#leonard cohen x star trek

[abunchoflonesomeheroes]

Merry Month of Cohen 2023

Star Trek Fandom Event:  May 2023

Get caught in the darkness for another year.  

Welcome to the fifth Cohen-based Star Trek fandom event, which I have the honor of organizing this time. Since it is a delight every year, the tradition shall not die. It started with the the challenge of Leonard Cohen and the Merry Month of May, organised by the incomparable @mia-cooper in 2019. The challenge is now up for another year.

You know the drill (the same procedure as every year):

This year’s twist: Someone has to die.

1. Pick a Leonard Cohen song, or multiples of. Any Cohen lyrics as long as they sing dark and angsty thoughts to you.

2. Pick a date in the first fortnight of May only (Mon 1st May – Mon 15th May). If there is an avalanche of fanworks coming this way, we’ll double up on the day.

3. Pick up a Star Trek fandom, or a mash-up of ST fandoms. Mix DS9 and Picard if you so wish, but no crossovers with non-Star-Trek fandoms.

4. Message this blog with your chosen date, the Star Trek fandom(s) you’ve picked, and the type of fanwork you’ll be producing.

5. Message this blog for any questions / changes etc…

6. Post your angst-filled fanwork on your chosen date.

7. Message this blog with the details of where your fanwork is posted, and tag your Tumblr post with #abunchoflonesomeheroes

8. If posting on AO3, add your fanwork to the collection which will be created later.

9. Follow this blog for updates.

Tagging all the creators from the last years. No obligation to participate this year of course, but please reblog to others: @ladystark428, @mia-cooper, @70thousandlightyearsfromhome, @caladeniablue, @manalyzer13, @bizships, @curator-on-ao3, @leisylaura, @ariella884, @littleobsessions90, @grace-among-the-stars, @killermanatee, @rocktherecorder, @poetictrekkie, @gluecookie @pc-corner​

[regionalpancake]

Anytime - Regionalpancake - Star Trek: Picard [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Picard Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Raffi Musiker & Cristóbal Rios Characters: Cristóbal Rios, Raffi Musiker, Ricardo Ramirez - Character Additional Tags: Angst, Light Angst, Missing Scene, Crew as Family, Found Family, Merry Month of Cohen, A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes, some people are never completely gone, these two deserved better, Post-Season/Series 02, a quiet morning in the 21st century Summary: In the 21st century, Rios misses talking with his oldest friend.

Thanks to @abunchoflonesomeheroes for hosting this excellent fest!

[mia-cooper]

the tradition continues!

Merry Month of Cohen, 2024

Now the angel's got a fiddle, the devil's got a harp Every soul is like a minnow, every mind is like a shark May have broken every window, but the house The house is dark, I care but very little What happens to the heart ~ L. Cohen

May 1-15: Get caught in the darkness for another year.  

Welcome to the sixth Cohen-based Star Trek fandom event, carrying on the tradition begun with Leonard Cohen and the Merry Month of May, organized by the incomparable @mia-cooper in 2019. I have the honor of organizing this year's event.

This year’s twist: Never the same again - some how the character(s) are fundamentally altered by their experience.

You know the drill (the same procedure as every year):

1. Pick a Leonard Cohen song, or multiples of. Any Cohen lyrics as long as they sing dark and angsty thoughts to you.

2. Pick a date in the first fortnight of May only (Wed 1st May – Wed 15th May). If there is an avalanche of fanworks coming this way, we’ll double up on the day.

3. Pick a Star Trek fandom, or a mash-up of ST fandoms. Mix DS9 and Picard if you so wish, but no crossovers with non-Star-Trek fandoms.

4. Message this blog with your chosen date, the Star Trek fandom(s) you’ve picked, and the type of fanwork you’ll be producing.

