Valentines Bingo Fest
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The Valentine's Day Bingo Fest will run from February 1-28. The theme is Valentine's Day and it spans both love and loss. To diversify options, I've done several things...
1) Prompts are divided into several groups. Romantic prompts feature positive relationships based on sweet affection, but don't have to involve sex. Erotic prompts are the carnal and kinky ones. Heartbroken prompts are about lost relationships and other things going wrong. Platonic prompts are for asexual spectrum, family, or otherwise non-sex/romance inspiration. Solo prompts celebrate self-love in all its forms.
Also on the Bingo Card Generator:
Love Songs
Romantic Vocabulary "You are ..."
The Language of Flowers
Other relevant lists:
Asexuality & Demisexuality
Kinks
Sex & Romance
From previous Valentines fests:
Romance Book Titles in 2021
See also:
Five Moments of Nonsexual Intimacy
Nonsexual Intimacies
Note that Arospec Awareness will be running February 19-25, after Valentines Day. If you're participating in that, you can make an arospec bingo card and play it as part of your awareness week activities. Feel free to refer other folks here for that purpose -- they can play even if they aren't regular members of this community.
2) A 3x3 card is offered in each current category, in hopes of making it easier to blackout. A 5x5 card mixes everything together for variety.
Feel free to mix and match the prompts, though, if you want a more diverse card. You can make a standard 5x5 or whatever you want. Creative interpretation is encouraged, and you don't have to stick to a category just because you're using its prompts. Sometimes it's fun to make ordinary things sexy or erotic things platonic.
3) Challenges! These are prompts that make the bingo card more exciting. You can add them to any category, or skip them, as you choose. They do let you claim multiple fills from one work.
=Multiple Orgasms= combine scenes about 2+ adjacent prompts,
=All-Nighter= double the fill size of adjacent prompt,
=Cheater= write cheater and cheated from prompts on opposite sides of this square,
=Aces High= turn adjacent romantic or sexual prompt platonic,
=Mirror= write adjacent prompt as positive and negative in different characters
4) In addition to the standard bingo patterns of line, blackout, etc. there are others especially suited to this holiday: Arrow, Arrowhead, Bow Tie (two versions), Diamond (three versions), and this set of Valentine shapes.
ROMANTIC CARD
EROTIC CARD
HEARTBROKEN CARD
PLATONIC CARD
SOLO CARD
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS CARD
THE LANGUAGE OF GEMSTONES CARD
MIXED CARD
In case you want to make your own card, these are the prompt lists I used:
ROMANTIC PROMPTS
EROTIC PROMPTS
HEARTBROKEN PROMPTS
PLATONIC PROMPTS
SOLO PROMPTS
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
THE LANGUAGE OF GEMSTONES
1) Prompts are divided into several groups. Romantic prompts feature positive relationships based on sweet affection, but don't have to involve sex. Erotic prompts are the carnal and kinky ones. Heartbroken prompts are about lost relationships and other things going wrong. Platonic prompts are for asexual spectrum, family, or otherwise non-sex/romance inspiration. Solo prompts celebrate self-love in all its forms.
Also on the Bingo Card Generator:
Love Songs
Romantic Vocabulary "You are ..."
The Language of Flowers
Other relevant lists:
Asexuality & Demisexuality
Kinks
Sex & Romance
From previous Valentines fests:
Romance Book Titles in 2021
See also:
Five Moments of Nonsexual Intimacy
Nonsexual Intimacies
Note that Arospec Awareness will be running February 19-25, after Valentines Day. If you're participating in that, you can make an arospec bingo card and play it as part of your awareness week activities. Feel free to refer other folks here for that purpose -- they can play even if they aren't regular members of this community.
2) A 3x3 card is offered in each current category, in hopes of making it easier to blackout. A 5x5 card mixes everything together for variety.
Feel free to mix and match the prompts, though, if you want a more diverse card. You can make a standard 5x5 or whatever you want. Creative interpretation is encouraged, and you don't have to stick to a category just because you're using its prompts. Sometimes it's fun to make ordinary things sexy or erotic things platonic.
