My dream in life is to go to the coronation street set and time how long it takes to walk between certain locations, because for some reason this is a detail I end up thinking about a lot
The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?
i love making friends in fandom, i love playing with our toys together, i love coming up with increasingly niche aus, i love lifting strangers up, i love motivating people to create, i love watching someone get excited over an idea and immediately running with it, i love yelling in tags together, i love seeing someone gain confidence in their writing/art because people were kind to them <33
can’t go wrong with pining while fucking as a trope. truly it has it all. pining. awkward sexual situations. weapons grade insecurity for all parties involved. the desperation as they inevitably fall further and further while hating themselves for being unable to stick to the contract of no strings attached. etc. you understand
functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I
I’ve done something very interesting, where I tried to write this first chapter in past tense, and then decided I’d prefer to write in present and then,,, somehow when I tried to change back I got so muddled that my brain now seems to be incapable of writing in either. I think I might have forgotten how words work. How did this happen??
I think my problem now is that whenever I try to write about something that happened in the past in present tense, my brain goes wait!!!! You can’t do that!!!!! That’s not right???!?!! And as a result I’ve been rewriting the first like. Thousand words of this chapter over and over, because I can’t get them to sound right.
writers really will spend twenty minutes pacing around the kitchen thinking “this scene is genius” and then sit down to type and suddenly remember approximately three words and one emotional vibe
To participate, create fanworks inspired by the squares on the board above (and swarla!!), and post your work to tumblr and use the tag #swarlasummer or tag @swarlasummer. For fanfiction on ao3, works can be added to the Swarla Summer collection. You can do one square, try to get a line or go for the whole bingo!
The event starts July 1st and ends August 31st.
Please read the FAQs and the rules below before participating.
If you have further questions, please send an ask or message me over at @puppetsoftomorrow :)
[bingo board text: date night, interrupted, family, the moment, don't... don't what?, underworld, surprise, police business, reunited, flirting, number six, neighbours / community, free choice!, holidays / celebrations, behind closed doors, proposal, phone calls and texts, intimacy, rings, just breathe, injury / hospitals, comfort, wedding, drunk / hungover, photographs.]
how do i participate?
you can participate through anything - with gifsets, fanfiction, fanart, edits, videos, playlists, essays, moodboards, headcanons - whatever medium you like!
you can reuse or re-promote something you've made previously, providing it aligns with a prompt.
the event starts 1st July, you can start prepping now, but don't post the work until 1st July.
'free choice' means you can do whatever you like! go wild!!!
you don't have to take the most obvious route of the prompt, creative interpretations are encouraged :)
you can do more than one work per prompt, if you like, or several prompts in one work.
if you like, you can download the board and cross off which ones you've done and post this to tumblr - a fun way to keep track!
there's no obligation to do all the tiles or even more than one! just do what you can manage :)
you can also participate by commenting on fics, reblogging tumblr posts etc, it's just as important!!
what if i need More prompts?
if you'd like more prompts, or want to swap out a prompt from the board above, you can use the bonus tiles below!
[bonus tiles text: music / lyrics, second chances, the future, touch, honeymoon, in another life, soulmates, secrets / secrets revealed, coffee or wine, engagement island, what else can't you say?, hunker in our bunker]
you can also use the 'reverse it' power up!! reverse any prompt to make it the opposite - i.e. comfort becomes no comfort, secrets becomes no secrets. (creative interpretations of what 'reverse it' means are encouraged!!)
rules:
You can't participate with something someone else created, even if you credit them or ask their permission. You must have created the work yourself (or with friends!)
Carla and Lisa don't have to be the only characters, but they should be the main focus of anything created.
AI is absolutely not allowed - you can't use it to generate work or edit work. If I find AI has been used, your work won't be allowed in the event. However, I don't want others making accusations that works are AI - this isn't the space for a witch-hunt. If you have concerns, please approach me privately at @puppetsoftomorrow, but any final decisions on what to allow are up to me.
The event will nominally run from 1st July to 31st August, but the blog and collection will remain open beyond that, so if you're late, you can still participate.
Please be kind and supportive to others.
Also, I know there's a big swarla community on twitter, so I'm fine if the bingo board gets posted over there, but please know I'm not on twitter and won't see anything that’s on there, and it isn't officially part of the event if it's only posted on twitter. Please also credit me as the creator of the board :)
As an overall disclaimer: I, puppetsoftomorrow, am running this event, and I get the final say in what gets reblogged and how this is run, and I reserve the right to do whatever I want :)
anyway!! lets have fun, and have a swarla summer!! :)
On the bright side for the freaks, every time I get stuck on this I end up working on the breeding kink oneshot instead. It’s become like the shrek to the other fic’s prince of Egypt
I’ve done something very interesting, where I tried to write this first chapter in past tense, and then decided I’d prefer to write in present and then,,, somehow when I tried to change back I got so muddled that my brain now seems to be incapable of writing in either. I think I might have forgotten how words work. How did this happen??
,,,look I wanna steal a line from the first fic I ever wrote and published anonymously. And like. I can do that, because it’s mine,, but also I would rather eat hot coals than admit I wrote that shit so. If I ever finish writing this and somehow someone notices it,,, I’m actually just a terrible horrible plagiarist <3
every time i have to relearn that being disabled means not being able to do all of the stuff other people can i get so pissed. you mean its just like this forever? i want to do stuff...
will you be posting any lisa gifs or swarla fics anytime soon? 🙏🏻
That’s a really good question <3
Uhhh maybe! I am working on a couple of fics at the moment, but I’m not massively far into any of them, and as I’m sure has been made obvious, I’m a really slow writer. I do have an entire list of swarla gif sets that I want to make, but I’ve not yet had the time to actually start tackling any of them. If I get a second I might try to make some this week!
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