FRATTENTINE'S WEEKEND !

Fandom-Free Bingo - Madness May!

Please Note. Following implications of the behaviour of a certain previously-credible author and its affect on the queer community, we will no longer be reblogging fills from within the Harry Potter fandom. We never wanted to make this a political environment, but this has gone beyond politics. The money raised by this woman through HP is actively going into fighting against the rights of trans folks, and we refuse to support anything to do with her. While I understand this may be upsetting to some, the mod team here is entirely under the trans* spectrum, and we would rather not have to engage with anything to do with her. Trans rights are human rights.

Note: From the end of April, we will no longer be reblogging fills from Pride Edition Cards. The AO3 collection will remain open indefinitely, however, and any Tumblr post that fills Pride or earlier prompts and any prompt from a later edition will still be reblogged on those grounds. This means that posts covering exclusively Pride prompts or earlier will no longer be reblogged <3 

Now, on to May! In honour of mental health awareness month, it's time to show your inner crazy. As always, this is a good-faith event, and individual experiences are subjective when they feed into our works. With that in mind, however, any fills explicitly hating on certain disorders or those who struggle with them will not be reblogged. With that in mind, please welcome Madness May!

- Turnaround time is hopefully no longer than a week. If you've been waiting longer than this, please feel free to reach out!

- Feel free to interpret the prompts however you wish - the world is your oyster! <3 Note: Terms with a stereotypically applied gender (e.g 'Princess', 'king') are not gender-restricted! Some things are just hard to make gender-neutral, especially in limited space. Gimmie those boy princesses and nb kings to your hearts content. <3  

- No restriction to one prompt per fic/chapter.  

- You can merge this event with others, so long as the other event permits this.  

- Please mark rating clearly, and use CW where applicable. Posts not adequately marked will not be reblogged. We love you folks, and all the work you produce, but we get a lot of reblogs and have lives outside the event - we don't always have the time to be chasing down ratings or fandoms ;-;

- Use the tags #FandomFreeBingo and #Fandom Free Bingo: Madness May, and tag @fandom-free-bingo on tumblr for a reblog - don't forget to also add in the pairing/characters, rating, the fandom and the warnings in the tags please <3  

- Madness May sign ups will run until May 31st, 2025. Feel free to post after this date, however - works will be reblogged until April 30th, 2026, and the Ao3 collection will be open indefinitely.  

- A maximum of FOUR cards per participant. 

- This season we are offering BOTH 5x5 and 3x3 cards - please let us know which you would like!    

- All media forms, fandoms and original works are welcome!  

- You can request square changes twice (of any number), for up to a week after the card is issued.  

- Be respectful to other participants.

- Be kind to us!  

- Ao3 collection can be found here!

We also have a Discord!

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Stats Tag

Okay, we're on a roll here, apparently. Thanks to the wonderful @0nelittlebirdtoldme for tagging me <3

Rules: Give us the links to your fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and least words.

Most hits: The sound and the colors of Leaves. Part one in my half finished Series following Matt and Clint through all four seasons and on Clint's journey to be accepted as a Deaf Team Member. Stats: Words: 2 467, Comments: 12, Kudos: 232, Bookmarks: 13, Hits: 1 930, Kudos/Hits: 12.02% (Followed by The Reporter and The Lawyer - The Devil and the Protector [Explicit] Stats: Words: 3 112, Chapters: 3/3, Comments: 6, Kudos: 111, Bookmarks: 2, Hits: 1 647, Kudos/Hits:6.74% )

Most kudos: Also Sound and Colors of Leaves (Followed by Couch already taken Stats: Words: 2 289, Comments: 2, Kudos: 167, Bookmarks: 10, Hits: 1 101, Kudos/Hits: 15.17% )

Most comments: Building a Relationship The main fic of my ongoing project that shows different way people can experince love. This follows Clint and Matt on their journey of Building a Relationship and all the obstacles they face on the way. Stats: Words: 24 965, Chapters: 11/?, Comments: 63, Kudos: 58, Bookmarks: 6, Hits: 1 201, Kudos/Hits: 4.83% (Followed by The quiet life Stats: Words: 17 941, Chapters: 8/8, Comments: 31, Kudos: 58, Bookmarks: 5, Hits: 970, Kudos/Hits: 5.98%)

Most bookmarks: Sound and Color of Leaves again. (Followed by Couch already taken)

