silvercat17

I've done four events for AllBingo so far and I encourage folks to join in hosting. It can be intimidating doing your first event, but it's actually pretty easy. You can get prompt ideas and lists from previous challenges or use one or more of the lists on the Bingo Generator. Many of the recurring fests use the Bingo Generator lists to great success. While it's nice to do a wrap-up and some reward banners, I have yet to and no one has complained. I try to post the event a week to a few days before it starts.

Recommendations: Write up your event as soon as you think of it, even if you don't do all the formatting. This gives you time to come up with more prompts and makes you less likely to forget what you meant to do.  Use your word processor's alphabetize function to check for duplicate prompts.

Things to include:

• general description of what the event is, preferably with when it'll run
• Any challenges (different bingo shapes, themes, etc)
• Relevant links (for examples, see the 2023 Public Domain Fest, Land of Oz Fest, or Leaky Pipeline Bingo Fest)
• Link to the Bingo card generator and maybe the AO3 collection
• Public cards. I tend to do two or three of different sizes, but even just one is enough!
• Prompt lists in a textarea box ( <textarea> ). Separate each prompt with commas and if you need a comma in a prompt replace it with the HTML code &#44;

How to post it:

• Same as any Dreamwidth post!
• Put your description outside the cut and everything else in the cut
• For the prompt lists and bingo cards, the easiest way (in my opinion), is to switch to the HTML tag and post the code there. Then switch to rich text to double check (it tends to add a whole bunch of unneccesary line breaks, unless you disable the auto-formatting, which means you have to code in the line breaks you want)
• Add your tags: event, !public cards, month: whatever, theme: whatever, public card

And here's a general template you can use, with the HTML included (remove the <table> and the prompt list between the textarea tags):

Description with link to <a href="https://an.owomoyela.net/fun/bingo_generator">Bingo card generator</a> and maybe the <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Allbingo">AO3 collection</a>.

<cut>
<b>Example Board:</b>
<table style="width:auto; display:inline;">

<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000; height:10em; width:10em; text-align:center; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">anticipation</td>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000; height:10em; width:10em; text-align:center; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">family</td>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000; height:10em; width:10em; text-align:center; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">regret</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000; height:10em; width:10em; text-align:center; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">aging</td>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000; height:10em; width:10em; text-align:center; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">FREE SPACE</td>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000; height:10em; width:10em; text-align:center; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">surprise</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000; height:10em; width:10em; text-align:center; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">alone</td>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000; height:10em; width:10em; text-align:center; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">friendship</td>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000; height:10em; width:10em; text-align:center; background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000;">birth</td>
</tr>

</table>

<b>Prompts</b>
<textarea>
candles, cake, present(s), balloons, streamers, wish(es), rain, sunny, anticipation, sharing disappointment, singing, music, party, youth, dinner, movie, aging, birth, milestone, maturity, wisdom, regret, opportunity, argument, friendship, secret, surprise, novelty, childish, thoughtful, sincere, melancholy, playful, family, alone, friend(s), grief/grieving, childhood, tradition, adoption
</textarea>

</cut>


Body Parts Bingo Fest info Prompts from July 2022

calf	hip	jaw	ball	music
run	nails	back	hair	footprint
sway	swim	WILD CARD	lung	crawl
belly	give or take	body hair	drool	eyebrow
color	manipulate	muscle	paint	shin

Finished Prompts:

• back: The Mercy of Shadows (Albert the Monk)
• body hair: Swordcat attacking (Shard-verse)
• color: The One Where They're Human (and Also Magical Warriors) (Up at Silvercat's)

See the full challenge here

Schadenfreude (German): The feeling of joy or pleasure when one sees another fail or suffer misfortune.	Cafuné (Brazilian Portueguese): The act of tenderly running one’s fingers through someone’s hair.	Toska (Russian): A sensation of great spiritual anguish - often without a specific cause; a longing with nothing to long for.	Trepverter (Yiddish): A witty comeback you think of only when it’s too late to use.	Hyggelig (Danish): A warm / friendly / cozy demeanor.
Utepils (Norwegian): To sit outside on a sunny day and enjoy a beer.	Dapjeongneo (Korean): When somebody has already decided the answer they want to hear after asking a question, and are waiting for you to say that exact answer.	Waldeinsamkeit (German): The feeling of solitude, being alone in the woods, and a connectedness to nature.	Hanyauku (Rukwangali): The act of walking on tiptoes across warm sand.	L’appel du vide (French): Literally translated to “the call of the void”; contextually used to describe the instinctive urge to jump from high places.
Dépaysement (French): The feeling that comes from not being in one’s home country; being a foreigner.	Torschlusspanik (German): The fear of diminishing opportunities as one ages.	FREE SPACE	Mokita (Kivila): The truth everyone knows but agrees not to talk about.	Forelsket (Norwegian): The indescribable euphoria experienced as you begin to fall in love.
Shlimazl (Yiddish): A chronically unlucky person.	Tretår (Swedish): A second refill or “threefill” of coffee.	Saudade (Portuguese): The feeling of longing for something or someone that you love and which is lost.	Pochemuchka (Russian): A person who asks too many questions.	Gökotta (Swedish): To wake up early in the morning with the purpose of going outside to hear the first birds sing.
Komorebi (Japanese): The sunlight that filters through the leaves of the trees.	Iktsuarpok (Inuit): The frustration of waiting for someone to turn up.	Verschlimmbessern (German): To make something worse when trying to improve it.	Fika (Swedish): Gathering together to talk and take a break from everyday routines; either at a cafe or at home - often for hours on end.	Abbiocco (Italian): drowsiness from eating a big meal.

I'll probably do mostly Shard-verse stories, but if you want to see some other of my characters let me know! (Puzzle-verse, Albert)

(Edited Nov 29, 2021 to replace some)

Finished prompts:
- Saudade (Swordcat)
- Iktsuarpok (Wild Streak and Magpie)
- Gokotta (Nathan Burton)
- Cafune (Nathan and Delia)
- Komorebi (Swordcat)
- L'appel du vide (Swordcat)