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[ygobigbang-archive]

The End of an Era

🎉🎉Happy Holidays everyone! We hope you're all having a good start to 2024! 🎉🎉

Unfortunately, we have a sad announcement to make. As much as we've loved running the YGO Big Bang these last 6 years, we've decided that we won't be running the event going forward.

We hope everyone else has had as much fun as we have over these last few years!

We'll be changing all social media to ygobigbang-archive so that if anyone wants to start up their own YGO Big Bang then the usernames will be available. Feel free to reach out to myself (Admin Tachi) or Admin Francie if you'd like any advice and Francie is more than happy to stay on as an assistant mod!

Thank you again to everyone who's taken part at any time during the last six years! We could never have had an event without our amazing participants

[americankestrelprojects]

Art for YGOBB DM03

[cloudsmachinations]

Finally hit 10k on my yugioh bigbang 💪💪💪 these puzzle boys are so in love

[tuesdayinthedas]

A Place To Call Home by @cloudsmachinations

“I can feel it,” Yugi said in an awed whisper. “Your heartbeat.”

Had the absolute pleasure of working on this piece for Cloudmachinations for the @ygobigbang this year, had my little heart doing flips. I hope you have been enjoying the fic, chapter 6 is out today and I absolutely had to draw this scene after I read it.

[aberooski]

Guys obviously I'm a lair. This has turned into so much more than a revision quest.

This is turning into a full on quasi-rewrite.

I'm honestly debating whether it's worth it to update the original posting or upload this as a separate fic because I'm changing and tweaking and polishing so much. I'm even considering adding at least 1 extra chapter.

Y'all are gonna get Sons of The Stars (Abby's version)(from the vault) like this week at this rate aksksks

[ygobigbang]

Much agreed to the other anon who thanked you!

I was actually always offput in the old YGOBB because of the OC unfriendliness and general attitude there regarding.

So the fact that it’s opening up now and this side of fandom (which is not insignificant) is very exciting! And I have already seen making people happy.

I am so sorry some people are being kinda pills about it, but we do really appreciate you guys being willing to include us!

So an extra thank you ❤️ and here’s to a very cool new YGOBB year!✨

Thank you so much! we're doing our best to keep the event inclusive of all kinds of fans.

We cant wait to see what everyone will make!

[thesilverlock]

⟣ ABOUT ⟢

Heya! I’m Blue !

I meme post, make fanart, rarely write, and try to have fun nursing a 12+ Yu-Gi-Oh spinoff obsession asdfhj

My Fanfic Series

My Ko-Fi

Welcome to my zany little ZEXAL blog asdfgh ♡

⟣ GENERAL STUFF ⟢

1.) Please do NOT repost, steal, trace, or do much of anything likewise with my art / fanart / writing. Whether on tumblr or otherwise. Please and thank you.

2.) I didn’t actually have another one for here, so - have a lovely day! ^^

⟣ QUESTIONS ⟢

“Do you take commissions?"

Check my Ko-Fi for availability on Commissions / Character Adoptables!

“Can I make fanart / fanfic / little stuff about your character or ship?"

YES! As long as you send it to me / tag me, and don’t claim the oc/ship as your own ofc, then it is super duper appreciated. I love sweet gifts like that 🥹 ( Just again, please let me know directly when you do! I’ve had one or two odd instances of someone posting materials involving my characters without my consent or knowledge, and it was pretty strange. Asdfgh. )

⟣ COMMON TAGS ⟢

#| blue rambles | º☕︎ - Where I keep my thoughts, random tidbits, questions, or — as it says — rambles! Just your good old ‘ooc’ posts, essentially.

#| saved ✧ | - All reblogs or posts that I want to save, and look back on frequently!

#| my art ♡ | - Pretty self explanatory, this tag denotes that the art and/or doodles on the post belong to me!

#| my oc ❦ | - Anything, art, ask, lore, and any other type of post involving my original character. Usually that's going to be primarily about Jey Cleary / Jei Takara. My main and most beloved son.

#| pierceshipping ✶٭༌ | - My ocXcanon pairing, Jey x No.96! My big OTP. You’ll see everything from art to fics to AUs of these two. I will scream about them at any chance lol ♥︎

#| the haughty prince au | - My current Pierceship AU project, and YGOBB submission for this year (2024). The fic will be out soon, but for now I have some art and lore posts for it!

#| not zexal related ! | - Again, pretty one-to-one description, posts with this tag are not related to zexal! This one is going to be by far the most rare of all the tags afgshj

[eclecticwriting]

DuelingDestiny did this for the YGOBB 2022. I lost the original link, but I have reattached it to the AO3 story! (Warning: Adult Content)

Thanks again to DD for an amazing banner!!!

[shining-band-of-gold]

my first illustration for the 2021 @ygobigbang​ !! it’s for @5cs-fanart-and-misc princess tutu inspired fic, “The Puzzle of his Heart” 💖

please make sure to follow the fic as it gets posted!! it’s really cool!!

