CAB21: rules/FAQ
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poddersundercoverIn the whole, not much has changed from last year. We’ve tweaked the prompt list and the challenges, added even more words to the rules, backtracked and added even MORE words with a summarized version or two, ... So here’s the schedule once again, that first summary that’ll give you the gist, then a summary of the changes from last year for returning participants, then the full version.
The rules are subject to change, based on feedback, up until signups open. If they do, we’ll mention it in the signup post. The prompt list will go up closer to signups. Here's the prompt list (/signups post)!
Schedule:
Schedule: 01 Feb - 01 Nov,
Signups/posting: all throughout the round,
Monthly challenges: a post at the start of each month, open until the end of the month.
Sparknotes version:
This bingo is about enabling you to challenge yourself and create more. It’s not about creating more of one specific kind of fanwork or spreading a new standard. As such, you can:
- interpret your prompts however you want to without needing to justify yourself,
- do as little or as much as you want, including nothing at all,
- fill as many squares as you want at once,
- collaborate with anyone,
- create covers without recording a podfic,
- create stuff that aren’t covers,
- play with your own custom card,
- customize the playbook,
- etc.
That also means the mods won’t be checking submissions, but we will be available for help and receptive to feedback.
The only limitation on that creativity is the respect of others, to make this space as safe and welcoming to everyone as we can. Be thoughtful of other participants, and please come to us if someone else isn’t doing that.
Changes from last year:
Monthly challenges:
This year, the monthly challenges are going to consist of:
- Ask the artist: a question about your creative process, your experience and/or the resources you use, kind of like the snowflake challenge.
- Art history: an extra prompt about art history that’s just like an extra square on your card.
You can answer in a comment on the relevant challenge post, on twitter, in a separate dw post on the community, … We won’t be keeping track, but we’d love to see it, so at least drop us a link!
And you can, of course, incorporate these challenges into your regular prompts.
Each will get you a cheat. Cheats work kind of like for the podfic bingo: one cheat allows you to swap a square for another prompt on the prompt list, to swap two squares on your card or to fill one square. Except, of course, if you decide to make your own rules!
Schedule:
The schedule has changed! This time, we’re going for 9 months starting in February.
Modding and community:
We are going to try to communicate better about the challenges, so expect some graphics in the podfichat discord server and on our brand new twitter (Cover Artist Bingo @ CoverArtBingo).
We’ve also added a section on community values (re:harassment, bigotry and general conflict), and a section for resources on things like anti-racism and accessibility. Do check those out!
Podfics, covers and prompts:
This is not a change so much as a reminder: you don’t have to make a podfic to go with your covers, and you can also fill your prompts with things that aren’t covers:
- cover templates,
- covers for fics without podfics,
- covers for potential aural not!fics,
- written or audio meta,
- stickers, photosets and other resources,
- behind the scene content and creative process notes,
- stats and diagrams,
- cover art collaborations, including betaing, cheerleading or directing on someone else’s cover, - whatever else we haven’t thought of.
Likewise, please feel free to interpret the prompts in weird, sideways or even lazy ways! If you have no inspiration for a prompt, you can:
- ask the mods for clarification re:wtf was going on in their heads when they came up with this prompt, in the replies to the prompt list post,
- ask the other participants for creative ways to fill a prompt, for podfics that could fit it, or for co-artist collaborators, on the help wanted post,
- ask outside this community. We’ll be happy to signal boost any tweets if you @ us (Cover Artist Bingo @ CoverArtBingo), and If you like discord, the cover art channel of the podfichat server was especially helpful to me last year!
Rules/FAQ:
What’s a bingo?
A bingo is a creative challenge where you get a card of prompts, set in a square grid (5x5 here), and you have to create stuff that fits the prompts in order to fill them. You win by either doing a line of 5 (horizontal, vertical or diagonal bingo) or filling all the squares (a blackout) or achieving some other pattern you’ve set as a goal. Once you’ve posted/crossposted all your fills to the dw community, you can consider yourself to have won!
