origfic_bingo | Sign Up Post

OMG it's a sign up post! What's this doing here?!

Well,

ahouseforrain had a wonderful point! It would make it easier on the mods--and get you guys your cards faster--if signups had mostly already occurred BEFORE the start date. That way, with everyone chomping at the bit and all our ducks in a row, we can just go down the comments list and give you your cards in one epic baccanalia of card-flinging madness on October 1!

...OH MAN THAT SOUNDS LIKE FUN! XD

So yeah, sign up by commenting here! You don't need to put anything in your comment but what kind of card you are requesting. We have three flavors!

Gen card - pulls from the gen prompt list (general prompts not aimed at romance or kink)
Gen + Romance card - pulls from the gen prompt list plus a romance-themed prompt list
Gen + Romance + Kink card - pulls from the gen, romance, AND kink lists

Prompt lists are here, should you want to scope them out beforehand. Please note that the bingo cards are going to be randomly pulled from the three lists: so, for instance, asking for a gen+romance+kink card only gives the possibility of a kinky card, not a guarantee.

Your cards will magically appear on (or maybe slightly before! :O) October 1 as replies to your comment. So, if you don't have comment notifications turned on, you might want to check back around then to get your card!

AND, once you are done signing up, please stop by the first of our Chatter Posts! (We won't go crazy with these, we promise.) Introduce yourself and what you like to write, ask questions, chat about how excited you are, or whatever else is on your mind!

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Thanks!

You're welcome! :D Welcome aboard!

Gen & romance, please!

Hello!

I would like to request a gen/romance/kink card please. :D

Requesting a gen + romance card, please.

I would really like to sign up for a gen card! One question, though, are we allowed to ask for one or two exceptions? Only I'm really not comfortable writing for a suicide/self-harm prompt. Other than that everything looks really interesting.

We don't have a formal exception policy (for the sake of simplicity), but to be honest there's so many prompts that the chances of you getting one in particular (and suicide might be on the gen list, but it's 1 out of almost 190 prompts) is fairly low. Also, even though something might show up on your card, you're not obligated to write for it, of course. Pretty much everyone's going to get something on their card that just doesn't work for them, for whatever reason. I've always found that that's one of the fun things about bingo challenges: finding the shapes/lines/bingos that I feel I CAN do amongst all the things that I feel I can't.

So I guess the answer is "no, no exceptions, but we've tried to structure the challenge in a way that no one is EVER forced to write anything they don't want to write". And we don't say no because we don't care, just because we've seen other challenges where they do allow exceptions, and it can get complicated when you have to vet cards for what folks wanted and didn't want, especially when the challenge gets big.