#submitted Feb 21

[itlivesproject]

That's right, folks, we finally have a date! Buckle up and prepare yourselves, because It Lives Within returns with its final three chapters the weekend of March 3!

Chapter 21: Vertigo Cave - Friday, March 3, 12 PM EST Chapter 22: Home At Last - Saturday, March 4, 12 PM EST Chapter 23: It Lives - Sunday, March 5, 12 PM EST

As part of the sendoff, the team has also decided to livestream a Q&A on our YouTube channel one week before release! That will be Saturday Feb 25 at 2 PM EST. We will post the link to the livestream when the time comes. You can start submitting questions HERE.

We can't wait to chat with you all, and we look forward to sharing the end of our journey with you. Thank you so much for your love and support along the way!

- The It Lives Project

#it lives within #playchoices #ilw #it lives in the woods #ilitw #it lives beneath #ilb #it lives anthology

[sidgenoangstfest]

Angst fest is back, baby!

This year the fest will be open to all Pens ships to maximize the angst potential.

Fluff is great, but sometimes one has the desire to be emotionally wrung out like a dishrag... The angst fest is a fun, low-stress prompt fest for angsty Pittsburgh Penguins fic and art. There are no signups and no prompt claims: write if the spirit moves you.

There are no content restrictions on prompts, but for posting purposes, we’ll have a separate section for prompts that fall under one of the AO3 content warnings (graphic depictions of violence, major character death, rape/non-con, and underage sex).

SUBMIT PROMPTS HERE until Feb 19th

Deadlines 2024: Prompts open: February 11 Prompts close: February 19 Stories due: March 19 Stories revealed: March 21

The fest has not run in a while so please read our updated About and Rules + FAQ page if you are interested in participating or send in an Ask if you have any further questions.

#hrpf #sidgeno #pittsburgh penguins #pens angst fest

[ffviirarepairweek]

FFVII Rare Pair Week 2024

Urban Dictionary defines rarepair as “A ship or pairing that not many people ship or is very rare to find fanfiction and fanart of. Typically happens within small fandoms or with minor characters.” So what’s your favourite Final Fantasy VII related rare pair? Do you have more than one? Here’s a chance to showcase them and help them move up from being rare! Not all parts of the pairing have to be from FFVII, and you don’t have to do the same pairing or group for the whole week! ** Pairings can be romantic or platonic. ** Below we have a list of prompts for this year. Feel free to be as creative with those as you want to, and take your time working on your entries, but please don’t forget to post them on the right date if you can. (But remember, no matter how late it’s better than never!)

For this event we are using a category approach. You can use the category as a theme for your prompt and the listed items suggested ideas. If none of the prompts give you any ideas, don’t worry! You can create anything you like for the week, provided it involves a rare pair! The goal of the week is to celebrate and share our rare pairs more than to just follow a list. Be it art, writing, mood boards, or even fic recs, just spread the love!

Feb. 16 | Day 1. Weather. Sunshine. Rain. Storms. The weather can create a meaningful moment, or a huge inconvenience. 

Feb. 17 | Day 2. Unexpected Challenges. How does your pairing deal with an unexpected challenge? (For example, they come back home from a trip to find the pipes have frozen and they have no running water. Is one of them using the last of the drinking water to save their dying house plants while the other is desperately melting snow to keep the humans alive?)

Feb. 18 | Day 3. Favourite Things. From favourite things about each other to favourite items of clothing stolen to wear around the house (much to the other’s chagrin), or favorite things to do for or with each other.

Feb. 19 | Day 4. Near Death Experiences. For the angst lovers, the whumpers, this could be a true near death experience. For the lighter side, it could be something much less serious but someone is clearly being dramatic for sympathy. 😀

Feb. 20 | Day 5. Free Day/Combo Day. Combo space to mix and match prompts from this year (or a previous year’s list) or go wherever your canoe takes you!

Feb. 21 | Day 6. Events. Holidays, celebrations, traditions. Whether it’s a joyful day like a birthday or one of mourning like a memorial, there are many days throughout the year that bring us together. What’s a day that’s important to your pairing, or a time that brought them together for something that isn’t part of their regular day to day?

Feb. 22 | Day 7. Stories. Stories play a big part in our lives. They inspire, they entertain, they teach. Is there a story that your characters hold dear, or that they recount often to friends (or their kids)? (Or is there a story about your rare pair that you want to recommend to others today?)

Need more inspiration? Our past prompt lists can be found below, and you’re welcome to use any of them!

2023 List | 2022 List | 2020 List | 2019 List | 2018 List

Also, mod Asylos is taking requests for things to write again this year. That’s right, you can get something written for your rare pair, and not just do all the heavy lifting yourself. Send in your requests as an ask any time now up until the end of the event week. 

Please remember to include the week’s tag (ffviirarepairweek) within the first 5 tags or else we might be unable to find your work! We will NOT accept/reblog anything containing Character/Ship Hate, so avoid including those in your entries. Also don’t repost anyone else’s work as your own! You are welcome to reblog other’s posts, but credit where credit is due. 

You can submit your works on AO3 to the event collection at https://archiveofourown.org/collections/FFVIIrarepairweek

And if you have any questions, don’t be afraid of sending in an ask.

We hope it turns out to be a fun event for everyone!

