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[jayvikbigbang]

Guidebook Quick Guide!

Hello everyone. This is will have highlights from the guidebook I believe (Mod Chaos) will be important for everyone to know. As always you can check our pinned for the whole guidebook!

What is a bang?

A Bang is an event that pairs artists and writers together to create content for a series, ship, or theme. While there are different types of Bangs, the Jayvik Big Bang 2025 is a moderated event intended to portray a romantic relationship between Jayce Talis and Viktor from Arcane/League of Legends. 

The Jayvik Big Bang 2025 will feature two types of bangs running concurrently:

Traditional bang

Reverse bang

Writers may sign up for both the traditional bang and reverse bang. If a writer signs up for both they can do one traditional and one reverse. If they choose to only do reverse bang the writer can do up to two (2) reverses. If they choose to only do traditional the writer can only do one piece. 

Artists have more flexibility in their sign-ups: up to two (2) ideas for the reverse bang and/or any number of traditional bang pieces that they feel they are reasonably able to accomplish (keeping in mind the minimum requirements for both).

Since we want this to be a community event, we’re also looking for beta readers (those that proofread fics) and pitch hitters (backup content creators in case someone drops out of the event) for both types of bangs.

Traditional Bang?

Writers brainstorm ideas they wish to write for the bang and sign up for the traditional bang. After sign-ups close, Writers will submit summaries and short excerpts in accordance with the summary submission guidelines.

These summaries will be anonymized and made available to Artists and Betas, who will choose their partners based on the information provided in the summaries. Teams will consist of a Writer, an Artist, and optionally a Beta, who will then work together on their pieces for the duration of the event, including meeting their check-in deadlines together until final posting.

Reverse Bang?

Artists brainstorm ideas they wish to draw for the bang and sign up for the reverse bang. Once sign-ups close, Artists submit a very rough sketch and an idea in accordance with the sketch + idea submission guidelines.

Sketches will be anonymized and made available for Writers and Betas, who will choose their partners based on the information provided in the idea and sketch.

Teams will consist of a Writer, an Artist, and optionally a Beta, who will then work together on their pieces for the duration of the event, including meeting their check-in deadlines together until final posting.

Schedule:

All deadlines end at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Zone (New York) on the specified date:

Interest Check: January 11 - January 25

Mod Applications: February 1 - February 15

Mods Announced: February 26

Writer Sign-up: March 1 - March 15

Artist Sign-up: March 1 - March 15

Beta Sign-up: March 8 - March 22

Pinch-Hitter Sign-up: March 8 - July 19

Initial Submissions Deadline: March 29 - April 5

Writers in a Traditional Bang

Artists in a Reverse Bang

Claims: April 19 - April 26

Artists in a Traditional Bang

Writers in a Reverse Bang

Partners/Teams Announced: May 3

First Check-in: May 17 - May 24

Writer: Tangible ideas or a rough outline with ideas for your work

Artists, traditional: Idea written down or thumbnailed

Artists, reverse: Exempt

Betas: Exempt

Second Check-in: June 14 - June 21

Writers: At least 25% of minimum word count [traditional: 2,000 words; reverse: 1,750]

Artists, both: rough sketch

Betas: Exempt

Third Check-in: July 12 - July 19

Writers: At least 50% of minimum word count [traditional: 4,000; reverse, 3,500]

Artists, both: lined

Betas: Exempt

July 26th will be the drop deadline for the bang (see rules below)

Fourth Check-in: August 9 - August 16

Writers: At least 75% of minimum word count [traditional: 6,000; reverse: 5,250]

Artists, both: flat color

Betas: A brief description of what you have contributed to the team—spitball even more ideas, more editing, even art feedback, etc.

Final Check-in: September 6 - September 13

Writers & Betas: 100% completed story/reaching word count minimum

Artists, both: rendered with a simple background

Previews Submission: September 13- September 17

Writers: You will submit a small blurb from your story. It can be whatever part you want.

If it is NSFW we ask that you do not do something that would require a tag. 