[ariasune]

Ryoken’s Little Ponies by @merryfortune​ via @ygobigbang

Dr Kogami is certain of the actuality that there are other worlds. Other dimensions.

An artefact in his possession allures the curiosity of his young son, Ryoken. Using it, Ryoken was able to cross from the Human World into a bright, colourful world of Unicorns and Pegasi and talking horses. There, he makes friends with a small group of colts (and one filly) and cherishes the few hours he was able to spend with them but when he returns home, he finds that his father is on the brink of death. The cause unapparent and at just eight years old, Ryoken's life changes. As he gets older, he becomes more certain that those memories were just dreams and the mundane guess that the paramedics made regarding his father's comatose stasis must be true.

Or at least true enough.

That is, until, he hears a voice call out for him and beg that he return to the magical realm of the Pony World: his friends need him as there is a horrible monster assailing their beloved city, stealing the magic from Ponies. They need him and his Rainbow of Divinity to help them, they're sure of it but Ryoken doesn't know what to think as he tries to return to that magical world again.

I love getting a chance to work with magical girl and my little pony and @merryfortune​ gave me an opportunity for both aaa. I also did some background illustration of King Bohman’s fancy home in chapter 5!

Please make sure to check out the YGO Big Bang Project (ao3) there’s a lot of really incredible fanfictions on there, which I can’t wait to binge >V>

[artsysyd123]

Here it is! My piece for Yugioh Big Bang 2020! An illustration to encapsulate @writelovetomeempress fic of the same name!

 https://archiveofourown.org/works/25835581/chapters/62765575?view_adult=true

 This fic was a lovely read and it really takes you on a journey! Give it a read if you love some spooks, a lot of heartwarming moments, and the cutest doll you’ve ever imagined!

I absolutely loved working on this project and I encourage everyone to check out the tag and the @ygobigbang page to see all the lovely work that has come out of this talented group! It may have been my first year in it, but I am so thankful to have been a part of such a big community! Much love!

Do not repost, this art belongs to me. 

[ygobigbang-archive]

Changes to YGOBB for 2023

Hi everyone! 

As we see the start of 2023, we’re starting to tidy up and get things ready for another year of Big Bang! 

First of all, we have a few changes we’re implementing. 

1 - While we won’t be making it a rule that you MUST join the discord, we will only be contacting people via discord or email in 2023! 

It takes a lot of the mods time to chase people up across multiple platforms and we would rather put that energy into running things smoothly and running fun mini events for our participants! 

2 - While writers MUST have an AO3, artists haven’t had the same rule in place for BB. Going forward we’d like to change that. Artists must now have some form of social media to post the full version of their art on! 

This can be made and used just for Big Bang - it can even be AO3 as it can be used for art! But we would like for all participants to have some sort of social media for posting their own work.

3 - Something else we haven’t ever been strict on is checking in on time. While we ask participants to fill forms in within 24 hours - this is only something we take note of but haven’t necessarily acted on. 

Next year, the time to check in will be longer - 1 week - but unless we’ve been informed beforehand you’ll be late or have a reasonable reason afterwards - we will remove participants after 2 late check-ins. 

4 - Probably our biggest change this year is to do with rough drafts. We heard from some artists that they didn’t receive anything from their writer for most of the drawing period.

Rough drafts have been finished and handed in by this point and all it’s doing is giving your artist less time. Therefore, when handing in your rough draft - this will be handed over to the artist after the first checkpoint if they’ve been given nothing to work with.

5 - We’ve added a couple of new mods to the team so our twitter will be making a comeback this year! So please go ahead and follow us if you use twitter - https://twitter.com/ygobigbang 

(as we hope it doesn’t implode during the event!)

6 - A list of some smaller things we’ve changed:

Writers you MUST credit your artist! Failure to do so after a message to remind you will have you banned from next year's Big Bang. 

A google calendar for all the check-ins

Your fic should ONLY be entered for YGO Big Bang

Using AirTable to display fic summaries that can be claimed

Posting snippets of fic leading up to artist claims

Standardized file name template

Two new mods have joined us! 

[americankestrelprojects]

Art for YGOBB Xover01

[cloudsmachinations]

submitted my first draft for the ygobigbang!!!!!

[miriamdeliriumart]

It’s Here! My official YGO BB piece! 🌟

Check out @ygobigbang for more! 💥🌟🔥

[aberooski]

fanfic asks: 22, 30, 49 💫

Oh yay! Thank you for the asks! 💜

22. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

This is an interesting one because honestly I don't have any specific point in the process where it happens. Titles just kinda find their way to me whenever they want. Sometimes I'm struck with inspiration early on in the writing process or even before I even come up with an idea, but I like the title so much I have to come up with a fic for it, or I'll have a fic completed and be struggling and fighting tooth and nail with my brain to come up with something to call it 🤭 let me pull a few quick examples from my pantheon!

