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Inception Bingo is a fanworks challenge, open to all ships and gen relationships, that uses well-known fandom tropes and/or kinks as squares. Participants receive a randomly generated bingo card, and create fanworks based on the prompts in the squares. The classic goal of the challenge is to achieve a bingo on your assigned card.

Please refer to the Inception Bingo Overview and FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions.

What kind of fanworks can I create for Inception Bingo?
The beauty of Bingo is that it lends itself well to many fanwork types. If you can make it and incorporate the trope/kink, it’s eligible for Bingo. That being said, here are the minimum requirements for the more common fanwork types:

Fanfic: 200 words
Fanart: rough sketches
Fanmix: 3 songs
Meta: 200 words
Photomanip: 500px x 500px
Picset/gifset: 3 images
Podfic: 200 words
Rec list: 2 recs
Vid: 20 seconds

You do not need to stick to the same relationship or fanwork type to achieve a bingo. Bingos can be composed of different works (e.g. one fic, one art piece, one rec list), and feature different relationships/characters (e.g. one Eames/Yusuf, one gen, one Arthur/Eames).

Is there anything that’s not allowed?
Fanworks that have been posted prior to the challenge will not be accepted, even if they meet trope/kink requirements.

For a more in-depth overview of the rules and how to get bingo, please refer to the Inception Bingo Overview and FAQ.