God Tier: A Homestuck Big Bang

The Reverse Bang is closed (Sorry for the lateness of the post; still got that finals week brain-death going on) with one last completed work in the archive for you all to enjoy: A Hymn For Whitecap Bay by a_stands_for based on artwork by bug!

Thank you to everyone who participated, and keep an eye on the community for the start of the next regular round of God Tier coming soon!

Warning time, everyone!

We are now about 48 hours away from end of the challenge! Writer's, if you've been procrastinating about getting your work finished up, now's the time to get your butt in gear!

In the meantime, there's a new finished work in the collection for everyone to enjoy, the story is Girl of Evil by hanakoanime, inspired by Superhero Rose and Kanaya by sqbr.

A reminder, everyone!

The posting period begins in four days! Hopefully you'll all be fairly close to done by then, because you'll only have until the end of the month to post! If you need some help posting to the AO3, here's a post I put together a couple years ago for the gift exchange; there are just three important differences for the reverse bang:
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1) You should post to this collection (Homestuck_Reverse_Bang_12)
2) Instead of (just) being a useful way to let someone else post for you if you're out of town you should use the co-author section to give credit to your media creator or the story's author (depending on which of you is doing the posting). If one of you doesn't have an AO3 account you can credit them in the notes section instead.
3) And there is no recipient.

As one further reminder, authors once you finish the fic for your first claim you can pic another to write for if you feel like you have enough time and another story grabs you. There are two pieces of art that still haven't been claimed by a writer, but this late in the game I am opening the other pieces up to second claims, but please consider whether you could write something for either unclaimed piece first!

Without further ado, the writer's claims period is now underway! Under the cuts you'll find all the art and fsts submitted, to browse through to your heart's content. Writer's, if on calls to you then you just need to sign-up to claim it! As a reminder, by signing up you're agreeing to complete a story that's at least 2500 words long before the posting period ends. With the two week bump forward in the schedule the new posting period will be April 13th-April 30th (which means both that 413-day will still be an important day in the timetable, and that you actually get a few days longer to write than you had in the original timetable because your friendly neighborhood mod has a thing about hitting nice round numbers when they're that close).

As a reminder, once you've finished your first story you can claim another media creation if you still have enough time to complete another 2500 word fic. Claims are assigned on a first-come first-serve basis; multiple authors won't be able to claim the same piece until each piece has been claimed once, so you want to get here early if you want to make sure you get your first choice!

If you want to claim a media creation just fill out the following form in the comments:


Your Name: (Preferably on AO3)
Your email address:
Your Top Three Media Piece Choices: (You'll be assigned your first choice that doesn't already have a writer)
Choice #1:
Choice #2:
Choice #3:


( The fanart! )

( The FSTs! )

Finally, in case there's anyone whose internet is too slow for them to want to load a whole post full of images, here's text links to everything.

Fanart

1. Gamzee and Terezi: Hatetouch Claimed!
2. Mother Daughter Time Claimed!
3. Tree Pirates Claimed!
4. Bronies Claimed!
5. Eridan and Feferi: Depart Claimed!
6. Ungulates! (NSFW due to sex) Claimed!
7. Lovecraft on a Sunday Afternoon Claimed!
8. John and Karkat: Lounge Claimed!
9. Aradia vs Rose Claimed!
10. Miracles Claimed!
11. Crushing Embarrassment Claimed!
12. Whitecap Bay Claimed!
13. Superhero Rose and Kanaya Claimed!
14. wow gay (NSFW due to gorn)
15. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

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FSTs

16. Can I Get An Encore? Claimed!
Theme: Calmasis
Tracklisting:
1. They Gave You A Heart, They Gave You A Name - Ladytron
2. State Run Radio - Lupe Fiasco
3. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3) - Pink Floyd
4. Complaint Department - Lykke Li
5. Hallowed Be Thy Enemy - Wax Audio
6. Hunting for Witches (Crystal Castles Remix) - Bloc Party
7. Unstoppable - Santogold
8. Encore - DJ Danger Mouse
9. When I’m Small (RAC Mix) - Phantogram
17. See the whole of me igniting Claimed!
Theme: Rose/Horrorterrors
Tracklisting: 1. Eleanor - Cake Bake Betty
2. The Sweetest Chill - Siouxsie & The Banshees
3. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) - Florence + The Machine
4. Vessel - Zola Jesus
5. Violet - Hole
6. Shadowboxer - Fiona Apple
7. Everything I Cannot See - Charlotte Gainsbourg
8. Blinding - Florence + The Machine
9. Your Weak Hands - Azure Ray
18. TG: you dont even let me say your dad is hot even though we both know he way the fuck is Claimed!
Theme: love with an age difference
Tracklisting: 1. Richard's Dad - meonplaystheguitarr
2. Light My Candle - RENT Original Broadway Cast
3. Young Girl - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
4. Falling For You - Weezer
5. Don't Stand So Close to Me - The Police
6. Another Day - RENT Original Broadway Cast
7. Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number - Aaliyah
8. You're Just a Baby - Belle & Sebastian
9. Hands Clean - Alanis Morissette
10. Our Ages Or Our Hearts - Roberta Flack
11. Recessional - Vienna Teng

This is your final warning, media creators!

