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SPN Eldritch Bang (Come Play With Us)

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 02:45:19 GMT

:el-dritch: adjective - eerie, strange or unnatural, especially in a way that inspires fear.

Give us your horror tropes, Lovecraftian monsters, and Gothic scenes. Whatever scares you most, this is the place to write and art about it! Writers must produce a horror-themed fic of at least 5k words. Artists will then claim stories and produce one piece of art (or more, for the 15k track) for that story.

Full disclosure: I co-mod this challenge and am not at all unbiased, but it is also objectively awesome. (True fact.) Writer and artist sign-ups are open, but writer sign-ups close soon, on June 30th. Artist sign-ups will stay open until July 21st.

This is our second round after a great first year. We run equally on spneldritchbang and spneldritchbang , and also interact on spneldritchbang, our new Discord, and here on spneldritchbang. Nobody's required to be on any one platform to participate. Please review the 2019 schedule and our FAQ and rules, and then:

Sign up on this form

You should receive an email confirming your sign-up within a day or so.

Thanks to sketchydean for her amazing banner art ♥♥♥

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It's Summergen time!

Sun, 12 May 2019 02:21:21 GMT

I love this challenge. Yes, I'm a latecomer, but even in my first heady weeks and months of consuming all the SPN fanfic I was behind on after stubbornly resisting the fandom for eight years, I kept seeing "This fic was written for Summergen." "Written for Summergen…"

From the second summer hiatus of the show to the last (and beyond!) the Supernatural Gen Fanworks Exchange is a classic. Sign-ups are open till the 19th this year!

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List of Supernatural communities and feeds on Dreamwidth

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:01:55 GMT

I wanted to start a good resource for SPN fandom to find old and new communities, and collect relevant feeds in one place! In no particular order and without further ado:

COMMUNITIES:

(I might have sorted a few wrong, let me know; this is still pretty rough!)

Dreamwidth native/primary:

episodic_supernatural spn_icons supernatural thedestiel destielfic destielart allfordestiel genspn supernatural_meta supernaturalfic gabrielbigbang

DW communities with tumblr equivalents:

allspnships deanwbigbang
spncc spn_crowley
tfwbigbang weekendwritingmarathon spncoldesthits

LJ clones:

spn_betas spn_j2_fic wincest spn_bigpretzel spn_darkside thewincestdiaries spn_spanking evilsam_spn j2_crack spn_on_parade spnlittlebro spn_indulge spn_napowrimo wincest_reverse wincestbigbang

Communities with more active lj comms (subscribe to feed):

spn_reversebang/spnreversebang_feed
spnj2xmas/spn_j2_xmas_feed
spn_gen/spn_gen_feed
spnstoryfinders/spnstoryfinders_feed
spn_summergen/spn_summergen_feed
deancastiel/deancastiel_feed
all_spn/all_spn_feed
spn_springfling, quicky_bang, spneldritchbang, spn_kink_meme

Inactive for years (this does not mean you can't still post there):

spn_batcave spn_bitesized supernatural_women spn_rps threeweeks_supernatural jo_sam gabrielsam spnmysteryyears dean_layla

FEEDS:

Feeds are useful if you want things posted on another blog, a certain AO3 tag, or a comic like xkcd to appear on your reading page. Most existing feeds tend to be LJ journals, but you can make them for tumblrs or whatever you want. If there's anything anyone would like me to make for them, I'm happy to help! Feed FAQ

spn_newsletter_feed, spn_j2_bigbang_feed, omgspnbb_feed, cas_whump_feed, crack_impala_feed, deancasxmas_feed, purgatory_spn_feed, sam_castiel_feed, sn_fic_feed, sn_slash_feed, spn_brotherlove_feed, spn_morseomes_feed, team_free_love_feed, tfwbigbang_lj_feed, wincest_feed, wincestielbb13_feed, hoodie_time_feed, spn_ontheset_feed, spn_sceneit_feed, supernatural_tv_feed, supernaturalvid_feed, spn_masquerade_feed, spn_meanttobe_feed

AO3 tag feeds:

ao3_destiel_feed, wincest_ao3_feed, ezekiel_ao3_feed, ao3_j2_feed, wincestiel_ao3_feed, sam_castiel_ao3_feed

I've filed a Support request for these already:

spn_j2_bigbang_feed, wincest_ao3_feed (duplicates) Fixed, thanks DW!

