Me When I Find A New Fandom To Obsess Over Vs Me When The Characters Start Tormenting My Mind

VERY FRESH MUTUAL I THINK but hello regardless :3 uehehe

HI BETA!!!!!! HIYA 💥💥💥 YOU ARE RIGHT... but al. so. very funny that one of my few vocaloid mutuals caught me DIRECTLY in the middle of playing megamix hi gehehahaaa// miku says hi :))

It's almost time...signups for the 2025 Klapollo Minibang open today, April 26th, at noon EDT, and will be open until Saturday, May 17th!

In preparation for signups, please make sure you've read through the Rules/FAQ doc--there's important info on there that you'll need for the signup form. However, here's the answer to a few commonly-asked questions:

What IS a minibang, anyway?

A minibang is a smaller version of a fandom event known as a “Big Bang.” It’s an opportunity for artists and writers to collaborate to produce a 5k-10k fic and an illustration that goes with it. Writers and artists will be paired up, and will all post their work during the event’s specified posting window.

Can I write more than 10k?

Technically, yes--we won't stop you! But we typically advise trying to keep to the shorter word count and coming up with an idea that will be smaller in scope than you think you'll need it to be. It's always easier to expand a shorter fic than it is to cut down on a longer idea, and you never know what's going to happen in your life over the course of the minibang. If you need help trimming your ideas down, we're more than happy to help during the brainstorming period before your prompts are due in!

Who can participate?

Anyone who’s interested! We don’t have an age limit for participation—you just need to be able to commit to finishing either one art piece or one 5k-10k fic before the deadline.

What genres are permitted?

Any genre of fic/art is permitted as long as the final piece would not be rated higher than a T on AO3’s scale. For reference, we’re defining this rating tier as similar to a PG-13 movie, with Ace Attorney canon-typical levels of violence.

What are your social media links?

Tumblr: klapollo-minibang.tumblr.com (this blog!) Twitter: @klapollominbang Bluesky: @klapollominibang.bsky.social Email: klapollo.minibang@gmail.com

Who did that cool Klavier and Apollo art in your header image?

That would be @acerunaway / @queenychu ! Go check out their art/writing/various other projects if you get a chance :)

One of my favourite bits in Monster Con so far has been every website and product getting a bland name but Tumblr is just Tumblr like who gives a shit lol

hii !! i missed hello mutual day but im here now,,, im also so pumped for the swap !! this is the first time ive ever participated in an online event like this [insert fish gif here]

HIHIHI DW better late then never :D swaps are a SUPER cool first experience imo!! i think my first online event like this was the klapollo minibang and it was awesome i met so many people there!! i hope you also have a similar experience or something BETTER even

yea i’m doing in this year! i’ve done it for 3 years now i think? each time with less characters in my roster so it’s def okay to go in with any amount of characters!

as long as you don’t stress/burn yourself out it’s really fun imo :3 the artfight server has a few minigames as well where you draw for people and they draw your characters back if you want to test the waters!

@mutuals who’s doing art fight ?? i think i wanna do it this year…

i was also wondering,, i only have one character. is it weird to join with only one character ??

draw uendo rn /silly

(i also like apollo justice but that man is basic. lol)

:3 love ur art style btw rahhhhh

EE TY… have uendo in love (with what? that’s for you to decide) (yes you can edit this and put whatever you want. please do share)

redraw of my 3rd ever tumblr post! (old post, ref art below)

I'M GONN A THR

OW UP THEY MAKE ME SO ILL

here are apollo and trucy !! finally (AA4 spoilers below)

i wanted to show that they were half siblings, but was finding it hard to find a bird species that fit both of them, so the inherited bleeding heart is what i settled with ! (featuring canon-typical obliviousness)

a couple more…

Another factor pushing Phoenix to work on his flying was so he could fly with trucy <3

Apollo is much less flight-avoidant than Phoenix, but still remains grounded (or flying low to the ground) most of the time. Trucy flies and hovers quite a bit. I imagine she works her wings into her magic routines somehow, too.

now, I don't want to make this post too long, so if you're interested in hearing any of my thoughts/explanations on these two, i made a separate text post for that here :] (the tldr is: if you wanna call this specific version of apollo any other small brown bird, be my guest)

hope you guys like them! ):3