Schedule/FAQ/Rules
AO3 Collection
Discord server
Contributions on Tumblr
Waxer*Boil Month ran for three years, from 2023-2025.
The event was a month of fan works focused on the relationship between Waxer and Boil, from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The * is a placeholder for your relationship of choice: romantic, platonic, queer-platonic, whatever you like!
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Waxer*Boil Month ran for three years, from 2023-2025. The event was a month of fan works focused on the relationship between Waxer and Boil, from Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
If you would like to see prompts for each year, here are the 2023 prompts, 2024 prompts (sfw and nsfw), and 2025 prompts.
Waxer*Boil Month AO3 collection (closed)
Waxer*Boil Discord server (still going!)
SCHEDULE (weeks begin on Sundays) :
• Prompts announced: Dec 22, 2024
• WEEK 1: March 2, 2025 - March 8, 2025
• WEEK 2: March 9, 2025 - March 15, 2025
• WEEK 3: March 16, 2025 - March 22, 2025
• WEEK 4: March 23, 2025 - March 29, 2025
• Late contributions accepted/re-reblogs posted to Tumblr: March 30, 2025 - April 19, 2025
• Collection closes: April 20, 2025
FAQ and rules below the cut:
1. Can works created for Waxer*Boil Month include other characters or ships?
Of course! That said, the focus must be on Waxer and Boil’s relationship, however you envision it. Any other characters featured should be in supporting roles only (see Rule #1 below for more information). The purpose of this event is not to encourage more works that simply include Waxer and Boil, but to encourage more works that focus on their story, specifically, above all others.
For example, if you were to post the work on AO3, the tags ‘Clone Trooper Boil/Clone Trooper Waxer’ and/or ‘Clone Trooper Boil & Clone Trooper Waxer’ would be the first and primary relationship tag(s) in the work.
2. What kinds of fan works are welcome for this event?
All kinds of fan works are welcome, including, but not limited to, fan fiction, digital and traditional art, gifs, podfics—anything you’d like to create!
3. What platforms/websites can I use?
You’re encouraged to post your contributions to the Waxer*Boil Month AO3 collection and the waxerboilmonth Tumblr account. There is also a Discord server that folks are welcome to join. If you are sharing a work on Tumblr, please tag @waxerboilmonth so I can reblog it. If you don’t have a Tumblr account or don’t want to share a work directly to Tumblr, you can send an ask or DM waxerboilmonth with a link to the work on AO3 or other sites (such as Instagram, Twitter, etc.), and I will share it on the event Tumblr.
4. Do I have to make something for each week in order to participate?
No. Participants are welcome to create as many fan works as they like for the month. If you just want to create one work, that’s great!
5. How many sets of prompts will there be? How many prompts will there be per week?
There will be four sets of prompts—one for each full week of March, 2025. Each week will have three text prompts and two image prompts. The 2025 prompts are here
6. What’s the difference between the text prompts and image prompts?
Aside from how they are submitted, there’s no difference between the two types of prompts. Feel free to use any of these prompts as inspiration for any kind of fan work.
7. Are there rules regarding whitewashing?
This event does not condone whitewashing of any characters, but there are no specific rules that participants must follow. Descriptions or visual representations of the clones, for example, do not need to check any arbitrary boxes of ‘correctness.’ Nor must they exactly resemble the models in The Clone Wars or any people who have played the clones in live action roles—art is hard and demanding anything like photo-realism is exclusionary. However, please keep in mind the frequent whitewashing of characters in popular media and create your contributions to Waxer*Boil Month in good faith.
8. Are NSFW/E-rated works allowed?
Yes, fan works of all ratings are welcome (please see the rules below for exceptions). However, they must be properly tagged on AO3 and labeled with the appropriate Major Archive Warnings. On Tumblr, contributions must also be properly tagged and have appropriate community labels applied. You are free to post your works on other platforms as well, but please follow those platforms’ community guidelines and tagging policies.
9. Do you accept late contributions?
Yes, late contributions will be accepted through April 19, 2025.
