#schedule 2025

[crowleybigbang]

The Crowley Reverse Bang is returning!

We know you did.

So, let's give you what you want: ARTISTS SIGN-UPS OPEN TOMORROW!

Here's the schedule:

Jan 10th 2025 - Artists Sign Up open.

Feb 2nd - Artists Sign Up close.

Feb. 16th - Artists Check-In

Feb 17th - Author Sign Up Opens

Feb 23rd - Art Submissions Due (50% draft at the very least)

March 2nd - Author Sign Up Close

March 5th - Art Pieces Due (75% draft at lest)

March 8th - CLAIMS

March 21st - Team Check In #1

April 4th - Writers Check In

April 18th - Team Check In #2 (& dates claims)

May 3rd - Posting Begins

And here are our general rules:

Whether you’re an artist, author, beta, or mod, we expect you to be respectful of other participants and your teammate.

Anyone who was banned from the previous round cannot participate. Disappearing on a teammate and the mods is rude!

You must be an adult to participate. Sorry, it's just easier to handle. We plan to stay here for a while, though, so don't worry. If you're turning 18 during the schedule, hit us up and we'll talk about your participation!

Respect your deadlines, including submissions, check-ins, messages from your teammate or from the mods.

Check-ins are COMPULSORY. You will have between 48 and 72 hours to complete them. While an extension can be requested, missing them will result in a ban - and good luck explaining this to your team mate.

Deadlines are flexible with enough notice. Fandom is meant for fun and sometimes real life gets in the way of our creative fan works. Be considerate of your teammate in this regard as well: make sure to communicate with them about their workload, timezone and time availability. 

Reach out to mods when an issue comes up - we are here to help you. 

If you have limited internet connection, such as relying on libraries/offices or cafes and need extra time to respond, please let the mods know that upon signing up, so we can make a note of that.

No AI creations allowed.

Links to the forms coming tomorrow!

[superfambigbang]

Bang Beginnings (April - May - June)

April 19th: sign-ups open

June 1st: sign-ups close

June 14th: Authors - soft check-in #1

Check-ins and Match-ups (July - August - September):

August 2nd: Authors - soft check-in #2

September 20th-21st: Authors - hard check in #1. 10k minimum + summary document released for Artist review

September 21st-27th: Artists - summary document and project preference submission

September 28th: Artist/Author match-ups

Check-in two-fold (October - November - December)

October 18th-19th: Author soft check-in #3 and Artist check-in #1 (sketches)

November 1st: Superbang wrimo event (not mandatory) 350 words/day (10,500  total)

November 30th: Superbang wrimo finalisation / Artist check-in #2 (lineart / sketches chosen and in progress)

Finalisation, Posting, and pinch-hits (January - February - March)

January 5th: Final check-in

February 7th: Posting dates organised and pinch hits identified

February 7th-14th: pinch hitters organised and paired

February 28th - March 31st: posting

[mx-zone]

La SuperMotocross League presenta el calendario de la temporada regular de 2025 con los campeonatos Monster Energy Supercross y Pro Motocross. Un regreso muy esperado a Pittsburgh mientras continúa la inversión en el noreste .Los lugares más históricos del motocross estadounidense se preparan para la 54.ª temporada de motocross profesional Feld Motor Sports, Inc. y MX Sports Pro Racing, Inc.…

[werepires]

Happy 2025 everyone 🥂

[teeterarting]

Explorers of Sky AMV!! (the humblest of WIPs)

[homefuckuserboxes]

{This user is still in this godforsaken fandom in the year of 2025.}

[mariacallous]

I am going to make it through that administration if it kills me.

[starflungwaddledee]

🎉wishing you happiness for the holidays, and all the best for a brand new year! 🎀

pulled some mutuals names out of a hat, and drew as many gifts as i could before 2025 hit! here's starstruck spreading a little cheer with her friends; hope you all enjoy! credits under the cut!

characters in order, by row. some have slightly tweaked outfits from their usual to match the festive vibes!

@kamalemons's pink lemonade driblee, @what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me's sir meteor, @aseuki's phemus // @deafeninggardenerpanda's remi dee, @jojo-schmo's elfilis // @das-a-kirby-blog's graffi dee, @eliastheownerof0axolotls's flower waddle dee // and of course @moonverc3x's J bringing a little festive sparkle!

