Here it is —after much deliberation and thought, the 2024 prompts!

This link will take you to the AO3 Proship April 2024 collection.

Day 9 Image Prompt | Day 17 Image Prompt | Day 27 Image Prompt

Each day has a primary and a secondary prompt. The primary ones are going to be broader, and the secondary ones are more specific ideas, phrases, or even dialogue.

Don't have the time, energy, or desire to complete a prompt per day? No problem! Click here to generate a 4x4 bingo card that you can complete (or pick through) at your leisure. Additionally, there is an SFW option for the bingo card.

If you see a word that you don't recognize, don't worry! There is a text-version of this prompt list beneath the keep reading link, and those words are linked to Wikipedia articles with the explanation. And, of course, you can always use our ask box for any further clarification.

Prompts can be applied as strictly or as loosely as you like. "Cursed" can mean that a character in your baking fic burns something and bemoans being 'cursed' with bad luck, or it can refer to fanart based off of an episode titled 'Cursed,' or it can be a F/O scenario in which your F/O goes to great lengths to undo your curse... You all you get the idea, I'm sure.

That's basically the basics! If you have a question that's not answered here, don't hesitate to ask. Other than that, happy planning and I hope to see you all in April!

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Keep reading for a text-list of the prompts.

Week 1 Day 1: Love Potion | Better off dead Day 2: Forbidden | Three words Day 3: Look-alike | Can't get caught Day 4: Forced | Alternate ending Day 5: Goodbye | A long way from home Day 6: Betrayal | "You're thinking too much."

Week 2 Day 7: Love vs Hate | Make the best of it Day 8: Rock Bottom | All in your head Day 9: "Fine, Great" by Modern Baseball | IMAGE PROMPT Day 10: Ashamed | "You know you're a bad liar." Day 11: Corpse | Body worship Day 12: Salirophilia | Humiliated Day 13: Odaxelagnia | Punishment

Week 3 | Hays Code Week Day 14: Crime | Mistaken identity Day 15: Sex | Infidelity/Adultery Day 16: Brutality | Consumption Day 17: "Eat You" by Caravan of Thieves | IMAGE PROMPT Day 18: Killing | Autassassinophilia Day 19: IX, X, & XI | Interracial Day 20: Authority | Flipped/unusual power dynamic

Week 4 Day 21: Heartbroken | Bite your tongue Day 22: Accident | Munchausen syndrome by proxy Day 23: Regrets | Blood in the water Day 24: Cursed | Puppetmaster Day 25: Abasiophilia | Rendered helpless Day 26: In The Rain | "If we do this, we can't go back." Day 27: "doomsday" by Lizzy McAlpine | IMAGE PROMPT

Week 5 Day 28: Remember | Consequences Day 29: Delirious | Reluctant caretaker Day 30: Experiment | Mechanophilia

Jim Kirk / The Conscience of the King / Tarsus IV Masterpost

As someone who enjoys digging into the details of Star Trek TOS and writes meta posts so that I can better understand the characters, especially Jim Kirk at the moment, I am compiling this for easy browsing and to be a resource for anyone else who may need it. This post includes background information on Tarsus IV and the episode The Conscience of the King, the 1967 Writer's Guide, and my own posts that use Tarsus IV as a lens for viewing Jim Kirk.

This will probably continue to be updated as I make my way through my first viewing of the show. Tarsus IV is something that enables endless re-contextualization for Star Trek TOS episodes in my opinion, and it took me a whole month after first seeing The Conscience of the King to start realizing what Kirk's past means for his present.

1967 Writer's Guide: (Text in alt; link is to a pdf)

Transcript of The Conscience of the King (archived link)

Tarsus IV, a planet inhabited by colonists from Earth, originally under the leadership of Starfleet

While it was cut from the finished script of The Conscience of the King, Jim Kirk originally lived with his father on the colony until Kodos killed George Kirk for refusing to join him in the revolution. Jim Kirk witnesses this murder according to the same early draft.

It is estimated that Jim Kirk lived on Tarsus IV at the age of 13 and survived the upheavals of a revolution, famine, and massacre of half of the colonists. It is unclear if the famine predated the revolution or vice versa, so this is left to the audience to decide. It is also unclear if the "exotic fungus" that infected the crops and destroyed the food supply was a natural occurrence or a manmade one. What is clear is that Kodos seized power during the revolution, Tarsus IV's food supply was so limited that rations were running out, and he chose to kill 4,000 colonists that he deemed fit to die in order to allow the chosen 4,000 to live.

Jim Kirk was selected by Kodos to die. He remembers the exact words of the death summons 20 years later but survives along with eight others. The exact nature of how Kirk and the others survived is unclear and left to the audience to develop on their own. But he is one of “nine eyewitnesses who survived the massacre who’d actually seen Kodos with their own eyes," as stated in The Conscience of the King.

