Sign-ups

You can sign up as a Writer, Artist or Beta.You can sign up simultaneously as a Beta and Writer or Artist.You cannot sign up for the event as both a Writer and Artist. You can, however, sign up to participate in the main event as a Writer and Pinch Hitter Artist.If you are signing up as more than one role please keep in mind the time commitment, and don’t overextend yourself.

Sign-up Period

Sign up using the Google Form for Writers/Artists/Betas.Once you have signed up, a link to the discord server will be sent to the email you signed up with. Be sure to check your spam folder!Due to the expected scale of the event, email invitations will be sent on a rolling basis, and may take some time to arrive.You will be expected to join the discord server before the first check-in or you will be considered not participating.

Disciple Selection

An Ding Peak

Writers will need to have a fic concept, summary, rough outline(optional), and unpublished writing sample of 100-500 words. You must fill out the airtable form by July 1st. Past this point, any changes to the fic concept will need to be approved by your assigned team.

Qing Jing Peak & Xian Shu Peak

Artists & Betas will use Airtable to rank their top fics in order of preference. Airtable selections must be complete by July 15.

Tea Ceremony

First Mission

Artists, Writers, and Paired Betas must have successfully communicated with each other by August 7. By this date, each member of the team will be expected to fill out a form confirming that contact has been made and there are no issues.

Qiong Ding's Demon Invasion

Round 1 v. Elder Single Arm

Team members should have each completed 25% of workWriters: 3,750 words or equivalent
Artists: Scene selected, preferred media(digital/traditional art, video, photomanip, etc) selected
Paired Betas: Touch base with mods regarding progress and any obstacles

Round 2 v. Sha Hualing

Team members should have each completed 50% of workWriters: 7,500 words or equivalent
Artists: Sketches or equivalent to your medium
Paired Betas: Touch base with mods regarding progress and any obstacles

Round 3 v. Elder Sky Hammer

Team members should have each completed 75% of workWriters: 11,250 words or equivalent
Artists: Line art/base colors or equivalent to your medium
Paired Betas: Touch base with mods regarding progress and any obstacles

Immortal Alliance Conference

Entering Jue Di Gorge

All must have completed their work and Writers have to post their fics via AO3 to the unrevealed collection

The Endless Abyss Opens

A schedule for how reveals will go

The Legend Begins

Works will be posted as scheduled.

Rules

Welcome to the SVSSS 2025 Big Bang! We’re excited to have you!

FAQ

It's a collaboration between an artist and a writer, sometimes also with a beta. The "proper" event is supposed to be 50k words, but we will only be requiring 15,000 words. Artists will be matched to a writer and complete a work of art to go with the fic. Betas will look over the work and get everything polished to its best possible form.The results will be posted to a collection on AO3, with art that can be embedded in the fic and credit given to everyone who worked on the project.

Here are the ways you can join us in the 2025 SVSSS Bing Bang!

Link to sign-ups

Unfortunately we will not be able to accommodate minors. We have a few reasons for this. First, that the original material is 18+. We can’t officially avow minors reading the material.Second, we’d be requiring emails and other possibly identifying information, which could get us into trouble. Some sites say 13+ can consent to give up their data online, some say 16+, and some say guardian supervision required. We’re limiting to 18+ to cover our bases.Thirdly, for moderation purposes. It would be difficult to ensure no minors access nsfw channels in discord.So in conclusion, it’s a measure to protect minors, but also other participants and us as organizers. We want to avoid being held liable against anything that may happen involving minors, who aren’t legally allowed to consent. And we want to keep being around over the next few years, so that when you are 18+, you can join us!

Participants must be 18+. You must have a valid email you can access throughout the big bang event. You must get a discord account and join the discord group, and be regularly in contact with the mods and/or your team. Writers must have an AO3 account for posting (and if you need to get one, we will help you get an invitation). Artists must have somewhere to upload their work so it can be embedded and/or linked in the fic on AO3.

For the event the expectation is that all participants are over 18. The art/writing itself does not have to be be 18+ content. However there will be 18+ content such as snippets and sketches that will likely be present in the Discord server. For the pairings, artists can select to make their piece(s) for a fic that is of whatever rating they feel comfortable and even if they choose to work on a fic that is explicit they will not have to make an NSFW piece unless they wish to.

Yes! As long as you haven't published it or shared it publicly (since the matching process should be unbiased for artists) you can bring any previous projects.

