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

[feroxargentea]

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.

 

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Comments

[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.

[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 :)

[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.

[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.

[verushka70]

Okay, cool!