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CWFKB2025: Codywan First Kiss Bingo is back!

The 2025 edition of CWFKB is a Valentine’s Smooching Edition, coming to your Codywan dash February 1-14, 2025! Yes, that's right-- CWFKB 2 is a Valentine’s Boogaloo, and we can’t wait to get the smoochin’ started. 

Click past the read more for all of the details. 

What’s different?  

The size of the bingo cards:  cards will be 3 x 3 instead of 5 x 5.  As much as we (the OG mods) were completely blown away by all the amazing fills, we had a lotta-bit of burnout that made it hard to enjoy the event and create for it, too.  More than one bingo-er also said they felt a lot of pressure to get a blackout, and 25 fills was a lot/too much. 

The posting timeline: CWFKB2025 bingo-ers will have two weeks to post their fills, from February 1, 2025, to February 14, 2025.  Because cards are 3 x 3, posters have 14 days to post 9 fills if they’re going for a blackout.  We want everyone to have fun!

And-- even though posting does end on Valentine's Day, the posts do not have to be Valentine's themed if you don't want. February was a good time for all the mods and helpers-- Valentine's themed fills are a bonus, not a requirement!

What’s the same? 

The rules are the same, but we’ve tried to simplify the language and condense it a bit.  The only “new” rule is that we ask codywaners posting images as part of their fills to use alt-text whenever possible. The rules post contains a link out to a how-to you can use in making sure your art is accessible to everyone in the fandom.  

What’s new?

Your OG mods Bee  @notthestarwar,  Lasagna @dontbelasagnax, and Lttrs @lttrsfrmlnrrgby are back, but we’re bigger and better thanks to the help with all the back-end work from @nhyhu, @biscuityskies, and @bluemaskedkarma – thanks to our new folks, we can keep up with all your asks, make sure we’re keeping on top of reminders and announcements, check and log your fills in a timely way, and make sure we’re reblogging your fills and rounding up all of your excellent work.  

Valentine’s Day is allonormative and hypercorporate and I’m not a fan, but ....

You’re probably not the only person in Codywan fandom who thinks this!  We still look forward to seeing your take on the prompts. Prompts do not have to be Valentine-themed! Fills featuring Codywans who are ace, aro, anarchist, anti-Valentine’s fills and more are all welcome– as long as Codywan have a first kiss in your fill, all’s fair in love or not-love and Clone Wars!

Yeah, sure, ok, fine, I get it, whatever, just … GIMME MY CARD, I NEED TO MASH MY BLORBOS TOGETHER RIGHT NOW. 

CLICK HERE TO SIGN-UP FOR YOUR CARD AND GET CODYWAN TO KISSING 💋

What if I have other questions?  

Drop an ask in this inbox, or email codywanfirstkissbingo@gmail.com and we’ll do our best to get you an answer!

@swfandomevents

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JEDI YOUNGLING ROBES

Jedi younglings had two outfit variations - long and short robes with trousers. All costume pieces were interchangeable between genders.

“I made sure that we didn't ever see two people who looked the same…because they're all individual people, from different places and different cultures and all with different builds and bodies. I think it’s much more visually interesting.” -Trisha Biggar, Prequels Costume Designer

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Examples of Bruce’s “Dad Strength” as witnessed by various Robins throughout the years:

can and will bodily pick up any new Robin and bail as soon as gunfire starts on patrol

one time Bruce got out, physically ripped off a broken part of the Batmobile, and threw it in the backseat so he and Jason could keep chasing someone in the Narrows

ran home with Nightwing over his shoulder when he got shot

frequently lifts sewer grates/manhole covers like they weigh nothing

does push-ups with Robins on his back for a challenge

held onto the side of a building with just his fingers for ten minutes once when Steph’s grapple line broke and he had to help her back up

pulls hot dishes from the oven without mitts sometimes for Alfred (insists scar tissue on his hands means he can’t feel it, nobody fully believes him)

Damian swears he saw him kick a tree down once during training. A big tree.

Dick frequently catches him unscrewing screws in his prototypes with his bare fingers

Punches through walls????

can drink nothing but straight black coffee for several days before any signs of discomfort (this freaks out everyone but Tim)

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Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker Characters: Shmi Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Force-Sensitive Shmi Skywalker, Shmi Skywalker is Freed From Slavery, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Slavery, Suicidal Thoughts, That's Not How The Force Works (Star Wars), Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Canon-Typical Violence Summary:

Six-year old Shmi Skywalker has just arrived on Tatooine. Fate had once decreed that she would spent the rest of her life there: surviving, against all odds, to give birth to the Chosen One. Her life was one of hardship, love, and duty to a greater presence that some might say was the will of the Force.

This time her life will take on a very different design. One that involves a Jedi who goes by the name of Ben Kenobi...

