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Who's up watching their boulder roll down again

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im so enamored with stories that portray love as something soft and kind because i do think that love at its core is an act of kindness. its part of the reason i prefer the idea of growing into love instead of falling in love because when i think of growing into love i think of a garden, like love is something to cultivate, to tend to daily, a steady progression of growth with some setbacks, a few dying leaves here and there, having to move to a bigger pot and a spot with more sunshine, but it’s still something that at the end of the month, or a year, or a decade, or a lifetime you can look at and see the product of your dedication, see exactly what it means to pour your heart into something. i just! love reading about kind love!

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If anyone is interested in being beta or artist (we pretty much accept any type of art) we’ve extended sign ups!

Sign-ups Reopened!

Hey friends!! We are reopening signups from today, 7/30, until August 6th!

These signups are restricted to betas & artists, so if you missed our first round, no worries!

Signup with this form here! We're super excited to have you!

https://forms.gle/Q2XtQRxRE2hy7mtM8

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Baby bear catching snowflakes

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i like thinking about things critically but i also like not giving a fuck too so you can imagine the kind of stress i am under

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this is a message for everyone who is 22. if you’re 22 please stop worrying. take a deep breath eat a bagel maybe. everything that feels impossible is going to work itself out. have a great day

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“this is the hill you want to die on?” oh no i just love arguing. i fully intend to leave this hill once it gets boring. sorry for the confusion!

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ok bored of being alone now. ready to get married

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In the Twilight universe, “vegetarian” vampires have golden eyes from drinking animal blood, a more ethical source than human blood, which would give them red eyes. It has also been established that a diet of human blood makes vampires physically stronger. So, if the Cullens wanted to become stronger without jeopardizing their morals, could they consume mosquitoes instead? How many mosquitoes would they have to eat to survive? Since mosquitoes drink from both humans and animals, what color would their eyes be? Orange? In this essay, I will

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when i watch old movies i’m constantly surprised by how much acting has improved. not that the acting in the classics is bad, it’s just often kind of artificial? it’s acting-y. it’s like stage acting.

it took some decades for the arts of acting and filmmaking to catch up to the potential that was in movies all along; stuff like microexpressions and silences and eyes, oh man people are SO much better at acting with their eyes than they were in the 40′s, or even the 70′s.

the performances we take for granted in adventure movies and comedies now would’ve blown the critics’ socks off in the days of ‘casablanca’.

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there is a tendency with history, i think, because we're so far removed from it, to kind of forget that all of the people were people

a child 10,000 years ago left a handprint on a wall. they were fingerpainting. a viking climbs up a rock just to carve the words "this is very high" 10ft off the ground. somebody centuries... milennia... ago burned their dinner so thoroughly that they buried the ruined pot in the backyard rather than attempt to clean it. shakespeare got drunk and wrote dick jokes. tutankhamun was a little boy who liked ducks more than anything. a roman carves his name into a monument in another country saying "i was here". a prisoner, centuries ago, in the tower of london scratches lines into the wall as a tally marking the days. a medieval monk scrawls in the margins bemoaning the boredom of his work.

every human being across history has said "i was here. i lived. i loved. i made something. i laughed. i cried. please do not forget me"

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We’re especially looking for betas and artists if anyone is interested!

We've extended sign-ups!

sign-ups will now be open through the weekend! if you're considering signing up, you now have a few extra days!

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life really is about being 13 and ridiculously into percy jackson books. after that whatever idk

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gay😳irl

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SIGN-UPS ARE OPEN!

if you want to participate in this year's PJO/HOO Big Bang, please fill out this form:

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It is liiiive 🤩

SIGN-UPS ARE OPEN!

if you want to participate in this year's PJO/HOO Big Bang, please fill out this form:

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2021 Schedule!

Hello friends! As signups are about to open, here's our schedule for this year's bang!

July 1-9th: SIGNUPS ARE OPEN

Signups for our WRITER, ARTIST, and BETA positions are open! If you're interested in participating this year, this is the time to join up!

