The World's Slowest Big Bang

The major changes from the previous version of the rules are the addition of rules for poetry primary works, a ban on AI-generated content, and a clarification of when defaulting is not penalized.

Poetry
The minimum requirement for poetry primary works is your choice of either 13,000 words or 75 hours worth of work. You can use any poetic form you want, but in order to be treated as a part of a separate category from fic your work should be recognizably poetry rather than prose. (If you're interested in prose poetry, please reach out to the mods.)
Poetry can be in the form of a single epic poem or multiple shorter poems. If you opt for multiple shorter poems they must all have at least one element in common, such as: an ongoing narrative or scene, a theme, a location, a character, an actor, a meaningful word or phrase ("Franklin" qualifies; "the" does not), etc. By its nature poetry can be abstract and we don't want to limit your creativity, but your poem(s) should constitute a single project creating a coherently unified work, be it one poem or an anthology.

No amount of any AI generated content in a big bang work is allowed. Including AI generated words, art, etc. will be regarded as plagiarism and handled as such. We can't prevent you from asking AI for writing, art, etc prompts, but the mods strongly encourage you to instead utilize our discord server and the broader due South fannish community.

There are no penalties for defaulting on a primary work, or for complementary creators who contact the mods in advance of the final deadline to notify them they need to bow out.