ds_c6d_bigbang | Sign Up Post for the 2022 due South/C6D Big Bang!

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Woohoo, it's the Eleventh of March, and it's time for the 14th annual due South/Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang!

2022 Schedule

Sign-ups open: March 11th (now!)

Chat 1: April 16/17

Chat 2: May 14/15

Chat 3: June 11/12

Chat 4: July 16/17

Primary works due: August 13th

Complementary claims open: August 20th

Mandatory checkpoint for complementary creators: September 17th

Complementary works due: October 3rd

Go-live date for all works: Canadian Thanksgiving, October 10th 2022

Please take the time to check out the Rules and the FAQ, and let us know if you have any questions! For primary sign-ups, you can make 20,000-word fics or podfics or equivalent art/vids/craft of any sort, for due South or any other Canadian Six Degrees fandom.

We'll be having checkpoints and live chats on our discord server, and we also encourage you to use the server outside of officially scheduled chats - for brainstorming, moral support, hilarious tangents, group therapy and everything else you'll need to get through this. Remember, there are no penalties for dropping out. If RL intervenes or writer's/artist’s block happens, we'll give you a hug and hope to see you next time.

Please feel free to reach out to us by commenting on this post, sending us an ask on tumblr or a PM here on dreamwidth, or emailing us (dsc6dbbmod@gmail.com). There is no cutoff for signing up -- sign-ups stay open until the August deadline.

To sign up, copy the headers below and paste them into a comment. Then fill it out!

DW/tumblr etc name:

AO3 username:

Best way to contact you (email, PM etc):

Primary or Complementary sign-up:

Medium (fic, art etc):

Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!):

Timezone (optional, for planning the chats):

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

lomelinde_laurea

DW/tumblr etc name:

lomelinde_laurea
AO3 username:

lomelinde
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): discord, email, PM
Primary or Complementary sign-up: Primary
Medium (fic, art etc): fic, maybe vid
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!): due South fic, F/K + ensemble, maybe also C6D vid of some kind
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): CET

From:

feroxargentea

Hurray! :)

From:

lomelinde_laurea

DW/tumblr etc name:

lomelinde_laurea
AO3 username:

lomelinde
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): discord, email, PM
Primary or Complementary sign-up: Complementary
Medium (fic, art etc): art (probably)
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!): dS and C6D
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): CET

From:

feroxargentea

Thanks for signing up for a complementary too :)

From:

feroxargentea

DW/tumblr/AO3 name: feroxargentea
Best way to contact you: discord, email, PM
Primary or Complementary sign-up: Primary
Medium: Fic
Fandom and characters/pairings: due South, F/K
Timezone: UK

From:

thisaintbc

\o/

From:

kittkat

DW/tumblr etc name: kittkat
AO3 username: KittKat
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): discord, email, PM
Primary or Complementary sign-up: primary
Medium (fic, art etc): podfic
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!):
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): pacific

Edited Date: 2022-03-11 03:18 pm (UTC)

From:

feroxargentea

Hurray! I am always happy about more podfic.

From:

meinterrupted

DW/tumblr etc name:

meinterrupted or

shinykari (though IDEK when I last was logged into tumblr...)
AO3 username:

meinterrupted
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): Discord messages to rainbowkaylee#7725
Primary or Complementary sign-up: Primary
Medium (fic, art etc): fic
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!): Probably Due South and F/K :D
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): US Central

Edited Date: 2022-03-11 04:28 pm (UTC)

From:

feroxargentea

Yay, thanks for signing up!

From:

ride_4ever

I know that I would like to do a complementary, but RL being what it is at present I don't feel like I can make the commitment this much in advance this year. I'll be watching this comm and hoping to participate later.

And today is The Eleventh of March: we happy few!

From:

feroxargentea

Complementaries are quite a few months down the line still, so fingers crossed RL gives you more time later in the year. And thank you for your enthusiasm meanwhile!

From:

ride_4ever

\o/

From:

desireearmfeldt

DW/tumblr etc name: desireearmfeldt here (I think I gave myself that alias on the discord server as well, I forget)
AO3 username: desireearmfeldt
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): email
Primary or Complementary sign-up: Primary
Medium (fic, art etc): fic
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!): I've dropped out the past few years but hope springs eternal! One of three WIPs: Victoria's Daughter Part 2 (again), Fraser/Thatcher bodyswap, DS/S&A crossover where Fraser shows up at New Burbage and is pounced on to play Shakespearean Twins with Geoffrey.
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): US Eastern

Edited Date: 2022-03-14 01:29 pm (UTC)

From:

feroxargentea

Huzzah for signing up!
*waves the Fic Finishing pompoms in hopeful manner*

From:

desireearmfeldt

From:

mific

DW/tumblr etc name:

mific
AO3 username:

mific
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): fizzplunk at gmail dot com
Primary or Complementary sign-up: Primary
Medium (fic, art etc): Comic - detective noir, mid C20th
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!): dS. Ray K/Fraser plus Ray V, Dief, et al
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): no worries, I'll make it depending on weird sleep pattern at the time.

From:

thisaintbc

Hurray, thanks for signing up!

From:

mific

DW/tumblr etc name:

mific
AO3 username:

mific
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): fizzplunk at gmail dot com
Primary or Complementary sign-up: Complementary
Medium (fic, art etc): art, trad and/or digital
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!): any is fine
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): no worries, I'll make it depending on weird sleep pattern at the time

From:

thisaintbc

Thanks for signing for a complementary as well! :D

From:

spacetimeconundrum

DW/tumblr etc name: spacetimeconundrum
AO3 username: spacetimeconundrum
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): discord, email
Primary or Complementary sign-up: Primary (this is Plan A, if Plan A fails to materialize, I'll do a Complementary work instead [Plan B])
Medium (fic, art etc): fic (art is Plan B)
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!): due South, Fraser/RayK
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): US Pacific

From:

feroxargentea

Hurray, thanks for signing up!

