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Benthan Week 2025 Themes

The votes are in (an impressive 118 of them)! You chose your favorites and they are, unsurprisingly in this Year of Our New Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning oriented 😉 See the 2025 daily themes and alternate/secondary themes below 🥳

Monday, August 11 Day 1: Write that forehead touch scene we never got the context for Alternate theme: Post-Final Reckoning reunion (whole team or just Benthan)

Tuesday, August 12 Day 2: 5 times Ethan says “Talk to me, Benji” + 1 time Benji says “Talk to me, Ethan” Alternate theme: Final Reckoning decompression chamber, replacing Grace with Benji

Wednesday, August 13 Day 3: Ethan has trouble telling what is real after communicating with the Entity Alternate theme: Others find out that Ethan and Benji are dating/married

Thursday, August 14 Day 4: Ethan moves into Benji’s apartment to help with his or Benji’s recovery and never leaves which actually suits Benji just fine (accidentally on purpose living together) Alternate theme: Benji is there for Ethan when grief for Luther hits him at an unexpected time

Friday, August 15 Day 5: Final Reckoning Ethan finds out what happened to Benji and then later Benji learns what Ethan went through with Gabriel Alternate theme: One of them is high/drunk

Saturday, August 16 Day 6: Benji using his honeypot skills on a mission (Ethan doesn’t like this) Alternate theme: What was the incident with Ethan that caused Benji to pursue medical training? And how did Ethan feel after he learned this? How did he feel after FR when he learned that Benji had to essentially treat himself?

Sunday, August 17 Day 7: After his excursion into Arctic waters, Ethan is always cold. Benji notices. Alternate theme: Ethan accidentally runs into Benji while undercover (in a mask) and they end up flirting the night away

We’ve all got about two months to get creating (or wait until the night before to start, in time-honored fan creator fashion) 🤩 In the meantime, feel free to drop a message if you’ve got a question not answered by the FAQ ✍️

Have fun, everyone!!

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Voting!!

It's time to vote on our favorite themes! This is where we decide as a community which ideas we want to create around for this year's event 🎉

Vote for the 2025 Benthan Week daily themes here: https://forms.gle/HVSibiGz8dQoPJ2f8

You can check out last year's themes and review the FAQ here

Voting will remain open through June 17th. Then, the winners will be announced here on the blog so folks can start creating! We'll have about two months before the event begins on August 11 ✨

Happy voting!

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Voting!!

It's time to vote on our favorite themes! This is where we decide as a community which ideas we want to create around for this year's event 🎉

Vote for the 2025 Benthan Week daily themes here: https://forms.gle/HVSibiGz8dQoPJ2f8

You can check out last year's themes and review the FAQ here

Voting will remain open through June 17th. Then, the winners will be announced here on the blog so folks can start creating! We'll have about two months before the event begins on August 11 ✨

Happy voting!

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Voting!!

It's time to vote on our favorite themes! This is where we decide as a community which ideas we want to create around for this year's event 🎉

Vote for the 2025 Benthan Week daily themes here: https://forms.gle/HVSibiGz8dQoPJ2f8

You can check out last year's themes and review the FAQ here

Voting will remain open through June 17th. Then, the winners will be announced here on the blog so folks can start creating! We'll have about two months before the event begins on August 11 ✨

Happy voting!

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Benthan Week 2025 Brainstorming

It's time to get ready for the annual Benthan Week! This year's event will take place August 11-17. Feel free to check out the Info & Rules if you're new to the event or have questions. Whether you've been here since the event's beginning or just stumbled onto this ship from the latest Mission movie, welcome!!

First up, let's get brainstorming! Each day of Benthan week needs a primary and secondary theme to inspire creators. You can check out past themes and works by scrolling the blog or checking past years' AO3 collections to get the inspo flowing! The more ideas, the merrier :)

Add your ideas here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b1jVKsaLeTkWtYunvZXjkU2CkJ3mu1X-GyaK5qfqynU/edit?usp=sharing

The brainstorming document will close on June 2nd. Then, the blog mod will circulate a google form so we can all vote on our favorite themes and get creating!

Looking forward to another amazing Benthan Week celebration!

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Benthan Week 2025 Brainstorming

It's time to get ready for the annual Benthan Week! This year's event will take place August 11-17. Feel free to check out the Info & Rules if you're new to the event or have questions. Whether you've been here since the event's beginning or just stumbled onto this ship from the latest Mission movie, welcome!!

First up, let's get brainstorming! Each day of Benthan week needs a primary and secondary theme to inspire creators. You can check out past themes and works by scrolling the blog or checking past years' AO3 collections to get the inspo flowing! The more ideas, the merrier :)

Add your ideas here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b1jVKsaLeTkWtYunvZXjkU2CkJ3mu1X-GyaK5qfqynU/edit?usp=sharing

The brainstorming document will close on June 2nd. Then, the blog mod will circulate a google form so we can all vote on our favorite themes and get creating!

Looking forward to another amazing Benthan Week celebration!

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Ethan actually doesn't get a say this time around.

some absolute crack for the final day of my late, late @benthan-week-forever 2024. xoxo love u

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a very late @benthan-week-forever day 6 xoxo

Ethan retires on a Thursday.

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@benthan-week-forever 2024 late late late day five

Ethan's been married sixty-eight times (including the real ones). It's beginning to become a thing.

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late late late late @benthan-week-forever day 4: hurt ethan, protective benji!

contains spoilers for dead reckoning, takes place immediately afterwards

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Ethan's shift at the bar on Saturday starts unbearably dumb and ends up worse.

4.02pm, he's cleaning up a broken glass that one of yesterday's closers decided to just leave on the floor.

6.46pm, he's ushering a group of already-too-intoxicated women from a hens party out the door and into a waiting taxi.

9.05pm, he spots a stranger slumped over into his drink.

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Another edition of @benthan-week-forever - but impossibly late!

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Benji's been working out.

@benthan-week-forever day 2 (three months late)

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Benji gets an injury. It gets worse from there.A little musing on chronic pain for all the fellow spoonies in the crowd.

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A much delayed Day 1 for @benthan-week-forever 2024! More coming soon xoxo

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Thank you everyone for another fantastic Benthan Week!! 🌈

The event may be over, but all the wonderful creations from this week are always available on the blog. Make sure to reblog generously and give comments to our fabulous participants!

There are a record-breaking 34 new works in the Benthan Week 2024 AO3 Collection! Check it out on the Archive 🎉

And if you wrap up a project a little late, don't worry, just @ this blog and mod is happy to share it any time in the next week or so! Time is fake and more Benthan is always welcome 😉

Finally, if you have a moment, please fill out this brief feedback form to help plan next year's Benthan Week: https://forms.gle/xhx4NmTsomE3ww9H9 Among other questions, this mod is looking for someone to potentially replace them, on the hope that they'll be moving to a new job next August!

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Another late one for Benthan week day 7, alternate theme: Going on an undercover mission, wearing costumes to blend in Benji is blending in too well, Ethan is not 💥 (he will be late to their date) Drawing this was the most self indulgent thing ever for me cause I wanna sit on a roof with a box of gulab jamun and barfi, hot chai, and a friendly cat 🥺😩

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Day 7 (alt prompt): Going on an undercover mission, wearing costumes to blend in.

What better way to end benthan week than by combining my OTP with my other OTP. They're undercover at comic-con by the way. I thought it was a fun concept hehe.

I had so much fun with this week I can't wait for next time :D

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hello everyone! it is me again! i am extremely late to this fourth day of @benthan-week-forever and i am truly very sorry for that. i completed one of the 25 assignments that got sprung on me so i guess that's good. this one is kinda sad

Rating: Mature

Archive Warnings: Major Character Death

Category: M/M

Fandom: Mission: Impossible (Movies)

Relationship: Benji Dunn/Ethan Hunt

Characters: Benji Dunn, Ethan Hunt

Additional Tags: Everybody Dies/Nobody Lives, Dead Benji Dunn, Dead Ethan Hunt, Inspired by Interstellar, Space, Kidney Failure, Hospitals, Swearing, Comas, hallucinations? Idk, Obituaries, Love Letters, Cancer, Assisted Suicide, Afterlife, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Not Beta Read

Collections: Benthan Week 2024

Language: English

Published: 2024-08-18

Words: 2,779

Chapters: 1/1

Summary:

And here Ethan was, young, almost insultingly immortal, standing at his love’s funeral.

He could only watch numbly as the coffin was lowered down into the ground.

Or,

Ethan goes on a space mission to a planet where every day is 10 years on Earth. Benji waits for him.

[Written for Benthan Week 2024, day 4 theme “Hurt Ethan and protective Benji”. Please read the tags!]