" eighteenth birthday "
*✧･ﾟ: SPACE GIRLS*✧･ﾟ:
" graphic contest "

i'm officially less than two months
away from becoming an adult aka my
eighteenth birthday on september second.
it's an exciting and a scary time in my life,
i'm about to be a senior in a few weeks
and that's a little crazy to me but i want to
celebrate it this weird time in my life!!

also, i know that my birthday is in a weird
space in time where a lot of people start
school/college/university and i want to
give everyone a chance to participate,
plus give everyone a fair amount of time
to get to work on entries!!

also... my graphics have improved a lot
since my last contest — which means
that there's a lot more in store for you
all in "prizes" including the benefits of
becoming a gold pass member of
*✧･ﾟ: SPACE GIRLS*✧･ﾟ:

the layout of this contest is heavily
inspired by the wonderful queens-hope
(love you cas <3)

*✧･ﾟ: important info *✧･ﾟ:

graphics *✧･ﾟ:

you are allowed to submit any and all kinds of graphics in this contest, ranging from covers to gifs of any kind to video edits and etc!! you can make what you want to, for whatever fic (or fics) you want, and you can make as many entries as you want to!!

judging *✧･ﾟ:

judging will be based off of: effort, creativity, first-impression values, and the amount of fun you had making the entry/entires!!

bonus points are taken into account by: care and attention to detail, fitting the story and the graphic(s) together/if your graphic represents that you know the book the graphic goes with.

this contest will remain free of bias and the results will truly show the best of the participants (although I know that you're all amazing and I'm going to fret over this upcoming decision)

deadline *✧･ﾟ:

the deadline of this contest will be SEPTEMBER 24TH 2023, OR 9/24/2023 | 24/9/2023. that means that the contest will run from July 15 to September 24.

my birthday is actually on September 2nd, but I want to be sure that everyone has enough time to be able to work on entries (and so that no one feels rushed)!!

extensions *✧･ﾟ:

if you find yourself truly in need of a time extension I really need to be informed at least three days before the deadline as everyone else will be notified of the extension and everyone will be given the extra time as well for fairness

questions + concerns *✧･ﾟ:

if you have any questions or concerns, please ask me here or in pms (i promise i don't bite, i'm just an introvert that gets burnt out)

*✧･ﾟ: rules *✧･ﾟ:

plagiarism

starting off with the most horrible thing you could do... plagiarize. the entirety of your entries must be made by you!! if i find out that you plagiarized you will not only be disqualified,
but you will be blocked

attitude + respect

i am very excited to be hosting another
graphic contest, but once again i genuinely
ask you to be kind. everyone is invited to participate and therefore everyone must be
kind and respectful to me and to each other.

this should be an opportunity to learn from
each other and a chance to see the talents
within the graphics community!!

submitting

you can submit your entries by tagging me
in the chapter you place them in, and by sending the links to them to me directly
( you can reach me through wattpad or
insta @/dorkiestnerd.wp ).

if you post it on wattpad and i don't comment or vote on the chapter within a few days, tag me in a comment in the chapter or reach out to me in pms, there's a 93% chance that wattpad didn't give me a notif. if you send them through insta and i don't respond in a few days, feel free to reach out on wattpad, there's a 72% chance that i just haven't been on insta in a hot minute.

entering

in order to enter this contest, comment on the line below " i'm in " and tag at least two people that you think would be interested

*✧･ﾟ: right here please💕*✧･ﾟ:

*✧･ﾟ: prizes *✧･ﾟ:

*✧･ﾟ: first place

first place will receive: up to 5 covers in any style, 5 gifs of any kind (gif sets count as one), 4 manips and/or moodboards, one full length trailer, one character intro edit, one ship edit , a permanent follow, and a GOLD PASS in this lotto

*✧･ﾟ: second place

second place will receive: up to 4 covers in any style, 4 gifs of any kind (gif sets count as one), 3 manips and/or moodboards, one full length trailer, one ship or character intro edit, a permanent follow, and a GOLD PASS in this lotto

*✧･ﾟ: third place

third place will receive: up to 3 covers in any style, 3 gifs of any kind (gif sets count as one), 2 manips and/or moodboards, one ship edit, one character intro edit, a permanent follow, and a GOLD PASS in this lotto

*✧･ﾟ: honorable mentions

up to three people will place under honorable mentions, and will receive: up to 2 covers in any style, 2 gifs of any kind (gif sets count as one), 1 manip and moodboard, one ship or character intro edit, a permanent follow, and one "ticket" which is a free pass to any gold pass privilege in this lotto.