TWITTER:
misha_collins_feed (now updating!)

I'm SURE this is still incomplete! What am I missing? Comment here with whatever you've got and I'll add it, or if someone wants to take a stab at organizing these better than I've done, here's the raw html so you can play without having to re-code everything. Feel free to share and repost wherever you think it might be useful!

<h2>COMMUNITIES:</h2> (I might have sorted a few wrong, let me know; this is still pretty rough!)

<b>Dreamwidth native/primary:</b>

<b>DW communities with tumblr equivalents:</b>

<b>LJ clones:</b>

<b>Communities with more active lj comms (subscribe to feed):</b>

<b>Inactive for years (this does not mean you can't still post there):</b>

<h2>FEEDS:</h2> Feeds are useful if you want things posted on another blog, a certain AO3 tag, or a comic like xkcd to appear on your reading page. Most existing feeds tend to be LJ journals, but you can make them for tumblrs or whatever you want. <a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=27">Feed FAQ</a>

<b>AO3 tag feeds:</b>

<b>I've filed a Support request for these already:</b>

<user name=spn_j2_bigbang_feed>, <user name=spnj2bb_feed> (duplicates)
<user name=wincest_ao3_feed>, <user name=ao3_wincest_feed> (duplicates)
<user name=misha_collins_feed> (not updating)

Crossposting in supernatural

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More nattering about my spreadsheet

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:50:58 GMT

It's been a while since my original post describing in words what I was doing with my giant list of Big Bang-style challenges in the Supernatural fandom. So here's a whole bunch more stuff I have to tell the world about organizing SPN fanworks challenges into a bunch of little data cells. Since my post over a year ago, I added another tab for all the rest of the fic challenges that are still In Supernatural fandom. This did not happen all at once because it's a big-ass project, and while I'm fairly sure that the list of bangs is fairly complete (I might be missing one or two, <I>maybe</I>) there are so many more other challenges in such a wide variety out there, I really may never get them all. So by all means, come tell me what I'm missing: you can comment directly into the spreadsheet itself, reply here, look me up on any other social media site you spot me on, it's all good and I don't bite. If there's a reason it wasn't included, at least I can tell you what it is.

( Read more... )

I also want to shoutout to wetsammy for helping me out with this project a lot, telling me about new bangs and helping organize the ones I had. And thanks also to Superwiki who not only runs the best damn wiki, but also encouraged me to put my collected knowledge into a wiki page all about the Big Bang, and for telling all of Twitter to come check it out!

Finally, welcome to Dreamwidth, everyone discovering or rediscovering it due to Tumblr's recent meltdown. Best of luck and I hope you enjoy finding your way around!

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Bibliography: List of Lists

Sat, 02 Sep 2017 19:14:18 GMT

I went looking for all the Supernatural Big Bang challenges I could find. Here are the best resources I used to compile my list!

Multifandom:

https://bigbangindex.livejournal.com/profile -Multifandom LJ community; list in profile.

http://bigbangindex.dreamwidth.org/ - Multifandom DW community; list tagged “admin: index post.”

http://strina.dreamwidth.org/410079.html -Updated list by mod of the DW comm, included big, reverse, & a few mini; current, defunct, and deleted; and (readers sit up!) masterlists for each round for each challenge! Almost entirely challenges on LJ/DW.

http://wendy.livejournal.com/1910947.html?page=2 -Wendy is the mod for by far the longest-running and biggest SPN Bang out there! Her list is multifandom, LJ only, big bangs only. It also includes comms which were never active.