How do I fill a square and is there a posting template?
Create a cover (or something cover-related!) that somehow fits the prompt of that square, post it wherever, and if it’s not in this community, crosspost it here before the end of the challenge! We don’t have a template for posting, but we’d suggest listing:
- your creation, or a link to it,
- any relevant content notes,
- the level of blanket permission/creative commons licence you’re putting on the work,
- a caption (description of the visual elements),
- the prompt,
- any photo/fonts/tutos/etc credits,
- some notes or anecdotes about your creative process,
- any other info you’d like to add.
How many squares can I fill with one work?
As many as you want. You could technically create one thing that fills all of the squares of your card. Please do, we want to see what that would look like.
Does that mean I have to record and post one podfic per cover?
Absolutely not. You can create covers for:
- old podfics of yours,
- podfics of other people: there’s the Podfic Cover Art Welcome and the Cover Art Welcome tags on ao3, then there are the blanket permission statements that include cover art, and also collaborations with other cover artists or podficcers, and to be honest, I feel like most people wouldn’t consider it necessary to ask for permission to do a cover based on one of their pods anyway?
- podfics that already have a cover (alternate covers! remixed covers!),
- potential future podfics, and then you could always leave it open for someone else to use that cover later on, or just create it to create it with no permission attached,
- general tropes, the cover could then potentially be reused and adapted for a specific story,
- a story idea, the cover telling a story (a specific AU with specific characters, for example) that could or could not then be written or oral not!ficced,
- etc.
And you can also create things that aren’t covers! And on that note...
Something ‘cover-related’? And btw, why cover artIST bingo?
As long as in the end, the thing you’re creating is about covers/art/design and experimenting, it counts. For example:
- animations,
- written or spoken meta about covers,
- comics, flowcharts, memes, ...
- resources, like stickers or stock photos,
- embroidery,
- etc.
So you could theoretically fill your whole card without ever making a single cover, and actually, that could be a fun self-imposed challenge! That’s why it’s the cover artIST bingo, and not the cover ART bingo. Except on twitter, because of the character limit. Anyway.
If you’re still unsure, you might want to take a look at the "meta" section of the prompt list. Anything that’s in there is totally mod-approved (mod-encouraged even!) for any other square, and the breadth of it should give you an idea of how shrug-emoji, anything-goes our approach is.
’Somehow’ fits the prompt? How creative can I get?
Please feel free to interpret your prompts in weird, sideways or even lazy ways! As long as you can justify to yourself how what you did fits the prompt, as phony as that argument might be, it’s good. This is about stretching your limits and experimenting, but it’s also about having fun and not signing up for more than you can/want to do.
But I have no idea what to do with that? Is that a url??
Ok, full freedom of interpretation can sometimes backfire.
The url prompts were originally conceived as starting points. You could use the color scheme of a picture, or a particular font from the design, you could apply a concept from a tutorial, you could recreate the feel of a piece of graphic design, you could even go look at the website it’s originally from and take your inspiration from there.
If you have no inspiration for a prompt, you can also:
- ask the mods for clarification re:wtf was going on in their heads when they came up with this prompt, in the replies to the prompt list post,
- ask the other participants for creative ways to fill a prompt, for podfics that could fit it, or for co-artist collaborators, on the help wanted post,
- ask outside this community. We’ll be happy to signal boost any tweets if you @ us (Cover Artist Bingo @ CoverArtBingo), and if you like discord, the cover art channel of the podfichat server was especially helpful to me last year!
I have an old cover that fits one of my squares, can I use it?
Please don’t. We’d prefer if what you use to fill a square was new. It could be for (or go with) another challenge or event, but, unless you’re playing with custom rules, it has to not have been posted before. WIPs from before you got your card are a-okay, though!
However, remixes of already-posted works would count as new works. For example, you could:
- make a new version of the cover,
- use elements from it,
- write a meta post about it,
- animate it, ...
Once again, we won’t be checking your submissions, so this is all about accountability toward yourself, not toward us.
