Prompt List

[slashmarks]

The current prompt list for Pinch Hit Bingo squares is listed before. Prompts generally refer to the type of pinch hit you're claiming, not your fill per se. For example, "action movie fandom" would be for a pinch hit requesting a fanwork for an action movie, while "slash pinch hit" would be for a pinch hit requesting a slash pairing. If anything is confusing about these prompts, please ask in the comments of this post!

1. Action movie fandom


2. Ancient event (10+ times run)


3. Ancient fandom (pre-800 CE)


4. Anime/Manga fandom


5. Art pinch hit


6. Book fandom


7. Cartoon fandom


8. Comedy/satire fandom


9. Comic fandom


10. Creator's Choice of Fandom pinch hit


11. Crossover pinch hit


12. Digital art pinch hit


13. Drabble pinch hit


14. Emergency/Post-postdeadline pinch hit


15. Established event (3+ times run)


16. Event hosted on Discord


17. Event hosted on dreamwidth


18. Event hosted on tumblr


19. Event with delayed reveals


20. Fandom bang pinch hit


21. Fandom with no works on AO3


22. Fantasy fandom


23. Fanvid pinch hit


24. Female character(s) requested


25. Femslash pinch hit


26. Fill a pinch hitter's prompt!


27. Five minute fandom


28. Flash exchange


29. Franchise fandom


30. Freeform matching event


31. Gen relationship pinch hit


32. Genre-themed event


33. Het pinch hit


34. Historical fandom


35. Holiday-themed event


36. Horror fandom


37. Initial Pinch Hit


38. Large fandom (>20,000 works on Ao3)


39. Lineart/color minimum


40. Literary/mainstream fiction fandom


41. Male character(s) requested


42. Max fandoms in request


43. Max pairings/characters in request


44. Medieval fandom (pre-1600 CE)


45. Medium-sized fandom (1000-20,000 works on AO3)


46. Medium-themed event


47. Megapairing (>10,000 works on AO3)


48. Minimum of 1k


49. Minimum of 300 words


50. Minimum of 500 words


51. Minimum of 5k or more


52. Minimum of 2k or more


53. Movie fandom


54. Multifandom event


55. Music fandom


56. Mystery fandom


57. Mythology/folklore fandom


58. New event (first time running)


59. New fandom (post-2020 CE)


60. New to you fandom


61. No longer new fandom (1990-2020 CE)


62. Nonbinary/other gender character(s) requested


63. Nonhuman character(s) requested


64. Old fandom (pre-1900)


65. Original Work pinch hit


66. Pairing/character with no works on AO3


67. Pinch hit with no prompt text


68. Podcast fandom


69. Podfic pinch hit


70. Post-Deadline Pinch Hit


71. Public domain fandom


72. Rare pairing (<500 works on AO3)


73. Ratings matching event


74. Romance fandom


75. RPF pinch hit


76. Scifi fandom


77. Series fandom


78. Shipping-themed event


79. Short story fandom


80. Sole character pinch hit


81. Single fandom event


82. Single fandom request


83. Single pairing/character in request


84. Sitcom fandom


85. Sketch minimum


86. Slash pinch hit


87. Small fandom (<1000 works on AO3)


88. Smut exchange


89. Standalone fandom


90. Threesome/Moresome pinch hit


91. Traditional art pinch hit


92. TV fandom


93. Unusual format pinch hit


94. Unusually formatted fandom


95. Video game fandom


96. Vintage fandom (pre-1990 CE)


97. Warnings matching event


98. Webcomic fandom


99. Webnovel fandom


100. YA/children's fandom

Comments

[westiec]

I love this concept! Can I ask what these two mean?

42. Max fandoms in request
43. Max pairings/characters in request

[slashmarks]

Sure! They both refer to the number of fandoms or pairings in the request. 42. is for the maximum fandoms allowed and 43. for the maximum pairings or characters, so for example, if the exchange allows up to 10 fandoms requested in a sign up, 42. would be for a request with 10 fandoms in it, etc.

[westiec]

Ahhh that makes sense. Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Asking on behalf of some dumbass, for the sake of posterity: If a recipient is requesting, for example, both a video game fandom and a book fandom in the same exchange, can I cross off the "book fandom" square by writing a fic for the video game?

[(Anonymous)]

And as one such dumbass (thanks), if a requests is for either a femslash OR a slash ship and I write a femslash ship, can I cross off femslash and slash or only femslash?

[slashmarks]

Thanks for checking! You can fill one square per pinch hit fill. That said, yes, slash is ambiguous and can be filled with a work for either male slash or femslash.

[slashmarks]

I admire your enterprisingness! No, there are some prompts that apply to the whole sign up (e.g., single pairing request) but other than that, it has to be the request you actually fill.

[(Anonymous)]

The anon you replied to was being rather an asshole, I think. I'm in the same boat as the "dumbass" they're referring to. What precisely is the difference between a prompt applying to a pinch hit and a prompt applying to a fill? If the prompt is for slash fic, your fill had better have slash fic in it.

[slashmarks]

Most pinch hits/exchange sign ups have multiple requests! So the questions were about respectively a hypothetical request for a video game *or* book fandom, or a request for a slash pairing *or* femslash pairing. In either case, you get one square per fanwork and it needs to match the request you actually filled.

The special case is where the prompt is about the entire sign up, like the prompt for a sign up that requests the maximum number of fandoms or the prompt for a sign up that asks for just one. But you're still only filling one bingo square for filling the pinch hit.

Does that make sense?

[morbane]

I'm none of the anonymous commenters above, but thanks: your explanation makes sense to me, but I also needed this clarification. This part in the rules confused me:

Prompts generally refer to the type of pinch hit you're claiming, not your fill per se. For example, "action movie fandom" would be for a pinch hit requesting a fanwork for an action movie, while "slash pinch hit" would be for a pinch hit requesting a slash pairing

Because I was trying to understand how "not your fill per se" was illustrated by the examples that came afterwards, the grammar read to me as "prompts refer to the type of pinch hit you're claiming, instead of the fill you make". But I now understand from your clarification that the intent is something like, "Prompts generally refer to the type of work you created to fulfil the pinch hit, but in some specific cases (like "single fandom request") they refer to some quality of the pinch hit overall." (Ugh. 'quality of the pinch hit overall' isn't very good.... lucky I don't have to write the rules. :P)

[slashmarks]

Gotcha, sorry about the confusion! I was probably thinking too hard about not encouraging people to, say, write a threesome for a character matching sign up to fill in a bingo square.

[(Anonymous)]

This is possibly a silly question, but does “Historical Fandom” apply to contemporary media with a historical setting, or is it for media created before a certain date?

[slashmarks]

Thanks for asking! You can use it for either one, subject to your judgement to what date feels "historical" to you, or historical RPF.

[(Anonymous)]

What does 27. five minute fandom mean?

[slashmarks]

It's slang for very short fandoms which can be picked up quickly, not necessarily literally five minutes, but something like a music video, an advertisement, a painting, etc. DOes that make sense?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, thank you!