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Han x Leia Holiday Exchange Poll

It’s a special time of year, when writers get together to share their love of Han and Leia — and exchange gifts of fanfic!

There’s still time to join the fun! Signups are open through Friday, November 22 for the 2024 HanLeia Holiday Exchange. SIGN UP HERE or check out OUR ANNOUNCEMENT POST HERE for the details!

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Han x Leia Holiday Exchange Poll

It’s a special time of year, when writers get together to share their love of Han and Leia — and exchange gifts of fanfic!

There’s still time to join the fun! Signups are open through Friday, November 22 for the 2024 HanLeia Holiday Exchange. SIGN UP HERE or check out OUR ANNOUNCEMENT POST HERE for the details!

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Good evening! Sorry to bother you, but I had a question about a discrepancy between the AO3 page and the tumblr posts about this year’s exchange. The rules and FAQ say that signups ended yesterday and assignments started going out today, but the latest tumblr post says they go out on the 22nd. I just wanted to know if I was crazy or if maybe the dates were a little off. Thanks!

Hey there — good catch; we’d updated the signup dates on almost everything, but now that you’re pointing this out we realized that the FAQ that’s listed on the AO3 page is still saying December 16 for the signup deadline (although the official open and close dates are correct on AO3 if you look at the dates at the top of that page). To clarify, the dates in the Tumblr announcement for the exchange are the correct ones:

Signups open: November 8, 2024

Signups close: November 22, 2024

Assignments go out: November 23-24, 2024

So, the great news is that there is still time to sign up! For those folks who are on the fence — we’ve got a great group of folks already signed up, and we’d love to have you! SIGN UP HERE if you’d like to join us.

Thank you for the ask and the opportunity to clarify!

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Han Solo has some questions for you...

👉 Have you signed up yet??

You have until Friday, November 22 to join the 2024 Han/Leia Holiday Exchange! If you're thinking about joining but are likely to leave signing up to the last minute, set up a reminder on your phone so you don't forget! If you're just now hearing about this, check out the main post here!

👉 Did you include prompts?

Remember that you must include "Likes", "Do not wants" and a minimum of three prompts in your sign-up form. Yes, prompts are required! If you’re missing one of these things in your submission, a mod will reach out and ask you to edit your sign-up before you can participate.

👉 Did you know you can go back and edit your sign-up form?

Did you change your mind about a prompt? Did you think of something else you might be open to receiving - or not? Did you realize you forgot the prompts? Fear not! Simply go to your Ao3 profile > Sign-ups > Edit Sign-up.

👉 Do you have any questions for us?

We know it can feel like a little too much, intimidating or maybe even confusing, although we hope not. So if you have any questions at all, send us an ask and we'll do our best to explain/encourage you!

✨ SIGN UP HERE! ✨

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Han Solo has some questions for you...

👉 Have you signed up yet??

You have until Friday, November 22 to join the 2024 Han/Leia Holiday Exchange! If you're thinking about joining but are likely to leave signing up to the last minute, set up a reminder on your phone so you don't forget! If you're just now hearing about this, check out the main post here!

👉 Did you include prompts?

Remember that you must include "Likes", "Do not wants" and a minimum of three prompts in your sign-up form. Yes, prompts are required! If you’re missing one of these things in your submission, a mod will reach out and ask you to edit your sign-up before you can participate.

👉 Did you know you can go back and edit your sign-up form?

Did you change your mind about a prompt? Did you think of something else you might be open to receiving - or not? Did you realize you forgot the prompts? Fear not! Simply go to your Ao3 profile > Sign-ups > Edit Sign-up.

👉 Do you have any questions for us?

We know it can feel like a little too much, intimidating or maybe even confusing, although we hope not. So if you have any questions at all, send us an ask and we'll do our best to explain/encourage you!

✨ SIGN UP HERE! ✨

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🎆 Han x Leia Holiday Exchange 2024 🎆

Hope, creativity, and love are more important than ever in these times, and we hope this event can do a little something to help brighten up the coming months. Welcome to the 2024 edition of our classic Han x Leia Holiday Exchange!

This is an anonymous exchange where each participant will write and receive a Han/Leia fanfic (min.: 500 words, max.: ~5k words).