Most words: Building a Relationship, unsurprisingly. (Followed by Safe Place Stats: Words: 20 522, Chapters: 9/9, Comments: 26, Kudos: 41, Bookmarks: 4, Hits: 567, Kudos/Hits: 7.23% )

Least words: Sweater A drabble and a Drawing of Charles stealing Eriks favourite Sweater (Stats: Words: 100, Comments: 5, Kudos: 20, Bookmarks: 1, Hits: 539, Kudos/Hits: 3.71%) and Sweet Pleasure [Explicit] a so far lonely drabble for Masturbation Midsummer (Stats: Words: 100, Comments: 2, Kudos: 3, Hits: 65, Kudos/Hits:4.62%)

Tagging, if you’re interested, @foxywrites @polizwrites @endlesstwanted @voiceoffenrisulfr and everyone else who wants to participate.

Bitten (for your blood)

Summary: Clint is hungry. But maybe biting his own Personal Dragon isn't the best idea...

Pairing: Clint Barton x Kai Krüger (ONBC) x Bucky Barnes

Word Count: 1343

Raiting: Teen and Up Audiences

Tags: Alternate Universe - Werewolf, Alternate Universe - Vampire, Alternate Universe - Dragons, Dragon/Werewolf/Vampire Relationship, POV Original Character, Vampire Clint Barton, Werewolf Bucky Barnes, Biting, Minor Injuries, Blood Drinking

Written for:

@tropetember : Day 14 - Monstrous / Cultural Differences / Language Barrier

@augustwritingchallenge : Trick-AU-Treat - Bitten

@comfy-vember : Day 3 - Forehead Kisses

@ao3tagbingo : Polyamory

@buckybarnesbingo : Interspecies

@fandom-free-bingo:

Obedience Training - Frosty Edition

Bite - Flight Edition

* Secret Signals, Hunting - Valentines Edition

* "I'm going to kill you.", White Fang - Book Night Edition

* Bite Marks - Wild Edition

* "In Some Cultures That's Considered a Dick Move.", "I told you not to do this!", Licking Lips - Maritime May

* Playful Growls - Pride Edition!

* Bite Marks - Plural Edition

* "You had no right to take it.", Unwillingly Donated - August Chaos Discards

* "Why Didn't You Tell Me?" - Bug Edition

* Bite Marks, "Just... Don't.", Growling - Medical Edition

@fairytalebingo - Dragon Fire

@anyfandomaubingo - Vampire AU

@multifandom-flash

The Undead - Clint Barton Bingo

Short Story - National Writing Day

@anyfandomdarkbingo - Dracophilia

@seasonaldelightsbingo - drawing circles with their fingers on the others skin to calm them down - Under the Sea Edition

@fandombingo - It wasn't this bad before.", Stained with Blood - Wonderland Edition

Different Kinds of Love - Masterlist

Building a Relationship

Summary: Clint Barton and Matt Murdock meet in a Bar. They are just two normal guys, talking and laughing together and slowly falling in love. Except one of them is Deaf. And the other is Blind. Oh, and both are some kind of superhero. But they don't talk about that until it's too late and they are already head over heel in love.

Chapter 1: A Blind guy walks into a bar : 623 / Strangers to Friends / @mfbingo

Chapter 2: Classified : 1394 / Taking Care of Someone / @marvelrarepairbingo

Chapter 3: Saturday morning : 1787 / Body Dysphoria / @lgbtqbingo

Chapter 4: New Routines : 983 / Moving in together / MRP Bingo

Chapter 5: Vigilante and Agents : 1677 / FREE SPACE / @anyfandomgoesbingo

Chapter 6: All the talking : 1819 / FREE SPACE / LGBTQ Bingo

Chapter 7: Waffles : 1955 / FREE SPACE / MRP Bingo

Chapter 8: Jealousy : 3990 / Someone needs a Hug / MRP Bingo

Chapter 9: Baby Agents : 3463 / Kiss on the Forehead / LGBTQ Bingo

Chapter 10: Bullies : 1381 / Hopelessly Outnumbered / MPR Bingo

Chapter 11: Who I used to be : 5610 / Comfort from a Panic Attack / MF Bingo

Chapter 12: Fuck Transphobia : 5394 / "Misgendering me on purpose, and you're proud of yourself?" / @lgbtqbingo

Chapter 13: Double Date : 2412 / Double Date / @fandom-free-bingo (Valentines Edition)

Chapter 14: Happy Days : 2752 / Allo-Ace Couple / @fandom-free-bingo (pride edition)