RULES:
1. Due to some confusion with past contributions, please keep in mind item #1 in the FAQ, which states that the focus of the work MUST be on Waxer and Boil’s relationship. This means that:
Waxer and Boil must both be included in the work in some way (for example: though flashbacks, talking via holocalls, etc.)
The main story or theme cannot revolve around other characters, relationships, or plot elements unrelated to Waxer and Boil’s relationship.
If the work consists of multiple chapters in which each one is a drabble or ficlet, all of the chapters must be focused on Waxer and Boil’s relationship.
Works that do not meet these criteria will not be accepted.
If you are unsure about an idea, feel free to DM or send an ask to the waxerboilmonth Tumblr account. As an example, here is a work that may not, at first glance, seem to meet the criteria above, but the caption underneath the image ties the work together and makes it clear that Waxer and Boil’s relationship is the focal point.
2. As I am the only mod for the event, I need to at least skim all submitted works to make sure they fit the event criteria. So, while I don’t place any moral judgements on works of fiction, I ask that event participants avoid these topics:
explicit sexual content, non-con, or graphic violence involving characters under the (species equivalent) age of 16—that’s 8 for clones.
animal cruelty
3. Please do not add any DNIs (Do Not Interact) to any of your contributions to this event.
4. The AO3 collection is open but moderated, so you may join it and contribute works at any time. However, the works will not be approved until the appropriate week. For that reason, ✨please include the week number and whatever prompt(s) the work is filling in the tags, summary, or author’s notes.✨
5. Have fun! Support each other!
Well, I've posted the last of the re-reblogs for this year and closed the AO3 collection, which means Waxer*Boil Month is officially over. Unless there is a huge surge of interest in the fandom at some point in the future, this will be the last Waxer*Boil Month, and the Tumblr account will be inactive.
This account, the AO3 collection, the Waxer*Boil Discord server, and the Tumblr community called "I guess we're the best" will still be here, or course, and the latter two are still active. You can check out event contributions in the collection and the Tumblr blog's archive at any time, of course! I've also edited the collection profile, the Tumblr FAQ, and its pinned post to link to prompts for all three years of the event.
Huge thanks to everyone who has contributed fanfics, fanart, podfics, crafts, and other fanworks over the years, as well as to folks who have offered support through comments, reblogs, etc.! You're the best!
It’s routine, nowadays, months into their partnership; the nights they have to keep watch when it’s just them out there, scouting and chasing trouble and looking out for another in a world that seems too big for the two of them. They sit down, if it’s safe enough, and eat together before changing shifts.
Waxer adores it.
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Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
Additional Tags: Drabble, Slice of Life, Pre-Relationship, Friendship/Love, Domestic Fluff, Waxer has a Crush, he doesn't know that yet, Sharing a Cup of Caf, Indirect Kiss, Late at Night, Snacks & Snack Food, if ration bars are anything like a snack at all, No beta we die like illiterates, prompt: midnight snack, WaxerBoil Month 2025 (Star Wars)
It’s routine, nowadays, months into their partnership; the nights they have to keep watch when it’s just them out there, scouting and chasing trouble and looking out for another in a world that seems too big for the two of them. They sit down, if it’s safe enough, and eat together before changing shifts.
Waxer adores it.
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Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
Additional Tags: Drabble, Slice of Life, Pre-Relationship, Friendship/Love, Domestic Fluff, Waxer has a Crush, he doesn't know that yet, Sharing a Cup of Caf, Indirect Kiss, Late at Night, Snacks & Snack Food, if ration bars are anything like a snack at all, No beta we die like illiterates, prompt: midnight snack, WaxerBoil Month 2025 (Star Wars)
In a little less than 24 hours, I'll be closing the Waxer*Boil Month AO3 collection and will stop reblogging/posting from the Tumblr account forever, so if you have any last minute contributions, now's the time!
Without the battered tarp, firepit, and their supplies secured against wind and rain, HQ is just a cave formed by a thick tree that grew too close to a tilted slab of rock. The two press together snugly, creating a shadowy, sheltered space.
Waxer's throat unexpectedly closes up at the rush of memories that hits him like a flash flood.
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Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
