If you’re new to this event/blog, welcome! If you’ve been here for years, welcome back!
This is a post briefly covering the event guidelines, to make sure this info is easily accessible to all (looking at you, Tumblr Mobile).
This year’s event will take place in August 24 - 30. Each day has a primary theme and an alternate theme - you can create fanworks (art, writing, podfic, video, meta, anything!) around either or both themes. Anything that’s about Mission: Impossible’s Ethan and Benji and connects to a daily theme is welcome!
You do not have to post every day, or even most days, we’re thrilled to see whatever you have time to create and share.
The event primarily takes place here on Tumblr, and also has an annual AO3 collection. If you do not have a Tumblr/don’t like to post here, contact the mod--we’re happy to share a link to another website.
There is no need to sign up, you can post works in any language, and you can re-post your older works if they fit the new themes!
If you have more questions, the full FAQ and more info about the event can be found here: https://benthan-week-forever.tumblr.com/info-and-rules
It's time to start brainstorming themes for the event of the year, that's right, Benthan Week 2026!!
This year’s event will take place August 24-30. 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 to the brainstorming document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S5eLWzt2ag88ox9ojVsZWnCjjp-JhUPHUd_LY4L39K0/edit?usp=sharing
The brainstorming document will close on June 22nd. 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!!
Here is the Benthan Bingo 2026 Dialogue Challenge.
✦ This card is much smaller and easier to get Bingo than the last time!
✦ There are more opportunities to choose Wild Card spaces!
Text List of Dialogue Card Prompts
Wild Card
“I’ve got to come clean— I overheard what you said.”
“You can’t keep doing this.”
“This is, by far, the dumbest thing you’ve ever done.”
Wild Card
“Excuse me? I was innocent. You corrupted me.”
“You need to wake up because I can’t do this without you.”
“I can’t believe you talked me into this.”
Wild Card
[[Wild Card Swap List]]
“That's possibly the worst idea I've ever heard.”
“When I picture myself happy… It’s with you.”
“I just want to know that you’re okay.”
“It was in the past."
“Get out of my way.”
“Do you trust me?”
“That is the biggest lie you’ve ever told me.”
“Can we start over?”
“Breathe. I have you. I’m here.”
“Can we pretend everything around us is fine, for one night?”
(These are listed like this for clarity and accessibility, but you can choose any horizontal, vertical or a diagonal line of three. See below for details.)
Here are the rules below!
How To Play
Complete three prompt squares in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, and you win the challenge! There are eight possible combinations.
What is a complete prompt?
✦ A complete prompt is either 500 or more words or at least one drawing, gif set, video, etc. of whatever your chosen media is.
✦ The content can be Gen or Slash and feature other characters, but our favorite spy duo, Benji and Ethan, must be the main characters in order to fulfill a prompt on this Bingo Card.
✦ And of course, the prompt must be featured in the story.
Are there any other rules?
✦ No AI is allowed in this challenge. Otherwise it's not a challenge, you know? (Anyone caught using AI will be outed and blocked.)
✦ Your entry must be newly created for this bingo card, not retroactively tagged or added on to a pre-existing fic or multi-chapter fic already in progress.
✦ Let’s keep it easy to count. Only one prompt per post please!
✧ You can write a multi-chapter story, and each chapter can have a different prompt, but you can’t combine multiple prompts within one chapter. You can split one prompt into multiple chapters though.
✦ Please use the NUMBER of the prompt somewhere in your post/writing/media so it’s easy to keep track.
How do I win?
✦ You can post as you go, but in order to officially win, you have to tag this blog in a post with links to ALL THREE complete prompts declaring BINGO! Make sure to use the hashtag #BenthanBingo2026
✦ If you don’t have a Tumblr, you can send an ask with your AO3 handle and a list of your three completed works.
✦ A winner will get bragging rights, a sense of accomplishment, and a digital Benthan Bingo Winner Badge for those who complete Bingo.
✦ The winners will be tagged (or called out if you don’t have a Tumblr) in post with the corresponding badges!
✦ It’s going to be the honor system, y’all. Winners and badges will be posted a week after the deadline and you can take, use, display as you wish.
How do I interpret these prompts?
✦ There is one prompt per square, and each prompt is one line of dialogue that any character can say; it does not matter who. It can be over heard by the characters; it does not have to be said directly by them. The line just needs to be IN the story/art somewhere.
✦ You can interpret the prompt any way you want to.
What the heck is a Wild Card?
✦ “Wild Card” means you can choose any prompt from the bingo card or the wild card list that you want to fill in that square. Each row has one wild card, except one row which has three, so you can be guaranteed to have at least one prompt of your choosing. You must choose a prompt from the card or the wild card list to use in your wild card space!
