Tags: AU, first time, angst, angst with a happy ending, teacher Sam, server Dean, tattoo artist Jimmy, tattoo artist Cas, d/s undertones, dom Cas, sub Dean, pain kink, ink kink, piercing kink, group sex, top Cas, top Benny, top Sam, bottom Dean, bottom Jimmy.
Pairings (other than D/C/J): Cas/Jimmy, Sam/Jimmy, Dean/Cas/Benny, Dean/Sam/Cas/Jimmy, Sam/Dean
Posting date: May 17th, 2017
Summary: When Sam and Dean enter a tattoo parlor on Sam’s birthday Dean’s drawn to Castiel, the grumpy owner, and his twin brother Jimmy. Right away he learns that Cas and Jimmy are in an incestuous relationship and the adjustment period is surprisingly easy.
After Dean, Cas, and Jimmy get together Jimmy drops a bombshell - he wants to bring a couple of friends into their bed for a night. The problem? None of them know anyone they trust outside of Benny and Sam. And Jimmy really, really, really wants Sam to fuck him.
Competition and racing are nothing new to Castiel and Jimmy Novak. Since leaving behind college athletics and settling down into their professional lives, however, it’s gotten harder to scratch that competitive itch. Now Jimmy’s swimming skills and Cas’s running abilities have earned unexpected attention, and they’ve been pressured into creating a relay team for the “Escape from Alcatraz” triathlon. All they need is a cyclist who can keep up.
Dean insists he is not an athlete. He’s not about to back down from a challenge, though, so he’ll do whatever he has to do, as far outside his comfort zone as it may take him. Finding fast new best friends in the Novak twins should make that stretch easier for him, but instead, as he can’t help falling in love with not one, but both twins, things just keep getting a whole lot more complicated.
Summary: Life was good for Jimmy and Cas Novak. They had successful careers, good friends, and a relationship that, while unconventional and hidden from public view, was almost entirely perfect. And they thought the same was true for their best friend, Dean. A late night phone call makes it startlingly clear that was not the case. After nearly losing Dean to suicide, all three began to reevaluate exactly what they wanted in life – and who they want that life with.
Major Tags: Highschool au, Private school, Everyone’s 18, Jimmy and Castiel are twins, Super rich Jimmy and Castiel, twincest, handjobs, blowjobs, anal sex, butt plugs, fingering, BDSM, Dom Castiel, Sub Jimmy, Switch Dean, Top Cas, Bottom Dean, Bottom Jimmy, Top Dean, Bottom Cas, Jimmy in a girl’s uniform (for one scene), Jimmy in panties, double penetration, fisting, sexting, sex acts on film, barebacking, polyamory, masturbating, comeplay, foodplay, Improvised gag, fluff, angst with a happy ending, smut, kink exploration, cockwarming, rimming, frottage, exhibitionism, public sex, Dean’s an anal virgin, blindfolding, bondage, edging, flogging, Cas teaches Dean how to Dom, vague mention of prior underage sex, homophobic slurs,
Summary: Dean was pissed when Dad landed another new job in another new town that came with a tuition waiver for him and Sam. Just what Dean needed for his last five months of high school school, being surrounded by a bunch of spoiled rich kids he’d have basically nothing in common with. Don’t even get him started on the fact he had to wear a shitty school uniform.
When Dean walked into Chemistry on his first day, the last thing he expected was to find himself partnered up with basically the hottest guy he’d ever seen in real life; Castiel Novak. It was way too easy to like Castiel, and Dean was surprised by how quickly he got attached to him.
There was just one little kink he hadn’t seen coming: Castiel’s MIA lab-partner was his twin brother Jimmy. Doesn’t seem that bad? Did he mention the whole damn school knew they were together. Yeah, together, together. Which pretty much meant Dean was fucked, and not even remotely in the way he wanted.