Artists: You will submit a small cropped part of your drawing. 

If it is NSFW please be mindful of which part you are cropping. 

Preview Posting: September 27 - October 4

Posting: October 5- October 11

What is a pitch hitter?

In Bangs and other events, a Pinch-hitter is someone who picks up the assignment of any participant who has dropped and is unable to continue their involvement in the event. If you are unsure whether to join this event or not, signing up as a Pinch-hitter is a way to get involved. Pinch-hitters will be contacted as needed based on their availability and preferences. 

Artists and writers who do not wish to draw or write NSFW or Problematic content WILL NOT be asked to do so, even if the writer or artist they are paired with is creating NSFW or Problematic content.

Pitch-Hitter Artists will be shown the summary from the Writer, including ratings and tags. They will be asked to provide at minimum a piece of artwork following the requirements made for Artists. The requirements for Pinch-Hitter Artists are the same as regular Artists but will be given a one-week extension on all check-ins and communications.

Pitch-Hitter Writers will be shown the art at the time of the original writer’s drop. Writers ought to create a new piece based on the artwork and in discussion with the Artist. Depending on when the Pinch-Hitter Writer joins, they will need to coordinate with the Artist to make sure the new fic and existing artwork are cohesive. The requirements for a Pinch-Hitter Writer are the same as a regular Writer, but will be given a one-week extension on all check-ins and communications.

What is a beta reader?

Beta readers generally help proofread fics and look out for plot holes, spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc. What Beta readers look out for will be dependent on what the Writer wishes to be evaluated.

Beta readers will have the opportunity to either:

A: Be paired up with a writer to help them with their fic

B: Be available to help as a general beta reader for any writer/fic when asked

Beta readers who are not working with a specific Writer and fic may choose to beta a fic when a Writer @’s their role in the Discord server.

Requirements Writers:

Writers are required to submit a new and original fanwork that must meet minimum word count and for whichever bang format they participate in by the submission deadline. As stated earlier, we ask that works for the Bang not be tied to any existing, published works. This would include prequel or sequel ideas for an already published piece—Bang pieces should be new and stand-alone when read.

Writers may create one (1) work for the traditional bang OR create up to two (2) works for the reverse bang. DO NOT sign up for both! This limit is in place to ensure a fair workload across teams! If you are interested in participating as both a writer and an artist, please DM a mod so we can work out something for you.

Fics must comply with the Jayvik theme and content must be tagged in accordance with the #content-warning-list within the Discord Server.

Other than these themes and ratings, writers are free to pursue creative freedom in their own fics.

Requirements for Traditional Writers:

The minimum word count for the Jayvik Big Bang 2025 traditional bang is 8,000

After sign-ups, writers will be asked to submit a summary of a fic they would like to write.

Requirements for Reverse Writers:

The minimum word count for writers participating in the Jayvik BB 2025 reverse bang is 7,000. Writers participating in the reverse bang may choose to create up to two (2) works.

General Art Requirements:

Artists are required to submit a new and original fanwork that must be completed by the submission deadline. Artists have flexibility in their sign-ups: they may opt to create for both the traditional and reverse bangs (however many pieces they feel they can comfortably manage). The maximum number of ideas for the reverse bang is two (2) pieces.

Artists must also comply with the minimum piece requirement as stated in the Minimum Requirements in accordance with the bang type they participate in. Multiple smaller pieces, digital, traditional, and comic-style formats are all welcome.

Artworks must comply and feature Jayce and Viktor and content must be tagged in accordance with the #content-warning-list within the Discord Server.

Artists assigned to NSFW Writers are NOT required to create NSFW illustrations; however, they have the opportunity to do so permitted that the Artist and Writer are both in agreement.

Other than the theme and rating, artists are free to pursue creative freedom in their artworks, as long as it’s based on a part of the writer’s story and complies with the rules.

Reverse Bang Artists:

Artists participating in the reverse bang must submit a very rough sketch or idea during the submission period.

