2023 Crack the WIP signup post!

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We're getting a bit of a later start this year, but we are nonetheless running another round of Crack the WIP! This year our posting week is May 1-7. Please see our rules/FAQ for all the info!

Sign up below to put your hat in the ring for Crack the WIP 2023. Feel free to change your mind later and switch to a different project if you want; this isn't a commitment, just an idea of what you might make. The main purpose here is to commit to finishing something and give people a chance to be excited about each other's projects. :)

To sign up, copy the text below, paste it into your comment, and answer the questions. If you want to sign up to make more than one thing, just answer once for each thing. Anon comments are turned on, so you can sign up even if you don't have a DW account.

<strong>AO3 username</strong>: <strong>Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?</strong>: <strong>Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like:</strong>

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[theladyscribe]

AO3 username: theladyscribe
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic!
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: I am planning to finish my Cultivator Comic Con fic, which has been lingering, incomplete, for uhhhh two years now. >.>

[rubick]

Whooo! You got this! Good luck!

[yuuago]

Hell yes!!

AO3 username: yuuago
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic!
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: The Magnus Archives, Sasha James/Michael Distortion, very weird sex!

[rubick]

Hell yeah, that's one of my favorite kinds of sex! Good luck keepin' it weird!

[cypher]

AO3 username: laylah
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: fic!
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: original character adventure story started for the Warhammer 40k Big Bang, in which my warband causes havoc and steals someone who really needed to be stolen.

[rubick]

Ooooooooh, that sounds fun! Good luck giving that someone what they need. :D

[fairyniamh]

AO3 username: Fairyniamh
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: au Teen Wolf abo with an unusual twist.

[rubick]

Heck yeah, good luck!

[slightweasel]

AO3 username: Unforgotten
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic, if anything!
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: HP for sure. Either Harry/Draco or Harry/Dudley most likely, I have existing ideas I daydream about for both pairings. Not actually sure I'll show up for this this year, as I'm pretty intensely focused on my existing wip (which will NOT be done by May), but figured I'd sign up just in case!

[rubick]

Whooo, good luck channeling those daydreams into fic!

[ryulynn]

AO3 username: ryulynn
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: There's a Lloyd/Rean (kiseki series) fic I started writing about a year ago when the Lloyd plushie was announced and I just haven't put the time to finish it. But now I will (or least I'll really try now)!

[rubick]

You got this!

[snickfic]

AO3 username: Snickfic
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: Maybe I can finish my Oasis RPF mpreg WIP in time for this! If not, I have approximately five million other WIPs that I'd also like to finish...

[rubick]

So many options. But it's cool, because today is gonna be the day you're gonna throw that that WIP back into shape!



(I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. Plz don't fire me.)

[tillwehavefaces]

AO3 username: tillwehavefaces
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: Well the precise details will depend on exactly which of my 10 gajillion WIPs I end up finishing by posting date. Currently I'm working on a Wuthering Heights slashfic...

[eve_n_furter]

Wuthering Heights slashfic sounds yummy!

[headstone]

AO3 username: bloodletter
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: TGCF, Shi Qingxuan/He Xuan, modern AU crime story

[rubick]

Awesome! Good luck!

[sarriathmg]

AO3 username: sarriathmg
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: 3 of my DCU multi-chapter wips that I've started for event weeks/whumptober, all near completion short of 1 chapter and haven't been updated for 2+ yrs. The goal is to finish at least one, but the dream is to finish all 3.

[rubick]

Oh, so close! A great time to get the door closed on at least one of those!

[lilly_c]

AO3 username: Lilly_C
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: I'm planning to finish Inconsistent Paper Stars, a Wycliffe fic that I started for a big bang years ago and got stalled on.

[rubick]

Awesome! Good luck!

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[minoanmiss]

AO3 username: Rubynye
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: A Fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: An urban fantasy AU for _White Collar_.

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[rubick]

Yessssssssssssssssssss, I'm here for all the urban fantasy!

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 username:thatsmyphrase (https://archiveofourown.org/users/thatsmyphrase)

Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic

Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: Marvel Cinematic Universe. Bucky Barnes & Steve Rogers. Steve has a heart condition that requires a transplant. More so a friendship story I've been working on for a while. Finally clicking in place after 2 years of working on and off on it and this week thing started clicking into place. Actually finishing in the next couple of days now but gave myself till April. Trigger: Character Death

[rubick]

Yay, it's so awesome when things finally start clicking! Steve is hyped!