Summary:Dean’s crushing hardcore on his friend Cas. He doesn’t know him all that well yet since they only met at the beginning of the semester just a few weeks earlier, but seeing Cas in classes four days a week was bound to affect him eventually. He’s smart and goofy and charismatic, but somehow also serious and occasionally socially clueless, he’s athletic and has the body to prove it, and on top of all that, he’s fucking gorgeous with the bluest eyes Dean has ever seen. Sometimes he forgets to comb his wavy chestnut hair and he comes to class looking like an absolute sex god that just rolled out of bed after giving some lucky son of a bitch multiple mindblowing orgasms. In other words, he’s a total catch and way way too good for Dean. Dean is resolved to suffer his crush in silence until it goes away. Only it doesn’t, of course, because when is Dean Winchester’s life ever easy or simple? That’s when he finds out the person he thought was Cas is actually two people—identical twins. When the twins realize Dean’s blunder, they decide to have a little fun. They refuse to reveal the other twin’s name until Dean earns the right to know it. Which essentially means Dean’s stuck doing their bidding until they decide to have mercy on him. Dean is fucked. And the worst part? Some sick part of him is enjoying the hell out of the whole situation. Teaser:
Competition and racing are nothing new to Castiel and Jimmy Novak. Since leaving behind college athletics and settling down into their professional lives, however, it’s gotten harder to scratch that competitive itch. Now Jimmy’s swimming skills and Cas’s running abilities have earned unexpected attention, and they’ve been pressured into creating a relay team for the “Escape from Alcatraz” triathlon. All they need is a cyclist who can keep up.
Dean insists he is not an athlete. He’s not about to back down from a challenge, though, so he’ll do whatever he has to do, as far outside his comfort zone as it may take him. Finding fast new best friends in the Novak twins should make that stretch easier for him, but instead, as he can’t help falling in love with not one, but both twins, things just keep getting a whole lot more complicated.
When it comes to adding art to a fic in AO3 is the only way to link to it?
I’m trying to set up my fic to publish, but obviously the art isn’t up yet. I have copies. I was wondering if I can just directly insert them, rather than wait for my artist to publish on the day?
(Also if you click “publish draft” from the draft page does that publish the whole multichapter fic in one go? Or do you have to go through and publish chapter by chapter?)
@anonymousantonym@winchester-reload had a super easy way to insert art into Ao3 without it having to be published. We have no idea how it works, but it does.
Open a TEXT post on Tumblr and click picture to insert the photo. Once it is there go the the settings button at the top right hand corner and click HTML. Copy the code and paste it into Ao3.
It will show up in Ao3 and you can cancel the tumblr post. Or save it as a draft.
We hope that this helps and a huge thank you to @winchester-reload.
Summary: Life was good for Jimmy and Cas Novak. They had successful careers, good friends, and a relationship that, while unconventional and hidden from public view, was almost entirely perfect. And they thought the same was true for their best friend, Dean. A late night phone call makes it startlingly clear that was not the case. After nearly losing Dean to suicide, all three began to reevaluate exactly what they wanted in life – and who they want that life with.
Major Tags: Highschool au, Private school, Everyone’s 18, Jimmy and Castiel are twins, Super rich Jimmy and Castiel, twincest, handjobs, blowjobs, anal sex, butt plugs, fingering, BDSM, Dom Castiel, Sub Jimmy, Switch Dean, Top Cas, Bottom Dean, Bottom Jimmy, Top Dean, Bottom Cas, Jimmy in a girl’s uniform (for one scene), Jimmy in panties, double penetration, fisting, sexting, sex acts on film, barebacking, polyamory, masturbating, comeplay, foodplay, Improvised gag, fluff, angst with a happy ending, smut, kink exploration, cockwarming, rimming, frottage, exhibitionism, public sex, Dean’s an anal virgin, blindfolding, bondage, edging, flogging, Cas teaches Dean how to Dom, vague mention of prior underage sex, homophobic slurs,
Summary: Dean was pissed when Dad landed another new job in another new town that came with a tuition waiver for him and Sam. Just what Dean needed for his last five months of high school school, being surrounded by a bunch of spoiled rich kids he’d have basically nothing in common with. Don’t even get him started on the fact he had to wear a shitty school uniform.