Jim Kirk: Life and Death after Tarsus IV a parallel post that compiles how Tarsus IV has impacted Kirk's sense of mortality and how he has continued living in spite of it

Tarsus IV + SINNER REPENT something of a long-belated alternative to my initial post about The Naked Time's wall writing

Jim Kirk: Victim/Survivor or Barbarian/Monster At the time I made the post, I refrained from adding a caption, but that's the gist of my thought process

The Conscience of the King + Mirror, Mirror a post that looks at the mirrored dialogue between the Tarsus IV massacre committed by Kodos that Jim Kirk survived and the Vega IX massacre committed by Mirror Jim Kirk

The Conscience of the King: A Closer Look at Tools and Humanity a meta post analyzing how Kodos and Kirk view tools and what their views reveal about their own humanity

The Terror of Violence a parallel/web weave post about how Jim Kirk can only accept violence if the one who uses it experiences pain and anguish as a result (in other words, a painless death is not the result of mercy, but a suppression of mercy and the desensitization of emotions); in a similar vein, the parallels between how Kirk rejects vengeance in both The Conscience of the King and A Taste of Armageddon

Tools and Humanity a post that combines Georges Bataille's argument that work and the tools created for work inhibits humankind's urge for violence alongside A Taste of Armageddon and The Conscience of the King

Jim Kirk and The Enterprise a post that examines what the Enterprise means for Kirk in light of Lenore Karidian telling him, "You are like your ship--powerful and not human."

Episode IX Battle Of Knights by AJ Pratt

an concepts for an alternate Episode IX of Star Wars titled 'Battle of Knights

Rey

With the galaxy depending on her, Rey reforms the Jedi order and trains force-sensitive beings in secret to avoid being hunted by the dominant First Order. She develops expert skills in stealth and evasion, using these skills to become the first Jedi Shadow. As a shadow Rey is able to intervene when necessary and use the force in unique ways to help those in need without drawing attention. Her secondary responsibilities are to the Resistance as an officer of the New Republic. She guides her allies through the realm of scavenging, helping them rebuild with limited resources to survive the First Order's onslaught.

Finn & Poe Dameron

Poe Dameron embraces his role as head of the resistance and leads his honorable soldiers by example. Finn discovers his force sensitivity and trains under Rey and the other masters of the new Jedi Order. Instead of becoming a Jedi, he re-establishes the order of the Guardians of the Whills. (Finn utilizes scavenged jet trooper armor and a custom "powersaber")

Kylo Ren/Ben Solo

As Supreme Leader of the First Order, the systems under the control of Kylo Ren prosper under the firm grasp of the order. He becomes more respected than Snoke and his tyranny, though Hux's rampage across the galaxy continues to draw the righteous wrath of those outside the First Order's expanding jurisdiction (a fact that the citizens of the order conveniently ignore). Kylo Ren falls in battle to the reborn Palpatine, only for his spirit to return to his body with the help of Anakin Skywalker's ghost. The resurrected Ben Solo fights together with Rey once more to put an end to the true menace.

Darth Talon

Formerly a gladiator within the pits of Exegol, Taliann joins the First Order as Kylo Ren's right hand, the Dark Talon, executing any task assigned to her perfectly and without fail. She later abandons the First Order after its defeat to lead the Sith as Darth Talon.

The First Order

A surviving clone of Palpatine raises a clone of Rey into an assassin of the dark side. Phasma returns from her defeat full of hatred and serves the Sith as the head Jedi Killer. Hux ascends to the role of Supreme Commander of the First Order.

BYLER FIC REC WEEK 2023 DAY 5: FULL AU recs

breathe (in the air) by clearskiies

mike-centric; no plot. 1970s AU, the party are in their 20s. mike and will’s friend groups meet at a music festival and they spend the whole time attached at the hip. there’s a lot of internalized homophobia angs,tbut mike doesn’t lash out at will over it and their flirting is sweet. elumax are going through their own shit in the background too. multichapter, ongoing

wheeler news by solarhazard

will-centric; some plot. social media fic where mike is a famous musician and will runs a stan twt account for him. his world gets flipped upside down when mike notices him and they start becoming friends. it’s so dumb but so fun. multichapter, hasn't updated in a while but it hasn’t been officially discontinued to my knowledge

Nocturne by lilacline

mike-centric; plot. mike rescues a small brown bat from a weirdly evil plant and nurses it back to health, befriending it in the process. side note: bats aren’t supposed to understand human speech, mike. that’s not normal. that’s not a normal bat you have there, mike. considering it’s tagged as a vampire AU, i’m sure u can see where this is going. mike is a mess (affectionate) and he’s filled with Queer Terror. will has only just appeared as a character (...officially) but he’s already melting all 3 of mike’s braincells. mike is actually the best brother ever to holly and i would die for her. multichapter, ongoing