5. Message this blog for any questions / changes etc…

6. Post your angst-filled fanwork on your chosen date.

7. Message this blog with the details of where your fanwork is posted, and tag your Tumblr post with #what-happens-to-the-heart

8. If posting on AO3, add your fanwork to the collection (This will be created shortly!)

9. Follow this blog for updates.

Tagging all the creators from the last years. No obligation to participate this year of course, but please reblog to others: @caladeniablue, @theredheadedcaptain, @70thousandlightyearsfromhome, @marymoss1971, @seemaunbound, @pc-corner, @hauntedmoonchaos, @grissomesque, @cnrothtrek, @lipstickonmylabcoat, @madamairlock, @littleobsessions90, @mia-cooper​, @whathappenstotheheart, @regionalpancake, @a-little-squirrely-sunshine

[purimgifts]

Purimgifts: Offers with no Requests, Podfic

The following list is of fandoms for which podfic is offered on Purimgifts, which presently have no matching requests. Is this your lucky day? Click the cut and find out!

  "Agatha Christies Poirot (TV)"

"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams"

A Charm of Magpies Series - K. J. Charles

Amphibia (Cartoon)

Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Batman - All Media Types

Clueless (1995)

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (TV)

Critical Role (Web Series)

Cuckoo Song - Frances Hardinge

Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)

Deltarune (Video Game)

Discworld - Terry Pratchett

Doctor Who

Doctor Who (1963)

Doctor Who (2005)

Encanto (2021)

Escape from Witch Mountain - Alexander Key

Fallout: New Vegas

Fantastic Four

Genghis Khan - Miike Snow (Music Video)

Gunnerkrigg Court

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (Song)

Hamster Princess Series - Ursula Vernon

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Howl Series - Diana Wynne Jones

Janus Descending (Podcast)

Knives Out (2019)

Labyrinth (1986)

Les Misérables - All Media Types

Limetown (Podcast)

Little Witch Academia

Megillat Ester | Book of Esther

Merlin (TV)

Metal Gear

Portal (Video Game)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Spider-Man - All Media Types

Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

SPY x FAMILY (Anime)

Star Trek

Star Wars Original Trilogy

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Stardew Valley (Video Game)

Superman - All Media Types

Ted Lasso (TV)

Temeraire - Naomi Novik

The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb)

The Baby-Sitters Club (TV 2020)

The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo

The Laundry Files - Charles Stross

The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

The Secret Garden (1993)

The Sims (Video Games)

The Sound of Music - Rodgers/Hammerstein/Lindsay & Crouse

The Strange Case of Starship Iris (Podcast)

The Tiffany Aching Series - Terry Pratchett

The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire

The Witcher (TV)

Tomb Raider (Video Games)

Undertale (Video Game)

Uprooted - Naomi Novik

Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold

WandaVision (TV)

West Coast Avengers

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski

Wolf 359 (Radio)

���こあつめ | Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector

逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney

[crack-in-everything]

A Crack in Everything

STAR TREK FANDOM EVENT

May 1–15(ish), 2021

Master List of Fanworks

A HUGE thank you to everyone who submitted a fanwork to this glorious festival of misery and pain (and just a little light!), and the same to all the readers/viewers/supporters of the event – it’s been AMAZING, and I’m already looking forward to next year’s iteration! Without further ado, here are all the fanworks – share this post, check them out, and give them some love if you haven’t already!

May 1 You Have Loved Enough by @amoderngirl Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, G, Carla Johnson/Mark Johnson ——

May 2 Until the Sea Shall Free Them by @70thousandlightyearsfromhome (ShayneyL) Star Trek Voyager, fanfic & fanart, T, Harry Kim & Tom Paris, Harry Kim & B’Elanna Torres ——

May 3 At Least for Tonight by @curator-on-ao3 Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, T, Kathryn Janeway/Kes, Kathryn Janeway/Harry Kim, The Doctor/Kathryn Janeway Includes covers by @regionalpancake ——

May 4 And the break of day had nothing to reveal by @allthewians Star Trek Alternate Original Series, fanfic, M, Philip Boyce/Christopher Pike ——

May 5 The Lagoon by CAMIR Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, G, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway ——

May 6 A Captive Breath by @theredheadedcaptain Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, E, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway ——

May 7 After the Champagne by BlackVelvet42 Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, E, Ayala/Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay/Seven of Nine ——

