#jaystephweekend2024

[jaystephevents]

JaySteph Weekend 2024

August 9-11

“The Summer of AUs and Feelings”

Official Prompts List

Friday - Stargazing | Soulmates AU | Wistful

Saturday - Swimming | Fantasy AU | Fascinated

Sunday - Heat Wave | Historical AU | Enchanted

💜❤️💜❤️💜 Event Info 💜❤️💜❤️💜

❤️ Your work must be brand new and JaySteph-centric. Your JaySteph can be platonic, romantic, or NSFW. We don’t allow JaySteph-poly ships in order to keep the focus on our rarepair’s relationship with each other, but side poly ships are fine.

💜 You only need to use one prompt per day, but you may use more if you wish. You can participate for as many or as few days as you want.

❤️ You can interpret the prompts as broadly or as wildly as you want. It’s ok if “swimming” has nothing to do with the water, for example, as long as your work relates to the word itself. Swimming in guilt, swimming in sweat, swimming in flashbacks … it’s all ok!

💜 Almost all types of fanwork are accepted. Fanfic, fanart, playlists, mood boards, edits, incorrect quotes. Be sure to read the Rules and FAQs before beginning to create. (I will update those links shortly but you can find them on desktop in the page tabs).

❤️ Your characters can be any race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, trans, and you can add in any extra AUs you want. (We do suggest you consider the why’s and value of making one of the few fleshed-out canon females male if you’re thinking of writing male!Steph, but you’re allowed to do it.) The only thing we don’t allow is poly-JaySteph so that the focus stays on our rarepair interacting with each other.

💜 We will have an AO3 collection for fic posting (you can also post art here, we’ll list directions closer to the event). And, we will reblog your Tumblr posts for your work or make posts for your AO3 works if you don’t want to make your own.

❤️ This is a ship-friendly, censorship-free event open to all. We will use #batship and #dark tags if applicable on work reblogs so they can be filtered out if needed. We want this event to be accessible to everyone regardless of triggers.

💜❤️💜❤️💜❤️ HOW TO POST 💜❤️💜❤️💜❤️💜

Add your work to the AO3 Collection JaySteph Weekend 2024

If you make a Tumblr post for your works, tag @jaystephevents and use #jaystephweekend2024

If you don’t choose to make a Tumblr post for your fic, don’t worry! We will make one for you and tag you (make sure your AO3 profile lists your Tumblr handle to be tagged).

You can add art to the AO3 collection, too! Here’s directions how. (Scroll to the end of the linked post for the directions.)

Art posted on Tumblr must meet Tumblr guidelines. Tumblr supposedly allows NSFW art again?? May be a gamble to post it, though. You can post NSFW art on Twitter and make a Tumblr post with a link (please tag the link NSFW). If you do make a Tumblr post with NSFW art, please post below a cut and tag above the cut for NSFW.

If you post a full-text NSFW fic on Tumblr, please post below a cut and tag above the cut for NSFW.

How to make a read more cut in your Tumblr post - on a new line, type colon read more colon (with no spaces) and hit enter. In other words :readmore(second colon here)

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[dg-outlaw]

Batman insists that whenever Scooby and the gang are in or near Gotham City, he or one of the others is there to look out for them (just in case). But what happens when his only two options are Jason Todd and Stephanie Brown?

A fun, romantic, and ridiculous idea I had that's proving to be quite interesting, tonally. Expect some meta commentary and hijinks.

What I'm hoping to be a 3-part series for JaySteph Weekend 2024 (August 9th - 11th), hosted by @jaystephevents

Enjoy a snippet from my WIP below. ❤️💜

Jason Todd is bad news. Or so that was the general warning she got every time the former dead Robin’s name came up. Yes, he used to be Robin and he used to be dead. He’s neither of those things now, but that’s a story for a different day and not hers to tell.

Continuing to scroll Jason’s file on the Batcave computer, Stephanie Brown wondered what Batman had planned for them. His message to her was cryptic as usual, but he wanted to meet her and Jason at the cave. She assumed she was in trouble if it involved Jason as well, but she couldn’t recall anything she had done wrong or them having crossed paths recently. Maybe it was something else, but she had only ever interacted with Jason a few times, and mostly when they were in their gear as their respective alter-egos, Red Hood and Spoiler. Surely, Batman wasn’t planning on having them work together. Jason was the outsider in their little Gotham vigilante world, and sometimes an antagonist, and she was the wildcard nuisance that refused to go away. Either way she was told more often than not to keep her distance from the Red Hood. Tim, her ex, was not a fan of his and most of the things she’d heard about Jason came from him. Reckless, impulsive, dangerous, not afraid to kill, and uncontrolled anger issues. Those were the descriptions she often heard attributed to Jason, and they were confirmed by the profile on the screen in front of her.

Despite some meditation and a boba tea before she got to the manor, she was still feeling nervous and on edge, and not just because she was worried about being in trouble, but wondering why her and why Jason. She had no idea what he might’ve done, but she was ready to defend herself against whatever complaint or criticism Bruce might have. She knew he could be a real grump sometimes, hell, he was a grump most of the time, but she had been through too much over the years to just sit back and take a scolding from Bruce without a word in response. Despite his and Tim’s protests, she had proven herself as Spoiler, had been Robin for a hot minute (another story for another day… or maybe never), and had recently proven that she could be Batgirl. The only reason she was Spoiler again was because she needed a break and wanted Cass to take the role of Batgirl again while she focused on school. Cass had suggested they do it together, but being Batgirl after Barbara Gordon and Cassandra Cain was a big deal in her book already. Doing it alongside the perfect ninja? That was something completely different. 

