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[spirkevents]

🎉SHIPBOARD WEEKENDS BIG BANG 2026 COMES TO A CLOSE 🎉

After manny long weeks our Shipboard Weekends Big Bang event has now come to a close.

Our wonderful writers and artists have done an amazing job, as always, and populated the event collection with some phenomenal collaborations.

A big thank you, especially, to our fabulous pinch hitters, who steeped in to cover for any participants who had to leave the event, and made sure all of our teams could still submit on time.

Now that the collection is complete, give yourself a treat, and show our teams your support, by checking out their amazing creations here: SHIPBOARD WEEKENDS AO3 COLLECTION

Please also feel free to share the collection link on your socials so more people can discover these amazing works!

Thank you again to all our participants for making this event so special. Keep an eye out for future Spirk Events. We’d love to create with all of you again! LLAP 🖖

[end-my-plox]

Here's another painting that I did in collaboration with @holocron-hiatus for their wonderful fic Much ado about fra'als (on AO3) which is part of @spirkevents shipboard weekends!

I'm so excited for you guys to read the fic and feel free to check out the other amazing works in the collection!!

[sunpoppa]

Kirk and Spock rudely interrupted amidst a Jefferies Tube rendezvous... This is the piece I drew for @spirkevents Shipboard Weekends Big Bang!

Check out the lovely fic it goes with HERE!

[forfuckssakejim]

So grateful to have worked with such an amazing artist for the @spirkevents SWBB. It was so much fun!!!

[end-my-plox]

Absolutely delighted to announce that my second collaboration for shipboard weekends from @spirkevents is finally here!!!!

I had the privilege of working with the wonderful @holocron-hiatus and it was a wonderful time! Our idea for this painting was to make a piece inspired by the covers of trashy romance novels!!

read the lovely fic here on AO3!!

[sunpoppa]

Kirk and Spock rudely interrupted amidst a Jefferies Tube rendezvous... This is the piece I drew for @spirkevents Shipboard Weekends Big Bang!

Check out the lovely fic it goes with HERE!

[justveeing]

My collab with @spirkme915 for the SHIPBOARD WEEKENDS bang by @spirkevents is out!!!!

I did two illustrations for this lighthearted and kinda dirty (hehe) fic! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did crafting it together! Read "Spin Cycle", leave a cute comment and enjoy some silly shenanigans by two idiots in love!

[thankssaragorn]

high tension; low perception

star trek: the original series | kirk/spock | outsider pov, secret relationship | 7.1k

Weekends on the U.S.S. Enterprise are a hazy concept, but some crewmembers hold true to traditional relaxation rituals. Hikaru Sulu spends his Sunday mornings crocheting, and Kevin Riley has joined a new Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Suddenly, their weekend havens are shaken up by new arrivals. Who taught Captain Kirk to crochet so well? How did Mr. Spock learn how to be a Dungeon Master? And what is Scotty saying about a bet between their three senior crewmen?

My fill for the @spirkevents Shipboard Weekends Big Bang! A funny little story featuring Stitch & Bitch, the Vulcan Forge, and amazing art by @art-aubstacles

[weavebro]

and suddenly, he was falling

I'm so excited to share one of my illustrations for @kvothes fic 'I'll make it to the moon if I have to crawl' for the Shipboard Weekends Big Bang Event

this story is so engaging and such an original take on the accidental bonding trope. it was such a pleasure to work on

[kvothes]

so delighted to share my fic and its incredible art by @weavebro !!! shout out to the @spirkevents mods for such a lovely event <3

[art-aubstacles]

I can finally share these drawings I've been working on for the Shipboard Weekends event by @spirkevents!

Read the story high tension; low perception by @thankssaragorn and see what the crew is up to!

[justveeing]

My collab with @spirkme915 for the SHIPBOARD WEEKENDS bang by @spirkevents is out!!!!

I did two illustrations for this lighthearted and kinda dirty (hehe) fic! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did crafting it together! Read "Spin Cycle", leave a cute comment and enjoy some silly shenanigans by two idiots in love!

[bubert]

Took part in the Star Trek Shipboard Weekends Event by @spirkevents alongside an amazingly talented group! I was fortunate to collaborate with @jaimehwatson (professorplum221) on his story 'An Intimate Evening on the Enterprise'. (Rated E)

If you enjoy first dates (with well-intentioned interventions) and first times (with significantly less interventions), then enjoy the ride! It’s charming and fun, and they deserve the time to get off!

More art (NSFW) is posted with the story, along with some other sketches on my own Ao3. Thank you to all who organized and participated! 💫

[spirkevents]

🚨 NEW SPIRK CONTENT DROP 🚨

The Shipboard Weekends Big Bang collection is officially open!

Our wonderfully talented writers and artists teamed up to bring you stories of the Enterprise crew off the clock; think cosy downtime, rec room antics, unexpected intimacy, and all the little moments canon never gave us (but absolutely should have).

Go dive in:

👉 Shipboard Weekends AO3 Collection

And if you enjoy what you read/see, don’t forget to:

❤️ leave kudos

💬 drop a comment

🔁 share your favourites

Our fabulous event creators have put so much into these works, please come show them some love! 🥰🖖

[avid-mreower]

My art contribution to the Shipboard Weekends @spirkevents big bang !!

Created these pieces for @daytimedrinking, and her fic i wanna take you there (in the midnight hour) involving karaoke shenanigans and lots of pining !!

[end-my-plox]

Shipboard weekends by @spirkevents is finally here!!

And I'm so excited to finally get to share the pieces I've made in collaboration with the incredible @gunstreet !!!

Read our fic here on AO3

P.S. If you read it you'll get to see a sexy NSFW painting by yours truly 😘

[illegalpaladin]

The Great Pretender

The fic I've been working on for the last several months is here! I collaborated with the wonderful and talented @lichqueenlibrarian for the @spirkevents Shipboard Weekends Big Bang! Click here to read The Great Pretender and to see Lich's stunning art:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83483806/chapters/219934161

[bretender]

Matchmaking (for Dummies)

Rating: E

Pairing: James T. Kirk/Spock

Fandom: Star Trek (AOS)

Word Count: 22.7k

Summary: During a rare period of calm on the Enterprise, Kirk and Spock's colleagues decide they're going to put an end to the command duo tip-toeing around one another.

my contribution for the shipboard weekend bang is here! thank you to @catgirl-spock for the very cute art!! the one above is just a preview for the many more pieces she did for the fic!!

and thank you to the mods of @spirkevents for putting this together 💖

👇 Tags under the cut👇

[daytimedrinking]

I'm a little late with this, but 4/24 is posting day for my fic for the Shipboard Weekends @spirkevents big bang! The art for this fic was done by the amazingly talented Tango ( @avid-mreower )!

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

If you like Spirk stories that include:

- Jim and Spock kind of already dating but being totally oblivious about it

- The Enterprise crew as family

- Tipsy karaoke shenanigans and general silly fluff

- Jim in Spock's lap

- Covert make-outs, Vulcan and otherwise

- Romance

- Soft-serve ice cream

- Absurd amounts of flirting

- Epiphanies! About feelings!

- First Times (plural!)

- Singing, dancing, and general merriment

- Beautiful art

- Music references from the late 20th to early 21st centuries (including K-Pop)

- Lesbians

Then I hope you'll take a look and enjoy! Thank you in advance for reading! 💕 And thank you to the Spirk Events mods for organizing this event and giving me the opportunity to participate!