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FAQ & Schedule

What is a bang?

A bang is a fandom event whose goal is to encourage people to new fics and arts! And also to meet and work with somebody you didn't know before!

A bang is often in two parts: first, the writers sign up with a pitch (not the whole fic, just the idea) then the artists claim the pitch they liked. After that, it's up to the writer and their artist to create the fic!

The particularity to this bang is that it will ask writers to make AUs fic only.

Who can participate?

Everybody! Whether you've never posted a fic or even never wrote one yet or if you think you don't know how to draw, you are still allowed to participate! Remember: this event is for fun.

How long should the fic be?

As long or short you want it to be! When you'll submit your pitch, you'll also indicate how long you think it will be (1k, 5k, 50k…). It won't be a hard limit you'll have to stick to, but it should give the artists a rough idea of what to expect.

What will the artist be for? / What kind of art should they do?

The artist's goal will be to illustrate the fic they chose the pitch of. However, any kind of art can be done: moodboard, montage, paper/digital drawings, cover art, videos… 

Can I sign up in advance?

Sadly, no. There will be a form for each part of the bang (writer sign-ups, artist claims) which will be the only way to take part in the event. 

Can I send in multiple pitches / claim multiple fics?

Yes, but depending on the number of participants, you may not get to do them all.

Will everybody get paired?

That's the goal! If there's an unbalanced number, we might have an artist doing art for two fics or two artists for one fic. But the goal is that every pitch gets an artist and every artist gets a fic. 

Are there other roles I could do?

Yes: after the claims closes, we will have two forms running for almost near to the end, one for pinch-hitters and one for beta-readers. You will be able to sign up for both at any time and if the need arises, you will be contacted.

I don't have Tumblr, can I still participate?

Yes! The main way we'll contact you is via emails. Then it will be up to you and your partner to decide which medium you want to use to communicate. However, we do ask that at least one of you has an Ao3 account as the fics will be posted there.

Schedule

[warning: this schedule can be up to modifications!]

June 12th: sign-up opens

Writers send in their pitch and the rough fic length.

July 6th: sign-up closes

July 14th: CLAIMS OPEN

The claim will be on the first come, first served basis. It will run until August 18th. 

August 18th: First check-in

This first check-in will only be to make sure everyone was paired and was able to contact their partner. 

October 27th: Second check-in

This time, the fic should have a first draft if it's short of the first chapters ready if a long one and the artist should have a draft too.

December 1rst: Posting starts!

The Ao3 collection will be opened for the bang's fics to be posted. For long/multiple-chaptered fics, you don't need to have the whole fic ready and you can update it at your usual pace. We only ask you to make sure your artist's art, no matter what part of the story it illustrates, can appear quickly. For example, if your artist decided to make art for Chapter 10 out of 30, we'll ask you to post until Chapter 10 as quickly as you can as to showcase the art and then post the remaining chapters whenever you want, even if it's gonna be after the event ends. 

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Since I found @toastystats 's stats on all the AUs on Ao3 I decided to put up a little poll while we wait for the writer sign-ups to be over.

Oh and maybe this poll will inspire you? :)

Reminder: the writer sign-ups close on July 6th! (It's less than 2 weeks away!)

So if you want to join the Javyik AU Big bang, fill out this form asap!

Reblogs are appreciated: the more people see my posts, the more people can join the bigbang and the more fun we'll have!

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an alcoholic beverage that you constantly replenish with identical mixers and alcohol, to the point where you're unsure any of the initial beverage remains. and yet it is fundamentally the same beverage as it was to begin with. the sip of theseus

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university is like a video game. you can pick up sidequests. Youre gonna neglect the main storyline. youre gonna end up in a guild of sorts. i just looted a bush on campus and found a sticker

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"fruit has sugar" warning post reminds me of my coworker who told me to make sure I don't get "addicted to fruit". yeah i'm also addicted to a nice walk on the beach

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The closest experience I've ever had to discovering "the vitamin" was buying a 100% wool outfit and wearing it in the winter.

Not only was I not freezing anymore, I was not sweating and overheating either. The horrible sensory nightmare of winter clothes disappeared.

In particular, I bought a pair of wool pants. They were a thrifted pair of fancy dress pants like you would wear at an important office job, and they were easily the most comfortable pair of winter-appropriate pants i'd ever worn. I wore them Every Single Day.