[talkingtothesky]

AO3 username:talkingtothesky
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: Person of Interest, Finch/Reese, Reese whump

[rubick]

Yay, good luck making Reese suffer!

[meikuree]

AO3 username: rillarev
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: Jujutsu Kaisen, Zenin Mai/Zenin Maki, dream sex fuelled by grief. If that doesn't work out, a gen character study of Zenin Mai.

[rubick]

Oooh good luck!

[shetiger]

AO3 username: tigerlady (shetiger)
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: Teen Wolf, Stiles/Derek canon divergence story that I started way back after the middle of the second season. Derek returns to Beacon Hills after Stiles calls him due to ~mysterious happenings, and then plot!

[rubick]

Hell yeah, mysterious happenings are awesome! Good luck!

[snowynight]

AO3 username: snowynight
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: it depends on which one gets written.

[rubick]

Good luck!

[the_no_name_system]

AO3 username: shnuffeluv

Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: podfic

Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: The Mysterious Benedict Society, explicit twincest with a hell of a lot of guilt and an unhappy ending. It's one of my favorite fics of the pairing and I want to be able to crochet/knit and experience it at the same time.

Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: video (ambitious, I know!)

Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: I had the idea to make an animatic out of a fic for a friend, and I really desperately want to finish it for them, both as a token of my appreciation and as drawing practice. ^-^;;

[rubick]

Wow, that's awesome! It would be great to see some podfic & video in the collection this year!

[yelp]

AO3 username: yelp
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: I have two current WIPs on AO3, neither of which has been updated in over a year... One is a backstory for Zhongli and Ningguang from Genshin Impact. The other is a Doctor Stone no-apocalypse AU. I'm hoping this will inspire me to finish at least one of them!

[rubick]

Heck yeah, go catch those WIPs by the tail and tame them!

[sodium_amytal]

AO3 username: sodium_amytal
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic, though depending on the story there might be art too
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: I'm sure I'll have something by the time May rolls around. Maybe my GOTG Loki/Peter fic? 👀 since GOTG3 will be coming out that month...

[rubick]

A most glorious choice! Good luck!

[smallhobbit]

AO3 username: Small_Hobbit
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: It's a Sherlock BBC AU crossover with Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, plus the odd dwarf etc. I started working on it again for ushobwri 's WiP month, but it won't be finished, so I'm hoping this will be the encouragement I need to get it done!

[rubick]

That sounds super cool! Have fun and good luck!

[eve_n_furter]

Thank you! Yay! I really need help this year. Why is it so much easier to start a fic than to finish it?

AO3 username: Koe
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: True Detective fic, Rust/Marty. Marty has problems getting his head around some stuff but is too curious for his own good. Or is he really?

[rubick]

It IS way harder to start a fic than finish it, lmao. You got this though, good luck keeping Marty's curiosity in check (or not)!

[fleetsparrow]

AO3 username: FleetSparrow
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic!
Tell us a little bit about it if you want!: I have... just... so many to finish. Mostly DC stuff, so that's what I'll focus on.

1. My Little Runaway (a 2-chapter fic that's been at 1 chapter for... too long)
2. Family Sacrifices (a multi-chapter fic that's also been forgotten for too long)
3. Something Borrowed (a multi-chapter fic that started as a joke I took too seriously, whoops)
4. In The Pale Moonlight (a multi-chapter fic that is the most current WIP I've got on here, so it's probably the lowest on the to-do list for that reason)

[rubick]

All of those options sound great! I also kind of love joke fics that warp into something entirely new (and awesome!)

Even Batman agrees:

[hobbitdragon]

AO3 username: hobbitdragon
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: I'll be finishing a fanfic!
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: it will be a fic for the Witcher fandom, but I don't know more than that, because I have several WIPs that need finishing.

[eve_n_furter]

Nice! We always need more Witcher fic!

[positivelyvexed]

AO3 username: PositivelyVexed
Are you planning to make a fic, fanart, vid, or podfic?: Fic!
Tell us a little bit about it if you want! Fandom, ship, premise, etc. Be as vague or specific as you like: This Fuck or Die fic I've been turning around in my head for a year and a half.

[eve_n_furter]

Interesting... Can you reveal which fandom you're writing for, for science/asking for a friend/some other excuse?