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I’ll never quite get over just how integrated kids are into daily Jedi life and the implications of that.

Dooku’s Temple "job" for years seems to have been “teaching lightsaber preschool.” Sifo-Dyas, the guy with the scary doom visions? Oh yeah, they have him working with infants, bringing babies to the Temple as a Seeker. Jocasta Nu is constantly depicted interacting with the younger generation of Jedi, teaching, helping, or mentoring. In TCW, she knows all the Padawans on sight. 

There’s just something really ordinary and charming to me about this. Sure, Dooku is a terrifying 2m of spider limbs in a robe, but he’s still going down on one sinister knee to check out the little crying kid who got a finger crunched by one of those wooden training swords. How many of the TCW-era Jedi were once babies who played with Sifo-Dyas’s hair loopies or cuddled on his chest as he pointed his T-6 back toward the Temple after another successful Seeking mission? (Space is, after all, cold. 🥺) You just know Jocasta is in very reluctant possession of knowledge of every single teen Padawan drama, crush, or breakup. She tries to stay out of it, but she’s broken up fights and pulled particulars into her office for tea and a gentle lecture on the inherent self-destructiveness of gossip. 

And these are not “just some” Jedi - they are all combat trained, politically important, at the top of their rank and even each sit on the Council at some point in their lives. The Jedi Order really went “super powerful space wizards with laser swords, yeah, but they should also all definitely know how to change a diaper." 

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We don’t talk about Leia killing Jabba enough. Her grandmother and father were born into slavery. Her blood was that of the desert sand and the shackles of bondage. Leia was never more a Skywalker than the day she strangled her slave master with the very chains he used to bind her. The daughter of Anakin Skywalker was the one who killed Tatooine’s most notorious slaver, and I find that really beautiful.

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Padawan braids should be far more decorated I don't care

I want them to have beads and bows and jewels and rings and bells and-

I want them to scream culture, to scream tradition, to scream history!!!

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Simone Di Meo batboys

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45 year old Bruce Wayne in a nutshell

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It’s easy to miss sometimes, but Bruce absolutely has “anything I ask you to do is something I’ll 100% do myself” energy. Crawl through a Gotham sewer? He’ll be right there beside you. Camped out on a rooftop in the freezing rain during patrol? Robin goes home early that night and he’s out there for another 4-6 hours.

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A stab at an Arcane-style Ahsoka to pair with this Maul

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In every "the JL has never met the batfam" au in my brain, whether it's because the Batfam are murder-happy or pretending to be cryptids or are secretly the mob, whatever, it is always always ALWAYS funnier to have Nightwing still on the JL team. Like. Everyone feels so bad for him since he lives right next to demon town or whatever and then one day he just drops the information that they're all his baby siblings. Actually, that big scary guy? His dad. Yeah it's like a whole thing. What do you mean you're scared of Robin? He's like a baby! <- said baby almost killed Superman for sport like twenty minutes ago

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The funniest aspect of a child crime fighter is that sometimes they’re going to run into something that makes no sense because they don’t have the life experience. Because they’re nine.

Like Robin runs into a guy who works for The Penguin and the guy just throws his hands up like, “Don’t hit! I’m not an enforcer. I’m an accountant.”

Robin:

Robin, squaring up: I don’t know what that is.

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Ok I’m being so brave about it but a couple of days ago I saw this post claiming that the Jedi saying ‘this weapon [your lightsaber] is your life’ is emblematic of ‘the Jedi’s failure as peacekeepers’ (not an exact quote but pretty close) because why would a weapon be the life of a peacekeeper?

And like. The Jedi are a culture. They’re a religion.

You know that, right? You know that many cultures, including generally peaceful ones, have sacred weapons, right? You know that the bond between a Jedi and their crystal(s) is an extremely sacred thing that requires the consent of both parties and is integral to their way of life, right?

You know that lightsabers are not intended to be only for killing, right? That the first thing Luke learns to do with his lightsaber is to shield and defend? You know that a culture having sacred weapons doesn’t mean that they view killing as sacred, right?

Not trying to start shit, I don’t even remember who said it, but ugh

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I can’t explain, it but Thomas Wayne should be a cigarette mom

God help you if you cross this man at 4 in the morning at a Krispy Donut parking lot cause his cat of a child chased a rat. Voice sounding like a broken car motor, but like. Sexy. “The hell are you lookin’ at?! God damn it— BRUCE. Take that outta your mouth.”

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i have very few headcanons that i'm not happy to set aside for a specific AU or scenario or for just chatting with friends, but the one i do hold onto very strongly is that satine was THE most eligible bachelor at her space boarding school/university thing. everyone had it so bad for her, regardless of gender or species, every single one of her classmates wanted a piece of that towering mandalorian princess

and then they'd take her on a date and she'd spend the entire time yapping about mandalorian history