Sorry for the delay in posting the links to the forms here; I think I figured out how to post it to the top of the page until sign-ups are over.

We are running both a Big Bang and another round of the Reverse Bang, each with their own sign-up form. Please make sure you use the correct form!

WIP Big Bang Sign-Up Form | WIP Reverse Bang Sign-Up Form

Schedule

All times are by 11:59pm PST. Convert time zones.

Big Bang/Reverse Bang Sign-ups Begin- April 1st
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Sign-ups Close- May 21st
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Check In #1- May 22nd
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Check In #2- June 15th
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Snippets Due- July 1st
Big Bang Art Claims/Reverse Bang Fic Claims Begin- July 17th
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Check In #3- July 22nd
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Check In #4- August 6th
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Rough Drafts Due- August 15th
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Posting Claims Begin- August 23rd
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Posting Claims Ends- September 1st
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Final Drafts/Art & Fic Due- September 7th
Big Bang/Reverse Bang Posting Starts- September 8th

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I have a question/concern that’s not mentioned here.

If you need help, you can always contact a mod and we will do our best to make sure that you get your story/art finished. The best and fastest method of contact is through our email, wipbigbang@gmail.com.

Posting for the 2025 International Fanworks Day Mini Bang will now end on March 1st!

Story Title: Awakening

Fandom: Glee & Goncharov crossover

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43246185/chapters/108699384

Summary: Fruit, desire, and truth--will sharing an apple lead to carnal knowledge? Mormon missionary Blaine Anderson is in love with his mission companion, Kurt Hummel, but afraid to express his secret desires. Witnessing Katya Goncharova and Sofia Ambrosini at the fruit stand sparks him to act.

Warnings: Could be considered blasphemous depending on your religious beliefs.

Characters: Blaine Anderson, Kurt Hummel (major characters); Katya Goncharova, Sofia Ambrosini, Massimo Troisi (minor characters)

Pairings: Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel (main pairing); Katya/Sofia (minor but plot-important pairing)

When I Started: November 2022

How I Lost My Shit: I had a lot of other things I was working on, including huge WIP that took precedence over this one (and that I’m still working toward finishing sigh). Also just general life stuff.

How I Finished My Shit: I see the posts for the mini-bang every year. This year, I finally decided to participate. I sat down, reread that first chapter I had posted, tried to get back into its mood of Goncharovesque purple prose, and did my best. (And thank you for the compilers of the Goncharov summary Google Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fbcn96MKyc1Bky6c0Ffex4APtar9iNht8ytfZHPpSss/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.72oyeg8j1ma2, which helped me reacquaint myself with a lot of the lore.)

       

 

Feel free to submit your completed mini-bang fics to the Tumbr and/or Dreamwitdth sites for posting now!

Between February 15th and February 22d, there is a specific form we would like you to fill out to post your fanworks. It allows you bragging rights for finishing your fic/art, and also links to the location of your fic (it should be up somewhere like AO3/FF.net/your personal Tumblr under a tag/any other fic or journal community) in its completion. We also have an AO3 collection for this round where you can post the AO3 postings of your fic and art to when you are finished posting new chapters.

These are the bragging rights form for WIPBB Mini Bangauthors:

Story Title:
Fandom:
Link:
Summary:
Warnings:
Characters:
Pairings:
When I Started:*
How I Lost My Shit:*
How I Finished My Shit:*

You can submit your post to either Tumblr (by submitting the post) or Dreamwidth (by adding the post to the queue) or both sites as early as you like and we'll queue it to post on the date you've claimed. Don't worry about tagging posts; we will use a system we've determined.

And don't worry, artists from the 2024 round who didn't post their art in time, we've got you covered, too! You get your own separate post, though you are welcome to just have your author post your art on their post if you want. If you don't plan on making your own separate post to the comm, you still must do the final posting check-in. In this post, you can share things like this for the WIPBB artists:

Art Title:
Fandom:
Link: (or you can post the art here, too!)
Warnings:
Bragging Rights: *

Your posting day is all about you. So celebrate! Don't be modest! Shout it to the world! We all come from so many fandoms, but we all came together to finish our shit, and that's something to shed a proud tear over.

* This part of the bragging rights is totally optional; if you don't want to include it on your post you don't have to.

