The 2025 Artist Housekeeping Post
Jul. 2nd, 2025 11:24 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
To give our 2025 Pros BB artists a heads-up on the way they'll be claiming their stories, here's an outline of the way we'll be proceeding with the art claims.
The artist claiming post will go up on Wednesday, 16th July at 00:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).That's:
0700 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
0800 British Summer Time (BST) for the UK cousins and
0900 Central European Summer Time (CEST) for the European cousins.
If you're not in any of those time zones, you can use the Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator (Classic) to determine the time in your location.
The claiming post will contain all the story summaries, under a cut, and without the writers' names. The post will be screened, so your friendly mods will be the only ones to see all comments. Artists should comment to the post, and include their first, second, third, and fourth choices for story claims. Artists should also let us know whether they are willing to provide art for a second story, in case any of our artists has to drop out unexpectedly.
The mods will do a first pass through the list, starting with the first comment, and assign each artist their first story. If your first choice has already been chosen, you will be assigned your second pick. We chose this method to ensure that:
*every artist has a decent chance of getting their first or second choice, and…
*artists who claim early will get their story assigned early, so they can get to work on art as quickly as possible.
Please note that once you have claimed a story, you'll be getting the rough draft of that story, so you don't have to work just from the summary. Let us know if you have any questions, either in the comments here or by emailing the mods at prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com. And huge thanks once again to our artists for volunteering their time and talent! :-)
Writers, your summaries are due, please
Jun. 30th, 2025 11:14 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
To the writers signed up for the 2025 Box of Tricks Big Bang, your story summaries are required today!
Hopefully, you’ve reached a minimum word count of 6,600 words. We're not going to be totally tyrannical about this. If you're only at 4,000 words, but are well on the way to finishing, that works for us. But if you're only at 1,000 words, we have a problem. Talk to us and let us know how you’re getting on. We don’t bite...(hard), but we NEED to hear from you. We have eager, talented artists awaiting your summaries and it’s only fair to them that we have something enticing to present.
Any remaining writers we DON’T hear from, will be emailed within the next 48 hours to ask if they still wish to participate.
The Live Journal CI5 Box of Tricks Big Bang challenge has become a thing of legend, set up by, maintained by and supported by, completely legendary people, so we need your summaries and we need them ASAP.
Please get emailing people and if you need any assistance, we're at prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com
Hopefully, you’ve reached a minimum word count of 6,600 words. We're not going to be totally tyrannical about this. If you're only at 4,000 words, but are well on the way to finishing, that works for us. But if you're only at 1,000 words, we have a problem. Talk to us and let us know how you’re getting on. We don’t bite...(hard), but we NEED to hear from you. We have eager, talented artists awaiting your summaries and it’s only fair to them that we have something enticing to present.
Any remaining writers we DON’T hear from, will be emailed within the next 48 hours to ask if they still wish to participate.
The Live Journal CI5 Box of Tricks Big Bang challenge has become a thing of legend, set up by, maintained by and supported by, completely legendary people, so we need your summaries and we need them ASAP.
Please get emailing people and if you need any assistance, we're at prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com
Rebuilding journal search again
Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Into a Bar, Slipping in Under the Wire
Jun. 29th, 2025 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Since I've been fighting a migraine for the last four days, I didn't think there was anyway I was going to finish my story by the
intoabar challenge deadline.
But somehow, I did!
So, here it is, Illya Kuryakin walks into a bar and meets...Bucky Barnes!
Two of my biggest fandom collide! I couldn't have picked a better pairing myself.
Title: Jazz and Vodka
Author: P.R. Zed
Word count: 8,879
AO3 Link
The assignment let me pull out a fragment I've had kicking around forever with young KGB agent Illya Kuryakin getting pulled in as a last minute replacement for the Winter Soldier's handler. Which turned it into a multi-timeline 8K mini-epic. (When I told him what my word count was looking like, my husband just said "Of course you did.")
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But somehow, I did!
So, here it is, Illya Kuryakin walks into a bar and meets...Bucky Barnes!
Two of my biggest fandom collide! I couldn't have picked a better pairing myself.
Title: Jazz and Vodka
Author: P.R. Zed
Word count: 8,879
AO3 Link
The assignment let me pull out a fragment I've had kicking around forever with young KGB agent Illya Kuryakin getting pulled in as a last minute replacement for the Winter Soldier's handler. Which turned it into a multi-timeline 8K mini-epic. (When I told him what my word count was looking like, my husband just said "Of course you did.")