Current Schedule:
TSB 2021 / MARK V
July 1st - signups open
July 31st - signups close
August 1st - Mark V begins
August 27 - Discord Party
February 28, 2022 - Mark V ends
March 7, 2022 - Masterposts and badge claims due
* note: the Discord Bingo Parties offer opportunities to adopt new prompts, swap prompts with other participants, get free fills, or get mod fill tokens.
Community Guidelines, Tag Set, & FAQs
Tony Stark Bingo is a Pillowfort community for all things related to Tony Stark bingo, including announcements from the mods and participant creations. In order to run smoothly we came up with some community guidelines for everyone to follow!
Posting
Here are some guidelines for posting or reblogging to our community:
- Posts must contain fills or links to fills for our bingo challenge, whether it be a single fill or a masterpost.
- NSFW posts must be labeled as NSFW, with the content under a read more
- Properly tagged for common triggers, medium, and ships - see tag set for more details
Posts that will be removed:
- Anything that is not a fill or masterpost
- Advertisements
If you have any questions or concerns, you can send mail to mod nativemossy here on Pillowfort or contact any of the mods at tonystarkbingo@gmail.com as well as on Tumblr, Dreamwidth, and our Discord server.
Conduct
Be kind and respectful towards others
Don't steal someone else's work, this includes reposting without explicit permission from the creator
All fics or other large blocks of text should be under a read more or have a link.
Tag appropriately, the blacklist feature doesn’t work if you don’t tag! It also helps the community stay organized and can make your work easier to find
Don’t make any callout posts or comments. This behavior is against Pillowfort’s TOS. Problems between participants should be resolved in private or taken to the mods
No kink shaming, if someone’s kink makes you uncomfortable, leave the conversation and blacklist the relevant tags
Ship and let ship, as with kinks, leave and blacklist
Tag Set
Here is our tag set, please make an effort to tag posts properly as the tags are written here, both for blacklisting purposes and for searching purposes once the feature is implemented in communities.
General
these tags are how the mods find you if you don't post or reblog to the community, anything tagged with one of these and open for reblogs will be reblogged to community if it hasn't already been
tonystarkbingo
tony stark bingo
NSFW + Any potential triggers! - mandatory
NSFW
Rape/Noncon
Dubcon
Abuse
Underage
Incest
Bestiality
Relationships
Here are the tags for various relationships gathered from last round, please use them as written here, if there is a ship in your fill not listed here, let us know so we can add it!
Romantic/sexual relationships are marked with a “/” while platonic/familial relationships are marked with an “&”. Please only tag for the relationship that is the focus of your fic. You can also tag a fic “Gen” if there is no relationship it focuses on.
Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
Pepper Potts & Tony Stark
Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Steve Rogers & Tony Stark
James “Bucky” Barnes/Tony Stark
James “Bucky” Barnes & Tony Stark
Steve Rogers/James “Bucky” Barnes/Tony Stark
James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark
James "Rhodey" Rhodes & Tony Stark
Loki/Tony Stark
Tony Stark/Stephen Strange
Bruce Banner/Tony Stark
Peter Quill/Tony Stark
Natasha Romanov/Tony Stark
Tony Stark/T'Challa
Tony Stark/Thor
Peter Parker & Tony Stark
James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton/Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Clint Barton/Tony Stark
Clint Barton & Tony Stark
Howard Stark & Tony Stark
Maria Stark & Tony Stark
Edwin Jarvis & Tony Stark
Friday & Tony Stark
Jarvis & Tony Stark
Sharon Carter & Tony Stark
Eddie Brock/Tony Stark/Venom
Eddie Brock/Tony Stark
Tony Stark/Victor von Doom
Aldrich Killian/Tony Stark
Brock Rumlow/Tony Stark
Tony Stark/Bruce Wayne
Diana (Wonder Woman)/Tony Stark
James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark/Yagi Toshinori | All Might
Tony Stark/Original Male Character(s)
Tony Stark/Original Female Character(s)
Canon
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marvel 616
Avengers Academy
Avengers Assemble
The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
Marvel Ultimates
Marvel Adventures: Avengers
Marvel Noir
Marvel 1872
Marvel Comics: other
Medium
Fanfic
Fanfiction
Digital Art
Traditional Art
Craft
Reclist
Filled Square
Optionally, you can also tag for crossover fandoms, your username, and whatever else you think is relevant!
