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I Have 99 Problems And You Are All Of Them

Written as part of the @starwarsrareship April 2019 challenge, brought to you by yours truly a month late. Apologies.

Prompt: Wedge Antilles.

Ship: Kylo/Ben (Benlo)

Rating: E

Tags/Warnings: AU, sibling incest, twincest, road trip, first kiss, first time, masturbation, frottage, road trip, awkward Ben, insecure Ben, confident Kylo, bedsharing, bottom Ben, top Kylo

Summary: Ben likes Kylo a bit too much. He made a promise years back to stay away from him.

Thanks to Wedge, it doesn’t last.

Now, they’re on a road trip to hell - or maybe heaven.

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Star Wars Rare Ship Challenge June Challenge Announcement

What is the Star Wars Rare Ship Challenge?

The SWRSC is a monthly challenge dedicated to creating more content for the smaller ships in the Star Wars fandom. Each month participants create new content for one or two ships of their choice based on the theme of the month and their individual prompt. Fanfiction, fanart, fanvids, moodboards/aesthetics/collages and any other fan creation you can think of are allowed. Which ships are allowed? Check out our FAQ for more details!

This month’s theme is…

Myths and "Legends" 

There's nothing more powerful than a good story, as we all know. Stories are about as integral to our development as humans as hunting and agriculture are, and because of this some of our stories stick around long after the people who first told them are gone. Our myths and legends continue to shape us, or literature, our films, and our lives to this day. And in honor of the power of these kinds of stories, SWRSC will be celebrating myths from around the world and the the old EU, now dubbed "legends". 

Star Wars Theme

If you choose a Star Wars Theme this month, you will be assigned a story from the legends canon. You may or may not be familiar with it, but we're not asking you to do a complete retelling of it anyway. If you choose a Star Wars theme, we ask that you use the story as inspiration for what you do. Write a missing scene or a fix-it, put the characters from the story you got into another story, put different characters in the story you got - the possibilities are endless. 

General Theme

If you choose a General Theme this month, you will be assigned a myth. And don't worry, we're not just sticking to Greek this time. Use the myth as inspiration for you work in any way you see fit. 

How To Participate

1. Follow the SWRSC blog!

2. Reblog this post between 5/23/19 and 5/31/19 to spread the word.

3. Send and ask and tell us what ship you’d like to write for this challenge, and whether or not you want a General Theme or a Star Wars Theme. One of our mods will comment back, telling you your answer has been recorded.

4. Sometime during the first few days of the new month (June 1st - 3rd) you will receive your prompt(s) and your partner(s) for the ships you’ve chosen.

5. Create something fantastic and post it before 6/30/19. Be sure to tag it with starwarsrareship OR @ us so we can see it. One of the mods will reblog your post to the blog. If your post hasn’t been reblogged within 72 hours please contact us. 

If you have further questions, comments, or concerns, please check our FAQ and/or send an ask.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: L3-37/Millennium Falcon Characters: L3-37 (Star Wars), Millennium Falcon Additional Tags: starwarsrareship, Canon-Compliant, Established Relationship, not crack, ship-shipping, the inner lives of droids Summary:

L3 has found herself harnessed to the Millennium Falcon. They have very different goals in existence, different passions and interests, but they coexist as they must.

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Hey everyone, sorry for such a late post. Real life has been overwhelming recently and I wasn't able to get the challenge together in time for you all to have a while to decide. I don't think it's fair to give you less than a week, so I'm going to have to cancel the May round.

However, we will be back up and running for June!

Sorry again about posting so late, guys.

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If you had told Rose Tico six months ago that she’d be up to her elbows in engine wiring with the former Supreme Leader of the First Order on one side of her and the last Jedi on the other, she’d have laughed so hard she cried.

For April 2019, @starwarsrareship gave me the prompt “Sympathy For The Devil” for rosereylo (Rose/Rey/Ben). I’ve never written this ship before, and this fic was an absolute delight to write. I mean…Rey, Rose, and Ben hanging out on an old Rebel base, repairing ships together, falling in love along the way? Sign me the fuck up, please! I had so much fun with this. Thanks, @starwarsrareship for bringing this challenge to tumblr!

Rated T, 6053 words, complete. Tags: Fluff, Canon Compliant, Non-Linear Narrative, Polyamory, Finn/Poe mention, Author Knows Nothing About Ship Repair

Side note: did you know that the GFFA also has sonic screwdrivers? I didn’t, until I wrote this!