I got here in the end!

Story Title: By Design
Fandom: Star Trek TNG/Star Trek DS9
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59621257/chapters/152064514
Summary: When Jules is born there is a name over his heart. That's not unusual since there's always an age difference between soulmates. After all, the names appear at the exact moment when the other half is born—down to the millisecond. The odd part of Jules' mark is the name itself. Only one word—Data. What is that supposed to mean? What kind of name is that? It's not even a proper name. His soulmate isn't a Liam, or a Noah, or a Sophia or an Evelyn—something normal. No, the one who matches Jules' soul goes by Data.

Data does not understand this need that humans have to be with one's soulmate, even though he has one himself. The name, Jules Subatoi Bashir, appeared over where a human heart would be, three years after being activated. It is a particular signature—very sloppy with embellished loops—like it had been written in some sort of hurry. He keeps the mark to himself, finding that it is no one else's concern. It is unimportant, and would only serve as a distraction to his work and life.
Pairings: Julian Bashir/Data
When I Started: 2020
How I Lost My Shit: I got frustrated over several things. 1) It's a rare pair. It's not like I've never written for a rare pair before, but it was still discouraging because why should I bother writing it if no one will read it? And this is a soulmate au. That's not a trope everyone likes. So writing for a rare pairing with an odd trope since Data is an adroid and Julian is human. Seriously, who would want to read that? 2) I've never written for TNG or DS9 so I worried I was getting the characters wrong. 3) Originally I envisioned this to be around 4,000 words. I was stuck with the middle of the story where Data and Julian get together. I had the beginning and ending, but nothing in-between. 4) I had someone look over what I had. They liked what I had, and also said if it were them they'd expand on the story to make it multiple chapters. I dunno why but it irritated me. Legit do not know why.
How I Finished My Shit: This is one of those fic ideas that refused to die. It's one of those WIP fics that didn't leave me alone. I always knew or hoped I'd come back to it, and finish it. I knew of WIP Big Bang from last years, but never particpated in it before. I was looking forward to the 2024 round to help inspire me to finish something. In the end, what was planned out to be 4,000 words has turned into my longest fic to date with 63,264 words. This fic would not be here without the constant support I got from everyone on the 30+ fanfic discord server. I sprinted with many people to keep on writing those words. I shared snippets fairly often and kind of gained a following for the fic, especially from people who were fandom blind. I found a wonderful beta who I am enternally grateful for. Without all of them in my corner, this fic would have never been completed. Also thanks to the mods for being insanely understanding.

Merry Christmas and happy first day of Hanukkah from the mod team! Happy holidays and may your new year be amazing.

So it's December 1st where I am (where the heck has the year gone?!?) and that means the "official" posting period for the 2024 WIP Big Bang is now over. However, unofficial posting continues until December 31st, so if you haven't finished your fic or art, you have until then to post to Tumblr or Dreamwidth and be included in the 2024 Master Post.

Next up is the International Fanworks Day Mini Bang! That starts January 1st and lasts up until February 22nd, with posting starting February 15th and lasting for a week. This is for works that didn't make it in time to be included in the 2024 Master Post as well as fics 7,500 words and under (no new art for this one...that will come up during the next WIP Reverse Bang in April).

Everyone should be super proud of themselves for all the work they put into their fics, even if they had to drop out or didn't finish by November 30th. The mods are all pleased with how much work everyone did and all the great fanworks that got released into the wild! The 2024 Master Post should be up within the next week on Tumblr and Dreamwidth.

Bragging Rights: Just happy to make a couple things for a very talented writer. Hope they're good lol

A Playlist cover:

Posting on behalf of a participant!

Story Title: The Hand That Feeds
Fandom: Persona 5
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60545554
Summary: Akira gets one chance to undo his greatest regret.
On the way and in no particular order, he collects: more than one Persona, a codename, a reason to fight, and a family.
He'll make it work.
[time travel fix-it, non-linear narrative]
Warnings: No archive warnings apply
Characters: Persona 5 Protagonist, Phantom Thieves of Hearts, Akechi Goro, Suzui Shiho
Pairings: None
When I Started: May 2022

Posted on behalf of a participant!

