The Locked Tomb Big Bang 2021

What is The Locked Tomb Big Resurrection Event?

TLT BRE is an event where authors, artists, and cosplayers come together to create wonderful creations. It starts with authors coming up with the synopses of the fics they will be writing. Cosplayers and Artists will be able to claim a fic they’d like to make art for. Each pair will work together and be able to hype each other up. At the end, they’ll be assigned a posting date where their fic and art will go live. Sign ups will be done via Google Forms and communication after that will take place in the official Discord server (an invite link will be sent after you sign up)

Authors:

Fics are to be a minimum of 10,000 words.

All ratings and topics are allowed, but we request that they be properly tagged in both the synopsis you submit and later on Ao3 when they are posted.

Works must be a part of The Locked Tomb fandom. Settings from other media are allowed, but characters are not.

Fics are to be posted in their completion. Multiple chapters are fine, but they need to be posted at the same time on the date assigned.

Artists: 

The minimum is at least one piece of art made to go along with the fic you claimed.

While color is not necessary, we do require that the art be finished and clean.

Art can be digital, hand-drawn, or hand-painted. Whichever materials you use (when choosing for traditional rather than digital) is completely up to you.

AI art is absolutely prohibited!

Cosplayers:

Cosplays of all levels are welcome, as long as they’re recognizable as the characters.

There should be at least one photo or video.

While cosplayers can claim an E-rated fic, they cannot cosplay anything explicit. This means: No nudity or sexual acts.

Additional rules:

While there is no age limit for participating, anyone under 18 may not write an E-rated work or create art for an E-rated work

Public progress updates or shout outs to your partner are totally allowed! It doesn’t need to be a secret that you’re participating in the TLT BRE, but finished text and art should be saved until your posting date.

We aren’t going to have sign ups for beta readers. If you need a beta reader, the mods may be able to point you in a good direction, but they will not be assigned.

Any harassment or bullying will result in being banned from TLT BRE; they will be removed from the server and their work will not be included in the Ao3 collection or listed on any of our social media accounts.

Timeline:

Sunday, February 26th - Sunday, March 26th: Sign Ups Sunday, February 26th, 9 am EST: Sign ups begin! Sunday, March 26th, 11 pm EST: Sign ups end.

Sunday, April 2nd: TLT BRE Starts! While we encourage writers to begin their plotting or writing before this date, this is the official starting date. Synopses are due for writers today. 

Tuesday, April 4th - Friday, April 7: Viewing During this period, artists and cosplayers have a chance to view the synopses presented before claiming begins.

Saturday, April 8th - Friday, April 14th: Claiming Saturday, April 8th, 9 am EST: Claiming for artists and cosplayers begins! Artists and cosplayers can go through the synopses for fics in our Discord server and claim one during the initial phase. This is first-come, first-serve. There will be additional phases to ensure all fics get an artist or cosplayer.  Tuesday, April 14th, 11 pm EST: Claiming is closed.

Saturday, April 15th: Meet your Partner By this date, authors and artist/cosplayer pairings should have contacted and introduced themselves. If you’re having trouble contacting your partner, please reach out to the mods. 

April 30th : Check in One Check in with pairs to make sure that everything is coming along well with their work. This will be done via the Discord server.

May 28th: Check in Two Check in with pairs to make sure that everything is coming along well with their work. This will be done via the Discord server.

June 25th: Check in Three Check in with pairs to make sure that everything is coming along well with their work. This will be done via the Discord server.

Sunday, July 16th: Completion Date All art/cosplay and fics should be completed by this date.

Wednesday, July 19th: Posting Dates Assigned Pairings will get the dates and times to post their works. 

Sunday, July 23rd - Sunday, August 6th: Post Works All fics and artwork/cosplays will be posted in these two weeks!

[ID: A drawing of Harrow Nova, Reverend Daughter Gideon, Crux, and Ninth House penitents from The Locked Tomb trilogy. They are in a dark corridor. They all wear skull face paint. Gideon stands in the center. She has brown skin, short cropped red hair, and golden eyes. She wears a black cloak, robes, and bone jewelry. A gold halo glows behind her head. She holds the hands of a pilgrim, who bows their head in deference. Harrow stands looking at her feet to the far right. A tear slips down her cheek. She has shaven black hair, brown skin, and black eyes. She wears a sleeveless turtleneck, black cloak, bone rosary, and belt. She holds a chain in one hand. A rapier is belted at her hip. Crux walks on in front of her. He wears armor and a black cloak. He is hunched over and uses a walking stick. A crowd of penitents wearing black robes, hoods, veils, and bone jewelry pass by. End ID]

Here’s my art piece based on @lesbitomboyish ’s fic ”The sound of silence” I made for @tltbb ! The tattoo stencil design is based on @melli4uhbees ’s gorgeous tattoo design. I highly recommend checking them both out!