How do I sign-up? Can I opt out of such and such prompt?
To sign up, reply to the sign-up post. Two options: request a card and we’ll reply with one, or make your own and show it to us. If you make it yourself, you can get rid of any prompts you don’t want or even make up your own personal prompts. As long as it’s done in the spirit of the bingo, anything goes. We might even steal some of your ideas for the official list next year!
I've finished my card, can I have/make another one?
Yes, of course! Same deal, just sign up again.
Are there prizes?
Yes! We’ll do achievement banners. There’ll be a post about it closer to the end of the schedule.
If you have ideas for other prizes, or would like to make some, let us know!
Are there cheats and challenges like for the podfic bingo?
Yes! Every month, there’ll be a new post on this comm with two challenges:
- Ask the artist: a question about your creative process, your experience and/or the resources you use, kind of like the snowflake challenge.
- Art history: an extra prompt about art history that’s just like an extra square on your card.
You can answer in a comment on the relevant challenge post, on twitter, in a separate dw post on the community, … We won’t be keeping track, but we’d love to see it, so at least drop us a link!
And you can, of course, incorporate these challenges into your regular prompts.
Doing a challenge will give you one cheat, so you can win two cheats per month if you do all the challenges.
What do cheats do?
One cheat can do one of several things:
- swap two squares on your card,
- replace a square by a prompt from the prompt list,
- fill one (any) square.
Or actually, if you decide to make your own rules, anything you want! For example, you could make a list of options and roll a dice, like a Mario mystery box, or do a hard-mode run without cheats, or do the reverse and fill your card using exclusively cheats, or anything else you can come up with.
Cheats don’t expire until the end of the bingo, so feel free to keep them for later.
I have a question, a suggestion, a problem or a concern, how do I get in touch?
Several options:
- if you have a question about the rules or about a prompt, you can hit the comment section of the rules post or the help wanted post, depending on whose help you’d like. Or you can ask on twitter and @ us, and we’ll answer there or signal boost, depending.
- if you have ideas for next year, you can either wait for the feedback/suggestions post that will go up near the end of the challenge, contact us on twitter, or send it directly to the mods.
- your mods are Anna (she/they, AnnaPodfics on twitter, annabelle.myrt@gmail.com), Eafay (she/her, eafay70 on twitter and dreamwidth) and MistbornHero (she/her, same name on twitter and tumblr). We’ll always be happy to hear from you!
- if it’s about our modding, and you don’t feel comfortable bringing it to any of us, you can contact Lavenderfrost (she/her, the creator of this community). She isn’t involved in the modding side of this bingo. You can also send Anna an anonymous ask on tumblr.
What if it’s about someone’s behaviour? And btw, what are the values of this challenge?
We want to foster discussion and creativity. As such, we cannot tolerate any behaviour or language that harasses, prejudices, and generally pushes aside any member of the community.
We can’t promise to notice it ourselves, because of our own biases and because we’re not actively monitoring interactions, so we’re counting on you to let us know if needed. However, we can promise we’ll always listen and do our best to help. That also applies if the problem is with one of the mods. See just above for public/private/anonymous ways to contact us.
For reference, here’s the first rule of this comm: "Be nice. 3 strikes, you're out. Insta-bans with no second chances for hate speech & harassment/threats. Disagreements are fine, being an asshole is not."
What are you doing to address your own ingrained prejudices? What can I do?
In this particular challenge, we as mods are working on the prompts, rules and challenges to try to cover more than just the white/occidental/abled/etc experience. If you have feedback or suggestions on this, actually, it’d be very welcome!
More generally, below are a few links that might be useful. If you find other resources more useful, or on other topics, would you mind sharing them with us so we can add them here?
On decolonizing design
What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design?
Helvetica, Modernism and the Status Quo of Design
Decolonizing Design Reader (in-progress), Version 4
Decentering Whiteness in Design History Resources
On cultural appropriation
Considering Cultural Appropriation in the Art Classroom
Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?