*✧･ﾟ: fics *✧･ﾟ:

I have quite a few fics and misc books published, so hopefully finding resources or finding something to be interested in won't be hard. if you have any questions (no matter what it is) please feel free to reach out and ask me or check out the fic!!

not all of the graphics below belong to me

forewarning, all the summaries are going to be disasters and I apologize beforehand...
if you're interested please check out the books for bigger casts, quotes, or songs <33

*✧･ﾟ: scars made of stardust *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: starwars
main pairing: Obi-Wan Kenobi x Guiniveve Skywalker
alternate pairings: Anakin Skywalker x Versi Naberrie; Padme Amidala x Zira Feles
faceclaims (in order from above): Ewan McGregor, Sydney Sweeney, Hayden Christensen, Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman, Charlotte Nicdao
short summary: In a galaxy shifting from the time of the High Republic, the world of the Jedi is changing rapidly. A child brought to the temple, bleeding and scarred from a lightsaber, announces the arrival of evils the Jedi thought gone. And years later, in the midst of an invasion disguised by a blockade, a queen and her party are diverted to Tatooine in an attempt to escape. And in the blink of an eye the Jedi and the Senate are forced to form ties... although the most powerful force in galaxy might have been leading them there in the first place.
vibes: prophesied timeline; soulmates through the force; forbidden romances; friends to lovers; war and chaos; a fighting chance; "maybe in the next life"
notes: Guiniveve has a blue lightsaber; Versi is a doctor who spends her time volunteering at the war fronts; Zira has a green lightsaber;
Guiniveve and Obi-Wan have major moon to sun, soulmates, he falls first, friends to lovers vibes;
Versi and Anakin have childhood friends to lovers, sky and earth imagery, "maybe in our next life", stubborn meet stubborner vibes;
Zira and Padme have love at first sight, moon and sea imagery, "I'll give everything for you", "don't leave me" vibes

*✧･ﾟ: freefall *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: marvel cinematic universe
main pairing: Elizabeth Freefall x T'Challa
alternate pairing: Kadri Aydin x Natasha Romanoff
faceclaims (in order from above): Chloe Bennet, Chadwick Boseman, Aslihan Malbora, and Ana de Armas (I want to change my Nat fancast across all of my fics which means that I'll need all new graphics)
short summary: Elizabeth Freefall has always been defined. Monster. Killer. Assassin. Agent. Friend. Lover. Daughter. Sister. Dead. Monster. Never herself, never her own. She's not sure that she ever was herself. But she knows for a fact that none of the people she thought she could trust understand. And when the only person who might understand is stuck in the same position as herself. The locks on her memories are becoming undone, and she's terrified of what she's become.
vibes: action-packed, heart-wrenching marvel fic. it's got friends to enemies to friends and siblings that can't stand each other and lesbian widows and friends to lovers to enemies to lovers. it's girl who hates herself learning how to become her own person and love life
notes: Elizabeth and T'Challa are very very soft and they're not the kind of couple who gets angry, they get hurt and confused but they stay soft and simply just want to understand why these things have come between them. Kadri and Natasha are tough girls leaning on each other and finding their soulmates. they're powerful and angsty and the end of me. Elizabeth has an array of powers and abilities and special uses of each power.

*✧･ﾟ: it happened one night *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: marvel cinematic universe
main pairing: Kadri Aydin x Natasha Romanoff
alternate pairing: Hadley Vang x Kate Bishop
faceclaims (in order from above): Aslihan Malbora, Ana de Armas (I want to change my Nat fancast across all of my fics which means that I'll need all new graphics), Charlotte Nicdao, Hailee Steinfield
short summary: Kadri Aydin wakes up across from Natasha Romanoff like she has for as long as she can remember. But this morning is different as Natasha flashes before her eyes and her love appears dead. Kadri shakes off the "bad dream" and lets it fade from her memory. Except her visions of Nat dying in front of her aren't the only strange things happening inside of West View...
vibes: "if only we had more time"; lesbian widows; lovers to memories; ray of sunshine x tired, over caffeinated cloud; they all share one, 1 brain cell and 67% of the time it belongs to their therapist; "I don't know what to do + I don't either, but we'll figure it out together"
notes: this fic is a part of the Occursus series which includes Freefall and Missing Spark; I won't be publishing anymore of this fic until I finish Freefall but I plan to follow through with it!! a lot of the characters in this fic have yet to be introduced in Freefall including Kadri, Hadley, and Dr. Archer Cliff (the therapist of the Avengers; portrayed by Alec Secareanu); Kadri is an ex-widow, her hero name is Obsidian; Hadley is an Avenger, her hero name is the Silver Fox

