The SessKag Tumblr is bringing the Big Bang back for 2021!


THEME: SPRING


IMPORTANT DATES:

Artist sign ups: 1st–14th February 2021

Writer sign ups: 15th – 28th February 2021

Pairs are announced: Early March

Check ins: 12th & 26th March

Finished Fanworks are posted: Monday 5th -- Sunday 18th April 2021

WHAT IS A BIG BANG:

Big Bangs are a type of fandom challenges in which fic writers collaborate with fan artists.

Typically their format has been such that writers will work on a long fic and then artists will create fan art based on the fic.

However, our big bang is held a little differently and with more flexibility: We’re letting each writer & artist pair figure out how they’d prefer to collaborate.

There are no prompts to be handed out like last year. The writer & artists pairs can each decide what they want to create based on the Big Bang’s theme: Spring.


HOW IT WORKS:

Sign ups will be done via Google Forms. We’ll post a link to the form once the sign ups start.

Artist sign ups are held first.

The Writer sign ups will be held after the Artist sign ups

To ensure that we can pair everyone up evenly, there will only be as many writer slots available as there have been artists who’ve signed up for the Big Bang. Therefore it’s first come first served!

After sign ups are closed, we will randomly pair up all the attendees to form artist & writer pairs. We’ll announce the pairs in early March!

Each pair will produce 2 fanworks in collaboration: 1 fic & 1 fan art. The fic should be at least 1,000 words long!

Depending on what the pair prefers, they may work together or separately. As they have a full month to work on their creations before they are posted, they can also work out a schedule between the two of them, e.g. one of them finishing their fanwork first and the other using the first fanwork as an inspiration to create their own. Whatever works best for each pair!

Finished fanworks will be posted between Monday 5th & Sunday 18th April 2021. We’ll give out more information about the posting of the fanworks when the pairs are announced.

Anything unclear? Anything to ask? Please don’t hesitate to contact us!

Hope you’re all as excited about this event as we are!!

- Admin Chie & Admin Jaf

DEFINITELY signing up! I'm excited for this!

Artist Sign-Ups are now Live!

Click the link here to fill out the form, deadline is Sunday, February 14.

OMG this looks awesome, ugh I want to participate but I'm already too overwhelmed with challenges I'm behind on and finding new prompts hidden in the general discussion area. Anyone know if the drabble nights are going to return at all? and oooooh is there going to be a summer version of this BigBang?

There might be a new big bang next year, because they're such big events to organise that two in one year would be a lot.

Besides, SessKag week will be held in the summer, probably at the end of July like the past two years.

DDNs have made a comeback on the 18+ Discord server. Though cake has usually also posted the prompts on Tumblr.

Writer Sign-Ups have started!

Click here for the sign-up form! There are only 9 slots left so be fast if you want to participate!

Chie wrote:
Writer Sign-Ups have started!

Click here for the sign-up form! There are only 9 slots left so be fast if you want to participate!

4 slots left!!

Sign-ups are closed!

We'll be assigning the pairs and contacting you in the next few days so stay tuned!

Thanks everyone for the interest!

Thank you everyone for all your interest!

We've now emailed to everyone who signed up to participate in this event and have let everyone know who they've been paired up with!

Now, we're proudly announcing the participating pairs of the SessKag Big Bang 2021!


















Hope everyone will have fun and we're looking forward to see what all of you will be creating!

Hello, everyone! Hope you have been well!

Here is some information to keep in mind as you're preparing to post your works:

You're free to post your contributions to this Big Bang event any time between Monday 5th of April and Sunday 18th of April.

Please give your partner a shout out and link to their work when you post! If your partner hasn't posted their work yet, go back to edit in the link when you can.

If you're posting on Tumblr, please use the hashtag sesskag big bang 2021. You can also tag me at @chierafied if you want to make extra sure we'll see your work.

If you're posting here on Dokuga, please leave a link to your work in this forum thread so we can make a post linking to it over on Tumblr.

If you're posting on AO3, mod Jaf has made a collection for this event.

When linking to your story, please mention the rating. Also please make sure to use any content warnings that may apply to your work.


We're so excited to see everyone's contributions starting next week! We hope you've enjoyed this event!

- Chie & Jaf