#ffviirarepairweek #prompts

[wingedwheel]

Ohio is quickly becoming the most restrictive state in the US for trans people. House Bill 68, which restricts, among other things, gender affirming care for minors, has already passed, and it is not the last, or even the worst, legislation trans people in Ohio are facing right now. New proposed administrative rules would ban trans healthcare outright under the age of 21, and make it so excessively difficult to access for anyone - it would require the approval of a bioethicist to be prescribed HRT, for instance - that it constitutes a de facto ban for everyone. I encourage everyone to read up on HB68 and the proposed rules, submit public comments on the Health Department administrative rules, and donate to the Trans Ohio emergency fund - with HB68 passed, its funds are already necessary and will only become more so.

Comments on the Health Department rules draft should be submitted to [email protected] no later than Monday, Feb. 5.

#x #i'm not someone who makes these posts but i've only seen one about hb68 not the new rules. and it was circulating bfore hb68 passed #transgender #ohio

[frobinfandays]

Welcome to #FRobinMonth2024, a whole month of #FRobin goodness! 06 Feb - 09 March

Week 1: 06 Feb - 13 Feb

Word prompt: Publisher Music prompt: Green Day - Extraordinary girl Visual prompt: Autumn bridge  Questions: 1) When did you start shipping Franky x Robin?   2) Who do you think is the most romantic one between the two? 

Week 2: 14 Feb - 21 Feb

Word prompt: Sunlight  Music prompt: Billy Joel - She’s Always A Woman Visual prompt: Winter rose Questions: 1) Do you have any FRobin merch, be it official or fan made?  2) What’s your headcanon for their future? 

Week 3: 22 Feb - 29 Feb

Word prompt: In your arms  Music prompt: Talking Heads - This must be the place  Visual prompt: Spring cat Question: 1) Which meme do you associate with Frobin?  2) Which is your favorite scene? 

Week 4: 01 Mar - 09 Mar

Word prompt: Blueprints  Music prompt: Walk the Moon - Shut up and dance Visual prompt: Summer train Question: 1) How did Robin apologize to Franky after squeezing his family jewels? 2) When did you start shipping Franky x Robin?

Additional Inspiration for the whole month: 

How do I participate?

Create something related to the prompts (one, two, or all three or just answer one or both questions) and our OTP. Upload it and enjoy that you created something.

But I can’t draw or write…

Don’t worry! There is so much more you can do! All forms of media/art are allowed! Editing a video, writing a fanfiction, formulating a headcanon or an analysis. Drawing a fanart, editing a graphic or creating a moodboard. Recording an audio or a musical composition, creating a playlist of songs, getting out your cosplay or doing a photoshooting with some merch you own, maybe giving a recommendation to a fanart or fanfiction! Also, for the first time we’ll add questions that you can write answers to! Just share your answers! 

Let’s get creative! Everything is welcome!

Don’t be shy with liking and reblogging each other’s work.

Will you reblog/retweet my work?

Heck, yeah we will! Please use the hashtag #FRobinMonth24 as the first tag (Tumblr) and tag us in your text @frobinfandays or, on Twitter, @FrankyAndRobin  or @frobin.bsky.social on bsky.

Rules:

Everyone is welcome to participate.

This is an event to celebrate the romantic involvement of Franky and Robin from One Piece, but portrayals of them as friends are welcome too! (But no other ships with either of them.)

No reposting of other people’s work! (Sharing a link is fine, using official works for edits is also fine.)

You are absolutely allowed to use the visual prompts in your work!

You do not need to have a Tumblr blog to participate on Tumblr. However, if you would like to see your work featured on the FRobinFandays blog, we need you to submit it to us. (You can stay anonymous if you want to.)

We’ll also have this event on Twitter! Post your stuff there too and tag the FRobin Twitter @FrankyAndRobin and also use the hashtag #FRobinMonth24.

First time we’ll also have this event on bsky @frobin.bsky.social and also just write FRobin in the post (I’m not sure how it works just yet). 

Everyone else feel free to check out what is happening on those social media platforms!

Sharing your links from Twitter on Tumblr (as a submission for example) and other social media sites is absolutely fine!

Don’t worry if you’re no native speaker. Write in the language you feel comfortable with!

(I don’t feel like it should have to be said but…) No bashing on other artists’ works or harassing others. Franky and Robin would never approve of bullying, and neither will we.

Please help to spread the word with spreading this post.

Have fun! <3

Feel free to ask, just leave a comment on this document, ask on Tumblr or on Twitter! 

Rules on Google

#FRobinMonth24 #FRobin #Cyborg Franky #Nico Robin #Franky x Robin #One Piece #Rules #long post #ship week #sorry for it taking so long #Youtube

[spntoxicfemslashevent]

full prompt list

hey everyone! this is the full february prompt list for this event. we're going to have six prompts every day, so it's big! smaller versions containing only some of the prompts are forthcoming. ideally a piece submitted for a certain day should be inspired by at least one of the prompts for that day.

[conceptual prompts only] [pairing prompts only] [format/style prompts only] [prompts by date] [submission guidelines] [intro post]

conceptual prompts:

feb 1: manipulation || rot || political play

feb 2: tied up || burning flesh || jealousy

feb 3: suburbia || betrayal/judas kiss || doll

feb 4: blackmail || cannibalism || age gap

feb 5: blasphemy || executioner || genderless

feb 6: “...and it felt like a kiss” || on the rack || handmaiden-feudal lord

feb 7: sainthood || blood || isolation

feb 8: poison/drugging || barefoot and pregnant || murder suicide

feb 9: scars || heaven and/or hell || voyeurism

feb 10: shallow grave/midnight gardening || exes || serial killer(s)

feb 11: crossdressing || corpse || brat

feb 12: war/opposite sides || soulmates || guts/gore

feb 13: demonization || immortality || "forgive me father"

feb 14: unrequited || butch || imprisonment

feb 15: high school sweethearts || justifications || resurrection

feb 16: stabbing || masturbation || somnophilia

feb 17: turn the straight girl || kidnapping || ritual sacrifice

feb 18: stalking || substance use/abuse || comp het

feb 19: amnesia/mindwipe/lobotomy || flogging || forcefem

feb 20: vessel || make each other worse || gothic

feb 21: mistress || forced marriage || petplay

feb 22: demon deal || power imbalance || state of mind/dreams/confusion

feb 23: experiment || bastard child || what happened to her first husband/wife?

