Archive of Our Own

How to play the game:

If you sign up during the month of May, you will receive a personal, randomized 5x5 BINGO card. During sign up you will pick five relationships and/or characters which will serve as the B-I-N-G-O at the top of the card. The spaces will have tropes/AUs/prompts, with a “free space” in the center.

Your goal is “fill” spaces by creating a fanwork using the relationship/character and prompt. This must be a new, previously unpublished fanwork which primarily focus on the relationship/character and prompt for that square. Fill enough squares to get a BINGO!

This fanwork event is a game. You are not competing against fellow fanwork creators, but simply against yourself. You decide how much or how little you want to achieve.

Eligible fanworks and fill requirements:

Fic - 500 words

Must be new work; cannot be previously posted anywhere
Can be a sequel/prequel/timestamp/etc, but should be able to stand on its own
You can link different fills together as a series, but each fill must be posted as in individual work (for example, cannot be all posted together as chapters in one fic)
Art - medium sized (around 400x400 pixels)

Podfic - 500 words

If you are reading a fic that is not your own you must obtain the author’s permission and include a link to the original work
Video - 30 seconds

Fanmixes - 10 songs

Must include a track list with a brief description of how the songs fill the prompt
Cover art optional
Relationships and Characters:

This event is for Generation Kill, which means that any canon character within the Generation Kill Universe.

Any two or threesome of canon characters. Threesomes count as their own unique relationship.
HBO War characters from Band of Brothers and The Pacific characters who aren’t in Gen Kill canon can be paired with Gen Kill characters.
Characters: In lieu of selecting a pairing, you can put in just one character. You may either then ship that character with whoever you want or focus on the character themselves.
In your signup you must list 5 characters/teams/relationships. This list will be randomized.

Prompts:

The 24 prompts (plus free space) will be randomly selected from the Prompts Masterlist. The free space will be left blank, which means that you can choose the prompt you want to put there, but it must still come from the masterlist.

if you message me requesting a change to your card I will do it, no questions asked.

If you’re struggling with a prompt, you can always try thinking of it in a different way, nearly all of the prompts could be interpreted in a variety of ways (“detention” could mean a high school AU where the characters are kept after school, or it could mean a canon-compliant fic where the characters are “detained” in prison; “baby animals” could mean that the characters adopt a litter of kittens, or that they get magically transformed into baby animals; or any other number of options). A prompt can also always be the lack of itself, for example “cuddling” could be about someone wanting more cuddling than they are getting, or someone who is touch averse and does not want any cuddling; the sky is the limit!

So how do I declare a BINGO?

You will make a tumblr “masterlist” with links to each fanwork that applies to the BINGO you’re declaring using this Template. I will reblog your masterlist post, and include your BINGO on the round up post at the end of the BINGO.

If you finish your first Bingo Card and would like another, contact me and I can potentially get you another card.

By signing up for this, am I committing to completing (“blacking out”) my entire card?

Heck no! Fill as few or as many of your squares as you want. This is a low-commitment, for fun challenge.

Is there a minimum number of squares I need to complete to participate?

Nope! But, ya know, one would be good… ;)

What platforms are allowed for cross-posting?

Whatever floats your boat! Archive of Our Own (AO3), Fanfiction.net (FF.net), Livejournal (LJ), Dreamwidth, Wattpad, it’s all good.

Do squares need to be filled in a specific order?

Nope, be as organized or as random as you’d like to be. Create whatever catches your fancy.

Can we work with a partner or co-creator?

Sure! You may sign up with a friend and split the square and each do separate squares. If two people intend to share a square, please let me know. You may not outsource squares to friends but you’re more than welcome to collaborate in creating your bingo square fills.

What does “Participant’s Choice” mean?

The middle square is the “participant’s choice” square! In order to get the points you have to create something that meets the minimum requirements for your media type of choice but we don’t care what - pick your prompt from the prompt list and go for it!

As a final FYI…

I, Molly, am the admin of this event. I live MST/UTC-7, I am on an early morning schedule, work 40 hours a week and have 2 young children so please keep that in mind when requesting information or awaiting word. <3

Thanks for understanding!

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