Ladiesbingo Card 8-13-13

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here is my card for the ladiesbingo fest. This bingo challenge celebrates the various shades of relationships amongst female characters. It's intended to raise the amount of female-centric literature available. All modes are welcome here: het, slash, femslash, poly and gen. All media/formats are welcome, including poetry; fanfic and original material are both acceptable. Some of the content may be NSFW. Read the FAQ and rules first. The signup post is here. Anyone thinking about contributing to Plunge, but not sure what to submit? Get a card for inspiration.  (See all my bingo cards.)

I thought this might be an effective way to attract some new readers. It's also useful for developing some of my series with female leads or other characters as a prevailing feature. Consider The Adventures of Aldornia and Zenobia, Hart's Farm, Path of the Paladins, Schrodinger's Heroes, and Walking the Beat. In other series such as An Army of One, Fledgling Grace, and Monster House there's at least one F&F or F/F relationship amongst a more widely scattered cast and plot. Polychrome Heroics is kind of a unique case because 2/6 of Damask (Mira and Maze) are female; and of course it has other kick-ass superheras.

If you'd like to sponsor a particular square, especially if you have an idea for what character, series, or situation it would fit -- talk to me and we'll work something out. This is a good opportunity for those of you with favorites that don't always mesh well with the themes of my monthly projects. I'll still post some of the fills for free, because I'm using this to attract new readers; but if it brings in money, that means I can do more of it. That's part of why I'm crossing some of the bingo prompts with other projects, such as the Poetry Fishbowl.

Underlined prompts have been filled.

B Column: 5 poems
Parallel Diagonals: 5 poems

Miles from anywhere: Geographical Isolation	Everyone thinks we're doing it	Five Things	Dystopias	Androids and robots
First person narration	"It is the way of my people": Traditions	Yentas and Matchmakers	Genderswap	Truth serum, truth spells, and Truth drugs
Epistolatory fic: Emails, letters etc.	The way we were: Pre-canonfic	Wild Card	Fusion with another fandom	Telepathy
Seduction	Crossover: Books & literary	Bodyswap/Bodyshare	Chance encounters	Day-in-the-life
Darkfic	Rare pairings	Worst case scenario	Wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey: Time travel	Woke up in bed together

Comments

Re: BINGO: column

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I meant the banners. <<

Oh, sorry. I tend to be a bit my-writing-focused, if specifics are not given.

I think these are some lovely banners. I suspect that similarly high-quality artwork could be found with a search of Creative Commons. I've done stuff like this before; it's fun, and fairly easy. There are sites that will let you put a caption on an image, although it's challenging to find a really good online version of that. Doing it with a program like Photoshop is more elegant, but also more work, and not something I'm good at.

>>Help definitely needs to go on the list.<<

Okay, cool.

>>So does eating and caring for people by giving them food.<<

Maybe nurturing in general? Feeding, bathing, snuggling, draping a blanket over someone who falls asleep on the couch, etc.

Re: BINGO: column

[chordatesrock]

Food is important in a way that other care isn't. Society gives out some very detrimental messages about food and health.

Re: BINGO: column

[ysabetwordsmith]

I agree that food is an Issue worthy of a banner.

I also feel that society has an equally messed up presentation about touch, and lack of healthy touch can kill primates just as dead as starvation.

But hey, the cool thing about a random banner project is that people can frame the awards in whatever way is personally meaningful to them.

There's a tradeoff between broad and narrow focus. It's easier to hit and to see correlations in a broader theme; but it's easier to pinpoint needs and violations in a narrower one, which also provides more challenge for expert contenders.

Re: BINGO: column

[chordatesrock]

Well, there's clearly only one answer to that: make all the banners encouraging pushback against harmful social mores! :D

Re: BINGO: column

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yes.

I love your icon. Somewhere there's one that says "Fight ALL the oppressions!"

Re: BINGO: column

[chordatesrock]

Thanks. :) I made it myself.

Re: BINGO: column

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's really awesome.