Frequently Asked Questions
(Reposted from tumblr)
Table of contents
About This Bingo
What is this?
A fanwork challenge in honor of our favorite genius billionaire playboy philanthropist, Tony Stark!
Is there an age requirement?
13+ only – younger fans are not legally allowed to have Tumblr or A03 accounts. All underage fans (17 or below), however, may not request adult/sexual content prompts, and will be disincluded from adult channels on the discord. Underage users will be marked on their discord handles, and are informed that swearing and near-adult conversation may occur in non-adult channels. Keep in mind your own comfort levels.
Important Dates - the Mark IV schedule and deadlines
Mods
Who are the Mods - Get to know your mods and their responsibilities.
What do I have to do?
Sign up! [link here] Information about Signups
For a late card, you can email tonystarkbingo@gmail.com for a generic card. please include your username / and if you want SFW or NSFW prompts (include any MAJOR squicks or triggers in this email)
Once you have your card, you can make as many fills as you want. This is a LOW ENTRY activity. If all you do is one fill, that’s great! We’re sharing the love! You can share your card right away, or save it until the end.
Post your fills, along with your card number
TSB Standards of Behavior
These rules apply to public discord channels and any posts about or that tag the Tony Stark Bingo’s blogs and social media. Please keep in mind there is a difference between not liking a thing and calling someone out who does like a thing.
- No ship bashing or kink shaming.
- No trash talking about other writers or artists or their content.
- No character bashing outside of created content limits.
- Keep adult conversation on the NSFW channel and all other conversations with potentially upsetting material to their appropriate channels. Other channels can be added if participants request it.
These are warning level infractions: you will be given the opportunity to remove offensive content, take it to a private channel or DMs, etc.
Please be accommodating of other participants requests to take things to a private channel, tone it down, or “tag me when this discussion is over.” Excusing yourself from a conversation that makes you uncomfortable is a preferred method of dealing with squicks or personal triggers.
Racism, homophobia, gender identity bashing, anti semitism, sexism, hate speech, or other discriminatory behavior is not condoned by the Tony Stark Bingo.
Continued occurrences of this behavior will result in being temporarily muted, offensive material removed by mods, and may result in being removed from the bingo.
ZERO bullying or threatening behavior will be tolerated, including anon-hate, suicide encouragement, or inciting a witchhunt.
This behavior is cause for being removed from the bingo IMMEDIATELY without recourse.
Allowed Fanworks & Badge Requirements
What counts as a fill?
- Fanfiction or poetry: 300+ words for fic, 75+ words for free-form poetry, one limerick or one haiku according to those poetry form rules, or exactly 100 words as a “drabble” fill
- 300+ words of headcannon / essay / what ifs… / imagine your OTP / fandom meta (new for this round)
- Fanart: 1 image, 3 in x 3 in if in traditional media, 300 px x 300 px if digital
- Graphics: 2 images, this includes moodboards
- Gifsets: 4 images
- Playlists: Album Art + 6 Songs
- Fanvids: 30 seconds
- Podfic: 10 minutes
- Rec Lists: 5 fics with recommendations / reviews
- Fanmade Craft: one thing (doll, lego construction, cross stitch, embroidery, whatever. Please photograph in good light so we can all admire how cool you are!)
- Other fanworks as requested, please inquire!
You are welcome to create more content for your fill!
More About Fills Here
What counts towards a badge?
- One fill - YAY! Go you! You are successfully a star!
- Five fills in a row, diagonal, column or four corners and the center - YAY! GO YOU!
- Blackout your card with a fill for every square - YAY! Go YOU! (and we’re very impressed)
- Five or more fills, but no bingo (only claimable at the end of the round) - Yay! Gold star for effort!
BADGE CLAIM SHEET
Signing-up & Getting Your Card
How do I sign up?
There will be a link to a sign-up form on the blog.
You will need to provide an email address where we can contact you, a participant name, and the names for the platforms/blogs where you plan to post.
New this round: Since people have multiple online accounts and they’re not always the same, for ease of tracking, participants will be given a Card Number -- printed at the top of your card that will look like this TSB-3XXX-N (or S)
If I participated in previous rounds, do I have to fill out the form again?
Yes, yes you do. That way, we know who still wants to participate.
