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current relationship status: sleeping diagonally across my queen size bed

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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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fanfic writing culture isn’t “oh dang! I wanted to write about this prompt with this character but someone else already wrote it, so now I can’t”.

fanfic writing culture is always “two cakes is better than one. the more the merrier. there can ever be enough fics of this character with this prompt!”

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Fighting The Reaper Tote - ME/CFS Awareness

Being part of a fandom is all about community and finding family. Recently, spinosa prunus aka Ms Autobahn, a member of the Supernatural Family, reached out on Discord about a fundraiser they and their daughter Rebecca were doing to help fund research into a debilitating condition that is affecting not only Rebecca, but lots of people.

So The Epic Love Story of Sam and Dean and the Idling in the Impala podcasts are helping spread the word, raising attention and much needed funding for research into ME/CFS...

"SPN Family Fighting The Reaper" by Rebecca (SPN Family Member and ME/CFS Fighter)

We want to help raise awareness and funds for the #lemonchallengemecfs

All of their donations go towards research to find a cure for long covid ME/CFS

ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) is a severe multisystem disease that usually occurs after an infection but can also be triggered by other factors. Many patients with post-COVID syndrome also suffer from ME/CFS. Patients have a very low quality of life and often a high degree of disability. Participation and quality of life are often significantly restricted, even in very young sufferers. About 2/3 of all patients are unable to work, many of them are housebound or bedridden. (click for source and more info)

"As this illness mostly happens in teens and young and middle aged women, and millions have fallen sick since Covid-19 and the ME/CFS numbers are exploding, its just logical that also many Spn fans have this severely disabling condition like my kid. There hasn't been enough research and too little funding because women often aren't taken serous enough with their illnesses and the Trump administration just canceled the little funds that were supposed to finance research for this disease."

~~Here's a video if you would like to learn more about Rebecca, her condition, and how it's affecting her life and family.~~

Sandra and Kasey of the Idling in the Impala podcast have helped out by adding Rebecca's awesome artwork of Billie the Reaper to a tote bag that is available through their website...

Net profits of this sale will go to the ME/CFS Research Foundation, which uses donations (all of 'em) to fund research to find a cure for ME/CFS. -Idling in the Impala podcast

If you can, grab one to show off this awesome artwork and help spread awareness for this devastating condition. And/or please share this post, because that helps too!

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Collaboration with @masoena for the @samwinjarpadbigbang

Preview

Art for the fic

If you want to read the fic check it out here -> Ao3 Thank you both @masoena and @jld71 for my first bang

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Event Masterpost - SWJP BB 2025

Welcome to the masterpost of the the very first Sam Winchester Jared Padalecki focused Big Bang event that completed posting on May 21, 2025.

All works have now been posted if you are in need of Sam Winchester or Jared Padalecki centric reading material this will give you hours of material to read and art to be amazed by. 🥰💖

Stats about this event:

- 374,063 words written by 19 teams of two

- 5 first-time Big Bang participants 😍🥰🎉

- Participants were from 4 different continents

- Participants were from roughly 10 different countries

- The most used tags were:

Shown below are all the works that were generated during the course of this event.

@theteacupunicorn / @amberdreams1960

"The Self Is Not So Weightless, Nor Whole and Unbroken"

Link to fic Ao3 || Link to art Ao3 | LJ 

@TammyRenH / @aomasade

"HAZARD"

Link to fic: AO3 || Link to art: AO3 | LJ | Tumblr

@coincidenceiscancelled / @alicetallula

"The Notebook"

Link to fic AO3 | Tumblr || Link to art AO3 | Tumblr

@samanddean76 / @xpurdyglambertx

"Make My Dreams Come True"

Link to fic AO3 | Tumblr || Link to art Tumblr

@hello-starlingfics / @quickreaver

"Devil's On The Loose"

Link to fic: AO3 || Link to art: AO3 | Tumblr

@LadyShadowphyre / @twinone1221

With A Touch Of Your Hand (I Believe In You)

Link to fic AO3 || Link to art Tumblr

@enteselene / @yoannspn

"Golden Despite The Night"

Link to fic: AO3 || Link to art: AO3

@jld71 / @winchiya1

"Starting Over"

Link to fic: AO3 || Link to art: Tumblr

@timehasa-way / @alicetallula

"Welcome to Omega"

Link to fic AO3 | Tumblr | LJ

Link to art AO3 | Tumblr art post 1 - Tumblr art post 2

@sam-is-my-safe-word / @alexiescherryslurpy

"Temet Nosce"

Link to fic: AO3  || Link to art: AO3 | Tumblr

@fictionallemons / @burial-at--sea

"Sure"

Link to fic AO3 || Link to art Tumblr

@holyfreaks / @pumpci

"salt in the wound"

Link to fic on Ao3 || Link to art on Ao3

@masoena // @charliethealpaccaso

"Samcopious"

Link to fic Ao3 || Link to art Tumblr

@need-more-meta / @morokollisyo

"this is the map of my heart"

Link to fic: AO3 || Link to art: AO3

@amypond45 / @yoannspn

"A Long Cold Spring"

Link to fic AO3 | LJ || Link to art AO3

@morganadw / @masoenart

"Helping Him to Heal"

Link to fic: AO3 | Tumblr || Link to art: AO3 | Tumblr

@crowleysmistress / @pumpci

"LightBringers"

Link to fic AO3 || Link to art AO3

@rubyvhs / @blindswandive

"In Your Room Screaming Suicide"

Link to fic AO3 || Link to art LJ

@masoena / @xpurdyglambertx

"Gratitude from 7777"

Link to fic AO3 | Tumblr || Link to art Tumblr

Thank you all and see you next time.

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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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The whole movie is like

Everyone: PARIS NO

Paris: 😈 PARIS OUI 😈

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At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

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LOL

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It's wild how "women are reading frivolous and immoral novels that are rotting their brains" is such an evergreen moral panic. You'd think we'd have figured this one out by now.

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in the first movie ethan hunt lost his team for nothing more than a futile mole hunt and ever since then he's made it his mission to put his team and his friends before everything else, especially himself. he's the type of character who will sacrifice the world to save one person.

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posting your fic on AO3 like