3) Challenges! These are prompts that make the bingo card more exciting. You can add them to any category, or skip them, as you choose. They do let you claim multiple fills from one work.
=Multiple Orgasms= combine scenes about 2+ adjacent prompts,
=All-Nighter= double the fill size of adjacent prompt,
=Cheater= write cheater and cheated from prompts on opposite sides of this square,
=Aces High= turn adjacent romantic or sexual prompt platonic,
=Mirror= write adjacent prompt as positive and negative in different characters
4) In addition to the standard bingo patterns of line, blackout, etc. there are others especially suited to this holiday: Arrow, Arrowhead, Bow Tie (two versions), Diamond (three versions), and this set of Valentine shapes.
ROMANTIC CARD
Late Bloomer | Valentines | Age of Enlightenment |
Demisexual Villain Slowly Falls in Love with Hero | Dramatic proposal | Chocolates |
Spin the bottle | Separation & reunion | Love Without Limits |
EROTIC CARD
Make-up sex | Electricity | Body Worship |
Housework | Consent is sexy | Experimentation |
Biting / Sucking | Voyeurism | Masturbation |
HEARTBROKEN CARD
Self-Sabotage | Refusing to Be Wrong | Failure to perform |
Self-Pity | Why Heroes Make Bad Boyfriends | Picking Fights |
Drunken rutting | Chivalry is dead | Staying Up Late |
PLATONIC CARD
Ace / Demi Deities | Romance-free Plot Zone | Chasing bubbles blown by someone else |
Ace Hero Doesn't Want the Girl | Humor | The Friendzone Is My Safe Place |
I'll Be Your Wingman | This Is Not a Date | Asexual / Demi Species |
SOLO CARD
Dinner Date for One | Let Go of Your Past | Spa Day |
Fuzzy Blanket / Slippers | Go Exploring | Forgive Yourself |
Romance Yourself | Give Yourself a Gift | Dye Your Hair |
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS CARD
Fern (Maidenhair) - Secret Bond of Love | Zinnia (Magenta) - Lasting Affection | African Marigold - Vulgar minds |
Flax - Domestic Symbol | Carnation (Pink) - I'll never forget you | Dogsbane - Deceit |
Rose (White and Red Mixed) - Unity | Blackthorn - Difficulty | Arbor Vitæ - Live for me |
THE LANGUAGE OF GEMSTONES CARD
Sodalite - Analysis & Observation | Pearl - Purity & Chastity | Quartz Crystal - Amplification & Versatility |
Azurite - Insight & Inner Vision | Morganite - Unconditional Love | Malachite - Health & Healing |
Erythrite - Perception & Perspective | Citrine - Health & Happiness | Xenotime - Self-Reflection & Acceptance |
MIXED CARD
Sensual Massage | Chrysoprase - Heart Connections | Love letters | Sweetpea - Thank you for a lovely time | Fantasies |
Blue Lace Agate - Speaking Your Truth | Give Yourself a Gift | Demisexual Villain Slowly Falls in Love with Hero | Dinner Date for One | Azalea - Take care of yourself for me |
Courtly Romance | It happens to a lot of guys | WILD CARD | Watermelon Tourmaline - Healing the Heart | Queerplatonic |
Kneeling | Nonsexual Touch | You are so busted | Rebound relationship | Cuddling |
Erotic Dance | =Multiple Orgasms= combine scenes about 2+ adjacent prompts | Visit a Chocolatier | Hellebore - Scandal | Harems |
In case you want to make your own card, these are the prompt lists I used:
ROMANTIC PROMPTS
EROTIC PROMPTS
HEARTBROKEN PROMPTS
PLATONIC PROMPTS
SOLO PROMPTS
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
THE LANGUAGE OF GEMSTONES
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Date: 2023-02-02 01:16 am (UTC)Go you!
Date: 2023-02-02 01:51 am (UTC)You know, looking at the rows, you could fit each set of three prompts into one fill. They kind of go together.
Re: Go you!
Date: 2023-02-02 02:57 am (UTC)Re: Go you!
Date: 2023-02-02 03:11 am (UTC)Yep, you can combine prompts.