On accessibility
How Ableism Leads to Inaccessibility by Olivier Nourry
How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Teach Access Tutorial
On telling stories and race
2020 Pod-Together Content Moderation Rules
On stories and content warnings
Possible warnings to include for the Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology
Schedule:
Schedule: 01 Feb - 01 Nov,
Signups/posting: all throughout the round,
Monthly challenges: a post at the start of each month, open until the end of the month.
Sparknotes version:
This bingo is about enabling you to challenge yourself and create more. It’s not about creating more of one specific kind of fanwork or spreading a new standard. As such, you can:
- interpret your prompts however you want to without needing to justify yourself,
- do as little or as much as you want, including nothing at all,
- fill as many squares as you want at once,
- collaborate with anyone,
- create covers without recording a podfic,
- create stuff that aren’t covers,
- play with your own custom card,
- customize the playbook,
- etc.
That also means the mods won’t be checking submissions, but we will be available for help and receptive to feedback.
The only limitation on that creativity is the respect of others, to make this space as safe and welcoming to everyone as we can. Be thoughtful of other participants, and please come to us if someone else isn’t doing that.
Changes from last year:
Monthly challenges:
This year, the monthly challenges are going to consist of:
- Ask the artist: a question about your creative process, your experience and/or the resources you use, kind of like the snowflake challenge.
- Art history: an extra prompt about art history that’s just like an extra square on your card.
You can answer in a comment on the relevant challenge post, on twitter, in a separate dw post on the community, … We won’t be keeping track, but we’d love to see it, so at least drop us a link!
And you can, of course, incorporate these challenges into your regular prompts.
Each will get you a cheat. Cheats work kind of like for the podfic bingo: one cheat allows you to swap a square for another prompt on the prompt list, to swap two squares on your card or to fill one square. Except, of course, if you decide to make your own rules!
Schedule:
The schedule has changed! This time, we’re going for 9 months starting in February.
Modding and community:
We are going to try to communicate better about the challenges, so expect some graphics in the podfichat discord server and on our brand new twitter (Cover Artist Bingo @ CoverArtBingo).
We’ve also added a section on community values (re:harassment, bigotry and general conflict), and a section for resources on things like anti-racism and accessibility. Do check those out!
Podfics, covers and prompts:
This is not a change so much as a reminder: you don’t have to make a podfic to go with your covers, and you can also fill your prompts with things that aren’t covers:
- cover templates,
- covers for fics without podfics,
- covers for potential aural not!fics,
- written or audio meta,
- stickers, photosets and other resources,
- behind the scene content and creative process notes,
- stats and diagrams,
- cover art collaborations, including betaing, cheerleading or directing on someone else’s cover, - whatever else we haven’t thought of.
Likewise, please feel free to interpret the prompts in weird, sideways or even lazy ways! If you have no inspiration for a prompt, you can:
- ask the mods for clarification re:wtf was going on in their heads when they came up with this prompt, in the replies to the prompt list post,
- ask the other participants for creative ways to fill a prompt, for podfics that could fit it, or for co-artist collaborators, on the help wanted post,
- ask outside this community. We’ll be happy to signal boost any tweets if you @ us (Cover Artist Bingo @ CoverArtBingo), and If you like discord, the cover art channel of the podfichat server was especially helpful to me last year!
Rules/FAQ:
What’s a bingo?
A bingo is a creative challenge where you get a card of prompts, set in a square grid (5x5 here), and you have to create stuff that fits the prompts in order to fill them. You win by either doing a line of 5 (horizontal, vertical or diagonal bingo) or filling all the squares (a blackout) or achieving some other pattern you’ve set as a goal. Once you’ve posted/crossposted all your fills to the dw community, you can consider yourself to have won!
How do I fill a square and is there a posting template?
