thelittlebang | thelittlebang femslash mini-bang challenge round 2

It's been ages since we've done the first round of TLB. Since 2009, as a matter of fact. In the intervening two years, a whole lot of things have happened, and so we've got some changes.

First of all,

thenewhope and

quasiradiant have been forced to gafiate out of fandom (at least for a while, though we hope to see them back!), so we'll be running with a different mod team:

havocthecat,

ariestess, and

twtd.

Also, we've gotten the Archive of Our Own, and we'll be doing fic posting in a collection there. If you don't have an account, don't worry! I've sent in a request for invitations for anyone who doesn't already have an account. It's not an exchange, so we're not doing sign-ups at the AO3, but we will do fic posting there. Art posting too, more likely than not.

Third, the format has changed. There will still be an initial phase, an editing phase, and a complement phase. This time,the initial phase of the challenge will be open for both visual and written fanworks. That means that vidders and artists will be welcome to participate and have a complementary written work posted.

Last of all, this community and

bangalittle will be mirrored here and at LiveJournal.

Eligible Fanworks Guidelines

If you choose to create in the initial phase, you must either:
1. Write one story of 15,000 words or more; or
2. Create two or more large visual fanworks to one theme (in any visual medium).

If you choose to create in the complementary phase, you must either:
1. Create one or more themed visual fanworks (in any visual medium) as a complement to an initial phase story; or
2. Write at least one story of 5,000 words or more as a complement to an initial phase visual fanwork.

I'm sorry, but podfic, meta, picspams, and recs are not eligible. The mods have looked at the possibilities and the difficulties, not to mention our individual stress levels, and have gone with the format we're most comfortable with.

Timeline

Sign-Ups: May 16 - June 6th
Sign-ups for the first phase, initial fanworks creation. Sign-ups for cheerleaders.

Initial Fanworks Creation : June 6 - September 12
Creation of initial fanworks, whether fanart, vids, or written works.

Editing, Complementary Fanworks Creation: September 13 - October 16
Claiming and creation of complementary fanworks, whether, fanart, vids, or written works.
Editing of initial fanworks.

Posting Begins: October 17
Initial and complementary fanworks to be posted. Please note: Stories will be posted at the AO3. We will create a challenge for TLB. Fanart and vids will be hosted on alternate webspace. (If the AO3 is up and running on hosting fanart, it will be hosted at the AO3 as well, but we can't promise anything, of course.)

The Incredibly Exhaustive and Completist Sign-Up Information & Rules

You must choose your fandom (or fandoms, as crossovers are allowed) at sign-up. Pairing, plot (where applicable), etc. are all your own choice, and can be decided when you're comfortable with it.
All fandoms are allowed. We encourage western media fandoms, book fandoms, anime, manga (basically, all forms of yuri are made of win and awesome), rpfs, and video game fandoms.
Explicit stories are welcomed. Please be sure the characters are over the age of consent for the applicable laws in your place of residence.
Incest is allowed. Given that it's a contentious issue, please label your fanwork clearly for those who prefer to avoid it.
For that matter, we would like you to either label your warnings clearly or state that you choose not to use warnings.
AU and uber stories are allowed, not to mention gladly encouraged.
Original fiction isn't eligible for this challenge. It's easier to find complements for established fandoms.
The fanworks created for this challenge must be about characters who are canonically women; however stories about the trans experience are welcomed in this challenge. For example, a story about Eliot Spencer of Leverage, whether trans or cis, that focuses on the female experience is not eligible for this challenge. A story about Parker of Leverage, whether trans or cis, that focuses on the female experience is eligible for this challenge.
Genderbender/genderfuck/genderswap stories are not eligible. Please see this post from round one regarding the issue.
Updates for this challenge will be posted on both LJ and DW, at thelittlebang/thelittlebang and bangalittle/bangalittle .
After sign-ups end, we will be clearing the membership of thelittlebang and then will send invitations out for round two, as membership open only to challenge participants. Anyone is allowed to watch the comm (and should, for when fanworks go live), but posting will be moderated. bangalittle/bangalittle is our comm for all members, with posting for any members. The same goes for the Dreamwidth communities.
Our parent collection on the AO3 is The Little Bang. We have separate subcollections for round one, which is open for anyone who wrote for round one, and a challenge for round two, which is not open yet.
We don't really need to say that character and pairing bashing is not cool, do we?
Same with various expressions of privilege and -isms. Please, let's not go there.
With regard to WIPs, if you have begun a story that isn't posted publicly on the internet, you may complete that, so long as you add a minimum of 15,000 additional words.
Writers, you must have your story betaread by at least two people before turning in the finished version. Artists, you must have your visual fanwork critiqued by at least two people before turning in the finished version.
We will put up a post for betas, critiquers, and creators to find each other; however, we will not be assigning betareaders and critiquers.
Fanworks must have a femslash relationship as their primary element. There can be non-romantic elements, but the femslash relationship should be the primary shiop. Het and boyslash (and poly variants of het and boyslash) are welcomed, but as background elements only, due to the nature of this challenge.
To clarify from the above, femslash written about asexual characters is also allowed in this challenge. We are aware that romantic relationships aren't always sexual in nature, and welcome stories of that nature as well.
The femslash can be a first time story, or an established relationship. Whatever works for you!
Your fanwork should not be posted publicly on the internet until it has been live with TLB for at least one month.
We will still be doing activities, word counts, and community building fun times.

