JA Secret Santa

Welcome to the Jupiter Ascending Secret Santa! Move your curser over this sidebar, choose a snowflake, and get started!

[takiki16]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A Fine Chain

UPDATE: Chapter 8/?

Fandom: Jupiter Ascending

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Beta: @gallifreyburning

Relationships: Jupiter Jones/Caine Wise

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Light Dom/sub, Power Imbalance, Royalty, Slavery, Collars, Leashes, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Don’t copy to another site, Dark

Summary: Caine Wise, disgraced ex-Skyjacker and convicted criminal, is suddenly inducted into the service of the enigmatic Queen Nea-Seraphi, mysterious new Recurrence and puzzle to the Entitled social circle. While figuring out the boundaries of his new station, worrying about his old commander, and nursing old wounds from his court martial, Caine finds himself slowly being drawn into the confidence of his royal employer. What could Her Majesty possibly want with a defective splice?

In which Caine gets a promotion, an assignment, and a snack - not necessarily in that order - and learns several interesting new things about her Majesty Queen Nea-Seraphi

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Tomorrow's the Day!

Remember to tag this blog (or my main ItsClydeBitches) when posting any gifts, as well as any recipients. I'll keep my eye out for things to reblog! <3

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Welcome to the JA Holiday Prompt-A-Thon!

Overnight a mysterious tree appeared in the Jones' household, decked in pairings and tropes...

...along with those goodies a massive pile of presents sits beneath the tree...

...and atop the presents is a note:

GIFTS ARE DUE DECEMBER 23rd!

Non-image instructions are below the Read More. Everyone have a good time and drop an ask in my box if you have any questions! :)

Directions: Choose one of each (a pairing, trope, and prompt) to combine and create a gift for the fandom! All gifts should be posted to your blogs sometime on December 23rd and I will reblog them!

Pairing Choices

Gen

Balem/Jupiter

Caine/Stinger

Jupiter/Caine

Your Choice

Genres/Tropes Choices

Fluff

H/C

Crossover

Angst

One Bed

AU

Mutual Pining

Coffee Shop

Time Travel

Enemies to Lovers

PWP

Songfic

ABO

First Time

Fake Dating

Fuck or Die

Prompt Choices

Someone spiked the hot chocolate

Gift gone (wonderfully?) wrong

Meeting the family

Midnight kiss

Frozen from the snow

Matching sweaters

"You invited WHO to dinner??"

Holiday secrets

Anonymous candy cane-grams

Naughty AND nice

Ice skate meet cute

Making gingerbread houses (spaceships??)

"Yes, it's an Abrasax tradition for members of the royal family to ______"

Holiday miracle

"All I want for Christmas is you :) Lol JK I actually want _____"

All alone for the holidays (or are you?)

Dealer's choice (AKA holiday or non-holiday prompt of your choosing!)

The Poem

Warm holiday wishes upon you all

Tis the season to create—craft, write, and draw!

Upon the tree sit many a prompt;

A wealth of ideas for you to adopt.

Your task? To choose a pairing first—

—or keep it gen if romance is the worst.

Next a trope, genre, cliche

Some intricate conflict to add to the fray.

Now open a present and see what's inside:

A holiday prompt to act as your guide.

Keep the spirit alive by including all three

Or don't—that's really not up to me!

In the end you must only follow Rule One

"The JA Holidays must be lots of fun!"

~Clyde, the Holiday Turtle

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

today's children are gonna become teens and clown the shit out of us for 'eepy' and 'blorbo' but they'll say it in cocomelonese so we won't understand them

[fennel-tea]

today’s eepy blorbo is yesterday’s heckin doggo is last week’s smexy bishie

[jazzybot4]

I hate that you're right and that I understood all of that.

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2023 Secret Santa Update

Hello, everyone!

I'd like to start with an apology: I meant to write this post several weeks ago but life, as it so often does, got in the way and I completely dropped the ball. I'm really sorry about that, particularly for those of you who were waiting around for information about this event.

Not to follow bad news with worse, but I won't be doing the JA Secret Santa his year. Real life responsibilities are definitely a factor here—my life has gotten exponentially more busy after securing a new job post-quarantine—but if I'm honest I've been toying with taking a step back for a while now. It's really hard to do an exchange with this small a number, both when it comes to organizing it in a way that participants will enjoy (wait, didn't I get them last year? And two years before that?) and when it comes to managing any inevitable snags. If someone is late or fails to produce a gift in a normal exchange, you've got numerous pinch hitters in the wings to help out. Here, it's suddenly down to just 2-3 people—or me—and consistently the last few years we've been running into snags not easily remedied.

However, I definitely don't want this to be a JA devoid holiday! My current thinking is to do something community-based with a bit more flexibility, so that participants still have the opportunity to create gifts, but no one is pressured to finish, or is tied to an individual giftee in a way that isn't working well for our numbers. So I had planned to post a list of prompts on December 1st, a mix of very broad ideas (like a genre) and more specific challenges (a pairing, trope, and line to include). Participants are welcome to fill any and all prompts they like, as well as comment via the post on those they'd particularly like to see. Spend the month making a big gift for a friend. Make fifty for the whole fandom!