When do I post?
✦ You can post whenever you have completed each prompt! Feel free to tag this blog and use the hashtag #BenthanBingo2026
Is there a deadline?
✦ It can be helpful to have a date to work towards, but you can complete at your own pace, too! If you complete the challenge by the deadline, you will get a digital badge and a shout out on this blog.
✦ Completion Deadline to earn a badge is Sunday, June 28th 2026 at 11:59pm in whatever time zone you are in. That gives us about 8 weeks to get BINGO! You can still work on the bingo card at your own pace.
✦ Mods will do our best to reblog works before the deadline, but after the deadline we cannot promise to reblog everything. (But we'll try!)
Hey, you didn’t reblog my stuff!
✦ Ah, our bad! It’s a total mistake if mods don’t reblog your work within 3 days of posting. Make sure you tag this blog and use the tag #BenthanBingo2026
✦ If we still miss it, just send us a message! We’re happy to support your work.
Questions?
✦ Send an ask and we will reply as soon as we can.
(The prompts are listed like this for clarity and accessibility, but you can choose any horizontal, vertical or a diagonal line of five from the card.)
Here are the rules below!
How To Play
Complete five prompt squares in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, and you win the challenge! There are twelve possible combinations.
What is a complete prompt?
✦ A complete prompt is either 500 or more words or at least one art work - drawing, gif set, video, etc. of whatever your chosen media is.
✦ The content can be Gen or Slash and feature other characters, but our favorite spy duo, Benji and Ethan, must be the main characters in order to fulfill a prompt on this Bingo Card.
✦ And of course, the prompt must be featured in the story.
How do I interpret these prompts?
✦ There is one prompt per square, and each prompt is based on a different tarot card.
✦ You can interpret the prompt any way you want to. You can take the words of the prompt literally, or you can develop a prompt based on the meaning of the tarot card.
Here is a link to the tarot card meanings.
✦ Each card is in its upright position, but if you are inspired by the reverse position, you can create a work based on that.
✧ For example, if you choose a line with “The Star” in it, you can write about a character who acts like a movie star, or is the center of attention, or about seeing stars (like getting hit on the head), or seeing constellations in the sky, or about being a “North Star” type of person, or maybe they’re wearing a star on their clothing or star shaped jewelry, or you can be inspired by the tarot meaning— Upright: hope, faith, rejuvenation; Reversed: faithlessness, discouragement, insecurity, or however the prompt “The Star” inspires you! It’s very open to interpretation.
What the heck is a Wild Card?
✦ A “Wild Card” means you can choose any prompt from the bingo card that you want to fill in that square. Each row has one wild card, so you can be guaranteed to have at least one square of your choosing. You must choose a prompt from the card to use in your wild card space!
✦ In the event that you’re going for a full 25 completetionist challenge, you can use a different interpretation of the same prompt, like, for example, the reverse tarot meanings, for the five wild cards.
✧ OR you can choose from these Wild Card alternates, for anyone who wants to try to fill the whole card: Eight Of Wands, Four of Cups, Ace of Pentacles, Page of Swords, Two of Cups, The Moon
Are there any other rules?
✦ No AI is allowed in this challenge. Otherwise it's not a challenge, you know? (Anyone caught using AI will be outed and blocked.)
✦ Your entry must be newly created for this bingo card, not retroactively tagged or added on to a pre-existing fic or multi-chapter fic already in progress.
✦ Let’s keep it easy to count. Only one prompt per post please!
✧ You can write a multi-chapter story, and each chapter can have a different prompt, but you can’t combine multiple prompts within one chapter. You can split one prompt into multiple chapters though.
✧ The prompt should be in the chapter name. Mods have to be able to easily count a complete prompt.
✧ Example of Bingo Winner multi-chapter -> Title: My Tarot Bingo Story; Chapter 1 - The Hanged Man part 1; Chapter 2 - The Hanged Man part 2; Chapter 3- The Star; Chapter 4 - The Tower; Chapter 5 - Temperance; Chapter 6 - Queen of Swords
✦ Make sure to appropriately label your content so people can make informed decisions!
How do I win?
✦ You can post as you go, but in order to officially win, you have to tag this blog in a post with links to ALL FIVE complete prompts declaring BINGO! Make sure to use the hashtag #BenthanBingo2025
✦ If you don’t have a Tumblr, you can send an ask with your AO3 handle and a list of your five completed works.
✦ A winner will get bragging rights, a sense of accomplishment, and a digital Benthan Bingo Winner Badge for those who complete Bingo. There will be winner (5 prompts), 2X winner (10 prompts), 3X winner (15 prompts), 4X winner (20 prompts), and if you fill out the ENTIRE CARD of 25 prompts, you will get a special animated gif digital Benthan Bingo Completionist badge!
