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In 2025, we'll try running Nimona Week both here and on Bluesky:

Wish me luck!

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Stay Tuned: Nimona Week 2025

To aim for Sunday, March 30 - Saturday, April 5, 2025 (and thus include both Trans Day of Visibility and April Fool's Day again):

prompt submissions will open after Thanksgiving and will stay open for 3-4 weeks

voting on prompts will open in late December and will stay open for 3-4 weeks

prompts will be finalized by late January (to give everyone about 2 months to prep fanworks ahead of time)

If you'd like to help behind the scenes (putting together event graphics, reblogging art and fic the week of, event promotion, etc), please reach out to @zyrafowe-sny!

2024 FAQ | 2024 Prompts | 2024 Reblogs

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It's finally time for Nimona Big Bang project reveals! About one new project will be released each day. Please enjoy these fantastic new fanworks and fill out this bingo card. Tag us if you get bingo in any direction or a full blackout!

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Calling all Nimona fanartists!

Would you like to make fanart for a Nimona Big Bang fic? We have around three fics that would benefit from an artist pinch hitter or two. Final art pieces would be due by the end of October at the latest, though we will start releasing fanworks in early October. All art styles — traditional and digital — are welcome!

Please reach out to @zyrafowe-sny for more details.

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Every Knight Big Bang Writer Needs a Cheerleader Beta Reader!

Do you want to help support a Nimona Big Bang writer? Sign up to be a beta reader today!

Depending on the writer, they may want a beta reader to:

proofread spelling, punctuation, and grammar (aka SPaG)

check for clarity

talk through difficult plot points/scenes

share ideas/brainstorm

help them stay on top of writing deadlines

cheer-read

answer questions they might have for a reader

compliment their writing

It's ok if you've never beta read before — we can provide resources to help!

Most of the beta reading work will be in the last half of the Big Bang event (late July through early September), but some writers might like to start working with a beta reader sooner than that.

For many Big Bang events, there's often about one beta reader per two writers, but you're more than welcome to sign up even if you can only work on one project. We don't recommend beta reading more than three fics.

Sign up here today and join the Discord or our private Tumblr Community to check out beta requests!

Feel free to contact beta reader mod @cameron7a or lead mod @zyrafowe-sny with any questions.

Sign Up | Event Overview | Big Bang Guidelines | Discord

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Reopening Nimona Big Bang Writer Pinch Hitter Sign Ups!

Writer pinch hitters write a "backup" Nimona Big Bag fanfic in case any main writers drop out so that their artist partners can get a new match.

We've already had a few pinch hitters step up as replacement writers, and now have fewer options available to main artists who may need new partners. (Artists: Don't panic! If we don't have a pinch hitter fic for you, our Plan C is setting you up as a second artist for a fic if your original writer drops out.)

Please consider signing up as a writer pinch hitter if you:

are a fast enough writer that you could finish a fic with at least 5,000 words by mid September OR

have a secret Nimona WIP that you could wrap up that meets event criteria (5,000 word minimum, must feature at least one of the main three characters, no underage/dubcon/noncon, can't have talked about it/shared lines publicly yet)

Once you have at least about 500 words done, you can submit your pinch hitter fic information here. Ideally, we'd like this by July 15th if possible.

If it turns out that you are not matched with any main artists, we will try setting you up with an available artist pinch hitter.

Please reach out to lead mod @zyrafowe-sny or writer mod @knightofburgers if you have any questions!

Sign Up | Event Overview | Big Bang Guidelines | Discord

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Goldenheart Week Day 2

June 28, 2024

Welcome to the second day of Goldenheart Week! Today's prompts are:

Forgiveness

Apologies

Prince Ballister AU (Queen Valerin makes Ballister her heir instead of a knight)

“Ballister, wait — if I don't make it out, I need to tell you—" / "We can't do this now. Just...just promise me you won't get yourself killed." (Nimona Graphic Novel)

Please create and share some new fanworks! We'll be reblogging tagged posts (feel free to tag the blog to be extra sure we see it).

There are alt prompts available if you don't feel inspired by any of today's prompts.

Prompts & Tagging System | FAQ | AO3 Collection

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Please vote on your favorite prompts for Goldenheart Week by April 26th!

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It's Not Too Late to Participate in the Nimona Big Bang!

We've reopened writer/writer pinch hitter sign ups and beta reader sign ups will stay open through July 28th!

We have a 5,000 word minimum for fics. A summary and short excerpt (less than 300 words) are due by April 25th so that we can pair writers with artists in early May. The final fics are due in September, but there are a few scheduled check-ins with milestones to help everyone stay on track.

Please sign up here so that we can email you the form where you can submit fic information!

Contact @zyrafowe-sny or @random-nerd-posts with any questions.

Sign Up | Event Overview | Big Bang Guidelines | Discord

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ATTENTION: REOPENING NIMONA BIG BANG WRITER SIGN UPS!