Once Upon A Duelist, that one came super easily to me. Of course that fic being a Sleeping Beauty au, having the play on Once Upon A Dream was pretty simple to think of but I digress, it was an easy one to title.

Sons of The Stars on the other hand, that one I was ruminating and formulating titles for throughout the whole process and getting nowhere for the longest time. Angel's Tears was like that too when I wrote it back in the day. (Tbh in the market for a new title for that one, I used to love it but recently I've liked it a lot less)

And my Final Fantasy XV fic What Goes In. That one was super easy because I took it from a line of dialog that Gladio has in one of the cutscenes that was actually written into the fic.

And Sustained by Hate is the title of a song from Final Fantasy XIII and well the cutscene it plays in in the game is the scene involves a child trying to murder a man because he blames him for his mother's death, so 😬 but the title was very relevant because the only thing keeping Camula's soul together and keeping her from being assimilated into oblivion was her hatred of Jaden and desire for revenge, so she was quite literally sustained by hate. I actually borrowed or was inspired by a lot of titles from that game's songs and story chapters for the chapters in the fic too aksksk

I take a lot of inspiration from songs for both fic titles and chapter titles, ever since I was a kid writing shitty fics in actual physical journals. But I also sometimes just try to think of something relevant from my own brain aksksk

So yeah they just kinda find me whenever they want to, I don't really have any specific point in time where I come up with titles. But that honestly can be the hardest part of the entire process for me if they don't come to me early on in the process.

30. How much do you edit your fics? Do you edit as you write or wait until you finish the first draft?

This one's easy actually, I usually wait until the end and go back and do it all at once. Mostly because just about every fic I've written in the last like 5 years has been for the YGOBB so I've been writing on a time crunch for a long time and I'm a slow writer so I never had the time to spend editing as I go. I'd wait until the rough draft was done and turned in and then go back and edit after.

Now I've been going back and even editing and revising those fics again because honestly I don't think I did a very good job the first time. But I'm less horrified when I read my old fics now so that's good 😭

I do find myself going back and editing as I go more now than I used to, especially since I'm stepping back from YGOBB this year and taking a break from that. Love the event, but I think all my fics have suffered from the time crunch and I always burn out having to push myself to pump out my fics so yeah need that break.

But generally I do write a fic all the way out before I'll start editing so I can focus on one thing at a time. Get the foundation first and then build upon it. 👍

49. What fic of yours would you say is the best introduction to you as a writer?

Oh boy this one's actually a very hard question for me 😅

When I think about it I'm kinda tempted to say Sustained by Hate (abby's version)(from the vault)

It's a multi chapter fic which is my forte, it's in universe which I don't often do in my long fics, the concept is entirely plausible with Camula being brought back and wanting revenge for her defeat, it works in a lot of my little touches and portrayals of the characters

Dad Crowler, Hassleberry’s leg being an issue for him a lot, Alexis being protective of Atticus like to the max, Jaden going out of his way to try and protect the squad but specifically Sy, Bastion playing the role of team mom, Chazz and Atty's relationship period, and you even get some of my quirks and inner workings of my mind with Mrs. Rhodes and Mrs. Princeton hanging out on the sidelines

Also the blatant, very thinly veiled Little Mermaid reference of a plotline..... I mean c'mon the chapter is literally called Poor, Unfortunate Soul 😭

I also actually wrote a duel and that was really hard and I'm very proud of myself and everyone should be impressed 😭

Anyways that one is very me, there's so much in that fic that's very authentic to me and I think it's probably the best intro to me and my writing in terms of the long fics.

One shots, Salt In The Wound. No question. Maybe when I go back and edit that one A Friend In Need would be good too, and Traffic Lights is pretty good but again SITW is so authentically me as a Syrus stan/kin who has major beef with Zane.

I'd love to say OUAD, you know I would. But that's my magnum opus man, if that's your introduction you've set the bar pretty damn high 😭

And Sons of The Stars, as much as I demand everyone in the universe read it because I worked harder on that fic than anything I've ever written in my life, that is NOT a starter fic. It's 136k. And a whole ass built from the ground up au. And honestly draws on a lot of stuff in season 3 and there's a couple subtle nods to other works in it so it's not a starter at all. That's one to read after you've read a couple aksksk

So yeah, if you want a quality starter fic, Sustained by Hate is probably the way to go I think.

Angel's Tears or What Goes In wouldn’t be bad either if you wanted to see the progression of my work from high school to now. Even with the revisions I've done to both of those fics in the last couple months, in my opinion you can still tell I originally wrote them when I was like 18 years old.

But I legitimately think Sustained by Hate and Salt In The Wound would probably the best options depending on which length of fics you like to read.

Thanks again for the asks, these are so fun!!

☆ Abby ☆