#genkillbingo

THAT’S A BINGO, FOLKS. With a whole day to spare! :D Technically this fills the free space on my bingo card, but shout out to @astreetsussserenade for helping me settle on a prompt when I wasn’t sure what vibe to go for. She suggested sneaking around, oblivious, leaving notes or caught red handed. I feel like at least a couple of those come into play here....

“Oh hey, before I forget—”

Ray pulled away from the kiss, which proved to be more challenging than he would have expected. He was caught between the couch cushions and Nate’s body, and their legs were intertwined, and Nate’s arms were bracketing his head, so he really didn’t have much space to maneuver in. He succeeded by allowing his whole body to go limp, with his head flopping back against the couch.

“What?” Nate asked in a breathy voice. Ray poked him in the chest.

“We can not tell Brad.”

It was sort of like a modified truth or dare. Of course Ray had started it, and Rudy had said it was a good idea. Something to keep their minds off of all the shit. Most of 2nd Platoon was squatting in a huge knitting circle by Ice Man’s humvee, listening or jeering when appropriate.

Tim absolutely 100% did not want to contribute. No matter how much shit Ray and the guys gave him. He was a private guy, first of all. Second of all, once you started talking about back home, you’d start associating it with the fucking desert, and why the fuck would anyone want to do that?

“Fuck, doc. We know you had one. The devil dogs are all fuckin’ hot,” Ray joked as he elbowed Tim in the ribs.

“We don’t even care if it was a dude, dude. It’s just that it’s your turn,” Q-Tip said, his legs crossed under him like he was a kid in some kindergarten class.

“Look y’all, as fun as this has been, I’m going to catch some shut eye,” Tim said as an excuse to make his exit. He stalked back to his own tent, annoyed that everyone else had been willing to share so much about themselves. They were in a fucking war, and he was still working on his resistance ‘stache, and he wasn’t going to let himself be lulled into some false sense of comfort. Hell, he had up and joined the Navy and traveled halfway around the world to get away from his hometown, so why talk about it now?

However, as soon as he got back to his tent, all he could think about was the proverbial elephant in the room.

His very first, very disastrous date.

How to play the game:

If you sign up during the month of May, you will receive a personal, randomized 5x5 BINGO card. During sign up you will pick five relationships and/or characters which will serve as the B-I-N-G-O at the top of the card. The spaces will have tropes/AUs/prompts, with a “free space” in the center.

Your goal is “fill” spaces by creating a fanwork using the relationship/character and prompt. This must be a new, previously unpublished fanwork which primarily focus on the relationship/character and prompt for that square. Fill enough squares to get a BINGO!

This fanwork event is a game. You are not competing against fellow fanwork creators, but simply against yourself. You decide how much or how little you want to achieve. 

Eligible fanworks and fill requirements:

Fic - 500 words

Must be new work; cannot be previously posted anywhere

Can be a sequel/prequel/timestamp/etc, but should be able to stand on its own

You can link different fills together as a series, but each fill must be posted as in individual work (for example, cannot be all posted together as chapters in one fic)

Art - medium sized (around 400x400 pixels)

Podfic - 500 words

If you are reading a fic that is not your own you must obtain the author’s permission and include a link to the original work

Video - 30 seconds

Fanmixes - 10 songs

Must include a track list with a brief description of how the songs fill the prompt

Cover art optional

Relationships and Characters:

This event is for Generation Kill, which means that any canon character within the Generation Kill Universe. 

Any two or threesome of canon characters. Threesomes count as their own unique relationship.

HBO War characters from Band of Brothers and The Pacific characters who aren’t in Gen Kill canon can be paired with Gen Kill characters.

Characters: In lieu of selecting a pairing, you can put in just one character. You may either then ship that character with whoever you want or focus on the character themselves.

In your signup you must list 5 characters/teams/relationships. This list will be randomized.

Prompts:

The 24 prompts (plus free space) will be randomly selected from the Prompts Masterlist. The free space will be left blank, which means that you can choose the prompt you want to put there, but it must still come from the masterlist.

if you message me requesting a change to your card I will do it, no questions asked. 

If you’re struggling with a prompt, you can always try thinking of it in a different way, nearly all of the prompts could be interpreted in a variety of ways (“detention” could mean a high school AU where the characters are kept after school, or it could mean a canon-compliant fic where the characters are “detained” in prison; “baby animals” could mean that the characters adopt a litter of kittens, or that they get magically transformed into baby animals; or any other number of options). A prompt can also always be the lack of itself, for example “cuddling” could be about someone wanting more cuddling than they are getting, or someone who is touch averse and does not want any cuddling; the sky is the limit!

So how do I declare a BINGO?

You will make a tumblr “masterlist” with links to each fanwork that applies to the BINGO you’re declaring. I will reblog your masterlist post, and include your BINGO on the round up post at the end of the BINGO.

I signed up for the Generation Kill Bingo way back in May and then... did nothing for three months. the idea is for August to be MEGA-PRODUCTIVE, so we’ll see how this goes.

“Dog, seriously, you got to get going.”

“For the last time, do not call me dog in bed,” Brad corrected. He interlaced his fingers behind his head and stretched out against the sheets. In his own home, Brad didn’t indulge in petty luxuries like 600-thread count sheets or down-feather pillows, but he was more than willing to enjoy them on one of these visits. “And why are you so eager to have me gone? Can’t you give me one fucking minute to enjoy the afterglow?”

“I don’t know how much you’re enjoying it, if you’re already snapping like that,” Poke said dryly. He had already put his boxers back on, and was slipping a soft grey t-shirt over his head. “Gina and the girls are going to be home soon.”

I forgot to post my round-up for GenKill Bingo, so here it is!

1) BradxNate + Shopping

2) Nate (BradxNate) + Engagement

3) Ray/Walt + Coffee Shop

4) Reporter + Morning

01.

It started while he was still in Iraq. The nightmares. The days started to run together and he totally lost all semblance of a normal sleeping pattern, and it became more and more difficult to fall asleep. He had finally drifted off that evening, jammed into the backseat of the humvee, when a loud bang off in the distance shook the humvee. His body tossed and turned, and he felt more than saw a huge wall of waves crash into his body over and over again. But he couldn’t escape the water, no matter where he ran. He didn’t see anywhere to run, and there was no one to call out for. He felt helpless and alone.

Until a pair of strong hands shook him awake.

“Reporter! Man, I’ve been shouting at you for like 10 minutes. You seriously need to keep it together.”

Ray was standing outside the humvee looking down at him with his eyebrows raised, clearly concerned. Evan sat up, confused and disoriented. The humvee door was flung open, and he could see Trombley and Colbert peering over Ray’s shoulder at him. Even though it was dark, he could see their grim expressions.

“Why, what was I doing?”

“You were shouting, saying we were all going to drown.”

Shit.

“I’m sorry everyone,” he mumbled.

He was more embarrassed than anything, but he couldn’t fall back asleep until the pinks and oranges of the rising sun broke over the desert.

Ray is taking a break, trying to get his shit together, and his new routine includes visiting the same coffee shop every Sunday. And he's doing okay, until Walt Hasser shows up.

Written for the 10  year anniversary of Generation Kill Bingo. The bingo prompt was Ray/Walt: "coffee shop."