#mod cal

[mcyt-soulmate-sweepstakes]

MCYTBLR SOULSWEEP SIGN-UPS ARE LIVE!!!

The MCYTblr Soulmate Sweepstakes' sign-ups are now live!! You can access them below. These sign-ups will be open until February 1st, so make sure to sign up before then!! If you have any questions, please forward them to our inbox or shoot us a message on the Discord server!

Below is the general participation sign-up and the pinch-hitter sign-up, respectively! Please only sign up for one.

@mcytblrsource

[12thperigeeball]

Remember folks!

Let's keep the voting fun and clean for everyone involved! I want to make a gentle reminder for the community that we do not tolerate any sort of malicious competitiveness over what is a fun little event on the internet.

So please keep this in mind while sharing your posts and talking about your nominees!

You may encourage people to vote, but you are not allowed to tell them who to vote for.

Campaigning, influencing, or begging for votes even indirectly is not allowed.

Discouraging users to vote for who THEY want to, or causing harm to voters is not allowed.

Refusing to listen to ball moderators when we attempt to correct your action can lead to punishment or disqualification - or in the worst case scenario, permanent bans from the ball contests.

Please enjoy yourselves and make sure everyone around you can also enjoy themselves! We want to make sure everyone who participates, who nominates, and eventually whoever wins will be able to fully enjoy the sensation of being crowned for the whole community to see!

Thank you guys and good luck!

[todoizuocha-week]

It's Time! Welcome to TodoIzuOcha Week 2024!

After some planning behind the scenes (and Mod Cal dealing with carpal tunnel), we've finally set everything up for this year's TodoIzuOcha Week! It will take place from May 13th to May 19th to ensure that everyone has enough time to create and celebrate!

Our rule post will be coming out in the next few days. But as a refresher, make sure to properly tag for any blood or gore, try to keep things sfw, and tag your manga spoilers if there are any! Remember to use the tag #todoizuochaweek2024 in the first few tags of your post and tag us at @todoizuocha-week so that we don't miss your creations! Please try to include in the description what prompt(s) you're using!

Onto the prompts! Like last year, there are two AU options and two concept/idea options! Feel free to use as many or as few prompts as you want; they're not required! They're simply guides to help you get started!

Day 1, May 13th: Fantasy AU, Villain AU, Reflection, Bloom

Day 2, May 14th: Childhood Friends AU, Actor AU, Identity, Nostalgia

Day 3, May 15th: No Quirk AU, Pirate AU, Sanctuary, Revolution

Day 4, May 16th: Cyberpunk AU, Vigilante AU, Kryptonite, Savior

Day 5, May 17th: Steampunk AU, Supernatural AU, Ascension, Eclipse

Day 6, May 18th: Soulmate AU, Space Opera AU, Compass, Legends

Day 7, May 19th: Animal AU, Free Choice AU, Gift, Journey

We hope to see everyone participate, and we look forward to sharing the love of this ship!

[art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament]

You haven’t posted in a few days, is everything okay?

first of all, i want to thank you so much for the concern!!! i think we… forgot to post about this? that’s probably my fault because i think i meant to and then Got Busy.

but we are all doing well!! we decided to take a one week break and wait for the round one polls to finish up before posting round two. additionally, one of our mods left the team due to scheduling conflicts, so we wanted to give mod m some time to finish up the graphics.

on that topic—i’d like to give a massive thank you to mod m for helping run this event so far!!! she’s the one who’s been doing the graphics, as well as creating the draft polls for us to edit onto. she also wrote a vast majority of the bios, and helped put in the initial process of cataloging the submitted pieces.

your regularly scheduled polls should be returning very soon! we’ve just unfortunately gotten busy :(

[onesmalldreamaskblog]

Heya, Horror. What's your favorite dish to make? Or if you can't pick just one, what's your top three?

"Mmmm . . . . soup. Simple and . . . good . . . for the soul . . ."

"Do you like hugs too?"

"Mmhmm . . . also good . . for the soul . . ."

(@firedrakegirl)

[seamstress-kin-stop]

nice ! alr then, how about a aesthetic with retro horror (mainly pixelated, like squirrel stapler or the witch of sherdorne forest (puppet combo is also a good example), glitches, and eye / teeth imagery ?

make it as spooky as you want !

have a night day / night

He he horror board.

Hopefully you like this! it was very nice to do on my break at work lmao!!