Story Title: I Am Here Because of You
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60388255
Summary: Learning to love was Shang Qinghua's greatest mistake. And it's a mistake that he made more than once.
Pairings: Shang Qinghua & Original Shang QinghuaOriginal Mobei-jun/Original Shang QinghuaOriginal Shang Qinghua & System
When I Started: December 2022
How I Lost My Shit: I Am Here for You,the main story of the series keeps growing on me.
How I Finished My Shit: Originally I planned this to be part of the main I Am Here for You story but as I worked on this section more I realized it would be best to make it as a standalone part of the series and that helped me get it to the finish line.

Art Title: Your Name Over My Heart
Fandom: ST:TNG, ST:DS9
Link: Your Name Over My Heart (on AO3)
Warnings: naked male chests :D
Bragging Rights: I'm pretty happy with what I managed to do, despite the quality of the DS9 source material -_- But I'm definitely very happy I took part in this challenge, and proud of myself to taking part in a fandom thing after what feels like such a long time ^_^

Here's a preview of the title banner version, the rest of the art can be found here.



Thank you mods for hosting this challenge, and akingnotaprincess for taking part so I could do this art! ^_^

Please check out the story too and leave some love! ^_^
Link to fic: By Design by akingnotaprincess

Story Title: the work we do
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60553906
Summary:
Natasha stares openly, fascinated. It isn't like she'd imagined, seeing them together. She'd been picturing the version of Barnes as she'd known him. And that person is in front of her now, but he's only one piece of the whole. Here, with Steve, he's a three dimensional person come to life, not the flattened copy of a man who she remembered.

(Missing scenes from the Raft rescue.)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Avengers Team Members
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Natasha Romanov
When I Started: 2016
How I Lost My Shit: I lost momentum trying to plot out the action, and then new canon kept coming out and jossing me until Endgame sort of killed my desire entirely.
How I Finished My Shit: Set a deadline, rewatched the (good) movies, decided sticking completely to canon was overrated anyway. 

Story Title: But I'm not Robin
Fandom: Danny Phantom + Batman
Link: on ao3
Summary: Danny is out one night after moving to Gotham just trying to get some peach monster energy drinks. Then he is dragged into the night life of Batman and Robin. Only he's not Robin. Not even the slightest. But Batman sure thinks he is. Which Robin? All of them.
Warnings: Kidnapping, drugged character
Characters: Danny Fenton, Bruce Wayne
Pairings: Danny Fenton & Bruce Wayne
When I Started: June 2023
How I Lost My Shit: Started some events, there was some drama in things, got distracted by all the things
How I Finished My Shit: I signed up for this event and got my act together to dedicate time to this fic

Posting on behalf of a participant!

Story Title: System? Why am I the Scum Villain's Father?
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41321883
Summary: After pushing Luo Binghe into the Endless Abyss, Shen Qingqiu was doing just fine. No matter what Liu Qingge said. He. Was. Fine. Well, at least he was until he met a kid and the System decided to give him a new mission called "Help Shen Jiu". Help him how? He has no clue! Wait, why is he raising the kid now? How often are you even supposed to water and feed a kid? Stupid System. Thankfully he has his always reliable shidi to help him with this mess!
Warnings: no archive warning
Characters: Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Liu Qingge, Original Shěn Qīngqiū
Pairings: Original Shěn Qīngqiū & Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Liu Qingge/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Liu Qingge & Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu
When I Started: August 2022
How I Lost My Shit: I had a lot of ongoing fics at the time and this one always got pushed off for later.
How I Finished My Shit: I always knew I wanted to finish. Having something like the WIP Big Bang gave me a clear deadline to work towards to see it through.

Art Title: silhouetted by the streetlight
Fandom: The Eclipse (TV 2022)
Link: https://amanivuote.dreamwidth.org/30555.html
Warnings: n/a
Notes: title from Spray Paint and the Art of Betrayal

Art Title: Art for One Omen Too Many
Fandom: Good Omens
Link: AO3
Warnings: N/A
Bragging Rights: This Good Omens story is inspired by one of the Cadfael books, so when I began my process I looked at Cadfael book covers and found a series of editions that featured medieval castle windows, so I decided to copy that style for this cover art. I also made manips of Azriaphale in monks robes and Crowley in medieval dress. I'm very happy with how it all turned out.