Prompt submissions now open for Star Trek Femslash Week!
If you have an idea for a prompt you'd love to see in this year's event, either send us an ask or reply to this post with your idea! We look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.
Prompt submissions will close on March 1st with voting to follow. Anonymous asks are enabled so ask here!
A bit spontaneous, but this is a fanfic collab event we just came up with today on the discord server, us being @birdofdawning (idea for the fic) @lavendelhummel (advent calendar idea) and myself (collab idea):
24 days of Bering and Wells ficlets, creating a (semi-)cohesive getting together fanfiction! If you want to write for one of the days, sign up in a reblog addition or ask, and your name will be put on the list! You write your ficlet and aim to post it on the corresponding day of December, but as long as it’s posted some time in the month it’s fine. If you can coordinate with the people who post the days before yours, maybe tell us your planned summaries so everyone can adjust accordingly, that’s cool, but if the ficlets don’t fit together perfectly that’s alright, we’re just here to have a fun B&W advent time!
“Never get involved with a roommate!” The fanfic idea is: each day’s title is something Myka tells herself not to do in order to avoid getting involved with Helena, and of course ends up doing anyway.
Update: all fics now linked here!
No minimum wordcount - you can write a drabble as long as it fits the theme!
The setting we came up with on discord is an AU in which Helena and Myka live in the same apartment - less baggage than canon, but just as many feels! More details to it can be found here!
The daily prompts are below the cut. If you have ideas for what else Myka might want to avoid doing but don’t want to write it yourself, feel free to send in the prompt!
As apparently tumblr no longer shows the most recent version of a post when clicking under the readmore of a reblogged post, please check with the original post to see which days haven't been chosen yet!
For the readers: you can find all entries under #BeringWellsAdvent23!
We can still rearrange most of the prompts! If you want for example prompt 4 but don't think you'll finish it in time, tell me another (still free) day with your sign-up.
#1 moving in together - @lavendelhummel is taking on this one
#2 Never have a crush on your flatmate - chosen by @purlturtle
#3 Never be alone with the housemate you have a crush on - Charlie @akittennameddaisy is taking on this one with the idea that Helena tries to cook, creates a chaos in the kitchen and Myka ends up alone with her after all!
#4 Never tell her how much you like her hair - chosen by @viharistenno
#5 Free Space - @lilolilyr is doing ‘stop staring at Helena!’
#6 never let Helena persuade you to watch a movie with her - chosen by @purlturtle: "because forced prolongued proximity in a dark room and WHO EVEN KNOWS what kind of movie Helena might pick!"
#7 Never borrow Helena's clothes - claimed by @jesstrel
#8 Never let Helena wear your clothes - chosen by @lilolilyr "I think seeing Helena in her own clothes might feel even more intimate to Myka than wearing HG's clothes"
#9 Free Space - @purlturtle chose 'don't let her convince you to go to the swimming pool / gym with you'
#10 Never let Helena give you a back rub - by @purlturtle
#11 never watch Helena eat ice-cream (the lip-licking will drive you insane) - chosen by @purlturtle
#12 Don't let Helena read poetry to you - chosen by @sallysetonbw
#13 Don't use her shampoo, that's weird -chosen by @lavendelhummel
#14 never borrow that blanket she keeps on the back of the armchair - chosen by @violetren
#15 Never listen in to Helena when she's on the phone - @purlturtle
#16 never sit right next to her on the couch - chosen by @lilolilyr
#17 Make sure you're not the only one laughing at her obscure jokes - chosen by @thiakerrigan
#18 Never fall in love with your flatmate - chosen by @lilolilyr
#19 Don't let her see you in your pyjamas - @lilolilyr
#20 never go on a road trip together @purlturtle
#21 Free Space @tryingthisfangirlthing
#22 @lavendelhummel Never go to the Christmas market with Helena
#23 Never match your flatmate on a dating site - chosen by @lavendelhummel
#24 Never kiss her on the lips - @lilolilyr
Post your fics to Ao3 in the BeringWellsAdvent collection and/or on tumblr with the hashtag BeringWellsAdvent23! If you want to use a header for example for a tumblr post, you can use this made by @viharistenno and @purlturtle:
Some other ideas to fill the 'Free Space' days with:
- don't let her convince you to go to the swimming pool / gym with you
- don't imagine Helena naked
- don't suggest to cook for her (because Myka would get so caught up in her perfectionism that she'd spiral and feel so bad about what she's setting in front of Helena)
All works have been bookmarked to the Ao3 collection, and hopefully all available winners have been reblogged on tumblr as well - if your post of a winning work hasn't been reblogged yet, let us know!
We had over two hundred nominated fanfiction in 30 categories with 47 winning works in first place (some having the same amount of votes makes it more than the amount of categories), an additional thirty first-place winners in the art, gif and video categories, and over 70 different winning creatives in the first through third places of all the categories! Congrats, everybody!
All nominated and winning fanfiction can be found in the bookmark section of the Ao3 collection linked below:
You can filter it for winners and nominations, and for the different categories (if you can't find the category you are looking for in the suggested bookmarker's tags, go to 'exclude tag' and exclude the category tags with more works, click filter again and it should suggest you new bookmarker's tags now - be careful to only exclude the category tags like 'AU' and not 'winners' 'nominees' and the first-third places, as that would exclude all fics)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
It looks like the fandom's favourite tags are:
The visual works can be found in the web archive of this tumblr under the 'award winner' tag, or on mobile by just searching this blog for 'award winner'.
We hope everyone had fun in this event meant to show appreciation for the fandom's creatives, find new favorites and rediscover old fics, and get some inspiration going! Most events are for creator participants only, we thought it would be great to get everyone involved in nominating and voting for their favourite works. Of course there are other great works as well - the winners just happen to be the favs of the people who voted!
If you want to stay active in the TDWP Femslash fandom, the next event is organized by @sapphicwritingprompts, a valentine's ficathon with different prompts you can sign up for. If you aren't a writer yourself but a reader, check out the new works published for the Mirandy Secret Ice Queen Exchange and maybe show your love by leaving some comments!
And of course, feel free to reblog the winning works on here to keep sharing them around :)
On the TOG Femslash Discord Server, voting for the 2022 Fanwork Awards has started today!
Join over 80 other fans of the women of The Old Guard on the server to have fun chatting about ships and characters, and to show your love for your favorite fics, artworks and more in the awards!
Voting will stay open for two weeks for the art categories, fic categories will stay open longer, some with many longfics as long as two months to give everyone time to read and vote.
