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It's day five of All Ships Week! Here are today's prompts:

⚓ inspired by a song lyric

⚓ a mysterious scream

⚓ caught in a weather event (or cave in)

🗨️ “It’s always been you.”

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If you've filled one (or multiple) of these, post your fill in the comments -- either the fill itself or a link! If posting the whole thing here, please give a head's up for sensitive content.

Suggested fields to include:

Complete event rules | AO3 collection | Squidge collection

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museaway

It's day four of All Ships Week! Here are today's prompts:

⚓ niche retail job AU

⚓ a supernatural element

⚓ mistaken identity

🗨️ “I’ve never seen you before in my life.”

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If you've filled one (or multiple) of these, post your fill in the comments -- either the fill itself or a link! If posting the whole thing here, please give a head's up for sensitive content.

Suggested fields to include:

Complete event rules | AO3 collection | Squidge collection

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museaway

Instead of the regular word game, share an excerpt from anything you're working on for All Ships Week!

If you have already posted your All Ships fill, share your favorite sentence (and a link so people can read it).

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off. Please stop back later.)

A note about interacting: Writers supporting each other is important to me. If you object to leaving comments for another writer, then we are not for you. If you repeatedly ignore this rule, you will lose community membership.

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word game wednesday

museaway

It's day three of All Ships Week! Here are today's prompts:

⚓ role reversal AU

⚓ a cruise / boat / spaceship

⚓ assembling furniture together (or similar task)

🗨️ “That’s ridiculous.”

* * *

If you've filled one (or multiple) of these, post your fill in the comments -- either the fill itself or a link! If posting the whole thing here, please give a head's up for sensitive content.

Suggested fields to include:

Complete event rules | AO3 collection | Squidge collection

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museaway

Day two of All Ships Week! Here are today's prompts:

⚓ tweak a trope (e.g. meet cute → meet ugly)

⚓ star-crossed

⚓ literally just sleeping together 😴

🗨️ “I miss you.”

* * *

If you've filled one (or multiple) of these, post your fill in the comments -- either the fill itself or a link! If posting the whole thing here, please give a head's up for sensitive content.

Suggested fields to include:

Complete event rules | AO3 collection | Squidge collection

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If you're new to Dreamwidth (or dusting off an account) and looking to connect with people, drop a comment on this post! This site is a lot more fun with mutuals.

Things to mention:
- your fandoms & ships
- what you create
- if your blog is 18+
- links to other social/carrd

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make a friend

museaway

It's the first day of All Ships Week 2025! Here are today's prompts:

⚓ fairytale or Hallmark AU

⚓ a grudge / a rumor

⚓ ambiguous relationship

🗨️ “What am I supposed to do with this?”

* * *

If you've filled one (or multiple) of these, post your fill in the comments -- either the fill itself or a link! If posting the whole thing here, please give a head's up for sensitive content.

Suggested fields to include:

Complete event rules | AO3 collection | Squidge collection

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museaway

This week's word is...
buy

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off, and we hope you'll pop back around later!)

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word game wednesday

museaway

The ship week for all ships, every last one of them. The fleet will sail October 20-26, 2025.

🚢 Rules & FAQs

All Ships Week is open to everyone 14 & up. The event rules, FAQs, posting info, collection links, and dossier links are on Notion. Keeping event info in one place reduces the chance of error when I make updates (and it saves me a lot of time)

Complete event information on Notion

🚢 Activity Prompts (do these any day)

Gush about your ship! You don’t need to make anything for these, just hop on social and use the event tags. These prompts are just suggestions! Do the ones that interest you & feel free to add your own ideas!

Create a ship dossier (Canva templates on Notion!)
Revisit a favorite moment or episode
Make them a vacation playlist
Boost a fic or art post from a creator
Tell us why you love the ship!
Share a prompt for creators to adopt
Invent a headcanon
Turn them into a meme
Read and comment on an existing fic

🚢 Daily Fanwork Prompts

Create any type of fanworks inspired by one or more prompts. They are open to your interpretation! Use them individually or combine them.

Monday - October 20

⚓ fairytale or Hallmark AU
⚓ a grudge / a rumor
⚓ ambiguous relationship
🗨️ “What am I supposed to do with this?”

Tuesday - October 21

⚓ tweak a trope (e.g. meet cute → meet ugly)
⚓ star-crossed
⚓ literally just sleeping together 😴
🗨️ “I miss you.”

Wednesday - October 22

⚓ role reversal AU
⚓ a cruise / boat / spaceship
⚓ assembling furniture together (or similar task)
🗨️ “That’s ridiculous.”

Thursday - October 23

⚓ niche retail job AU
⚓ a supernatural element
⚓ mistaken identity
🗨️ “I’ve never seen you before in my life.”

Friday - October 24

⚓ inspired by a song lyric
⚓ a mysterious scream
⚓ caught in a weather event (or cave in)
🗨️ “It’s always been you.”

Saturday - October 25

⚓ journey / road trip
⚓ a lost message
⚓ the second meeting
🗨️ “I should go.”

Sunday - October 26

⚓ Free day! Anything goes, all of your favorite tropes, every situation you can imagine
⚓ Bonus: Finish any unfinished WIP
⚓ Bonus: Inspired by a reddit post — or a post from bluesky, the hellsite (affectionate), etc.

