ALTHey everyone! We’ve gone ahead and refreshed our manual for the 2025 event. Use this resource to find information about the TF Big Bang’s scope, rules and policies, as well as to reference our timeline, contacts, and the FAQ. Please make sure to take a look before you sign up for the event!
Sign-ups officially open on February 1st. We’re excited to welcome new and old participants back for another great year ✨
ALTArtist signups for the TF Big Bang are now officially closed! Thank you all for the sheer number of you who signed up.
If you haven’t joined the server yet, do so now!
ALTIt's that time of the year again! Sign-ups are now open for artists, writers, and beta readers. Please make sure to look over our rules and FAQ before signing up for the 2025 event.
Please sign up for only one of these roles. If you'd like to beta read as well as write or draw, you may self-select the role in the discord server.
Note that we do not collect emails for privacy reasons, so you will not receive an email confirmation after completing the form; if you have still not received a discord invite after sign-ups have closed, please reach out to moderators.
The link to the discord is live if you scroll down our blog a little!
Only one day until the artist and beta reader sign-up forms close! Make sure to get yours submitted by 11:59pm PST tomorrow if you intend to join the event!!
ALTIf you've signed up, use the link below to get access to the discord server! You'll be placed in a waiting room until we can verify your discord name against your signup, after which you'll have full access to the server!
If you haven't signed up yet, you can do so here. Signups for writers are open until March 2nd, and signups for artists are open until March 16th!
Heyyyyy is it possible for people to join the discord just as cheerleaders?
Anonymous
Sorry anon! For logistical reasons, the discord is restricted to participants only.
ALTWriter sign-ups for the TF Big Bang are officially closed! Thank you all for the incredible amount of interest. If you would like to sign up as a beta reader or artist, those forms will remain open until March 16th.
ALTIt's that time of the year again! Sign-ups are now open for artists, writers, and beta readers. Please make sure to look over our rules and FAQ before signing up for the 2025 event.
Please sign up for only one of these roles. If you'd like to beta read as well as write or draw, you may self-select the role in the discord server.
Note that we do not collect emails for privacy reasons, so you will not receive an email confirmation after completing the form; if you have still not received a discord invite after sign-ups have closed, please reach out to moderators.
Discord invites will begin to go out February 22nd. We can't wait to see you all there!
Today is the last day to sign up as a writer! Get your sign-ups in by 11:59pm PST
Hello! 👋 I know that prepaired teams are allowed and totally cool with that, but I've seen people in the server trying to get an author already by saying they just agreed to prepair and things of the like... don't know, kinda sounds like cheating... but if it's not cheating, then I want to know : should we all be snatching authors to shorten things up? Or to ensure we all get one we want.??
Anonymous
Hi anon, you seem to be operating under a misapprehension. We have had one pre-existing pair ask to add a friend to their team because they didn’t know whether they were going to sign up. We do not allow random pairs to match up in the server outside of the matching event. If two people (artist and writer) who’d signed up individually with no mention of pre-pairing together came to us with a similar request, we would deny it precisely because it’s not in the spirit of the event and unfair.
There is no need to start to pair off and “grab your favourite author”. You will have the same chance as everyone else to get to make art for your favorite fic.
We will no longer be answering anonymous asks involving current participation on tumblr. If you are in the discord and have a question or concern about the event, please either post on the q&a forum or DM a mod directly. Thanks!
ALTIt's that time of the year again! Sign-ups are now open for artists, writers, and beta readers. Please make sure to look over our rules and FAQ before signing up for the 2025 event.
Please sign up for only one of these roles. If you'd like to beta read as well as write or draw, you may self-select the role in the discord server.
Note that we do not collect emails for privacy reasons, so you will not receive an email confirmation after completing the form; if you have still not received a discord invite after sign-ups have closed, please reach out to moderators.
Discord invites will begin to go out February 22nd. We can't wait to see you all there!
Attention everyone: Writers’ signups close in 3 days. Get in while you still can!
Hi again, I'm the anon who asked about the dnw. I did read that, but that doesn't really answers my question. It's not that I only like some few characters or ships, the thing is that there are tropes and things that I'm seeing are very popular but i rather not do. For example, can we say we do not want to work with nsfw? Things like that
Anonymous
If that’s the case, we misinterpreted what you meant with your previous question, sorry about that.
You are absolutely allowed to decide that you don’t want to work with NSFW, whether that is by not drawing it yourself, or avoiding works rated M or E altogether. (if you want to avoid NSFW content within the server as well, that is also possible, since those topics have been given their own channels).
The way matching works is that an artist picks—depending on what the total number of participants will be this year—10 or 15 of the fics they would be willing to illustrate for, and they will be assigned to one of their chosen fics. By avoiding picking fics which have indicated that they will contain NSFW content, you will never be assigned to those. NSFW fics are not usually the majority, so they are easy to avoid if that’s what you wish.
Once matched, you are then allowed to choose what you’d like to draw, and it is entirely up to you how/what you make, so long as it is connected to your writer’s fic. You won’t ever be forced to draw something you don’t want to.
Hello! For pre-paired up teams, is the sign up deadline the Writer's Deadline (Mar 2) or the Artist's Deadline (Mar 16)?
Anonymous
Pre-paired teams sign up individually, so the deadlines remain the same. Writers should sign up by March 2nd, Artists by March 16th. This is so that writers have enough time to work on their submission for the first check-in.