Hi Everyone! We've Revamped Our Old Event Infographic For Those Who've Never Participated Before, Or

A blue and orange infographic titled: Big Bangs and You.
As presented by the Transformers Big Bang.

There is an image of Ambulon looking at a datapad in the top right corner. In the bottom left corner is an image of Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, who says "Banging is the right of all sentient beings."

Infographic text reads as follows:

What is a Big Bang, Anyway?

The First Big Bang

Fandom Bangs are a longstanding fandom tradition, dating back to ye olden times of 2005 when the very first Big Bang was banged. That’s twenty years and counting!

The original Bang, the “Big Bang, Baby Challenge”, was invitation only, focused on a particular ship (Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter) and the minimum word count was 50k. Other people thought this was a really neat idea, so they started organizing Bangs for their own fandoms.

Why the Name?

Originally, the title was meant to invoke the chemistry between the characters being shipped. Before long, people were reinterpreting the name for their own fandom events. Over time, it’s come to refer more commonly to the explosion of novel-length, illustrated fics that Big Bangs generate.

Banging in the Modern Age

Big Bangs today are a little different. They’re usually open invitation, and the minimum word counts are often much shorter. Our first year was only 10K, and this year we’re up to 20k!*

In the end, the goal is the same: to create a massive influx of complete, illustrated longfics, which drop all at once with a BANG.

*Mini-bangs have even smaller requirements, with participants creating a fic totalling a few thousand words, and artists illustrating one piece.
**There are also Reverse Big Bangs, where artists create their pieces first, and writers base their fics off of them.

Why Bang?

Meet the community!
Embrace the opportunity to become involved with the wider Transformers creative fandom.

Collaborate!
Make something fun and exciting together with new friends. This is a chance to expand your creative horizons.

Challenge yourself!
Write that long fic you’ve always been dreaming of. Draw something you might not have come up with on your own!

Hi everyone! We've revamped our old event infographic for those who've never participated before, or are just wondering what a Big Bang is. Sign-ups for this year's event are open now, and will stay open until March. We hope to see new and old faces alike when the discord goes live this weekend! ✨

hey everyone be careful

I don't know if anyone has talked about this, but lately this has been happening in other fandoms too. There'll be these bot accounts that straight up steals people's posts and adds "expand" "read more" "continue" as a link in the end of the post - DON'T CLICK ON THAT, it's most likely a malware or something of the like.

so if you see a post like this: no profile picture, something that looks reposted (I've seen this happening to artists too) and a link at the end, even if the post has tags, that's a bot. Block and report it.

stay safe, and I hope @staff finds a way to stop these bots soon!

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iamsneakypal

1 year ago

Go check out this amazing animation out!

Some good news and bad news!

Pootis Pins are FULLY FUNDED! Thank you guys so much! I can’t wait for you to get these cute lil’ guys!

The bad news: I got a false copyright claim on the new animation, forcing me to reupload it. Stuff like this is really upsetting after working for months straight on a project just for YouTubes broken content ID system to fail to do its job. I hate to ask for anything else as you guys have been so amazing supporting the new merch and vid, but if you wanted to watch it again or leave a comment on the reupload to help boost it, I would be very grateful 🥲 I don’t know if it’ll be able to recover view wise, but anything's better than sharing the $ from hard work with people who don’t deserve it. Thank you as always for supporting and being excited for the new animations, it means the world to me!

Summer shenanigans

Fighting the artblock so hard rn it’s unreal…

Context + sketch under the cut

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iamsneakypal

5 months ago

MASTERPIECE✨

"Cybertron. It's Been So Long. So Long Since I Saw It As It Should Be Seen... "

"Cybertron. It's been so long. So long since I saw it as it should be seen... "

"Yes, well, um... drink it in, I guess."

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iamsneakypal

7 months ago

If it wasn't so long, it would be a perfect quote.

current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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iamsneakypal

10 months ago