Aaaahh, I'm Gonna End Up Happy!!!

It's almost time...signups for the 2025 Klapollo Minibang open today, April 26th, at noon EDT, and will be open until Saturday, May 17th!

In preparation for signups, please make sure you've read through the Rules/FAQ doc--there's important info on there that you'll need for the signup form. However, here's the answer to a few commonly-asked questions:

What IS a minibang, anyway?

A minibang is a smaller version of a fandom event known as a “Big Bang.” It’s an opportunity for artists and writers to collaborate to produce a 5k-10k fic and an illustration that goes with it. Writers and artists will be paired up, and will all post their work during the event’s specified posting window.

Can I write more than 10k?

Technically, yes--we won't stop you! But we typically advise trying to keep to the shorter word count and coming up with an idea that will be smaller in scope than you think you'll need it to be. It's always easier to expand a shorter fic than it is to cut down on a longer idea, and you never know what's going to happen in your life over the course of the minibang. If you need help trimming your ideas down, we're more than happy to help during the brainstorming period before your prompts are due in!

Who can participate?

Anyone who’s interested! We don’t have an age limit for participation—you just need to be able to commit to finishing either one art piece or one 5k-10k fic before the deadline.

What genres are permitted?

Any genre of fic/art is permitted as long as the final piece would not be rated higher than a T on AO3’s scale. For reference, we’re defining this rating tier as similar to a PG-13 movie, with Ace Attorney canon-typical levels of violence.

What are your social media links?

Tumblr: klapollo-minibang.tumblr.com (this blog!) Twitter: @klapollominbang Bluesky: @klapollominibang.bsky.social Email: klapollo.minibang@gmail.com

Who did that cool Klavier and Apollo art in your header image?

That would be @acerunaway / @queenychu ! Go check out their art/writing/various other projects if you get a chance :)

tomodachi life brainrot and i really want to make a mod for it so i sketched up a few ideas! i have more but i don’t feel like writing them out rn lol

for anyone interested in more info mayhaps:

any tl modders feel free to hmu 🙏 really wanna try to make it happen.. or anyone else interested for that matter odmsocm if you maybe want to help in making a mod then yeah!

if anything i’ll probably try to pick up a few skills to mod myself but i’m sure i’ll be very amateur at it.. if i start trying i’ll make a tag for myself and update here!

i also want to try to write a few extra things for it but tbf i haven’t played (or watched anyone play) in a very long time lol. just saw there was a modding community and it piqued my interest because i love modding

anyways yeah if you want to maybe work on something with me feel free to send me a message here and we can get something sorted out :3

if not i’m glad you listened and maybe enjoyed my rambling lol

as an aroace, im particularly dangerous, because i wont fuck or marry. i only know how to kill.

tried a little challenge of trying to draw the vocaloid/character as i listen to the song. harder then expected

songs: envy baby, lag train, obsolete meat, luka luka night fever, hao, kyu-kurarin, senbonzakura

kris and noelle discuss critically acclaimed fps game half dead 2, their missing siblings, and obscure human musicians like claude debussy

laughing at the idea of having to explain to a non tf2 fan how this is one of the most emotionally impactful scenes in the entire lore

Get DRINKED (don't tell the Philadelphians)

Phoenix Wright, Ace Former Art Student

took some art requests for aa charas i don't draw that often, was fun!

dude… i don’t even have golden cheese

yearning for my my bi-annual cookie run phase so i installed it today and suddenly all of my luck from the past 6 months happened just now