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I've had reason to go back and look at some of the ways that I've participated in fannish activity on journal-based platforms (LJ and now DW). While in my early days in fandom, I had avoided signing up for too many challenges and exchanges. (IIRC, the first one I remember signing up for had been a bit of a disaster. I had to pull out of because of my dad's final illness and the mod refused to allow my exchange participant to give me my gift because apparently when her brother's girlfriend has been in the hospital I hadn't been sufficiently sympathetic. Nine years later, I'm still scratching my head over that one.)

But I rarely met a bingo challenge that I didn't sign up for. I liked them because the prompts were good at sparking my imagination, there was no real penalty for failing to make a bingo, and even if the mods would be strict enough to block me from getting a card in the next round, nothing could stop me from continuing to work on the card I already had even after the round closed. Besides, I honestly don't think any mod on any bingo challenge has ever had the patience or time to go through hundreds of signups and match those with requestors who never posted a bingo.

Anyway, in lieu of writing this evening, I gave in to my inner completist (she's a bitch but I love her), and I rounded up all of my bingo cards. There were quite a few of them.

Thirty to be precise.

Hurt/Comfort - 7
Trope - 5
Kink - 4
Angst - 2
AU - 2
Love - 3
Gen Prompt - 2
Kiss - 1
Season of Kink - 1
Fluff - 1
Dark - 1
Cotton Candy - 1

I have to admit that I'm a bit of a nut. I always look at a bingo card wanting to make a blackout (I've done that five times) but if I can't, I find I'm paralyzed and can't even make a one-line bingo!

What I've found interesting and a tiny bit annoying as I've gone back through my emails (thank you gmail, I don't have to get rid of anything) is that so many of those cards had been parts of pre-generated sets (For example, I found bits of code in the HTML of one card referring to Card_1_of_10 in the table header, another that simply said Card_5), which might explain why I kept getting cards for a certain bingo that reused the same prompts every year (out of a published set of several hundred prompt), because my opt-outs were the same every single year.

While I love my new Fluff Bingo card, I really adore my Trope Bingo card. The trope_bingo mods decided that they wanted people to actually write and create stuff, so they posted the prompt list and pointed people to a bingo card generator. I look at this miracle of Javascript (or whatever it is) and wonder, why can't all bingo comms work this? Tell someone signing up to pick fifty prompts, put it in the generator, and post the card to the comm. Or if there's a trust issue (people cheating and using prompts not on the list), have participants still pick their fifty prompts and let the mods generate the actual card and send out the HTML. Because using the same handful of cards over and over again, or having 500+ prompts but only having 100 active prompts that get onto actual cards doesn't make a lot of sense.

It's not my intention to slight the hard work that bingo community moderators do - especially come the end of the round, or for those comms that stay in active communication with members through out the round. It's just so darn frustrating to see the same prompts appearing over and over again.

I have both PNGs and HTML for all thirty cards, including the cards that had only been provided as images (Love Bingo, two rounds of Kink Bingo), so if anyone wants to find some inspiration and doesn't want to sign up for their own card, or the comm is closed down (I think only H/C, Trope, Gen Prompt and Season of Kink are still open for business), just drop a comment and I'll respond. Or if you just want a random card to play with, just ask.

REUNION	UNREQUITED LOVE / PINING	SLAVE FIC	IMMORTALITY / REINCARNATION	PRESUMED DEAD
HAPPY ENDINGS	MARRIAGE	WING FIC	FIRST TIME / LAST TIME	AMNESIA
CROSSOVER	SOUL BONDING / SOULMATES	♥ FREE SPACE ♥	CHOSEN FAMILY	CELEBRATORY KISS
MAY / DECEMBER ROMANCE	FUTURE FIC	HUDDLE FOR WARMTH	POWER DYNAMICS	FAKE RELATIONSHIP
SHARING A BED	RITES OF PASSAGE / COMING OF AGE	HANDCUFFED / BOUND TOGETHER	COMING OUT (OF THE CLOSET)	MEET THE PARENTS / FAMILY

FILLS:

Column "B"
Crossover - He Called You By Your Real Name
Reunion - What's Past is Present
May/December Romance - The Summer Folly
Happy Endings - (Top) Secret Santa
Sharing a Bed - A Random Selection of Bad Habits

Column "I"
Unrequited/Pining - A Chance To Try Again

Column "N"
Coming Out (Of the Closet) - Take Me To the River
Handcuffed/Bound Together - Lord of the Isles

Column "O"
Presumed Dead - Joy Of My Heart
Fake Relationship - Life's a Long Song
Meet the Parents/Family - Each Day I Learn Just A Little Bit More

See anything that interests you? White Collar, Flash, Flash RPS, Flash with other CWDC characters:

Smoke and Fog	Journalist/Chronicler	Something Breaks/Malfuctions	Trickster	Fear/Terror
Disgust	Ambiguous	The Sky at Night	Hero	Everything Changes
Alexithymia (Obscured Emotions)	Enemy	WILD CARD	Oustsider/Outlaw	Teacher
When We Were Young: Nostalgia	Glorious	Someone is Disguised	Surprise/Shock	Thrills (Speed/Danger/Daring)
Smell	Extraordinary	Silhouette	Honey	Magnificent

Trope Bingo, that is!

All for The Flash this time around.