Traditional Bang Artists:

A traditional bang artist will choose from anonymous summaries during the claim period.

[andespoones]

Quick View

While I am stillOn your waveIn betweenFar and fewSilence derailedThe purviewA walkthroughOf all that happened since then What else in This quick viewGuaranteed pain?

[knightofleo]

Angela Orosco Silent Hill 2

[prodigalwitch]

Top response is by a male. Other responses are from women. Presented without comment.

[bookshelf-in-progress]

A Father's Heart: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

For the Four Loves Fairy Tale Challenge at @inklings-challenge

Let me tell you, I sure confused that Beast when I returned. Have you ever seen a cat pounce on its own tail? That was the look of confusion the Beast had when he saw me in his palace. Only this cat was enormous—standing seven feet tall on his hind legs—black as soot, with claws this long, and a mouth full of teeth like butcher knives.

"Where is your daughter?" he asked me. Yes, that's what he sounded like—all deep and raspy, like he was growling and purring beneath his words.

"At home," I said.

"You did not bring her?"

“You told me,” I told him, "that I could return to be devoured or send her to take my place. I returned.”

"She did not wish to save you?"

“I never told her. Do you think I could lay that kind of burden upon my own daughter? What sort of father do you take me for?”

He had taken me for a cowardly one, I guess, because it took me a long time to convince him that my daughters were all safely at home, and I didn't plan to fetch any of them. He didn't seem to know what to do with me after that. He wasn't as bloodthirsty as I'd have expected someone with that many teeth to be.

"You will be my guest," he said at last—and he didn't seem too glad about saying it. No doubt he'd have preferred a pretty young girl as a houseguest to a weathered old sailor. But he gave me run of the place—I could help myself to anything, go anywhere I pleased. I didn't understand it. He'd been ready to kill me for a rose, and now he was giving me everything in the house?

I wasn't about to complain, though, so I set about to enjoy the place. The Beast encouraged me to enjoy the luxuries of the palace, but I've always been a working man—I didn't fancy living the life of an idle aristocrat. Before the week was out, I was working in the gardens—the place was overgrown like you wouldn't believe. When I wanted a rest, I'd explore the castle, and boy, was there plenty to see. He had rooms upon rooms of treasures—paintings, silks, wines, musical instruments, even an entire room full of exotic birds! I'd made my living selling such things, and my head swam at the sight of it—a tenth of it would have been worth more than all the riches I could have transported in ten lifetimes.

I didn't make my fortune by having dull wits, and I didn't lose it for lack of courage, so it wasn't long before I began to piece together the truth of this place and confronted the Beast with it.

"How long have you been cursed, your highness?" I asked him one evening at supper.

That great big cat was so shocked he knocked a wine bottle off the table. "Who says I am cursed?"

"Blazes, man, I'm not blind! This palace is worth more than most of the kingdoms of the world put together. If there was a king out there this rich, you can bet every merchant in the world would know of him. He'd have destroyed the world's economy. Fairy magic's the only way you get a horde like this, but you, sir, are no fairy."

Now the Beast seemed intrigued. "How do you know that?"

"A fairy would never have let me live—if he promised to kill me, he'd have killed me. No mercy among their kind. Only a human could have changed his mind like that—for which I'm very grateful, by the way."

"You're welcome," he said, seeming dazed.

I went on, "You're definitely more than a dumb beast; you walk and talk and dress like a man, so it stands to reason you were a man once—that furry coat of yours is just some fairy shell. Same way all these riches are probably just dirt and ashes once you take away the magic. Which means you must have run afoul of a fairy sometime in your past, who decided to curse you with an animal body and then trap you in a palace full of false riches."

I looked at the furnishings, the food, the Beast's clothes—everything spoke of royalty. "Fairies always meddle with royals, so you must have been a prince. The seventh son of the king of Gher went missing just before I went on my last voyage, so I'd wager that he is you. Am I right?"

The Beast goggled. "I…can't say."

