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ante_up_losersThe General Idea
We at Ante Up are hosting a Losers Big Bang - with a twist.
This big bang is not fic only. Anyone can create any large piece and submit it as a bang work.
You heard us. Any type of work can be a big bang. Art, podfic, rec sets, meta, picspams - the list goes on and on. If you can think it up, you can do it in a big bang way! Size limits for the media we could think of are included under the next cut, but if we didn't mention a type of fanwork you'd like to make as a big bang, please Contact A Mod and we can discuss size and submission requirements.
In addition - we want all the big bangs to have rewards for their work, so there will be complementary pieces as well. Complements may also be any sort of fanwork. From fic to poetry to meta to comics to podfic to graphics and anything else you can think of. Again, if we haven't mentioned a type of fanwork you'd like to make as a complement, please Contact A Mod and we can discuss size and submission requirements.
The Rules
Teams
Players must sign up in teams to guarantee everyone who creates a bang gets at least one complement.
A team is a minimum of two and there is no maximum. As long as there is a bang piece and a complementary piece, your team is set. You can have as many bang and complement creators as you want in a team, and each person can create as many fanworks of either size as they like - they can also be on as many teams as they like.
Each team will decide how it works on its own. If the team decides the bang creators will create first and then the complement creators will do their thing, that's fine. If the team wants to work in tandem, all members working at the same time on a related theme or idea, that's fine. If the team wants to go halfsies, that's fine. How much interaction and teamwork is decided by the team as well, but there will be weekly check-ins to see how everyone is doing.
We ask that you name your team. This is for check-ins. It's the easiest way to make sure everyone involved is covered, and so we can take care of pinch hitters as necessary. (As ever - if you need to drop out for any reason, please don't feel guilty (real life happens to all of us), but do please Contact A Mod as soon as possible so we can arrange for a pinch hit if necessary.)
Examples of Teams
Example #1 Person One wants to create a macaroni castle. Xie will put up a comment at the comment party and then Person Two strolls along and sees it and decides 'hey, awesome, I want to write a Regency AU' and signs up to write a bang-sized fic on Person One's team. Then Person Three comes along, sees this, and decides to do some photoshop magic as a complement to these bangs. Then Person Four, unable to resist the call of the macaroni castle, signs up to make a complementary fanmix.
Example #2 Four friends sign up as a team - and two of them are creating bang-sized works (Pat doing meta on the Losers and their guns and Sam doing shadow puppetry of the Losers and their guns) and two of them are creating complements (Angel doing a Losers/gun picspam for the meta on guns and Chris creating background music for the shadow puppetry).
Example #3 The bang creator decides to remix a drabble into a 10,000 word epic and the complement creator writes a second story based on the remix... or the original... OR does a remix of a related story.
Example #4 An artist signs up to do a bang-sized series of black and white pieces and another artist joins the team as a bang-sized colorist for the pieces. Then a poet signs on to write a complementary poem and a reccer joins the team to write a complementary art recs set.
There are a zillion more examples! Teams start with two people - one doing a bang and one doing a complement - but they can then add as many other folks doing bang or complement-sized works to the team as they like. If you need any more examples/clarifications, have questions about teams, comment away below or Contact A Mod.
Size Requirements
The size requirements we went with are a bit larger in some areas than the poll. This is because we basically want the same amount of time, love, and attention to be put into all types of big bang works. If you feel any of the minimums are unreasonable, please comment below or Contact A Mod to discuss.
Basically - we trust you guys. We know you want lots and lots of big, awesome fanworks for our fandom, so no one out there is going to be just "trying to get by." Besides! If you don't feel like you can commit to a bang-sized work, you can always create a complement. You can write complementary fics for art or vids or podfics! (Imagine - four writers write 2,500 word fics for a bang podficcer, who reads the four works as the bang!) You can create a short vid as a complement to a poem! There are a million possibilities! We want you to be creative and wonderful as always, but we want the "bang" to mean something - time and effort put into creating something a little bigger - something for the audience to sink their teeth into, you know?
Table of Size Requirements
Submission and Hosting
All entries must be posted on the AO3. Whatever type of file you have, it must be posted on the AO3 so it can be linked to the complement works. If you have hosting for your file, great. If not, we will host your art/visual file/video file/audio file. We will also give you the code to post streaming, if you would like to do that. More information on posting will be given as we get closer to the deadline for bang works.
Any non-digital work must be scanned, photographed, or otherwise turned into a digital format. If you have any questions on this, please Contact A Mod.