[boytransmission]

little pout

$app + top surgery fund + wishlist

[darkcreamz95]

Happy birthday to the one professional bedroom multi-instrumentalist who's also secretly a model...

... and happy 2025! 🎉

[todayintokyo]

Good luck, health and happiness to all in the year of the snake!

[alwaysbewoke]

x

[yardsards]

anyway i just find it Interesting how saying "i prefer these two as a platonic pairing" is often considered to be hating on a romantic interpretation of the pair. but saying "i prefer these two as a romantic pairing" is not seen as hating on a platonic interpretation of the pair. almost like fandom as a whole still sees platonic relationships as lesser than romantic relationships. almost like too many fans still think that platonic relationships can't be worth caring about in their own right. almost like fandom tends to be full of amatonormativity.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Andrew Prokop at Vox:

Former President Donald Trump has lately been trying to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming it was cooked up by the “severe right” and that he doesn’t know anything about it. But it turns out the severe right is coming from inside the house. Kevin Roberts, the self-proclaimed ���head” of Project 2025, has a book coming out in September — and the book’s foreword is written by Trump’s vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, who lavishly praises its ideas. “Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism,” Vance writes, according to the book’s Amazon page. “We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”

What ideas? Like Vance, Roberts is obsessed with the idea that the left controls major American institutions — he lists Ivy League colleges, the FBI, the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education and even the Boy Scouts of America. The book argues that “conservatives need to burn down” these institutions if “we’re to preserve the American way of life.” (Vox has requested a copy of the book, but has not yet received one at the time of this writing.) Obviously, this poses a problem for Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the virally unpopular Project 2025 and its lengthy agenda for what he should do if he wins, which includes proposals to restrict abortion access and centralize executive power in the presidency.

And it’s one more indication that Trump’s pick of Vance might be politically problematic for him. Vance has a fascination with provocative and extreme far-right thinkers, and a history of praising their ideas. He is not a running mate tailored to win over swing voters who are concerned Trump might be too extreme — quite the opposite. The book was written and announced before Vance was chosen as Trump’s running mate. But there’s some indication that people involved had some late second thoughts about it. It was originally announced as “Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America,” with a cover image showing a match over the word “Washington.”

More recently, though, the subtitle has been changed to “Taking Back Washington to Save America,” and the match has vanished from the cover.

[...]

Vance agrees quite a bit with Project 2025’s most extreme ideas

Project 2025 contains a multitude of proposals in its 922-page plan, not all of which J.D. Vance necessarily supports. But he’s on record backing ideas similar to those put forth in two of Project 2025’s most controversial issue areas. The first is abortion. Project 2025 lays out a sweeping agenda by which the next president could use federal power to prevent abortions, including using an old law called the Comstock Act to prosecute people who mail abortion pills, and working to prevent women from abortion-banning states from traveling out of state to get abortions.

Vance is on record supporting these ideas. Last year, he signed a letter demanding that the Justice Department prosecute physicians and pharmacists “who break the Federal mail-order abortion laws.” In 2022, he said he was “sympathetic” to the idea that the federal government should stop efforts to help women traveling out of their states to get abortions. That year, he also said: “I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally.” At other points, Vance has struck a different tone. ““We have to accept that people do not want blanket abortion bans,” he said last December. And this month he said he supported a Supreme Court decision that allowed the abortion bill mifepristone to remain available. Here, Vance is trying to align with Trump, who — fearing political blowback — argues he merely wants abortion to be a state issue, despite his long alliance with the religious right. But Vance’s record implies his true agenda might be otherwise.

The second controversial area where Vance is sympatico with Project 2025 is centralizing presidential power over the executive branch. The project lays out various proposals to rein in what conservatives view as an out-of-control “deep state” bureaucracy — mainly, by firing far more career civil servants and installing far more political appointees throughout the government. Vance, as I wrote last week, has backed a maximalist version of this agenda. In 2021, Vance said that in Trump’s second term, Trump should “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” The courts would try to stop this, Vance continued, and Trump should then “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did, and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”

While Donald Trump is doing his darndest to supposedly run away from the highly unpopular Project 2025, his ticketmate J.D. Vance is making that proposition difficult to impossible.

See Also:

HuffPost: There’s Another Link Between Trump’s Campaign And Project 2025

[checkadii]

alienation, tolerance, incorrigible

[bhaal-battle-beer-bard]

New Year's Resolutions / Affirmations

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