feb 24: curses || possession || infidelity

feb 25: controlling || temptation || "i ran into a door"

feb 26: victim || right hand || true crime

feb 27: humiliation || dubious consent || brainwashing

feb 28: family || true form || obsession

feb 29: closeted || sins of the father || not passing the bechdel test

pairing prompts:

feb 1: rowena mcleod/billie

feb 2: linda tran/ofc

feb 3: hannah/naomi

feb 4: rowena mcleod/alicia banes

feb 5: raphael/billie

feb 6: amelia novak/naomi

feb 7: abaddon/colette mullen

feb 8: ruby/astaroth

feb 9: cassie robinson/fem!dean winchester

feb 10: linda tran/mary winchester

feb 11: cassie robinson/meg masters

feb 12: linda tran/abaddon

feb 13: risa (endverse)/meg masters

feb 14: kelly kline/dagon

feb 15: linda tran/tasha banes

feb 16: billie/amara/the empty (meg)

feb 17: meg masters/jo harvelle

feb 18: patience turner/claire novak

feb 19: mary winchester/antonia bevell

feb 20: lily sunder/claire novak

feb 21: bela talbot/ruby

feb 22: patience turner/magda peterson

feb 23: fem!castiel/fem!crowley

feb 24: missouri moseley/ellen harvelle

feb 25: jody mills/donna hanscum

feb 26: lily baker/lilith

feb 27: hannah/caroline johnson

feb 28: raphael/naomi

feb 29: eileen leahy/mary winchester

format/style prompts:

day 1: canon divergent || drabble (exactly 100 words)

day 2: canon character/oc || traditional art

day 3: scifi au || non-traditional art medium

day 4: post-canon || gifset

day 5: canon compliant || metered poetry

day 6: reverse!verse/roleswap || sketch

day 7: epistolary || flash fiction

day 8: episode rewrite || fanmix

day 9: gender changes - het to femslash || script format

day 10: canon a little to the left || headcanon

day 11: outsider pov || fancam

day 12: 5 + 1 || exquisite corpse/round robin

day 13: for want of a nail || sequel

day 14: dark fluff || webweave

day 15: vignettes/fragments || fansong

day 16: polyamory || abstract

day 17: unreliable narrator || screencap edit

day 18: meta plot/metafandom/carver edlund novels || non-song based fanvid

day 19: crossover/fusion || multimedia

day 20: trans headcanon || podfic

day 21: humor || amv

day 22: au || fiber arts

day 23: gender changes - slash to femslash || comic

day 24: pre-canon || digital art

day 25: omegaverse || sentence fics

day 26: mundane au || photography

day 27: selfcest || freeverse poetry

feb 28: character study || fanwork-of-a-fanwork

feb 29: rashomon style || fic rec list

#housekeeping #spntoxicfemslash #prompt #long post

[spnpocdirectory]

The purpose of this event is to get POC members of the supernatural fandom to share their culture and language with the rest of the fandom through supernatural content. We hope that this event will serve as a platform for spnblr to learn about other cultures and languages so that we can become a more accepting community.

To participate, tag us (@spnpocdirectory) on your post and/or add the hashtag #pocnaturalculturalexchange. If we miss out on your post feel free to DM it to us! You can also submit any kind of new content and tag us in any old content of yours that fits any prompt.

RULES

You have to be POC to participate

You are only allowed to make content of your own culture in order to prevent sterotypes and another princess hamlet situation

No w*ncest or w*nkline shippers are allowed to participate; we would prefer if you do not interact with any posts from this event as well

Content which includes angel/angel pairings will not be reblogged

Content which includes Kaia that is not created by indigenous people will not be reblogged

You are free to participate even if an admin has you blocked for personal reasons, just DM this account the post if we miss out on it!

PROMPTS - below cut

(you may follow either or all three of the daily prompts)

feb 20: food / snacks / colour scheme:

feb 21: clothing / accessories / colour scheme:

feb 22: dance / music / colour scheme:

feb 23: traditions / festivals / colour scheme:

feb 24: folklore / supernatural beings / colour scheme:

feb 25: free day / colour scheme:

#pocnatural #spn event #supernatural #spn #pocnaturalculturalexchange #spn events

[apothybang]

Timeline of Events

FEB 13: discord invites sent out FEB 14-28: brainstorm period FEB 29: writer forms sent out MAR 9: artist/beta forms sent out MAR 16-19: form review & team assignment MAR 20: teams announced MAR 21: work period begins APRIL 5: check-in #1 APRIL 26: check-in #2 MAY 3: check-in #3 MAY 24: check-in #4 JUNE 14: check-in #5 JULY 5: check-in #6 (final) JULY 12: posting time selection JULY 17: final work day JULY 22: posts submitted to blog JULY 24-27: posting

Hi! This is our timeline on how we plan for this event to go. If there's any questions or concerns feel free to ask and if you notice that it may not work for you and you want to drop out don't be afraid to tell us we understand :3

We are also currently working on a little mod intro post as well as a FAQ so that should be coming as well!