“The Wikipedia article is more detailed,” came a smooth deep voice from behind her.

“Cheese and rice!” she cried out as she almost jumped out of Batman’s chair.

She turned, one knee still tucked up by her chest and the other tucked up on the chair, ready to jump, run, or fight, and that’s when she saw him, looking at her and chuckling. “Sorry.”

She narrowed her eyes and tried to act as if Jason hadn’t just scared the bejeezus out of her, but the smirk on his face said he wasn’t buying it. Only Bruce and Cass, and sometimes Tim, were able to sneak up on her without her knowing. It used to be all of them when she first became Spoiler, but her senses and stealth skills had improved, which annoyed Tim because she was now able to sometimes sneak up on him. “It’s fine,” she lied. 

Having only ever seen him with his big red helmet covering his face or from a distance with his domino mask on, he was more good-looking than she’d expected and maybe just as tall, if not taller than Bruce. She also noticed the patch of white hair just above his forehead, mixed among the unruly dark waves of the rest of his hair, was a bit more prominent. The photos in his file were older and from his Robin days, and the more recent ones were grainy surveillance photos, but seeing him up close was different. She found herself studying him, noticing the scar on his neck just below his square jaw, but underneath the dark gaze of his blue-green eyes his soft smile revealed a remnant of the happy young boy she had seen in those old photos. He was definitely handsome and could probably be an underwear model as a side gig if he needed extra money, but he also appeared older than his age.

Ugh, now I’m thinking about him in his underwear. Stop it, Steph.

Thankfully, he wasn’t in his underwear, but was wearing dark jeans and a plain gray t-shirt that fit way too snug on his muscled upper body. His hair was a bit shorter than the last time she had seen him out in the field, but maybe it was a summer haircut. He was young enough to be her peer, someone she could imagine as an upperclassman in one of her Gotham U classes, but also looked weathered by tragedy and anger.

“Wait, there’s a Wikipedia article about you?”

[beecoral]

JaySteph Weekend 2024

Day 1: Stargazing 

RobinJay/Spoiler Steph

@jaystephevents

[skylarkblue]

A little snippet of one of my JaySteph Weekend fics for the lovely @jaystephevents!

“Which Batburger do you think is closer?” Jason asked. “Bowery or Newtown?”

“Bowery,” Steph said automatically. “It’s cheaper.”

Jason snorted. “Only because there’s a risk of being carjacked in the drive-through.”

“I’d like to see someone try to carjack us,” Steph grinned. “Spoiler and Red Hood saving the day!”

“In the car they stole from Batman,” Jason deadpanned. He shook his head. “I don’t mind the sound of Spoiler and Red Hood saving the day, though. I think we’d make a pretty good team, you and me.”

“Yeah,” Steph said. “I think we would.”

[dayenurose]

August is quite a busy month when it comes to writing. Between writing assignments, Writer’s Month, and my first foray into (writing for) JaySteph Weekend.

I’ll be posting links to my other recent fics soon, but for tonight, here’s my entry for @jaystephevents and @writersmonth

Give Me Your Hands, If We Be Friends by DayenuRose

Summary:

Steph and Jason have been cast in Gotham Theatre Group’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Over the course of the production, their butterflies have a myriad of reason to take flight. Not least among those reasons include love, fear, and nerves.

Written for Writer’s Month 2024 - Day 4: Fairy | Stage

Written for JaySteph Weekend 2024 - Friday: Wistful

Excerpt:

Just over two months ago, Steph stood in the too small studio space of the Gotham Theatre Group. Cass had challenged her to try something new. Do something that scared her. Which is how she found herself here with memorized monologues and several readings of the play under her belt. So, here she was, auditioning for a role in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There were plenty of small roles, so, she figured, if there weren’t too many people auditioning even she might be able to get a role.

Of course, that didn’t do anything to quell the butterflies taking flight in her stomach. She closed her eyes and practiced her deep breaths. The kind she used when cooling down after a workout—or after a stressful night on patrol.

“Fancy meeting you here,” a familiar voice drawled from behind her.

Read the rest on [ao3]

[hollie47]

Title: Constellations Author: Hollie47 Rating: G Word Count: 1,482 Pairing: Stephanie Brown/Jason Todd Fandom: Batman - All Media Types

Read Here On AO3

This was written for JaySteph Weekend 2024 hosted by @jaystephevents. Day 1: Stargazing.

[the-mad-dame]

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

The moment his lips touched hers, the moment he forced air down into her lungs, the world shifted, and stopped, and changed. As if the universe had been waiting for this moment, holding its breath, it exhaled into him, into her. One moment he was alone, the next he was...not. He felt it, felt the warm rush of everything that was Stephanie Brown boil into him and twine with his soul. Her soul. His soul. Their soul. Time slowed to this moment. His lips on hers, his eyes closed against the sea change of being one person, alone in the universe, to being…something else. Something more. Something Fated.

JaySteph Weekend 2024 / Prompt: Soulmates AU / Rating: M

[dg-outlaw]

Red Hood, Spoiler, and Scooby-Doo: The Sea Monster of Atlantic City

Part 3: Sleepless After Battle

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 16,858

Part 3 of 3 for JaySteph Weekend 2024, hosted by @jaystephevents

Day 3 Prompt: Heat Wave

Read the LONG overdue third and final part of this story on Ao3 or start from the beginning.