(Not an event mod, just want to promo the event over here bc I think it's a very fun format!)
To quote the Event's Dreamwidth:
Participants will write, and receive, a complete fic of at least 1000 words focusing on in-universe correspondence written by a requested character, either intended for, about, or read by another requested character. At least 500 words must be in a requested epistolary format.
The letters do not actually need to be unsent.
Correspondence includes: letters, emails, voicemail transcripts, journals, publications, and other public/private written communications.
SIGNUPS ARE OPEN UNTIL MARCH 7, 11:59PM UTC
Link to Event Dreamwidth Acct: LINK
Link to Event AO3 Profile & Signup Form: LINK
Hey Sansa fans! Can you never get enough of your Sansa OTP? Do you wish someone would write your Sansa OTP with your favorite kinks or tropes in mind? Do you ship a Sansa rarepair and are dying for content? Do you wish there was more exploration of Sansa's relationships with her siblings, parents, mentors (or "mentors"), or Lady in fic and fanart? Do you yearn for an AU where Sansa escapes King Landing earlier/with a different person or to read/write fic detailing her rule of the North as Queen?
Come join the Sansa Exchange! Whatever your ship or fave gen relationship - receive it as a gift and write/draw something fun for a fellow Sansa fan in return!
Candy Hearts is a fanworks exchange which hosts work reveals on Valentine's Day! Multi-fandom, and open to fic, art, and podfic! There are a ton of fandoms and pairs nominated, and lots of fun signups already! (I am not a mod, just spreading the word <3)
Link to the AO3 profile & signup form: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CandyHeartsExchange2026/profile
SEVEN DAYS until the Lord of the Rings Secret Santa prompt posting deadline!
The Lord of the Rings Secret Santa signups are OPEN! Flex those prompting muscles and come join us for the twenty-second round of SeSa fun. Just ONE WEEK left to get your prompts in.
You can find all the important details in this post.
The signup/prompting form can be found HERE
This year's timeline (2025):
Prompt Posting: November 5th to 27th.
Claiming: November 28th to December 28th.
Collection Open for Posting: November 28th to December 28th.
All Fills Due: December 28th.
You will be able to post up to 2 prompts, and we will do our best to make sure that at least one of your prompts is filled.
Please note that this is an FPF challenge. (i.e. Fictional, not real people fiction/RPF.) We're always open to all the Peoples and Ages of Middle-earth, which means that characters from The Hobbit and The Rings of Power are welcome too!
Sign-ups are now open for Fic In A Box, a 10k fandom gift exchange, and it's time to officially join the event! Welcome, everybody!
What Is FIAB?
A gift exchange is a fandom event where participants create fanworks to gift to each other. Fic In A Box is a fanwork exchange with a large minimum gifting requirement and several unique features. Participants have 6 weeks to create their gifts, and gifts can include fic, art, audio, video— and much much more— aiming for a minimum of 10k of fic (or equivalent) to give to their assigned recipient.
This sounds enticing but you have questions? More under the cut!
Signups? What's that?
To officially join the event and be matched— so that you are assigned someone to make a gift for, and someone is assigned to you— you have to sign up on Ao3. It is the "sign up" button in the sidebar on the left-hand side of the Ao3 page. You have until signups close on September 7th (10pm EST), to get your signup filled out. You can edit your signup after you submit it, so feel free to get a minimum signup done and then tinker with it during signups.
To sign up you fill out your Requests (what you are saying you'd be okay for people to give you as a gift), and your Offers (what you are saying you'd be able to make to give someone else as a gift), and submit it. You use tags from a special event tag set to fill out your offers and requests, and you'll only be able to use the tags in the tag set for the event. The tag set contains fandoms, ships, characters, worldbuilding tags, and gift types ("mediums"), all of which you use to refine your requests and offers to make sure you are signing up with exactly the type of gift you want to get or make in mind (with a bit of mystery still, part of the fun of the exchange is the challenge and surprise of it all).
Tag set?
