I have made bingo for the Amnesty Fest! For the purposes of this fest, any 5 fills = bingo. I accidentally double-tapped N1 because I forgot to write in the first fill. Still, I wrote 8 fills this month. \o/


Sleepytime Bear Bingo Card 11-1-24

B3 (Hygge / Coziness / Comfort) -- "A Process of Emotional Repair" (LIFC)
B4 (Window) -- "Creativity, Ingenuity, Compassion, and Perseverance" (Arts & Crafts America)

N1 (Fresh Baked Bread / Rolls" -- "Something About Bread" (LIFC)
"Each Diverse Human Gift" (Polychrome Heroics: Shiv)
N5 (Knit / Crochet) -- "Nothing Like Looking" (Polychrome Heroics: Rutledge)

G2 (Flannel) -- "Your Emotional Abilities" (Polychrome Heroics: Rutledge)
G3 (Blue / White) -- "Free Public Resting Places" (Walking the Beat)
G5 (Fair Isle / Fisherman's Sweater) -- "Peg Legs and Eye Patches" (Peculiar Obligations)

I have made bingo down the I column of my 7-1-24 card for the Games and Entertainment Bingo. (See the Meet and Greet post also.) I have 7 extra fills, which is about typical for me.

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I have made bingo down the G and O columns of my 5-1-24 card for the Superhero Bingo Fest, plus 4 extra fills.

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I have made bingo for the Amnesty Fest in allbingo. I did not make a new card for this, as I already have a whole stack of cards to play. I'm just counting every 5 fills as a bingo.


Bingo 1:

"Rescue Ourselves as Best We Can" (from the same setting as Sort Of Heroes)
Fall Fest Bingo Card 10-1-23: "I didn't want to be rescued."

"A Blues Song Waiting to Happen" (Polychrome Heroics: Shiv, The Big One)
Drabble Fest Bingo Card 11-1-23: Jazz / Blues

"The Most Effective Weapons" (Polychrome Heroics: Aquariana)
Drabble Fest Bingo Card 11-1-23: Words

"The Noblest Gift" (Clay of Life)
Drabble Fest Bingo Card 11-1-23: Key

"Dragons of Rain and Fire"
Story Sparks Bingo Card 9-1-23: Misunderstanding


Bingo 2:

"A Trail Washed Away by Rain" (standalone)
Story Sparks Bingo Card 9-1-23: Time

"The Last Quest of Arya the Archer" (Gloryroad Crossing)
Story Sparks Bingo Card 9-1-23: Weapon

"Defeats, Expulsions, Persecutions, and Pogroms" (Clay of Life)
Valentines Bingo Card 2-1-23: Yugawaralite - Energy Under Pressure

"The Reconstructed Familiar" (The Adventures of Aldornia and Zenobia)
Valentines Bingo Card 2-1-23: Serpentine: Transformation & Rebirth

"The Ubiquity of Sparrows" (Fledgling Grace)
Story Sparks Bingo Card 9-1-23: Soul / Spirit


Bingo 3:

"The Simple Act of Caring" (Polychrome Heroics: The Big One)
Fall Fest Bingo Card 10-1-23: "I never asked you to do that."

"Trees of Glass" (Crystal Wood)
Drabble Fest Bingo Card 11-1-23: Genes

"Ghost Forests" (Crystal Wood)
Cottoncandy Bingo 6-1-22: Accident

"The Bookstore Cat" (Quixotic Ideas)
Drabble Fest Bingo Card 11-1-23: Cat

"The Trees of Life" (standalone)
Story Sparks Bingo Card 9-1-23: Growth


Extra Fill:

"Life, Libertines, and the Pursuit of Happiness" (LIFC)
Cottoncandy Bingo 6-1-22: Private

I made 2 row bingos on my 7-1-23 card for the Fireworks Bingo Fest. Note that the batch of Eloquent Souls poems came out of the sunshine_challenge. "That Light Bulb in Your House That Has a Short in It" is actually the starting point of a thread that dialecticdreamer is writing, but hers starts from the perspective of a different character.

Row 1
B1 (Mad Science) -- "Thaw With Her Gentle Persuasion" (Polychrome Heroics)
I1 (Battery) -- "My Own Personal Battery" (Eloquent Souls)
N1 (Earth Shaker) -- "Waste That Nature Can't Digest" (Polychrome Heroics: Finn Family)
G1 (Amazing Bad Ass) -- "That Light Bulb in Your House That Has a Short in It" (Polychrome Heroics: Shiv)
O1 (Red) -- "To Be Gentle and Kind" (Eloquent Souls)

Row 4
B4 (Dragon Smoke) -- "Old Wounds That Refuse to Heal" (Eloquent Souls)
I4 (Corruption) -- "Corruption, Redemption" (Polychrome Heroics: Trichromatic Attractions)
N4 (Blankets / Tarps) -- "Come to a New Point of View" (Polychrome Heroics: Rutledge)
G4 (Shenanigans) -- "Fulfillment and Joy" (LIFC)
O4 (Tie-dye Clothes) -- "For Every Time I Thought of You" (Eloquent Souls)

N2 (Justified) -- "The Basis for the Joy of Love" (Polychrome Heroics: Finn Family)

I3 (Diversion) -- "Not Until We Are Lost" (Polychrome Heroics: Rutledge)
N3 (You Have Potential) -- "Different, Not Less" (An Army of One)
O3 (Charcoal) -- "Filled with Strange Sounds" (Polychrome Heroics)

I5 (Flare) -- "Everything Is Temporary" (Eloquent Souls)
N5 (Park / Playground) -- "New Beginnings" (Eloquent Souls)
G5 (Copper) -- "The Rose That Grew from Concrete" (Eloquent Souls)
O5 (Flashbacks) -- "Like I Could Throw Off Sparks" (Polychrome Heroics: Rutledge)

I have made blackout on my 1-1-23 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. \o/ This month my Poetry Fishbowl theme was "Short Forms" and a lot of these are already sponsored and posted so you can see them. :D A bunch are haiku, so those are cited by their first line. I also launched a new series, A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows, and two of out of those three poems are already up.

I really enjoyed this fest and would love to see it repeated in the future, since it'll never be the same twice as new works get released.


B1 (Observation) -- "observation marks" (standalone)
B2 (Copper Beeches) -- "the copper beeches" (standalone)
B3 ("Blue Skies") -- "blue skies peek between" (standalone)
B4 (Wings) -- "wings flash scarlet in" (standalone)
B5 (Bitter Apples) -- "the bitter apples" (standalone)

I1 ("You know my methods") -- "By Candlelight" (Hart's Farm)
I2 ("Lonesome Road") -- "Besa" (standalone)
I3 (The Color Out of Space) -- "colors out of space" (standalone)
I4 (Almost Human) -- "Poetic Affections" (LIFC)
I5 (The Jazz Singer) -- "Dès Vu" (A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows)

N1 ("At Sundown") -- "at sundown, the snow" (standalone)
N2 ("In a Mist") -- "in a mist, the road" (standalone)
N3 (WILD CARD: ONE HOUR OF LOVE) -- "Like a Flower" (Fiorenza the Wisewoman)
N4 ("I Feel at Home with You") -- "I Feel at Home with You" (standalone)
N5 (not entirely devoid of interest) -- "Naked Knowledge" (standalone)

G1 (Three Students) -- "three students caught in" (standalone)
G2 (Red Sky at Morning) -- "a red sky at morning" (standalone)
G3 (The Closed Garden) -- "the closed garden gate" (standalone)
G4 (The Midnight Folk) -- "owls call in the night" (standalone)
G5 (Empty House) -- "empty house waits for" (standalone)

O1 (Underworld) -- "spring bulbs are creatures" (standalone)
O2 (Flight Without End) -- "clouds flitter across" (standalone)
O3 (Goat Song) -- "Goat Song" (Kung Fu Robots)
O4 ("Plenty of Sunshine") -- "plenty of sunshine" (standalone)
O5 (Dance Magic) -- "Inspiration from the Woods" (Arts and Crafts America)

I have made blackout on my 2-1-22 card for the Valentines Bingo Fest.

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I have made bingo down the N column of my 8-1-21 card for the Hot Summer Writes Bingo fest. I also wrote 3 other fills on this card.

N1 (Swimming) -- "Recreating Our Life as We Would Like It to Be" (Polychrome Heroics: Kraken)
N2 (Smell of Fresh Cut Grass) -- "A Breath of Life and Growth" (standalone)
N3 (WILD CARD: Sailboat) -- "The Highest Dynamic of the Human Soul" (Polychrome Heroics: Aquariana)
N4 (Thunderstorm) -- "Summer Thunder" (standalone)
N5 (Camping) -- "Camping on Finn Skerry" (Polychrome Heroics: Finn Family)

B5 (Climate Change) -- "Disturbing the Elephant" (standalone)

I3 (Sun-Drenched) -- "Gravity Lessons" (standalone)

O4 (Seashells) -- "Like Love Letters in the Sand" (Eloquent Souls)

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I have made bingo across Row 3 and Row 4 of my 8-2-21 card for the August Intimacies: Time Bingo fest. I also wrote 4 other fills on this card.

B3 (prolonged eye contact) -- "A Desire to Be Deeply Known" (Polychrome Heroics: Mercedes)
I3 (controversial opinion) -- "Il difficile e scoprirle" (Polychrome Heroics: Marionettes)
N3 (mystical experience) -- "A Radical Nonviolent Revolutionary" (standalone)
G3 (change across time) -- "A Beautiful Reminder" (An Army of One)
O3 (unexpected mercy / generosity) -- "A Dish for Family" (Polychrome Heroics: Rutledge)

B4 (first aid) -- "A Very Clear Mind" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
I4 (why I left my family) -- "Acknowledging the Complicated Truth" (Polychrome Heroics)
N4 (homelessness / frequent moves) -- "Life-Bending Loyalty" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
G4 (losing a parent / mentor) -- "The Scariest Part of Raising Teenagers" (Monster House)
O4 (memories / nostalgia) -- "A Body Taking a Mind for a Walk" (Polychrome Heroics: Iron Horses)

I2 (atypical neurology) -- "As Varied as the Individuals" (An Army of One)

B5 (hand feeding) -- "Fall Down Seven Times" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
N5 (foster care / adoption) "Like Love Letters in the Sand" (Eloquent Souls)
G5 (regret / guilt) -- "Gentleness Is ..." (LIFC)

This month I made bingo on both my 5x5 cards for the Valentines Bingo Fest, so that's 10 fills, plus 11 extra, for a total of 21 fills. \o/

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I have made blackout on my 12-1-20 card for the Winter Fest Bingo. \o/

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