You choose the prompt. Any ship, any characters, any rating. The world is your oyster. Then artists will pick which summaries they're the most interested in. After that, we'll match an artist with a fic to maximize compatibility and an artist will illustrate a scene from your fic.

Writers participating in the Big Bang will be expected to write a new, complete fic of at least 15,000 words. We will do our best to match you with a compatible artist (and if you request one, possibly a beta as well). Once we have matched you, you will be expected to remain in communication with mods and/or your team frequently. You will be expected to meet the requirements at each check-in. Failure to check-in or communicate may result in being dropped from the event.

Artists will be expected to produce a work of art comparable in complexity and time investment to the writer’s Big Bang fic. The medium may vary; however, writers will be specifying which mediums they will accept being paired with. We will do our best to match you with a compatible partner. Once we have matched you, you will be expected to remain in communication with mods and/or your team. You will be expected to meet the requirements at each check-in. Failure to check-in or communicate may result in being dropped from the event.

Betas will be required to join the Big Bang discord and take up the beta role there.Paired betas will select writers to team up with, from an anonymized list of fics. You will work with the writer as they progress through the bang, and participate in check-ins by keeping mods posted as to your progress.Artists and writers will ask questions in specific channels, and you may also participate in the bang by answering questions in these channels.

Pinch-hitters will be contacted by email or Discord (if you are already a member of the server) in the event that a member of a team drops out. The specifications of what is needed will be included when you are contacted, and you may decide at that point if you wish to create art/beta for the team in need. Pairings at this point will be first-come-first-served in order to maximize creation time. Once you have been matched, you will need to join the discord server (if you haven't already) and remain in regular communication with mods and your team. You will have a different set of requirements from the standard, and will NOT be expected to meet check-in deadlines. However, you will be expected to keep mods up-to-date with your progress.

Betas will not be mandatory. In fact, they aren’t even guaranteed. We will do our best to provide matches to the writers during the matching process if it is requested. For those with no assigned beta, we've provided channels in the discord for both artists and writers to ask questions to ask betas one-off questions. Sometimes a reality check or research question is helpful during the writing process without committing to a dedicated beta reader. Artists will not see the writer's beta question space and vice versa. It is also fine for you to use an external beta.

Absolutely NOT. Whether we do the matches manually, or assisted by an algorithm, we can’t guarantee the best matches will be done in a pool that has less data than it could potentially have. Seeing the response to the event, there might be over a hundred of summaries submitted, which could be overwhelming for artists and betas to browse through, so we’ll be using Airtable.Airtable allows you to sort through tags. We highly recommend artists and betas to pick the tags they’re the most interested in and pick from there to prevent burnout. Although if you want to read every single summary to find potentially hidden gems, go for it!

Check-ins will be done through google forms. We’ll be trusting you to honestly report your progress, and to let us know if you’re falling behind so that we can work with you and get you any support you need.

If you’re struggling to work with anyone on your team for any reason, please reach out to us on discord. We will work to get you through any difficulties or reassign you as necessary.

If your partner drops out early on, we may simply rearrange some pairings. If it’s later in the process and everyone has already begun to create, we’ll call up our pinch-hitters to take you on! We’ll make sure you can still participate and enjoy this event either way. However, it is crucial that you let us know as soon as possible if your partner is not communicating with you, so that we can give our pinch-hitters as much time as possible to work with.

If your writer drops out, we will need to handle it on a case-by-case basis. If it happens early in the event, you may be reassigned to another group. If you have already completed artwork or betaed a substantial amount of the work, your team will meet with the mods to discuss your options.

Yes. This event will be run through discord. Due to the interest in this event and the scale we have planned, we will not be accommodating other methods of communication. Announcements and help and other resources will all be provided through our discord server, and participants will all be expected to join.

Writers will post their summaries and other information about their fics anonymously. Artists and betas will sort through the list and rank their top choices. Once selections have been made, mods will pair off everyone to the best of our abilities.

For the purpose of this event the only AI tools that will be permitted are those used for grammar checking such as Grammarly, or Machine Translation aid for writers whose first language may not be English like Google Translate. The hope with this event is to have people be able to flex their creative muscles in art and writing. Therefore, the use of GPT models and chatbots is not allowed for writing, nor are AI images allowed for artists.

You can format your fic into chapters if you so choose but they will be posted at the same time since the expectation is that the complete fic will be added to the ao3 collection for the final submissions date.