May 8 I am not others by @jazzfic Star Trek Picard, fanfic, T, Enoch & Agnes Jurati, Agnes Jurati/Cristóbal Rios Includes cover by @regionalpancake ——

May 9 Crow’s Feet by @regionalpancake Star Trek Picard, Star Trek The Next Generation, fanfic & fanart, T, Hugh Third of Five, Bruce Maddox ——

May 10 If I Didn’t Have Your Love by Bizarra Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, E, Ayala/Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway The Dark Led Me to Light Again by StarTrekkin08 Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, G, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway ——

May 11 Mine by @caladeniablue Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, E, Kathryn Janeway/Kashyk, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway ——

May 12 Heart With No Companion by Servalan Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, M, Chakotay/Tessa Omond, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway ——

May 13 Dance Me to The End of Love by @gluecookie​ (Monsterfisken) Star Trek Discovery, fanart, G, Joann Owosekun/Keyla Detmer ——

May 14 to follow the sun by @thelaithlyworm (Thimblerig) Star Trek The Next Generation, Star Trek Picard, fanfic, T, Kestra Troi-Riker & Thad Troi-Riker, Lwaxana Troi & Thad Troi-Riker Includes cover by @regionalpancake ——

May 15 Ring the Bell by @verobatto (BENKA79) Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, E, Harry Kim/Tom Paris ——

and ... May 25 True Places by @coffeeblack75 Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, G, Janeway/Chakotay —— *If I’ve made any mistakes or missed anything out in the above list, please let me know. See you next year! 👋

[caughtthedarkness]

And everybody knows that plague is comin’ / Everybody knows that it’s moving fast

Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows

Sorry, I couldn’t help myself with that quote from the master of angst. But remember: 

If you have to stay at home and are wondering what to do, why not participate in this Cohen x Star Trek fest? Message me if interested!  More info on this fest here.

We are on target for a smorgasbord of Cohen-inspired Star Trek fics and fanart in early May, but there are still days available. All ST fandoms welcome!

Take care with your health and that of your family and neighbours.

May 1 - @caladeniablue​ - Voyager fic

May 2  - BlackVelvet42 - Voyager fic

May 3 - @70thousandlightyearsfromhome​ - Voyager fic

May 4 - @amoderngirl - Voyager fic

May 5 - @bizships - Voyager fic

May 7 - @cnrothtrek​ - Picard fic

May 10 - @70thousandlightyearsfromhome - Voyager fic

May 13 - @coffeeblack75 - Voyager fic

May 14 - @monsterfisken​ - DS9 Fanart

May 15 - @bizships​ - Voyager fic

[mia-cooper]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kathryn Janeway/Kashyk, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway Characters: Kathryn Janeway, Kashyk (Star Trek), Chakotay (Star Trek) Additional Tags: Fanvids, Episode: s05e10 Counterpoint, Leonard Cohen x Star Trek Summary:

"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded // everybody rolls with their fingers crossed // everybody knows the war is over // everybody knows the good guys lost..."

A Counterpoint story, produced for @caughtthedarkness, the Merry Month of Cohen 2020.

[cnroth]

My submission to the Star Trek x Cohen fest by @caughtthedarkness is up!

[killitwithtears]

And who by fire, who by water...

... who in this merry, merry month of May... who shall I say is calling?

So we have come to the end of the Merry Month of Cohen, and I’d like to thank everyone who’s contributed fic, art and fanvids, as well as everyone who has read and followed along. It’s been angstiferous 🖤

Here is the final list of contributors and fanworks, and don’t forget to bookmark the Who By Fire collection on AO3 and keep following @killitwithtears​, because submissions will continue to be accepted should anyone get the urge (just tag me so I can reblog your work!)

