#shbb19

cynosure | pairing: magnus/alec | rating: teen and up | chapters: 4/?

written by @eternalalec | beta read by @mirrorofliterature 

Once upon a time, in a land of red sands and black seas, a prince is cursed to never find true love. His one salvation may be the mysterious merman fate seems to draw him to. If only time was not running out. 

A fairytale-esque story of curses, fate and the price of true love.

Authors, artists, and betas - welcome to the Shadowhunters Big Bang 2019!

The process

Authors sign up to write a fic and once they’ve got an idea of what they want to do, they share a summary to help betas artists claim the fic they want to work on/create art for. From there, the author works to finish their fic with their beta’s help and the artist works on creating an accompanying art piece before the due date!

Authors, you have two options when signing up: the big bang or the mini bang. The big bang has a minimum word count of 20k and the mini bang has a minimum word count of 10k. They both have the same deadlines, so you can choose whichever challenge you think you’re going to be able to do in the time!

Artists, you can get as creative as you want - every kind of art is welcomed here, whether that’s traditional or digital art, graphics, gifsets, fanmixes, fanvids or something else. You’ll need to make a minimum of one finished piece per fic you claim (though you can do more than that if you feel inspired, of course!).

Betas, you’re the cheerleaders and support system our writers need. Like the writers, you can choose whether you want to beta for a big bang fic or a mini bang fic, depending on how much time you can devote to critiquing and developing your writer’s fic.

Pinch hitters, you’re the saviours of the bang. If one of the artists or betas has to drop out, pinch hitters volunteer to step in.

Deadlines

May 17: sign ups open for writers, betas, artists and pinch hitters

May 23: sign ups close for writers, betas and artists

May 30: summaries due for writers (including rating and trigger warnings)

May 31: fic claims open for betas and artists

June 2: fic claims close

June 3: fic assignments given (depending on whether more rounds of claims are needed)

June 9: sign ups close for pinch hitters

July 1: mid way check in

July 29: final deadline for writers

July 30: final deadline for artists

August 1: posting!

Participation by minors

This is a fandom event open to everyone, but anyone 18 or over must clearly indicate they are an adult when they sign up, whether they are a writer, artist or beta. When claims open, if you are 18 or over it is up to you to make sure you don’t expose any minors to explicit content - this applies equally if your fic is explicit or if your art is explicit.

Accepted works

We’re looking forward to seeing everything you create - AUs, canon!verse, future fic - unleash your creativity!

However, this big bang will not support or endorse any works with the following main, endgame ships: Sebastian | Jonathan Christopher)/anyone, Camille/anyone, Jace/Alec, Alec/any woman, Maia/Jordan, nor will we support works with underage characters/pedophillia.

We also ask that you take care to avoid racist portrayals of characters of colour and homophobic or transphobic portrayals of LGBT characters (which includes mlm fetishisation).

This is the Shadowhunters Big Bang, so works are expected to primarily relate to the TV show rather than book!verse.

Sign up here!

Any questions?

If you have any questions, you can always drop us an ask! We also have an FAQ page on the SHBB19 blog.

Hey everyone!

We've almost reached the end of this year's Shadowhunters Big Bang and hope all of you had fun and are ready for posting on August 1st! The mods would like to thank you for participating - we're all very excited to see what you've created!

As a reminder, the deadlines are as follows:

All works MUST be finished by midnight on July 29th

All art MUST be finished by midnight on July 30th

Works cannot be published to Tumblr or other non AO3 sites until August 1st.

To explain how posting and submission is going to work:

AUTHORS

We have created an AO3 collection for this event. All work must be added to this collection before the deadline. The works will be revealed August 1st - this means that even if you add your work early, it will remain hidden until the posting date.

The work itself should include any archive warnings, triggers, and other relevant tags, as well as credit to your artist and beta. The only prerequisite regarding word count is that you hit the one you signed up for, e. g. multi-chapter fics for a 10k mini-bang should have a combined word count of 10k at the time of the deadline regardless of whether the story is finished or not. Your subsequent posting schedule is entirely up to you.

For those posting their fic early to the collection: don't forget that the published date will not be the reveal date and your fic will appear differently on AO3 if sorted by published date.

Tumblr posting will be done by the artists (see below). Should you not have an artist, or just want to post it yourself as well, please dont forget to tag it #shbigbang2019 so we can see and reblog it!

