Art Title: Banners for "Every English Village Has Its Secrets"
Fandom: BBC Sherlock/Midsomer Murders
Link: fic here
Warnings: none
Bragging Rights:

It was a little tricky to find good pictures of Greg that worked with what I wanted to do but my main brag for the top picture is having photomanipped part of the yellow tape since one of the cordons originally said sheriff rather than police because of most stock photos being US-centric.

For the bottom banner, I had fun with the Mycroft silhouette. Also the map of Midsomer county was very helpful to find for this - credit for the map, it's by Totospix on the Midsomer Murders wiki

Art Title: Titlecard for "The Tale Of The Ruined Vacation"
Fandom: BBC Sherlock/Elementary
Link: fic is over here
Warnings: None
Bragging Rights: I was mainly chuffed to be able to find high quality photos of them looking happy for this.

Art Title: Moodboard for "Vinlander"
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe/Vikings
Link: fic over here
Warnings: None
Bragging Rights:

This was actually the 2nd piece of art I made for the fic. There's not a lot of general Viking stock images out there that look likely to be accurate and I did first try to do a photomanip using a Vikings TV show screencap but that was a little above my current skill level trying to change the blonde canon character into Darcy. Anyhow, I ended up reusing a crop of it as part of this moodboard with the flower crown. I aimed for a meld of relevant Vikings screencaps and other stock photos to get the similar feel to what is mentioned in the chapter for the wedding prep.

Art Title: Art for "Lies Sweeter Than Any Wine"

Fandom: Thor Movies

Link: AO3

Warnings: N/A

Bragging Rights: My first attempt at making a space nebula/portal and I quite like how it turned out. In the distance you can see a Chitauri ship coming through the opening, they are the threat that Thor and Loki have to contend with in this story.

Posting will go on until November 5th. There won't be claimed dates; when you finish, post and I'll approve you as soon as I can. This will be the last extension we have; if you finish after this feel free to add the fic/art to the AO3 collection, but don’t post it to the communities.

Posting will go on until October 29th. There won't be claimed dates; when you finish, post and I'll approve you as soon as I can.

Story Title: Spark
Fandom: JAG (TV 1995)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42522222
Summary: Following the crisis at the Surface Warfare ball, Mac and Harm are determined to get back normal. But when a case tracking down a killer in the mountains hits a little too close to home, they're finally forced to confront their feelings.
Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence, Implied/Referenced Suicide
Characters: Sarah MacKenzie, Harmon Rabb Jr., Bud Roberts
Pairings: Sarah MacKenzie/Harmon Rabb Jr.
When I Started: July 2000
How I Lost My Shit: I wrote most of this the summer before my senior year of college. When I went back to school in the Fall, I got too busy with my senior thesis to continue. Then too much time had passed. But I've always had it in the back of my mind.
How I Finished My Shit: Trying to remember the original ending I had planned 22 years ago, realizing it didn't matter and I could just make up a new one, the graciousness of the mods granting extensions, and some very supportive friends.

Art Title: ⟫ Art for Sitting All Alone In The Dark by StarlessSky72
Fandom: ⟫ Batman All Medias
Characters/Pairing: ⟫ Batman, Jason Todd, The Joker
Link to Story: ⟫ AO3
Community: ⟫ wipbigbang
Summary: ⟫ Jason didn’t think that he had been this angry in a long time. And that was saying something coming from him. If Bruce had just listened to him and killed the Joker when Jason had asked him too none of this would have happened.

None of it.

They could all be one big happy family, but no absolutely not, why on earth would that be allowed. It always had to be about Bruce’s bullshit morals.

When Damian gets kidnapped by the Joker, Jason goes on a rampage after the Joker only for him to also get caught.

The rest of the Batfamily scrambles to try and find them but they're running out of time.

Main Banner



( Dividers and Icons )

Art Title: ⟫ Art for How About I Do It Anyway? by Janey_P
Fandom: ⟫ Teen Wolf
Characters/Pairing: ⟫ Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Link to Story: ⟫ AO3
Community: ⟫ wipbigbang
Summary: ⟫ Scott has set off a series of events that end with the sheriff going missing. Since it doesn’t look like the pack will find the man anytime soon, Peter decides this is a mission for Stiles and him. Stiles happens to agree.
Bragging Rights: ⟫ It helped that Janey knew the 'feeling' and look she was going for – it was just about trying to get it onto the screen! Bragging rights? My first real attempt at an author gif that turned out okay(ish)! I ended up making four but I think Janey may have made a few of her own using the tiles I sent to her using different fades and timings.

Main Banner


( Banner, Dividers and Icons )

Posting on behalf of the author!