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Big%20Bang%20Challenge
-Browse tags for challenges! Once you’re in the Works of a tag, you can look for if it says “Collections: 1″ in between “Chapters:” and “Comments:” under a story. This is honestly easier than trying to search for a collection in the first place. Mods, take note: prominently link to your AO3 collection so people can find it!

https://thebigbangblogproject.tumblr.com/ -Multifandom collaborative effort on Tumblr! Has Google Doc sheets for several fandoms, challenges both lj-based and tumblr-based, go help!

Supernatural Only:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CpU-KDDeTQ6K4XoHyYhgWKJgVVfQWRkmP1sO5-A2TiY/edit#gid=0 -Supernatural Doc from the Big Bang Blog Project (above). Mind you check the tags on the bottom, the first list you see is not all there is!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fandomnatural/comments/4ze79r/i_have_an_updated_and_fairly_thorough_list_of/ -Reddit thread, SPN specific: scroll down for more links.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Ds_yPi47bs_Bz6CJSvV1L72QXVHUXCMSmBOsZpcZXs/edit -List of Dean/Cas friendly challenges (not just bangs) run by the mod of the Dean/Cas Big Bang.

http://deanicanfixthat.tumblr.com/post/153192756651/supernatural-bangschallenges-masterpost -Supernatural bangs and other challenges, current only (active in the past year as of 2016).

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Fanfic_challenges_%26_exchanges -Good overview of different challenge types with non-exhaustive examples within SPN. A few years out of date; updating it with current information is next on my to-do list!

Hope this is useful. Without all the hard work done by everybody who worked on these lists, I couldn’t have gotten anywhere close to what I was able to do with mine!

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Supernatural Big (and Otherwise) Bang Challenges: The Spreadsheet!

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:44:57 GMT

Ever wonder how many big-bang-style challenges Supernatural fandom really has?

Various people have compiled various lists and posted them in various places. Trust me, I have a list of these lists. Everyone also defines the parameters of their search a little differently. Personally, I chose to look for past and present SPN Bang challenges, and then I made a spreadsheet with info about each bang. There are 70+ entries on it.

I included big bangs, mini bangs, reverse bangs, and the herculean mega bang. I did not include other kinds of fic challenges, such as gift exchanges, flashfic or drabble communities. What makes a bang a bang? ( Read more... )

My Google Spreadsheet of SPN Big (and otherwise) Bang Challenges!

Anyone can comment directly into the document or contact me with additional information or suggestions! Feel free to link to this from anywhere you like as well. ~~Note that there are a couple new challenges with author sign-ups closing TODAY, August 31!~~

ETA: Fun with filters! The awesome thing about speadsheets is that you can sort all the data any way you like! Here’s a quick rundown of possibly-useful information.

Even if you don’t have editing privileges on a Google Doc, you can still sort columns. It won’t permanently change the doc or impact the way others are seeing it if they’re viewing it at the same time as you. All you do is mouse over the top of a column where it says “A” (I don't think it's possible from a phone) and a little arrow will appear for you to click on. So if you’re an artist, feel free to sort by ‘artist signups,’ or if you just like reading everything as soon as it comes out, sort by ‘posting starts.’ The default way I have the Doc sorted is first I sort by ‘status,’ then by ‘writing signups,’ then by ‘latest round.’ This means that the doc will be sorted primarily by the year of the latest round, then by the month writers should sign up in, then by status.

I renamed challenges which haven’t yet gone a round from “new” to “virgin,” not just for amusement, but so we could have an alphabetical list: Closed, Deleted, Dormant, Hiatus, Polling, Ongoing, Virgin. Is that not sweet? You can sort by that, or alphabetically by name, etc. Play around, have fun, and when you’d like to go back to the standard view, just ‘X’ out of the dark gray filter bar.

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