Who can participate? Anyone and everyone who loves Han and Leia! Whether you prefer Legends, Disney canon, or AUs; whether you've written 100 fics, 5 or zero; whether you’re a new fan or an older fan; whether you even celebrate any holidays or not... if you enjoy writing, presents, and Han and Leia, this event is for you!

Schedule:

Signups open: November 8, 2024

Signups close: November 22, 2024

Assignments go out: November 23-24, 2024

Half-point check in: Week of December 16, 2024

Deadline to request a beta: January 9, 2025

Submission deadline: January 18, 2025

Works revealed: January 19, 2025

Authors revealed: January 31, 2025

How does it work?

This exchange will take place both on Tumblr and on Archive of Our Own (Ao3), which means having an account on both sites is required to participate. (If you don’t have an Ao3 account, please contact the mods — they can send you an invite and help with any questions!)

You will need to sign up via the link to Ao3 below and will upload your work to the collection there whenever you’re finished. We will post it for you on January 19, and it will remain anonymous until January 31.

You’ll use Tumblr to receive communications from the mods and to send/receive anonymous messages to/from your recipients/writers, so make sure your Tumblr has anonymous messaging turned on. We do ask you to please reach out to your recipient at least once: not only is it a great way to find out more about what kind of gift they would enjoy, but it’s also a really fun part of the exchange!

🎆SIGN UP HERE!

🎆READ THE FULL RULES HERE (mobile version here) AND THE FAQ HERE (mobile version here)

🎆ASK US A QUESTION HERE

Please make sure to read the rules and the instructions on the sign-up page carefully, and please feel free to reach out to blog or one of us individually if you have any questions (or if you could use a little encouragement).

Your mods: @otterandterrier @lajulie24 @hanorganaas

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🎆 Han x Leia Holiday Exchange 2024 🎆

Hope, creativity, and love are more important than ever in these times, and we hope this event can do a little something to help brighten up the coming months. Welcome to the 2024 edition of our classic Han x Leia Holiday Exchange!

This is an anonymous exchange where each participant will write and receive a Han/Leia fanfic (min.: 500 words, max.: ~5k words).

Who can participate? Anyone and everyone who loves Han and Leia! Whether you prefer Legends, Disney canon, or AUs; whether you've written 100 fics, 5 or zero; whether you’re a new fan or an older fan; whether you even celebrate any holidays or not... if you enjoy writing, presents, and Han and Leia, this event is for you!

Schedule:

Signups open: November 8, 2024

Signups close: November 22, 2024

Assignments go out: November 23-24, 2024

Half-point check in: Week of December 16, 2024

Deadline to request a beta: January 9, 2025

Submission deadline: January 18, 2025

Works revealed: January 19, 2025

Authors revealed: January 31, 2025

How does it work?

This exchange will take place both on Tumblr and on Archive of Our Own (Ao3), which means having an account on both sites is required to participate. (If you don’t have an Ao3 account, please contact the mods — they can send you an invite and help with any questions!)

You will need to sign up via the link to Ao3 below and will upload your work to the collection there whenever you’re finished. We will post it for you on January 19, and it will remain anonymous until January 31.

You’ll use Tumblr to receive communications from the mods and to send/receive anonymous messages to/from your recipients/writers, so make sure your Tumblr has anonymous messaging turned on. We do ask you to please reach out to your recipient at least once: not only is it a great way to find out more about what kind of gift they would enjoy, but it’s also a really fun part of the exchange!

🎆SIGN UP HERE!

🎆READ THE FULL RULES HERE (mobile version here) AND THE FAQ HERE (mobile version here)

🎆ASK US A QUESTION HERE

Please make sure to read the rules and the instructions on the sign-up page carefully, and please feel free to reach out to blog or one of us individually if you have any questions (or if you could use a little encouragement).

Your mods: @otterandterrier @lajulie24 @hanorganaas

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Happy Halloween, everyone!

