#cobb 2025

[prettygoododds]

It's that time again, Carry On Big Bang time!

It has been a real pleasure working with @carnationgreen . Every time they showed me progress I was blow away by their talent.

I hope you enjoy our take on knight Simon and stolen crown Baz!

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

That one (points up) is a little teaser for the next chapter ;)

[nonsensicalollie]

my first Carry On Big Bang!!!

I was able to collaborate with the lovely writer @bluedahlia912!

check out her fic You’ve Got Mail in the COBB2025 collection now!!

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[bluedahlia912]

I had so much fun collaborating with @nonsensicalollie for our first @carry-on-big-bang ! How amazing is this artwork?

First chapter of “You’ve Got Mail” is now up on AO3!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67251025/chapters/173703145

[the-beard-of-edward-teach]

Heya! I am so beyond thrilled to share my collaboration with @bachusekart for @carry-on-big-bang! This was my first time participating in a fandom event, and I could not have had a better experience. I've had such a wonderful time working with Sammy, and he is so so so so talented. I genuinely cannot express my gratitude for him throughout this event, and for this fandom itself.

I'm so glad I stepped out of my comfort zone to write my first Carry On fic, second ever fic, and join my first fandom event because it's led me to make such a wonderful friend. Sammy, thank you so much for always being there to brainstorm with me and just. Everything. You're such a delight to work with, and I still can't get over how perfectly our brains synced with this event. Your art is exactly what I had envisioned for this scene.

I'm rambling. I'm just so excited and proud of this collaboration. Without further ado, here is the first chapter of the fic:

No Time to Mourn Roses (When Forests Are Burning) (4588 words) by waiting_wishing

Chapters: 1/?

Fandom: Carry On | Simon Snow Series - Rainbow Rowell

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch/Simon Snow

Characters: Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch, Simon Snow, Penelope Bunce

Additional Tags: Time Loop, Watford (Simon Snow), Watford Eighth Year (Simon Snow), The Catacombs (Simon Snow), homoerotic wall-pinning, porcutimes, simon snow is losing his mind, baz wallowing in a pit of self pity under the stars, Carry On Big Bang (Simon Snow), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Carry On Big Bang 2025 (Simon Snow)

Summary: "Something is wrong. This is the same lesson as yesterday. I’ve always been ahead in this class. Nothing the Minotaur says is really new to me. But this is different than usual. This lesson isn’t familiar because I know the concept: it is just the exact same as yesterday’s. I wouldn’t consider the Minotaur to be a necessarily great teacher, but it isn’t like him to repeat a lesson verbatim. I steal a glance at Snow—he still looks like he’s just discovered that the world isn’t real."   In this Watford-era fic, Simon and Baz are stuck in a timeloop--a residual effect of a humdrum attack. Slowly the decide they need to work together and form a begrudging alliance. Will that truce morph into something more?

All art of course by my extremely talented and beloved friend and COBB partner, @bachusekart

[talentpiper11]

Carry On Big Bang:

Simon Snow and the Sands of Time

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

Summary:

Simon Snow Cadwallader is looking for answers and hoping not to find them. His father's notebooks with him, he roams the world trying to prove that the supernatural isn't real. That there are no prophecies, no Chosen Ones, no hidden meanings in the history of humanity.

Basilton Grimm-Pitch is tired of asking the wrong questions. Stuck in the basement of the British Museum, he looks at decades of stolen history piling up around him and knows that there is something more concealed inside forgotten crates of dusty terracotta.

When Simon's quests lead him to seek Baz's expertise, they soon realise that maybe they've been looking for the same thing all along.

I worked with the lovely @martsonmars for this year’s Carry On Big Bang. We collaborated to realize their vision of a helter-skelter action scene in the midst of their take on the Indiana Jones genre. Simon Snow takes charge of the situation— and a motorcycle— to get the pair out of danger. But what’s waiting for them at the end of this daring escape ?

I had so much fun with this piece; it emerged on the back of a thousand little questions and plenty of research as I worked to take the scene from concept to canvas. Are there still inaccuracies and anachronisms? Of course. But I had so much fun pushing my boundaries and trying new techniques with this piece!

Thanks to martsonmars for collaborating with me, and to our wonderful Mod Kal for coordinating.

[shrekgogurt]

A Horse With No Name

Author: @shrekgogurt

Artist: @artsyunderstudy

Rating: M for grit and grime

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, later references to Christianity, also it’s the 19th century...so some 19th century shit

Tags: Wild West/Cowboy AU, set in the reconstruction period of US history, but with that classic hollywood 50s aesthetic, carry on cast goes yeehaw, ACAB, buckle up buddy we are IN the genre

Summary: Simon Snow is a gunslinger, a ranger, a dangerous man set to keep other dangerous men in line. However, when a twister rips through his resources, Simon finds himself riding an unfamiliar horse into an unfamiliar town filled with unfamiliar faces. Well, all except one very familiar face offered up like a prized hog at auction.

After making a temporary truce with his famed foe, Simon is forced to face his prejudices as he gets to know the mysterious residents of Watford Bend.

a Revisionist Western AU, presented in CinemaScope

Chapter Count: 1/10

Word Count: 3, 819 (est. 40k)

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[lauillu]

Finally got round to posting this!

I did my first @carry-on-big-bang this year, collaborating with @probablily as the artist for their fic A Pitch With Wings and a Bloodthirsty Chosen One.

Summary:

Simon Snow grew up with large red wings and a devil's tail. An interesting choice for a Chosen One. His magic isn't much better. One day, he messes up a spell that swaps his magic with Baz's—wings and vampirism included. So now Baz has wings and a tail and can't control his terrible magic, and Simon has magic that works perfectly fine... but he's now got fangs and thirst for blood. How will Simon and Baz fix this? And what will happen as they grow closer together...?

[lovelyladzzzz]

New Fic

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the Watford Theatre Society hadn't been canceled by the Mage? Want to see theatre kid drama with low-stakes tension and heartbreaking dance numbers to Britney Spears? Do you like it when Baz is a simp?

Of course you do! You're only human after all!

If you're interested, please check out my newest Simon Snow fic, Just A Stage Kiss, wherein Simon and Baz have to work together after being cast as lovers.

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

Art by my wonderful partner @cccloudsss, it's meant so much to get to work with you as my partner on this project.

LOOK how amazing this is!!!!!!

Thank you to @roomwithanopenfire for being the best beta-reader on earth <3

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