[listen-to-cassandra]

OH :D

[sprite-drinking-calista]

heyyo! I made an riordanverse oc sideblog @gay-emo-child-of-apollo and while I don't know u super well I'm just tryna interact with other pjo/riordanverse ocs lol

[[Mod Cal: Hell yeah! This Oc looks sick!! ]]

[animatedjen]

so @stealingpotatoes drew Trilla with a bogling and I couldn't resist

[flammabel]

❤️Cal Kestis - Jedi Survivor❤️

I am in love 🥰

[mcyt-soulmate-sweepstakes]

SOUL SEARCHING: Challenge One

Hey everyone! We are about one week off from the beginning of the first challenge, so Mod Cal is here to give everyone a biiiiiig overhaul of the rules and gameplay! The first challenge is called Soul Searching, and begins on February 14th AKA Valentine’s Day. Gameplay description is underneath the cut—look out, because it’s long. Mod Cal apologises in advance. 

1 - OPENING

Every player will receive their prompt privately by one of the mods through the Discord server! You will receive three things; your prompt, the fandoms that you and your soulmate share, and any characters that you or your soulmate specified in the sign-up form. You will not know who your soulmate is. The goal of the first challenge is to guess who they are! 

If you are a writer, your soulmate will be an artist and vice versa! 

2 - CREATION ROUNDS

For this challenge, there are three total rounds. Because the challenge is exactly three weeks long, each round will last for one week (seven days). You will receive a new prompt at the start of each round, totaling out to three prompts for this challenge! (There will be opportunities to create extra works if you want!)

With your prompt, you will create one piece that conveys the prompt to the best of your ability. There is no minimum level of completion for these works! You can submit a sketch or a fully rendered portrait, as long as the prompt is there; you can write as little or as much as you want, so long as you can convey the prompt!

[WRITERS! If you write more than 1.5k words, you must supply a summary with your work that also conveys the prompt. This is because there are 104 total participants, meaning your soulmate could potentially be looking at 52 different fics to read through! While we do not have a maximum word count, we do require summaries in order to prevent artists from having to do too much work. This summary does not have to be long.]

3 - CHECKPOINTS and SELF-SCORING

At the end of each round, there will be a checkpoint! Players will post their work to Tumblr and/or AO3 and submit the link to that post within the Discord server. There will be specified channels for fandoms! 

[ARTISTS: You may post just the image as well, for visibility, but we encourage you to post to Tumblr! ]

Along with your submission, you should include a self-scored point sheet! This will look different for writers and artists. The self-score should be in your submission message! 

SELF-SCORING GUIDE: [link]

4 - GUESSING YOUR SOULMATE

Participants are searching for the person who A) created with the opposite medium as them (ie; writers will search for artists), B) created with the same prompt as them, and C) created in their overlapping fandoms!

[Overlapping fandoms refers to the fandoms that you are your soulmate share. This information will be provided upon the start of the event!]

You can guess your soulmate from the moment of posting up to the next checkpoint. For example, if we have just finished Round One and you are looking through art pieces to find your soulmate, you can wait to submit your guess all the way until Round Two finishes. There is no particular reason for this; it is just to provide more time to look at every piece!

However, you can only submit one guess per round! The mods will verify that you are locking in your answer and will let you know if you are right or wrong, but please keep the information to yourself if you got it wrong; don’t say it publicly! 

If you guess correctly, you may seek out your soulmate and let them know. Only one half of the pair has to guess correctly! 

You will submit guesses through the ticket function in the Discord server. 

5 - BONUSES and COMPLETION

If you guess correctly before the challenge is up (ie; before Round Three), you and your soulmate may decide to access the Overflow Prompts and create extra pieces to earn more points! This does not have to be a joint decision; one of you might decide to write a couple drabbles to earn more points, and the other might choose to rest their hands for the next challenge!

The Overflow Prompts will open publicly and will be different from the given prompts. Multiple people can choose the same prompt. You are not required to make extra pieces once you finish the challenge!

Once you finish the challenge and find your soulmate, you may start planning for Challenge Three (Two to Tango) if you like! We encourage open communication between the pairs, but do ask that you not discuss your pieces for Challenge Two (when we get there). Be friends! This is your government-assigned bestie!