Hopefully you heard about FIAB early enough that you were part of the nomination process where we built the tag set, where anyone could nominate their ships or worldbuilding ideas or fandoms. But maybe you just heard about it and you didn't nominate any tags— can you still participate? Yes! There are two options! First one: check out the tag set here, and if there are any ships that you like, smack those into a signup and you're good to go!
Second option: FIAB accepts late nominations if they are tags that you imminently intend to use in your signup. You need to format them in such a way that we can batch load them into the tag set, and you need to submit them through a comment on the designated Dreamwidth Blog Post— check out this post for more information and an example in the comments of what a submission would look like. You do not need a dreamwidth account to comment on the post, you can comment anonymously! Late nominations closes 6 days before signups close, so 10pm EST on September 1st.
What if I only like one ship in the tag set, or at all? What if I like several ships, but only one fandom?
If you only like one tag in the tag set you still have a minimum viable signup, and you can sign up with just the one fandom, one ship! However, there are two points of order for that.
The first point is about your offers. You must be matchable to at least one person to get an assignment and stay in the exchange. If we can't give you an assignment, we'll contact you to ask about adding more offers, and if it ends up we cannot match you to anyone, your sign up will be deleted. So you need to be offering something that at least one person is requesting when the exchange closes and locks. You can look at all current signups here to see if there's anyone you can add an offer to, to make yourself matchable! It's best practice to offer at least three different fandoms to make yourself matchable— but if you have only one fandom you main you can still sign up, as long as you're matchable! (And pro tip, even if it comes down to the last few hours and you're not matchable, don't delete your signup! There's always a flurry of signups in the last few hours of the exchange, and someone from your fandom might still join you.)
The second point is about your requests. If your original gifter drops out (life happens! People's lives blow up, computers break, people leave fandoms, etc.), the mods will put your assignment up for a Pinch Hit on the blog. That way people who want to take on an extra assignment can claim it and still write you a gift! If you have three or more unique fandoms in your requests, the mods will hold the entire exchange until someone has turned in a gift for you— nobody gets their gift until everybody gets a gift. However, if you have less than three requests you are still welcome to sign up, and you will still be posted as a pinch hit if something happens to your original gifter, but the mods won't hold the exchange for you if you only have one or two fandoms, so you might not get a gift. There is a dedicated group of pinch hitters who will do their best to make sure that everyone gets a gift, but you do run the risk of no gift if you sign up with a restricted list of offers.
I can't write 10k of fic, but I could do 10k's worth of art— what do I do?
The standard assumption is that everyone gets 10k of fic by default, and everyone signs up to make 10k of fic by default. But this is a special unique exchange, and we love to have people participating who are not fic writers. How does that work? You do not specify that you are a non-fic-writer in your signup, because we don't currently have a way to do that on Ao3. The mods match you manually— as long as they know that they have to do that. So you have to let them know that you want to give a non-fic gift.
If you want to work in a medium that is not fic, contact the mods by email ([email protected]), and tell them
The username you are signing up with.
A list of usernames of participants who are requesting something you can make, and what relationship/character/WB: tag and medium tag(s) you are aiming for.
It will look something like:
Hi mods,
My username is bbno$, and I'm an artist who just signed up. I would like to be matched to either AssortedPotatoes (for the tags Marilla Cuthbert & Matthew Cuthbert & Anne Shirley (AOGG), and Medium Opt-In: Art - Comics, or my_best_art (for the tags Andy Hurley & Patrick Stump & Joe Trohman & Pete Wentz (ALLSCALMTM Music Video) or WB: Vampire Gang Relations (ALLSCALMTM Music Video) and Medium Opt-In: Art - Conspiracy Board, or ThingsForgotten (for the tags Anne Bonny/Max (Black Sails) or Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver (Black Sails), and Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic.
Thanks, let me know if there are any issues!
We need the info about relationship-field tags and medium tags not because you will be obligated to create that exact thing, but because we will double check during matching that the recipient we’re matching you to hasn’t, for example, removed the medium you said you can create from their request. We do not want to give you an assignment you cannot actually complete!