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Finn/Dopheld Mitaka Characters: Finn (Star Wars), Armitage Hux, Dopheld Mitaka, Phasma (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Sparring, Falling In Love, Minor Injuries, Kylo Ren is Not Nice, Armitage Hux Needs A Hug, He’s Not Going to Get One, But Measures Will Be Taken, Poor Dopheld Mitaka, Oblivious Dopheld Mitaka, poor Finn, Angst, love and angst, Pillowfort Rarepairs Prompt, Discovery, Finn is Perceptive, Mitaka is Not, Idiots in Love, No Idea What They’re Doing, Cliffhangers, There Will Probably Be More Though, At Least I Hope So Poor Things, Touching, Touch-Starved, But Didn’t Know It, Anxiety, Inexperienced Dopheld Mitaka, Sexual Inexperience, Tuanul, Loyalty, Social Anxiety, dopheld mitaka needs a hug, Finn Needs A Hug, based on a prompt Summary:

Lieutenant Mitaka has everything under control. He keeps things, everything going, including General Hux; it’s his duty and his pride. As long as he’s got the information and people operate as expected, the ship is a well-oiled machine and no one notices who’s responsible. That’s how it should be. Noticing one of the Stormtroopers and the way he moves is just, well, it’s a thing that happens. Then Captain Phasma decides the bridge crew needs to learn how to defend themselves in hand-to-hand combat and Mitaka’s world is turned upside-down. He didn’t think he liked surprises. He wasn’t entirely right; FN-2187 is a constant surprise, and Mitaka likes him just fine.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Poe Dameron/Phasma Characters: Poe Dameron, Phasma (Star Wars), Original Child Character(s), BB-8 (Star Wars), Various Unnamed Wookiees Additional Tags: Pillowfort Rarepairs Challenge, Phoe - Freeform, That’s What I’m Calling Them, Crash Landing, Hurt/Comfort, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, maybe? - Freeform, probably, Kashyyyk, Bonfires, Background mention of Reylo, Terentatek, Web Weavers, Career Ending Injuries, Auzituck, A-Wing, TIE Fighter, Injury Recovery, So Much Bacta, Don’t Drink the Tree Sap, Phasma’s Lost An Eye, Sharing a Bed, Drunkenness, Not Everything Can Be Solved With A Blaster, Insouciance, noise - Freeform, Training

Summary:

Captain Poe Dameron has been sent to Kashyyyk to keep him out of trouble. They don’t know him very well, do they? Captain Phasma has survived the fall, and the fire…more or less. But she’s not done crashing and burning. He needs a sense of self-preservation. She needs a sense of humor. They need each other.

@flypaper-brain prompted this pairing.  Credit and blame.  For the Pillowfort January challenge.  @alicestill and @leofgyth, thanks for playing along.  And thanks @alicestill for this fabulous titleboard!

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race to the night (635 words) by jaded_of_mara Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars Legends - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Mara Jade/Leia Organa Characters: Leia Organa, Mara Jade Additional Tags: Coruscant, Senator Leia Organa, warning: creepy guy but he goes away, Pre-Star Wars: A New Hope Summary:

For the Star Wars Rare Ships Challenge over on Pillowfort.io !

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your leather-studded kiss in the sand

your leather-studded kiss in the sand (869 words) by jaded_of_mara Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Mara Jade/Leia Organa, Leia Organa/Han Solo Characters: Mara Jade, Leia Organa Additional Tags: Movie: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Jealousy, (well not so much jealousy as more of an awkward run in with your ex and her new bf), Angst, Sad Ending, look mara’s working through some stuff right now that’s why her ideas are bad Summary:

An alleyway encounter between long-lost lovers on opposite sides of the war.

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that great big hill of hope

that great big hill of hope (916 words) by jaded_of_mara Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars Legends - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Isolder (Star Wars)/Luke Skywalker Characters: Luke Skywalker, Isolder (Star Wars), R2-D2 (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Breaking and Entering, Vornskrs (freeform), Alternate Universe Summary:

A little breaking-and-entering never hurt nobody, right? Especially if they’re rich pirates who deserve it.

(For the Star Wars Rare Ships Challenge over on Pillowfort!)