#mod space

[openheartfanfics]

Newly Added Fics

Feb 17 - 23, 2024  

🎭 Angst  |  🦚 Angsty Fluff  |  🛸 AU  |  ☁ Fluff  |  ♥ NSFW  |  📚 Series  |  📷 Edit  |  📱 TextFic  |  Ⓜ Mature

Bryce x F!MC

A Dinomite Find - @storyofmychoices 📱

Bryce discovers dinosaur chicken nugget pillows and they are a must!

From the Nest to Flying Free - @dalishessence 📚🛸

[extended: wip] In another life, Bryce Lahela met Samantha Shepard and their relationship went from friends to lovers.

CH 1: Hatchling in the Nest

Untitled Fic - @sunshine-gumdrop ☁

Bryce shows he earned the Golden Retriever nickname.

Ethan x F!MC

Beach Cleanup Date - @liaromancewriter 📷

Cassie brings Ethan along for her annual beach cleanup volunteer gig.

Birthday As A Mom - @potionsprefect 📷

Victoria celebrates her first birthday as a mother.

When life has other plans - @coffeeheartaddict2 📚🛸

[extended: wip] A competition has commenced for the interns at Edenbrook hospital. A horrid first day leads to an unexpected test of a new machine but what is Dr. Ethan Ramsey hiding?

CH 11: Let’s Play Ball

Open Heart MC

Green-Eyed Girl - @liaromancewriter 📱

Random convo between Cassie and Max about family traits.

Rafael x F!MC

Moving In - @rafasgirl23415 📚​

[extended: wip] Follow up to We Belong Together. Set a few years into the future.

CH 20: Daddy's Special Girl

CH 21: Sienna’s Dream Wedding  Feat. Sienna x M!OC

Tobias x F!MC

Happy 40th Tobias! - @jerzwriter 📷

Tobias turns 40 today, and his wife and bestie are there to make it Insta-official.

Part 1

Part 2

Love in the Afternoon - @storyofmychoices ☁

Tobias and Casey enjoy an afternoon dance.

Not So Fast - @jerzwriter ☁💘

It's their fourth third Valentine's Day together, and it looks a little different than the rest. Still, all is going well until Tobias drops a little bombshell.

_

SUBMIT OPEN HEART FICS & WRITERS HERE

#open heart #open heart fanfics #open heart fanfiction #playchoices #choices fanfics #choices fanfiction #open heart choices #bryce lahela #bryce lahela x mc #ethan ramsey #ethan ramsey x mc #rafael aveiro #rafael aveiro x mc #sienna trinh #sienna trinh x oc #tobias carrick #tobias carrick x mc #newly added fics

[scottappreciation]

Scottuary3 Week 3 Round-Up!

every week of february, we’ll post a masterlist of all the fics posted for that week. the bingo card represents all the fics posted within that time period, with each new line in a square representing a fic.

FEB. 15-21, 2024

things got bad, and got worse (it's better now), by @letthestorieslive

when next week comes (and you have no idea where to go from here) , by @scribeoffate

Permanence, by @scribeoffate

wash it away, sleep it away, by @domesticated-feral

My Best Friend, Scott and I, by @domesticated-feral

A Performance Evaluation on Hercules's Twelfth Labor, by @princeescaluswords

Click here for a blank bingo card + the list of rules!

When you submit a fic, make sure to request to add it to the collection—Ao3 changed their system and we can't invite fics to collections on our end, as all users' default settings switched to not allow invites.

#scott mccall #teen wolf #tyler posey #sciles #truedemon #scottuary2024 #scottuary

[cap-ironman]

Who doesn’t love a bit of angst? Get your Cap-IM RBB drafts in by the end of Feb 21

Submit your RBB entry by the end of Feb 21, whenever Feb 21 ends in the world -- fanworker information can be found here.

#stevetony #stony #superhusbands #capimevents #capimrbb

[ffviirarepairweek]

FFVII Rare Pair Week 2023

Urban Dictionary defines rarepair as “A ship or pairing that not many people ship or is very rare to find fanfiction and fanart of. Typically happens within small fandoms or with minor characters.” So what’s your favourite Final Fantasy VII related rare pair? Do you have more than one? Here’s a chance to showcase them and help them move up from being rare! Not all parts of the pairing have to be from FFVII, and you don’t have to do the same pairing or group for the whole week! Below we have a list of prompts for this year. Feel free to be as creative with those as you want to, and take your time working on your entries, but please don’t forget to post them on the right date if you can. (But remember, no matter how late it’s better than never!)

For this event we are using a category approach. You can use the category as a theme for your prompt and the listed items suggested ideas. If none of the prompts give you any ideas, don’t worry! You can create anything you like for the week, provided it involves a rare pair! The goal of the week is to celebrate and share our rare pairs more than to just follow a list. Be it art, writing, mood boards, or even fic recs, just spread the love!

Feb. 16 | Day 1. Valentines/Galentines/FriendsDay. February is the home of Valentine’s Day - do they celebrate? If it’s a platonic pairing, do they do something on that day to celebrate their friendship?

Feb. 17 | Day 2. Music. Making music. Listening to music. Dancing to music. Workout music. Theme songs. (Or maybe putting on a song and taking inspiration from that song on what to write.)

Feb. 18 | Day 3. Self Care. Spa days. Cooking for each other. Bubble baths. How do they relax together, or give each other space to relax?

Feb. 19 | Day 4. Costumes. Masks. Disguises. Undercover. Parties. Holidays. Roleplay.

Feb. 20 | Day 5. Transitions. There are many transitions in life that can be meaningful. The transitions of night to day, the transitions from one job to the next, a move from one place to another, from single to married to widowed. What’s a transition that was important to your characters?