When Dean walked into Chemistry on his first day, the last thing he expected was to find himself partnered up with basically the hottest guy he’d ever seen in real life; Castiel Novak. It was way too easy to like Castiel, and Dean was surprised by how quickly he got attached to him.
There was just one little kink he hadn’t seen coming: Castiel’s MIA lab-partner was his twin brother Jimmy. Doesn’t seem that bad? Did he mention the whole damn school knew they were together. Yeah, together, together. Which pretty much meant Dean was fucked, and not even remotely in the way he wanted.
We’ve lost another artist. If there are any artists out there interested in picking up a dcj story we can accommodate by moving the posting date if needed.
Please send us an ask or email dcjbigbang at Gmail dot com
OMG! You are all such amazing people! Seriously.
In less than 10 hours we had 6 people respond for this post and to each and every one of you we are eternally grateful!
Thank you to everyone who shared this post and responded so swiftly. We have a new artist for the story and we couldn’t be more thrilled at the response that we received for this. Truly amazing.
To all the artists, especially the one that doesn’t even ship Dean/Cas let alone Dean/Cas/Jimmy but still wanted our author to have art for their story:
Summary:Dean’s crushing hardcore on his friend Cas. He doesn’t know him all that well yet since they only met at the beginning of the semester just a few weeks earlier, but seeing Cas in classes four days a week was bound to affect him eventually. He’s smart and goofy and charismatic, but somehow also serious and occasionally socially clueless, he’s athletic and has the body to prove it, and on top of all that, he’s fucking gorgeous with the bluest eyes Dean has ever seen. Sometimes he forgets to comb his wavy chestnut hair and he comes to class looking like an absolute sex god that just rolled out of bed after giving some lucky son of a bitch multiple mindblowing orgasms. In other words, he’s a total catch and way way too good for Dean. Dean is resolved to suffer his crush in silence until it goes away. Only it doesn’t, of course, because when is Dean Winchester’s life ever easy or simple? That’s when he finds out the person he thought was Cas is actually two people—identical twins. When the twins realize Dean’s blunder, they decide to have a little fun. They refuse to reveal the other twin’s name until Dean earns the right to know it. Which essentially means Dean’s stuck doing their bidding until they decide to have mercy on him. Dean is fucked. And the worst part? Some sick part of him is enjoying the hell out of the whole situation. Teaser:
We’ve lost another artist. If there are any artists out there interested in picking up a dcj story we can accommodate by moving the posting date if needed.
Please send us an ask or email dcjbigbang at Gmail dot com
Major tags: DCJ, anal sex, ass to mouth, slow burn, pining, POV switching, lot’s of crying, twincest, jealousy, misunderstandings, sex, light dom/sub undertones, wrist binding, spanking, bottom!Jimmy, top!Castiel, switch!Dean, secret keeping
Pairings: DCJ, Dean/Cas/Jimmy
Date it posts: May 8th, 2017
Summary:College AU where Castiel and Jimmy are roommates and suddenly Dean is moving in. Jimmy doesn’t handle this very well and so he and Dean are at odd’s ends for a while, especially since Jimmy thinks he won’t be able to be with Castiel. Cas makes sure to let Jimmy know this isn’t the case, and convinces Dean to leave on weekends to give them some alone time. Cas and Dean form their own friendship, getting closer until Dean finally makes a move. Now Castiel is torn between admitting to liking Dean and hiding the relationship from his brother who still isn’t Dean’s number 1 fan. Can Castiel get Jimmy over his grudges against Dean so they can all be together? Shouldn’t be too difficult to persuade them both…unfortunately just as Castiel is starting to make headway on his brother and his boyfriend Dean walks in on them being…well, indisposed. How will they recover from their secret getting revealed too quickly?