Create a cover (or something cover-related!) that somehow fits the prompt of that square, post it wherever, and if it’s not in this community, crosspost it here before the end of the challenge! We don’t have a template for posting, but we’d suggest listing:
- your creation, or a link to it,
- any relevant content notes,
- the level of blanket permission/creative commons licence you’re putting on the work,
- a caption (description of the visual elements),
- the prompt,
- any photo/fonts/tutos/etc credits,
- some notes or anecdotes about your creative process,
- any other info you’d like to add.
How many squares can I fill with one work?
As many as you want. You could technically create one thing that fills all of the squares of your card. Please do, we want to see what that would look like.
Does that mean I have to record and post one podfic per cover?
Absolutely not. You can create covers for:
- old podfics of yours,
- podfics of other people: there’s the Podfic Cover Art Welcome and the Cover Art Welcome tags on ao3, then there are the blanket permission statements that include cover art, and also collaborations with other cover artists or podficcers, and to be honest, I feel like most people wouldn’t consider it necessary to ask for permission to do a cover based on one of their pods anyway?
- podfics that already have a cover (alternate covers! remixed covers!),
- potential future podfics, and then you could always leave it open for someone else to use that cover later on, or just create it to create it with no permission attached,
- general tropes, the cover could then potentially be reused and adapted for a specific story,
- a story idea, the cover telling a story (a specific AU with specific characters, for example) that could or could not then be written or oral not!ficced,
- etc.
And you can also create things that aren’t covers! And on that note...
Something ‘cover-related’? And btw, why cover artIST bingo?
As long as in the end, the thing you’re creating is about covers/art/design and experimenting, it counts. For example:
- animations,
- written or spoken meta about covers,
- comics, flowcharts, memes, ...
- resources, like stickers or stock photos,
- embroidery,
- etc.
So you could theoretically fill your whole card without ever making a single cover, and actually, that could be a fun self-imposed challenge! That’s why it’s the cover artIST bingo, and not the cover ART bingo. Except on twitter, because of the character limit. Anyway.
If you’re still unsure, you might want to take a look at the "meta" section of the prompt list. Anything that’s in there is totally mod-approved (mod-encouraged even!) for any other square, and the breadth of it should give you an idea of how shrug-emoji, anything-goes our approach is.
’Somehow’ fits the prompt? How creative can I get?
Please feel free to interpret your prompts in weird, sideways or even lazy ways! As long as you can justify to yourself how what you did fits the prompt, as phony as that argument might be, it’s good. This is about stretching your limits and experimenting, but it’s also about having fun and not signing up for more than you can/want to do.
But I have no idea what to do with that? Is that a url??
Ok, full freedom of interpretation can sometimes backfire.
The url prompts were originally conceived as starting points. You could use the color scheme of a picture, or a particular font from the design, you could apply a concept from a tutorial, you could recreate the feel of a piece of graphic design, you could even go look at the website it’s originally from and take your inspiration from there.
If you have no inspiration for a prompt, you can also:
- ask the mods for clarification re:wtf was going on in their heads when they came up with this prompt, in the replies to the prompt list post,
- ask the other participants for creative ways to fill a prompt, for podfics that could fit it, or for co-artist collaborators, on the help wanted post,
- ask outside this community. We’ll be happy to signal boost any tweets if you @ us (Cover Artist Bingo @ CoverArtBingo), and if you like discord, the cover art channel of the podfichat server was especially helpful to me last year!
I have an old cover that fits one of my squares, can I use it?
Please don’t. We’d prefer if what you use to fill a square was new. It could be for (or go with) another challenge or event, but, unless you’re playing with custom rules, it has to not have been posted before. WIPs from before you got your card are a-okay, though!
However, remixes of already-posted works would count as new works. For example, you could:
- make a new version of the cover,
- use elements from it,
- write a meta post about it,
- animate it, ...
Once again, we won’t be checking your submissions, so this is all about accountability toward yourself, not toward us.
How do I sign-up? Can I opt out of such and such prompt?
To sign up, reply to the sign-up post. Two options: request a card and we’ll reply with one, or make your own and show it to us. If you make it yourself, you can get rid of any prompts you don’t want or even make up your own personal prompts. As long as it’s done in the spirit of the bingo, anything goes. We might even steal some of your ideas for the official list next year!