ARTISTS

Art must be posted on August 1st to Tumblr. Please link the corresponding fic and follow the tumblr posting instructions:

Please use the #shbigbang2019 tag and @shbigbang in the text!

ON THE SHBIGBANG BLOG

We will be creating a masterpost to ensure that all works, art pieces, and credits of collabs will be found in one place! For this, select one person in each team to send us an email which includes all of the following information by August 2nd exactly as it is presented below.

Format:

[Fic title] [Link to the fic on AO3] by [AO3 pseud] [Link to pseud] / @[Tumblr URL]

Rating: General Audiences/Teen and Up/Mature/Explicit

Archive warnings: No Archive warnings apply/Author chose not to use Archive warnings/Graphic depictions of violence/Major character death/Rape or non-con/Underage.

Important tags: Please limit to no more than 8 tags. This includes info like whether it’s canon-verse or AU, any warnings that might apply that aren’t archive warnings e.g. minor character death etc.

Main relationship(s): Please include the main couple(s). Any side or minor ships don’t need to be included.

Length: Big bang (20k) /mini bang (10k) / Bitty bang (5k)

Summary: This is not the summary you submitted back in January (though it can be). This is a summary as you would normally give fics on AO3.

Beta: @[Tumblr URL]

Art: [Type of art] by @[Tumblr URL]

Example:

Serendipity (https://archiveofourown.org/works/) by Shbigbang (https://archiveofourown.org/users/) / @shbigbang

Rating: Teen and Up

Archive warnings: No Archive warnings apply

Important tags: Canon-compliant, future fic, mentions of homophobia, 3 + 1 fic

Main relationship(s): Isabelle Lightwood/Maia Roberts, Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood

Length: Mini bang (10k)

Summary: Three times Isabelle joins Magnus and Alec at The Hunter’s Moon and ends up on an almost date with Maia, and one time she takes Maia on a proper date.

Beta: @shbigbang

Art: Gifset by @shbigbang

SUMMARY SUBMISSION IS OPEN

If you’ve signed up as a writer, submit your fic summary HERE. 

Summary submissions are due 30 May. Please make sure you get your summary in ahead of time so you’re not late!

Summaries must include: 

a synopsis of the fic 

the rating the fic will be given - use your judgement, but err on the side of caution and pick the rating above if you’re not sure (this is because we don’t want any minors to be exposed to explicit content) 

any warnings or triggers the fic includes 

the main ship and any side or background ships 

whether it’s a bitty bang (5k), mini bang (10k) or big bang (20k)

These summaries don’t have to be like a summary on AO3 (though they can be) and if your fic isn’t entirely sketched out yet, you don’t need to worry! As long as your overall idea and the main aspects of your fic are there, that’s fine. The purpose of the summaries is to provide betas and artists with as much information about the fic as possible, so they know whether they want to claim it. 

Please make sure you think about your summary before you submit it. As a general rule, we won’t accept changes to summaries until the writing process has begun proper (i.e after claims are over), so please think carefully about your fic before you submit your summary.

!! SIGN UPS ARE STILL OPEN UNTIL SUNDAY 26 MAY !!

We’re still accepting writers, betas, and pinch hitters who want to join us in this event until tomorrow, 26 May. 

Calling all artists!

We need more artists to take part in the bang to ensure every team has an artist. 

We take every kind of art: whether that’s traditional or digital art, graphics, gifsets, fanmixes, fanvids or something else. You’ll need to make a minimum of one finished piece per fic you claim. 

Please consider signing up! You can fill out the form here. 

The claims have now been finalised and a form with all the necessary information published. So please check your e-mail to see who you’re working with! And if you haven’t received said e-mail please message us asap so we can sent it to you.

A few fics have not been claimed yet - so if you’ve signed up as a pinch hitter or are willing to take on another assignment please take a look at the assignments document and check the fic summaries for additional content warnings. More information can be found in the e-mail,

Quick reminder that your next deadline is the mid way check-in on July 1st - until then, happy creating!

no problem. please come off anon and we’ll get in touch with the author - they might be planning to post today as there seems to have been some confusion around the deadline.

Sorry if it wasn’t clear, the writers’ deadline was 29th July so all works (ideally) needed to be added to the AO3 collection by then.