A New Fight by Tea_For_One_Please, and both of its sequels

alternates between mike-centric and will-centric; plot. a star wars fusion AU where will is a stormtrooper who defects to the rebellion and becomes a member of mike’s crew. el escaped the jedi massacre and teaches him to wield the force. the first fic takes place about a year before episode IV, the second concludes directly before episode IV, and the third is set in the gap between episodes VI and VII. since this is a fusion AU the canon events of the star wars timeline happen as usual, with the party’s story taking place in the background. you could probably read this without having seen star wars, but it wouldn’t make much sense. i was so engrossed that i read all three 30k~ long fics in one sitting. multichapter, all entries complete

with honor, we hound by hiscleric

mike-centric (so far, may have will POV); plot. as of now there’s only been one proper chapter of this, not including the prologue, but i can already tell it’s gonna be sooo good. it’s a fantasy/cleradin AU which is always a win, and the writing is lyrical. will was the youngest prince of the kingdom, who mysteriously vanished one day. mike is a knight and the heir to a noble family, but secretly wished to be a scholar. there’s a prophecy, a quest, and what seems like it’s gonna be a secret identity plot with will. literally what more could you want??? multichapter, ongoing

ground control to major tom (your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong) by andthentheybow

alternates between mike-centric and will-centric; plot. another star wars AU!!! there’s only one chapter out so far, but it’s the setup for a heist story so i just know it’s gonna slay. this one is set several centuries after episode IX, rather than in tandem with star wars canon. mike is a bounty hunter and will is very… mysterious ;))) i can’t wait to see what comes of it!!! multichapter, ongoing

A Flower That Resembles You by perexcri

will-centric; plot. a byler fantasy AU that’s not cleradin??? gasssp :000 i won’t spoil to much but it’s got childhood friends to strangers to friends to lovers, really pretty depictions of magic, hella quantities of angst and yearning so sweet and tender it makes even my aro heart ache. the mortifying ordeal of allowing yourself to love and be loved… effervescent. multichapter, complete

Ley Lines and Shadows by Aabh

will-centric; plot. fantasy AU! will is a baker who lives in a tiny town. the town was cursed years ago by a now-dead witch. he helps a stray cat after it gets attacked, but as he spends more time around it it becomes clear that it's not a normal animal. the ominous dreams that plague will's sleep only add to the feeling that something is…off. the writing is flowery and fits the fairytale setting nicely. there's a mild sexual content tag on the fic, but i believe that refers to a single paragraph. there's nothing explicit and they're adults. multichapter, complete

another one bites the dust by losingcontrolnow

will-centric; not really plot. high quality zombie apocalypse content!!! i like more hardcore apocalypse stories than the stuff you usually get in s5 speculative fics, so this AU makes me very happy. the contents of the fic itself don't make me happy because, duh, it's a zombie apocalypse AU, but it's soooo good. oneshot, complete

didn't i (blow your mind this time) also by losingcontrolnow

mike-centric; no plot. you know spiderwill, you love spiderwill, but for your humble consideration: spidermike!!! featuring yearning (both), pining (both), oblivious idiots (both), and sudden onset superpowers (just mike). mike is exactly as much of a mess about, well, everything as you would hope and he is so so dear to me. longshot, complete

I've seen bits of the Colin Trevorrow script for Episode IX and I've got to say while it had a bit better character work, we definitely dodged a bullet by avoiding the canonization of Gray Jedi. That would've been quite the calamity for the SW universe.

No going back from "Let's get rid of the main attraction and replace them with this wishy washy alternative that don't even really have a core philosophy because that'd be too dogmatic for them." At least this way someone could, in theory, go far enough in the future so that the Jedi Order has returned without having to incorporate the Gray Jedi.

tag nine people you'd like to know better

I. favourite colours: maroon, purple, mustard yellow, lilac, mint, so many more i could go on for a long time.

II. favourite flavours: vanilla, pumpkin, white chocolate, honey -- lots of sweets!

III. favourite genres: a lot of speculative fiction/sci-fi & fantasy (obviously lmao).

IV. favourite music: pop, some alternative, indie I guess ?? I'm not sure what that title means anymore tbh. my favorite music tends to be by queer people.

V. favourite movies: I'm not that big on movies actually! I love Ghibli and I do like to go to the movies, so like, I do watch them, but I can't think of a list of favorites.

