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[aswrittenbyaj]

AU Trope Springo Bingo

hey, wassup, hello.

so, i don't really expect anyone to find this challenge, let alone join it. this was a fun little bingo event i created for myself to motivate me to get back into the groove of writing on a consistent basis, but i figured since i planned on posting my fics here, i might as well post the challenge as well.

the goal? reach regular bingo (5 in a row) or a specialty bingo (4 corners, T, X, the cross (both middle rows), or blackout (all squares)).

start date: first day of spring, march 20th

end date: first day of summer, june 21st

rules

honestly, this is a pretty easy and open challenge as its to encourage any and all levels and statuses of writers who are 18+.

○ due to the nature of my blog and its contents, MINORS DNI.

○ you can draw inspiration from any character from any fandom and any AU can be used to fill a square. if you want to theme your board (all smut, all dark, all fluff, all tropes you’ve never written before, your go-to’s, etc), go right head!

○ OC's are fine, but please refrain from writing about real life people. would rather keep everyone comfortable all around.

○ can be any length (blurb, drabble, dialogue, concept, headcanon, full fic, etc.) , but please put a "read more" for pieces over 300 words.

○ each fanwork posted can only claim one square at a time. no double dipping! however, you can absolutely cross-post with other events.

○ the free space is the only space that can be claimed at the same time as another square and it can only be done once. or you can also use it to write for a trope that didn't make it onto your board or to write something else for a trope you've already claimed but are still inspired for.

○ there's no restrictions on the rating level of what you write, but remember to tag everything correctly. (don't just put "dead dove, do not eat." put that and the rest of the content warnings that make it a "dead dove.")

○ anything with underage characters in sexual situations is set for an immediate report and block.

again, this challenge is really for me, but i will be making a masterlist of all the writers participating which you can find here.

tag your challenge posts with #springobingo

[juice-ccfinds]

the week of the 4th my job gave us the entire week off for reasons™ so during that week i’m going to be updating this blog’s theme and work on that tagging system i mentioned a while back lol

[asreadbyaj]

i think i’m gonna make 2 more filtering tags and add them to posts this weekend.

i’m finding that because i “tbr” so many fics, the Black writers and queer stories get lost in the mix 😭

they’ll probably be along the lines of “Black ink” and “rainbow ink” and be added as additional tags

[christliche-kunstwerke]

Verkündigung an Maria by Sandro Botticelli (1489, Gemälde)

[thedrowsydoormouse]

So I’ve been doing a little bit of thinkin’ after the two new episodes of Who about Susan Twist and I had a lightbulb moment I haven’t really seen anyone else talking about just yet.

Spoilers ahead for Wild Blue Yonder, Church on Ruby Road, Space Babies, and the Devil’s Chord. Ok, onto the theory!

We all know Susan Twist is going to be more than just an Easter Egg, but I think everyone is taking the actress’s name too literally. She’s not playing Susan.

She’s The One Who Waits.

She’s there. Always in the background. On the periphery. Watching. Waiting. Because everything leads back to her.

And the first time we see her is in the scene that has the first major world shift in the episode that set up this entire plotline about invoking superstition at the edge of the universe and letting something through.

And who do we encounter pretty much immediately after? The embodyment of Play (Toymaker). And then a little later in we meet the embodyment of Music (Maestro).

Which raises the next part of my theory: What is The One Who Waits the embodyment of?

Death

Death just sits, and waits, and watches, biding their time because everything has its time and Death comes for everything in the end.

And every time we’ve seen her, things start going really wrong. In WBY, she was one of the last people we saw before the Tardis landed on the spaceship, Donna almost died, and the Doctor almost let a NotWe loose on the universe. In Ruby Road, she’s watching Ruby and her friends perform the same night they nearly get crushed by the giant snowman head. She was one of the crew in Space Babies who were forced to leave the station and abandon all those babies to die. And in Devil’s Chord she was in the cafeteria when Paul and John are talking to the Doctor and Ruby about music before getting angry and leaving which, had the Doctor not intervened, would’ve lead to literal nuclear winter.

I feel like too many people are focusing on just the previous lore from the past 60 years which, for any other context makes sense. But this isn’t your granny’s Doctor Who anymore. The tone shift started in WBY means we need to think outside the Blue Box (that’s bigger on the inside) to figure it all out and for once, I think being into SuperWhoLock may have finally paid off! The NotWes are shapeshifters. The Bogeyman was basically a thought form (tulpa). The literal baby eating, musical goblins. The Toymaker and Maestro are both functionally gods. And which god waits patiently in the background?

Death.

It’s not a perfect 1 to 1 with Supernatural but if you find the midpoint between the two everything starts to click into place.

The final Big Bad of the season is The One Who Waits which is Death and not even the Doctor can fully cheat death, they can just keep running. So in the end the Doctor doesn’t actually defeat Death. He just traps them or delays them enough to get away so he can just keep running.