We now have a few more artists than writers signed up, so we are reopening Nimona Big Bang writer and writer pinch hitter sign ups.

We have a 5,000 word minimum. A summary and short excerpt (less than 300 words) of your fic(s) are due by April 25th so that we can pair you with an artist. The final fics are due in September, but there are a few scheduled check-ins with milestones to help everyone stay on track.

Please sign up here so that we can email you the form where you can submit fic information!

Contact @zyrafowe-sny or @random-nerd-posts with any questions.

Sign Up | Event Overview | Big Bang Guidelines | Discord

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Turned an old nimona drawing into a gif to match the wings promt from nimona week. I used this challenge to practice animation and for some reason all the gifs end with nimona as a shark.

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I read @bleezebrew-writes entry for nimona week 'growth' and had to draw nimona interact with a venus fly trap. I really liked your interpretation of the promt.

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Thanks for participating in Nimona Week!

I haven't crunched numbers, but it was lovely to see all the new fanart and fanfic celebrating our favorite shapeshifter!

Nimona Week may be officially over, but it's never too late to create and claim your participant and completionist badges! The AO3 Collection will stay open forever, and we'll reblog new fanworks if you tag us!

If you're looking for other Nimona fandom events, you can still sign up to be a beta reader for the @nimonabigbang or participate in @goldenheart-week coming June 27th -July 3rd!

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once upon a time, there was a bird of paradise

a ficlet inspired by the Nimona Week prompt "phoenix"

Once upon a time, there was a lonely girl monster shapeshifter who didn't have a place to go but couldn't stay where she was. (Where she was had fire and pitchforks and a sword in the hand of a friend.)

She made herself wings and flew far and fast in the direction of Away. Time ceased to matter, and all there was in the world was wind and sky. Day turned to night and night turned to day, and so it continued, but even one such as she (eventually) needed rest. (She didn't remember how to rest.)

Each wingbeat became weaker. (But sometimes there were currents to ride.)

Her movements became less graceful. (But she was still aloft.)

The path to Away zigged and zagged. (But it was still Away.)

Once upon a time, there was a winged creature who flew until she couldn't.

And then she fell.

The winged creature stayed a winged creature in a messy heap on the ground. (There was the start of an itch but without a direction. Except, perhaps, for Away.)

There was hurt, but most of it was still in her heart. (If she had a body that couldn't shift and could get hurt more easily instead, maybe she wouldn't hurt so much inside. But she didn't. And she wouldn't be herself if she did.)

(Herself was all she had.)

Once upon a time, there was a heap who had been a winged creature but now discovered it was a deer with legs that could run to Away.

The deer ran and ran until it reached a wide river, and then the deer became an otter.

The otter swam and swam until it heard water roar, and then the otter hesitated but didn't care enough to change course.

(An otter went over a waterfall but a girl emerged from the rocky pool below.)

The (wet, shivering, bruised) girl walked and walked until she saw the warm glow of a fire that threatened as much as it beckoned.

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Once upon a time, there was an old man who made monsters and heroes (and magic) out of shadows and light.

While he didn't recognize the girl with the purple-red hair, he never turned away anyone who might recognize themselves in his words.

She sat down — shoulders hunched, eyes darting, well away from the other children — and then he began his story.

Once upon a time, there was a bird of paradise who was born in flame and ended in flame.

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Once upon a time, a bird deer otter girl tried to find Away, but Away was unreachable and she missed her fields and forests and streams (and shadows).

So she went back to the beginning.

With a new face.

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She/he/they/it cycled through many faces. (Sometimes they were human.)

The face on the statue stayed the same.

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Once upon a time, there was a street rat commoner little boy with a wooden sword and a dream. His queen saw an opportunity for change and she took it, but the commoner’s sword killed her just as she finished knighting him.

Once upon a time, a lonely girl monster shapeshifter found someone as hated as she was. For a while she thought they were friends, but like every one of her friends before him, he betrayed her.

Once upon a time, there was a fanatical woman ready to destroy half a Kingdom just to kill an exhausted girl monster shapeshifter who had just decided to live. The shapeshifter was ready to die if she had to, but she remembered a story she once heard by a fire.

Once upon a time, there was a fiery phoenix who saved a Kingdom that hated her, but the phoenix was new at being a phoenix and it took her/him/them/it/Nimona a while to come back from the ashes.

Once upon a time, a street rat knight villain boss person went to his former hideout and found his old sidekick.

Resurrected.

(Or maybe reborn.)

references to The Phoenix Bird by Hans Christian Anderson

cross-posted on AO3

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Share your ideas for possible Goldenheart Week prompts by April 13th!

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Nimona Week Day 7/April 6: Injured, Comic, Freedom

Welcome to the last day of Nimona Week! Today's prompts are Injured, Comic, and Freedom.

Please create and share some new fanworks or recommend existing fics and fanart (including your own)! We'll be reblogging tagged posts.

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