Looking for some HanLeia-flavoured tricks and treats? 🎃 Then check out the masterlists of fics written for our past Halloween Prompt-a-Thon events! There's a mix of everything: from scary to sweet, smutty to smut-free, we're sure you'll find just the thing to fulfill your cravings this spooky evening:

💀 2017 Masterlist

💀 2020 Masterlist

💀 2022 Masterlist

Please remember to give a treat back to the writers after reading, in the form of kudos or comments! 🍬

And stay tuned, because a new edition of the Holiday Exchange is coming... 👀

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Han/Leia Appreciation Week 2024 - Masterlist

And so we reach the end of Han/Leia Appreciation Week 2024! There was a total of 38 contributions this year, wow! 😍 As mods, we often worry about whether there's still enough people in the fandom who will want to participate in events like this, so we're very happy and grateful to everyone who wanted to join us in celebrating Han and Leia this time around 💗

There's a little bit of everything to peruse - from missing moment fics to AUs; playlists to moodboards; webweaving; photography; a lot of tropes... although especially proposals this year 👀 We hope you'll want to catch up in the coming weeks and give the authors some love through likes, reblogs, kudos, and comments.

✨ Here's a masterlist that links to the tag in the blog that we set up for each day, so you can check out all the works by prompt:

Day 1: Tradition / Ceremony

Day 2: Braids & Bloodstripes / Home planet

Day 3: AU / Canon Divergence

Day 4: Force / Belief

Day 5: Favorite scene / Favorite quote

Day 6: Meeting / Escape

Day 7: Free day

🎉 Thank you to all the creators:

@bookishbrigitta

@walkawaytall

@captaincwb

@bookwormstarwarsfan

@lizartgurl

@citrusgothic

@diplomaticprincess

@geminirum

@legofanguy

@lajulie24

@otterandterrier

@yoyomarules

💕 Remember that you can add your fic to the AO3 Collection if you haven't done so yet. Let us know if you have questions about how to do that, or if some time passes and we forget to approve it.

Until next time! We'll be back in November with the announcement for the Han/Leia Holiday Exchange 2024 😉

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everybody wants to love you

(Han x Leia, Star Wars, rated T)

There are powerful alliances at stake for the fledgling New Republic—but only if a certain prominent hero of the Alliance is open to a political marriage. A late offering for the final day of @hanleiacelebration's Han/Leia Appreciation Week.

The first Tapani proposal was made by way of a ten-being delegation from the planet Obulette.

They brought several lavish gift baskets into Leia’s office, and performed a drawn-out ceremony involving dancing, kazz trumpets, and little in the way of explanation as to what this meeting was about.

It was only after Leia’s polite, bewildered applause that the head of the delegation, Hirva Frane, announced with much flourish that The Most Noble Aterion Balis of House Mecetti of the Tapani Sector would like to put forward an offer of marriage.

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Strange how my heart beats

Written for Han/Leia Appreciation Week 2024 - Day 4: Force / Belief

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Rating: T

When Leia finally manages to get some sleep after returning to the fleet from Bespin, she finds something unexpected in her dreams. Title is from Enya’s “On Your Shore.”

(Is this a later-than-expected entry for Han/Leia Week? Yes. Was it originally a ficlet that grew many more paragraphs? Also, yes.)

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Leia closed her eyes and groaned, hiding her face in her hands. “It’s incredibly stupid,” she said, her voice muffled.

“Well, now you gotta tell me.” She sighed and mumbled something incomprehensible into her palms. “Can’t understand ya, sweetheart,” Han said.

Leia dropped her hands and looked him in the eye. “It’s just a thing I’ve done since—” She sighed again. “After Bespin, I’d get stuck in…Luke called them ‘probability spirals’, where I couldn’t stop thinking about how unlikely everything was to work out. It was unlikely you were alive, it was unlikely we would find you, it was unlikely even if you were alive that you’d survive the thawing process…I sounded like Threepio on his worst days. I’d had a really, really bad day — I was stuck in my head, and I don’t think I even made it to half my meetings that day, so Luke came to check on me, and when I started spiraling again, he said, ‘Think of all the times we should have died and didn’t. This isn’t any different.’ So I did.”

“You…did?”

“Thought of all the times we should have died.” Leia laughed softly and glanced away. “In retrospect, I don’t think he intended for me to take it quite so literally, but I was grasping at anything that might keep me from unraveling and I—It felt like a project I could focus on for a few minutes, so I went through my calendar and marked every time we should have died. And after that, it just seemed like an interesting data point, so I kept tracking. SHD stands for should have died. Not very creative, I know, but I’ve never claimed to be.”

Han squinted at her. “You’ve been trackin’ every time we should have died?”

