Chatter Post!

[white_aster]

Yay and welcome! First of all, thank EVERYONE for joining the comm! We've been tickled pink by the turnout, and we hope that everyone will have an awesome time writing and reading!

In the interest of tiding us over until the bingo cards are given out on the 1st, why don't we have a good, old-fashioned introduction post! Feel free to mix and mingle, introduce yourself and your writing, talk about the weather, ask questions, or anything else that comes to mind! :D

Comments

[white_aster]

I'll start! Hi, my name is Aster, and I am co-modding this comm/challengething along with the wonderful darthneko! We decided to start Origfic Bingo after several years of playing with various bingo challenges and having tons of fun with them. This year, though, as the bingo population seemingly exploded, we found that our original character muses were flinging ideas at us in response to the bingo prompts...and none of the bingos we could find allowed original fiction! :O

"Travesty!" we said! And, in the grand tradition of "I want to play in this sandbox, so I'll GO MAKE IT MYSELF!", we did just that. And the rest is history! :D We hope that this challenge will be a low-stress inspiration for everyone!

Personally, I hope to woo the original muses with a lot of tasty prompts in the next year. I tend to write character-driven scifi and fantasy (those mutant spacecats? Yeah, I got 'em....), so I'd expect some spacecats, some trans-dimensional gate setup teams, some mojo-magic-slinging steampunk, some fantasy-world harems, and god knows what else from me!

And again, thanks everyone so much for your enthusiasm. We have over a hundred subscribers! For my first foray into modding ANYTHING, that's pretty exciting! <3!

[whatawaytoburn]

Thank YOU for making this comm! As someone who loves bingos and has a lot of fun playing with original verses, you have made me a very happy creature.

[white_aster]

\o/ Happiness is my main goal! :D

[silenus]

Sounds like you're already hitting the target from some of the responses here!

[white_aster]

SUCCESS! :D

[cathstar]

Is that a Chi's New Home/Address icon?!

Chi's so dayum cute! :3

[white_aster]

It is! :D Chii is the Epitome of Cuteness. :D I love that manga!

[ex_pippin880]

:D

I like your sandbox.

[white_aster]

IT IS BIG ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE! That is its beauty! :D :D

[kunenk]

Seems pretty awesome! o/ I hope we all have a lot of fun!

Spacecats? :D

[white_aster]

Spacecats! Alien hermaphroditic spacecats! Alien hermaphroditic spacecats who have decided that space is shiny and traveling is shiny and asteroid mining--well, though not exactly SHINY, at least pays the bills. Piracy = also shiny, and sometimes better than mining.

My cowriter and I have a double-handful of stories and settings and such covering about a thousand years. Mostly focussing around the spacecats' semi-tradition of having a human on all their ships (said human usually scooped up because they are down and out somewhere and need a ride, and because someone on the 'cat ship is going to have kittens, and humans, the cats have decided, make EXCELLENT babysitters for spacecat kittens, and anyone who will keep tiny, furred, clawed, highly mobile, and incredibly DUMB balls of fur out of the maintenance shafts, wiring, and/or hyperdrive totally deserves a discount on passage....) ;P

[kunenk]

Oooooh.

That sounds like a policy intended for immense fun! /o/ Heee, kitty sitters!

[white_aster]

:D Yeah, the spacecats turn out a surprising amount of fluff, for a race that generally is treated with very guarded respect (kind of how you SHOULD treat a race that can turn into five-foot whirlwinds of fanged and clawed mayhem when provoked...and who have a dim race memory of HUNTING something upright and apelike back on their homeworld. :D)

[bigbrasskey]

And I cannot begin to express how grateful I am to you for making the sandbox!

SPACECATS. Oh, everything you hope to woo them to produce woos me as well. Mmmmm.

[white_aster]

You are more than welcome! Who knew that making up a word list and flinging bingo cards and people would make them so happy! <3!

Spacecats! <3! They were already poking me to get all their different timelines/stories written down so I wouldn't forget them just in case something pinged them, mind you....