DC Universe Big Bang

Title: After the Storm
Author name: ariadne83 and somehowunbroken
Beta name: camshaft22 and shinysylver
Characters/Pairing: Jason Todd/Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Talia al Ghul, OCs
Fandom/Universe: goes AU post-Red Hood: Lost Days
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 48,629
Warnings: offscreen minor character death of two characters
Summary: Jason is getting ready to start his reign as the Red Hood when he overhears a conversation that will change his life. He ends up giving up his plans for revenge and taking on a new identity so he can raise the son he never thought he'd have. When his safety and anonymity are threatened by the Wayne Foundation 's representative, Tim Drake-Wayne, all Jason can do is keep his head down and hope for the best - but he may have to redefine "best" in order for that to work out.

Fanworker name: tee_sama
Type of fanwork: traditional art
Link to accompanying fanwork master post

Fanworker name: chibifukurou
Type of fanwork: traditional art
Link to accompanying fanwork master post

Title: myths wrongly interpreted
Author name: somehowunbroken
Beta name: camshaft22
Characters/Pairing: Tim Drake, Damian Wayne (gen)
Fandom/Universe: Gotham-verse; DCnU/Batman Inc. 8 fix-it fic
Rating: R
Word count: 12,232
Warnings: major character death (but he gets better), violence
Summary: Tim has lost enough in his life. He isn’t going to lose anything - or anyone - else, not if there’s a chance that he can fix it.

Fanworker name: kitsunebaba
Type of fanwork: traditional art
Link to accompanying fanwork master post: here

Who wants to claim this fantastic story?

Young Justice
9. Title: And then the nature of us
Genre: romance, gen
Fandom/Universe: Young Justice Cartoon, Earth-16
Characters/Pairings: Koy, TulaGarth, Aquatrio (TulaKaldurGarth), JadeRoy of sorts, building polyamorous OT5 (of sorts)
Warnings: the building of polyamory
Summary: Kaldur and Roy are in an established relationship, and with polyamory a pretty common thing in Atlantis, the two of them are attempting to work on the dynamics of having a more open arrangement -- mainly because of Kaldur's important relationships with Tula and Garth both. Roy hasn't necessarily been trying his hardest as of late to be clear and open with how he feels about the whole thing on this side of trying, but now he is -- with varying effects. Kaldur is trying his best to keep up with Roy and figure out what's happening in his relationships, but he's also multitasking and juggling leading the team and overseeing its new developments -- as well as his mounting royal duty back home in Atlantis. Things are hectic and yet only slowly changing in both Kaldur's homes, and Kaldur's just trying to get through another day and make it all work out somehow. Diverges from Season 2 to the point of AU.

All of the stories have been claimed! Check out the second claims post if you still want to participate - it'll only be up for a day or so, so make sure you get your claims in quickly if you want to play :)

Artists/vidders/mixers/etc. will be able to claim up to four stories total - that's including the first one that you may have already claimed. The rules for additional claims are as follows:

-When requesting your story, please list your choices in the order that you want them. Please list the category (Batfamily, Superfamily, Young Justice, or Crossovers), the number of the story, and the title (e.g., "Batfamily 2, myths wrongly interpreted"). The claims will be on a first come, first served basis, and we will do our best to confirm your claim as soon as possible.
-After you’ve listed all of your claims, tell us how many more claims you’d like to make. For example, if you have a list of four stories that you’re possibly interested in, but you’d only like to claim two of them, put "I’d like to claim two" at the bottom. If you leave this out, we’ll assume that you only want one, and assign you one more story.
-Make all of your claims here in the original claims post.

For now, additional claims will be for stories that haven't yet been claimed. After all stories are claimed, we may open up for second claims on stories, but we won’t do that until each story has an accompanying fanworker. More information will be available about second claims later in the week if they open up.

As always, if you have any questions, please use our page-a-mod post.

I've had a few PMs about this, so I wanted to clarify: yes, you can absolutely advertise that fanworker claims are open! In fact, we'd really appreciate it. We have a bunch of pimping banners that you can use if you'd like, or you can just use text, or you can make your own - whatever strikes your fancy! We only have two rules about advertising: one, if it's in a comm, make sure it's okay to advertise there before you post it, and two, don't say "and mine is #4, please claim it!" or anything like that. Other than that, advertise wherever your heart desires - your own journal, Tumblr, Facebook, anywhere you think there might be some fanworkers interested in participating! (Keep in mind that people don't have to have LJ to participate - we're willing and able to work with people outside of LJ if they want to participate!)

Another side note: we have a Tumblr! If that's where you do a lot of your fandom things, feel free to follow us there and reblog the ads we've already put up :)

Hey everyone! We have ten great stories up for claims this year. We're really excited about claims!

Now that the deadline has passed, we're putting the summaries up for artists to peruse. The claims don't actually open until Saturday, and please be aware that there may be a few late additions to this list, but we want the fanworkers to have a chance to think about their claims now.

Important note for authors: please do not tell all of your artist friends what number your story is. The point of a challenge like this is to do blind claims, and while people may recognise your story from snippets you've posted or things you've talked about in the past, please don't give them the exact number of your fic. Additional and unrelated note, if your story is in the wrong category, or is missing, or something else is wrong, PM me ASAP so I can fix it.

This post will be closed to comments until claims open on Saturday. We will post a notice that claims are opening (around 12 noon EST), at which point we will open up the comments and each artist can claim ONE story. Once all the stories have been claimed, or if there are still unclaimed stories by Wednesday, 4 September, we will allow secondary claims.

When requesting your story, please list your top three choices in the order that you want them. Please list the category (Bat-family, Super-family, Young Justice, or Crossovers), the number of the story, and the title (e.g., "Bat-family, #2, myths wrongly interpreted"). The claims will be on a first come, first served basis, and we will do our best to confirm your claim as soon as possible.

Fanworkers, if you are not a member of the comm, please join by filling out the form after you make your claim. If you have any questions, please contact us on our page-a-mod post!

Claims will close on Saturday, 7 September, at 11:59 PM EST. Match-ups will be emailed out after that; it will be up to the author to provide the artist with a copy of their draft at that point. If an author notices that their story has been claimed and confirmed before that point, and wants to send their story to their fanworker before match-ups are sent out, that's fine :)

( Now without further ado, the stories: )

UPDATE: to claim a story, go to the consolidated claims post!

We will be going through and catching up with the spreadsheets over the next day, so if you haven't gotten an email yet, please don't worry.

We will also be removing people from the community over the next few days. If you were signed up last year but didn't sign up again this year, we'll be removing you from our members - you can still watch but, like last year, you can only be a member and see the locked posts if you're participating in the bang.

Finally, if you'd like to sign up as an accompanying fanworker or a beta/cheerleader, you can still do so. We'd love to have you in that capacity as well! You can sign up as both an author and an accompanying fanworker, so if you'd like to do both, that's great. (The only restriction is that you can't claim your own story.)