Sign-Ups

Creators, please use the following form:
Journal Name: In case you're signing up under a different name than you're posting under.
E-Mail: An alternate way for us to contact you. Something other than @livejournal.com or @dreamwidth.org
Fandom: What fandom/fandoms you want to create in.
Format: Written or Visual Medium
Phase: Initial or Complementary

Cheerleaders, please use the following form:
Journal Name: In case you're signing up under a different name than you're posting under.
E-Mail: An alternate way for us to contact you. Something other than @livejournal.com or @dreamwidth.org
Fandom: What fandom/fandoms you want to cheerlead for.
Specific Creator: If you're signing up to cheerlead someone specifically, please let us know their journal name.

For any questions, please post them as comments to the thread labeled "Questions" in this post. Thank you!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I'm balking on one point here:

Your fanwork should not be posted publicly on the internet until it has been live with TLB for at least one month.

The way I post now, I post on AO3, and then put pointers to it from my journal. Is this rule precluding me from advertising a fic I write in my own journal? Or is my reading comprehension shot with the fact I've been awake too long?

And the main reason I am balking is because if I put the effort to create 15,000 words, I sure as heck want people to know it exists pretty quickly to get some kind of feedback incentive for the effort.

You can link to where it is on AO3, just not post it to your journal/comm/archive/website until after the exclusivity period is done.

*defers to

havocthecat if I've mucked something up in my comment*

Okay. Likely my reading comprehension. As I only post on AO3, this rule doesn't even infringe on me. I'll just have to choose something other than DC Comics...LOL.

LOL!

Unless *I've* mistaken the rules we set up, you would just be able to pimp like you normally do on your journal with the link over to AO3.

Re: Questions

havocthecat - 2011-05-17 00:18 (UTC) - Expand

ariestess - 2011-05-17 00:28 (UTC) - Expand

havocthecat - 2011-05-17 00:52 (UTC) - Expand

ariestess - 2011-05-17 02:17 (UTC) - Expand

You have been awake too long! And I also probably need to clarify.

We definitely want everyone to post links and such to their journals, and to advertise the heck out of their fanworks. After all that work, everyone deserves a bunch of feedback for their efforts!

Still awake. Closing in on the 24 hour mark. But thank you for clarifying. I've posted in some where you are ONLY allowed to post in the comm, no links to journal for x-days, so forth and so on.

Yikes! I hope you're able to get some rest soon.

Do potential complementary-phase creators have to sign up during this period? In the timeline it sounds like only initial-phase creators need to sign up now, but in the signups it mentions both phases, so I want to be sure I'm not reading it wrong.

My thoughts were that we would allow complement phase creators to sign up now, and that we would have a second set of sign-ups later for complement phase creators, in case we need more people.

Does that make sense? Sometimes I explain a little confusingly.

Yes, that makes sense -- thank you!

...Now to see whether I can come up with a plot that I think I could get 15k out of. ^^

may I sign up for both initial and complementary phases?

We're hashing that out right now! I'll get back to you once I'm more awake.

sounds good! :)

So! The short answer is: Yes. The long answer is: Yes, but if you default on the complement phase, you will be banned from round 3. (But not round 4 or subsequent rounds.) There is no penalty for not finishing from the initial phase.

This isn't a question so much as a... heads-up? But I was reading through the sign-up rules and got stuck on "The fanworks created for this challenge must be about characters who are canonically women". Okay, I thought to myself, Maybe this is a female-centric big bang like ladiesbigbang. Let me check the profile page to make sure. And so I checked the profile page, which says quite clearly this is a FEMSLASH big bang. Whoops! So I go back to the rules and keep reading, and finally! Yep, the fifth from last bullet says: "Fanworks must have a femslash relationship as their primary element." Heh.

Just wanted to share my story of totally being clueless about

thelittlebang.

We are very similar, yes! :) I had actually investigated and was under the impression there was not going to be a LBB round happening for a while. And then sign-ups for LBB were up shortly after we posted sign-ups for TLB! :) We're talking about affiliating and doing some kind of conjoined sign-up thing, because we believe in each other's premises, obviously.

I think though that it would be good to make the information that this is a femslash challenge more prominent in the signups/rules post.

havocthecat - 2011-05-20 17:07 (UTC) - Expand

Another question, this one on behalf of a friend who's currently hesitant to sign up -- currently, the rules say, "Explicit stories are welcomed. Please be sure the characters are over the age of consent for the applicable laws in your place of residence."

Can the mods give us a little elaboration on how this would apply to a story about two teenage girls? A lot of animanga fandoms focus on high-school-age characters; would a story where they had a sexual relationship be rejected from this challenge?

Of course! I hope that I can clear the waters. Basically, we would prefer that there not be anything that can be considered child pornography. One of the problems that Dreamwidth and LJ have both had in the past have been organizations targeting them as disseminators of that material.

That's our general answer: Please don't write anything that looks like kiddie porn! I know that most high school characters are fine. If you or your friend wouldn't object to emailing me at havocthecat@gmail.com, we can talk fandom specifics, and I can hopefully give you and your friend some reassurance.

Thank you for the clarification! I figured it was probably the harassment history that led to the rule in the first place.

havocthecat - 2011-05-20 15:36 (UTC) - Expand

I notice the rules require you to have two betas. I have one regular beta, but really only the one.

Is there any possibility of some sort of beta matching?

We'll be putting up a beta request and offer post, and stressing that people make use of that and other fandom beta-finding services.

I'm not sure if I'm missing it somewhere, but are co-creators allowed for the initial round?

Absolutely! Please just have one person put in a sign-up, but list names and emails for all creators.

thelittlebang femslash mini-bang challenge round 2 - now on dreamwidth too!

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