Gifts would still be due December 23rd.

I'm also VERY open to suggestions on how this might work—as well as prompts! Please send any and everything to the ask box/my chat.

I know this will be disappointing to people, but I hope this middle ground is a silver lining.

Happy (Early) Holidays! Balem demands it.

[xidaer]

Behold!

“Taking Advantage of Mistletoe”written for @andlikeaphoenix

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

This fic is by @andlikeaphoenix for @vablatsky! Their wifi is a bit unreliable atm, so I’m posting on their behalf :)

[vablatsky]

Gingerbread

It‘s December 24 and Jupiter isn‘t in the mood for Christmas at all. Maybe a new friend can cheer her up?

Merry Christmas, @pixiedustandbluebutterflies! This is my gift for Jupiter Ascending Secret Santa exchange (@jasecretsanta). Sorry I‘m late, my family kept me busy and wouldn‘t let me near my desk. I took me a while to go back to „writing mode“ after a year, but after a while I got into the flow and had a blast writing this fluffy, fluffy fic. I hope you enjoy it! :)

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Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!

We’re still missing a number of gifts and I just sent out some reminder emails. Hopefully I’ve just missed them in the depths of blogs (tumblr’s tagging alert now appears to be nonexistent /sigh), but if not please get those uploaded ASAP! I know this is a very busy time of year, so if you need a little extra time please reach out so I can reassure your recipient that the gift is still on its way :)

[pixiedustandbluebutterflies]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Jupiter Ascending (2015) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jupiter Jones/Caine Wise Characters: Jupiter Jones, Caine Wise Additional Tags: Omega Verse, Fluff, Meet-Cute, 2022 JA Secret Santa, Jupiter Ascending Secret Santa Summary:

Caine’s days at Aegis, a home for unmarked omegas, had been blessedly uneventful. He was quite content to live out his days in this safe space, free of the pressures of the alpha/omega dynamic.

Until the newest volunteer at the home crashed into his life.

Happy @jasecretsanta gift reveal day, @azc3nsion!

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Posting begins in just two hours! (EST, anyway). As always, feel free to post your gift any time during the 23rd and tag the blog/shoot me a message to let me know it’s up. I’ve got a lot of holiday prep to do tomorrow, but I’ll do my best to hop on and reblog gifts :)

I can’t wait to see what everyone has created!!

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We’re now about five days away from posting, folks! Hope everyone is putting the finishing touches on their gifts :) As always, hit me up with any questions you may have and get excited for everything the fandom has created on the 23rd! <3

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Check your inbox, folks: assignments have been sent out! 🎉

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You have through tonight (and honestly probably a bit of tomorrow morning, EST, before I get my act together and start organizing/sending out emails) to sign up for the exchange!

Head on over to the form here to join <3

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Who in the fandom would like to hear the thrilling tale of how I came to organize 2022′s Secret Santa so very late in our holiday season?

...Life is chaotic and I forgot 😬

But I’m back and I’ve fixed things! If you wander on over to our timeline you’ll note a slight shift, mainly just condensing the sign up/assignment periods. Sign ups will now run through the 15th and I’ll work some black magic to ensure you have your assignments by midnight on the 16th. That leaves everyone with the same amount of time to work, with presents due December 23rd! Huzzah!

🦌🌿🎄 YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR THE EXCHANGE HERE!! 🦌🌿🎄

There was some talk about whether I’d run this again and in the process I accumulated a short list of people who were potentially interested, expressed by interaction with my post. You all are getting a tag in the, well, tags because tumblr literally won’t let me @ any of you oh my god this hellsite. There’s absolutely no pressure here, just a gentle, “Hi!” in case you were thinking of signing up.

Don’t know what I’m talking about? Check out the blog! Come join us! We are a small fandom, but ever so mighty ;)

As always, spread the word and get excited!!

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Hello!!! I know it's a little early in the year but I was wondering if you were planning on doing the fest again this year?

Hello, friend!!

Sorry it took me forever to answer this. My free time is in short supply these days 😭

Now, would I like to do our annual exchange? Yes. Absolutely. Always. Sadly though I'm not sure it's feasible anymore. We only had three participants last year—including you!—and things got a little dicey. Not only is it hard to run an exchange with three to begin with, but if one person can't complete their gift for some reason, suddenly we've lost almost half the participants in one go and, for obvious reasons, there aren't pinch hitters to call upon. Plus, imho some of the magic is lost by having the same duo/trio swapping gifts each year. Sure, the creation process and giving is still fantastic, but part of the fun is not knowing who you're paired with, getting to know people, and seeing new talent enter the mix. Tbh I was thinking of calling it quits unless JA gets some sort of revival. Eight exchanges in seven years is nothing to sneeze at!

However, there's always hope! I'll use my main blog to help promote this and I'll ask others to please do the same. If you have any interest in participating in a Jupiter Ascending holiday exchange—no commitments right now, just interest—please like this post. Let's see what our 2022 numbers are like and we'll go from there <3

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

@pixiedustandbluebutterflies It’s Christmas in July! (Just barely. I’ve got another hour and a half until I hit midnight lol).

Enjoy your summer gift! ☀️🎁