b2memsupport | Bingo cards

My claim shortlist is about 30 cards long XD how are people narrowing it down!?

I really want to make some. But the bingo card muse has thus far not visited! I suspect this might be because, right before B2MeM card creation started, I wrapped up planning the 2019 challenges with my comods on SWG. So my "challenge brain" just feels tapped out right now.

Two ideas I may develop are Revolution and WiP (where you use the prompt to add to a WiP).

I did contribute a few that I made for other purposes: the two SWG challenge bingo cards and three that I made for my "Writer's Block" box at school.

I submitted prompts for one card, so if I claim any, that one will be among them!

I made three, but that's all. I don't have ideas for more. Claiming is outlined to Narya, so yes, I'm thinking.

I submitted prompts for one card and will certainly claim that. I haven't made my choice of any of the others, yet. They all look shiny!
(I will probably not claim any of the cards I contributed in 2012, as I think I made pretty good use of them already.)

omg questions I love answering questions...

Are you making any?

Yes. Because of the ten card limit, making cards allowed me to placate my hedonistic creativity in this fandom. I managed to get 13 of the 14 I planned to get done sent in on time. I also created a (if I do say so myself) super easy to use template on Publisher for Bingo Cards. So now, I'm really dangerous with this bingo thing...

Have you submitted prompts for any?

Nope. As painful as it was to suffer through the 'making these pretty' part of the process, I was determined to do them myself. Next time (oh, yeah, I'm already looking forward to like, five or six years from now when this happens again...don't judge...) I will need to poke around for another artist or two to work with for the prettification committee >.> So, that said, there's one card I will apologize up front for the lack of prettification. I tried. I had chibis provided to me that I didn't manage to color in time. Which reminds me... I still have someone's chibis to finish coloring...

Are you thinking about which cards you will claim when the time comes?

Oh, no, not yet. I barely looked at them except to glance at what was already done before I turned in mine. I'm on step four of my thirty-two step bingo plan, which is, gather the supplies needed for bingoing. Because I don't do this halfway or three-quarterway or fifteensixteethsway.

Every time I've done one of these bingo things (and I've participated in three now, one here, and two others elsewhere), I have a kit I put together. It has a bingo book to keep track of all of the combinations and write notes, some sort of carrying thing to keep all of the supplies, fancy writing implements, at least one plushie, folders, notebooks and notepads of varying colors, notecards for the plotted out ideas and so on.

Since I suck at Dreamwidthing, and I can't figure out if I can even add images here, or I would, I am going to post some somewhere and then I'll edit a link in if I can or something. Because I'm pretty proud of the extent of the bingo-ing. (Oh! And after the month was over, I had a bingo game I had purchased, a fancy one with the spinning thing for picking the balls, and I kept up with going through the other prompts into April. Because reasons.) I also had the cards posted on the wall of my office so that I could muse about connections and plots ahead of time subconsciously before numbers were called.

Let's face it, I'm the bingo person with 18 different colored daubers and a 'regular seat' in the church basement, who sets up their trinkets on the table and knows the callers by nickname and shows up every week, even when it's snowing.

Since we can only pick ten, this means I can print them in color and not feel like I'm wasting ink. Fortunately, since we can only pick ten, this means I shouldn't have such a backlog to type up this time.

Because... I still have some that are just handwritten and not typed up yet, including a really cute Fingon/Maedhros story from a time when I didn't really like that pairing...

I wrote that one in a hotel lobby.

Alright. Time to take some pics of the previous bingo kit...

Late to the party as usual... (I blame work.)

I made a few cards. (Ok, maybe more than 'a few'. I don't know the number off the top of my head, and it's not like there was a plan. I made cards as themes occurred to me.) It got a little addictive!

I also made a couple cards for submitted prompts. (Am I allowed to ask who submitted the prompts? I'm really curious whose cards I made!)

I am going to try to limit my card claims to five or less, lest I have a zillion more WIPs by the time B2MEM finishes. (I'm still working on my WIP for the SWG Taboo bingo challenge a while back...) Narrowing it down that far may be a trick. It looks like some of you have actual strategy and planning involved, where I'm just looking at the cards going 'hm, that one's pretty' and 'oh, I like those prompts'.

Edited 2019-02-02 20:54 (UTC)

Okay. I might have gone beyond 'just a few bingo kit pics'.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JUuQSacjX3iiYhmQPg9Q_vEk1RvXbNy1tVJJlKkn0Ys/edit?usp=sharing

There's also a link to a google sheet you can use for planning purposes (which, I'll just drop here for ease of use):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ct9XdvElGG7HJDdv3EnMLYyiWLtdJzukXmmteyIe2P4/edit?usp=sharing

If you'd like to let me know in real time how crazy I am, feel free to stop by the b2mem_shenanigans channel over at my discord chat (don't worry, I have a link for that, too):

https://discord.gg/V3JGaxW

It would have been finished a little sooner, but, Maroon 5 was performing at half time...

I played hard to win the last time. Wrote things I did not want to write. Skipped things I really wanted to write and filled many prompts and yet did not get a single BINGO. Not doing that this time. Just going to use the cards as prompts to inspire myself to write some stories, comment on others work, and maybe create some artwork.

For those who are going the competitive route: have fun and knock yourself out!!

The cards are beautiful and there are so many terrific prompts! Great contributions, everyone!

My favorites are:

1. Eat, Drink, and Make Merry (I suggested these and love the Bingo card for them!)
2. Fun with Feanorians
3. The First Age
4. Glorfindel
5. In the Words of Shakespeare
6. Review a Story
7. The Russingon Card
8. Moodboards
9. The Noldor
10. Comment on a Fanwork

Edited 2019-02-07 22:47 (UTC)

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