Major tags: DCJ, anal sex, ass to mouth, slow burn, pining, POV switching, lot’s of crying, twincest, jealousy, misunderstandings, sex, light dom/sub undertones, wrist binding, spanking, bottom!Jimmy, top!Castiel, switch!Dean, secret keeping
Pairings: DCJ, Dean/Cas/Jimmy
Date it posts: May 8th, 2017
Summary:College AU where Castiel and Jimmy are roommates and suddenly Dean is moving in. Jimmy doesn’t handle this very well and so he and Dean are at odd’s ends for a while, especially since Jimmy thinks he won’t be able to be with Castiel. Cas makes sure to let Jimmy know this isn’t the case, and convinces Dean to leave on weekends to give them some alone time. Cas and Dean form their own friendship, getting closer until Dean finally makes a move. Now Castiel is torn between admitting to liking Dean and hiding the relationship from his brother who still isn’t Dean’s number 1 fan. Can Castiel get Jimmy over his grudges against Dean so they can all be together? Shouldn’t be too difficult to persuade them both…unfortunately just as Castiel is starting to make headway on his brother and his boyfriend Dean walks in on them being…well, indisposed. How will they recover from their secret getting revealed too quickly?
Major Tags: AU – Canon divergent, AU – Endverse!divergence, Twincest, Threesome, Anal sex, switching, barebacking, slow burn, established Cas/Jimmy, hidden relationship, some relationship angst, unsupportive!Sam, tentative relationship building, Angel possession, in-vessel non-con (referenced), 2014!Dean(ish), minor character death, canon typical violence, gore, blood, angst, Bi Dean, Gay Cas, Gay Jimmy, Voyeurism, canon typical injuries, tattoos, branding, imprisonment, hurt!Dean, multiple POV, tiny moments of fluff, somnophilia.
Pairings: Dean x Castiel x Jimmy, Castiel x Jimmy, Michael x Raphael (referenced)
Post Date: 7th May, 2017
Summary:
When Henry Winchester started the apocalypse by sacrificing himself to save his son’s life, he had no notion of what his action would bring about.
If he had known, he wouldn’t have imagined that heaven would lose.
Now, in 2017, Henry’s grandsons; Sam and Dean, are struggling to survive in a world where Lucifer walks the Earth, demons and the rabid victims of the Croatoan virus destroy everything in their path, and angels are selfish, scared and frightened.
It’s been eight years. Eight years since Dean, Sam and the others came together to form Camp Salvage. Eight years of hunting and fighting, of protecting the men, women and children who look up to them, and Dean is tired. He’s tired of being responsible for so many people. But there isn’t an end in sight. The Devil toys with the planet, and they don’t have long to go until the Croats kill them; one by one until there is no one left.
Dean is done. He’s had enough of fighting losing odds.
That is, until they hear word of an angel. The first since the guardian angel who let their grandfather die.
Dean puts his game face on once more, leading a team in search of answers, or help, or simply retribution.
What they find, instead, sends them into a tailspin that can only end two ways; wholesale destruction, the final, true end of all things, or the longest of shots; they win.
With some unexpected tactical advantages—a pair of vessels, mysterious creatures only a few can see, and a rogue god on their side—maybe Dean finally stands a chance: not just to survive, but to find a reason to want to.
Major Tags: AU – Canon divergent, AU – Endverse!divergence, Twincest, Threesome, Anal sex, switching, barebacking, slow burn, established Cas/Jimmy, hidden relationship, some relationship angst, unsupportive!Sam, tentative relationship building, Angel possession, in-vessel non-con (referenced), 2014!Dean(ish), minor character death, canon typical violence, gore, blood, angst, Bi Dean, Gay Cas, Gay Jimmy, Voyeurism, canon typical injuries, tattoos, branding, imprisonment, hurt!Dean, multiple POV, tiny moments of fluff, somnophilia.
Pairings: Dean x Castiel x Jimmy, Castiel x Jimmy, Michael x Raphael (referenced)
Post Date: 7th May, 2017
Summary:
When Henry Winchester started the apocalypse by sacrificing himself to save his son’s life, he had no notion of what his action would bring about.
If he had known, he wouldn’t have imagined that heaven would lose.
