenge (a challenge concept that was initially held on livejournal in 2010) is returning for the second year in a row! It was such a fun challenge last year that we wanted to bring it back and give more people the chance to participate. This year’s PBC will run from now until October 7th at 11:59pm EST!

To quote the 2010 livejournal description, this challenge is for “bandom AUs involving supernatural, preternatural, unnatural, or magical creatures.” This obviously gives any interested participants a HUGE range of topics to write about! Participants in the past have written everything from ghosts and vampires to eldritch beings and aliens, so the sky’s the limit! Let your imagination run wild. We’re so excited to see what you come up with!

Rules and Guidelines:

Sign-ups open July 11th and close August 31st at 11:59pm EST.

PBC 2022 is 18+. You must be 18 by the time sign-ups close in order to participate in this year’s challenge.

All fics should be at least 5k words long, bandom-centric, and aligned with PBC’s theme.

Absolutely no incest/underage explicit/non-con content allowed. Any submissions that include this content will be deleted from the PBC 2022 Ao3 collection.

All mature/upsetting content must be properly tagged.

All participants must have an Ao3 account in order to post to the challenge collection.

While we’ll keep all participants updated on our tumblr and twitter accounts, we highly encourage everyone involved in PBC 2022 to join our discord server! We’ll use the server to send out push notifications of important announcements/updates, as well as give participants a space to create and build community while the challenge is running. Please indicate if you’re interested in joining the server when you’re filling out the sign-up form.

You can access the sign-up form here! Make sure to fill this out by August 31st at 11:59pm EST if you intend to create for PBC 2022. 

If you have any questions that weren’t addressed here, you can reach out to us at any time! Our inbox is open both here and on twitter, and we’re answering emails as well (reach out to preternaturalbc@/gmail.com). 

You can also contact the mods directly: 

Quinn (Tumblr | Twitter | overusedpunchline#1402 on Discord)

Rosalie (Tumblr | Twitter | vampirexchild#4025 on Discord)

We’re so excited for PBC 2022! Good luck and happy writing!

this is a moderated and closed collection, so don't worry if your fic doesn't immediately show up once you hit post! submit fics here: 

If you’ve signed up for PBC, check your discord friend requests! We’re sending out invites to everyone who’s responded to the sign-up form so far.

For those of you who are still unsure, feel free to come join us on discord anyway to brainstorm! We’re more than happy to address any questions or concerns there, and we’d love to have you (and hopefully convince you to sign up!) ;) Hope to see you there!

Hi, all!

Hi, all!! This is a revival of the livejournal challenge that ran for a single year in 2010. This year the challenge will run from now until September 30th at 11:59pm PST! 

According to the livejournal description from 2010, this challenge is for “bandom AUs involving supernatural, preternatural, unnatural, or magical creatures.” In other words- go nuts with the magic! Anything that seems like it’ll fit the theme goes. Unlike the first challenge, though, there’s no minimum word count. Write whatever you want + whatever you have time for. All content types welcome! Submit fics + art + playlists + podcasts + anything else you can think of. 

As this isn’t an exchange or a collaborative challenge, there aren’t many rules! All we ask is that your pieces fit the theme + that you properly tag your content + that if you do decide to do a collaborative piece (you’re more than welcome to find someone else to work with if it makes the process more fun for you), you keep the content you create age appropriate for everyone involved in that creation. 

Good luck and have fun! Can’t wait to see all your creations!

Sign ups are live! 

I’ve got a discord server set up for the challenge already- click here to check it out. 18+ only, please! Let me know if there’s demand for a server for under 18 y/os, and I’ll get one going for y’all.