Story Title: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Rewrite Vol 1: Awakening
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime and Manga)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42005976/chapters/105459891
Summary: Yuugi Mutou is a quiet boy. He’s also the school punching bag. So when he finishes the Millennium Puzzle just before the end of Grade 6, he finds his upcoming life in Junior High to be just a bit more haunted than he bargained for.
A canon-rewrite/AU where Yuugi finishes the Puzzle early. Takes place before Season 0/the original manga.
Written with and beta’d by my friend, unicornholly!
Warnings: Light angst, bullying, implied/referenced child abuse, violence, injuries, implied/referenced trauma, panic attacks, possession, amnesia
Characters: Yuugi Mutou, Yami Yuugi/Atem, Anzu Mazaki/Tea Gardner, Jonouchi Katsuya/Joey Wheeler, Sugoroku Mutou/Solomon Mutou/Grandpa
Pairings: N/A - implied one-sided Yuugi/Anzu on Yuugi’s side if you squint
When I Started: 2020
How I Lost My Shit: Life happened. We started watching S0 and all of DM together at the start of lockdown and planning this series since we had some spare time. But once mandates started lifting in mid-to-late 2020/early 2021 we both got super busy again and couldn’t sit and plan and write as much as we wanted.
How I Finished My Shit: Lots of freaking out, extensions given by our wonderful mod(s) running the Big Bang, and compromise on chapter ideas that were on too grand of a scale to finish on time.

Art Title: Art for "hey now, you're an all star (get your game on, go play)"

Fandom: Captain America (Movies)

Link: AO3

Warnings: N/A

Bragging Rights: This is a Hockey AU, the strips of colour are supposed be reminiscent of hockey tape. I emphasized the colours of green, sliver and black because those are the colours of the Dallas Stars, the team Steve and Bucky are supposed to be playing for. Plus, lots of hockey imagery, and an image of a diner, because it's a frequent setting in the story.

Art Title: Moodboards for the Bucky/Reader fic "hold onto me (this is our playlist)"
Fandom: MCU
Link: Fanfic here, art here
Warnings: Food, blood and injury in the first moodboard. Food and alcohol in the 2nd moodboard.

Bragging Rights: Most of the challenge for these was how to convey the relationship and its progression without being able to represent the reader, but also it's hard to find good pictures for Bucky with the right hair length and the cap that don't come from canon. I decided the first couple of meetings were a good choice to cover in the first moodboard since it's so significant. The fic scene of their first meeting had Bucky with a bloody nose, which isn't in the film, and I was quite happy with my manip to add that in there. For the 2nd moodboard I decided to cover a lot of the travels that happen across chapters 10 and 11 with not only snaps from the different places but drawing out the route roughly on an older style map.

Story Title: fooled heart

Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41694255/

Summary: After Crait, Rey is ready to ignore the Force bond and its consequences, but the Force has other ideas. She can't deny the pull of her fated partner across the galaxy, especially when the First Order still holds dominion. She and Ben are caught in the tangle of the past and the galaxy's unhealed wounds and Mustafar does not want to let them go.

Warnings: Description of injuries, mind manipulation, light smut (No Archive Warnings Apply)

Characters: Rey, Ben Solo, R2-D2, Leia Organa

Pairings: Rey/Ben Solo, Rey & Leia, Ben & Leia

When I Started: This was originally intended for the 2021 Reylo Fanfiction Anthology, where the theme was a celebration of the previous five anthologies. I outlined it to include each of the previous themes as well as a couple of my favorite head canons and ties to another important fandom to me, to mark the anthology's anniversary.

How I Lost My Shit: I worked right to the end of the due date and past it to try to get this done. I was one of very few people to have submitted a piece for every other RFFA project, and not finishing this in time without a backup in place was a little devastating. I cared about this piece a lot, but trying to care for it while also modding and dealing with rl ended up failing on all counts. When the last chance deadline passed, I was too upset to keep working on it, so it got left in the wip folder.

How I Finished My Shit: This one didn't have to wait too long, because it never really left my head. It has a lot of aspects about it that appeal to me as a writer, and it was important to me to finish eventually. It was a struggle, because it ended up longer than expected. (The final chapter ended up cut in two after it went over 10k) It ended up being a matter of pushing through on this one, and I'm so happy to have it done, especially with an ending I like. 

So we are going to extend posting to the 22nd. If you need an extension past the 15th, please email the mod account (wipbigbang@gmail.com) to get an extended date.

Series Title: Meeting Halfway

Fandom: MCU

Summary: After the reconfiguration of the universe, Maria Hill and Steve Rogers are negotiating the redevelopment of their relationship; but it turns out their universe may not be the only one at stake.

Links:
1. Suited For Birthdays
2. A Ridiculous Jurisdiction

Warnings: None

Characters: Maria Hill, Steve Rogers, assorted Avengers

Pairings: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers

When I Started: I started writing the 30 Days of OTP series back in 2012. Got ten fics up the first year, six fics the second, three the third, then pretty much eked out one or two stories a year for the next five years before starting to get things together in 2020.

How I Lost My Shit: The canon went sideways in various manners around 2015 and a lot of the people I was hanging out with left fandom, I found it harder to write the stories, and didn't quite know where things were heading in the story series.

How I Finished My Shit: Signed up, read a few summaries, realised where I could take this that could have An Ending (Mostly Happy), and determined I was going to finish this shit in 2022.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity wipbigbang!