May 1 - @ladystark428 - Field Commander Cohen/Hallelujah - TNG - And Be Your Sweetest Self

May 2 - @mia-cooper - Winter Lady - VOY - Smoke and Gold

May 3 - @70thousandlightyearsfromhome - Bird on the Wire - VOY - Bird on the Wire

May 4 - @70thousandlightyearsfromhome - Bird on the Wire #2 - VOY - Bird on the Wire (video)

May 5 - @caladeniablue - Joan of Arc - VOY - Pyre

May 7 - @manalyzer13 - Is This What You Wanted - VOY - The Ghost of You and Me

May 8 - @allthetrek - Closing Time - DSC - Closing Time

May 9 - @pixiedane - A Thousand Kisses Deep - ENT - Quiet is the Thought of You

May 10 - @devoverest - Avalanche - VOY - The Shadow of Your Wound

May 11 - @caladeniablue - Anthem - VOY - Fractured

May 12 - @bizships - Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye - VOY - That’s No Way to Say Goodbye

May 13 - BlackVelvet42 - Take This Waltz - VOY - Take This Waltz

May 14 - @curator-on-ao3 - I’m Your Man - VOY - Traveling Light

May 15 - @leisylaura - Everybody Knows - VOY - Everybody Knows (video)

May 16 - @ariella884 - I Tried To Leave You - VOY - I Tried To Leave You

May 17 - @mia-cooper - Light as the Breeze - DS9 - Orbit

May 18 - @littleobsessions90 - Suzanne - VOY - Her Lover

May 19 - @caladeniablue - Heart With No Companion - VOY - He starts with the bedroom

May 20 - @grace-in-the-stars - Everybody Knows - VOY - Empty

May 21 - @curator-on-ao3 - You Want It Darker - VOY - Ten Years at Home

May 22 - @killermanatee - Iodine - DSC - iodine

May 23 - @caladeniablue - The Window - VOY - There plunged the rays of love

May 25 - @arcadia1995 - Tonight Will Be Fine - VOY - Tonight Will Be Fine

May 26 - @rocktherecorder - The Future - VOY - The Future

May 27 - @poetictrekkie - Dance Me To The End Of Love - TNG - Dance Me to the End of Love

May 28 - @gluecookie - The Partisan - DS9 - Through the graves a wind is blowing (art)

May 30 - @bizships - Come Healing - VOY - Come Healing

May 31 - @mia-cooper - Take This Longing - VOY - your body like a searchlight

[caladeniablue]

Year of Hell meets Joan of Arc. With a dash of Endgame.

May 5th contribution to the Star Trek x Cohen event, inspired by the song Joan of Arc. Because I love the Year of Hell episode. And Janeway. And the song too.  @killitwithtears

[devoverest]

My modest contribution -- a.k.a. “When all else fails, write a drabble” -- to @killitwithtears‘s Merry Month of Cohen. Warm thanks to @curator-on-ao3 for beta. 

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay (Star Trek), Matrix alien from "Coda" Additional Tags: Episode: s3e15 Night, Depression, suicide plan referenced, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Drabble, Angst, Inspired by Music, Tumblr Fic Event, Merry Month of Cohen Summary:

Depression lies, even to Captain Kathryn Janeway.

“You're in a dangerous profession, Captain. You face death every day. There'll be another time, and I'll be waiting. Eventually you'll come into my Matrix and you will nourish me for a long, long time.” Alien posing as Edward Janeway, “Coda," written by Jeri Taylor.

The Shadow of Your Wound

From the day Voyager enters the Void, nothingness creeps in and slowly buries you.

Chakotay comes to cajole. The pedestal he once carved rots to crumbs beneath you.

The demon with your father’s face calls your name daily. He's slept at your center since the first crash, the Terra Nova. You can see that now.

You once clung to grief, hoping it would sink you—a young, romantic delusion.

Here, your pain is no credential. You have conquered nothing, learned nothing, loved nothing.

One more mission, from Void into matrix, and your breath, your flesh, will nourish him at last.

[abunchoflonesomeheroes]

A somehow fitting video of the Merry Month of Cohen. Go and watch it!

[regionalpancake]

What exactly is Cohen fic? I’ve seen it mentioned before as a sort of fandom event but I can’t seem to figure out what it is?

Cohen fic my beloved! The Merry Month of Cohen is a Leonard Cohen inspired Star Trek fandom event, with an angst theme. It was started in 2019 by @mia-cooper and the torch has been passed to different folks to run it each year. To me it's one of the highlights of the Star Trek fandom calendar! I've taken part in 5 of the 6 years (and forever gutted I missed the inaugural fest!)

