Welcome to the Shadowhunters Mini Bang 2025: Presented by the Malec Discord Server
The Shadowhunters Mini Bang 2025 is a collaborative fandom event that combines fandom talents! Writers create never-before-seen fic that artists will find inspiration in and together, they create magic.
You must be a part of the Malec Discord Server to participate. You must be over 16 to participate and over 18 to create explicit works.
The schedule and rules can be found under the cut. All information can be found on our Tumblr and on the Server.
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The schedule as it currently stands is below.
This schedule is subject to change depending on the situation. You will be notified of any changes.
March 3: Writer, beta and artist sign-ups begin
March 24: Writer and beta sign-ups closed
March 28: Brief summaries from writers for beta claims
March 29-30: Beta claims
March 31: Assignments
May 7: Writer and beta check-in 1
May 7: Summaries due from writers for artist claims
May 7: Artist sign-ups close
May 9-11: Art claims
May 12: Assignments
June 18: Artist check-in 1
July 30: All check-in 2
August 30: Final drafts and art due
September 6-7: Posting
Rules:
You must be part of the Malec Discord Server to participate in this event.
You must be over 16 to participate and over 18 to create explicit works.
All content must be brand new and never before posted to any forum. All content must be polished and finished. No unfinished works or WIPs that you plan on continuing later will be accepted. Works that are added chapters/continuations of previously published works are not permitted unless they can be viewed/read as a standalone.
Plagiarism and AI content will not be tolerated. All content must be the creator’s own original work.
Writers are asked not to talk about their projects until after claims with anyone participating in this event to keep beta/artist claims fair.
All content must focus on Shadowhunters universe characters (show and/or book verse.)
All Shadowhunters characters/ships are accepted. OCs/borrowed characters will be accepted as minor characters.
AUs and crossovers are accepted as long as the Shadowhunters characters are the main focus.
Content of any rating and subject matter is accepted, but participants must make sure to include any relevant warnings throughout the entire event (I.e. warnings for betas/artists during matching) and properly tag their work.
No blatantly hateful content of any kind.
All participants are required to check-in with moderators at least twice throughout the event. All check-ins are integral to continuing to participate in the event.
All participants must communicate readily with their assigned partners and vice versa. This is a collaborative effort. All participants must be open to the ideas of their partners.
When you sign up for this event you are making a commitment to yourself, the mods, and your future partners to meet all posted deadlines and to communicate with the mods and your partners regularly. Please don’t sign up for the event unless you are confident that you can fully participate and be honest with yourself about what you can commit to.
Please respect the mods and anyone working with you throughout this event. Certain complaints may disqualify you from this event.
The password to make sure you’ve read/understand all rules is SHMB25. Remember this when you sign up.
Writer Specific Rules:
Writers must write a minimum of 5,000 words to participate in this event. There is no maximum limit but please keep in mind the time constraints.
Submitted summaries (provided at check-ins) should provide a solid framework of what your fic is about and the final fic should not deviate too much from those summaries. In the event that it does, please contact a moderator and your partners. This is to ensure all partners are comfortable with their role throughout the event.
Writers are expected to be respectful of their partners’ ideas. Writers will make all final decisions on their fics, but this event is a collaborative effort.
Artist Specific Rules:
Accepted forms of submitted art include:
- Digital/physical art: 1 piece, 500px minimum
- Photomanipulation: 1 piece with significant editing
- Gifsets: 4 gifs (without watermarks)
- Moodboards: 6 graphics
- Video: 1 minute
- Playlists: 10 songs and a graphic
If you are inspired by your writer to create a piece of art not on this list, please feel free to reach out to a mod.
Artists are expected to be respectful of writer’s ideas. Writers will make all final decisions on their fics, but this event is a collaborative effort.
Artists will need somewhere to host their work so that it can be embedded on AO3. Examples will be provided closer to posting date, if needed.
Artists signing up for the event may not get their first pick when assigned their fic. Please be mindful of this! Ending your commitment because of this is not permitted and if you feel this will be an issue you should not sign up.
This art was created for the Shadowhunter Mini Bang 2025 (presented by the @malecdiscordserver) for @dicaculus's gorgeous writing!! Please do check out her work on Ao3: "I don't wanna let his go (because you feel like home)" :))
I challenged myself this time, and decided to make gifs and a very short video for this fantastic story by Sky. Please, go read it and shower Sky with love, she truly deserves it 💗
You can read it here!
This was a collaboration for the Shadowhunter Mini Bang 2025 by @malecdiscordserver
I worked with @dream-rabbit for this year's bang, and I had a lot of fun testing my graphic design and photo editing skills (which I'm still learning 🙃)! Each part of his fic has a different theme to it, so I made chapter headers to match! AND each chapter header is part of the background for the banner!
His beautifully written story is full of pining college Malec! Go give it a read here:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I'm most proud of this part of the process:
Drawing on the hair and makeup and painstakingly cleaning up the jewelry took forever, but I love how this turned out!
This artwork was created for the Shadowhunters Mini Bang 2025: Presented by the @malecdiscordserver!
I was lucky enough to create art for the lovely @justawanderer and their fic Nightmares and Daydreams or The Long Road Home as part of the Shadowhunters Mini Bag hosted by @malecdiscordserver
I made two pieces!
I had a lot of fun making these graphics for such a heartfelt and important story. Please go give their fic some love! 💓
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Alec Lightwood has just moved his daughter, Maxwell, across the country to California for college. Having raised Maxwell on his own, he's struck by the realization that "parent" has become his entire identity.
A few months into her first quarter, Maxwell meets a fellow New Yorker, Rafael Bane. Not only are Max and Rafael both from New York City, but Rafael was also raised by a single parent, his dad Magnus. Max and Rafael decide their parents should be friends.
This is the story of what happens next.
This fic was created for the Shadowhunters Mini Bang 2025: Presented by the @malecdiscordserver
This artwork was created for the Shadowhunters Mini Bang 2025: Presented by the @malecdiscordserver.
Check out the full story here!
I've had such a fun time creating for this story, as someone who loves conventions myself and the setting of Malec as actors sounded just perfect❤️. This story gives me such a cozy feeling and my writer, @supernatural9917fic , really captured so many things I love about Malec.
You can hop over and check out more of their malec or destiel stories over here, or here.
For the @malecdiscordserver's 2025 Mini Bang, I had the honour to create a banner and two moodboards for this incredible story, I See Thy Soul, written by the amazing @nurisiliel.
Their work is just incredible, a story of destiny but also of how you have to put trust into it for making it work. Please, have a go with it and show them all the love they deserve.