Title: ⟫ New Sunnydale New Slayer

Fandom: ⟫ Buffyverse, Teen Wolf

Link: ⟫ AO3 or Dreamwidth

Summary: ⟫ Another god-damn prophecy and Faith Lehane finds herself back in Sunnydale checking things out for the Head of the Watchers, Rupert Giles. As part of her new ‘good guy’ effort, she’s investigating/training one Stiles Stilinski, who somehow got himself possessed by a Chaos Demon and apparently just might be the first male Slayer in existence – no one ever said life was boring!

And just what is it about this Chris Argent guy?

Characters/Pairing: ⟫ Chris Argent/Faith Lehane, Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Spike

Rating: ⟫ Explicit

When I Started: ⟫ October 2021 for Spook Me

How I Lost My Shit: ⟫ The original idea grew until it was too big for the prompt and there was no way I was going to get it done by the deadline. Then, other plot bunnies crowded in and suddenly it was the end of the year and I wasn’t finished. I also lost my way a little bit – I still knew what I wanted to write, vaguely, but the final images wouldn’t form in my mind and I was left floundering.

How I Finished My Shit: ⟫ With a lot of fighting and struggle. The story was in my head, but the muse wasn’t playing ball. Then I had a heart attack in May, and I didn’t have the energy/brain power to keep going but I was determined not to pull out of WIP. I committed to 200 words per day, and somehow giving myself permission to be slower than normal really helped and tada!

---

Art by penaltywaltz

---

 Story Title: The Mines of Ashkanac

Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41965323

Summary: The Enterprise’s five-year mission was coming to an end, when Jim and Spock are abducted during shore leave. Being forced to work in dangerous and grim conditions, they’re soon fighting for their lives as well as their freedom. It’s only through relying on each other, more than they ever have before, that they’ll have a chance of making it through.

Warnings: 

• Major Character Death
• Slavery
• Forced Labor
• Minor Injuries
• Major injuries
• Getting Together
• Sickness

(Whumptober 2021 fill)

Characters: James T Kirk, Spock, original characters

Pairings: James T Kirk/Spock

A fill for the Whumptober2021 event; prompts 29 – too weak to move, overworked; 30 - major character death, left for dead; 31 - hurt and comfort.

Once again, major thanks to afteriwake and the mods running the WIP BB 2022 event - it was the final push I needed to get this one out there! The discord server was such a great place to hang out and I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into keeping everything flowing in a big event like this!!

The wonderful TwinSoulVisonary chose this story out of a massive claims list and created the beautiful artwork embedded at the end of the story. Check out her other works over on tumblr and on AO3 where she also writes!

Special thanks to the amazing Kayson who beta'd this work and provided wonderful feedback on the plot! If you see any remaining mistakes, rest assured they're all mine.

Title: Leaning on the Edge of E
Author: cornerofmadness
Fandom: Angel the Series/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41913600
Summary: Connor joins his father in the battle against the demon horde. After nearly dying, they have to set aside their past and look to the future, hoping they can learn what it means to be father and son
Ending Word Count: 34,412
How I Lost My Shit: I stopped with this story in 2004 when life took a very bad bounce and by the time I started recovering my writing mojo, I had drifted into other fandoms.
How I Finished My Shit: Thanks to wipbigbang. When I found this community a few years back I thought this would be a great way to set myself an external deadline (as my internal ones often don’t work out). I’ve been picking the stories I think most likely to be finished. This one has a few chapters that might have set it off course originally. I was writing them for my alpha readers and they might not work as well as I hoped but they work well enough.

Art Title: Art for "Pretty Missteps"

Fandom: Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

Link: AO3

Warnings: N/A

Bragging Rights: I found an image to represent Jason Todd, who is a red head in this canon, and manipulated it slightly. Then I completed the cover art with other images that would invoke the Victorian time period. I am quite proud of how it turned out, considering I created it in such a short period of time.

So we're still looking for pinch hitters for art! These are the fics that we need artists for:

>Making Waves - InuYasha - Inuyasha/Kagome, Teen And Up

It's Called: Freefall - Batfamily - No Pairings, Teen And Up (Graphic Violence Warning)

Pretty Missteps - Batfamily (Gotham By Gaslight); Jason Todd-centric, Mature

The Stars Are Cold and Distant (but also Soft and Aching) - MCU/What If...? - Natasha/Peggy, Mature (Implied Non-Con)

Pearl-Filled Lungs - Naruto - Gaara/Rock Lee, Hyuuga Neji/Tenten, Mature

Sitting all alone in the dark - Batfamily - No pairings, Mature (Violence to a minor, torture)

Windswept night - Tower Of God - Khun Aguero Agnes/Twenty-Fifth Bam | Jyu Viole Grace, Teen (Body Dysmorphia, Trauma)

We're at the lost and found - Supernatural - Dean/Castiel, Teen

someone out there loves you - Tower Of God - Khun Aguero Agnes/Twenty-Fifth Bam | Jyu Viole Grace, Mature (Graphic Violence)

In Love ... All Bets Are Off - Smallville - Clark Kent/Oliver Queen, Mature