Deadlines and Timing
Comment party to match up bang creators and complement creators: May 1, 2012 to May 7, 2012
Official team sign ups: May 8-15, 2012
First check-in: May 15, 2012
Subsequent check-ins: weekly
Big bang fanworks should be posted to the AO3 no later than: August 1, 2012
Complementary fanworks should be posted to the AO3 no later than: August 31, 2012
All fanworks will go live: August 31, 2012
Questions? Comments? Railing against the unfairness of it all? Comment below, or as always... Contact A Mod. Captcha is on because we've had a spate of spam, not because we don't want anon comments. Please comment in any format you feel comfortable.
We at Ante Up are hosting a Losers Big Bang - with a twist.
This big bang is not fic only. Anyone can create any large piece and submit it as a bang work.
You heard us. Any type of work can be a big bang. Art, podfic, rec sets, meta, picspams - the list goes on and on. If you can think it up, you can do it in a big bang way! Size limits for the media we could think of are included under the next cut, but if we didn't mention a type of fanwork you'd like to make as a big bang, please Contact A Mod and we can discuss size and submission requirements.
In addition - we want all the big bangs to have rewards for their work, so there will be complementary pieces as well. Complements may also be any sort of fanwork. From fic to poetry to meta to comics to podfic to graphics and anything else you can think of. Again, if we haven't mentioned a type of fanwork you'd like to make as a complement, please Contact A Mod and we can discuss size and submission requirements.
The Rules
Teams
Players must sign up in teams to guarantee everyone who creates a bang gets at least one complement.
A team is a minimum of two and there is no maximum. As long as there is a bang piece and a complementary piece, your team is set. You can have as many bang and complement creators as you want in a team, and each person can create as many fanworks of either size as they like - they can also be on as many teams as they like.
Each team will decide how it works on its own. If the team decides the bang creators will create first and then the complement creators will do their thing, that's fine. If the team wants to work in tandem, all members working at the same time on a related theme or idea, that's fine. If the team wants to go halfsies, that's fine. How much interaction and teamwork is decided by the team as well, but there will be weekly check-ins to see how everyone is doing.
We ask that you name your team. This is for check-ins. It's the easiest way to make sure everyone involved is covered, and so we can take care of pinch hitters as necessary. (As ever - if you need to drop out for any reason, please don't feel guilty (real life happens to all of us), but do please Contact A Mod as soon as possible so we can arrange for a pinch hit if necessary.)
Examples of Teams
Example #1 Person One wants to create a macaroni castle. Xie will put up a comment at the comment party and then Person Two strolls along and sees it and decides 'hey, awesome, I want to write a Regency AU' and signs up to write a bang-sized fic on Person One's team. Then Person Three comes along, sees this, and decides to do some photoshop magic as a complement to these bangs. Then Person Four, unable to resist the call of the macaroni castle, signs up to make a complementary fanmix.
Example #2 Four friends sign up as a team - and two of them are creating bang-sized works (Pat doing meta on the Losers and their guns and Sam doing shadow puppetry of the Losers and their guns) and two of them are creating complements (Angel doing a Losers/gun picspam for the meta on guns and Chris creating background music for the shadow puppetry).
Example #3 The bang creator decides to remix a drabble into a 10,000 word epic and the complement creator writes a second story based on the remix... or the original... OR does a remix of a related story.
Example #4 An artist signs up to do a bang-sized series of black and white pieces and another artist joins the team as a bang-sized colorist for the pieces. Then a poet signs on to write a complementary poem and a reccer joins the team to write a complementary art recs set.
There are a zillion more examples! Teams start with two people - one doing a bang and one doing a complement - but they can then add as many other folks doing bang or complement-sized works to the team as they like. If you need any more examples/clarifications, have questions about teams, comment away below or Contact A Mod.
Size Requirements
The size requirements we went with are a bit larger in some areas than the poll. This is because we basically want the same amount of time, love, and attention to be put into all types of big bang works. If you feel any of the minimums are unreasonable, please comment below or Contact A Mod to discuss.
Basically - we trust you guys. We know you want lots and lots of big, awesome fanworks for our fandom, so no one out there is going to be just "trying to get by." Besides! If you don't feel like you can commit to a bang-sized work, you can always create a complement. You can write complementary fics for art or vids or podfics! (Imagine - four writers write 2,500 word fics for a bang podficcer, who reads the four works as the bang!) You can create a short vid as a complement to a poem! There are a million possibilities! We want you to be creative and wonderful as always, but we want the "bang" to mean something - time and effort put into creating something a little bigger - something for the audience to sink their teeth into, you know?