Some items on the form have changed again. NSFW content is now Opt-In, instead of Opt-Out. Your DNWs, tropes and preferences might have changed. Your email or preferred platform might have changed.
Can I sign up with a co-writer or artist collaborator?
YES
We’re opening cards for multiple collaborators this round; you and your partner can sign up and get a single card. Caveat; your fill must be twice the length of a regular fill, so 600 words, etc. And you must both participate equally on all fills. This is not an excuse to divide up the card. You will get badges issued with both names and both creators must be credited with the work when posted.
I missed the sign up period, can I still join?
Yes, but the card won’t be customized.
How will I receive my card?
Cards will be sent a variety of ways to prevent the email throttling that’s happened the last few years. There will be options on the form to choose from: Emailed card, Tumblr Message, Pick Up on Discord, or access to a shared google folder to download your card from.
Can I change my card if I don’t like the squares?
Yes. After you receive your card, you will have 10 days to send in requests. Given the large number of participants we’ve had and the time it takes to do changes, we’re limiting replacements to to no more than 2 sets of requests.
Creating Fills
Do we have to write about Tony Stark?
Tony does not have to be your main character. He does not need to be mentioned in the fill. Any character that has been featured in media with Tony Stark (comic, cartoons, video games, or movies) can be considered.
What do I do with that space in the middle?
It’s a free space, make anything you want as long as it meets the minimum requirements.
Can we make a Chaptered Story, or continue a fill after the close of the bingo?
YES
If you write a story about mermaids for one square, you may then continue the same story in your next square about mating rituals. If you end up with 25 fills all in the same AU, and cover each square in one chapter, that’s allowed. And, we have to say, pretty impressive!
Can we continue or Work in an AU we’ve already written?
Short Answer: Use your best judgement
This is a little trickier, because a bingo is supposed to be an easy entry event, for both writers and readers; that said, IF your Bingo Work mostly stands alone (Steve and Tony getting engaged for the Square “Put a Ring on It” when this particular Steve and Tony have been in your “Flamingo AU” for a while, that’s fine. It’s good to give readers little glimpses from longer works to tempt them into reading.
The entry needs to stand alone – a new reader should be able to understand what’s going on without wondering why Natasha is suddenly Tony’s twin sister…
Can we combine Multiple Prompts into a single Fill?
No
If you have (S1) Cave, (S2) Ho Yinsen, and (S3) HumDrumVee, you cannot do one 300 word fill about a nightmare where Tony’s in the cave, dreaming about the attack and Yinsen wakes him up. That is called a grabbag challenge and is not the purpose of this event.
But you can create a chaptered work, in which chapter one fills S3, chapter two fills S2, and chapter three fills S3. Each chapter will have to meet the minimum word count.
Can we Collaborate on fills?
YES
If you and another bingo participant want to co-write a square, you may if: You write/draw double the amount for a single fill (so you are still meeting the obligations of the fill for your card.) You can each use one fill on your cards. (For example, Mary Jane has “Coffee Shop” on her card and Gwen Stacy has “first date” on her card) MJ and Gwen can write about a first date at the coffee shop, and the fill must be 600 words or more to count for both participants. You may also collaborate if the other writer/artist is NOT involved in our bingo at all or doesn’t have a square specific to the fill, with the same requirements of doubled length.
Likewise, if two artists want to collaborate, they can do that; one does the penciling, and one inks, or one does the characters and one does the background. Likewise, the drawing has to be 600 x 600 pixels or 6x6 inches to count as the double fill.
Or one artist/one writer wants to do a 300 word fic and a little drawing that goes with it.
All of these things are perfectly fine and allowed.
Can we use our fill in more than one Bingo/event?
YES
If you have “BDSM: Bondage” in your @mcukinkbingo card and “KINK: Held Down” on your Tony Stark Bingo card, and you want to just write one story and cross-post, that’s also allowed, provided it’s okay with the mods in charge of the other event. (I already know Kink Bingo is okay with it, which is why I used them as a specific example. Other mods may have other rules. Some events, especially bangs or exchanges, may want entirely unique material for their events.) Again with the same restrictions: the story must be the length of both minimum requirements combined (if one bingo’s minimum is 250 words and the other is 500, it has to be 750 words.)
Can I write real people fiction?