Feb. 21 | Day 6. Combo Day (mix and match, take any prompts and combine them!)

Feb. 22 | Day 7. Free Day

Need more inspiration? Our past prompt lists can be found below, and you’re welcome to use any of them!

2022 List

2020 List

2019 List

2018 List

Also, mod Asylos is taking requests for things to write! That’s right, you can get something written for your rare pair, and not just do all the heavy lifting yourself. Send in your requests as an ask to this blog any time now up until the end of the event week. 

Please remember to include the week’s tag (ffviirarepairweek) within the first 5 tags or else we might be unable to find your work! We will NOT accept/reblog anything containing Character/Ship Hate, so avoid including those in your entries. Also don’t repost anyone else’s work as your own! You are welcome to reblog other’s posts, but credit where credit is due.

You can submit your works on AO3 to the event collection at https://archiveofourown.org/collections/FFVIIrarepairweek

And if you have any questions, don’t be afraid of sending an ask.

We hope it turns out to be a fun event for everyone!

#ffviirarepairweek

[vesuviaweekly]

Vesuvia Weekly: Prompt for Feb 7 - 21

You voted, so here it is!

The Impulsive Thoughts Won

With that, the "borrowing clothes" prompt is officially closed!

The tags are the usual #vesuvia weekly and for this specific prompt, #impulsive thoughts won. The masterlist for all works submitted for this prompt will be under the poll for next week :D

MASTERLIST

Playing Cards by @fox-daddy

Impulsive Thoughts Double Feature by @mermaidchan05

#vesuvia weekly #impulsive thoughts won #the arcana #the arcana game #the arcana fanfic #the arcana fanart #the arcana headcanons #the arcana hc

[jb-smut-swap]

🚨🚨🚨 Sign Ups Open 🚨🚨🚨

Calling all obscenity enthusiasts – The Exchange That Was Promised: Jaime x Brienne Smut Swap 2023 is here!

How The Smut Swap Works:

Interested writers will sign up and will then be assigned prompts from another participant. They must then write one completed fic, rated M or E, incorporating one (or more) of these prompts. Fics are then posted anonymously between February 10 and February 12, with the big writer reveal on February 18!

By the end of the exchange, you will have written one smutty fic for another writer, and someone will have written one smutty fic for you.

Similar to other exchanges, if you’d like to participate, you will:

Sign up via a Google form;

Fill out a prompt survey on said form, and

Be matched to someone for whom you will write a fic using their prompt fills.

This exchange will be different in a few ways:

Like it says on the tin, this is for smut only, so all fics will be rated M or E for sexual content. All participants must be willing and able to write something of a sexual nature.

There will not only be a minimum word count (500 words), there will also be a maximum word count (5,000 words).

One of your prompts must be audio or visual in nature — a song, video, photo, moodboard, .gif, podcast, etc.

Due to the subject matter and ratings, only writers ages 18+ are invited to participate.

Important Note:

You must have an AO3 account to participate. If you do not have an AO3 account, you can either request one via the AO3 website or reach out to the organizers (@wildlingoftarth and @bussdowntarthiana​​) or this Tumblr account for an invite via the ask box.

Key Dates:

Nov 21 - Sign-ups are open. You will submit your prompts when you sign up.

Nov 25 - Sign-ups close

Nov 29 - Prompt matches sent out

Feb 10 to Feb 12 - Fics posted to AO3 collection

Feb 18 - Writers revealed

More detailed information will be posted with the sign-up link, and posting instructions will be shared after matches are sent out.

Sign up link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Questions? Put 'em in our ask box or email [email protected].

#jaime x brienne #braime #brienne of tarth #jaime lannister #jb smut swap 2023 #jb smut swap

[theterrorreversebang]

The Terror Reverse Bang 2023 🔄💥

TL;DR -> Mini Reverse Bang. 2 artworks. 7500 words. Sign up in December. Post in May.

Tumblr | Twitter | Discord

Hello hello! The Terror Reverse Bang (TTRB) is a creative event for fans of season 1 of AMC's The Terror. 

In a regular big bang event, writers create fic and artists create artwork to go along with it. Here, we flip it and reverse it: artists create the concept and pair up with writers to create the story.

This year's TTRB will be a mini-bang: minimum of 2 pieces of art and 7500 words of fic (though if you find yourselves making or writing more then GO FOR IT) We'll be tracking #the terror reverse bang 2023 on tumblr and #theterrorreversebang2023 on twitter.

See more details about how this all works below, and rules at the bottom.

Event schedule

Sign-ups                                                 Dec 15 - Jan 2

Artist Concept elaboration phase            Jan 2 - Jan 15

Claims phase                                                Jan 16 - 28

Artist Concepts due                                Jan 16

Claims form opens                                   Jan 18

Writers Claims due                                  Jan 20

1st round claims                                        Jan 21

Round 2 - as needed

Working Phase                                              Jan 21 - Apr 30

Check-in 1 - Artist                          Feb 28th

Check-in 2 - Writer                    Mar 31st

Check-in 3 - Artist                   Apr 15th

Check-in 4 - Writer                    Apr 25th

Deadline, all works                                   Apr 30

Posting begins                                                May 1

Sign-up phase | Dec 17 - Jan 2

Once the sign-up period opens you can sign up for TTRB using an online form (link to follow). 

You can sign up as an artist, writer, beta reader, pinch hitter, or combination of the above.

This event is a mini-bang. It’s meant to be light and easy compared to a normal-sized big bang event. But even a mini bang is a significant commitment of time and energy! 