(Also Mrs. Flood is just a normal human who’s past was changed by the Doctor. In the start of the episode, before the Doctor properly meets Ruby (I don’t count the encounter at the club) she has no clue what the Tardis is. But as soon as the thing happens on the roof her past changed to include an encounter with the Doctor when she was younger (I think it’s going to be the episode with the slug things we’ve seen in the trailers because there’s a girl with blonde bangs in a season where coincidence is the driving force behind everything so it has to mean something) which is why her entire personality shifts by the end and she becomes nicer and suddenly knows about the Tardis and knows that Ruby has to go with the Doctor. She’s not Susan or Ruby’s mom. She’s just someone they save along the way.) 

[catholic-confession-booth-2]

None of you are free of sin.

[drunktuesdays]

The what is glomping post has the same energy as the clearly written by a fresh grad story post I saw on a pop culture insta yesterday that was about the demise of panic at the disco and it said ‘the early 2000s tumblr girl inside us all is hurting.’ Kids these days don’t know about bandom LJ and they don’t know about glomping to everything there is a season turn turn etc etc

crying. for some reason, this immediately put one direction's "they don't know about us" in my head. they don't know about the things we do! they don't know about the 'i love you's!!!!!! tumblr girls know nothing. they know nothing!!!! they don't KNOW about what the bandom girlies lived through. they have no idea about the STALKERS taking pictures of MAILBOXES. the ENDLESS discourse about whether ryan ross was capable of putting it in anyone!! the WAR of passive aggression between the brendon/spencer diehards vs ryan/brendon freequez (complimentary). GOD EARLY 2000S TUMBLR give me a goddamn BREAK. damnyouwentz and fbr_trash and bandflesh and icecreamhdaches was where the culture was BEING MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[born-to-lose]

Bands don't break up on stage anymore like they used to

[losttranslator]

like most Christian movies risen is cheesy and biblically dubious at times and gets loads of cultural stuff wrong for the sake of being recognizable to a primarily American audience but I'll readily admit the poor roman tribune's absolute bafflement at these religious weirdos who keep talking about love and stuff has me cackling unhingedly

Like, is it sound biblical doctrine and is it historical believable? No? Is it hilarious and do I enjoy seeing this random shmuck lose his mind going through what's essentially a very disturbing psychological thriller from his pov while the disciples are overflowing with joy? You bet??

The guy is dealing with horrifyingly decomposed dead bodies trying to find the right cadaver and previously sane soldiers going crazy and dead men being spotted alive and strange supernatural phenomena and angry gods and unexplained madness and religious fanatism spreading like a contagion, and meanwhile the disciples (and Jesus) are all like HELLO BROTHER WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THE BEST NEWS EVER :D :D :D

[inth3world]

GUYS DUDES GALS PEOPLES

THEY CHANGED THE YSA AGE RANGE it's now 18-35

[thebirdandhersong]

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[aswrittenbyaj]

it’s been quiet on the fic writer front, but my hands have been moving!

hoping to post something that’ll catch yall’s eye this weekend (:

currently writing

riri williams x f!reader (loveeeeeee song writing challenge)

emerald haywood x f!reader (bingo - c1)

bucky barnes x f!reader (bingo - c3)

currently outlining

ransom x f!reader (aphrodite's manor challenge)

tommy miller x f!reader (bingo - n1 or g1…can’t decide which it’ll fall under or if it’ll be a two-parter that can stand alone and go for 2 squares…tbd)

bucky barnes x f!reader (alternate june-iverse c2)

[bootyschurchblog]

this is my first genconf with no one to watch it with and it's really sad ):

[causalityparadoxes]

I'm so excited for potential Explosion of Doctor Who Novelisations. I know we've been getting more over the years. But all of the 60th Specials getting novelisations within a week or so of airing?

Church on Ruby Road still being 10 days off and already having an announcement of its upcoming novelisation!?

In a world where scripts are published and advertised like they're real adaptations. Its so cool that we're getting so many honest to god novelisations 😭

I hope this isnt a one off for the 60th. I hope they make one for every episode going forward, or at least series finales! Cause i need more new and fun doctor who books damn it!!

[prankprincess123]

That moment when you're watching President Nelson's closing message in General Conference, and playing 'How many new Temples will he announced this time?' as you do. And he announces one close to your home, or somewhere you care about. And you just gasp/scream/fall-over in shock (losing count!) and have to spend the next several hours trying to stop vibrating and hyperventilating in excitement!

[aphverse-confessions]

Honestly this ask blog is like a Church of Irene and you’re the one manning the confessional booth, hearing about all of the Aarmau/Aaron complaints (the matrons sent her strongest warrior)

Love that in this church I have a billboard with everyone's confessions to broadcast