>> I didn't even do a bingo for my first card (the Metropolis drabble is alive in my head, just not on paper... yet),<<

You can claim it whenever you finish it. There's no hard deadline. About the most we have here is that some fests have an offer of getting a personalized banner if you complete a bingo within the main timeframe.

>> but I'm really excited because there's so many cool films that are now public domain and I can write for them here.<<

Yay!

>> Ooooh I love Frankenstein! <<

Give it a look if you have time. It's one of my older series and fairly popular. I describe it as gothic fluff. :D

I've done several feminist retellings of the canon, but this is the only one that expanded into a whole series.