Introducing Lifetime Fic Bingo
May. 28th, 2023 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinturtleInspired by byslantedlight's Pros-by-Year Bingo game and by timemidae's response to my last post, I've devised a new reading game for the second half of this year: Lifetime Fic Bingo. For this game, I will read at least one fic published in each year of my life, as shown below.
This is going to be a bit of a research project, since most of the sources of fanfic I draw from either give no dates for included works or give unreliable ones. (AO3 has a mixture of backdated original publication dates and upload dates attached to the older works hosted there, for instance.) Yet I think that, with help from Fanlore, I should be able to find at least one interesting fic for each year.
[ETA: After a bit more delving into what is available, I've decided that I will aim for at least three fics in at least two fandoms, each at least 1000 words long.]
I'm going to start by reading the fics in order, as Timemidae suggested. If I find that too regimented, though, I may switch to skipping around. I'm also going to try for diversity in what I read, but my choices may lean toward Professionals fic, since that fandom offers the most dating information.
Anyone may join me in playing this game, though it will only work for somewhat younger fans, and of course, my card will only work for others born in the same year.
Anyone may join me in playing this game, though it will only work in this form for somewhat younger fans, and of course, my card will only work for others born in the same year. Older fans could play by picking another milestone in their life to start from, instead of their birth: learning to read, becoming an adult (who can read sexy fanfic), etc.
byslantedlight's Pros-by-Year Bingo game and by timemidae's response to my last post, I've devised a new reading game for the second half of this year: Lifetime Fic Bingo. For this game, I will read at least one fic published in each year of my life, as shown below.This is going to be a bit of a research project, since most of the sources of fanfic I draw from either give no dates for included works or give unreliable ones. (AO3 has a mixture of backdated original publication dates and upload dates attached to the older works hosted there, for instance.) Yet I think that, with help from Fanlore, I should be able to find at least one interesting fic for each year.
[ETA: After a bit more delving into what is available, I've decided that I will aim for at least three fics in at least two fandoms, each at least 1000 words long.]
I'm going to start by reading the fics in order, as Timemidae suggested. If I find that too regimented, though, I may switch to skipping around. I'm also going to try for diversity in what I read, but my choices may lean toward Professionals fic, since that fandom offers the most dating information.
Anyone may join me in playing this game, though it will only work for somewhat younger fans, and of course, my card will only work for others born in the same year.
Anyone may join me in playing this game, though it will only work in this form for somewhat younger fans, and of course, my card will only work for others born in the same year. Older fans could play by picking another milestone in their life to start from, instead of their birth: learning to read, becoming an adult (who can read sexy fanfic), etc.