(Technically, this was half written for Han and Leia Appreciation Week 2023 and, when that didn't pan out, was finished for Han and Leia Appreciation Week 2024 for the prompt "Tradition". But it's real late, y'all.)

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Star Wars High School AU: The princess and the rogue

Sorry that I was quiet for a week guys, but I was camping in a state park with less cell network and I would reblog prompt lists. This Star Wars High School AU fanfiction is a entry for @hanleiacelebration event Han/Leia Appreciation Week 2024 day 7 free day and day 3 AU, featuring Karocelyn, my Star Wars The Old Republic Rattataki Jedi Knight character.

At the halls of Coruscant High, Leia Organa said to her Rattataki friend, "I don't know about Han Solo, Karocelyn. He is a good boy, but he is a bit hot head, and he flirt alot." and Karocelyn said to Leia, "I think you should give me a chance since you seem to like him." As a group of boys walk by, Leia said to Karocelyn, "What make you think I like Han, beside that he is handsome?" and one of the boys said, "What was that I hear, princess?" and Leia turn to see Han is the one whose speak with his best friends Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian, and her face goes red over admitting having a crush on him.

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“You want to talk about kids now?” - Tatooine Ghost

Han/Leia Appreciation Week 2024

Day Five: Favorite scene / Favorite quote

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“Why do you want little Solos running around so badly?” - Tatooine Ghost

Han/Leia Appreciation Week 2024

Day Five: Favorite scene / Favorite quote

For @hanleiacelebration

I just love this scene so much, it's so Han and Leia. Stuck between Suns and Star Destroyers, Leia decides, that this is the moment she should tell Han that she changed her mind about children. This may be the last chance, they can die the next minute, but they aren't too pressed about it, after all they went through this a few times already��😆

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HAN AND LEIA: because no matter how much he might love her– no matter how much he might give himself to her– she could never be content with that alone. her vision extended beyond him, just as it extended beyond herself, to all the beings of the galaxy. and to take that away from her, whether by force or even by persuasion, would be to diminish her soul. and to take away part of what he'd fallen in love with in the first place" – dark force rising, timothy zahn (1992)

1. the empire strikes back (1980) // 2. the 1, taylor swift (folklore, 2020) // 3. the princess and the scoundrel, beth revis (2022) // 4. the lovers, artist unknown // 5. the great war, taylor swift (midnights, 2022) // 6. the empire strikes back (1980) & inkpot gods, the amazing devil (2021) // 7. euripides, from ‘orestes,’ an oresteia (2009, trans. anne carson) // 8. the empire strikes back (1980) // 9. the empire strikes back (1980) // 10. hands, artist unknown // 11. han solo (2016, issue #5), marvel comics // 12. as it was, harry styles (harry’s house, 2022) // 13. return of the jedi (1983) // 14. existence, by ambsthom (na.) // 15. the force awakens (2015) // 16. mastermind, taylor swift (midnights, 2022) // 17. a new hope (1977) // 18. return of the jedi (1983) // 19. heidi priebe, as long as there is love, there will be grief // the last jedi (2017) // 20. the empire strikes back (1980) // 21. haunted, taylor swift (speak now tv, 2023) // 22. the empire strikes back (1980) // 23. quote 1: sue zhao, dialogues on love #4 ‘maybe i already do (na.) // quote 2: virginia woolf, from a letter to katherine mansfield c. January 1921 // quote 3: trista mateer (na.) // 24. watchful eyes, artist unknown // 25. the empire strikes back (1980) // 26. cruel summer, taylor swift (lover, 2019) // 27. the empire strikes back (1980) // 28. the empire strikes back (1980) // 29. sarah ruhl, from eurydice (2003) // 30. return of the jedi (1983) - if you know any of the artists, please let me know so i can credit them accordingly!!

my contribution to the @hanleiacelebration week! i made a similar ‘webweaving’ (if you will) post showing the twins’ relationship. i’ll link that here!

if you liked this, please consider reblogging and commenting, it really helps the algorithm :)

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You guys aren't going to believe this: I was trying to just finish the final scene of Macabre, and something I had Han say made me want to write this instead. So I did that. Happy last day of Han and Leia Appreciation Week to all who celebrate. Maybe I'll get at least part of Macabre up later.

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