From that point on I realized a lot of my clothes were making me feel bad, and the common thread was polyester. Especially polyester blends.

It's a trap because the polyester clothes are the ones that always feel sooooo silky soft when they are in the store, whereas cotton, linen and wool can feel comparatively rough and scratchy. But when actually wearing them for hours throughout the day, it's the natural fibers that feel more comfortable.

Maybe the secret to sensory comfort is not about the presence of softness, but the absence of overloading sensations. Or maybe the sensory stress and agony is not triggered by texture of the fabric, but by how it breathes and regulates temperature.

Then there's the problem of clothing life span: polyester blends, no matter how soft they seem at first, become rough and scratchy and covered in hard, itchy pills after wearing them 10 or 20 times, whether or not they have been tumble-dried or even washed at all. (I tested it!) Linen and cotton become softer and more comfy the more you wear them, polyester but ESPECIALLY polyester blends become a constant stressor. Polyester blend t-shirts I used to love for their softness now feel bristly and irritating.

So now I'm trying to change my wardrobe to as many natural fibers as possible, and the more natural fiber clothes i have the more I realize that the plastic fibers stress me out. It's so easy to overheat or freeze in them and they're always degrading and becoming less comfortable and it sucks.

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still thinking about that r/hypotheticalsituation post where someone was like "what if a potato chip spawned somewhere randomly in the world. and every hour the number of potato chips at that location would double. and the only way to get rid of them for good would be to eat all of the potato chips before they doubled again." and someone calculated that it would only take like, 48 hours of people ignoring a weird pile of potato chips before an absolutely irreconcilable number of potato chips was blanketing a city.

and then people were like "no wait if it spawns randomly in the world, it's highly likely it would be in an ocean" and then people were debating whether there were enough small fish swimming at the surface in the open ocean that would be able to eat a potato chip and thus save humanity from the potato chip apocalypse.

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When I am appointed to represent a child, my first action is to separate them from their parents and tell them the following things:

1. I am their attorney. I do not work for their parent or the judge or the cops. I don’t care what any of those people want.

2. My job is to listen to them and try and make what they want happen in court. (At this point I make a joke about how most people want me to get them out of trouble but if someone wanted to be in trouble I would do my best.)

3. What they tell me is confidential. It goes nowhere unless they agree to it. (If old enough, I talk to them about mandatory reporters, and how I’m a mandatory non reporter.)

4. I will give them lots of advice because I’ve been doing court for a while and I know a lot about it, and they don’t. It’s all really complicated, and if they don’t understand what’s happening it’s my job to help them figure it out.

5. They will make the decisions. (At this point I usually have to reassure them that I’ll help, I’ll speak for them in front of the judge, and I’ve got their back. It’s scary to have an adult say you’re in charge, most of the time.)

6. I tell them I know it’s absolutely wild to have some stranger come in here and say “hey, you can trust me!” and that I get if they don’t believe everything right away, because I plan to show them through my actions and my words that I’ll fight for them.

7. But nonetheless, I will treat them like a person who can make decisions, because they are living their life and I am not.

I do not:

Pretend to be cool.

Try to be their BFF.

Overwhelm them with detail.

Let their parents in the room until the kid asks for them. (I provide openings for this, and ask if the kid wants their parent to help them remember and understand.)

I want to emphasize I went into this job knowing nothing about how to interact with vulnerable populations, especially children. The training was minimal, and my role means that I can literally walk into a facility and get an unmonitored visit with a minor client one on one.

In my years of practice I have never felt threatened by a child, even one that was “violent” and “unstable.” It turns out just saying “hi, I think you’re a person with thoughts” is wildly successful? Now people treat me like I have special Child Whisperer powers. My powers are that I ask the child what’s up and I’m not scared to say things that are objectively awkward. I know nothing about anything.

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you CANNOT read too much old timey fiction because I was playing Raft with the lads this morning and without a THOUGHT said we could sail over to another island "if the wind would consent to blow" & let me tell you. This did not pass by unremarked.

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Moe moe 🫶🩷💥

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Trying to take care of yourself when you're sick is so annoying. Like you know you should probably eat something and you're trying to question yourself on what you'd want to eat, and the only answer is your inner voice of dying Jane Austen going "I desire nothing but death". well ok you dramatic sickly bitch do you want that with garlic or hot sauce.

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hi, good morning, Viktor Arcane fans.

now say it back 🙂‍↕️

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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