#mod team

Pretty sure this question was already answered over here... We can see how you might have misunderstood the meaning of that post, however this time we'll be very clear:

The event is JayTim Week and not JayTimAndOthers Week.

While other pairings (platonic and romantic) can appear in the background, the focus of story should be the romantic relationship between Jason and Tim. Our reason to not allow poly-ships for JayTim (or TimJay) is there's a slippery slope from that to people adding more characters to the focus ship until the work is no longer in the spirit of the event.

If you find it impossible to create a work that does not have Jason and Tim in a polygamous relationship, perhaps this is not the event for you. However, you're in luck! DC Incest Week is August 24th–30th this year, and is totally down with poly-ships. If that's not to your taste and your poly-ship makeup involves the right characters, Poly RobinPile Week will run right after, from August 30th–September 5th.

Hi, I’m Nikki!

I’ve been a fan of Billy since 2017. Got into the fandom the moment I finished watching Season 2, and I’ve been drawing and writing about Billy ever since. Still can’t get tired of him!

Hi I'm Saf!

I am one of the mods who'll be handling social marketing and the graphics. I joined the Stranger Things fandom after S4 and fell in love with the Billy Hargrove character from the beginning. I think he is a misunderstood character, and he deserves a chance because he has the potential to better himself.

Hi, I'm ihni!

I've been in this fandom for A While (basically since Billy first showed up on screen), and he's been my #1 ever since. I write and doodle and sometimes I rhyme, but mostly and perhaps most importantly I try to always encourage others to do their Thing (yes, in that sense I'm an enabler). Fandom is a creative community, and I love it here.

Hi, I’m Suo!

In the Zine mod team I wear a lot of hats: I steer the zine as the head of the team, help the writers and I'm responsible for the layout of the zine.

Billy caught my eye the moment he stepped out of the Camaro on the high school parking lot when season 2 aired first time. However, it took me until season 4 to get really hooked and fall deep into the fandom when I rewatched the earlier seasons.

Hi, Anon! At its heart, this is a JayTim (or TimJay!) event—not a Jason&Tim event. Platonic in a non-sexy way is perfectly fine, but if you're planning to write fic to participate, we ask that it be at minimum pre-slash/pre-relationship. If that's not something that interests you, there are plenty of Batfam/DC gen events for you to participate in instead. For example, a quick check turned up both Batfamily Week and Robin Week which have yet to happen this year.

I have a hard time picturing what the different ratings of whumpiness mean and wondered if it would be possible to get some examples? It doesn't have to be for every level, just a few to get a general picture, but If it's too much trouble then there's no need to.

Thank you in advance.

Hi! It's a bit vague, I know, but it's just supposed to be a general guideline, given that what one person would label a three, others would put at an 8! Of course, it's almost impossible to have a global consensus on where these things would lie on the scale, so if there's something you know specifically that you don't want, feel free to drop it in the DNW section, and as always, proceed with caution. But to give you an idea of how we and our mods do it, here are some examples! (Obviously this will be explicitly mentioning some of the Worst Prompts, with themes like torture and SA, so proceed with caution. <5 will be below a 'keep reading' for this reason.) Note: Irrefutably SA prompts will *never* be included with a rating of 8 or below (by which I mean - some prompts could certainly be used in this way, but not necessarily, while others are very clearly SA related). ~1-2 - Things like low emotional distress, minor accidental injuries. Splinters, tears, papercuts, that sort of thing. The more angsty side of whump. ~3-5 - more intense, but quite vague - Bound, chained, hard to breathe, burned, caged, marked. Things that can be written more intensely, or less so, depending on preference.