"Which means I'm right. No fairy worth his salt would let you say you were cursed. Which means all I have to do is figure out how to break it. Those fairies always give you a way out—the more improbable the better."

I came around to his side of the table so I could walk around him and examine him from all angles. "You were disappointed when I came—you wanted one of my daughters, not me. When I did come, you didn't seem too keen on killling me—which makes me think it was an empty threat, trying to convince me to send my daughter instead. Which means she must be the way to break the curse. What can she do that I can't? Easy—true love. No fairy would think a girl could love a hulking monster like you, so that would be their impossible way to break the curse. You needed, what—true love? Marriage?"

"I can't say," the Beast said, but I knew by his face that I'd hit upon the right answer.

"That makes things simple. You let me out once before. Let me go home again and fetch one of my girls, tell her there's a prince waiting for her, and bring her back to join you in wedded bliss."

He seemed genuinely horrified by that. "I…can't say."

"Oh, of course. It won't count if she knows you're a prince. Well, I'll leave that part out. Tell her that the Beast who spared my life is in need of more company. With a bit of time and a bit of encouragement from her old dad, we'll have you back in human form by Christmas."

He thought it was worth a try, and something he could arrange with the conditions of his curse. So I went home to my children, convinced my sons not to follow me to slay the Beast, and made the castle sound intriguing enough that all three of my girls agreed to join me. I thought that maybe Hope would be the one to break the curse—she's always been the boldest of my girls—but it turned out that my quiet, gentle Beauty brought out the soft side of the Beast. It was the cutest thing you ever saw, the way they'd sit together reading in the rose gardens, that great big cat as shy as a schoolboy with her.

It wasn't three weeks before the Beast worked up the courage to propose—and my Beauty accepted without hesitation. Then there was blinding light and earthquakes, and when the dust cleared, the palace was gone. We were standing in a clearing in the woods—and a black-haired prince stood where the black-haired Beast had once been.

He's an excellent boy—I'll be proud to call him a son. He doesn't mind at all that his bride's the daughter of a failed merchant or that she once worked on a farm. We'll all be moving to his palace across the sea to live as honored members of the family.

Which is why we're moving out on such short notice—his highness doesn't want to be away from his kingdom any longer than he has to. I'm sure you'll find someone else to take the old place off your hands.

No, you don't have to believe me, but it's much better if you do. You'll look much less like a fool once it comes out that it's all true.

[copia]

"It. Is. Going great, now. Innit."

PAPA EMERITUS IV and SISTER IMPERATOR in RITE HERE RITE NOW (with ASHLEY MCBRIDE and KEVIN "JESUS" KAUFMANN)

[itslilacokay]

idea!

more in op tags for those that see this post reblogged (unless reblogger included the ideatags)

[unsaltedtoast]

thinking about oliver walking into that maze, thinking he was either going to have the craziest most sacrilegious sex you could possibly imagine or was going to murder his crush

[cjskribblez]

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 168

ok so the thing about trying to draw outfits based on solluxs god tier is its unclear if it is just the doom palette or if kanaya has dressed him in her own clothes

either way theyve both arrived at this party looking swag as hell

[j1gsawz]

HEY GUYS… I JUST GOT TO VISIT THE DOGMA CHURCH!!!! IT WAS SO COOL!! a perfect prelude to seeing it in theaters next week :)

[cdrspages]

curious, aren’t we?? 😖‼️

the designs were done by my lovely Twitter oomf @/amongusfartvore I couldn’t resist mwhehehehehe you should go follow!! ⬇️

+ always b plugging mwehehehe 🩷🖤

[a-flaming-idiot]

Behold! Trixx presents to you the best thing ever

Alya Be Impressed

Bonus:

An old doodle of True Form Trixx squishing Alya and Mari I made last year right after designing them.

[tiliqi]

just gota do what i gotta do, that's all

[elendsessor]

raidou remastered: mystery of the soulless army (2025)

[lilmeowmrow]

quick comic redraw of *the* tkm scene