Any changes to ships and characters are fine until match-ups. Interest forms and signups are to understand what people want to write/draw so we can determine what to allow to maximize success. Changes to your fic’s concept after matching must be approved by your assigned team members.

For crossovers (stories involving characters from another Franchise): SVSSS must represent at minimum 50% of the content within the story. What you put in the other 50% would be up to you. It is also fine to have the crossover be with multiple fandoms. For example. MDZS could be 30% and TGCF could be 20% and SVSSS 50%. If SVSSS is 50% and another, single fandom is 50% expect to put the SVSSS fandom tag first when it comes time to post the story on AO3.For fusions (stories which takes elements of other franchise or uses another franchise’s setting): The expectation is that the majority of the cast will be from SVSSS.AUs can also be considered fusions. SVSSS where everything is the same but some McGuffin from another property is used but no external characters; there's no limitation on those. It is expected that SVSSS character(s) will also be present within the main cast.In both the case of crossovers and fusions please note that it may be more difficult to be matched with an artist. Especially if the involved Fandom is smaller. For example, writing a Star Wars/SVSSS crossover will likely get more responses from artists than a Toilet Bound Hanaku-Kun/SVSSS crossover but we will do our best during matching!

Currently we have pretty much a 1:1 ratio of artists to writers who have filled out the interest form. However, at the time of the event, it will depend on how many of either group sign up.If there are more writers, artists may be asked if they would like to work with more than one writer. And if there's more artists, some writers will be asked to work with two artists.

Betas will be able to assist with language difficulties when writing.Among the mods, we have Spanish, Russian, and French speakers available to answer questions as needed.

Yes. Failure to check-in in a timely manner may result in being dropped from the event. It is crucial that everyone remains in contact and keeps mods updated so that we can provide any help needed to succeed.Extensions can be granteed on a case-by-case basis. Contact mods during the check-in period if you may need one and we'll be able to help you.

Art for a NSFW scene does not need to be NSFW. A SFW scene may also be depicted.

If you have not signed up and joined our discord, here is a link to our Curious Cat, where you can ask questions and the mods will respond. If you have joined our discord, there will be several channels available to you to ask questions on, depending on what you want to ask about.

We will be surveying artists and betas on signup, and will be cautioning writers on topics we believe will be difficult to find pairings for. However, we believe that if you can imagine it, there is probably an artist who would be interested in creating for it! If you believe your interests are particularly niche, being willing to accept a wider variety of art mediums may help.

Yes. It can't be a fusion, for example, Marvel characters in SVSSS AU, but you can definitely do an OC protagonist as long as it's an SVSSS cast.However, we do warn that a story with an OC protagonist may not be as sought after in comparison with one that starts a canon character. In the event that we can't find a match even after calling for pinch-hitters, we may ask you to reconsider your story idea.

We welcome all skill levels. A lot of the joy of a fandom event like this is coming together with fellow fans to improve your craft; we hope even beginners will find this to be a welcoming space where we can all learn and grow and work together.

We’ve had great a great variety of answers regarding the art side. From writers' responses, we have people who only want traditional illustrations, others that are open to different kinds of visual media, and even those who’d be open to receive or provide something completely different (mixed media, typesetting, cosplay, cooking, podfic) or have no preference and are open to anything!At the end of the day we are taking the preferences into account for both artists and writers and we are going to aim for compatible matches. Some teams may have multiple artists if the choice of wanting traditional art only is a sticking point for the authors, but with the interest so far, the odds are fantastic that our mod team can find a space for artists where their talents can shine.

No financial transactions will occur or be endorsed by this event. Not for profit or charity. All content produced by artists and writers will be made free and accessible online.

The check-ins are not really for the benefit of writers! They’re for the team you’re working with–the artists and betas you’ve been assigned. They need time to read your fic and draw for or edit it in some form. Writing it all at the end of the event is just not feasible for collaboration.You should consider the check-ins to be deadlines. Particularly since, if you are not trying to meet the deadlines, your team members may end up being reassigned.That said, if you like to write fast and all in one go, no one is stopping you from writing it all before the first check-in. You do you!

Mods

Here's the team working hard to bring you the 2025 edition of the Scum Villain Self-Saving Bing Bang. We all have diverse skillsets we're bringing together to make the Scum Villain Self-Saving Big Bang fun for everyone!

Moderators