Now, in 2017, Henry’s grandsons; Sam and Dean, are struggling to survive in a world where Lucifer walks the Earth, demons and the rabid victims of the Croatoan virus destroy everything in their path, and angels are selfish, scared and frightened.
It’s been eight years. Eight years since Dean, Sam and the others came together to form Camp Salvage. Eight years of hunting and fighting, of protecting the men, women and children who look up to them, and Dean is tired. He’s tired of being responsible for so many people. But there isn’t an end in sight. The Devil toys with the planet, and they don’t have long to go until the Croats kill them; one by one until there is no one left.
Dean is done. He’s had enough of fighting losing odds.
That is, until they hear word of an angel. The first since the guardian angel who let their grandfather die.
Dean puts his game face on once more, leading a team in search of answers, or help, or simply retribution.
What they find, instead, sends them into a tailspin that can only end two ways; wholesale destruction, the final, true end of all things, or the longest of shots; they win.
With some unexpected tactical advantages—a pair of vessels, mysterious creatures only a few can see, and a rogue god on their side—maybe Dean finally stands a chance: not just to survive, but to find a reason to want to.
Major Tags: Canon AU, Canon Typical Violence, Witch Jimmy, Witch Castiel, Autistic Castiel, Fae Creatures, White Magic, Black Magic, Sibling Incest, Case Fic, Outdoor Sex, Alternating POV (Third Person)
Pairings: Dean/Cas/Jimmy/Sam
Coming May 6th
Summary: People are disappearing into a forest outside a small town in northern Michigan, and they aren’t coming back out. When Sam and Dean question the locals, they’re told all kinds of tales about the different fae folk who live in the woods, and nearly all of them could be responsible. In the end, they have no choice but to go into the forest themselves. The trees speak. Pixies giggle at them from sunbeams and mutated fae attack without warning, and the forest won’t let them leave. The only safe place is the home of a pair of witch twins who save them from a kelpie, but even their protections might not be enough to keep the forest out. Teaser:
Major Tags: Canon AU, Canon Typical Violence, Witch Jimmy, Witch Castiel, Autistic Castiel, Fae Creatures, White Magic, Black Magic, Sibling Incest, Case Fic, Outdoor Sex, Alternating POV (Third Person)
Pairings: Dean/Cas/Jimmy/Sam
Coming May 6th
Summary: People are disappearing into a forest outside a small town in northern Michigan, and they aren’t coming back out. When Sam and Dean question the locals, they’re told all kinds of tales about the different fae folk who live in the woods, and nearly all of them could be responsible. In the end, they have no choice but to go into the forest themselves. The trees speak. Pixies giggle at them from sunbeams and mutated fae attack without warning, and the forest won’t let them leave. The only safe place is the home of a pair of witch twins who save them from a kelpie, but even their protections might not be enough to keep the forest out. Teaser:
Before we get to the posting dates (we know that is what you are all looking forward too) we would like to thank each and everyone of you for your hard work and participation to make this tiny spark of an idea come to full fruition.
It has been an amazing time. When this idea came around last year it felt like it would never get to this point. Now look at us, we are a month out from beginning to post. Isn’t that crazy?This is the final scheduled communication between us until the posting begins. We want to take this time to let each and every one of you know how much your work means to the entire DCJ community. It is a small ship but it is a ship we all know and care for. We are extremely excited that you all have got to this point and are blessing the DCJ community (and the Supernatural fandom as a whole tbh) with amazing fics and art. Thank you. Honestly. Now on to what we all have been waiting for! The posting dates!
Before we get to the posting dates (we know that is what you are all looking forward too) we would like to thank each and everyone of you for your hard work and participation to make this tiny spark of an idea come to full fruition.
It has been an amazing time. When this idea came around last year it felt like it would never get to this point. Now look at us, we are a month out from beginning to post. Isn’t that crazy?This is the final scheduled communication between us until the posting begins. We want to take this time to let each and every one of you know how much your work means to the entire DCJ community. It is a small ship but it is a ship we all know and care for. We are extremely excited that you all have got to this point and are blessing the DCJ community (and the Supernatural fandom as a whole tbh) with amazing fics and art. Thank you. Honestly. Now on to what we all have been waiting for! The posting dates!