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron, Background/Mentioned/Past Han Solo/Leia Organa, Past Poe Dameron/Kaydel Ko Connix - Relationship Characters: Lando Calrissian, Poe Dameron, Kaydel Ko Connix, Geno Namit, Larma D'Acy, Han Solo (mention), Leia Organa (mention), Luke Skywalker (mention), Oruba the Hutt, OC- Unebu the Hutt, Finn (Star Wars), Rose Tico, Millennium Falcon, L3-37 (Star Wars), Chewbacca (mention), Grakkus the Hutt (mention), Temmin “Snap” Wexley (mention) Additional Tags: Tooka Cats, mention of past torture, Past Character Deaths (Mentioned), capes, Hutts, caf, Brandy - Freeform, Poe Dameron is Terrible at Self-Care, He Needs a Minder, And a Hug, Lando Calrissian is Excellent at Self-Care, The Care and Feeding of Pilots May Present More of A Challenge, Yes It’s A WIP Sorry, I Tried, Cathartic Shaving, Not as weird as it sounds, Kaydel Connix is a Good Friend, Geno Namit Apparently Got a Little Trigger-Happy, Rey is Missing, Kylo Ren Has Defected, Unca Wanwo, Chewie Is Grieving, Millennium Falcon’s Galley Actually Seeing Some Use, BAMF Lando Calrissian, Because of course he is, Poe Dameron Is A Mess, But He’s a Hot Mess, Weirdly Named Felines Summary:

Captain Poe Dameron, exhausted, slightly disgraced, and very angry pilot, is being sent on a mission to find information on the last known whereabouts of First Order deserter Kylo Ren. He’s apprehensive about the “consultant” with whom he’s being saddled until he realizes it’s Lando freaking Calrissian; then he’s not really sure HOW to feel. There will be Hutts, potentially terrible plans, Tooka cats, shenanigans, earthshaking knowledge drops, caf, brandy, pilot-wrangling, danger, daring, and all drawn and centered around the heart of the Millennium Falcon.

Here’s what I’ve got so far.

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Prompts Have Been Sent

All prompts for the month of April have gone out! If you did not get an ask with your prompt, please do not hesitate get a hold of either this blog or my personal @rosemoonweaver and we can get it sorted out. 

Also, some people have been having issues with sending asks to this blog. If you're having trouble with that the IMs are open and you can always send a message there, or again, you can contact my personal until we get it figured out. 

Happy creating everyone! 

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Hi @gamebird, we'd love to have you! Feel free to send us an ask with what ship and theme you'd like to do so we can sign you up. 

Star Wars Rare Ship Challenge April Challenge Announcement

What is the Star Wars Rare Ship Challenge?

The SWRSC is a monthly challenge dedicated to creating more content for the smaller ships in the Star Wars fandom. Each month participants create new content for one or two ships of their choice based on the theme of the month and their individual prompt. Fanfiction, fanart, fanvids, moodboards/aesthetics/collages and any other fan creation you can think of are allowed. Which ships are allowed? Check out our FAQ for more details!

This month’s theme is…

April Foolishness

This month’s prompts, as suggested by jadedofmara on PF, are a little different. April Fool’s Day is always fun for a little trickery and mischief so this year we’re supplying just that. This month’s prompts will be selected completely at random from either tvtropes or wookiepedia, depending on whether or not you choose to do a general or Star Wars theme. They could be something or someone you’re very familiar with, or they could be something completely foreign to you; it’s all up to luck.

Star Wars Theme

If you choose a Star Wars Theme this month, you will be assigned a character at random, via the random page button on wookiepedia. You must include this character in your work in some way, varying from a cameo appearance to an additional part of whatever ship you choose. (For an extra challenge, you can pick just one character when you sign up and make a work that ships your chosen character and the random one.) The character must appear in the fic, however, and may not only be mentioned by name.

General Theme

If you choose a General Theme this month, you will be assigned a trope at random, via tvtrope’s random button. You must include the trope in your work, whether that be as the main trope in the work or as one of many. (For an extra challenge, tell us to “pick 2” when you sign up and we’ll give you two tropes that must be included.) The trope(s) must appear in the work and may not be only mentioned or alluded to.

How To Participate

1. Follow the SWRSC blog!

2. Reblog this post between 3/25/19 and 3/31/19 to spread the word. 

3. Send and ask and tell us what ship you’d like to write for this challenge, and whether or not you want a General Theme or a Star Wars Theme. One of our mods will comment back, telling you your answer has been recorded. 

4. Sometime during the first few days of the new month (April 1st - 3rd) you will receive your prompt(s) and your partner(s) for the ships you’ve chosen.

5. Create something fantastic and post it before 4/30/19. Be sure to tag it with starwarsrareship OR @ us so we can see it. One of the mods will reblog your post to the blog. If your post hasn’t been reblogged within 72 hours please contact us. 

If you have further questions, comments, or concerns, please check our FAQ and/or send an ask. 

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Star Wars Rare Ship Challenge April Challenge Announcement

What is the Star Wars Rare Ship Challenge?

The SWRSC is a monthly challenge dedicated to creating more content for the smaller ships in the Star Wars fandom. Each month participants create new content for one or two ships of their choice based on the theme of the month and their individual prompt. Fanfiction, fanart, fanvids, moodboards/aesthetics/collages and any other fan creation you can think of are allowed. Which ships are allowed? Check out our FAQ for more details!