One-Shots:

Firsts : HawkDevil / 3852 / Explicit / Sexual Attraction, Physical Attraction, Trust

How you (don't) see me : HawkDevil / 3242 / Mature / Physical Attraction, Touch, Semi-Sexual Intimacy

Just for the sex : Matt Murdock x Natasha Romanov / 1643 / Explicit / Physical Attraction, Platonic & Sexual Relationship, Casual Sex

More than one way to fuck : HawkDevil / 4081 / Explicit / Sexual Attraction, Experimentation

This is a lookbook / illustrated guide to @42donotpanic's amazing fic titled "Not Just a Mask" in which Clint and Bucky, two disabled queer men, meet during / following the pandemic through online dating and explore themes of intimacy, vulnerability, and accommodation as they grow closer.

The fic was created as part of the 2024 @winterhawkbigbang as was this lookbook. I had so much fun working with Panic and my fellow artists, whose works are linked on the ao3 page for the fic (AND ARE INCREDIBLE OH MY GODDD)! This lookbook was created using Canva and uses image descriptions. The playlist mentioned on slide #13 can be found on Spotify below!

For the wip ask game. What about The one they will hate me for?

Well, people will hate me for that.

People being specifically the Stucky fans I know, because this is one of the rare times I make Steve Rogers an actual character in my story, but he's kinda totally the bad guy.

I don't want to say too much just yet because I may put this up for claims in a big bang later this year, but you can have a little teaser.

“It’s Steve…” Bucky sobbed, his breathing barely steadier, but now Clint could hear a baby crying in the background. “Buck, what happened? Where’s Steve?” Clint was starting to truly get worried. He softly rocked Nate, shushing softly as he waited for Bucky’s answer. “He left.” Bucky pressed out, barely managing to stop crying long enough to stop talking. “He just left, Clint.” “To where?” Clint asked, stroking his hand over his son’s back and softly brushing a kiss onto his head. “And for how long?” “Not where, Clint.” Bucky scoffed, still clearly crying. “When.” Clint frowned, about to ask for clarification when Bucky continued already. “When he brought the stones back to their points in time, he didn’t come back.”

This turned out so beautiful! Thank you so much 💜

“Harsh Autumn Days”

Gift for @42donotpanic for the prompt “knit blanket”

At first I thought about  hot chocolate and comfy blankets but I wanted to give it the #fratt edge so it turned out to be Frank patching Matt up after some battle. I’d like to think that DD’s clothes got wet and he’s cold. So Frank just pulled the most fluffiest knit blanket over the devils head. =)Hope you like it!

[Image Description: Black and white sketch of the Punisher cleaning Daredevil’s wounds. Frank is kneeling before a sitting Matt and cleaning his wounded knuckles with a cotton pad. Matt has several bandages already on his body and has a big knitted blanket pulled over his head and shoulders, gripping onto it with his other hand. Daredevil also still has his helmet and pants an.]

#FrankCastle #MattMurdock #Daredevil 

SIGN UP POST

It's late September and that means #ITPE sign-ups are OPEN 🎉🎉🎉 Links will be at the end, so please read through the post as we have a lot of new information/procedures this year!

This is the FOURTEENTH year of the exchange, but the FIRST year we will be hosting it on Tumblr, which was far and away the winner in our platform move survey. Happily, this means we get to keep our acronym and branding!

What is #ITPE?

#ITPE is a low-pressure, no-minimums podfic exchange that originated on Twitter. We are now on Tumblr because of Twitter’s…everything, since it was bought by the Muskrat. Everything–sign-ups, communication, assignment/gift distribution–used to be run entirely on Twitter, but as the exchange has grown, we’ve incorporated other platforms to help make our lives as mods easier. Consequently, sign-ups will be on AO3 and submissions of your finished gifts (when it comes time for them) will be via Google form. Otherwise all communication, including announcements, questions, assignment and gift delivery, will be conducted over Tumblr and instant messaging. 

Who are the mods?

Our mod line-up is @blackestglass (blackglass) & @knight-tracer, with flowersforgraves assisting on the backend with data management. 

What is the schedule?

The dates for #ITPE 2024 are:

Sign-ups: SEPTEMBER 21 - SEPTEMBER 29

Assignments go out: No later than OCTOBER 8

Projects due: DECEMBER 17

Distribution: DECEMBER 24

So long as it's still September 29 somewhere in the world, you can still sign-up.