Before we get to the posting dates (we know that is what you are all looking forward too) we would like to thank each and everyone of you for your hard work and participation to make this tiny spark of an idea come to full fruition.
It has been an amazing time. When this idea came around last year it felt like it would never get to this point. Now look at us, we are a month out from beginning to post. Isn’t that crazy?This is the final scheduled communication between us until the posting begins. We want to take this time to let each and every one of you know how much your work means to the entire DCJ community. It is a small ship but it is a ship we all know and care for. We are extremely excited that you all have got to this point and are blessing the DCJ community (and the Supernatural fandom as a whole tbh) with amazing fics and art. Thank you. Honestly. Now on to what we all have been waiting for! The posting dates!
Due to personal reasons one of our artists had to drop and we have a story without art.
If there is an artist that would be interested in creating two pieces of art for one of the stories that will be posting next month that would be fantastic.
Due to time constraints the posting date will be towards the end of posting to give the artist time to create art.
If you are interested please drop us an ask or an e-mail so that we can give you more details.
UPDATE
Thank you everyone that shared this post. Thanks to your quick reblogging efforts and interest in helping us we have already found an artist!
Due to personal reasons one of our artists had to drop and we have a story without art.
If there is an artist that would be interested in creating two pieces of art for one of the stories that will be posting next month that would be fantastic.
Due to time constraints the posting date will be towards the end of posting to give the artist time to create art.
If you are interested please drop us an ask or an e-mail so that we can give you more details.
Please be sure to keep a look out for an email that was sent out this evening with information regarding the schedule and final check ins/draft submissions.
If you have not received this email please be informed that the due date for drafts (authors on April 1st and the artists by April 3rd) has been extended to 11 pm EST (time zone converter ) on Wednesday April 5th. Due to several requests for an extension to do life events we have decided to do a blanket extension for every participant.
To those that have already checked in with us, thank you and please disregard this. For those who have already contacted us to make other arrangements please keep those arrangements.
If you need to contact us about any other arrangements please do so. We want to make sure that this bang is fun and stress free for everyone involved. We will do our best to accommodate the participants with arrangements, but in order to do so we need to communicate. Remember, communication is key.
With the final days coming up quick we need to be sure that we are communicating the best that we can to make the most of our little bang here. We are all excited to finally have these stories and art shared with everyone!
Important Dates:
April 5th: All artists and authors to have checked in with us or made other arrangements. April 5th: Announcement of posting dates. You will receive an email as well as it being posted here.
Hey, a beta here, when's our deadline? Because of life events I couldn't match my author's deadline of the 1st of April. I've got 4.5 chapters left to check, the other's have been re-evaluated by my author already.
Hi there! This is an excellent question, one we are happy to answer!
Beta’s have no deadline to us. As a beta your deadline is to your author and their posting date (which will be announced tomorrow). The most recent draft submission and check in for authors was a simple reminder and assurance that they will be ready when posting begins in less than a month.
So beta’s need not worry about meeting the authors check in dates, only the self imposed ones. Ideally as a beta you will have the beta work done with enough time for the author to check it and accept or reject any edits made. How much time that requires is up to each author individually.
We hope that this helps answer your question. If you need any more clarification please don’t hesitate to contact us again, remember, communication is key!
Please be sure to keep a look out for an email that was sent out this evening with information regarding the schedule and final check ins/draft submissions.
If you have not received this email please be informed that the due date for drafts (authors on April 1st and the artists by April 3rd) has been extended to 11 pm EST (time zone converter ) on Wednesday April 5th. Due to several requests for an extension to do life events we have decided to do a blanket extension for every participant.
To those that have already checked in with us, thank you and please disregard this. For those who have already contacted us to make other arrangements please keep those arrangements.