6 - CLOSING

At the end of Soul Searching, all players should know who their soulmate is. If they have not guessed by that point, the Cupids will bring the pairs together! Each pair will have their own Discord channel to communicate in. 

There will be a one week break between each challenge to allow the mods to double-check points, fix things in the background, and prepare for the next challenge! There is no creation during this period, and any extra works submitted after Soul Searching closes will not be counted for points. This is to encourage players to take a break!! We will not tally points for works made during the break!! Please rest!

If there are any questions, please forward them to our Tumblr inbox or send a message in the Discord server! We will answer as fast as we can. ♥️

[12thperigeeball]

god help me that i'm quick enough to edit the polls with the links to their sister polls before everyone starts reblogging them.

[todoizuocha-week]

Welcome to TodoIzuOcha Week 2023!

It’s back again! This year’s TodoIzuOcha week will take place from May 1st to May 7th! Thank you to everyone who filled out the Interest Check to help plan the event!

We will be using the same rules from past weeks, with a refresher post coming soon. We also ask that you use #todoizuochaweek2023 in the first five tags of your post in addition to tagging us at @todoizuocha-week so we don’t miss your amazing work! Please try to include what prompt(s) you’re including within your post!

Onto this years prompts! Feel free to use as many or as little as you want; they are not required to use! They simply are guides to help celebrate this relationship!

Day 1, May 1st: Fantasy AU, Coffee Shop AU, New Beginnings, Celestial

Day 2, May 2nd: Cyberpunk AU, Villain AU, Rescue, Cage

Day 3, May 3rd: No Quirk AU, Quirkswap AU, Domestic, Discovery

Day 4, May 4th: Childhood Friends AU, Crossover AU, Eternity, Divergence

Day 5, May 5th: Soulmates AU, Angel/Demon AU, Shelter, Escape

Day 6, May 6th: Mythology/Gods AU, Magical Girl AU, Shared Bonds, Secrets

Day 7, May 7th: Supernatural AU, Free AU, Legacy, Home

[art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament]

After this tournament ends, will there be a second season of it? Or will you run a new tournament? Or is it more of a one and done deal?

We got a question like this that we answered back on August 5th.

I do think the answer might have changed a little bit since then; Mod M has had to mostly drop out of helping due to other commitments, and Mod Salix is getting super burnt out from trying to keep track of everything AND juggle real life, so neither of us could really help with a second one.

if we were to run another one (which is unlikely, but there is a possibility), it would be much smaller than this bracket. the thing is, this poll has been massive. it's been long. it's still going. things are in the air, so what i can tell you is that there's a very high chance it's not happening again. there's a lot of hypotheticals that i'm not going to get into here, but suffice to say if there is another one that it'll be smaller than this bracket is.

Mod Cal would also like to say something about this bracket as a whole, since we've been getting (and hoarding) a lot of asks thanking us for hosting this tournament;

this bracket has been astounding to see all the people being introduced to pieces of art they've never seen before in their lives. we read all the notes, and there have been so many of people saying that they'll never be the same again, or how they rushed to save a piece of art to their phone, or people sharing just how much a single piece of art can change a life.

i think that, in a way, this bracket is almost a form of art itself. it's a public piece, contributed by hundreds of different online users. it's a collage of our experiences and our joy and our grief and our anger and all those emotions you could never define. this bracket was made to push the boundaries of art, and i'm glad that some people have felt that they now have a new perspective on it.

in summary, this blog will be left up as an archive. it's unlikely that another bracket will be created, but if it is, it will be made with another blog, not using this same sideblog.

i think the plan after this tournament finishes is to have a queue set up where we reblog art onto here for people to be able to see, since we have amassed a fairly large following from the polls and also it's a nice touch to round it all off.

[onesmalldreamaskblog]

Hey Killer >:]

Has there ever been a time when you had to read a bedtime story to pipsqueak (Dream)? I'm sure Cross or Nightmare or anyone would be pleased if you took their place for the night. If not, did you ever play pretend with him?

*Killer crosses his arms and turns his head, but the soft blush is still visible*

"Psh- what? 'A course not, whaddya think I am, his babysitter?"

*Cal slides up next to him*

"So you don't remember that time when Dream asked you to read to him and you said no, so he climbed into your bed beside you and begged you to read until you caved and-"

"-nO! Shut up! You don't know what you're talking about!"

[seamstress-kin-stop]

Everyone wish us a happy bodily birthday 🔫