How do I sign up?

We are continuing to run sign-ups through AO3 (without a nominations process, so just write in your fandoms). We are asking for a minimum of 3 unique fandoms and if you want to sign-up to give or receive more than 20 fandoms, pick your TOP 20 for the AO3 and put the rest in your Dear Podficcer Letter. If you have less than 20 fandoms, we encourage you to list all of your primary and secondary fandoms in the sign up form so we have options for matching!

Note: We consider certain RPF fandoms as “umbrella” fandoms. We know we have K-Pop podficcers and sports RPF podficcers who often sign up for our exchange. Individual K-Pop bands and individual sports/sports teams do not count as “unique” fandoms (so for instance, only listing SHINee, BTS, and A-Teez would not count as having 3 unique fandoms for sign-up purposes; for our purposes, they would all fall under the K-Pop umbrella). In addition to listing your favorite bands/sports/teams in the fandom field, we do ask you to help us out for matching by thinking of at least 2 other fandoms which you might be happy to give and receive in. The RPF podficcing pool is small and we try not to repeat matches within a 5-year period, so giving us more fandom options will help us find you a match. 

What is a Dear Podficcer letter?

Your Dear Podficcer letter should include stuff like squicks, triggers, ship and trope preferences, and anything else you think we & your gift giver should know regarding your fandom tastes. Letters are mandatory. They don't have to be long! But if you have extremely specific tastes, it’s better that you let us know upfront in your letter so that we can ensure that you receive a gift you’re happy with. Please don’t worry about seeming “difficult”! We want you to love the gift you receive! Also, do feel free to request your small, obscure fandoms! Just help us out by also including some more popular or “mainstream” fandoms among your options. 

If you’re still uncertain what a letter should look like, here are some examples from 2020: blackglass’s 2020 letter & knight_tracer’s 2020 letter. You can also check out linked letters in the “Requests Summary” on AO3 to see what other people’s letters look like!  

Letters should be hosted on a publicly viewable platform, such as on Dreamwidth, tumblr, carrd, GDrive, Dropbox, etc. 

Please put your Tumblr and AO3 handles (if they don’t already match) in your Dear Podficcer letter. For our sake, ideally somewhere in the title field. Toss a coin to your mod team. 

Also please be kind to your mods & avoid using smushnames or cute fandom ship names in your letter. We're not always in your fandom & sometimes people will use different names to refer to the same pairing & we mistakenly believe you're requesting different pairings (see: the Zimbits/JackBitty/etc. debacle of 2020). Using Char A/Char B(/Char C) would help us out a lot! You don't have to use AO3 levels of disambiguation – just provide us with enough information to figure out who the characters involved in the ship are. 

If you have specific tastes in what you want to RECEIVE in a fandom, but you’re willing to CREATE outside of those preferences (for instance, wanting to receive podfic about a specific pairing, but willing to podfic for other pairings in a fandom), please indicate that in your letter! If you want to offer or receive fandoms that aren’t currently on the AO3, or you’re one of those gutsy people that is willing to offer and create in “any fandom”, message this account and we’ll make sure it’s all recorded. 

In addition, if you’re an adventurous listener who is open to RECEIVING podfic for “any fandom” please ALSO message us so that we’re aware! We still need a minimum of 3 fandoms for your sign up so that it can go through.

If you have any DNWs (“do not wants”)  that you don’t want to post publicly in a letter, concerns about matching, or anything else you’d like to privately let the mods know, there’s a section in the sign up this year that you can fill out. Or you can send us a message!

How should we be communicating with you over Tumblr? We will primarily be using the instant messaging function. Therefore you will need a Tumblr account to sign up, because that’s where all communication and assignment/gift delivery will take place. It’s totally fine to use a placeholder account you only use for this exchange. (We do recommend adding a userpic, filling out your bio, and maybe reblogging a few posts so that you don’t seem like a bot.) All participants should be following the mod account, especially if you have restricted settings so that only people you follow can message you. The instant messaging system, unlike the ask system, allows us to maintain a record of our communications, and is the best way to share information you want to keep private between us or have extended conversations. You may use asks if you have a one-off question or questions you don’t mind getting public answers to. 

(Notifications for new Tumblr messages can be finicky so try to check out the messaging tab semi-regularly throughout the duration of the exchange instead of relying on the blue dot to let you know there’s a new message.) 