If you need to contact us about any other arrangements please do so. We want to make sure that this bang is fun and stress free for everyone involved. We will do our best to accommodate the participants with arrangements, but in order to do so we need to communicate. Remember, communication is key.
With the final days coming up quick we need to be sure that we are communicating the best that we can to make the most of our little bang here. We are all excited to finally have these stories and art shared with everyone!
Important Dates:
April 5th: All artists and authors to have checked in with us or made other arrangements. April 5th: Announcement of posting dates. You will receive an email as well as it being posted here.
Please be sure to keep a look out for an email that was sent out this evening with information regarding the schedule and final check ins/draft submissions.
If you have not received this email please be informed that the due date for drafts (authors on April 1st and the artists by April 3rd) has been extended to 11 pm EST (time zone converter ) on Wednesday April 5th. Due to several requests for an extension to do life events we have decided to do a blanket extension for every participant.
To those that have already checked in with us, thank you and please disregard this. For those who have already contacted us to make other arrangements please keep those arrangements.
If you need to contact us about any other arrangements please do so. We want to make sure that this bang is fun and stress free for everyone involved. We will do our best to accommodate the participants with arrangements, but in order to do so we need to communicate. Remember, communication is key.
With the final days coming up quick we need to be sure that we are communicating the best that we can to make the most of our little bang here. We are all excited to finally have these stories and art shared with everyone!
Important Dates:
April 5th: All artists and authors to have checked in with us or made other arrangements. April 5th: Announcement of posting dates. You will receive an email as well as it being posted here.
It is check-in time! Please send us a screen shot of what you have to the email (dcjbigbang at gmail dot com) by 11 pm EST (time zone converter) Monday April 3nd.
We will be sending out an email to all Artists so please keep an eye out for it.
It is check-in time! Please send us a screen shot of what you have to the email (dcjbigbang at gmail dot com) by 11 pm EST (time zone converter) Monday April 3nd.
We will be sending out an email to all Artists so please keep an eye out for it.
What is the WIP Big Bang? Good question! This is a Big Bang with one goal in mind: to clean out your drafts folder. These are stories that were unfinished for whatever reason, that authors returned to and completed, and the art that goes with them!
Worth checking out if you’ve got a WIP you wanna finally finish.
This includes fics that have already been partially posted to AO3.
~ dreamsfromthebunker
P.S. thanks to @majesticduxk for letting me know about this.
The second author check in is here. It is a simple form and quick to do. We have sent an email out to all of you please read it and follow the link to fill out the form and let us know how you’re doing.
If you are unable to access your email at the moment you can fill the form out right here: Second Author Check In.
We only ask that if you are collaborating only one of you fill the form out with both authors info.
If there are any concerns or questions let us know. Communication is key!
So... if we find ourselves in the peculiar position of having written far more than we anticipated and thus *possibly* making it to the next type of bang, is it then too late by now (march 10th) to upgrade the size of bang we're submitting? I'm not saying it's happening, but it might unless it's too late to change by now - in which case I'll just make sure to stay at the limit :)
This is an excellent question. There is one more author check in before final drafts are due. Since at this point you have an artist already, it is up to you to communicate with your artist and make sure that they are comfortable creating an additional piece of art for your story within the time frame.
If your artist has no issues with the time line and creating an additional piece you can let us know about this upgrade at the next check in in the option “Any other questions/comments/concerns” spot. As far as upgrade/downgrade with check in there will not be an option for that.
We do not want to try to contain your creativity by telling you that upgrading isn’t an option. We just want to make you aware that it is something that needs to be discussed with your artist partner. Because you are now in a partnership with your artist and communication is key.
We will always encourage more DCJ because the world needs it.
We hope that this answers your question. If not, let us know!
Below the cut is the list of the authors and their artists. If you have yet to receive an e-mail please let us know as soon as possible so that we can get the info out to you.
Apologies for the delay, this was supposed to be out two days ago.
All fics have been claimed. Pairings will be posted in a few hours.
If you have not received an e-mail from us by the time the pairings have posted here please let us know so that we can resend information to you.