I've finished my card, can I have/make another one?
Yes, of course! Same deal, just sign up again.
Are there prizes?
Yes! We’ll do achievement banners. There’ll be a post about it closer to the end of the schedule.
If you have ideas for other prizes, or would like to make some, let us know!
Are there cheats and challenges like for the podfic bingo?
Yes! Every month, there’ll be a new post on this comm with two challenges:
- Ask the artist: a question about your creative process, your experience and/or the resources you use, kind of like the snowflake challenge.
- Art history: an extra prompt about art history that’s just like an extra square on your card.
You can answer in a comment on the relevant challenge post, on twitter, in a separate dw post on the community, … We won’t be keeping track, but we’d love to see it, so at least drop us a link!
And you can, of course, incorporate these challenges into your regular prompts.
Doing a challenge will give you one cheat, so you can win two cheats per month if you do all the challenges.
What do cheats do?
One cheat can do one of several things:
- swap two squares on your card,
- replace a square by a prompt from the prompt list,
- fill one (any) square.
Or actually, if you decide to make your own rules, anything you want! For example, you could make a list of options and roll a dice, like a Mario mystery box, or do a hard-mode run without cheats, or do the reverse and fill your card using exclusively cheats, or anything else you can come up with.
Cheats don’t expire until the end of the bingo, so feel free to keep them for later.
I have a question, a suggestion, a problem or a concern, how do I get in touch?
Several options:
- if you have a question about the rules or about a prompt, you can hit the comment section of the rules post or the help wanted post, depending on whose help you’d like. Or you can ask on twitter and @ us, and we’ll answer there or signal boost, depending.
- if you have ideas for next year, you can either wait for the feedback/suggestions post that will go up near the end of the challenge, contact us on twitter, or send it directly to the mods.
- your mods are Anna (she/they, AnnaPodfics on twitter, annabelle.myrt@gmail.com), Eafay (she/her, eafay70 on twitter and dreamwidth) and MistbornHero (she/her, same name on twitter and tumblr). We’ll always be happy to hear from you!
- if it’s about our modding, and you don’t feel comfortable bringing it to any of us, you can contact Lavenderfrost (she/her, the creator of this community). She isn’t involved in the modding side of this bingo. You can also send Anna an anonymous ask on tumblr.
What if it’s about someone’s behaviour? And btw, what are the values of this challenge?
We want to foster discussion and creativity. As such, we cannot tolerate any behaviour or language that harasses, prejudices, and generally pushes aside any member of the community.
We can’t promise to notice it ourselves, because of our own biases and because we’re not actively monitoring interactions, so we’re counting on you to let us know if needed. However, we can promise we’ll always listen and do our best to help. That also applies if the problem is with one of the mods. See just above for public/private/anonymous ways to contact us.
For reference, here’s the first rule of this comm: "Be nice. 3 strikes, you're out. Insta-bans with no second chances for hate speech & harassment/threats. Disagreements are fine, being an asshole is not."
What are you doing to address your own ingrained prejudices? What can I do?
In this particular challenge, we as mods are working on the prompts, rules and challenges to try to cover more than just the white/occidental/abled/etc experience. If you have feedback or suggestions on this, actually, it’d be very welcome!
More generally, below are a few links that might be useful. If you find other resources more useful, or on other topics, would you mind sharing them with us so we can add them here?
On decolonizing design
What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design?
Helvetica, Modernism and the Status Quo of Design
Decolonizing Design Reader (in-progress), Version 4
Decentering Whiteness in Design History Resources
On cultural appropriation
Considering Cultural Appropriation in the Art Classroom
Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?
On accessibility
How Ableism Leads to Inaccessibility by Olivier Nourry
How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Teach Access Tutorial
On telling stories and race
2020 Pod-Together Content Moderation Rules
On stories and content warnings
Possible warnings to include for the Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology