Gothic Bingo Fest

[ysabetwordsmith]

Welcome to the Gothic Bingo Fest, running April 1-30. It was inspired by the recent TV show Wednesday from The Addams Family canon, but works just as well for other Gothic canons, and should generalize to most "dark" material as well. You can write about other stuff, too, of course; some of the prompt categories are easier to riff than others.  Drop by the Gothic Meet and Greet to share what you love about this genre.


For reference purposes, I present these new meta resources made for marchmetamatterschallenge:

Wednesday TV Series (The Addams Family)
Overview
Interesting Aspects
Episodes
Promising Crossovers
Relevant Dreamwidth Communities
Memorable Fanworks
Wednesday Prompts

Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 1: Introduction
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 2: Ethnicity & Linguistics
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 3: An Outcast
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 4: Thoughts and Feelings
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 5: Relationships
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 6: Solitary Accomplishments
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 7: Trust and Betrayal
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 8: Connected Characters
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 9: Enid Sinclair
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 10: Eugene & Morticia
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 11: Thing
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 12: Tyler Galpin
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 13: Xavier Thorpe
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 14: Wednesday's Quirks

You may also like this Glossary of the Gothic.


To diversify the offerings, I've taken several steps...

1) Prompts are divided into several groups. Wednesday Characters draw mainly from Wednesday with a few extras thrown in from other Addams Family iterations. Gothic Characters include tropes and archetypes. Settings feature a mix of show-specific and Gothic-general prompts. Plot Points are mostly general with a few more inspired by the show. Quotes come from Wednesday, but could of course be used elsewhere. Tropes and Motifs come primarily from the Gothic genre, with some inspired by the show.

2) A 3x3 public card is offered in each 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. You can take any prompt literally or figuratively.

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.

=Mirror= turn adjacent dark prompt fluffy or vice versa,
=Nevermore= feature adjacent prompt without using the words in it,
=Snap Twice= combine exactly two adjacent prompts,
=Teen Hormones= use 2+ adjacent prompts one for each character in a sexy scene,
=Wolf Out= turn adjacent nonviolent prompt into mayhem,

4) In addition to the standard bingo patterns of line, blackout, etc. there are others especially suited to this fest: Arrowhead, Graveyard, Letter A, Letter G, Letter W, Monster, Tarantula.


Characters
https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters
https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Addams_Family_members
https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Female_Characters
https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Main_Characters
https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Male_Characters
https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Wednesday_(Series)_Characters

Wednesday Characters
<br />Ajax Petropolus, <br />Ansel Gates, <br />Arlene, <br />Bianca Barclay, <br />Black Cats, <br />Carter, <br />Coach Vlad, <br />Divina, <br />Donovan Galpin, <br />Enid Sinclair, <br />Esther Sinclair, <br />Eugene Ottinger, <br />Faceless, <br />Francoise Sylvanne Galpin, <br />Gabrielle, <br />Garrett Gates, <br />Gomez Addams, <br />Goody Addams, <br />Gorgons / Stoners, <br />Hands, <br />Hydes, <br />Itts,<br />Janet Ottinger, <br />Jonah, <br />Joseph Crackstone, <br />Kent, <br />Larissa Weems, <br />Lucas Walker, <br />Lurch, <br />Marilyn Thornhill / Laurel Gates, <br />Mayor Noble Walker, <br />MC Blood Suckaz, <br />Morticia Addams, <br />Murray Sinclair, <br />Nevermore Hummers, <br />Nightshade Society,<br />Normies, <br />Outcasts, <br />Psychics, <br />Pugsley Addams, <br />Queen Bee, <br />Shapeshifters, <br />Sirens / Scales, <br />Sue Ottinger, <br />Thing, <br />Tyler Galpin, <br />Uncle Fester, <br />Valerie Kinbott, <br />Vampires / Fangs, <br />Wednesday Addams, <br />Werewolves / Furs, <br />Xavier Thorpe, <br />Yetis, <br />Yoko Tanaka, <br />


WEDNESDAY CHARACTERS CARD

Werewolves / Furs	Thing	Donovan Galpin
Sue Ottinger	Normies	Hands
Enid Sinclair	Sirens / Scales	Pugsley Addams

Gothic Characters
https://prezi.com/0vgsa3fxbyhl/recurring-characters-in-gothic-literature/
https://web.archive.org/web/20131003083639/https://engineoforacles.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/typical-characters-of-gothic-fiction/

Gothic Characters
<br />Absent Mother, <br />Angel, <br />Banshee, <br />Body Snatcher, <br />Bully / Abuser, <br />Byronic Hero / Gothic Hero, <br />Coroner, <br />Corrupted Clergy, <br />Creepy Housekeeper,<br />Criminal Anatomist, <br />Cruel Relative, <br />Crusty Caretaker, <br />Deluded Heretic, <br />Desperate Debtor, <br />Dhampyr, <br />Damsel / Gentleman in Distress, <br />Demon / Devil, <br />Doppelganger, <br />Eldritch Abomination, <br />Fair Folk, <br />Feisty Woman Disguised As a Man, <br />Femme Fatale, <br />Fish Out of Water, <br />Foreigner, <br />Friend to All Living Things, <br />Frightened Innkeeper, <br />Gargoyle, <br />Genocidal Maniac, <br />Gentle Giant, <br />Gentleman With A Troubled Past, <br />Ghost, <br />Glib Philosopher, <br />Gods / Goddesses, <br />Grande Dame, <br />The Grim Reaper / Death, <br />Haughty Patron of the Arts, <br />The Highwayman, <br />Hysterical Woman, <br />The Igor, <br />Ignored Prophet, <br />Impoverished Patrician, <br />Innocent Victim, <br />Lawyer With a Secret Agenda, <br />Lesbian, <br />Loner, <br />Long-Suffering But Dutiful Servant, <br />Lost Heir With a Murky Past, <br />Mad Scientist, <br />Madwoman in the Attic, <br />Merchant / Shopkeeper, <br />The Monster Horrified By Himself, <br />Monster Hunter, <br />Mummy, <br />Mysterious Visitor, <br />Naïve Newcomer, <br />Necromancer, <br />Occult Detective, <br />Odd Couple, <br />Old Tinkerer With a Strange Artifact, <br />Pirate, <br />Proper Lady, <br />Puppetmaster / Chessmaster, <br />Repentant Sinner, <br />Roommate / Housemate, <br />Royalty / Nobility, <br />Scheming Stepmother, <br />Self-Made Man Whose Past Is a Lie, <br />Serial Killer, <br />Sleep Paralysis Creature, <br />The Socialite, <br />Sophisticated Courtesan, <br />Split Personality, <br />Stereotypes, <br />Stubborn Skeptic, <br />The Stuffy Academic, <br />Succubus / Incubus / Leccubus,<br />The Sociopath, <br />Stalker, <br />Teacher / Governess, <br />Tormented Artist, <br />Trouble Magnet, <br />Unreliable Narrator, <br />Virtuous But Disinherited Nobleman, <br />Vulgar Drunk, <br />Wicked Libertine, <br />Wild Bohemian Girl / Guy, <br />Witch, <br />Zombie, <br />


GOTHIC CHARACTERS CARD

Monster Hunter	Self-Made Man Whose Past Is a Lie	Roommate / Housemate
Long-Suffering But Dutiful Servant	Glib Philosopher	Absent Mother
Stubborn Skeptic	Hysterical Woman	Bully / Abuser

Settings
https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=locations&scope=internal&navigationSearch=true
https://www.thegothiclibrary.com/category/gothic-settings/

Settings
<br />Abbey / Monastery / Convent,<br />Ancestral Home, <br />Asylum, <br />Barn, <br />Castle, <br />Cave, <br />City, <br />Confined Location, <br />Crackstone's Crypt, <br />Crime Scene, <br />Dr Valerie Kinbott's Practice, <br />Dungeon, <br />Forest, <br />Funeral Home / Morgue, <br />Funeral / Wake, <br />Gates House, <br />Ghost Ship, <br />Graveyard, <br />Greenhouse, <br />Hawte Kewture, <br />Hummers Workshop, <br />Jericho Vermont, <br />Lake, <br />Lonely Road, <br />Lycanthropy Conversion Camp, <br />Manor / Mansion, <br />The Moors, <br />Morning Song Community, <br />Nevermore Academy, <br />Nightshades Library, <br />Old Shack / Shed, <br />Original Pilgrim Meeting House, <br />Ophelia Hall, <br />Pilgrim Meeting House reconstruction, <br />Pilgrim World, <br />Principal's office, <br />The Quad, <br />Raven Island, <br />Ruins, <br />Secret Passage, <br />Sheriff's Office, <br />Town Church,<br />Town Hall, <br />Trap Door, <br />Uriah's Heap, <br />Wasteland, <br />The Weathervane, <br />Xavier's Art Studio, <br />Ye Olde Fudgery, <br />


