❄️🎆 Welcome to Hot Scarian Summer: New Year's Edition! 🎆❄️
This is a Scarian-centric event month that will run during January 2026, organized by @raichett, @definitelynotshouting, and @corvidaearts! All works created for this event can be submitted here for archiving.
The event tag we are using to track prompt fills will be #hotscariannewyear2026, so make sure to tag any fanworks with that— and don't forget to tag this blog directly in your post so we can see and reblog your work!
We also ran this event in 2024! Click here for Hot Scarian Summer 2024.
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Below the cut is our FAQ— please be sure to read it through both it and our event information before sending in an ask! Cheers, and here's to the most wonderful of Scarian New Years! 🎆❤️
What is an event month?
An event month is a scheduled fandom event that spans a whole month, and uses a set of prompts for fans to create media from. These prompts are posted prior to the event month to allow time to create for them. Some event months have a prompt for every day of the month, and some merely have the month as the posting time for their prompts. This event is the second!
Most fan events have a blog which contains all the information needed to participate in the event— these blogs also act as a central location and archive for any works created during said week. That's what this blog is for!
What is “Scarian”?
“Scarian” is the name of the MCYT ship Grian x GoodTimesWithScar, either as their characters, or as fictionalized versions of the real people. The key is that they are being depicted through a romantic lens, so even if romantic feelings are only implied in the work, then it still counts for our event!
Please note that for this event we will not be accepting platonic or queer-platonic works - though we love and support all interpretations of these two, this event is specifically a romantic event. If you do happen to start your own event focusing on platonic or queer-platonic, then we will be happy to promote that 😊
Scarian should be the focus of any prompt fills used (though of course other characters are allowed to appear!).
When is the event?
This event is running during from January 1st to January 31st 2026.
Wait, I'm late and I want to join in. Can I do that after the event is over?
You can still post prompt fills any time after the event! We will be actively monitoring our event tag for one month after it has finished running (our last day of active monitoring is February 28th, 2026). If you post anything after that point, please tag this event blog to ensure your work is seen. Late fills are more than welcome, even if it’s months later!
What if I want to post a multi-chapter fic, or a series of connected artworks, e.g. comic pages or character portraits for an AU? Does it have to be fully completed and posted during January?
We welcome multi-chapter fics and connected artworks very much! It does not have to be fully completed within the event month, but at least the first chapter | first artwork should be posted during January in order for it to count as an event submission.
What types of art are allowed?
Writing, poetry, fanart, webweaving, pixel art, comics, handicrafts— basically anything! If you can think it, then it counts.
Is there anything that is disallowed?
We will not accept or promote anything AI generated.
Why is AI art not allowed?
The subject of AI art is, understandably, a topic that a lot of people feel strongly about. As of right now, AI art is being fueled by enormous amounts of art theft, and there are currently no legal protections for the artists and other creators who are being stolen from. Because of those lacking protections, we view the creation of AI art as unethical, and therefore it is disallowed from this event.
What are the expectations for content and conduct?
You can make any type of content you want, including NSFW, gore, RPF, genderbent, etc. Your responsibility as a creator, however, is to content warn for your works as correctly and accurately as possible. This is to ensure that those who don’t want to see the content you’re making don’t have to! Likewise, you are also responsible for your own engagement with fan-created works— it is up to you to take care of yourself and heed any content warnings given. Make use of the tumblr blacklists and if you don’t like something, don’t read it.
Harassment of others for any reason is not acceptable, and will be neither tolerated nor promoted.
Wait, you’re allowing THAT content? Why?
While our team has their own personal preferences, we take a strongly anti-censorship view with regards to media made: fiction is not one-to-one with reality, and depiction does not automatically mean something is condoning, glorifying, or romanticizing its subject matter. Everyone is responsible for their own engagement with fictional media, including us, and we expect anyone who participates in this event to understand that as well. Again, if you don’t like something that’s been posted, don’t engage with it, and continue scrolling.
What about CC boundaries?
Our team, and this event, operates on the view that CC boundaries are the rules for directly interacting with them (e.g. messages in their chats, tagging them in posts, engaging with them on social media, etc.). Since this is a space created by fans and intended for fans only, we will not be tagging or engaging with any content creators on this blog/in the fanworks submitted to us. In the interests of preserving this as a fans-only space (and respecting those CC boundaries of engagement) if you do tag a CC in your post, regardless of content, we will not reblog it.
I have a fanwork that I’m already creating— can I submit it to this event?
Unfortunately, and unlike Hot Scarian Summer 2024, we will not be accepting works that are already being created. The way this event's prompts are set up is designed to inspire new fanworks with the event's "mixing prompts" format, and is not suitable for attempting to make an existing WIP match the prompts.
Is there anywhere else I can submit my work to? Is there an AO3 collection?
We are archiving this event primarily here, on this event blog. But there is indeed also an AO3 collection - it can be found here. You can submit event works to it and once approved it will appear in the collection.
Please note that our active archive for event works is this blog, however, and as such the AO3 collection is both optional and must be submitted to manually. The mods are not actively monitoring AO3 to request the addition of event pieces to it - if you wish for yours to appear in the collection, it is on you to ensure that.
Hey, I've created a work and you haven't reblogged it. What gives?
All works created for this event have a place here on this blog, so if we've missed your work, please know that it wasn’t intentional. Give us a few days to come online and see it; if we haven’t reblogged your work after 3 days, check the following:
• If it's after February 28th, we are no longer actively monitoring the event tag. Make sure to directly @ this blog!
• Tumblr's shadow-ban glitch means that original posts you create cannot be seen in the tags, and @'ing other users— or sending asks/DMs— is inconsistent. Check to make sure that you haven't been shadow-banned (you can send in a ticket to Support if you have), and try sending an ask to this blog. If you’re having trouble getting through, feel free to have someone else message us to let us know about what we’ve missed.
