Challenge On The Big Bridge

Welcome to Challenge On The Big Bridge!

The goal of the Challenge is to create a fanwork for a Japanese Role-Playing Game or JRPG franchise*.


The schedule:

- Sign ups: End May 31st (07:59 ADT)
- Creating period: Starts June 1st
- First check in: June 15th
- Second check in: June 30th
- Third check in: July 15th
- Works due: July 31st (19:59 ADT)
- Works revealed: Aug 1st (07:59 ADT)


The guidelines:

- For fanfic: 5000 words minimum
- For fanart: Art, either 5 completed pieces of art on unlined paper or 10 sketches on unlined paper or equivalent
- For other fanworks: Whatever you feel is comparable to the above

- Multiple sign ups are okay, sign ups are mostly for gauging interest
- Multiple submissions are okay
- Co-authors, collaborations and stuff are also okay
- Subject changes, media changes, all of that's also okay!

- No penalty for withdrawing, you can say why or not at your discretion
- There will be check-in posts but they're optional, mostly for sharing bits, cheering on, commiserating and such


The AO3 collection will be posted around the first check-in.


If you have any questions about the challenge, go ahead and leave them on this post!


*This year, I'm opening up the Challenge to any RPG from Asia.


Nota bene: I'm hoping everyone gets to have a good time with this fest. That means everyone taking part needs to let everyone else have a good time on their own time. No tearing down other people's faves, guys, whether that's a game or a character or a ship or a fannish genre, okay? We're here to have fun, and that means everyone.

We got 16 signups already! That's awesome :D

I want to send out two reminders about signups, though, to keep all the bases covered.


* Only DNWs (Do Not Wants) that are in your signup form on AO3 need to be followed by your assigned creator, remember! Although creators, feel free to keep letter DNWs in mind if you want to, but they aren't binding. This is totally because letters can be edited later but not signups on AO3.

* Your DNWs are for letting your creator know that there's subjects you don't like or aren't comfortable with receiving for a gift, whether that's animal balloons or explicit fanworks or certain types of tropes (AUs, fluff, pregnancy fic, so on). DNWs are not meant to box in your creator and limit them to only creating one or two very specific potential subjects. You may give prompts and suggestions, of course! But they're only prompts and suggestions. Attempting to box your creator in to a particular interpretation of a character/relationship/trope runs into the Don't Be A Jerk rule. Don't do that.

A low key fanworks exchange for jrpgs :D

Timetable:

September 1st-5th: Nominations
September 6th-10th: Sign ups
September 11th to 12th/13th: Bookkeeping
September 13th: Assignments out no later than this
September 14th - October 5th: Creating period! :D
October 6th-11th: Pinch hit and treat period
October 12th: Works revealed
October 15th: Creators revealed


Exchange Rules of the Road:

* 400 words or clean lined sketch minimum

* Nominations will be four fandoms, up to six relationships and/or characters, and relationship tags can be / or &

* Offers will be 3-10 fandoms, 2-10 tags per fandom (or "Any")
* Requests will be 2-10 fandoms, 1-8 tags per fandom (or "Any")

* Runs on OR matching.


* Letters are optional, feel free to link one, but only DNWs in your AO3 sign up must be stuck to by your creator.


* The exchange is meant to be fun! Which means letting everyone have their own fun too. Don't tear down other people's likes or dislikes, we're all here to enjoy ourselves :)


If you have any questions, feel free to ask here! (Nominations questions in the nominations post, though, so everything's in one place.)

Here's what I've worked out so far :)


No dates yet because I haven't settled on those yet, but a potential rough timeline of events:

5 days for nominations
5 days for sign up
2 days misc. bookkeeping
23 days for creating!
7 days for after due date pinch hits, etc.
3 days anon period


For the nuts and bolts, I'm looking at

* 400 words or clean lined sketch minimum

* Nominations will be four fandoms, up to six relationships and/or characters, and relationship tags can be / or &.

* Offers will be 3-10 fandoms, 2-10 tags per fandom (or "Any").

* Requests will be 2-10 fandoms, 1-8 tags per fandom (or "Any").

* Runs on OR matching.


I'm still looking for input if anyone wants to comment, especially on whether early fall or late fall would be better :D I think too late collides with Yuletide at least but I'd love to hear from people before I make a final decision.

And we are go for launch! :D

You can find everyone's works right here!


Thank you everyone that took part in Challenge On The Big Bridge :)

Stay tuned for a post in the near future for tossing around ideas for a smaller fall event!

We've reached the end, everyone! :D

Today is the last day to post to the AO3 collection, which I'll lock at 23:59 ADT tonight.

Works will be revealed tomorrow Aug 1st, 22:59 ADT.

If you need that one last push, believe me, you can do it :D

What's all this anyway? It's a friendly jrpg fest thingee! :D

The goal of the Challenge is to create a fanwork for a Japanese Role-Playing Game or JRPG franchise.


The guidelines are:

- For fanfic: 5000 words minimum
- For fanart: Art, either 5 completed pieces of art on unlined paper or 10 sketches on unlined paper or equivalent
- For other fanworks: I'm not very practiced at gauging podfic, vids and all, but what you feel is in line with fic or art is fine by me!

- Multiple sign ups are okay, sign ups are mostly for gauging interest
- Multiple submissions are okay
- Co-authors, collaborations and stuff are also okay
- Subject changes, media changes, all of that's also okay!

- No penalty for withdrawing, you can say why or no at your discretion
- There will be check-in posts but they're optional, mostly for sharing bits, cheering on, commiserating and such


The AO3 collection is here!


Nota bene: I'm hoping everyone gets to have a good time with this fest. That means everyone taking part needs to let everyone else have a good time on their own time. No tearing down other people's faves, guys, whether that's a game or a character or a ship or a fannish genre, okay? We're here to have fun, and that means everyone.