VI. favourite series: aaaaa ok this is a longer list -- Nathan for You, GBBO, Gilmore Girls, I Think You Should Leave, Sailor Moon, Black Mirror, and all the terrible dating shows my best friend and I love to watch.

VII. last song: True Blue -- boygenius

VIII. last series: My Happy Marriage

IX. last movie: The Boy and the Heron

X. currently reading: I'm kind of reading Danny Lavery's Dear Prudence book. I pick it up some nights and then it collects dust on my nightstand for a week or so -- not for a lack of interest! I just have trouble zeroing in on books sometimes. I've been reading a lot more fanfiction lately than actual books.

XI. currently watching: Nothing show-wise right now. But if listening to something kind of counts, I listen to podcasts a lot and I've been working through the (extremely generous, hooray) backlog of episodes from 99% Invisible.

XII. currently working on: a Barnabas gifset & a Cid/Clive gifset, rearranging my desk to fit a couple more plants in the shelf section, and then stuff here ofc :~)

tagged by: @tsckcyomi & @creatrix-mea -- thank you both! :3 tagging: (and I'm sorry if any of you have done this and I missed it!) @phoenix-flamed @cagedfirebird @strangerrebelled @flamesofrebirths @bymargrace @braskide @madrites @bestboygav @starspurn

TAG NINE PEOPLE YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER! I. Favourite Colours: Any shade of green {forest and emerald in particular}, black, silver, garnet. II. Favourite Flavours: Good coffee, deeply brewed tea, dark chocolate, coconut, and a 'scent flavour'... it's gonna either be beef being cooked on a fire, or specific to New Mexico... a crisp/cool afternoon when the sun is bright but not hot and you smell it...smoke, something earthy and green with an almost acidic bite if you breath it in just right. It's chile season, and it's being open roasted in giant metal roasters. And lastly, pinon. III. Favourite Genres: Most fantasy though with a penchant for High Fantasy. True Noir/ Mystery, Horror, History/Alternative History. I do enjoy Romance and Sci-Fi {typically golden and silver age are most often forgotten but truly a guilty pleasure} but tend to prefer them blended with a different genre. Poetry is entirely different and for me it's more like music than narrative fiction, though I do have a soft spot for the Romantics, and the Beat Generation. {You can have my Kerouac and my Ginsberg whence you've pried them from my cold, dead, yaddah yaddah}. And because I am a bastard, I'm going to ruin it all for you: Literally almost any Emily Dickinson poem can be read/sung to the tune of the Yellow Rose of Texas, or the theme to Gilligan's Island. You're welcome. IV. Favourite Music: Classical, Tribal Trap, Country, Grunge, Classic Rock {stfu, G-N-R and them are not YET classic rock}, 80s Rock/Metal. Broadway Musicals, Rap/R&B, really just about anything. Probably my favourite singers are Eddie Vedder {yes, I know}, Geoff Tate who's is utterly incredible even after 40 years. And honestly? Garth Brooks. V. Favourite Movies: SW: The Empire Strikes Back, Tombstone, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Strange Days, Highlander, CA:TWS, Doctor Strange, ST: The Undiscovered Country and just so so so many more. VI. Favourite Series: Constantine, Doom Patrol, Legends of Tomorrow, Supernatural, Babylon 5, Farscape, Loki, ST: DS9/TNG/TOS/SNW {Really all of them except Voyager and Discovery}, Salem, Original Charmed, Witches of East End, Burn Notice, Fargo, Resident Alien, Res Dogs, Longmire, Justified, Dallas {Original and Revival} and Dark Shadows {Original AND Revival}. Family Guy, Bob's Burgers {and Archer}. Robot Chicken. Lastly I'm also going to say the Orville, which yes is a sort of parody of Star Trek, but also an homage, and a surprisingly well written one. VII. Last Song: Paint it Black ~ Ciara cover, Superhero ~ Johnny Hollow VIII. Last Series: Loki Episode 1-Season 2 or American Gigolo Episode 1. IX. Last Movie: The Noel Diary, The Dark Knight trilogy X. Currently Reading: Ten Little Indians anthology by Sherman Alexie, Digitisation and Digital Archiving: A Practical Guide for Librarians {second ed.} by Elizabeth R Leggett, ¡Sin resolver! Misterios de la historia by Dona Herwick Rice. XI. Currently Watching: The Fall of the House of Usher, Loki, Resident Alien XII. Currently Working On: The 500 or so posts I owe across my blogs. I am so sorry for being absolute fail.

~*~ Tagged by: @nightmarefuele my sweet and disturbing C. Tagging: @fasciinating, @respondedinkind, @chiefofstafftanner, @smolcuriouskitten, @rhodestoruin, @lalamoon, @mouthoftheocean, @ifyoucatchacriminal, @morgansmornings and anyone who would like to do this!

tag nine people you'd like to know better

I. favourite colours: Pink, in most varieties. I like bright colors most often, esp paired with black. But I think pink is one of the colors were I'm not picky on shade or w/e so I'd say it's a contender for favorite.