*✧･ﾟ: stuck in my head *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: once upon a time
main pairing: Cali (Callie/Calypso) Rivers x Captain Killian Jones
faceclaims: Alexandra Daddario and Colin O'Donoghue
short summary: Fairytales, stories, myths. That's what Henry's Aunt read to him as he grew up. Always the next magical thing, always the next happily ever after. Maybe he got that curious side of him from her... but in a town where the clock tower refuses to mark time, one ten year old boy in search of his birth mother might just change the world - or at least that one little town, Storybrooke, Maine.
vibes: soulmates; it's love at first site with pirate lovers with found family; it's romance and pirates and ouat i have given you everything; it's pirates and fairytales and princes/princesses and magic; it's "until we die" and "I never stopped loving you" and "nothing can keep me from you"
notes: Cali and Killian are my endgame; there are several new ocs that come into play in Act 2, but for now no one is allowed to know who; Cali is just as much a pirate as Killian; Killian and Cali are a lot like Elizabeth+Will and Pepperony with dashes of CaptainSwan but they're their own mess and it's wonderful

*✧･ﾟ: i wish they saw me *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: harry potter (rewritten)
main pairing: Katherine Weasley x Draco Malfoy
faceclaims: Kaitlyn Dever and younger!Lucas Till (Draco fcs have been a struggle for this fic)
short summary: How were they supposed to know that this would change their lives? They were children learning magic and making friends when the whispering started and the glares and the hatred. And the parents looked down on them and their own parents did to, whether they were pure bloods or not, judgement was all that came down on them. How were they supposed to know that a war was coming? They were children, supposed to be in school and supposed to be learning.
vibes: it's Harry Potter epic Slytherin season; it's late nights by a fire with parchment everywhere and ink on at least three people faces (on accident or purpose); it's green and silver and black and white; it's friends to lovers and comforts in the night; it's learning how to grow from what adults have taught them; it's becoming their own people and forming their own families and friendships;
notes: please look at the extended cast for this fic!! as this entire series is an au most of the Slytherin gang is casted (as well as a whole ton of important ocs). Pansy is Katherine's best friend but Millicent and Daphne are important to her too!! She has an "older sister" and a "little sister" PLUS her Hufflepuff partner in crime AND all of her other friends; the group of Slytherin's in this fic are so close and their family dynamic is such a big part of Kathrine's character
I'm essentially rewriting the foundations of the Harry Potter series to fit my ideas and versions of Slytherin and Hogwarts headcannons.

*✧･ﾟ: avenging souls *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: marvel au + riordanverse
main pairing: Grayson Jackson x Damian Collins
alternate pairing: Annabeth Chase x Percy Jackson
faceclaims (in order from above): India Eisley, Collin Ford, Kathryn Newton, Logan Lerman
short summary: They had won... but at what cost? Another war for the gods, another burial for their friends, for their siblings. Summoned before the gods again, Grayson Jackson has lived through her fair-share of hell and she's just about had enough of it. Her power has grown over the years, always being effected by the events around her. She's been guided by gods and taught secrets by her own father. But she's tired - except going home is no longer an option...
vibes: it's Percy Jackson meets the Avengers; hating adult figures; it's a whole ton of mental and trust issues; it's adults that care and teens that don't; it's friends to lovers with "it won't be easy" + "it doesn't matter 'cause it's you";
notes: this fic is super special to me; Grayson is a sister of PercyJackson!oc but she has her own characteristics, personality, and experiences. Percy hasn't even been in any of the main chapters yet. Grayson and Damian are super sweet best friends to lovers with the he fell first trope; Percy and Annabeth are Percy and Annabeth aka "what I want in life"

