It's time for a good old-fashioned summer reading challenge! Let's spend the summer enjoying the wonderful fanworks in the Benoit Blanc universe, and showing the authors and artists how much we love and appreciate all their hard work! About | FAQ | Rules
PSA to fic readers, it is so hard to freak a fic writer out with your comments. we are just as crazy about the fic as you are.
tell me you love it. tell me it made you slam your laptop shut. tell me you brought it up at your college lecture about kink. key smash in all caps. quote the passage that made you think. i promise, we’ll love it.
we spend hours thinking about it, writing it, editing it. there is no such thing as over enthusiasm when you’re talking about our fics to us. we are sooooo weird about them, i assure you. you are just matching my freak. the freak bar is already set so high. feel no anxiety about enjoying something and letting the creator know.
Hello folks! I’m so glad to see that y’all are excited about the event 💕 It’s come to my attention that there were some errors on a couple of boards, such as typos or repeated prompts! I’ve fixed the ones I’ve found and updated them in the drive folder, but if you receive a board with repeated prompts or a typo, please do send an ask and let me know, so that I can fix the cards!
It’s time for a good old fashioned summer reading challenge and what could be a better excuse to share our love for all the wonderful fanworks in the Benoit Blanc Mysteries fandom?
This activity aims to lift up the wonderful creators in the Benoit Blanc Mysteries Universe and build community by challenging participants to seek out fanworks of all kinds and leave comments that recognize their work. We also hope that it might make commenting feel less intimidating to anyone who might find it to be so. So, come on in—the water’s fine!
The event will run from June 1st - September 1st — let's get to commenting!
ABOUT | FAQ | RULES
Instructions for getting and filling out your bingo cards are below the cut, as well as in the FAQ!
🎲 Getting your bingo sheet 🎲
There are 85 cards total broken up into six categories: Wild Card, Knives Out, Glass Onion, Wake Up Dead Man, NSFW, and Angst.
The Wild cards (Cards 1-15) include general prompts, prompts specific to any of the three films, and some mild mature/angst prompts.
The Knives Out cards (Cards 16-30) include general prompts and prompts specific to Knives Out. You may or may not get one prompt to check out something from another film!
The Glass Onion cards (Cards 31-45) include general prompts and prompts specific to Glass Onion. You may or may not get one prompt to check out something from another film!
The Wake Up Dead Man cards (Cards 46-65) include general prompts and prompts specific to WUDM. You may or may not get one prompt to check out something from another film!
The NSFW cards (Cards 66-75) include general prompts and NSFW prompts, not exclusively NSFW prompts.
The Angst cards (Cards 76-85) include general prompts and Angst prompts, not exclusively Angst prompts.
Getting your bingo card:
Use a random number generator and roll for a number (either 1-85 if you want to get wild, or you can specify the listed ranges if you want a card from a specific category).
Open the bingo sheet google drive folder and select the card corresponding to the number you rolled.
✍️ Filling out your bingo sheet ✍️
Each box on the bingo sheet is a prompt for either a type of work you should leave a comment on (i.e. “fic with <1000 words”), or a type of comment (“ask a question”). When you’ve completed the prompt, cross out the box.
One comment fulfills one box. So, if you leave a comment asking a question on a “fic with <1000 words,” this comment can count for either “ask a question" OR ”<1000 words,“ but NOT both.
A “comment” to fulfill a bingo box can be: A comment on AO3 or a reblog on tumblr with a comment in the tags or text box (for fic/art posted to tumblr). There is no length requirement on a comment—even something as simple as “love this!” counts as a fill.
🚂 Participating in the hype train 🚂
You are encouraged to make posts that share recs and fanworks as you work on your bingo sheet. If you get a “bingo” (5 boxes on the bingo sheet in a row) or “blackout” (all the boxes filled), you can make a post showing us! If you @ us, we’ll reblog the evidence of your amazing success. We’d love to see the titles or links to the fics and fanworks you commented on!
You are also encouraged to comment on, add to, and share posts about the event! Help your friends hunt down or discover fanworks they might like. The event tag is #benoit blanc bingo, so have at it!