In an attempt to avoid tripping spam filters and hitting the Tumblr limit on sending messages to new people, we are asking you to help us out by sending us an instant message to let us know you’ve signed up, rather than us trying to reach out to dozens upon dozens of people (prime spambot behavior)! 

What happens if you get marked as spam?

If we get shadowbanned/tossed in potential spambot purgatory, the mods will reach out to you from our personal accounts/mod sideblogs or via email. During the sign up period, we will reach out to you via messaging to ask you for a reliable email address to reach you at in case all of our attempts to not get flagged as spam fail.

If we are marked as spam, we’ll still be able to post on our own blog and we should still appear on your dash, but we won’t be appearing in the tags most likely, which is another reason why it’s important for you to be following us!

How does matching work? How will I get my assignment?

The mods do hand-matching, meaning rather than just letting the AO3 algorithm run and make arbitrary matches based on fandom, we read all your letters and try to match you with someone with similar tastes and interests. We’ll only be relying on the AO3 algorithm to help us spot tricky matches. 

Another of the ways Tumblr combats spam is to shadowban anyone sending multiple similarly worded messages. We’re going to make an attempt to deliver extremely pared down assignment messages so that we’re mostly sending unique information. If we do get marked as spam, as mentioned earlier, we may reach out to you on sideblogs or via email. 

What kind and how many gifts should I make? Do you really mean “no minimums”? 

Yes, ITPE gifts have NO LENGTH MINIMUMS. Make something as big or as small as you want to commit to! We truly do mean it. This is meant to be a low pressure exchange! Accordingly, please set your expectations that you may receive a short gift. In the past, we have had participants who’ve been extremely generous and made a prolific amount of gifts for their giftee, but they are outliers and there is certainly no expectation that anyone else should strive to those heights. 

I have more questions about making gifts!

We’re sure you do, but we’re not there yet! We will update this FAQ with more information about submitting gifts and treats once assignments go out, so check back!

I’m ready to sign up! What are the next steps? 1. Fill out the sign up form on AO3 here.

2. Follow us @itpemod if you haven’t yet!

3. Send us a message over the chat letting us know you’ve signed up!

4. Optional (but encouraged if you want to talk to people!): join the Tumblr Podfic Community to participate in the friending/following meme!

5. Optional: Track/follow the #itpe or #informal tumblr podfic exchange tags! 

Summer Fic Reading Bingo

This is a low key summer reading challenge specifically for fandom. All you have to do to participate is get a bingo card, read a fic, leave a comment, and mark that square off on your card! We hope this will encourage you to step outside your go-to fandom paths and find something new and amazing.

Sign up here.

The challenge will run from June 21, 2023 to September 21, 2023.

Your friendly mods are @carcrash429 and @therealjambery. Now get reading!

FAQ below the cut.

Q: What's all this, then? A: This is a low key summer reading challenge specifically for fandom. All you have to do to participate is get a bingo card, read a fic, leave a comment, and mark that square off on your card!

Q: How do I sign up? A: Fill out this form!

Q: What are the dates of the challenge? A: This year the summer reading challenge starts on the summer solstice, June 21, 2023. You have until the fall equinox, September 21, 2023 to complete your bingo card.

Q: Who can participate? A: Anyone who reads fanfiction!

Q: Can I get a text-based bingo card instead of an image? A: Absolutely, please let us know you’d prefer that format when you sign up.

Q: Do I have to leave a comment to complete the square? A: Yes. I mean, we're not going to check up on you or anything, so it's the honor system. But let's give creators some love, shall we?

Q: Can I listen to podfic instead? A: Yup! The comment rule still applies, though.

Q: What if the thing I'm using to complete my square isn't on AO3? A: That's fine. You can reblog on Tumblr, leave a comment on a blog post, or otherwise let the creator know you enjoyed their story/art/podfic.

Q: What sort of things are on the bingo card? A: You can see our full list here.

Q: What if there is one of my triggers or something that squicks me on the list? A: Just let us know when you sign up and we'll make sure you get a card that doesn't have those things on it.

Q: What do you mean by [fill in the blank]? Does this fic count for that square? A: It's up to your interpretation - we wanted to leave things as broad as possible. If you're really stuck, send us an ask and we can talk about it!

Q: What do I win if I get a bingo? A: The priceless satisfaction of a job well done. Also, we might have something special for you at the end. Guess you'll have to participate to find out.

Bucky Barnes The Winter Soldier

Drawn for the image prompt K5 of my Bucky Barnes Bingo:

@buckybarnesbingo