SETTINGS CARD

Forest	Castle	The Quad
Asylum	Funeral / Wake	Ruins
Barn	Confined Location	Town Church

Gothic Plots
http://writeonsisters.com/writing-craft/masterplots-theater-g-is-for-gothic/
https://screencraft.org/blog/101-plot-twist-ideas/
https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Wednesday_(series)#Episodes

Plot Points
<br />Abandonment, <br />Adults Are Useless / Dangerous, <br />Ask to a Dance / Date, <br />Betrayal, <br />Breakup, <br />Burn the Witch, <br />Change of Heart, <br />Chess with Death, <br />Class Conflict, <br />Clues, <br />Coming of Age, <br />Crusades, <br />Curses / Hexes, <br />Dark Secret, <br />Deal with the Devil, <br />Demonic Possession, <br />Denial / Deception, <br />Dramatic Entrance, <br />Duel / Fight, <br />Dysfunctional Family Dynamics, <br />Emergency Evacuation, <br />Enemies to Friends / Lovers, <br />Escape, <br />Faint in Shock, <br />Falling Gargoyle, <br />Fire Will Rain, <br />First Kiss, <br />Flashback,<br />Foreshadowing, <br />Frailty of Humanity, <br />Freak Lab Accident, <br />Gaslighting, <br />A Gift Is Really a Danger,<br />Grave Digging / Robbing, <br />Haunting, <br />Heroic Sacrifice, <br />Hiding Injuries, <br />Hurt / Comfort, <br />I Am Your Father, <br />Identificatory Talisman, <br />Ill-Fated Birth, <br />Imperialism / Colonialism, <br />In Media Res, <br />It's All a Dream / Vision / Memory, <br />Kidnapping, <br />Love at First Sight, <br />Magical Training, <br />Manipulation, <br />Mistaken Accusations, <br />Murder,<br />Nailed to the Wall, <br />Never Split the Party, <br />No Body = Not Dead, <br />Oh! The Melodrama!, <br />Only Mostly Dead, <br />Opening Pandora's Box, <br />Oppression, <br />Othering, <br />Plot Devices, <br />Poisoning, <br />Police Are Useless / Dangerous, <br />Ransacking a Room, <br />Real After All, <br />Red Herring, <br />Red Sky Take Warning, <br />Refusing an Invitation, <br />Rising from the Dead, <br />Rivalry, <br />Romance, <br />Rumor, <br />Run for Your Life, <br />Sabotage, <br />Saving a Life, <br />Sexual Obsession, <br />Silent Treatment, <br />Social Issues, <br />Specialized Knowledge, <br />Spooky Séance, <br />Stabbing, <br />Supernatural Aid, <br />Surprise Party, <br />Taking an Arrow / Bullet for Someone, <br />Teen Angst, <br />Threats, <br />Torture, <br />Transgression,<br />Tragedy, <br />Trauma, <br />Tricked, <br />Turned to Stone, <br />Unable to Shapeshift, <br />Violence, <br />Visions, <br />Warning / Portent, <br />Who is the monster?, <br />Workings of the Mind, <br />Wrong First Impression, <br />Xenophobia, <br />


PLOT POINTS CARD

Workings of the Mind	Magical Training	Nailed to the Wall
Denial / Deception	Identificatory Talisman	Kidnapping
Burn the Witch	Rising from the Dead	Coming of Age