✦ The winners will be tagged (or called out if you don’t have a Tumblr) in post with the corresponding badges!
✦ It’s going to be the honor system, y’all. Winners and badges will be posted a week after the deadline and you can take, use, display as you wish.
When do I post?
✦ You can post whenever you have completed each prompt! Feel free to tag this blog and use the hashtag #BenthanBingo2025
✦ An AO3 collection for this challenge is coming soon! (There will be a post about it, likely this weekend.) You can post your Benthan Bingo works in there at any time, even after the deadline is past.
Is there a deadline?
✦ It can be helpful to have a date to work towards, but you can complete at your own pace, too! If you complete the challenge by the deadline, you will get a digital badge and a shout out on this blog.
✦ Completion Deadline to earn a badge is Sunday, January 25th 2026 at 11:59pm in whatever time zone you are in. That gives us about 12 weeks to get BINGO! You can still work on the bingo card at your own pace.
✦ Mods will do our best to reblog works before the deadline, but after the deadline we cannot promise to reblog everything. (But we'll try!)
Hey, you didn’t reblog my stuff!
✦ Ah, our bad! It’s a total mistake if mods don’t reblog your work within 3 days of posting. Make sure you tag this blog and use the tag #BenthanBingo2025
✦ If we still miss it, just send us a message! We’re happy to support your work.
Questions?
✦ Send an ask and we will reply as soon as we can.
Note from @griseldajane:
This was put together super fast and I’m sorry if it’s not well thought out! I hope we have fun anyway. I’ve never run a challenge before either, so fasten your seatbelts and all that!
Some people are calling 2025 the Year of the Movie, and our own Tom Cruise has been called President of the Movies, so this inspired me to create an event where we create Benthan AU fanworks based on other movies!
I have a list of movies from multiple genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Romance, and Thriller/Horror to inspire new fanworks - but I want to see what the fandom would suggest too!
If you have a movie that you think would make a good Benji x Ethan AU send me a message! If it's a common title, please include the year, director, or one of the lead cast members so I can get the right movie.
Submit a Movie
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More event rules and FAQ will be shared later but for this event:
AU fanworks can be fan fics, art, comics, vids, gifsets, etc.
Works can be any rating and length.
Posting Timeline: anytime from Dec 1st to 31st 2025
It's Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, except Benji and Ethan are married. Every scene that could become Benthan related, has become Benthan related. Featuring Benji and Ethan in the recompression chamber, Ethan being there after Benji was shot, and more exciting additions to the Mission Impossible movie. Including Luther Lives AU.
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Mission: Impossible (Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Benji Dunn/Ethan Hunt, Ethan Hunt & Luther Stickell, Benji Dunn & Luther Stickell
Characters: Ethan Hunt, Benji Dunn, Luther Stickell, William Donloe, Paris the Assassin (Mission: Impossible), Grace (Mission: Impossible), Degas (Mission: Impossible), Tapeesa (Mission: Impossible), The Entity (Mission: Impossible)
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Luther Stickell Lives, Team as Family, Slow Dancing, Idiots in Love, Queerplatonic Relationships, Crying, Torture, Decompression Sickness, Drowning, Hypothermia, Vomiting, Graphic Depictions of Illness, French, Kissing, Platonic Kissing, Platonic Relationships, Cuddling & Snuggling, Anal Sex, Bottom Ethan Hunt, Top Benji Dunn, Literal Sleeping Together
It’s Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, except Benji and Ethan are married. Every scene that could become Benthan related, has become Benthan related. Featuring Benji and Ethan in the recompression chamber, Ethan being there after Benji was shot, and more exciting additions to the Mission Impossible movie. Including Luther Lives AU.
HELLO BENTHAN NATION!!! I BRING GIFTS!!! This is the fic I’ve been working on since I left the theater in May, I’m so glad it’s finally complete and ready to share with you all. I uploaded the whole thing at once, so no waiting for anyone <33 Also, be sure to shout out @liass-21 for beta reading. Love you bestie. You did an amazing job.
This fic also fits into several prompts for @benthan-week-forever ! I just didn’t get it finished in time. I’ve added to the collection regardless, mwahaha.
Thank you to EVERYONE who wanted to be tagged in the posting of this, oh my gosh there are so many of you, I’m so honored. I hope you all enjoy. Much love!!!
This is the story of how Benji Dunn and Ethan Hunt fall in love.
This is the story of how they live.
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Yeah so if you take the titles of my Benthan Week fics and put them backwards in order you get this little poem because im an insane person and love making things harder on myself 💕 (i gave up trying to have them be the last line of each fic after day 5, got way too sleep deprived 😬)
Hope everyone who read any of these enjoyed them, and thank you so much for taking the time to read!!! If you missed any, hyperlinks are attached with each title, and I hope you enjoy reading!