No Real People Fic. We’re celebrating the characters Tony Stark and other Iron Family, not RDJ or Chris Evans or Tom Holland, etc.
What does this fill mean?
Comic Book Wiki https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Marvel_Database
Marvel Cinamatic Universe Wiki https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_Wiki
Urban Dictionary https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Urban%20Dictionary
Tropes Wiki https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/All_The_Tropes_Wiki
Here are some useful sources. Most of the prompts came from participant suggestion, the comic book/movie lists of characters, locations, and objects, are kinks, or came from the list of Tropes. Chances are good, you can find what you’re looking for on one of these sites. Please consider using the sites.
If not, the mods will take questions on the FAQ channel in Discord, or via Tumblr asks.
If I do X to fill this prompt, does it count?
Yes. Literally, we do not care. We’re not the fic police, and will not be checking your work. If you think it counts, it counts.
My fill says Park. Does this mean parking the car, or hanging out in a park or--
YES. The fill is up for you to interpret it however you want. The mods are not going to police your fills for our interpretation of the fill. Go wild, do what you want! Anarchy in the A03!
Posting
When do I post?
As soon as you finish a fill. All fills have to be post before the end of the round!
Where do I post?
post to AO3 (there will be a collection set up to add your stories/fills!) OR
post to tumblr #tonystarkbingo20 and tag @tonystarkbingo OR
(re)post to the Tony Stark Bingo community on pillowfort OR
Post to your dreamwidth journal OR
Post to our TSB Discord Server in the bingo-links channel OR
Post to another social media (please note this in your signups)
Let us know you posted if we don’t repost right away (we should post your fic to the collection by the Monday morning of the week you posted it. If it does not show up, or if it’s not in the round up for that week, please let us know.)
We will include all fills in our round ups provided we see them. AO3 is the best collection point to make sure we see your fill. If we don’t include your fill, please email/ask/tell us on Discord or message rebelmeg on Tumblr.
How do I post to the AO3 collection?
Go to the collection, then click on the button in the top right corner that says “post to collection” then fill out all the info as you normally would.
You can also add to collection on the post about halfway down the second set of A03 form questions. If you need additional assistance, please check this helpful tutorial from A03 (https://archiveofourown.org/faq/collections-and-challenges?language_id=en#addcollection)
What other information do I need to include?
We have started implementing a Fill Submission Form for the ease of the mods, and you will need to fill this out for every fill you make. This is the info the form will ask for:
Name of Piece/Title
Card Number
Name of Participant (your name)
Square Number
Square Prompt
Rating (Gen, Teen, Mature, Explicit)
Main Pairing/Ship
Warnings and Triggers
Summary
Word Count (if applicable)
*Since this info will all be on the form, we will no longer be requiring you to post all of it at the top of your fills when you share them.*
LABEL YOUR FIC/ART as NSFW if it is and with any taboo subjects (underage, incest, bestiality, non-con) and put all adult content under a break, please. We’re not saying you can’t write these things, just not everyone wants to see it, so please be considerate of your fellow creators.
The easier you make this for our mods to copy/paste, the more we like you (no, seriously). Our tumblr mod(s) spend several hours a week making the roundup posts. Please be gentle with them. If you put all this information at the top of your tumblr posts, or in the notes on your posting on AO3, it really helps us do our jobs.
LABEL YOUR FIC/ART as NSFW if it is and with any taboo subjects (underage, incest, bestiality, non-con) and put all adult content under a break, please. We’re not saying you can’t write these things, just not everyone wants to see it, so please be considerate of your fellow creators.
Discord Parties
What is a Discord Party?
A social gathering in a particular party channel on our discord; over the weekend, the mods present games, run sprints, issue prizes, and general fun is had by all. They run about 47 hours, spanning the entire globe time zone for Saturday.
There are special party favors given out to participants who drop into the Discord during the party. You must request the Party-People role in order to get your party favor.
There are also prizes given out at some events; including Bingo tokens for Swapping Squares, Free Fills, or Mod Fills. More details about party prizes are given out at the parties.
Do I have to attend?
Nope. It’s absolutely voluntary, just fun. It’s a chance to hang out with your fellow participants and discuss ideas or play games. A lot of content is produced during these parties, due to the supportive and encouraging nature of the event. So if you need extra motivation, these parties are a great chance to find it.
The moderators for this community are: