Sixth Anniversary Drabble Bingo

[Negrek]

Sixth Anniversary Drabble Bingo​

Back by popular demand--it's Drabble Bingo! The premise is simple: request a bingo card, optionally specify a theme, and receive nine prompts in return. You can ask for pretty much any theme for your prompts: perhaps you'd like some hurt/comfort prompts, or prompts about Zoroark. Here's an example of what a card of PMD-related prompts might look like:

Lost Memories	Lively Town	Trust Your Partner
The Best Treasure	Calamity	Stairs?!
Low IQ	No Way Out	Voice of Life

Once you've got your card, it's time to get to work filling it out! Write a drabble for any three prompts vertically, diagonally, or horizontally to score a bingo, and you qualify to claim a forum compaion. Just link to where you've posted your prompt fills to claim your prize! If you're feeling ambitious, you could instead complete four prompts for a four-corners win.

You can complete this challenge using the strict definition of "drabble" (exactly 100 words), but that's not required for this event: any fill of at least one hundred words counts as a drabble. Go as long as you like! Prefer visual art to writing? Three sketches based on your prompts will qualify you for a bingo as well!

If you absolutely hate the prompts you get after making your request, you may ask for one reroll. I'll provide you with a new card, but that'll be the one you're stuck with--no further rerolls will be given.

You have until the end of the anniversary (countdown here) to complete your fills and claim your bingo. Note that you get a forum companion if you complete either the reviewing event or drabble bingo--completing both won't net you two!

This year Windskull and kintsugi will be helping me make bingo cards! Thanks to both of you for your help! And as an extra incentive to get your drabbles done, Nekodatta's also running a special collaborative writing event over in TR Writing Buddies! Every drabble you complete helps everyone earn prizes.

Completed Fills

canisaries
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[CuteBunnyGirl]

I would like a bingo card, any theme works as long as it's not from a game I haven't played/don't know the story of, but if I had to pick something more specific, I'd go for Legends Arceus or Volo as a theme.

 

[Nekodatta]

I'll like to request a bingo card themed after Arven! Go wild

 

[canisaries]

I'd like a bingo card with a theme of Mainline Pokémon POV! Thanks in advance!

 

[icomeanon6]

Gotta ask for a card themed to my favorite region and writing topic: Johto

Thanks for running this!

 

[windskull]

Right I think I know what I want to do this year...
Pick me any 9 pokemon! Starter, legendary, just whatever you think sounds fun to write about, give them to me. I only have two restrictions: no rhydon and no clefairy. I wrote about those two for the Pokepod project last year, so they already have flash-fic stories.

 

[System Error]

Oh, is it that time again? So be it: blackout 3.0 is a go. As always: no PMD.

 

[Rusting Knight]

I’d like a bingo card focused on Evolution - moments of change, shifts and transitions. Thank you <3

 

[Phoenixsong]

Make me write more pokédex mini drabbles, please! Any pokémon I haven't already finished will do, but rather than make you trawl through what I've already done I've shortlisted some that you can pick from (or just randomize) as you please:

Spoiler: a selection of guys what need 100 words wrote about them

Charizard, Blastoise, Pidgeot, Weedle, Rattata, Arbok, Vulpix, Arcanine, Weepinbell, Victreebel, Gengar, Exeggcute, Exeggutor, Rhyhorn, Rhydon, Kangaskhan, Lapras, Vaporeon, Aerodactyl, Snorlax, Mewtwo, Marill, Azumarill, Espeon, Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken, Mightyena, Aron, Lairon, Aggron, Whiscash, Walrein, Shieldon, Shaymin, Delphox, Phantump, Grubbin, Vikavolt, Araquanid, Kilowattrel, Naclstack, Scovillain, Dolliv, Rellor, Klawf, Koraidon, Miraidon

Just the names are fine, or you can come up with more specific prompts involving your chosen species if you want! (For the Paldean ones at the end, if you prefer, you can just say "finish the prompt from the last bingo card this was on you coward" to make me do more from the bingo I did a few years ago, lol.)

 

[Zeon]

Hello, I would like a bingo card, but I would like each prompt based on a random Pokémon type.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Shiny Phantump]

I'd love some ghost-types! I'm in the mood to write undeath, some oddballs that are hard to make work as ghost ghosts are welcome and I'll get creative with them, but if they skew friendly towards being dead then that'd be helpful.

 

[Spiteful Murkrow]

Hi, I'd like to do something different this year for my bingo card and request for random song titles to be picked off a provided tracklist. Some of you all likely know where this is going, but I had good luck last year with using Drabble Bingo to tackle a target project and figured that this one matched up close enough in terms of length demands to be worth giving things a go:

Spoiler: Tracklist

Love & Money
Dancing Queen
Running in the 90s
Love is in Danger
Lost into the Night
Stay
Everybody’s Warming
Get Ready for Loving
Emotional Fire
Saturday Night Fever
Break in2 the Nite
Black Out
Night & Day
Beat of the Rising Sun

 

[StellarWind]

Hi hi. It's been 3,000 years since I posted anything on here or actually managed to write a fic, but I'd like to give this a whirl, maybe prompts would give me some inspiration. ^^

I don't have a particular theme in mind, but I'd like to ask for no PMD shenanigans to be involved.

 

[kintsugi]

alright, let's get this party started!!

Right I think I know what I want to do this year...
Pick me any 9 pokemon! Starter, legendary, just whatever you think sounds fun to write about, give them to me. I only have two restrictions: no rhydon and no clefairy. I wrote about those two for the Pokepod project last year, so they already have flash-fic stories.

some free-associated pokemon coming right up!

Aggron	Rapidash	Iron Leaves
Gyarados	Vespiquen	Tornadus
Combusken	Cosmoem	Yamper

Oh, is it that time again? So be it: blackout 3.0 is a go. As always: no PMD.

funky bunch of prompts for your fancy:

Cooking Up a Strategy	Waking Up Late	Childhood Friends
Glimpsing a Legend	An Unfamiliar Town	Why I Choose You
Rain Dance	Fire Types	An Elder's Stories

I’d like a bingo card focused on Evolution - moments of change, shifts and transitions. Thank you <3

some sudden growth coming your way!

Forme Change	Search for the Evolution Stone	But Would You Go Back, if You Could?
Growing Pains	Mid-Battle Crisis Evolution	Evolving Together
What's Left Behind	New You, New Responsibilities	Coming of Age

Make me write more pokédex mini drabbles, please! Any pokémon I haven't already finished will do, but rather than make you trawl through what I've already done I've shortlisted some that you can pick from (or just randomize) as you please:

Spoiler: a selection of guys what need 100 words wrote about them

Charizard, Blastoise, Pidgeot, Weedle, Rattata, Arbok, Vulpix, Arcanine, Weepinbell, Victreebel, Gengar, Exeggcute, Exeggutor, Rhyhorn, Rhydon, Kangaskhan, Lapras, Vaporeon, Aerodactyl, Snorlax, Mewtwo, Marill, Azumarill, Espeon, Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken, Mightyena, Aron, Lairon, Aggron, Whiscash, Walrein, Shieldon, Shaymin, Delphox, Phantump, Grubbin, Vikavolt, Araquanid, Kilowattrel, Naclstack, Scovillain, Dolliv, Rellor, Klawf, Koraidon, Miraidon

Just the names are fine, or you can come up with more specific prompts involving your chosen species if you want! (For the Paldean ones at the end, if you prefer, you can just say "finish the prompt from the last bingo card this was on you coward" to make me do more from the bingo I did a few years ago, lol.)

solid looking buncha frens there! a fresh selection for you:

Mewtwo	Marill	Kangaskhan
Grubbin	Raikou	Koraidon
Walrein	Scovillain	Delphox

 

[Negrek]

All right, let's get things kicked off for this year. My first bingo card batch of 2025 is a go!

@CuteBunnyGirl

Legends Arceus is a great theme! Hope you enjoy these prompts.

Outcast	Ten Pokémon, the ancient hero's loyal retinue	Arc Phone
Ginkgo Guild	Giratina	Volō, Ergo Sum ("I will, therefore I am")
Origin Ore	Plates	Flickering Rift

@Nekodatta

Eyyy, it's the boy! Hope you have fun with these.

Legendary Pokémon's Attack	Violet Book	The Perfect Sandwich
Herba Mystica	Peppermint	The AI's Story
Lonely Child	Prickly Exterior	Mabostiff

@canisaries

I wasn't 100% sure about what you wanted for these prompts; I interpreted it as "POV of a Pokémon living in the mainline world." If that's not what you wanted, let me know and I'll reroll for you!

Wild Life	Captured!	Running Free
Unknown Human	Safety	Pack Tactics
Illness	Evolution Ritual	Scrounging for Food

@icomeanon6

A fine region indeed! Lots of fun stuff to pick from when it comes to Johto prompts...

Red Gyarados	Battle Tower	Crystal Bell
Cinnabar Volcano Burger	Santos	Slowpoke Well
Joey	Pokéathlon	Mint Berry

 

[windskull]

Hello, I would like a bingo card, but I would like each prompt based on a random Pokémon type.

Thanks in advance.

I gave a short prompt for each one and then specified the type. Hopefully this is what you had in mind!

Bump in the night (ghost)​	Frozen lake (ice)​	Blazing Inferno (fire)​
Deep sea (water)​	Blank slate (normal)​	Old growth forest (grass)​
What legends are made of (dragon)​	Thunderstorm Warning (electric)​	Birds of a feather (flying)​

I'd love some ghost-types! I'm in the mood to write undeath, some oddballs that are hard to make work as ghost ghosts are welcome and I'll get creative with them, but if they skew friendly towards being dead then that'd be helpful.

I think I got a nice spread. A few of them are more explicitly undead than others, but I think you could make it work with any of them.

Litwik​	Hisuian Zoroark​	Banette​
Greavard​	Spiritomb​	Mismagius​
Frillish​	Yamask​	Annihilape​

Hi, I'd like to do something different this year for my bingo card and request for random song titles to be picked off a provided tracklist. Some of you all likely know where this is going, but I had good luck last year with using Drabble Bingo to tackle a target project and figured that this one matched up close enough in terms of length demands to be worth giving things a go:

Easy enough!

Emotional Fire​	Black Out​	Get Ready for Loving​
Everybody’s Warming​	Love & Money​	Dancing Queen​
Running in the 90s​	Stay​	Beat of the Rising Sun​

Hi hi. It's been 3,000 years since I posted anything on here or actually managed to write a fic, but I'd like to give this a whirl, maybe prompts would give me some inspiration. ^^

I don't have a particular theme in mind, but I'd like to ask for no PMD shenanigans to be involved.

Got it, one set of mixed prompts, sans PMD.

Orre Region​	Apricorns​	Focus Band​
Trainer's lunch on the road​	Mossdeep City​	Lost in the woods​
Fourth Gym​	Enigma Berry​	The perfect nickname​

 

[The Walrein]

I'll try this again. I'd like to request Youtube Pokemon Challenge Videos as my theme - the ones that are like "can you beat Pokemon Red with only a Ditto" or "can you beat Platinum without using Pokecenters". If you're not familiar with this genre, I'll take Illogical Game Mechanics as a backup theme, please.

 

[CuteBunnyGirl]

I've completed three of the prompts, where can I post them? Do I just make a new forum thread for it?

 

[canisaries]

I wasn't 100% sure about what you wanted for these prompts; I interpreted it as "POV of a Pokémon living in the mainline world." If that's not what you wanted, let me know and I'll reroll for you!

That's exactly what I meant - thank you, this is perfect!

 

[HelloYellow17]

Hi hi!

I’d like a bingo card with themes of Hurt/Comfort and Fluff! (Either together or separate or any combination of those things.) Thank you in advance!