From:

wicked3659

DW/Tumblr name: Wicked3659
AO3 Username: Wicked3659
Best way to contact me: discord/email
Primary sign up
Medium: fic
Fandom and pairing: Due South, F/K
Timezone: GMT

From:

thisaintbc

\o/ Hurray, thanks for signing up!

From:

flammenkobold

DW/tumblr etc name: Flammenkobold
AO3 username: Flammenkobold
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): DM on tumblr or discord
Primary or Complementary sign-up: primary
Medium: fic
Fandom and characters/pairings: Due South, Fraser&RayV, RayV&Rayk, Fraser/&RayK
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats):CET/CEST

From:

feroxargentea

Yay, thanks for signing up!

From:

verushka70

Hello!
1) Is there a deadline for sign-ups? Can I still sign up?

Also, 2) is a sequel to a fic in another fanfic author's 'verse acceptable (assuming they have given permission or blanket permission, it's still standalone, & it's min 20K words)?

It's not a remix, it is the immediate & short-to-medium term aftermath of the original fic (& remix)... So that would be considered a sequel (right?). It picks up where the original fic (& the remix) left off. I've been working on it for a couple of years. I plan a "choose your own ending" ending to my sequel.

The original & existing remix are archive-warning noncon, canon atypical behavior Fraser/Kowalski slash fics. My fic is intended to be a plausible aftermath sequel with choose your own ending: acceptable-resolution-together/unacceptable-resolution-apart/acceptable-resolution-apart ending. (Basically happy-together/unhappy-apart/acceptance-apart choices.)

It is entirely possible that I would only finish one of the 3 possible choose-your-own-ending endings by the deadline. But since that is an ending, 3) I'm wondering if finishing at least one ending is acceptable (if any of this is acceptable!...) even if I don't finish the other 2 endings by the primary deadline.

None of it is posted anywhere. The original fic & remix are on AO3.

From:

feroxargentea

That's a lot of questions - I hope I can answer them...

1) There's no deadline for sign-ups and we'd love you to sign up!

2) As long as the original author(s) is okay with sequels, and as long as your fic is 20K previously unpublished words, complete and standalone (in the sense of working as a story in its own right, without a reader needing to have read previous fics or needing to wait for future parts for it to feel complete) then it would fit the rules for the Big Bang. If you then want to add extra bits/sequels/alt endings afterwards, that's up to you! We only require one ending by the deadline, although extra ones sound intriguing :)

From:

verushka70

Okay thanks. Last question, I get the impression you're saying I should get specific permission from the author/s to write a sequel, although they both already have blanket permissions on their DWs or AO3 profiles? Is that required? I've never actually done a remix or anything like this before -- that wasn't in collaboration or requested -- so I don't know what are "the rules" (and I'm not sure how active either is in any fandom currently, as the fics are both from 2010).

I didn't get specific permission from either author when I started the fic because they both had blanket "permission to play with my fic etc" on their profiles. It didn't seem like the remix author had prior permission other than the original author's profile's blanket permission (the author's response, when their fic was tagged on AO3 when the remix was posted, was words to the effect of "ohhhh, there's a really great remix by x now!" which didn't sound like specific advance permission was requested and granted first).

I've had art done spontaneously for a couple fics of mine for which no specific permission was requested -- I didn't even know art was in the works for a couple of my fics until it suddenly appeared (but it would have been, and was, fine with me, though; that is stated in my profile, so it seemed like that's why they didn't ask, which was fine).

So I figured advanced permission was not required for this fic, given the primary and remix authors' profiles' blanket permissions and both fics being over a decade old. But, you tell me. Do people do that for podfic and remixes if the original author has blanket permission granted in their profile? I mean, I'll request it from both, if that's required for dsc6dbb, I just didn't know I had to.

From:

feroxargentea

Blanket permission covers it, that's fine! There aren't any additional big bang rules about it -- it's just a courtesy to the original author, but if they have blanket permission statements on AO3, that's all good.

From:

verushka70

Okay, cool!

From:

verushka70

DW/tumblr etc name: verushka70
AO3 username: verushka70
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): verushka70@gmail.com
Primary or Complementary sign-up: primary
Medium (fic, art etc): fic
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!): due South, Fraser/Kowalski
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): Chicago time (Central "Daylight" Time)

From:

feroxargentea

Yay, thanks for signing up!

From:

onnakarot

DW/tumblr etc name: onnakarot
AO3 username: onnakarot
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): onnaonna gmail
Primary or Complementary sign-up: Primary
Medium (fic, art etc): Art
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!): Due South, Fraser/Kowalski
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): I am a bit late for the chats so anytime is fine with me

From:

feroxargentea

Yay, thanks for signing up! :)

From: (Anonymous)

DW/tumblr etc name: fracktastic
AO3 username: maestrita
Best way to contact you (email, PM etc): tumblr PM
Primary or Complementary sign-up: Primary; open to switching to complementary if there's anyone else doing a BSG entry
Medium (fic, art etc): If I'm the only BSG entry, then fic. If there's another person doing a BSG entry, I'd like to switch to complementary and do a visual arts entry if that's an option?
Fandom and characters/pairings (if you have any idea yet!): BSG, Leoben
Timezone (optional, for planning the chats): PST

From:

feroxargentea

Ooh, a BSG signup, wonderful!
You're the first BSG entry so far, but all media are allowed for primary signups -- fic or art or any combination that's roughly equivalent in effort to a 20,000 work fic, if that's something you're interested in!