We TTRB mods ask, before you sign up, that you consider the time investment of participating in this event against your plans and obligations in the coming months and make sure you can confidently make a commitment. Dropping out is a fact of life in fandom events and we'll do everything we can to make it work if it happens, but the easiest way to avoid the chaos of drop-outs is to make sure you can participate in this event in light of whatever else you've got going on.

Once you've signed up we'll add you to the participants roster and artists can start working on their concepts (though you're welcome to start earlier if inspiration strikes!).

Feel free to follow us on tumblr and twitter for updates, and join the event discord server if that's your jam.

Concept phase | Jan 2 - Jan 15

Artists will have two weeks from the time sign-ups close to produce a concept that we'll use in the claims form.

Your concept shouldn't be a finished piece. It can be a sketch, a moodboard, reference photographs or images, anything that the writers can use to get a feel for the story you're trying to tell. That said -  it should be visual.

Your concept should be something that you haven't posted or communicated to others in the fandom before.

It can be an idea you've had as a WIP for a while! But in order to be as fair and impartial as possible during the claims process it's important that your concept be a new idea that others in the fandom haven't seen already.

Can I submit more than one concept?

If you feel confident you can invest the time and effort to create artwork for two concepts then yeah, absolutely. There will be an option in the concept submission form to submit a 2nd concept. 

We're expecting the number of writers to be slightly higher than the number of artists so two concepts is not at all a problem - so long as you have the time and energy to invest in supporting two writing partners!

During the claims period we will pair off everyone’s 1st concept first and then dip into 2nd concepts if we have additional writers. 

I'm not sure what you mean by concept?

Two weeks isn't a lot of time to produce artwork (you speed demons aside!) but it should be enough time for you to come up with some early sketches that will help your writer understand the story you want to tell. Any references you're using or a moodboard is also helpful. All we need at the end of the concept phase is enough content for the writers to be able to know which ideas they're interested in writing for. If this still doesn't make sense, feel free to ping the mods and we'll figure it out together.

Claims phase | Jan 16-28

Artists: you'll fill out a form (link to come) with your concepts, a short blurb, the key ships and characters, content and trigger warnings, and the fic rating you have in mind. The mods will take these submissions and collect them into a claims form for the writers.

Your concepts are due Jan 16th.

Writers: when claims open you'll get a link to the claims form where you'll see the concepts. You'll be able to select your first, second, and third preference from the list. You’ll have from Jan 18th - Jan 20th to submit your preferences. 

Concepts must not be discussed, publicly or elsewhere, during the claims phase. This is to ensure the fairness of the claims process.

Starting on Jan 21st, the mods will go through and match artists to writers per your preferences. We’ll send an email to each pairing with the result. These emails should go out no later than Jan 21.

Depending on how many participants we get, we might need to do a second round of claims. If this happens, that'll take place the second week of the claims period. We'll keep going until every concept has a writer assigned to it.

There is a slim chance, given the historical trend of writers-to-artists in Terror fandom events, that not every writer who signs up will get assigned to an artist. If that happens please please don't take it personally or as any kind of comment on your writing ability. The claims process is both anonymized and randomized - we don't actually know who you are when we're pairing up participants. But if it does happen, we hope you'll still participate as a beta reader and/or pinch hitter!

What should go in the blurb for my concept?

Imagine you're describing your idea to a friend in their DMs. That's what the blurb should be. It can be short and very vague, or hyper-detailed and specific. But there will be a 300 word cap, so the writers can read through all the available concepts in a reasonable amount of time.

What if I don't know all the ships or characters who will show up in the story?

That's ok! Stories evolve as they go. But you should know who the main characters are, that way the writers can make sure they're choosing concepts they know they can write for.

What if I don't know what content or trigger warnings my story will have?

That's ok too! But if you're anticipating including content that falls under the standard AO3 content warnings (non-con, graphic violence, character death) or content that you suspect might be worth a content warning, call it out here. Again, this is just to make sure that writers choose the concepts that they're best able to write for!

What if I don't know what rating my story will be?

Mark down if you know your concept will involve NSFW content or not. Not all writers are comfortable writing explicit content - though some are and that's absolutely what they're looking for. Here's a link to the rating descriptions on AO3.

Working phase | Jan 21 - Apr 30

Time to get down to it!

For the next 14 weeks writers will write and artists will art. 

Again, this is a mini-bang, so the requirements are 2 pieces of visual art and 7500 words of fic at a minimum.

We'll have regular WIP Wednesdays in the discord server for both artists and writers to help keep you motivated!

On Thursdays, we'll solicit submissions for Sneak Peeks - sketches and snips that you and your partner are comfortable with us sharing on the event blog! (Promotion doesn't come easy for everyone, so let us do it for you!) These are absolutely not required but if you want to share and help build hype for the event then please do!

We'll also have four check-ins with each team throughout the working phase: two check-ins for the artist and two for the writer. Each check-in form will cover the works from both partners - just to make sure you're on track to finish by the deadline and you don't need any help from the mod team.

As for how you work with your partner - that is 100% up to you so long as you're ready to post on the deadline. If you want to collaborate heavily with each other, that's great! Artists, if you want to be surprised by the fic then tell your writer so, though they'll probably still have questions for you. If you want to check in with each other once a week or so and share WIPs back and forth, also great. Whatever works for you and your process, so that both partners reach the end with something they're proud of.

During the working period works should be kept between the partners and the event discord, to avoid spoilers. This is another reason why we'll do Sneak Peek Thursdays!

Deadline -- Apr 30

All fics need to be posted to the AO3 collection and all artwork ready to go by Apr 30. Writers, we'll provide you with a guide on posting to a moderated collection. This can be a bit unnerving!