A fun tattoo design I made for @lesbitomboyish 's fic "Sound of Silence"

Check out my other piece to see it on Gideon!

Art for @lesbitomboyish 's fic "Sound of Silence" for The Locked Tomb Big Bang 2021!

It's soooo good! Go Read it!

Check out the tattoo by itself too

[ID: a nine-part square moodboard used as playlist cover art. From left to right: a white, blond woman's face cropped to center on a violet eye; a line of ornate, wall-mounted rapiers; a partially melted analog clock; a brunette white man with tousled hair in profile; a black square with white text in capital letters reading, "we have each other."; a white woman with long blonde hair in a complex braid facing away from the viewer; an overhead shot of a long, descending spiral staircase; a gold-lined enamel pin of two hands in a pinkie promise gesture, one white and one black; a cluster of purple amethyst. End ID.]

we have each other

a playlist for the fic "Purgatory is Mandatory" by urban-sith/doodleishere on ao3

→ READ IT HERE

There is an arm that isn’t supposed to be attached. There is a soul that is supposed to be attached but isn’t. The House appears to be in its usual degree of decay. Ianthe looks over at the other bed, and there she is: Corona, sleeping soundly. If Ianthe focuses really hard, she can hear Babs’ snoring in the room over too. An arm that shouldn’t be there. A soul that should. A house not demolished. A twin safe and sound. For lack of being able to think anything else, Ianthe whispers aloud, “What the fuck is going on?” (Or, alternatively: Ianthe figures out the true secrets of Lyctorhood while stuck in a time loop at Canaan House.)

TRACKLIST (links go to individual songs on YouTube)

1. “Every Tear Disappears” by St. Vincent 2. “In the Next Life” by Kim Petras 3. “L.E.S. Artistes” by Santigold 4. "Here it Goes Again" by OK Go 5. “You’re at the Party” by Lemon Demon 6. “Dread in My Heart” by Mother Mother 7. “Run Me Out” by Zola Jesus 8. “Lo Vas A Olvidar” by Billie Eilish, ROSALÍA 9. “Get Home” by Bastille 10. “Thousand Eyes” by Of Monsters and Men 11. “Exile Vilify” by The National 12. “Let Me Down Gently” by La Roux 13. “Long & Lost” by Florence + the Machine 14. “Cry for Judas” by The Mountain Goats 15. “Someday (triple j Like a Version)” by Julia Jacklin 16. “Ribcage” by Mary Lambert, Angel Haze, K.Flay 17. “Goddess” by BANKS 18. “Lay Me Down (Flume Remix)” by Sam Smith, Flume 19. “There is a Light That Never Goes Out” by The Dum Dum Girls 20. “Sister” by K.Flay

Chapters: 1/7 Fandom: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus Characters: Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Camilla Hect, Palamedes Sextus Additional Tags: TLT Big Bang 2021, Tattoo AU, Content Warning: Ianthe Tridentarius, Enemies to Lovers, Canon-Typical Meme Reference, Autistic!Harrow, ADHD!Gideon Summary:

as written for @tltbb

thank you to @margaret-rhee for her excellent beta-ing and to @melli4uhbees and @cornedbeefyness for their amazing art!

rating: teen

relationship: gideon nav/harrowhark nonagesimus

word count: ~31,000

summary:

Fifteen years after the death of John Gaius, the Blood of Eden controls his former empire, Commander Wake at its head. The Houses survived Domincus’ implosion, with one exception: the Ninth, which refused all evacuation efforts and died with its planet. But Gideon Una, Wake’s daughter and heir to Eden’s throne, thinks her childhood best friend Harrowhark Nonagesimus may still live, and she wants her back.

And she’s not above dressing a random chick in bone jewelry if she has to.

(An Anastasia AU)

>>read here on ao3!<<

art:

Nona/Harrow by melli4uhbees (also in gif form!)