Table of Size Requirements
| Type of Fanwork | Bang Size | Complement Size | Notes |
| 2D Art | 1 large complete piece with detail and/or layers, 1 set of several pieces with less detail/layers or several pages of sketches/doodles/motifs/musical phrases. | 1 small to medium complete piece or a set of sketches/melodies or a full page of doodles/musical phrases. | 2D art includes but is not limited to: hand-drawn art whether on paper/canvas or computer, hand-painted art whether on paper/canvas or computer, photoshopped pieces, photography, musical composition, collages, greeting cards, font creation, and anything else created for the Losers fandom in two dimensions (or sort of two dimensions). For hand-created pieces, a scan or photograph is the submission method. For musical compositions, an audio file is the submission method (and a .pdf or scan of the score, if you are willing to share). |
| 3D Art | 4 separate projects of medium complexity or 1 project of extreme complexity | 1 project of medium complexity. | 3D art includes but is not limited to: pottery, fiber arts, chain mail, jewelrymaking, metalworking, woodworking, soap bubble sculptures, macaroni castles, and anything created for the Losers fandom in three dimensions. Submission as photographs (and instructions if you are willing to share). |
| Graphics other than those listed below | 8 pieces | 2 pieces | Graphics are not NOT art - they are simply digital media created to specific sizes for a specific purpose (icons, banners, wallpapers, etc.) These are included under the art category. |
| Icons | 80 icons | 20 icons | . |
| Wallpapers | 8 wallpapers | 2 wallpapers | . |
| Banners | 8 Banners | 2 Banners | . |
| Fic | 10,000 words | 2500 words | . |
| Podfic | 10,000 words OR 1 hr of recorded time | 2500 words OR 15 minutes of recorded time | . |
| Vid | 5 minutes total (may be more than 1 vid) | 1.25 minutes total | . |
| Rec Set | 80 recs | 20 recs | . |
| Coloring | 8 sketches, 4 medium complex pieces, 1 extremely complex piece | 2 sketches, 1 medium complex piece | . |
| Poetry | 40 lines | 10 lines | . |
| Fanmix | 80 songs | 20 songs | . |
| Remix (Fic) | 10,000 wds (remixed story may be of any size) | 2500 wds (remixed story may be of any size) | Check out our opt-in post here! |
| Remix (Art) | 1 large complete piece with detail and/or layers 1 set of several pieces with less detail/layers or several pages of sketches/doodles (original art may be any size). | 1 small to medium complete piece or a set of sketches or a full page of doodles (original art may be any size). | Check out our opt-in post here! |
| Remix (Other) | See requirements for type of fanwork. | See requirements for type of fanwork. | . |
| Meta | 4000 words | 1000 words | . |
| Picspam | 80 pictures | 20 pictures | . |
| Screencaps | 800 screencaps | 200 screencaps | . |
| Comics | 8 pages or 16 panels | 2 pages or 4 panels | . |
| Board Game | Complete with game board, tokens, instructions, other materials and instructions for creating/templates, if willing to share | Smaller game with less items, i.e. card game or instructions for a pattycake rhyme etc. | . |
| Interpretive Dance | 4 minutes | 1 minute | . |
Submission and Hosting
All entries must be posted on the AO3. Whatever type of file you have, it must be posted on the AO3 so it can be linked to the complement works. If you have hosting for your file, great. If not, we will host your art/visual file/video file/audio file. We will also give you the code to post streaming, if you would like to do that. More information on posting will be given as we get closer to the deadline for bang works.
Any non-digital work must be scanned, photographed, or otherwise turned into a digital format. If you have any questions on this, please Contact A Mod.
Deadlines and Timing
Comment party to match up bang creators and complement creators: May 1, 2012 to May 7, 2012
Official team sign ups: May 8-15, 2012
First check-in: May 15, 2012
Subsequent check-ins: weekly
Big bang fanworks should be posted to the AO3 no later than: August 1, 2012
Complementary fanworks should be posted to the AO3 no later than: August 31, 2012
All fanworks will go live: August 31, 2012
Questions? Comments? Railing against the unfairness of it all? Comment below, or as always... Contact A Mod. Captcha is on because we've had a spate of spam, not because we don't want anon comments. Please comment in any format you feel comfortable.