We still have 6 fics left to be claimed. All fics that have been claimed e-mails have went out to both artists and authors. If you are an artist that has submitted a claim and have not received a confirmation e-mail with your author information please contact us immediately.
Hey I have other questions! Didn't it say 28 authors checked in? Even though there's only 21 summaries? (Just curious) Also, once we claim a fic, will we get an email confirming which one we claimed? And if so, do we get it right after or after everything has been claimed? (I wanna make sure I don't lose anymore emails lol)
Good questions!
We did have 28 authors check in We actually had all authors check in with us. However we did end up having several of the authors drop. So we ended up with 21 summaries.
Claims that have been made already are marked as such and emails for those claims will begin going out shortly.
If you have any other questions please let us know, remember communication is key!
I was wondering as to this artist claim business: Do you give the author's contactinfo to the claiming artist or do you tell the author to contact the artist? (Does this question make sense to anybody not currently in my head? Well, we'll see, won't we :) - )
When the claims come in (and this mod has time) e-mails will be going out to authors and artists with info on which fic they claimed/who claimed their fic, and all the contact information they need to move forward.
It is from this point on that author and artist should establish communication and begin discussing things for art for the fic. Good communication is key to every relationship and this one is no different. Make sure that the artist/author relationship is one with open communication!
If you have any other questions please let us know.
I'm back with another odd question! So, the schedule says final drafts are due on March 1st. My question is: does that mean 100% done, beta'd, and ready to be posted, or does that mean the entire fic is complete but it's okay to still be in the editing/betaing stage? (Only asking so I know how to pace myself). Thank you!
Excellent question!
We are going to go out on a limb and guess you meant April 1st? Had to go take a look at the schedule because you freaked this mod out for a minute.
For the April 1st Final check in your fic should be finished or close to finished. It does not have to be completely beta’d by that point either, posting does not begin until May 1st. So you have all of the month of April. Please keep in mind that you need to be sure to give your beta enough time to go through and do their beta work before your scheduled posting date.
We hope that this answers your question. If not don’t hesitate to contact us again. Remember, communication is key!
Artists, claims are open. You should have received an email from us with instructions on how to claim. If you did not receive this email, please let us know. We did not have any kicked back to us so please check your email.
Hey guys, firstly just wanted to check if you got my artist sign up? I wasn't sure if you were sending out confirmation emails. Secondly what's the process going to be for the art claim? I'm worried I'll miss it if it's a short window.
Anton,
Yes, we did receive your sign up, apologies for not sending a confirmation email, things have been a bit hectic. We will be posting the summaries for preview today.
The timeline says we will open claims tomorrow, however, we will be moving that date to allow the artists more time to look over all the summaries and have a chance to take their time picking. All artists will be receiving an e-mail shortly with instructions and a link to begin taking a look at the summaries.
Thank you for question and please let us know if you have any other. Remember communication is key!
Rating (If you think this could change put the possible rating in parenthesis next to what you have already)
Archive Warnings
Major Tags
Any explicit/major side pairings (other than D/C/J that has to be the main)
Summary While this doesn’t have to be the final version of your summary you need to make it as detailed as possible because all of this info is what will be posted for the artists to view in order to make claims. If you have any questions as what you may or may not want to include see this post.
Include your draft either as a word document or as a link to a Google document.
Out of 32 authors we only had 28 check in with us. If you are one of the four that did not check in and still wish to participate submit your summary and draft to us.
Unless you contact us and make arrangements, any author that has not submitted a draft and summary by the deadline (Feb, 24 11 am EST) will be dropped from the bang and are welcome to participate again in the future. We must do it this way to be sure all available summaries are posted for authors to choose from.
We look forward to hearing from all you wonderful authors!
Remember if you have any issues do not hesitate to contact us, communication is key!!
This is the last call for submissions!
If you have not contacted us or submitted the information above to our email (dcjbigbang at gmail) by 11 am EST
time zone converter then you are officially dropping from the DCJ Big Bang.