Quotes
https://graciousquotes.com/netflix-wednesday/

Quotes
<br />"The ability to not let others define you. It’s a gift.", <br />"Are you mansplaining my power?", <br />"Because for some reason I cannot fathom or indulge you seem to like me.", <br />"Being your friend should come with a warning label.", <br />"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.", <br />"Drip is for people who hate themselves and know that their lives have no real purpose or meaning.", <br />"Emotion equals weakness.", <br />"Emotion isn’t exactly your strong suit.", <br />"Every day is all about me.", <br />"Fire tests gold; suffering tests a woman.", <br />"Friends are a liability and can be exploited. That makes them weaknesses.", <br />"How well do we really know our parents?", <br />"Hummers stick together right?", <br />"I can’t believe you were in a secret society and didn’t tell me.", <br />"I do like stabbing. The social part not so much.", <br />"I don’t believe in heaven or hell but I do believe in revenge.", <br />"I don’t bury hatchets. I sharpen them.", <br />"I don’t do tears.", <br />"I don’t need your help or your pity.", <br />"I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation.", <br />"I like being an island. A well-fortified one surrounded by sharks.", <br />"I like to win. Is that so wrong?", <br />"I see the world as a place that must be endured and my personal philosophy is kill or be killed.", <br />"If he breaks your heart I’ll nail gun his.", <br />"If you hear me screaming bloody murder there’s a good chance I’m enjoying myself.", <br />"I’m not friend material let alone more-than-friend material. I will ignore you stomp on your heart and always put my needs and interests first.", <br />"I’m not interested in participating in tribal adolescent clichés.", <br />"It’s not my fault I can’t interpret your emotional Morse code.", <br />"Just some light torture. Don’t worry I won’t leave a mark.", <br />"Listen people like me and you we’re different.", <br />"The most interesting plants grow in the shade.",<br />"Most people spend their entire lives pretending to give zero effs and you literally never had an eff to give.", <br />"Nevermore was created as a safe haven for our children to learn and to grow no matter who or what they are.", <br />"Not hugging is kind of our thing.", <br />"Secrets are like zombies they never truly die.", <br />"So you were guided by latent chivalry the tool of the patriarchy to extract my undying gratitude?", <br />"Sometimes I act like I don’t care if people like me but deep down I secretly enjoy it.", <br />"Sometimes intentions melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.", <br />"There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being proven right.", <br />"These are all traits of great writers. And serial killers.", <br />"Too odd for the normies not odd enough for the outcasts.", <br />"Use the words 'little' and 'girl' to address me again and I can’t guarantee your safety.", <br />"What kind of dystopian hellscape is this?", <br />"Whoever invented high heels clearly had a side hustle as a torturer.", <br />"You can’t wake the dead. Believe me I’ve tried.", <br />"You certainly have had a very interesting educational journey.", <br />"You’ve actually made a friend. That poor kid will be going home in a body bag.", <br />


QUOTES CARD

"Use the words 'little' and 'girl' to address me again and I can’t guarantee your safety."	"If you hear me screaming bloody murder there’s a good chance I’m enjoying myself."	"So you were guided by latent chivalry the tool of the patriarchy to extract my undying gratitude?"
"Sometimes I act like I don’t care if people like me but deep down I secretly enjoy it."	"Friends are a liability and can be exploited. That makes them weaknesses."	"The most interesting plants grow in the shade."
"I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation."	"I don’t do tears."	"Not hugging is kind of our thing."

Gothic Tropes
https://www.thegothiclibrary.com/category/tropes/
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IndexOfGothicHorrorTropes
https://web.archive.org/web/20141006032701/http://epublications.marquette.edu/gothic_glossary