This month’s theme is…

April Foolishness

This month’s prompts, as suggested by jadedofmara on PF, are a little different. April Fool’s Day is always fun for a little trickery and mischief so this year we’re supplying just that. This month’s prompts will be selected completely at random from either tvtropes or wookiepedia, depending on whether or not you choose to do a general or Star Wars theme. They could be something or someone you’re very familiar with, or they could be something completely foreign to you; it’s all up to luck.

Star Wars Theme

If you choose a Star Wars Theme this month, you will be assigned a character at random, via the random page button on wookiepedia. You must include this character in your work in some way, varying from a cameo appearance to an additional part of whatever ship you choose. (For an extra challenge, you can pick just one character when you sign up and make a work that ships your chosen character and the random one.) The character must appear in the fic, however, and may not only be mentioned by name.

General Theme

If you choose a General Theme this month, you will be assigned a trope at random, via tvtrope’s random button. You must include the trope in your work, whether that be as the main trope in the work or as one of many. (For an extra challenge, tell us to “pick 2” when you sign up and we’ll give you two tropes that must be included.) The trope(s) must appear in the work and may not be only mentioned or alluded to.

How To Participate

1. Follow the SWRSC blog!

2. Reblog this post between 3/25/19 and 3/31/19 to spread the word. 

3. Send and ask and tell us what ship you’d like to write for this challenge, and whether or not you want a General Theme or a Star Wars Theme. One of our mods will comment back, telling you your answer has been recorded. 

4. Sometime during the first few days of the new month (April 1st - 3rd) you will receive your prompt(s) and your partner(s) for the ships you’ve chosen.

5. Create something fantastic and post it before 4/30/19. Be sure to tag it with starwarsrareship OR @ us so we can see it. One of the mods will reblog your post to the blog. If your post hasn't been reblogged within 72 hours please contact us. 

If you have further questions, comments, or concerns, please check our FAQ and/or send an ask. 

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Conduct and Challenge Rules

Conduct Rules

1. No hate will be tolerated. The SWRSC is a celebration of fanworks and of fans and as such we will not tolerate hate directed at any ship, shipper, cast or crew member of Star Wars, or any Star Wars fan. If you have a problem with any ship it is your responsibility to use blacklist to keep from seeing content you don’t like. Kinkshaming is also not allowed. Any challenge participant who is found making derogatory remarks to or about another participant (past or present) will be warned for their first offense and banned from participating on the second.

2.Everything will be tagged in accordance with fandom standards and etiquette. This means that content warnings will be tagged “[content] cw”. All ships will be tagged with ship names (if they have one) and [character] x [character]. It is your responsibility to blacklist anything you do not want to see.

2a. The following things will be tagged: Major Character Death, Noncon/Rape, Dubcon, Underage*, Sexual Content, Graphic Violence, Incest, Gore/Blood, and Abuse.

*While we do allow content that involves minors under the age of 18, we ask you to keep the explicit sexual content to characters that are 16 or older in your work. You may create content about characters under the age of 16 knowing about, being curious about, or mentioning sex and sexual topics, and you may also create content where characters under 16 date, kiss, hold hands, ect.

3. Please post your own original content. This content may not have been posted anywhere else*.

*If you choose to sign up on Pillowfort and want to post to Tumblr or vice versa, that’s fine.

4. We have banned a few ships from the challenge and will do so in the future if/when they reach the point that they are no longer considered “rare”. This is not because we don’t like them, but because this is a rare ships challenge. The ships currently barred are Kylux, and Reylo. You may depict the barred ships as side or past relationships in any work you create but you may not write proxy fics or troll fics.

4a. A proxy fic is a fic that uses one relationship to set up another. This occurs when a fic starts out with Ship A but over the course of the work the characters break-up and Ship B is endgame. These kinds of fics are not allowed in the challenge as they pit ships against each other and often result in disappointment for rare pair shippers looking for content.

4b. A troll fic is a fic that pokes fun at ships or shippers in a mean spirited way. These fics are not allowed as they are not a celebration of rare ships and only serve to belittle and mock ships and shippers.

If you break any of these rules you will get a warning PM from one of the mods. If you continue to break rules you will be banned from the challenge. We do recognize that everyone is human and we all make mistakes, so if you break a rule on accident (you commented on a piece of art and it sounded rude but you didn’t mean it that way) it will not count against you if you rectify your mistake. Repeated and malicious rule breaking will result in a ban from the community.

