Hello everyone! We over here at @inu-mothership are busy getting ready for Fleet Week, and we hope you are, too! There are just 18 days to go until our week-long, multi-shipping event. Gather up your rare pairs and your OTPs and the ships that are new to you: we can’t wait to see all of the amazing creations!
When you post, please tag #inufleetweek2022 and us at @inu-mothership so we can reblog your work!
If you create something for Ao3, you can join our collection here!
As fanlore explains, it’s a disease revolving around unrequited love. The person who suffers from the disease with have flowers, petals, or full plants in their lungs and creators have come up with many outcomes once it sets in!
When will this run?
Signups begin on April 15th and posting begins February 2020.
What are the requirements?
We are doing a tiered bang! Tier 1: Writers, 2k minimum. Artists, 1 colored piece no background/shading required Tier 2: Writers, 5k minimum. Artists, 1 colored piece with shading, no background Tier 3: Writers, 7k minimum. Artists, 1 full piece Tier 4: Writers, 10k minimum. Artists, 2 full pieces Tier 5: Writers, 20k minimum. Artists, 3 full pieces
Taking over the mantle of the old Voltron A/B/O Bang, essentially doing a full restart on the Bang. Sign-ups will start within the week, but for now, here’s the new tentative schedule~ any and all changes will be posted if they come up.
BETA Sign-ups are Always open and welcome~
April 30th - Authors sign-up closes
First check in for Authors - (20%) - May 18th-19th
Second Author check-in (40%)- June 29th-30th
Artist sign-up closes - July 13th-14th
Summaries for claims due - July 13th-14th (Summaries Must Be SFW Please~)
Claims - July 20th-21st
Claims emails sent - July 27th
Third Author Check-in (60%) and First Artist Check-in - August 17th-18th
4th Author Check-in (80%) and 2nd Artist Check-in - September 28th-29th
Final Check in for Both Author and Artist - November 16th-17th
Posting Starts On New Years! January 1st~ You authors have about 9 months to make your babies ;)
Bang General Rules
Pretty much keeping the same rules~
This is an A/B/O themed bang which means that A/B/O or Omegaverse themes must be in your fic in some form. Whether it’s an all races has dynamics, just humans has dynamics, just Galra has dynamics, etc.
ALL SHIPS ARE WELCOME
Beside the A/B/O themed, AUs are welcome (Medieval, Coffee Shop, Collage, etc)
Play nice, in other words no ship hate (if you don’t like a ship move on to the next fic) and no harassment. If you have a problem with anyone or anything, please contact us and we will help.
BEING OF AGE/NSFW: With the theme of this bang, there will most likely be NSFW subjects in fics and artwork, however you are not require to do NSFW works (which is possible with the ABO). We’re going to trust that anyone posting anything will use the right tags for they’re works and that anyone who reads or look at the work should be doing so. We’re using the honor systems.
When turning in the summary for your fic, there will be an option for authors of NSFW to opt out of working with artists who shouldn’t be reading that subject matter, and vice versa. More detail closer to that date. Summaries shall be sfw regardless.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to Ask and we’ll get back to ASAP.
Writers
Authors’ fic must be a min of 10,000 words, but you are more than welcome to go over that.
All piece must be new work, in the form that none of it has be posted anywhere. You may use a WIP that has been sitting on your desktop if you like.
You may do more than one fic, but they both must make the 10,000 word minimum.
Artists
Artists are required to do 2 original pieces, but are welcome to do more if they wish.
Lock Down Fest is a non-anon, self-posting, multi-ship and multi-fandom mini fest that is designed to bring comfort to everyone staying indoors under quarantine restrictions at the moment and to all of us experiencing fear because of the pandemic. Anxiety levels are high and the news is distressing, so we want to invite everyone to use this time to be creative and spread joy. LDF will run from 20-30 March; announcements will be made here.
We want everyone to be encouraged to participate and to follow the fest, but we also appreciate that reading about the virus can be upsetting for many people. For that reason, we’ve decided on a twofold theme:
a. Getting Stuck In/Isolated Together(which doesn’t need to involve the virus in any way whatsoever)
b.Quarantine-inspired, if it occurs during the current pandemic. Works MUST be tagged with the tag: “Covid-19 Related” on AO3.
All kinds of fanworks are welcome with no minimum or maximum wordcount for fics. There is no claiming time nor the need to sign up. Simply, 1. visit the collection on AO3 and post your work when it opens, then 2. email: quarantinefest [at] gmail [.] com with a link to your fanwork.
If you don’t wish to write or draw, you can always contribute by offering beta services. Feel free to DM one of the mods and we’ll post a list with those volunteering to beta in the next couple of days. We’d appreciate it if all fics are beta-read.
Most importantly, please ensure you tag your work as “Covid-19 related” on AO3 if it takes place during the current pandemic, so as to give the chance to readers to exclude the tag, if they wish. Be mindful of your tags: if they deal with a pandemic anyway (historical or fictional), do tag and warn accordingly. If your work doesn’t comply with this requirement and we can’t get hold of you via the email provided, your work might be removed from the collection.
Lock Down Fest is open to everyone over 18 years old.