Artists should post their artwork to the platform of their choice on their scheduled posting date, the same date the mods release the fic.

How many works per day and how long the posting period runs will depend on how many works we end up with. Might be a few. Might be a lot! The mod team will be in communication with you about it as the date approaches.

We'll also make a post on the event blog for each piece, with links back to the fic and art. And at the end of the event we'll post a master list of everything you've created, and pin it to the event blogs for reference.

We'll be using #the terror reverse bang 2023 on tumblr and #theterrorreversebang2023 on twitter for updates and posting works

And that's it! That's our show. We'll be using #the terror reverse bang 2023 on tumblr and #theterrorreversebang2023 on twitter for updates and posting works

Rules

This is a Terror event and as such the fanart and fanfic should be for The Terror. Any and all AUs are fair game, as are supporting OCs - so long as it's still a fanwork for The Terror

Explicit content is allowed and encouraged! Explicit content must be appropriately tagged with the appropriate ratings and content warnings / trigger warnings.

Concepts should be original to this event, as in a concept that hasn't been posted to social media or discussed with other members of the fandom. This allows claims to be as impartial as possible, so all the participants have the opportunity to work on a concept that matches their preferences as best possible.

During the working phase, if your partner doesn't respond to you for two weeks, please inform the mods immediately so we can begin the process of hunting for a pinch hitter.

If at any point you find yourself unable to complete your art / fic, please inform the mods ASAP. Dropping out of the event, while not the outcome anyone hopes for, is something that happens from time to time. No harm, no foul - but the sooner you let us know the better chance we have of finding a pinch hitter or making other arrangements. Waiting until the last second will leave your partner and the people cheering for you disappointed - so let us know if you run into trouble!

Art and fic should be posted as complete works on the assigned posting date. Fics are to be posted all at once. Installments are not allowed. Art should be posted as a final polished piece, not a WIP or a sketch. 

If you have any other questions please let us know!

❤️, TTRB

#the terror #amc the terror #the terror reverse bang 2023 #the terror reverse bang #WOOOOOO GET HYPED

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There’s a “new wisdom” making the rounds in foreign-policy circles in Washington. It goes something like this: Israelis were so traumatized by Hamas’s brutal invasion on Oct. 7 that they can’t think straight about their interests. This is the reason why 85% of Israelis oppose Palestinian statehood and 99 out of 120 Knesset members voted for a resolution opposing unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by foreign governments on Feb. 21.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew took the new line public. In his address on Feb. 18 before the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations meeting in Jerusalem, he asserted therapeutically that “discussing” Palestinian statehood “is a huge challenge for a nation still in a state of trauma.”

On Thursday, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates made a similar argument in a conversation with The Washington Post’s David Ignatius. Gates acknowledged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state is shared by the people of Israel. Like Lew, he attributed Israel’s wall-to-wall opposition to a Palestinian state to “the traumatic effect on Israel of Oct. 7,” which, he asserted, “had a huge impact psychologically inside of Israel.”

The “new wisdom” that Israelis are acting out of trauma is deliberately manipulative. Obviously, Israelis were traumatized by Oct. 7. The atrocities meted out that day by thousands of Palestinians—in and out of Hamas—against thousands of Israeli civilians and soldiers left a gaping hole in the hearts of every Israeli. How could it be otherwise? Any population in any country whose fellow citizens suffered far lesser atrocities simply because of their national identity would be traumatized.

But while it’s true that Israelis were traumatized by the slaughter that Black Shabbat, it doesn’t follow that their post-Oct. 7 positions are an emotional response to trauma, which Israelis can be expected to abandon once they get past their emotional angst.

As a people, Israelis have responded rationally and bravely to the events of that day. In the face of the Holocaust Hamas and its civilian followers enacted on southern Israel, Israelis immediately mobilized for war. The goal of the war—embraced by more than 90% of Israelis—is total victory over the enemy that did this.

Although it is seldom said outright by politicians afraid of American wrath, victory for Israelis means no Palestinian state—ever. This isn’t a vengeful or emotional determination. It is a rational understanding that Oct. 7 was the outcome of Palestinian statehood.

Gaza has been an independent Palestinian state since Israel withdrew all of its civilians and military forces in August 2005. The fact that the Palestinians chose not to present themselves as such doesn’t change the basic fact that they have been fully sovereign for more than 18 years.

Rather than build the institutions of a state, the Palestinians in Gaza, Judea and Samaria freely chose to be ruled by Hamas, which they overwhelmingly support. And as is the wont of jihadist terror groups, Hamas used its control over the Palestinian state in Gaza to build a sadistic death machine.

On Feb. 21, the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel submitted a 39-page report to the United Nations. Titled “Silent Cry: Sexual Crimes in the October 7 War,” the report details the systematic, methodical employment of gang rape, sexual mutilation and other sexual violence that Hamas employed against Israeli women, men, girls and boys at multiple locations on Oct. 7. The report demonstrates that sex crimes were a premeditated tactic deliberately deployed against the Israeli victims to cause maximum humiliation and trauma for the victims, the victims’ families and Israeli society as a whole.

When then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, he and his associates promised that free from Israeli control or presence of any kind, the Palestinians would turn Gaza into a Singapore. The Association of Rape Crisis Centers’ report served as yet another reminder of how deluded they were. Rather than build a mini-Singapore, the Palestinians chose to organize themselves around the doctrine of jihad and its call to annihilate Israel. The Palestinians chose this path and continue to support it in Gaza, Judea and Samaria because they are a jihadist society. Jihad, meaning Islamic holy war for global domination. It seeks the extermination, subjugation and humiliation of its perceived enemies, starting with the Jews.