II. favourite flavours: I'm a sucker for most anything sweet but I love chocolate & peanut butter together.

III. favourite genres: Fantasy or sci fi. Most of the books or series I get into fall into either category. I like media that imagines other worlds or even other variants of our world like modern fantasy or speculative fiction.

IV. favourite music: I have a lot of variety in my music playlists, like anything from broadway to metal. Most of the artists I listen to are somewhere in the rock genre, lots of indie, alternative or hard rock/metal. But I also like some pop, I've been listening to a lot of indie/alt pop recently.

V. favourite movies: Admittedly, I don't watch a lot of movies. But favorites or ones I've seen several times would probs be Repo! The Genetic Opera, Captain America 2, or Spirited Away.

VI. favourite series: TV series? Criminal Minds. Anime series, probs D Gray Man, Cowboy Bebop, or Yu Yu Hakusho.

VII. last song: Back to Black by Amy Winehouse

VIII. last series: I've been slowly making my way through One Piece and I'm on episode 100 or smth lmao

IX. last movie: Been watching a lot of kids movies lately bc cartoons are my comfort but I also recently watched YYH Poltergeist Report

X. currently reading: The Mask of Mirrors by MA Carrick, seems cool so far but it's def got a slow start

XI. currently watching: One Piece

XII. currently working on: Trying to get caught back up in HSR but I'm also playing Borderlands

Tagged by: @thuganomxcs <3

Tagging: @universestreasures, @goresugars, @celesticlnstcrs, anyone who wants to steal it

Thanks very much for the tag @sinvulkt - here we go...

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

71 as of just last weekend.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

484,157

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Primarily Star Wars (and that mostly Sequel Trilogy, though I written some High Republic and a little Original Trilogy and Clone Wars), Horizon: Zero Dawn/Forbidden West and The Horus Heresy (WH40K)

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Fire Hawk, Snow Thrush (Horizon Zero Dawn/The Frozen Wilds)

Episode IX: Resurgence and Reckoning (Star Wars Sequels)

Rex's Ruminations (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)

In the Footsteps of a Death Seeker (Horizon Zero Dawn/The Frozen Wilds)

Treat it like a Duel (The Horus Heresy)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

If I get a comment then yes, I absolutely respond. They're relatively sparse for me, so I appreciate them very much.

6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Angstiest ending, you say. I'm kind of bad at sitting in a bad feeli- no, I tell a lie. It's absolutely A Fine Officer, A Good Soldier. Captain Appo locked inside his own head by the Order 66 programming, watching helplessly as his body advances on the Jedi Temple with a blaster in his hands...

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I'd say my Episode IX but there is a big sad beat toward the happy ending, so really Fire Hawk, Snow Thrush carries the day here.

8. Do you get hate on your fic?

Luckily no. My shipping choices and maybe other elements make my fics pretty niche, but that also means that I'm not involved in shipping drama, and I don't seem to enrage anyone to the point of leaving angry comments.

9. Do you write smut?

You won't find any under this moniker, that's all I'll say.

10. Do you write crossovers?

I don't presently, although, a year after everyone seemed to be drawing Spider-loys there is a full-on "Horizon characters as Marvel comics superheroes" AU running riot in my head (with Aloy dating Ikrie, who's X-23 Wolverine, Talanah as Hawkeye, Erend Odinsson, Helis as Venom and Regalla as the Prowler). If I ever free up the spare brainpower... maybe that'll happen.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yep. It was one of those "steal fics to sell" trawls and it was very odd.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I haven't, but if anyone would like to, please drop me a message.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

Not since my time in the Brotherhood of the Lost "alternate Horus Heresy" AU project, and that was fairly sparse too. I like collaborating more broadly, but when it comes to the writing itself, I prefer to fly solo.

14. What‘s your all-time favourite ship?

Rey/Kaydel in Star Wars, and Aloy/Ikrie in Horizon. I can't choose between those two.

15. What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Probably one of my Sequels-era fics, set between The Last Jedi and Resurgence and Reckoning. I have some WIPs that threaten to be very plotty and I just don't have as much spare time as I used to. Also I have some OC apprentices for Rey and Finn, whose stories I really want to begin telling and promise to let me move the older characters forward as well.

16. What’s your writing strengths?

Probably my action writing. I read a lot of action and films and tv influence my prose a lot. I think a lot about rhythm, dynamics and all that stuff, and I just enjoy it, which probably helps.