Tropes and Motifs
<br />Abstraction<br />Alchemy, <br />Anagram, <br />Androgyny, <br />Animated Picture / Tapestry, <br />Anonymity / Pseudonym, <br />Archery, <br />Arranged Marriage, <br />Artifacts, <br />Atavism, <br />Beauty, <br />Beekeeping / Bees, <br />Black and White, <br />Blood, <br />Bondage / Restraints, <br />Botanical Sciences, <br />Boundaries, <br />Candles, <br />Castration, <br />Cello, <br />Chivalry, <br />Codex Umbrarum, <br />Creepy Sound, <br />Crow / Raven, <br />Crystal Ball, <br />Cults, <br />Cursed Gifts,<br />Dawn / Twilight, <br />Death by Childbirth, <br />Death Glare, <br />Deformity / Disability, <br />Dissociation, <br />Distress,<br />Diversity, <br />Domesticity, <br />Dreams, <br />Drugs, <br />Dumbwaiter, <br />Edgar Allan Poe Cup, <br />Eerie, <br />Enchantment, <br />Entrapment, <br />Ethnicity, <br />Evil, <br />Exotic, <br />Family, <br />Farmer's Market, <br />Faulkner’s Diary, <br />Feminism, <br />Fencing, <br />Fire, <br />Fog / Mist, <br />For Doom the Bell Tolls, <br />Foreign Languages, <br />Found Document, <br />Friendship, <br />Genealogy, <br />Gorgeous Period Dress, <br />Gorgon Anatomy, <br />Grief / Mourning, <br />The Grotesque, <br />Healing Spring, <br />Heart of Gold, <br />High-Class Glass, <br />Horror / Terror, <br />Hypnotism / Mind Control, <br />Insecurity, <br />Interracial Marriage, <br />Jericho's Harvest Festival, <br />Kooky, <br />Letters / Manuscripts, <br />Love, <br />Madness, <br />Magic, <br />Magic Staff / Wand, <br />Malevolent Architecture, <br />Martial Arts, <br />Melancholy Moon, <br />Memory, <br />Misogyny, <br />Monstrosity, <br />Motherhood, <br />Music Box, <br />Mystery, <br />Nature, <br />Night / Midnight, <br />Occultism, <br />Ominous Latin Chanting, <br />Outreach Day, <br />Parental Marriage Veto, <br />Parents' Weekend,<br />Piranha, <br />Portrait Painting Peephole, <br />Prophecy, <br />Psychotherapy, <br />Purity, <br />Queer, <br />Race, <br />Rain of Blood, <br />Rain / Storm, <br />Rationality, <br />Rave'N Dance,<br />Religion, <br />Riddle / Puzzle, <br />Scars / Stitches, <br />Séance Society, <br />Secret Society,<br />Self-Injury, <br />Sexuality, <br />Siren Song, <br />Snap Twice, <br />Spooky, <br />Taxidermy / Preserved Parts, <br />Torches and Pitchforks, <br />Ultrasonic Singing,<br />Vulnerability, <br />Weather, <br />Werewolf Reproduction, <br />Wolfing Out,<br />


TROPES AND MOTIFS CARD

Torches and Pitchforks	Friendship	Beauty
Vulnerability	Gorgeous Period Dress	Chivalry
Artifacts	Cults	Genealogy

MIXED CARD

Fog / Mist	The Moors	"Emotion isn’t exactly your strong suit."	Old Tinkerer With a Strange Artifact	Ruins
Faceless	Byronic Hero / Gothic Hero	Edgar Allan Poe Cup	"Listen people like me and you we’re different."	Crackstone's Crypt
Dark Secret	Clues	WILD CARD	Black Cats	"What kind of dystopian hellscape is this?"
Lycanthropy Conversion Camp	Rain of Blood	"Being your friend should come with a warning label."	Beekeeping / Bees	Nevermore Hummers
Friend to All Living Things	Adults Are Useless / Dangerous	Wednesday Addams	Doppelganger	Run for Your Life

Comments

Gothic!! Love it!

[curiosity]

I made a card and now we shall see what we shall see.

https://curiosity.dreamwidth.org/976363.html

[siberian_skys]

I made a tropes and motif 5x5 bingo card. Looking forward to writing for this.

[smallhobbit]

Not a Gothic fan, but the locations prompts work for me:

Funeral Home / Morgue	Confined Location
Town Hall	Gates House

[thisbluespirit]

I couldn't resist a Gothic theme! Made myself a mixed one here, using the tropes, setting and characters:

https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/1085666.html

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I hope you have fun with that.

[nsfwords]

My 3X3 card is ready for Gothic Bingo Fest using a mix of several prompt lists, and I'd appreciate additional suggestions that expand on any word or phrase on the bingo card. Feel free to make suggestions that tie into my ongoing series' or for something completely new.

I admit, I was tempted to change at least one square to "Spooky Season" but I resisted LOL!

Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>My 3X3 card is ready for Gothic Bingo Fest using a mix of several prompt lists, and I'd appreciate additional suggestions that expand on any word or phrase on the bingo card. Feel free to make suggestions that tie into my ongoing series' or for something completely new.<<

I will check it out.

>> I admit, I was tempted to change at least one square to "Spooky Season" but I resisted LOL! <<

It's totally fine to add your own prompts in keeping with the theme.