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museaway

This week's word is...
order

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off, and we hope you'll pop back around later!)

Note: Posting the word game to dreamwidth is an experiment! We have established communities on tumblr and bluesky, but I've never cross-posted the game here. If people enjoy this, we might keep it up. We've been playing the word game every week since early 2020. It's usually posted on Wednesdays.

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word game wednesday

museaway

Welcome to ficwip on dreamwidth! We're an all-fandoms community that hosts events year-round. Community posts are safe for work, but it's possible that a response to Word Game Wednesday could contain adult content. Please interact with care.

Our writing support community is

thecoffeeshop. 18+

the event series
- Word Game Wednesday every week
- Hey, Sweetheart (annually in February)
- The 5k (annually June - August)
- All Ships Week (October 2026)
- Level Up (on discord, September 2026)
- Seasonal writing retreats, seasonal events, an original fiction anthology, and monthly prompt events on discord

Complete event info on carrd

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the discord (18+)
A casual multi-fandom server centered around our event series! We almost always have something that you can join. In addition to the public events above, we host discord exclusives and writing retreat weekends. We are strictly 18+

server info & community rules | invite (18+)

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Affiliates
If you run a multi-fandom community on DW and would like to affiliate, please comment on this very post! The one you're reading.

Looking for more event communities?
Check out

fandomcalendar

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mod post

museaway

Some year, I'll stop forgetting to update this blog! Rather than copy/paste everything here and try to wrangle the formatting, the info for our 2024 events is on carrd!

Currently running:

The 5k, our annual AU event. Write a complete AU in no more than 5,000 words! A public event that runs via social media. Posts August 1-31
Dark & Cozy: a discord exclusive. Put a dark spin on a cozy trope. Runs through the end of July
To Spite You, Personally: a discord exclusive running this October & November
The All-Ships Ship Week 2024. A new public event that kicks off this October in the wilds of social media! (But you can get started now)

Upcoming:

Hey, Sweetheart 2025
Level Up 2025
The 5k 2025
Fairytale Bang 2025
To-be-planned mystery event 2025
All-Ships Ship Week 2025

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I'm also thrilled to say that I overhauled the discord server, and it is once again open to join. No more applications! Since the reopening, we've welcomed almost 200 people. Detailed server info and a link to our community rules are available on carrd (as well as a link to request the invite).

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mod post

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Shore Leave! A vacation-themed Kirk/Spock reverse bang

complete event info | event tumblr | event bsky | AO3 collection

🌴 🌴 🌴

To celebrate the T'hy'la Bang passing its 10th anniversary, we're switching things up with a reverse bang! Artists will illustrate Kirk and Spock on shore leave. We’ll anonymously show that art to authors who will let us know which pieces inspire them! Through some space magic, we’ll pair authors and artists into teams. Authors will write a 5-10k fic based on their assigned art, and teams will post together at the end of the event.

As we've done since the T'hy'la launched, all Trek universes and all variations of Kirk/Spock are welcome.

This event is affiliated with ficwip but runs under its own server and social media. This year's round will be modded by me and Ahria!

Sign-ups for all roles open on Monday, February 26th! The form will be available at https://tinyurl.com/shoreleavebang

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spirk,
t'hy'la bang

museaway

Helloooo! With the flood of people moving to Dreamwidth, maybe I should actually post updates here. Here's a quick rundown of what we have going on right now across our series:

#ficwip

all fandoms, all ships

public events

open to everyone 14 & older.

the 5k AU challenge is running through the end of August
Hey, Sweetheart will return in February 2024. dates & prompts TBA
Word Game Wednesday, every week on Twitter, Tumblr, and Bluesky. We could cross-post it here as well, if there is interest. Sound off.

discord events

note: our discord is invite only and requires an application to join due to the rise of antis. we hate this too. I miss being able to welcome absolutely everyone.

60-minute sprints on the 15th of each month
July 28-30 retreat weekend
September 6 - server's 4th anniversary party (TBA)
October 13 - November 12: multifandom match: angst vs. fluff
November 3-5 retreat weekend

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fandom-specific series

we run or help run these

The Night Pool (rinharu / Free!)

our rinharu prompt meme is running on AO3 through August 31st
July 28-30 retreat weekend on discord
sign-ups open for the rinharu mini + reverse bang on September 1st. rules & FAQs coming soon
November 3-5 retreat weekend on discord

The T'hy'la Bang (Spirk / Star Trek)

Returning as a reverse bang in 2024

Bang Sheith (sheith / VLD)

Technically this isn't part of ficwip, but I'm sure Syn won't mind me including it here.

Sheith on Vacation - a casual hashtag event continues through the end of July

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museaway

Our 3rd annual 5k event is open for sign-ups!

The challenge: Write a standalone AU using no more than 5,000 words

The basics:
✨ open to all fandoms & ships (ofic too!)
✨ anything not strictly canon universe is welcome
✨ write in any language
✨ no content restrictions
✨ sign ups are open through the end of posting
✨ post your finished fic to the site(s) of your choice at any time in August

Questions? Leave a comment on this post or tag us @ficwip on Twitter!

full event information on Notion | sign up on Airtable

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5k 2022,
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