*✧･ﾟ: love is for children *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: enola holmes
main pairing: Natalia Rhodes x Sherlock Holmes
alternate pairing: Carina Lauder x Viscount Tewkesbury
faceclaims (in order from above): Keira Knightley, Henry Cavill, Sophie Turner, Louis Partridge + our girl Millie Bobby Brown as Enola
short summary: A book in which, a girl fell in love with a boy, and as they grew up her fondness grew stronger. Except as they grew up the boy she fell in love with became someone she didn't recognize - and now she's engaged to a man that makes her feel like leaving the country.
And a book in which, a boy and a girl dressed like one accidentally kidnap a girl on her way back to finishing school. In the rush of jumping from a train and doing things she hasn't been allowed to do since she was a child, the girl finds a friend in the boy, and the boy finds love in the girl.
vibes: Natalia and Sherlock are childhood friends to maybe-lovers to enemies to angsty-allies to lovers; it's a very push-and-shove relationship with under the table flirting; Carina and Tewkesbury are fast-friends to lovers; it's got found family vibes and it's set in like the 1890s so it's that lovely aesthetic
notes: Carina finds her first true friends in Tewkesbury and Enola; the school Enola is sent to is the one that Carina attends; Natalia loves Enola like a little sister and takes care of her when her mother disappears and when she's searching for her, which leads Sherlock to Natalia in search of his sister - except Natalia is a lot harder to figure out

*✧･ﾟ: under the moonlight *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: pirates of the caribbean
main pairing: Adeline Kyrina x Jack Sparrow
alternate pairing: Octavia Flores x Will Turner
faceclaims (in order from above): Son Ye-jin, Johnny Depp, Ana de Armas, Orlando Bloom
short summary: There is something forming out beyond the horizon, like a storm coming in with the tide. And the day after a dream of pirates, a small port town goes into complete uproar. A pirate captured and soon to be hanged, a blacksmith apprentice with a crush too big for his heart, and the personal maid of the governor's daughter waiting for her chance to steal one necklace. But pirates attack in the night, the governor's daughter and her maid are taken captive, and the blacksmith breaks the pirate out of prison to go rescue the two damsels. Except in this tale, the gods are watching, and the moon is ready to set sail...
vibes: pirates and treasure and sailing and bar fights and moonlit confessions and found family; it's past lovers to lovers again; it's admirer to friends to lovers; it's accidental lovers; it's revenge and repercussions; it's gods and goddesses of old; it's magic and mermaids;
notes: this fic is crazy with two main pairings and a couple small ones you don't know about yet; it's got Jack falling first and a female pirate captain (with her mainly female and poc crew);

*✧･ﾟ: union's valkyrie *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: marvel cinematic universe
main pairing: Hannah Rogers x Bucky Barnes
faceclaims: Skylar Samuels and David Castañeda + Chris Evans as Steve
short summary: War changes a lot of things. Bucky Barnes, however, didn't expect it to change his two best friends as much as it already has. He thought that maybe after the war he'd go home and watch a movie with a Steve, maybe even take Hannah on a date. But instead they were now leading the war. On one hand, Steve Rogers is now bigger than him and as strong as an elephant. And on the other, Hannah Rogers is now strong enough to knock him out with one punch - or kill him with one scream.
vibes: it's the 1940s; war and found family and friends to lovers to being separated by death; it's taking control of their lives; it's trying to move on; it's dancing alone in a bar after a few too many drinks;
notes: Hannah's powers are modeled after Black Canary's and Viktor Hargreeves; Hannah and Steve are little sister protects big brother because he's an idiot who always finds his way into a fight; Peggy fancasted as Felicity Jones;