17. What’s your writing weaknesses?

Mystery? I'm yet to really try to write one tbh, but I look at something like Glass Onion or Silo and just struggle to imagine coiling my brain into those shapes.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I've only used it the once, I think, and very much for comic effect. It depends very much on how long a scene is, and how much I want to emphasise a language gap.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Horus Heresy

20. Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

Err. Arrgh. I really can't answer that. But I am very proud of my recent Star Wars: Lost Stars one, so let's say Stars' Flight.

Not tagging, but feel free to run with this :D

Once Upon a Very Monstrous Reylo May

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/phr9baF

by Eirenare

A collection of glimpses into the various lives of Rey and Ben across different universes.

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A compilation of little, monster-themed Reylo and Breylo tales told in microfics and short fics, written for the #MonstrousMay 2023 event.

Other ships involving Ben and Rey will probably appear or be mentioned, and every ship (be it these or Reylo or Breylo), will be specified both in the tags and at the notes of their corresponding chapter, along with other information and tags that apply.

Some darker stories might be included as well in this compilation, so please make sure to check the tags (which will update with almost every new chapter) and the information given at the notes of each chapter.

Words: 99, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of "Monstrous May" tales

Fandoms: Star Wars, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017), Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Rey (Star Wars), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Ben Solo, Kylo Ren

Relationships: Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rey/Kylo Ren/Ben Solo, Kylo Ren/Rey/Ben Solo, Rey/Ben Solo, Kylo Ren/Rey, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren - Relationship, Kylo Ren/Ben Solo

Additional Tags: Monstrous May, Tags Contain Spoilers, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, (tags will update as new tales are added), (some tales are Reylo and others are Breylo), (other ships involving Rey and Ben might appear or be mentioned), (the ship and content tags will be specified as well in the notes of every chapter), (multiple stories and multiple AUs), Elden Ring AU, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Medieval, Medieval, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmates, Reylo - Freeform, breylo - Freeform, BENLO, Romance, Polyamory, (Rey as Marika), (Kylo Ren as Maliketh), (Ben Solo as Radagon), Incest, Pseudo-Incest, Half-Sibling Incest, Sibling Incest, Brother/Sister Incest, (Elden Ring refers to Maliketh as a half brother to Marika in an item description so yeah)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/phr9baF

My first fanfiction, my first alternate for TROS. And while I'm at it, an Episode X.RAW, UNTAMED IMAGINATION. With lots of smut.

Notes:

With so little to go on for Ben, it's not easy to imagine him beyond gentle, understanding and tall. And if the end of my version of 9 wasn't quite the HEA, because, atonement, then the work must continue until the Dyad feels safe enough to settle down somewhere. Somewhere they can plant a garden. But first, they must go through Hell to precariously balance between the Light and the Dark.

Screaming, crying, chewing drywall that the producers/writers/etc. wanted Star Trek: TOS to have standalone plot lines instead of developed, multi-episode story arcs because Mirror, Mirror is such a missed opportunity to build on the idea that Bones did create an alternate timeline after going back in time. The Mirror Universe could have been the result of Edith Keeler's pacifist movement enabling Germany to win WWII and enabling fascism to become the dominant political structure of the world. That Tarsus IV is instead named Vega IX, and the massacre of 5,000 (not 4,000!) colonists occurs by Jim Kirk, not Kodos! That the line separating a federation and an empire may be no thicker than a pane of glass given that both the Federation and the Terran Empire are attempting to gain resources from the Halkan Council that rejects both, regardless of the universe, due to the fears of becoming complicit future violence and the compromising of their ethics as a result.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how we could have gotten the most beautiful tragic love story if done right… seriously considering writing an “alternate episode IX” fic myself

Looking at Trevorrow’s leaked script and Abrams’s finished movie… it can’t be that hard

SCoR - Section I, Ch. 1 "The Reality of Everyday Life"

summary of "The Social Construction of Reality" by Berger and Luckmann, gotta repost because Tumblr fucked up the article slugs and I couldn't link to individual posts correctly I. Our first goal is to construct a theory of reality as it is experienced in everyday life.

II. To proceed, we must first clarify the foundations of knowledge in everyday life: the objectivations of subjective processes and meanings, by which the inter-subjective commonsense world is constructed, i.e. taking what is understood internally by individuals, and externalizing that understanding.

III. We’re taking a basic crack at this effort of theory-building via empirical descriptions aka “phenomenological analysis”.

IV. This analysis refrains from causal explanations, but acknowledges the interpretations that the analytic subject embeds within itself.

V. We assert that consciousness is intentional, i.e always “intending” or “directed”, and we care about this aspect of consciousness in and of itself as opposed to the complexities of experience that result from this aspect.