2020 - You Want It Darker - PIC S1 Raffi comforts Seven through some Borg PTSD 2021 - Crow's Feet - A look at Hugh's reclamation surgeries and adjusting to his new life. (And, for my money, the best thing I think I've ever written.) 2022 - Out of the Game - Post PIC S2 Raffi&Rios angst from Raffi's POV 2023 - Anytime - Post PIC S2 Raffi&Rios angst from Rios' POV (so clearly not over S2 even a year later 😅 still not tbh, I miss Team La Sirena) 2024 - Night Sky With Exit Wounds - PIC S2 missing scene, Seven struggling to understand the world without her Borg physiology, and Raffi is there for her. And while I've tried my hand at angst for the Picard fandom, the Voyager fans never fail to write the angstier stuff, I'm in awe. I guess it's dark in the Delta quadrant. From this years fest ( @what-happens-to-the-heart ) I'm obsessed with @grissomesque 's fic: In a Wounded Dawn - it's Janeway/Paris and the Academy era setting at the beginning of chapter 2, grabbed me by the heart and hasn't let go. tldr: star trek x leonard cohen x angst fic = fest perfection

[caladeniablue]

Yeah! It's back!

So, baby fic with pink frosting. Got it.

This year's Cohen fest is May 1-15 2022. Usual parameters with this year's twist: No happy endings.

Sign up dates are filling up fast! Please message me if you would like a date. If we do fill up, please note I will turn no one away! We can do double ups as necessary.

So far:

1:

2: @amoderngirl

3: @marymoss1971

4:

5: @70thousandlightyearsfromhome

6: BlackVelvet

7:

8: TracyLordHaven

9:

10: @caladeniablue

11:

12: @grissomesque

13: @mia-cooper

14: @seemaunbound

15: @regionalpancake

[caughtthedarkness]

If the sun would lose its light / And we lived an endless night / That’s how it would be

Leonard Cohen, If I Didn’t Have Your Love

A week and a bit before the fortnight of Cohen x Star Trek angst (hopeful angst welcome too!) starts.  

There’s a couple of spots left, so contact me if interested. Fanart, fanfic, any Star Trek. 

More info here.

Brought to you by @caladeniablue​.  Wallpaper by Pc7.

[killitwithtears]

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair ...

We are getting to the pointy end here, people! (No pun intended, Ambassador.) Only 5 days until the Cohen Month contributors start posting. And they are:

May 1 - @ladystark428 - Field Commander Cohen/Hallelujah - TNG

May 2 - @mia-cooper - Winter Lady - VOY

May 3 - @70thousandlightyearsfromhome - Bird on the Wire - VOY

May 4 - @yedrindax - The Guests - DSC

May 5 - @caladeniablue - Joan of Arc - VOY

May 7 - @manalyzer13 - Is This What You Wanted - VOY

May 8 - @allthetrek - Closing Time - DSC

May 9 - @pixiedane - A Thousand Kisses Deep - ENT

May 10 - @devoverest - Avalanche - VOY

May 13 - BlackVelvet42 - Take This Waltz - VOY

May 15 - @leisylaura - Everybody Knows - VOY

May 16 - @ariella884 - I Tried To Leave You - VOY

May 20 - @grace-in-the-stars - Everybody Knows - VOY

May 23 - @caladeniablue - Heart With No Companion - VOY

May 24 - @bizships - Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye - VOY

May 25 - @arcadia1995 - Tonight Will Be Fine - VOY

May 26 - @rocktherecorder - The Future - VOY

May 27 - @poetictrekkie - Dance Me To The End Of Love - TNG

May 28 - @gluecookie - The Partisan - DS9

May 29 - @bizships - Amen - VOY

May 30 - @mia-cooper - Take This Longing - DSC

Wondering what this is all about? Find out more.

And you can still sign up - the event will stay open until the last gasp of May 31st. Otherwise, please reblog this post, follow @killitwithtears and/or the #merrrymonthofcohen tag, and enjoy the fine fanworks coming your way.