Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Month: Cap-IM Universe Medley Fest

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You can create as many works as you like across as many different mediums as you like! This is a no-pressure, low commitment challenge to encourage you to try something new, stretch your creativity, and check out other versions of Steve and Tony.

For our full fest guidelines, including our annual schedule, please click here.

Coming up, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!

EMH is a cartoon series that aired from 2010 to 2013. It retells some major storylines from the Earth 616 comics continuity — from the Avengers team finding Steve in the ice to a Secret Invasion-style skrull infiltration to Red Zone and Operation Galactic Storm. If you're looking for a crash course in the Avengers and their adventures, this two-season show is a great way to go!

Some Stevetony highlights include:

• Steve and Tony sparring
• Team-as-a-family vibes
• Purple Man forcing a mind-controlled Tony to fight Steve
• Tony yelling at J. Jonah Jameson to stop publishing terrible stories about Steve after the Skrull Invasion
• The much-gif'd roof-top conversation
• Tony making a light shield for Steve to use
• the iconic size difference between Steve and Tony

There's plenty to work with in this canon, but it's not intimidating at all to start creating for — you can watch a couple of episodes and dive right in! The sincerity of the show, great array of characters, relationship between Steve and Tony, plus its colourful episodes, make it a fantastic way to get inspiration for another take on our favourite heroes. Whether it's your first time watching or EMH is an all-time favourite, we'd love to see what you create this month…

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WAYS TO PARTICIPATE

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If you would like to earn a badge for Earth's Mightiest Heroes Month, you must submit your work before the end of 15th October.

UNIVERSE MEDLEY:
If you post a Stevetony work set in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes in the next month, congratulations! Share it on a Cap-IM community platform, add it to the AO3 Collection and BAM! You've participated!

UNIVERSE THEMED PROMPT FEST:
Got inspiration? Fill out our prompt form to inspire creators! You can also come along and fill a prompt for the universe of the month, or two, or three… the sky's the limit! We have plenty of past prompt lists to browse through.

Don't forget to share your work with us, and post in the AO3 Collection!

RUN A MINI-CHALLENGE:
Love a universe with all your heart and have an idea for a flash challenge? Let's do it! Get in touch with the mods to claim a month (or contact us on discord in the #universe-medley-challenges channel) and you can run it on cap_ironman's community platforms! The cap-im mods can also support you in setting up and/or modding the mini-challenge.

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CLAIM YOUR PRIZE!

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This is a fest encouraging fun exploration in various Marvel universes, and we'd like to invite you to share your milestones with us!

Badge Milestones

• I created a work this month!
• I created my very first work in this universe!
• I created something for each of the 12 months!
• I participated for the second year!
• I hosted a mini-challenge!
• I submitted a amnesty fanwork!

If you do any of the above this month, let us know by filling out our Prize Claims form.

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If you have any questions or comments, read our event guidelines, email us at cap.im.events@gmail.com, or get in touch on tumblr, on contact us on discord in the #universe-medley-challenges channel.

2022 Cap-IM Big Bang Claims Open -- Two fics still available

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This claims post is now CLOSED. Please go to the new one to make a claim.

Creators, please take this time to read over the summaries and compile your wish list for the day of claiming. You will need to return this September 17 after 04:00 pm EDT ("What time is that for me?") to submit your claims list and make it all official. Please check the time converter >or this countdown to be sure when claims begin for your timezone.



This is the CLAIMS phase of the Big Bang, and where the artists come in! 8 fantastic drafts have been submitted and are awaiting artists to claim them.

By claiming a story, you assert that you will collaborate with your writer(s) to produce a new SteveTony fanwork to accompany their story when posting begins in November. There is no penalty-free dropping out after this point.

You do not need to be a member of the cap_ironman community or have a Dreamwidth account to participate in claims. Anonymous comments are enabled. Commenting will open when the claiming phase begins.

Your schedule:

• October: Creators work on their piece(s), writers finish their fics
• Saturday, October 22nd: Teams select their November posting dates
• November: BB entries are posted throughout the month

A recap on some of the main rules:

• Please remember to read through our General Event Policies and the Big Bang Event Guidelines for all participants, as well as the Guidelines for Accompanying Fanworkers for this year’s challenge before claiming.


• Any story is eligible to be claimed if the creator is planning to do an accompanying fanvid or traditional or digital artwork


• Creators wanting to create an accompanying fanmix with cover art, manips or gifs can only claim stories where the writer has OPTED INTO receiving these art forms.


• In addition to a new accompanying fanwork, claiming creators will be required to create a banner for their team.


• This is a collaborative challenge; you are expected to keep in touch with your team for the duration of the challenge. You must coordinate with your partner during the posting period.


• All participants must be 18 or older.

Claiming:
To claim a story on Saturday, September 17, you will need to leave a comment with the following information (copy and paste in your own details):


<br /><strong>Username(s) including site name:</strong> [This is how we, and your partner, will address you; please use one of your primary pseuds] </br><br /><strong>Email:</strong> [This is the address we will use to contact you and give to your partner, so please make sure it is one which you check frequently.]</br><br /><strong>Discord Handle:</strong> [This is optional]</br><br /><strong>Choice 1:</strong> [FIC CODE NAME, for example BRAVO.]</br><br /><strong>Choice 2:</strong></br><br /><strong>Choice 3:</strong></br><br />[Repeat for all choices. Please make sure you only put down fics that you are happy to produce art for as your options, choose as few or many as you like.]

You can list as many code names as you are genuinely happy to work with. Two or three options are recommended as we cannot guarantee that you will get your first choice.

• Claims will be made on a first-come, first-served basis and you will be assigned the first option that is still available on your list.


• Initially, you may only claim once, and you will be assigned a single story. We will announce if/when double claims begin.


• If the claim time is inconvenient for you, we encourage you to find someone to proxy claim for you. Your proxy comments on the claims post instead of you, providing your username, email and claims following the template above. You can email the mod team for assistance in finding a proxy.


• If you have a specific concern and would like the mods to vet a story draft before you make your choices, please let us know at cap.im.events@gmail.com before claims begin.

Writers, remember that claiming creators have different schedules and timezones, and that though we try to accommodate everyone, your fic may not be claimed in the first few hours. Please be patient, and don’t look at claims as a competition This challenge is about pairing like-minded creators who will work together to produce exciting new Steve/Tony content; sometimes it takes a while for the right person to come along!

When matching is complete, we will send out emails to connect teams, along with further instructions.

Please don't contact your partner until you receive the mod connection email. Please reply directly to the email letting mods know that you received it. After this point, team members are responsible for keeping in touch with each other for the duration of the challenge.

Send any questions to cap.im.events@gmail.com, especially if we've made a mistake with your entry.

Special Claim

We have an additional work for claiming, an RBB work that did not get an artwork. The story is Infiltration by Navaan (link here) If you want to claim this story, the claim will not count towards your Big Bang claims. Comment on this post or email us at cap.im.events@gmail.com to claim.

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( On to the Summaries! )