VI. “I” - standing hereafter for ordinary self-consciousness in everyday life - am conscious of the world as consisting of multiple realities, and experience the transition between them as ‘a kind of shock.’

VII. Of these realities, one is paramount; this is the reality of everyday life, 'impossible to ignore.’

VIII. “I” apprehend this paramount reality as already ordered and objectified; language provides the designations and relationships between objects that “I” encounter in this reality, from “my chess club” to “the United States of America.’

IX. 'The reality of everyday life is organized around the "here” of my body and the “now” of my present.’ However, it also embraces other parts of reality at varying removes.

X. Everyday reality is shared with other people, and “I” understand there are certain aspects of reality we share, and aspects we do not share eg. their “here” is my “there” and so on.

XI. “I” do not doubt the reality of reality, except under extreme circumstances, and generally take for granted its “realness” as “I” continue to exist within it. However, reality is not always easily apprehended in any given aspect.

XII. When problems obtrude into normal “unproblematic”/familiar reality, “I” am able to recognize them as still part of reality even though they may be completely unfamiliar.

XIII. Other realities eg. dreaming, playing, etc. are embedded in the paramount reality, which consciousness can enter and return from 'as from an excursion.’

XIV. Other realities are entered as finite provinces of meaning where paramount reality is still paramount, but cannot provide good, or even adequate, symbolic/linguistic framing for communicating the “alternate” (theoretical, aesthetic, religious, mystical, etc.) experiences.

XV. The world is structured spatially and temporally. Spatial organization doesn’t matter much for this analysis and can be ignored for now.

XVI. Temporal organization of reality is much more important, both internally and inter-subjectively. We have a personal/physiological sense of time, as well as culturally-shared calendars based on 'cosmic time,’ and the interaction between these is complex as fuck.

XVII. “I” encounter time as continuous and finite, and all my existence is ordered by it. 'My own life is an episode in the externally factitious stream of time’ shared with others, and the knowledge that our experience is necessarily finite structures much of our experience. Memento mori.

XVIII. The same temporal structure is additionally coercive in that it imposes an ordering on the events of my life. It also provides the context within which the events of my life are anchored and comprehended; “I” am “a man of my time.”

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Notes:

re: XIV: 'Play’ can be understood, using this framing, as a special reality that can be fully represented using the symbolic/linguistic architecture of paramount reality, but which ignores or transforms the usual relationships of that architecture. Similar to surrealism in this sense?

re: XVI: cultural calendars and physiological time-sense can be thought of as the same phenomenon at two different scales and with two different systemic bases/substrates. Does this mean that some kind of “meaningfulness of time” is necessarily part of a complex (as opposed to simple or chaotic) system? An internalized time sense is a necessary basis for causal reasoning, this-follows-that, perception-response, etc. so probably yes.

DEAN TV LOVE VIII: EPISODE 2: DEAN AND THE BOOK AGAIN

Hi and welcome to episode 2 of Dean Tv love 8, on the 12th of January 2024.

The year 2024 has just begun, 6 months to go till the Olympic games. The Olympic in France, the 33rd Olympiad.

The Dean Tv love series begins to start, with the title sequence of kids running towards a skyscraper that says Dean Tv love with the roman number 8 (VIII) trying to get in the building. After that the 3 kids are in the lift, the lift activated itself. “Systems activated” said the lift. One of the kids says that they went to go to the 5th floor, the lift takes them but the lift stops at the 3rd. The doors open, Dean and the 3 presenters see the kids. Dean and the 3 presenters went into the lift. The lift takes them to the 5th floor. They all exit out of the lift, entering the studio with people cheering. The kids went to sit down with the audience. “Welcome to the 2nd episode of Dean Tv love 8 everyone” said Alec. “Yes it is back once again” said Kaden. “Dean what is today’s episode?” said Zara. “Dean and the book again” said Dean. By showing the same book he got last year, last season.

“Yeah I remember that book, that man from the future gave it to you” said Kaden. “What year was he from?” asked Zara. “2089 it was” said Dean.

If you may remember last year Dean got a book from a man from the future, the book is titled the history of Dean Tv love series 2017 to 2036.

It is about the series, telling about history, the characters and the episodes from different seasons. 20 seasons that is, we are in the 8th season now.