The Palestinians have never hidden their jihadist sentiments and convictions. They call the Oct. 7 invasion and the current war “The Al-Aksa Flood.” Likewise, then PLO chief Yasser Arafat called the terror war he initiated against Israel in September 2000 the “Al-Aksa Intifada.” Palestinians view Al-Aksa, the mosque that stands at the center of the Temple Mount—Judaism’s holiest site—as the epicenter of their jihadist war to destroy the Jews and the Jewish state. Every aspect of Palestinian society is directed towards Al-Aksa.

For decades, Israeli supporters of the two-state solution insistently denied this basic truth about the nature of the Palestinian war against Israel. After Oct. 7, they were no longer able to do so. This is why today, 92% of Israeli Jews oppose Palestinian statehood. This is why the largely undiscussed “day after” vision for post-war Gaza—and indeed, post-war Israeli-Palestinian relations—is a vision in which there is no Palestinian state in Gaza or Judea and Samaria.

The idea of a Palestinian state was a way to ignore jihad

If Israelis are intent on preventing a recurrence of Oct. 7, then they have no choice other than to oppose completely the re-establishment of the Palestinian state in Gaza, much less its expansion into Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. This isn’t an overblown emotional reaction to trauma; it is a rational response to a brutally clarifying event.

The real question is not why Israelis now oppose a Palestinian state. It is why President Joe Biden and his administration, and the U.S. foreign-policy establishment, continue to support its creation.

The answer is that for the West, as for the pre-Oct. 7 Israeli left, a Palestinian state was never a means to achieve peace. It was a way to ignore jihad. If the cause for unrest, violence, terrorism and mayhem in the Muslim world is the absence of a Palestinian state, then the culprit has to be Israel. All you need to do to stop Islamic extremism is force Israel to give parts of its territory to the Palestinians, or in extremis, to abandon its Jewish national identity.

The American determination to ignore the jihadist core of the wars, WMD proliferation, terrorism and instability both within and emanating from the Muslim states and societies of the Middle East has been the foundation of America’s serial failures in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The only U.S. president who predicated his Middle East policy on the recognition of the centrality of jihad in the Islamic world was Donald Trump. It was Trump’s willingness to base his Middle East policy on reality—rather than willful blindness to reality—that made his tenure in office so successful. His ability to oversee the Abraham Accords was a consequence of the faith the Sunni Arabs and Israelis had in a U.S. policy that was willing to stake out a clear position against jihadists and their imperialist and genocidal goals.

In his conversation with Ignatius, Gates noted that the leaders of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have conducted “more visits to Beijing and Moscow … in the last three years than there have been to Washington, D.C.” He attributed this phenomenon to a common desire to hedge their bets in light of the unpredictability of America’s Middle East policies. There may be some of that behind the shift. But more likely, the Saudis, Emiratis and Israelis view Biden’s Palestinian-state-focused and Iran-appeasing policies as delusional and dangerous.

Gaza must be fully demilitarized and deradicalized

Buoyed on by the Knesset vote against unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood, Netanyahu presented his plan on Feb. 22 for “the day after” the war in Gaza to the security cabinet. He said that the precondition for any day-after policy is the full achievement of all of Israel’s war goals. Those include the eradication of the military and governing capabilities of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad; the return of all of the hostages; and the prevention of Gaza’s re-emergence as a military threat in perpetuity.

The plan envisions Israel retaining security control over Gaza and total freedom of operation in the area indefinitely. To this end, Israel will set up a buffer zone inside Gaza to prevent terrorists from infiltrating Israeli territory. It will exert full security control over the Gaza-Egyptian border to prevent the regeneration of the Palestinians’ terrorist infrastructures and military capabilities after the war. It further stipulates that Israel will have full security control on air, land, sea and the electromagnetic spectrum over the entire landmass west of the Jordan River.

On the civil governance front, Netanyahu’s plan calls for the establishment of local governing structures in Gaza staffed by people with management experience and no ties to terrorism whatsoever. This rules out the transfer of control over Gaza to the terror-soaked Palestinian Authority. The Netanyahu plan involves deradicalizing the population of Gaza by, among other things, shutting down UNRWA and replacing it with a humanitarian organization with no ties to terrorism. UNRWA, the U.N.’s Palestinian aid agency, currently runs most of the schools in Gaza. In the past 18 years, UNRWA has been fully integrated into Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure. Not only are its facilities Hamas facilities, but its employees are full participants in Hamas’s terrorist operations and command-and-control structure.

Netanyahu’s plan stipulates that Gaza can only be rebuilt after it has been fully demilitarized and deradicalized. The reconstruction plan will be conducted only by countries that receive Israeli approval.

Finally, resonating the Knesset resolution, the plan asserts: “Israel rejects out of hand international dictates regarding the final settlement with the Palestinians. Such a settlement can only be achieved through direct negotiations between the sides with no preconditions. Israel will continue to oppose unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Such recognition after the massacre of Oct. 7 would constitute “an unprecedented, massive prize to terrorism and will prevent any future peace agreement.”

Unsurprisingly, the Palestinians rejected Netanyahu’s proposal. But the United States would be well-advised to adopt it. It is not the ravings of an overwrought leader. It is the sober-minded, shared position of the vast majority of Israelis. Both those Israelis who have long understood the implications of the Palestinians’ jihadist aspirations and those who came to terms with them on Oct. 7 understand that a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River is an existential threat to the State of Israel.

Come what may, it must never again be allowed to arise. It is irrational for America to pretend this reality away.

#caroline glick #pro israel #israel hamas war