A comic that I made for the Locked Tomb Big Bang 2021 for the fic “marvelous and dangerous” by @eviefrie

@melli4uhbees was another artist for this fic so go check them out!

Follow my twitter for more tlt art

[ID: A comic of Harrow and Gideon from The Locked Tomb trilogy. Gideon has brown skin, short red hair, and golden eyes. She wears a white button up shirt. She wipes blood from Harrow’s cheek with a cloth. Harrow has light brown skin, chin length black hair, and black eyes. She says, “Who wipes blood off of your face?” Gideon pauses before saying, “What?” Harrow says, “Gideon, who wipes blood off of your face?” Gideon looks confused and says, “There isn’t any blood on my face…”

Harrow says, “But if there was. Who would wipe it off?” Exclamation points appear next to Gideon’s face as she realizes. She laughs and says, “I’ll tell you what, if I ever get blood on my face, you can be the one to wipe it off. Okay?”

"How do you become someone you've forgotten you ever were?"

Drawn for "marvelous and dangerous" by @eviefrie for TLT Big Bang 2021

hi everyone!! so excited to post the first two chapters of my The Locked Tomb Big Bang fic @tltbb! if you like Ianthe Tridentarius, lots of thoughts on the bonds between a necromancer and a cavalier, and Groundhog Day time loops, you'll probably like this.

thank you @ecstatichorror @youweremyridehome and @afterword for being part of team sphenoid 💗💗💗 i love you all and i am so happy y'all took a chance on this fic. also thanks to @mamudoons for reading over the chapters later and helping make the fic even better 🌟🌟🌟

summary and links below!!!

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There is an arm that isn’t supposed to be attached. There is a soul that is supposed to be attached but isn’t. The House appears to be in its usual degree of decay. Ianthe looks over at the other bed, and there she is: Corona, sleeping soundly. If Ianthe focuses really hard, she can hear Babs’ snoring in the room over too.

An arm that shouldn’t be there. A soul that should.

A house not demolished. A twin safe and sound.

For lack of being able to think anything else, Ianthe whispers aloud, “What the fuck is going on?”

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Or, alternatively: Ianthe figures out the true secrets of Lyctorhood while stuck in a time loop at Canaan House.

fic:

artwork by @youweremyridehome:

artwork by @afterword (twitter is @rosefinchie):

also!! a playlist made by @ecstatichorror!!! as a surprise!!!!

[image ID: Ianthe, a pale-skinned young woman with dirty blonde hair in a haphazardly tied ponytail is reading a piece of paper in her left hand. She is shown from a low angle so that the bland and bare ceiling and lamp of the 4th House’s room can be seen. Her eyes are slightly red from her recent episode and there are faint dried tear tracks across her cheeks. The contents of the paper in her hand are obscured but through her terminally bored expression a glimmer of concern is visible. end ID]

An illustration i did for chapter 4 of Purgatory is Mandatory by @urban-sith, created for The Locked Tomb Big Bang.

[image ID: Fish-eye view of distressed Ianthe at Canaan House with neon pink blood on her hands, lit by many suns in a purple and orange color scheme]

[ID: A drawing of Gideon from The Locked Tomb trilogy as Link from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. She has brown skin, short red hair, golden eyes, and pointed ears. She wears a tunic, pants, belts, and a sword scabbard on her back. Three large skeleton monsters with one horn on each of their heads surround her. Gideon frowns. She stands in a wide stance and swings a longsword low to destroy one of the monsters’ hands. A cloud of dust and bone shards borders the image. End ID]

This is my #zygomatic piece for The Locked Tomb Big Bang for the fic Throw Yourself into the Unknown with Pace and a Fury Defiant by @authortrash (advanced_fanatic on ao3). Our other artist was @totsacat.

[begin ID: a digital, coloured drawing with a slight fish-eye lens effect, featuring from left to right; Harrow, Gideon, Palamedes, and Camilla as they walk triumphantly through a large, marble archway. Harrow, who is Maori, with golden eyes, is wearing a nun outfit with a transparent black veil over her skeletally painted face. The corset of her nun outfit has a ribcage made of bone encasing it. She has a grim but determined expression, her forward hand in a fist. Gideon, who is also Maori, has red hair, black eyes, and more crudely painted skull paint. She's wearing a dark green shirt, black pants and cloak, with black shoes. She has a confident grin on her face and is gesturing to someone off-screen.