*✧･ﾟ: heart of irony *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: marvel cinematic universe
main pairing: Sara Morse x Tony Stark
supporting characters: Eleanor + Adrian Stark
faceclaims: Bryce Dallas Howard and Pedro Pascal; Jenna Ortega and Yaya Gosselin
short summary: Tony Stark got his act together in 1996, on July 7, 1996, to be exact. That was the day that Eleanor Stark was left at his front door along with her birth certificate, an angry letter, and the tests that proved that she was his. He picked her up and immediately found Jarvis and Ana, and all the hard work began.
That was how Sara Morse came into his life. A young, brilliant woman around his age who needed funding for her engineering projects but also had a soft-spot for kids was welcomed into the Stark household as a nanny. Anyone who enters the Stark household though easily becomes like family and the same happened with Sara as she treated Ellie like her own.
Except Tony Stark did it again, four years later - and he doesn't even remember it. But the tests are there, and they're all pointing their fingers at him. So he gives Adrian Stark a big kiss on the forehead and introduces her to the rest of the family.
He takes the remarks, the whispers, the rumors. He carries it all on his own because he's used to that, until Sara forces him to take a sick day from work and watch Disney movies with his girls. Until she makes him go to bed at a reasonable time after talking through what she knows, about both the rumors and who she knows he really is.
vibes: it's a whole ton of angst and messing up and forgiveness; it's "here's your perfect" by Jamie Miller with Salem Ilese; it's found family inside of a screwed up one; it's a rewritten Tony Stark who lets the world think that he's a horrible person because the people he cares about don't think that;
notes: Eleanor is eleven and Adrian is six at the start of the fic; they're half-sisters, they have faceclaims for when they are older; this fic focuses a lot on Tony's character as well as Eleanor and Adrian's; it's oc-centric; it belongs with Union Valkyrie's universe;

*✧･ﾟ: tragic fairytale *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: disney's descendants trilogy
main pairing: Valerie Mortem x Harry Hook
alternate pairing: Helena x Riley Flynn
faceclaims (in order from above): Emily Rudd, Thomas Doherty, Naomi Scott, Florence Pugh
short summary: They said that every villain was collected and trapped on the Isle those twenty years ago, but that isn't exactly true. For she was ripped from her father's arms after the border around the Isle went up. She was only a girl thrown onto the isle, abandoned as a child. But that's only the start of her tale. For like every child born on the isle her destiny, her life, and her heart have been chosen for her - but she wasn't born on the isle. And if there is anything that she's sure of, it's that she's going to make them all beg for her forgiveness - one way or another.
vibes: villains may not be evil!? friends to lovers; found family; searching and revenge; children of the myths of gods/goddesses at the fairytale school; "good" people being evil!?;
notes: it's essentially a book from Uma's groups pov with my main oc in their group; and it's pretty much a whole lot of people either looking for their parents, wanting their parents approval, or doing the opposite of what their parents want

*✧･ﾟ: of hearts and wars *✧･ﾟ:

fandom: the hobbit/lotr
main pairing: Legolas x Leithriel
faceclaims (in order from above): Orlando Bloom and Milly Alcock.
important characters: Gandalf, Galadriel, Thranduil, (their parents), Tauriel, and Aragorn (all played by their respective actors)
short summary: In which, Leithriel and Legolas are both forced into an arranged marriage by their parents. Legolas delays the weddings, he avoids Leithriel, and he essentially makes everything much worse than it ever could have been. And Leithriel is trapped within Legolas' kingdom as the "frail" princess of her mother's people where she must hide her true thoughts, feelings, and character in order to survive. The elven girl who had been so ready to try to make things work with her husband to be is met with a  harsh reality, and as the story continues, Legolas is lucky if he'll ever get a second chance.
vibes: enemies to lovers; arranged marriage; very high fantasy world; Leithriel's like a tiny goddess with powers and abilities that no one expects and I love her for it; Legolas is a bit of a jerk at first, not gonna lie; it's finding one's soulmate / self because of a love that allows one to be free; it's touch her and you die feels, but she'll act the same way for him
notes: they literally are such a mess in the beginning. Like this man hates her because he thinks he's in love with Tauriel and Leithriel hates him because he's being an asshole. She literally just wants him to be nice and marry her so that she can stop waiting in a weird stage of kind of an engagement but there's literally no fun or love between it. This man doesn't even give her a second glance until she exposes her abilities and powers as an amazing warrior, but by then shes ignoring him and the cycle begins again.

*✧･ﾟ: ending notes *✧･ﾟ:

questions *✧･ﾟ:

if you have any questions about the contest or any of the fics please ask me!! I'll happily help you out even if you just want to know more about the colors or even more about the plots

tags *✧･ﾟ:

here I've just randomly tagged people that I think might be interested && some people who have asked to be tagged!! please don't feel pressured to participate if you don't feel like it <3

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