You have a little under three hours left to join in before sign-ups close!

Just a reminder everyone:

Media creators, you have a little more than a day and a half left to sign-up! Again, it can be something that you've already posted elsewhere, but if it's a new work it doesn't need to be absolutely complete as long as it's reached a point where it's clear to the viewer what's going on there.

We're doing better this time (there will be media creations to post this time!) but we could always use more!

I've gotten a few responses and they've pretty much all said the same thing, so option 2B it is!

Media creators, you have an additional two weeks from today to sign-up, which means your submissions should now be in my 11:59 PM EST on March 4th. Additionally, you are allowed to submit works that you've previously put up on Deviantart/tumblr/tindeck/*insert appropriate site for type of media you create here*.

Also, you weren't actually disallowed from making multiple submissions but now I'm gonna outright say: just like authors can claim another another piece after they've finished a story (or, flipping it around, just like you media creators can claim another story after you've finished your piece(s) for the first one in the main round), you can submit another work after you're done with your first one. Or just copy and paste the work information bits multiple times in your sign-up and turn them all in at once. But please limit yourself to a maximum of three submissions; it be fair to the other media creators if the vast majority of works authors had to pick from came from one person emptying out their art folder.

(Authors, in case your wondering, yes that does mean that if you have time to write more than one complete 10k+ word story during the big bang proper you can sign-up with more than one. But if you do I'm incredibly jealous.)

For the sake of getting this thing off the ground this time, please signal boost the challenge if you have any friends who might want to get involved! I'd especially be grateful to anyone mentioning it on tumblr, since I know a large portion of the media-creating side of fandom hangs out there but Mod herself does not tumbl.

Media Creators, Sign-up Here!

It's late in the day, but media creator sign-ups for the reverse bang are now open! If you missed the earlier post, you can read a quick FAQs I put up about what's expected of you right at that link. The most important part for the moment is that if you sign up you'll be expected to complete one new media piece (you can't submit an art piece you've already made to see what someone would write for it, and shouldn't post it elsewhere until the posting period) by April 13 30th, with a rough that's at least 3/4ths complete submitted to me before February 15th March 4th.

Your name on AO3:
Your email address: This will not be shared with anyone besides your author.

Title of your work: You don't need to give your piece one, but putting anything at all here would make is stand out a little in a list full of 'Untitled 1, Untitled 2's
Link to your work: You don't need to have this right now, but if you're signing up after finishing you can just put this in now. If your work is visual the link should go to the image, an FST's download should go to a .zip of the songs, and if it's an original song you can put the file on a download site or upload it to the music streaming site of your choice.
Unlike with author sign-ups for the regular big bang I do need to have a version of your piece that is at least 2/3rds complete before author claims start, so the author's can see what they're claiming.

The theme of your song or FST if your submission is musical: The character/pairing/situation/etc. you had in mind while putting it together.
The songlist: if you made an FST.

( Copy and Pasteable version beneath the cut )

Now that we're getting close to the end of the year, some of you might remember something I mentioned at the end of the big bang about holding a reverse bang in early 2012.

A reverse bang, for those who don't know, gives the media creators a little more focus, and also gives writers who do better with oneshots than longer works a chance to get in on the fun.

Media creators go first, with the same minimum requirements as you had in the big bang (seen here) and keeping in mind that the piece you're creating should give a writer something to inspire them; a headshot of one of the characters looking exactly the way they always do wouldn't give someone much to work with! Once you're done you email your piece to me, and when the media creations due date comes I put them all in a big post for writers to skim over, writers you pick one that inspires you to claim and write a fic based around that piece with a smaller minimum word count than you had for the big bang.

For anyone who thinks they might be interested in participating, I've put up a poll for ironing out the details.

The Big Bang is now closed, with two final stories in it!

No Glory Descends
and Construction (The Girl in the Machine)

Congratulations to everyone who finished your works on time! In a day or two I'll put up an exit poll for feedback on how we might make next year even better, but for right now I'll just give everyone the time to enjoy the beefy stories that have been posted. :)

And stay tuned for the beginning of next year when the reverse bang (media creators make their creations first, then writers write something based around one) will start up!