Kid Fic	Marriage	Language/Translation	Unrequited Love/Pining	Cannon Fodder
Food and Cooking	Love Triangle	Haunted House	Unexpected Friendship	Fork in the Road
Time Travel	Chosen Family	WILD CARD	Immortality / Reincarnation	Deal with the Devil
Bets/Wagers	Perspective Flip	Role Reversal	Unhappy Ending	Altered States (of the mind)
Presumed Dead	Against All Odds	Reunion	Epistolary	Transformations

Prompt: Time Travel
Title: A Knotted Cord Untying
Prompt: Chosen Family
Title: Like a Line in the Sand
Prompt: WILD CARD (Mistaken Identity)
Title: Recompense
Prompt: Immortality/Reincarnation
Title: You Are Not Alone in This
Prompt: Deal With the Devil
Title: Harrison Wells Eats Snacks

This actually might be the most awesome bingo I've ever signed up for. Gen Prompt Bingo provides gen (as opposed to sexual) prompts, but the prompts can be filled in any way.

And what I love most is that you can pick categories of prompts that you want on your card, like "relationships" or "things" or "angst" or "settings" or "AU/Crossover".

Also, the fill requirements are a lot easier - minimum for fic is drabble length (100 words). I know that the minimum in most other bingos is 500 words and that really shouldn't be a problem, but 300 words is really my sweet spot (after so many years of doing WC100 fills).

And now, my card:

Maps	Character Study	Team Mates	Priceless	Minorities / Characters of Colour / Women in Canon
When I'm 64: Futurefic	Hey, it's that guy: Minor Characters	Formidible	Ravens, Crows and Birds of Ill Omen	Vicious
Birth / Beginnings	Enemies	WILD CARD	Jewellery	Animals
Natural Selection	Magnificent	Feudal Ties / Master and Servant	Post-It Notes	Beautiful
Ship and Captain / Mount and Rider	Original Characters	Crime and Punishment	Echoes	Relative values: Families

Please feel free to suggest prompts for anything White Collar.

OMG, OMG, OMG - I've never gotten a bingo card quite so perfectly attuned to my writing. trope_bingo for the win!

curtainfic	immortality/reincarnation	snowed in	time travel	holiday
secret child	wingfic	au: magic	kidfic	au: band
au: space	telepathy/mindmeld	WILD CARD	accidental baby acquisition	au: apocalypse
huddle for warmth	virgin!fic/secretly a virgin	animal transformation	sex pollen	sharing a bed
fuck or die	in vino veritas/drunkfic	truth or dare	poker/strip poker	au: college/highschool

Seriously going for a blackout this time around. Prompts would be lovely.

Back in the dark ages, you know, when I was a girl...

Ladies didn't sweat, they didn't even perspire. The "glowed." Which was the gospel according to Miss Belsen, our elementary school gym teacher.

( This is more than tangentially related to White Collar. )

It's that time of year, and all the cool kids are doin' it. I actually like my card this round! You know I really only like to write White Collar, so if I say I'll write Star Trek and you prompt me, the odds are it's not going to happen (but you're free to try).

You CAN prompt me for a particular 'verse I write:

Paladin
Wonder(ful) Years
Vampire World
Vinegar Hill
Underpants'Verse
Giant Floating Stone Penis
Magic Mike/Stripper'verse
Gloriana'verse
Danger'Verse

( Clicky/Twisty for my card )

But I just signed up for Cotton Candy Bingo. I know I've got way too many bingo cards out there - but the prompts were just delicious:



Aren't these prompts just WONDERFUL?????

I can do all of these as White Collar and WC RPS. Mmmmmm, cotton candy.

Get YOUR card at cottoncandy_bingo

First off, thank you to EVERYONE who posted prompts for my Dark Bingo card. You are awesome. Now it's time to switch gears and give me some love for love_bingo!

Your prompts don't have to be all hearts and flowers - because you know that I'm not a schmoopy kind of girl. I will be going for the blackout on this one.

Dating	Unbreak My Heart	Sex Bomb	Baby	Candle in the Wind
Judas Kiss	Honeymoon	I Will Always Love You	Gone Too Soon	Holding Hands
Love Binds The Heart	Infatuation	WILDCARD	Mother’s Day	Love Potion
Libido	Boyfriend & Girlfriend	Soulmates	First Love	Breakfast in Bed
Til Death Do Us Part	Homosexuality	Lazy Sunday	Father’s Day	Tenderness

Birthdays	Betrayal	Jealousy	Sexual abuse	Orphans and runaways
Sexual harassment	Manipulation and control	Deprogramming	Fever	Post-traumatic stress disorder
Fatalism	Undiagnosed / mysterious illness	WILD CARD	Don't ask, don't tell	Getting physical
Sexual extortion	Religion	Just this once	Moments lost	Supernatural: Weres and shapeshifters
Chance encounters	Lies	Lose-lose situation	Schizophrenia	Supernatural: Fresh bite/first transformation

This is for an "Extras" challenge - so I have to do one story that covers:

Outer Corners
All Corners
Postage Stamp

Or two stories for a Double Column

Ideas, my lovelies?

First of all, I can't believe it's been a year since I first signed up for Kink Bingo. Where has the time gone? (Actually, I know where the time's gone, and I'd rather not think about it).

Last year, I had great plans for kink bingo (had a whole series mapped out), and then got stuck. I ended up one box shy of bingo on multiple vectors.

This year - I am not sure how I feel about my card: