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Attention Authors!

Fic Submissions for the Monster Hunting Mini Bang are coming due on June 15th!  You only need 1,000 words complete to submit!  The submission form is going to ask for the following

1. Your Username

2. Your Email

3. Any Users You Don't Want to Be Paired With

4. Working Title

5. Characters

6. Summary

7. Warnings

8. Tags

9. Ships

10. Draft

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We are excited to share the 2025 Monster Hunting Trio Mini Bang schedule!

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April 1st - May 31st

Submissions Due

June 15th

Claims

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October 1st - November 1st

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Fic Submissions for the Monster Hunting Mini Bang are coming due on June 15th!  You only need 1,000 words complete to submit!  The submission form is going to ask for the following

1. Your Username

2. Your Email

3. Any Users You Don't Want to Be Paired With

4. Working Title

5. Characters

6. Summary

7. Warnings

8. Tags

9. Ships

10. Draft

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Submissions Coming Due June 15th!

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We are excited to share the 2025 Monster Hunting Trio Mini Bang schedule!

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April 1st - May 31st

Submissions Due

June 15th

Claims

July 1st

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August 1st

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October 1st - November 1st

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Attention Authors!

Fic Submissions for the Monster Hunting Mini Bang are coming due on June 15th!  You only need 1,000 words complete to submit!  The submission form is going to ask for the following

1. Your Username

2. Your Email

3. Any Users You Don't Want to Be Paired With

4. Working Title

5. Characters

6. Summary

7. Warnings

8. Tags

9. Ships

10. Draft

11. Optional Excerpt

Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or need an extension!

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Part 1: In the closet

Part 2: Story of how Steve Harrington fell in love with Jonathan Byers.

Part 3: Steve's obsession with the scent of gasoline.

Part 4: Who's Incharge?

Part 5: Grand Plans, Roadmaps and Dreams of Steve & Jonathan

Part 6: Mr. Cool Loves Mr. Hot

Part 7 : Met someone

Part 8: Steve and Jonathan keeping each other tools real close.

Part 9 : Jonathan misses Steve

Part 10: Distraction

Part 11: Steve's Fudged confession | Steve's Type

Part 12: Jonathan's Type -> cute teddy bear + Skull Rock

Part 13: It's heart to heart

Part 14: The Snack: cookie, coke

Part 15: Steve's Gay Charm

Part 16: Tapes and Telephones

Part 17 : Nails

Part 18: Fake ☺ Smiles ☹

Part 19: Hammer, Triangle symbolism, Music ; s5

Part 20: Stonathan parallel

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Montana Sky - Chapter 5

When Steve left Montana he promised himself he wouldn't return unless someone died-- happy to leave that world behind him. He thought he'd have several decades before he was dragged back to the ranch he used to call home. But Sara died. His big sister-- bringing him back to the family.

His family was far from traditional. It wasn't any wonder that it took one of them dying in a freak accident to get them all in the same place again. If that wasn't distressing enough, it became clear Steve's father would need more help with Sara being gone, forcing him to stick around longer.

On top of it all, his childhood sweetheart's presence on the ranch was impossible to ignore. Steve knew if he wasn't careful, it'd be all too easy to fall into his arms and never leave. The only issue was, if Jonathan learned his secret, there was no way he'd want a thing to do with Steve.

Steve stormed into the stable.  Jonathan and Nancy were closing up one of the stalls when Steve stomped up to them furiously.  Jonathan gave him a bewildered expression before Steve started yelling.

“What the actual fuck is your issue?” Steve snapped.  His blood was boiling .  He couldn’t believe Jonathan would sink this low.  The only reason it wasn’t Jonathan fucking him against the barn the night before was because he turned him away the previous night.  Steve wasn’t going to offer himself up on a silver platter a second time.  He didn’t get to be angry that Eddie had taken him up on his offer.

Jonathan’s brow furrowed.  “What are you talking about?  Wait… what happened to your face?  Did… did he do that?”

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Finding His Lens - Chapter 7

After breaking up with his long-time partner, Steve Harrington moves in with his best friend, Robin. While he's thrilled to be there, he needs to get back on his feet. Robin has been working at a catalog-- modeling to put herself through college. She gets him a job, hoping he can do this until he gets his ducks in a row. While initially hesitant, Steve is surprised to find that he's good at this-- like really good at it. There's just one catch... he can't fucking stand the photographer. The guy is a total asshole. He's standoffish and rude, and definitely doesn't like Steve much either. Too bad Robin seems to like him and keeps inviting him out with them.

Steve liked Argyle.  He was a little out there, but who wasn’t.  He was friendly, kind, and he had the strongest strain of pot Steve ever had the pleasure of smoking.  All the concerns about his performance at the shoot just floated away.

He felt like he was floating too.  Weightless. 

A giggle bubbled out of him as he leaned his head against Robin’s shoulder.  Argyle had said something funny.  He just couldn’t remember what it was.  It didn’t matter.

The door opened and Jonathan Byers walked in.

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i just loved their beef so much

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Stonathan!Star Wars AU

Chapter 1: Under the Twin Suns of Tatooine

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Summary: Jonathan Byers, A farmboy from Tatooine and his little brother are dragged into the Galactic Civil Wars between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire when they find two droids wandering the desert.

Steve Harrington, local scoundrel, just wanted easy money to pay his debt with a crime lord, so he agreed to rescue a Prince and a Princess taken prisioner by the Empire.

Mike Wheeler has a feeling things are about to change.

Word Count: 2.2k

A/N: I'm so excited for this fanfic! It's been months since I've been wanting to make a Star Wars!Stranger Things AU - with some Stonathan and Byler, obviously! This is just a quick prologue. Things are getting spicy from here onwards!

Tatooine, Arkanis Sector, Outer Rim

In the stellar void above the desert planet Tatooine, the CR90 corvette Tantive IV is intercepted on its way to Alderaan, pursued by an Imperial Star Destroyer that is pelting it with blaster fire. The Devastator, one of the Imperial Navy's most infamous capital ships, relentlessly pursues the small vessel, its meticulously timed turbolaser fire knocking out the ship's defense shields and now attempting to incapacitate its engines. A shot from the main turbolaser hits the small ship in the engine bay, slowing its speed and reducing its chance of escape to almost zero.

Aboard the ship, crewmen run through the white corridors, taking up positions as the alarm blares incessantly. Alderaanian Consular Security guards load their DH-17 pistols and don their white shell-shaped helmets.

Another shot rocks the ship, and the lights flicker briefly, nearly knocking protocol droid C-3PO onto his astromech companion, R2-D2.

“Oh, by the creator! Did you feel that, R2? They hit the main reactor!”

R2 beeps, confirming the other’s words as a group of soldiers rush past them, heading towards the boarding door as they feel a jolt. R2 makes another noise—a sound of concern.

“Yes.” C-3PO confirms his friend’s suspicions, looking up at the ceiling. “They got us with the tractor beam.”

The Tantive IV is slowly pulled into the Imperial Destroyer’s docking bay, where an electromagnetic pincer crane holds it in place, like an eagle’s talons gripping its helpless prey. The soldiers on board rush to defensive positions, weapons trained on the boarding door, ready to defend themselves against the boarding party.

“This mission is getting too dangerous for my liking, R2. Next time, I'll ask the Queen to let me stay at the Palace—"

BOOM!

C-3PO doesn't have time to finish his complaint, as the boarding door explodes and a cloud of white smoke fills the corridor. Footsteps, screams and red beams flying through the air fill the cramped space as the Alderaanian soldiers try in vain to stop the invading contingent of Stormtroopers, but they are outnumbered and caught by surprise. Amidst the commotion, the two droids seek shelter inside the ship while the guards are massacred by the soldiers of the Empire.

When the dust settles, and all that is seen in the corridor are bodies on the floor with blaster burn marks, the smell of burning flesh would be unbearable if not for the helmets that the Stormtroopers wear. The imposing Imperial soldiers are on guard as their commander walks through the door, his black armor contrasting with the gleaming interior of the Alderaanian consular ship and the white uniforms of the Stormtroopers who obey him.

Darth Vader, the Empire's enforcer and the most feared figure in the Galaxy after the Emperor himself, surveys the carnage without saying a single word, his mechanical breathing the only sound that can be heard in the corridor that just seconds ago was a battlefield. He gestures to the end of the corridor with his hand, his loyal soldiers understanding the silent order—search the ship and find them.

***

In a dark corridor, R2 beeped as a memory card was inserted into his memory slot.

"R2-D2! Where are you?" C-3PO wandered the corridors, searching for his friend as gunshots could be heard in the distance, indicating that the Stormtroopers were moving deeper and deeper into the ship's interior. He heard the beeping of his astromech friend at the end of the corridor and turned in time to see two human figures wearing white clothes talking to him before hiding behind a metal wall. R2 turned and wheeled towards the protocol droid. “Where have you been, R2? They’re coming this way. What are we going to do? Oh, they’re going to send us to the junkyard on Raxus Prime!—!”

R2 cut off C-3PO’s frantic speech with a series of beeps and sounds and rolled past him, heading in the opposite direction.

“R2? Where are you going? Where are we going? R2!”

Peeking out from their hiding place, the two figures watched the droids disappear down the hall.

“Do you think we made the right choice?” the girl asked.

“It’s not like we had much choice, Jane.” Her brother replied, shrugging. The sound of footsteps in the distance alerted the siblings that they had company.

At an intersection in the hallways, four Stormtroopers searched every corner of the ship, looking for passengers to interrogate. One of them spotted the pair hiding in the corner, behind a metal structure.

“We have two over there. set for stun—”

A gunshot echoes through the halls. The boy, holding a pistol, fires at the soldiers, hitting the leader right in the chest and knocking him down on top of the others.

“Now! Run, Jane—”

But the Imperial soldiers quickly recovered and hit him with a stunning shot, knocking him to the ground.

“Will—!”

His sister is knocked down soon after, falling on top of her brother’s unconscious body. The three Stormtroopers approach them, checking their vital signs and making sure they are immobilized.

“Inform Lord Vader that we have two prisoners.”

***

“R2, where are you going? Hey, we can’t be here, it’s a restricted area. They’ll deactivate you, for sure!” R2 ignores C-3PO’s warnings and uses one of his small mechanical arms to access the external control panel of one of the escape pods. “What are you doing, R2?! Get out of there now!”

The astromech droid turns to his friend and beeps.

“Secret mission? What mission is that— And what did you call me? I’m not a mindless philosopher, you little bucket of grease and oil! Now get out of there, now!” A gunshot is heard in the distance. C-3PO looks down the corridor at his robot friend. With no better choice, he reluctantly enters the pod. “I’m going to regret this. I’m sure of it.”

The pod ejects from the Tantive IV, descending toward the desert planet below. Because there are no lifeforms aboard, the Imperial cruiser’s cannons fail to fire on the pod, the officers believing the pod to have ejected due to mechanical failure.

***

Six Stormtroopers escort the two prisoners, now recovered from their immobilization, to their commander.

“Darth Vader.” Prince William Ives arches an eyebrow at the black-armored man before them. Beside him, his sister, Princess Jane, frowns.

“Only you would be so bold.” She replies, her tone firm for a 15-year-old. “The Imperial Senate will not be pleased to hear what you did here. When they learn that a diplomatic vessel was attacked—”

“Don’t act so surprised, Your Highnesses. You are not on a mercy mission this time.” The man interrupts her, his thick, mechanical voice making both teenagers shiver, even if their facial expressions don’t show it. “We know that rebel spies have been in contact with you. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you.”

“Plans?” Will frowned, pretending to be irritated by the accusations. “We know of no plans, and we do not appreciate these unfounded accusations, Lord Vader. We are members of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission on behalf of the Ives Royal Family of Alderaan—”

“You are part of the Rebel Alliance and traitors to the Galactic Empire!” Vader interrupts him, pointing his finger in his face. “Take these two out of my sight!”

The soldiers handcuffed the prince and princess and took them to the Destroyer’s brig while Vader continued his search for the missing plans while an Imperial officer followed him.

“Captain Kline.” He turned to the officer behind him. “Access the ship’s main computer and send a distress signal. Then send a message to the Imperial Senate and inform them that everyone on board has been killed by pirates. The Senate cannot know what happened here. The twins are our only clue to the Rebellion’s secret base.”

“Lord Vader, with all due respect, sir, they will die before they tell us anything.”

“Leave this to me, Captain. I have ways of making them talk.”

“Lord Vader!” A commander approached the man and the captain. “All computers have been searched. The plans are not on the ship. But an escape pod was activated during the escape. No life forms on board.”

“They must have hidden the plans in the pod. Commander, send a team to the planet to retrieve them. And be quick.”

"Yes sir!"

***

Tatooine. The outskirts of the outskirts. If the elite of the Core Worlds already consider the Outer Rim a filthy, poor, and uninteresting place, then Tatooine, to them, is nothing more than a useless ball of sand occupying the vacuum of space.

A useless ball of sand where nothing happens.

That's what Jonathan and every other teenager in this place thinks. Every young person between the ages of 11 and 19 who lives here longs to leave Tatooine behind. That's what Jonathan plans to do; leave Tatooine and enroll in the Imperial Academy to become a pilot, the best in the entire Galaxy. However, whenever he mentions this idea, his parents, especially his father, get uncomfortable or angry, saying that he's dreaming too big and that he'll be a bad influence on his younger brother. What a joke.

But Jonathan refuses to continue living in this backwater world. He's going to leave Tatooine, one way or another.

“JONATHAN!” A high-pitched voice he knows all too well pulls him out of his deep thoughts. Jonathan is in the garage, fixing his old X-34 speeder while a stereo plays Sugaan Essena, a hit by his favorite band, The Agasar. When surprised by the entrance of his frantic younger brother, Jonathan hits his head against the speeder and groans in pain, rubbing his forehead. He gets up from under the speeder and looks at his little brother in mild irritation.

“What is it, Mike?” he asks, turning off the music and wiping his hands with a cloth, removing the excess grease.

Mike rushes in, clearly excited about something as he points to a nearby window, “I saw a battle! A battle in space!”

Jonathan rolls his eyes and sighs. His little brother’s imagination has always been a double-edged sword, being incredibly entertaining at times and very annoying at others.

“Uh-huh, Sure you did.”

“I’m serious, Jonathan!” Mike frowns at his older brother's skepticism and huffs, crossing his arms. The 15-year-old stomps his foot, standing firm in his statement. "I saw a battle! Up in space. A really big ship chasing another and some gunfire being exchanged between them—!"

"Michael." Jonathan interrupts him, his tone firm but not unkind. Jonathan sighs, unable to stay mad at his brother for more than a few seconds and shakes his head. "Look, I'm kind of busy right now, okay? Why don't you go, I don't know, spend some time with Lucas before he boards the shuttle to Carida, hm?"

"But Jo—"

"Michael."

"Fine." The boy huffs again and turns his back on Jonathan, stomping out of the garage while grumbling about how annoying and a party pooper Jonathan is.

Jonathan rolled his eyes as his gaze followed the boy, returning to his work, but without turning on the music. Before ducking under the speeder again, Jonathan glanced out the window, taking in the cloudless blue sky of Tatooine before shaking his head.

“Battle in space. As if.”

***

“Stupid Jonathan. Bantha poodo-eating jerk.” Mike huffed as he walked past the kitchen, where his mother was. “Mom, I’m going to see Lucas.”

Karen Wheeler turned her attention from the oven to her son, giving him a smile and a nod, “Okay, honey. Just don’t take too long, okay? I’m making a pie with the Naboo apples I got yesterday at Anchorage.”

Mike rolled his eyes as Karen held an apple, red as the suns of Tatooine, in her hand, admiring the beautiful fruit. Naboo apples are a rarity in the Outer Rim, especially on Tatooine, and cost a fortune. A single apple could cost almost 100 credits.

Oh, Ted is going to have a fit when he finds out his wife bought ten apples, and Mike doesn't want to be here to see the circus burn down.

The kid gets on his speeder bike, an old T-85, and heads toward the Sinclair moisture farm, which isn't too far from the Wheeler farm, occasionally looking up at the sky to see if he can spot the ships he saw earlier with his binoculars, but with the naked eye, it's impossible. But no matter what Jonathan said, Mike is sure of what he saw. There's something going on up there.

“I know what I saw.” The kid grumbles under his breath. “I have a really good feeling about this.”

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Q: What is a Mini Bang? A: A Mini Bang is similar to a Big Bang with a lower word count. Authors create fanfiction works and artists create work to accompany it. The main difference with a mini bang is that the challenge is keeping your word count within a specific range.

Q: What is the minimum word count for this event? A: 3,000 Words

Q: What is the maximum word count for this event? A: 10,000 Words

Q: What characters are allowed in this event? A: All characters are welcome to be part of this event, however the focus needs to be on two or more of the characters in the Monster Hunting Trio.

Q: What ships/pairings are allowed in this event? A: Similar to the above answer, any pairings are allowed to be featured in stories, however the main focus needs to be on one of the following pairings: Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler (Stancy), Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler (Jancy), Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington (Stonathan), or Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler. *pairings can be romantic or platonic as long as the bulk of the fic is around at least one of the above pairings

Q: What art forms are allowed? A: We allow almost all art forms including but not limited to the following: - Traditional Art - Digital Art - Photo Sets - Gif Sets - Textile Crafts (knitting, crocheting) - Podfics - Fanvideos - Fanmix with cover art - Moodboards *If you wish to make another type of art here that is not listed then please reach out to us on tumblr or email us at stoncybangs@gmail.com

Q: Is AI allowed? A: No, we do not allow fic or art that is created by AI in this event.

Q: When do sign ups open? A: We will be releasing the schedule as we get closer to the end of the year.

Q: Can I submit a pre-existing work? A: Fic and Art need to be exclusive to the bang. If you have WIPs that have not yet been posted, you are welcome to use that for this event as long as it meets the necessary requirements.

Q: Can characters be genderbent? A: Absolutely!

Q: Are AUs welcome? A: Yes!

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