I’m so glad to have been part of @benthan-week-forever and join this great community with so many kind and talented people — you all are wondeful and ily all sm!!! Thanks for making being part of this fandom a great experience 💕 see you around
When the Drinks are Bad and the Water’s Cold: Day 7 for Benthan Week
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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
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Summary:
Benji steps forward into the other man’s orbit, hoping that he’s been reading this right, and anticipation creeps up his spine as he watches dark brown eyes flicker to his lips.
“I wouldn’t mind going on another date with you,” Benji whispers under his breath, taking the opportunity to place his hand against the other man’s cheek, observing the way his eyes flutter as Benji leans in so that their breaths are shared within the open air. He traces a thumb along his lips and smiles. “But how about next time we have one without a mask, love?”
At his words, Ethan jerks away with a look of surprise-
-and tumbles straight into the swimming pool.
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Last Benthan week fic posted ahhhhhh!!! i need to finally sleep but thanks @benthan-week-forever for a great week and for organizing this!!! Hope yall enjoyed! <3
Thanks to everyone for participating in Benthan Week 2025!
Whether you posted fic, drew art, reblogged posts, or commented on works, you made this week the absolute joy that it has been 💖
Y'all posted an astonishing 77 (SEVENTY SEVEN!) works on AO3!! Check out the collection here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Benthan_Week_2025 Also, scroll back through this blog and tags to enjoy more than a dozen pieces of Benthan art 😍
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!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mission: Impossible (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benji Dunn/Ethan Hunt, Benji Dunn & Ethan Hunt
Characters: Ethan Hunt, Benji Dunn
Additional Tags: Spoilers for Movie: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025), Missing Scene, Canon Compliant, Implied Passive Suicidal Ideation, Ethan Hunt Needs a Hug, Benji Gives Him One
Summary:
For all his worries, here Benji was, asking him to stay. And if that could help Benji, then it would be more than worth it. He could stick around until Benji was healed up and didn’t need him anymore. And he’d be at the rendezvous with his team at Trafalgar Square, of course. But after that, he could disappear.
He accepted.
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I finally finished this fic!!! I started it right after seeing Final Reckoning the day it came out because I needed this closure, and after weeks of setbacks I managed to complete it just in time to post it during Benthan Week! It fits with the Day 4 themes and the alternate theme for Day 1. I really hope you enjoy it!!!
Benji's injured and Ethan aborts a mission to make sure he's okay
dialogue from "Impulse Control" by @killerqueeenbee
read the fic on ao3!
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I didn't write any fics for Benthan Week Day 7 but wanted to make something Benthan related and also wanted to thank my friend Kiley for all their support! I wouldn't have posted nearly 21k words this week without their cheerleading! ♡
also thank you to the @benthan-week-forever mods for hosting such a great event!!
Bleeding Out and All Alone: Day 6 for Benthan Week
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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?
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Summary:
“Great job, Benji,” Ethan rasps out with sincerity even as his lungs squeeze in extreme agony, and watches as Benji let out a half-hysterical laugh, staring at him with stunned eyes.
“Thanks, Ethan.” He says with incredulity, but Ethan’s awake enough to note that his words hold the same bashfulness he had used on the other man, though Ethan pleasantly notes that this time there is no stuttering. “Happy to help.”
He’s in terrible pain, but he can’t resist coughing out, “You always do,” before darkness starts to take over.
In the corner of his eye, Ethan just spots Brandt shaking his head with disbelief, before he passes out completely.
Sleep Well, Love by fictionallemons for @benthan-week-forever Day 7: After his excursion into Arctic waters, Ethan is always cold. Benji notices.
Thank you to the mod and all the participants of Benthan Week 2025! It was a blast to be a part of!
Benji wakes up with a start. He looks at the empty space in bed next to him. His heart beat kicks up a notch until he sees Ethan at their closet across the room, an unmistakable shadow in the dark. Ethan crawls back into bed, one of his ridiculously expensive cashmere sweaters over his pajamas. “All right, love?” Benji murmurs.
“Just a little cold,” Ethan answers.
Benji frowns. It’s easily 25 degrees in their bedroom on this sultry May night. Summer’s come early to D.C. Benji himself is overly warm under the sheets and quilt his nan stitched with her own two hands eons ago. But he turns and reaches out, tucks Ethan’s spine into the curve of his chest, pulls the blankets over the both of them. He’s sweltering now, but he can feel Ethan finally relaxing into his embrace. “There. Sleep well, love.”
“I will now,” Ethan whispers.
Benji smiles and goes back to sleep.