Challenge Rules

1. Conduct rules regarding treating other fans with kindness apply here as well.

2. You will have two weeks to sign up for next month’s challenge. You will do this by reblogging the post introducing next month’s theme and by sending an ask with which ship(s) and theme you’d like to do. A mod will reply to you that they have received your sign up. During the first two days of the next month, you will receive an ask from one of the mods, telling you which prompt(s) you’ve been given and who your partner is. You will then have all month to create something for your prompt(s). Post the work to your blog first and use the tag “starwarsrareship”. A mod will then reblog it to the challenge blog. If you post has not been reblogged withing 72 hours of your posting, please notify a mod. If you do not have a specific ship in mind for the challenge, or you have several ships in mind for the challenge but cannot pick one, you may allow the mods to pick for you. When you sign up, you may either tell the mods they have full choice over your ship OR you can list up to three ships and get the mods to pick one or two of the ones listed for you. Keep in mind that if you give the mods absolute free reign over the choice you may wind up with some very strange pairings.

3. If you are creating a piece of art please limit yourself to two images.

4. If you are creating a gif set, please limit yourself to six images. Fewer is fine.

5. Moodboard/aesthetic posts must be all one image.

6. Videos must be at least 30 seconds long. There is no maximum.

7. There is no word limit or maximum for fanfic, but if the work is longer than 500 words the remainder of the fic must be under a read more. If the work contains graphic sexual content or violence, that must also be under a read more.  

8. Everything you create for this challenge must be new, previously unposted work. You may not repost a fic that you’ve had published for a year as part of the challenge, but if you have something that has been previously languishing in your drafts, you may use it if it fits with your prompt.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly is the Star Wars Rare Ship Challenge?

SWRSC is a monthly challenge community for Star Wars fans who write fic, make art, create fanvids, post moodboards, and any and all artistic pursuits for their ships. Each month, we have a broad theme that all prompts fall under. Participants will have two weeks to sign up for next month’s challenge. After the first of the month they signed up for, they will be given a prompt and a partner and then have the whole month to create whatever they want in line with the prompt and theme. They can then post their creation and we will reblog it.

What exactly is a “rare” ship?

Good question. For the purposes of this challenge, a rare ship is any “ship” of two or more Star Wars characters that has fewer than 4,000 works on Ao3 where that ship is the only one tagged. This is because fics are often tagged with side relationships and it’s difficult to tell with numbers alone just how many fics tagged with “Ship A” and “Ship B” are really more about Ship B and which ones spend an equal time on both.

As it currently stands, this means that Kylux, and Reylo are disqualified for this challenge. All other Star Wars ships are fair game.

What about HanLeia/Anidala/Other Canon Ships/Legends Ships? Do they count as rare pairs?

If there are fewer than 4,000 tagged works on Ao3 for that ship, then yes, they do. We want to be as expansive as possible in our definition of “rare ship” to encourage creativity and celebration of all ships, even those that have been well loved in the past but left behind by the changing internet and fandom.

Can I make content that features polyamorous ships/ace characters/aro characters/platonic relationships? What about genderbends?

Absolutely! All interpretations and reinterpretations of sexuality, gender, and relationships are allowed! Don’t limit yourself to sexual and/or romantic relationships if you don’t want to.

Is NSFW content allowed?

Yes. However, if you want to post NSFW content it must be placed under a read more link.

Are taboo topics allowed, such as rape, incest, abuse, horror, and darkfic?

Yes, as long as you tag and warn for content that could be potentially triggering and/or upsetting for others. The moderators will also be tagging your posts when they are reblogged, but it’s always a good idea to add those tags to your posts.

Wait, I don’t want to work with a partner. Is this a collaboration challenge?

No, you don’t have to. Partners are assigned to get multiple interpretations of the prompts. You do not have to work with your partner if you don’t want to.

Can I sign up for more than one ship a month?

Sure, if you want to! You can sign up for two ships (and thus two prompts) a month. Just be aware that you have to create content for both of them individually, and cannot combine the two ships and prompts into one creation.

I signed up this month but life got really busy and I don’t think I can post my work on time! What do I do?

Contact the mods. If you have any trouble creating for the challenge don’t hesitate to let a mod know. We will be happy to give you an extension, provided you’re not asking the day of or after it was supposed to be posted. If you need to drop out of the challenge at any time, just let the mods know and it won’t count against you.

The current mods are: rosemoonweaver.

What if I signed up for the challenge and didn’t create anything? Can I still sign up for the next round?

It depends. If you let the mods know that you were having difficulty and needed to drop out then yes, you may sign up again. If you didn’t and failed to post anything then you will not be allowed to participate for one month.