New h/c bingo card!

[sholio]

I'm almost certainly going to sign up for rarepairfest, once I finish getting my signup written. Probably with Agent Carter, Guardians of the Galaxy, and ... I'm still figuring out a third one that sounds fun. Supergirl? White Collar?

I have also acquired an h/c bingo card! This is round 8, which means it's been going on for 8 years (omfg!). And I've been doing it almost every year. I think there was a year in there I didn't do it, and there have definitely been years I haven't completed a bingo (and one year I blacked out my card - though admittedly it took me 'til the amnesty period to do it), but in general, I really look forward to getting each year's card. So here is this year's.

dystopia	alien abduction	loss of job / income	nervous breakdown	restrained
secret identity discovered	counseling	scars	hospital stay	loss of voice / forced silence
dungeons	headaches / migraines	WILD CARD	body / mindswap	brainwashing / deprogramming
lacerations / knife wounds	hostile climate	cages	arrest	healers
self-harm	haunted	lost childhood	attacked by a creature	drowning

Gotta admit my first reaction to this card was "meh", but there are some squares I can work with, and not too many DNWs! I do have to say that "alien abduction" would've been terribly difficult ... up until a month ago when I got into a fandom in which being abducted by aliens is actually the inciting incident that set off the entire plot. So, yeah, twist my arm and make me write fic about bb!Peter. What a hardship. <3

GotG also has the advantage that most of the characters have tragic/horrible enough backstories that I could probably do this entire card, or at least most of it, just with their canonical trauma ...

Here's my usual bingo card recoloring to help me prioritize. Green squares are the ones that appeal to me most, and/or that I already have ideas for. Red are hard ones. Brown are neutral.



Looks like I should focus on one of the bottom two rows, or the middle vertical column ...

Comments

[mific]

Well the recolored card's pretty, anyway!

[sholio]

I like the color scheme on the card this year! :D

[kore]

....nooooooo you did not just do this to me -- Oh, the recolouring's so pretty! and a great idea.

[sholio]

Yeah, I've been doing the recoloring since my first card (I think) to help me prioritize. I used to do green all the way through yellow, orange, and red to represent my relative levels of interest in the squares and help me figure out which row to work on, but this year's default card color scheme doesn't make that easy (plus I don't really have strong feelings on most of these squares beyond "I think I could write that" or "meh").

[frith_in_thorns]

I quite like your card! I've in the past used "self-harm" for any sort of reckless or self-sabotaging behaviour, from knowing your faves in the past I imagine you might know a couple who fit that bill?

[sholio]

Oooh, that is a good idea! :D I am sure I can come up with a character I could do that for.

h/c bingo is always a good time. :D

[nywcgirl]

Nice card, I am glad you don't mobd the alian abduction. That is a tough one for me... any chance there is a WCFic in there?

[sholio]

any chance there is a WCFic in there?

mmmmmaybe. :D I'll just have to see which way my creativity takes me!

[yalumesse]

Voting Supergirl! I was going to say that could solve your "alien abduction" problem but you already got there.

How do you do the recolouring anyway?

[sholio]

How do you do the recolouring anyway?

Photoshop. It's a separate layer.

Although you could probably also do it by changing the background image and/or background color in the code of the table that the h/c bingo comm gives you to c&p.

And ha, good point about Supergirl! (The first time I had that square, I did it with Legends of Tomorrow and a rather broad interpretation of "alien abduction.")

[yalumesse]

Works too!