The Dean Tv guru appears on the screen hearing everything about the book. “Still have that book Dean?” said the guru. “Yes I have, for 1 year” said Dean. “Right, let’s watch this episode” said the guru. The begins inside the Dean Tv mansion, Dean is resting in the living room. He does not look well, he is trying recover by lying down on the sofa. Reading the book what the man from the future gave him back in season 7 (Dean Tv love 7/Dean Tv love VII) Dean tries to read but Darren keeps asking questions about the book. Asking about the man from the future, but Dean cannot tell anybody the man’s name. Darren asked Dean why, Dean says that it might affected the future year of 2089 into an alternative version. Darren did not understand, Because Darren does not understand about time travel. Louise enters the living room. “You kept on asking about that man from the future?, let Dean read his book in peace” she said. “I just wanted to know who he is” said Darren. Tyrone agreed. “Yeah and those other seasons in the Tv love series, me and Darren are 18 years old in season 10” he said. “How did you know about that?” asked Dean. “Last year, you said that in 2026 me and Darren will be 18 years of age” said Tyrone. “Maybe you watched an episode of last season, when me and Louise were in the living room talking about it” said Dean. Darren nodded. “Of course” he said.

Louise laughed. “It’s true, in 2026 you two will be 18 years old. That what the book says but Dean and I can’t tell you more about these thing, you will find out yourselves” said Louise. Dean agreed.

Till one day he reads an episode of Dean Tv love 9, the ninth season of the series. Dean Tv love 9 (Dean Tv love IX) which is episode 5, which takes place on the 31st of January 2025. Dean sees the ninth season logo with a shield that shows the roman number 9.

Dean read the story in his mind and imagined what episode is like in his head.

In the story Dean and Louise are going out, Dean is driving his car. The two are going to shopping but first they have to pick up Helena from her house. To help Dean and Louise. Then went to the shopping centre, as the 3 entered. They people wearing helmets that says S.P.D. Louise and Helena were puzzled about it. Dean knows about it. “Super protection defender” said Dean. “Is that what S.P.D means?” said Louise. “Yes” said Dean. “There are super solders” said one of the staff members. Dean is amazed about it. So the 3 went shopping, buying things what they did not get for christmas. Then they had food at the restaurant.

Till one day something strange happened, the S.P.D helmets are going out of control. Messing up the people’s minds and making them go fighting mad. So Dean went to stop them. So did the Dean Tv police force. By taking off helmets, the people who were wearing helmets calmed down. Everyone dumped the helmets away. The inventor isn’t pleased. “Never again” he said. Later that day Dean took Helena back to her place, Dean and Louise returned back to the mansion. Dean finished reading the book as he went up stairs to get to his room and put the book in the box of books.

Dean thinks about the man who gave it to him, wondering what has he been up to. Well in the year 2090 he is resting and watching Tv.

The episode ends and everybody cheered.

“Good episode” said Alec. “Yes another one which is the same like the other episode from last season” said Zara. “Hopefully Darren and Tyrone won’t go in Dean’s room to find it” said Kaden. “Well they won’t” said Dean.

“Tune in for episode 3 of Dean Tv love 8, bye for now” said the guru.

End of episode 2

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[comic review] william gibson’s alien 3 (2018-19)

written & illustrated by johnnie christmas

first of all, can we make this kind of thing more common? where we actually get to see alternate versions of a movie officially released in some form? because i would love to see what bryan singer’s x-men 3[1] or joel schumacher’s batman triumphant[2] or rian johnson’s episode ix, etc etc, would have been. that reminds me, i should check out the batman ‘89 comics. but i digress.

so, obviously with something like this the first question that comes to mind is whether you prefer the movie we actually got or this one. i actually like alien 3 quite a bit, but when i heard the original idea for alien 3 involved space communists i kinda figured there was a decent chance that i’d prefer that? like, even a terrible portrayal that villainized them could be enjoyed from a camp standpoint and maybe even reclaimed and fannoned into something awesome. but if this comic is anything to go by, it turns out the space communists a) weren’t even that heavily involved in the plot, and b) were just kinda boring. sad times.

it’s also nice that newt and hicks get to actually be characters in this instead of being killed literally during the opening credits, but ripley spends most of the story in a coma before being unceremoniously dumped into an escape pod (presumably launched directly toward the next movie). it’s just weird. what a weird choice. obviously i want hicks and newt to get to be actual characters with actual stories, but given a choice between that and ripley getting to be a character with an actual story i’m obviously going to pick ripley?

so, yeah, i’m actually super glad that we got the alien 3 we got instead of this. i know a lot of people think it would have been better, but i’m afraid i just don’t see it. i’m still super glad they did this, though. again, the general concept of adapting abandoned versions of movies into a less resource-intense medium so we at least get to see what the story would’ve looked like is a super tantalizing one, and one i’d very much like to see more of.

b-rank

notes

1. yes, he’s allegedly an asshole sexual predator, i didn’t say i wanted to see him make money off of the venture. which might not be legally possible. but whatever, i’m already making unreasonable demands, i might as well ignore how capitalism works in the process.

2. that one would probably be a bit harder than others considering schumacher’s tragic passing.