July 14th: SYNOPSES DUE

This is a note for WRITERS - if your synopsis is not submitted by midnight est on July 14th, you'll be dropped from the bang! Synopses will all be submitted via a form that will be available through the discord.

July 15th:  BIG BANG OFFICIALLY BEGINS

ARTISTS and BETAS will have the entire day to view the synopsis document before claiming happens.

July 16-18th: CLAIMING PROCESS STARTS

At noon est on July 16th, claiming will begin. ARTISTS and BETAS will decide which fics they would like to work with, and they'll be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis. Everyone will have access to the doc, so you'll know your team immediately!

July 18th: LAST DAY TO CLAIM FICS

July 23th: FIRST CHECK-IN & CONTACT GROUPS

As your teams are created, we will add you to channels within the discord for your group. You MUST talk in that channel by this date, or we will assume you have dropped.

This is also our first checkin - WRITERS, you should have 1.25k written for oneshots and 2.25k for multichaps. We will have checkin channels set up in the discord server.

July 30th: 2nd MILESTONE

WRITERS: try to reach 2.5k if you’re doing a one-shot and 4.5k if you’re doing multi-chaptered.

ARTISTS: show your group some sketches, an outline, to let them know how far you’ve gotten and if you need to know anything new. If you’re having any trouble, please contact mods.

August 6th: 3rd MILESTONE

WRITERS: try to have 3.75k and 6.75k for one-shots and multi-chaptered fics respectively written so you can have room to edit.

ARTISTS: you should have a good idea of all the scenes/info. you’re planning to use, start outlining/sketching if you haven’t.

Let the mods know if you feel you’re really behind or are having any issues.

August 13th: 4th MILESTONE AND MIDWAY CHECK IN

HALF WAY THERE, WOOHOO!

WRITERS: Try to have 5k and 9k written (one-shot and multi-chaptered respectively), you should have a good idea of how you want things to end and should be talking with you betas about how to tie everything together.

ARTISTS: if you’re doing more than one piece try to have one of them pretty much ready so you have time to work on the other. Let your writer know if you need more info. than what they’ve given you thus far.

BETAS: if you have not received a doc by this date, let the mods know.

EVERYONE: if you are considering dropping from the bang, please let us know by this date. There will be no consequences for dropping before now, so long as you alert a mod, but dropping after this date may result in us leaving you to the harpies. There's a curfew.

August 20th: 5th MILESTONE

WRITERS: we expect one-shots to be around 6.25k and multi-chaps to have 11.25k.

August 27th: 6th MILESTONE

WRITERS: 7.5k from oneshots and 13.5k from multichaps. We're coming up on the end!

ARTISTS & BETAS: be in communication with your group.

September 3rd: 7th MILESTONE

WRITERS: aim for reaching the min by this point, 8k for oneshots and 15k for multichaps. We low-balled it with the mins so we know a lot of you are going to go higher. If not, it’s okay if you haven’t reached the min yet, just do your best to give yourself time to go back to any scenes you’re not to sure about or add anything you feel needs adding.

ARTISTS: be in constant connection with your group. If you are going to add any last minute pieces, now’s the time.

September 10th: LAST MILESTONE

WRITERS, you should be pretty much finished by this point. Use this week to edit and add the finishing touches.

ARTISTS, same goes for you. Let the mods know if you feel you’re REALLY behind (we’ll keep it in mind so we know to assign you the latest possible posting day)

September 17th: END OF BIG BANG CONTENT CREATION

September 18th: POSTING DAYS ASSIGNED

Based on what we’ve heard back from y'all, we’ll assign you a posting day (Mon-Sun the following week) and time. We’ll do our best to give the latest posting dates to those that, for whatever circumstance, fell behind. So if you feel you’re good to go, let us know you’re up for being the first to post).

September 20th: START OF POSTING WEEK

September 26th: END OF POSTING WEEK AND PJO/HOO BIG BANG 2020