Yoonminbookshelf will be promoting our first ever bingo! Please read rules and how to sign up below.
-Sign up for the bingo via our email: [email protected]. Sign up instructions will be below.
-Once you send the email with your information, you should receive your bingo card of 16 bingo squares shortly. Rules for the bingo will be below.
-Once you complete a fic, upload it on the AO3 collection dedicated to bingo. Instructions for uploading a fic will be below.
-When you upload a fic to the collection, it will be promoted on THIS tumblr account and the twitter page @ybsvalentines.
*Subject line: YBS Valentine’s Day Bingo 2019
*Name (just your first name and a last name initial OR a nickname will be fine)
*Social media handles (Tumblr, twitter … Important: have a twitter so we can tag and follow you on our account. If you do not have a twitter account, we suggest making one, but it’s not necessary if you don’t mind not being tagged.)
*AO3 account name (if you do not have one, please apply for an invitation ASAP, even if you are hesitant to participate. It takes a few days for AO3 to apply for an invitation)
HOW TO UPLOAD TO THE COLLECTION:
-Do not upload directly to the collection using the “Post to Collection” button, as it does not show it on the collection.
-When uploading your fic on AO3, in the tab “Associations”, under “Post to collections/challenges”, type “YBS Valentine’s Day Bingo 2019” and you should see it.
-Once posted to the collection, it awaits the admins’ approval. We will approve it shortly after it’s been uploaded.
-Every fic will be posted to the blog as well as the twitter account.
-If you complete a bingo, by the end of the last deadline (March 14), you will be included in a post dedicated to all the other authors who completed a bingo.
-Bingo can be achieved by writing a fic in these three ways:
*A vertical line of 4 squares
*A horizontal line of 4 squares
*A diagonal line of 4 squares
-HOWEVER, if you complete all 16 bingo squares, you will get your own post dedicated to your fics you wrote, your social media, as well as promoting your AO3 account.
-Every fic must be at least 1000 words. Please feel free to go over that!
-Every fic must hold 1 bingo square. You are allowed to have multiple bingo themes in one fic, but it will only count for 1 bingo square.
*For example, if I get a bingo card with the squares “courting” and “confessions”, I can make a fic including both elements, but it will only count for whichever square I put in the author’s notes, so “courting”.
-You MUST put the bingo square in the author’s notes. We are NOT here to assume what bingo square you are fulfilling.
-Just because this is a “Valentine’s Day bingo”, does not mean the fic needs to be set on Valentine’s Day. It can be, but it does not need to be.
-We are fine with a main characteristic of the fic to include heavy angst, despite this being a Valentine’s Day bingo, but make sure your bingo square plays a major role in the fic.
-Your fic needs to be about your bingo square.
*For example, if my bingo square is “childhood friends”, it shouldn’t just be mentioned once that the characters are childhood friends, it should be ABOUT that.
-Yoonmin needs to be the main pairing. Side pairings are fine, but it needs to be yoonmin-focused.
-If you have a question after the initial sign up email EITHER send a NEW EMAIL with the subject line “Question:_____” and use the space after question to insert a word or two describing the question(s). OR you can send in questions to the blog and they’ll be tagged with ybsvdaybingo.
-Tag appropriately. This means tagging the bingo square for attention, but also warnings as well.
February 10, 2019: Sign-up deadline
February 14, 2019: All fics will be posted in a masterlist. If you’ve completed bingo, those authors will get their own post. If you’ve completed all 16 bingo squares, you’ll get your own dedicated post.
March 14, 2019: The collection will be closed for posting. Up until this point, fics posted on the collection will still be promoted on the blog.