>> If I get a black out soon enough, I thought I might make another one with the romance list.<<
Good idea.
>> I'd already made one, but DW ate it.<<
That sucks. >_< DW has been buggy for months. Today it's telling me that I can't add anyone to my circle, but it won't let me edit my circle to remove closed accounts. *headdesk*
Re: Go you!
Date: 2023-02-02 05:42 am (UTC)I can't believe that my other bing card got eaten. There were prompts in it that would have worked with this one. I'm thinking about creating another one. I wonder what's wrong with DW. AO3 is having problems, too.
Re: Go you!
Date: 2023-02-02 05:50 am (UTC)If you can remember the prompts, or even part of them, look in the lists and reconstruct the card as best you can. The bingo card maker will later you put in whatever prompts you want, you don't have to put in the whole long list.
>>I wonder what's wrong with DW. <<
No idea, but it's been going on for months. Not always the same thing, but various glitches. For a week or so it was popping up messages that I couldn't comment. Sometimes a page won't load, or won't let me post or editing. Annoying.
>> AO3 is having problems, too.<<
Yeah, I've seen a few notes on their site about problems.
Re: Go you!
Date: 2023-02-02 06:30 am (UTC)This is the romance card.
Re: Go you!
Date: 2023-02-02 07:14 am (UTC)Columns this time, if you want to combine prompts.
Re: Go you!
Date: 2023-02-02 10:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-02 04:01 am (UTC)Go for it!
Date: 2023-02-02 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-02 05:07 am (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2023-02-02 05:38 am (UTC)Re: Yay!
Date: 2023-02-02 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-02 12:33 pm (UTC)*laugh*
Date: 2023-02-02 07:14 pm (UTC)Re: *laugh*
Date: 2023-02-02 09:21 pm (UTC)Re: *laugh*
Date: 2023-02-02 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-02 09:21 pm (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2023-02-02 09:25 pm (UTC)Re: Yes ...
Date: 2023-02-02 09:27 pm (UTC)Re: Yes ...
Date: 2023-02-02 09:44 pm (UTC)I've made multiple cards before, when there were several sublists I really like and I wanted to keep them separate. This time I went for the gemstone prompts because they were new.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2023-02-07 05:46 am (UTC)Re: Yes ...
Date: 2023-02-07 06:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-03 02:48 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2023-02-03 04:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-03 07:44 pm (UTC)I think "small card" is going to be the thing for sure. Being concise is... not my forte! :D
Thoughts
Date: 2023-02-03 08:17 pm (UTC)Totally fine.
>> I think "small card" is going to be the thing for sure.<<
Go for it!
>> Being concise is... not my forte! :D
For some folks, it takes practice. People differ as to whether they naturally write short or long stuff, and that's okay. You can practice here with no pressure. Try new things, play around -- it's like playing with paint, you never know exactly what you're going to get and that's part of the fun.
no subject
Date: 2023-02-04 10:08 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2023-02-05 12:04 am (UTC)I wish you luck with it.
>>I'm thinking I might play the solo card by actually doing the prompts instead of writing about them, but I'll have to double check the card to be sure.<<
:D You should totally do that!
>> Or I could always do some of both.<<
Fills can be anything you want. Mine are usually poems, but occasionally fiction, and I've done a few with crafts or photos. Mix and match all you want. The only time the fill type matters is for certain achievements or if the fest host sets that as a parameter. As far as I'm concerned, people could screw their way through the kink category and call bingo.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2023-02-06 12:46 am (UTC)Thanks!
>>:D You should totally do that!<<
I think I shall :D The prompts are fairly well suited to it.
>>Fills can be anything you want. Mine are usually poems, but occasionally fiction, and I've done a few with crafts or photos. Mix and match all you want.<<
I tend towards poetry or fiction myself, but photos and activites sound like fun this time around. And I suspect there will still be a fair amount of writing done too.
>> As far as I'm concerned, people could screw their way through the kink category and call bingo.<<
That sounds like a really fun way to go through the kink card :D
no subject
Date: 2023-02-06 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-12 03:06 am (UTC)Go you!
Date: 2023-02-13 09:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-25 02:18 am (UTC)