Are you one of those people who loves trashfire couples? Those toxic pairs where you stare in commingled shock and horror of "oh my god I can't even—" and you have to sit there with popcorn because they are just SUCH MESSES? I, too, love them. And in fact, I wrote a story about one of them! Two toxic sapphics and not even death can get in the way of winning arguments or having the last word.
The anthology is chock full of great authors I'm delighted to share a TOC with!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/parsecink/bad-romance-an-anthology-of-trash-couples
Characters: Jett Reno/ Lura Thok, Caleb Mirs/ Tarima Sadal
Summery:
Space: the final frontier.
These are the voyages of one errant Talaxian Furfly. Its mission: to escape its enclosure; to wreak havoc and cause widespread chaos across the Academy. To boldly go where no fly has gone before, and take as many people's sanity with it as it goes.
Working on a Star Trek: Academy fic and the first chapter just went live!
A Fly On The Wall
Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandoms: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Characters: Jett Reno/ Lura Thok, Caleb Mirs/ Tarima Sadal
Summery:
Space: the final frontier.
These are the voyages of one errant Talaxian Furfly. Its mission: to escape its enclosure; to wreak havoc and cause widespread chaos across the Academy. To boldly go where no fly has gone before, and take as many people's sanity with it as it goes.
Five years! We've been doing this for five years, can you believe it?? So without further ado, the info for the the Fifth Annual CageBlade Week!
We couldn't have done it without you, and as part of that, we have a banner this year that includes art from two artists*, @agapidraws and @2tunafish. CageBlade Week is all about the community, and we received permission to use these pieces of fanart for the banner from the artists.
Event Info
Dates: 15-21 June 2026 (Mon-Sun)
All forms of fanworks will be accepted - fanfic, fanart, gifset, playlist whatever it may be!
If we somehow missed your post after the end of the event, let us know so we can reblog it! We might be a little slow on the day-to-day but we don’t want to miss anything. The only things we won’t be reblogging are NSFW with minors and explicit noncon. We will reblog late posts.
Make sure to tag your posts with #cagebladeweek (within the first 5 tags, thanks algorithm) and/or @ this blog so we can find and reblog everything.
Participate one day or every day - it doesn’t matter! If you post on an external site (AO3, FFN, DeviantArt) please at least drop a link here so we can reblog it and promote it. There will be an AO3 Collection started closer to the date.
Prompts:
Day 1: bruises/treasure
Day 2: denial/darkness
Day 3: AU of Choice
Day 4: enthusiasm/dawn
Day 5: sleep/mirror
Day 6: future/legacy
Day 7: Free Day!
You may interpret these prompts as strictly or as loosely as your heart desires. You can stick as close or as wide from the prompts as you want. Want to combine two? Go for it! Want to have some other characters cameo or tell a more ensemble tale? Sure - as long as it has Sonya and Johnny at the heart of it.
If you have any questions about prompts and submissions, send us an ask here! We look forward to seeing all the wonderful contributions!
FAQs:
1) Do I have to write in English?: No, you do not! This is a multi-language-friendly event. Post in your language of choice and users can machine translate if needed. If you choose to write in one language and later post translations to English, those translations can also be added to the AO3 collection.
2) Can I write an OT3 fic?: The mods support polyamorous shipping, however this week is for CageBlade specifically. We'd like that contributions focus on Sonya & Johnny's relationship.
3) Well, what if I write a breakup fic and have them hook up with other people? It's still CageBlade, right?: Not for this event. This week is a celebration of CageBlade and how awesome they are together. Want to give us some hurt/comfort, breakup & reconciliation, sure! Whump? Go wild! But we want to see them coming together and realizing how great they are as a couple.
4) What if I don’t like any of the prompts and have ideas of my own?: Then go ahead and write them! Want to explore their friendship before they hooked up? Want to write all AUs? Do you have some art ideas you’re just itching for an excuse to post and draw? The world is your oyster!
*I had intentions on putting a second banner together with just the prompts, but my graphic design skills leave...something to be desired.
cageblade but it's sonya, a known workaholic and efficient soldier, covered in dirt and blood when she gets to base, and john is there waiting, a bright smile on his face as he sees her-- and sonya feels disgusting, covered in grime, sticky and dusty and feeling like she's in a foreign skin, but john smiles all the same...
"you still see me, under all of this?" are her first words to him, and she sees his stupid smirk and his effortless head tilt and his open arms.
"how could i see anyone else, sunshine?" and she's stunned, because there wasnt a second of hesitation. not a moment where john doubts her, where he questions her, where he questions and doubts them. and after years and years of hearing countless partners tell her that she's unrecognizable when it comes to her work, that they dont know who she is anymore after a rough mission, that they just dont know what to do when her job and life are difficult and force her down. and she's so relieved.
it's a weight off of her shoulders that john doesnt question, doesnt doubt, doesnt flounder under the pressure of her coming home battered and bruised and bloody. and she's grateful that even covered in blood, and dust, and dirt, and unknown grime of every kind, he still opens his arms and welcomes her home with a hug and the offer of a nice, hot shower, food if she's hungry, a movie is she's restless, sleep if she's tired; he does it all, and she just cant help but let him after her work is all said and done, because he tells her every time she comes home that she deserves it.
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