And now, for something completely different...
[ID: A graphic featuring J. Smith-Cameron (Gerri) and Kieran Culkin (Roman) from Succession. J is dressed in an orange high-necked dress and a blue blazer; she is looking directly at the camera. Kieran is in a yellow coat and appears to be in motion. The background and foreground are a mix of blurry neon pinks, blues, and purples. White text reads “Let’s Play Killer Bitch Bingo!]
Season four is underway, and just three episodes in, the stakes are higher and the waters rougher than ever for our ship. Feels like a great time for a no-stakes and purely fun round of…
To participate, you will select one of ten bingo cards of your choosing. Each will have five rows with five tropes each, for a total of twenty five, all picked from the same pool of 40+ tropes*. Once you’ve selected your card, you can begin checking off squares in any of the following ways:
Writing a fic that fulfills the trope
Creating a piece of art (in any medium) that fulfills the trope
Sharing meta/thoughts on the trope (e.g. a list of your top ten favorite Gerri headcanons)
Leaving a generous comment (100+ words) on a fic or work of art that fulfills the trope
Sharing/recommending a fic or work of art that fulfills the trope on Twitter or Tumblr
*”Tropes” is defined loosely.
Cards will be available on Friday, April 14.
You can mix and match (posting three recommendations and two pieces of art would count as a bingo), and you can double up (a missing yacht scene from Gerri’s POV with hurt/comfort and smut would be a hypothetical bingo in a single fic!).
You cannot use previous creations/comments/posts to mark off a bingo square. Fic, art, recs, etc. must be new or previously unposted as of Friday, April 14.
There is no deadline, and no consequences for not getting to bingo! Anyone can grab a card, and can pick away at it at whatever pace they’d like. This is meant to be a purely fun exercise to keep the fandom energized, find some comfort/escapism as season four continues to wreck us, and to show some love to all of the amazing writers and artists in this fandom.
Anyone who’s reached bingo by June 3 (one week after the series finale) will be entered into a raffle to win a FABULOUS embroidered hoop by legallybroidered!
[ID: An embroidered white hoop featuring Gerri Kellman from Succession. She is wearing a red coat and sunglasses, and is talking on the phone. The embroidery reads “stone cold killer bitch”.]
For each bingo (five squares crossed off vertically, horizontally, or diagonally), you’ll receive one entry. If you cross off your entire card, you’ll get a bonus sixth entry! The winner will be announced on Sunday, June 4.
You may post any fic or art that you create for this challenge to the Killer Bitch Bingo collection on AO3. Even if you don’t end up completing your bingo card, if the work that you create fits any of the tropes and you’d like to include it in the collection, that’s fine!
If you’ll be sharing fic/art recs, or other creations that may not belong on AO3 (i.e. playlists, meta, headcanons, etc.), please post them to either Twitter or Tumblr and use the #KillerBitchBingo hashtag. You can tag us at @rg_exchange on Twitter or at @servingourinterests here on Tumblr.
If you’ll be checking off any boxes by leaving comments on fic or art that meets the tropes, please just make sure you’re keeping track of which ones they are; the raffle winner will be asked to confirm that they’ve completed at least one bingo.
Check in tomorrow to grab your card and get started! In the meantime...keep calm, slime puppies, and hold on for what promises to be a wild seven episodes!