You do not need to have multiple options on the list you send the mods—as long as there's one person you're matchable to, you're matchable and we can assign you! It is a somewhat safer idea to have multiple options so you know you're still matchable even if someone changes their signup at the last minute, but technically one option is all you need.
And how do you get the information to put in the letter about who you're matchable to? That would be searching through the automagic app, which is a searchable database of everyone who's signed up, which lets you sort by medium tags and fandoms! Check there to find people requesting podfic/poetry/art/spreadsheets/fibercraft/cocktail instructions/video/whatever your art form is!
Honestly I'm still baffled/I'm staring at this Ao3 box and it is swimming in front of my eyes/What on Earth is a medium tag and how many do I need:
The system for signing up is pretty complex, especially if you haven't done it before. That's why we set up a discord server with a bunch of experienced people who are happy to answer questions! If you join the server, look for the #event-questions channel and we would be happy to explain anything you need, from "how do I sign up for an Ao3 account" to "why is my signup yelling at me when I save it" to "what's the difference between these two medium tags and do I need them both"? We are all standing ready to answer questions, hit us up!
If you do not want to talk to people, there is extensive documentation on the dreamwidth blog, and there might be an answer to your question there!
Or if all else fails— shoot us an ask here or email the mods!
Note: FIAB is not an all-ages exchange. You must be 18 or older to join FIAB.
Automatic Ao3 App (contains the signups for everyone who's signed up so far, sortable by fandom or by tag, allowing you to see who you're matchable to)
Hey Sansa fans! Can you never get enough of your Sansa OTP? Do you wish someone would write your Sansa OTP with your favorite kinks or tropes in mind? Do you ship a Sansa rarepair and are dying for content? Do you wish there was more exploration of Sansa's relationships with her siblings, parents, mentors (or "mentors"), or Lady in fic and fanart? Do you yearn for an AU where Sansa escapes King Landing earlier/with a different person or to read/write fic detailing her rule of the North as Queen?
Come join the Sansa Exchange! Whatever your ship or fave gen relationship - receive it as a gift and write/draw something fun for a fellow Sansa fan in return!
After discovering that there was Boromir Week event 10 years ago and losing sleep because I was constantly thinking about how much Boromir DESERVES to have an event dedicated to him, I decided to try and bring it back. We'll see what happens!
I can make a separate FAQ post if I get additional questions from people, but here is some info I can provide now:
What is Boromir Week?
It is (will be) a week-long event where people can submit fic drabbles (100 words), ficlets (≤1000 words), one-shots, fanart, gifs, moodboards, and headcanons set to prompts that highlight the awesomeness that is Boromir.
When is Boromir Week?
It will run June 14-20, 2025. The original event, which was held in 2014 and 2015, ran the last week of March, but that is cutting it VERY close. I chose these dates in June because, in canon, June 19th is when Boromir and Faramir have the dream about the riddle, and June 20th is the attack on Osgiliath and the official start of the War of the Ring. I'm weird about calendars.
What is allowed for Boromir Week?
As mentioned above, fanfiction, fanart, gifs, moodboards, and headcanons about Boromir that are tied to any of the day's prompts are allowed. Please tag any ships and/or triggers, and place NSFW/graphic submissions under a "Read More" and tag as such.
What is NOT allowed for Boromir Week?
Anything created using AI. This event is intended to show Boromir in a positive light and show our appreciation for the character, so anything that is blatantly anti-Boromir is strongly discouraged. Submitting an AU where Boromir succeeded in obtaining the One Ring or writing a Dark!Boromir AU is different (and hot, let's be real). This also applies to commenting on submissions. Don't like, don't read. Don't yuck on someone else's yum. Ship and let ship. Please keep your comments respectful.
How do I submit posts for Boromir Week?
The main tags I will be using will be #Boromir Week and #Boromir Week 2025. However, Tumblr's tag search is pretty much useless, not only showing results that have nothing to do with what you searched for, but also omitting a lot of results. So, the best way for me to know that you've posted is to tag @/boromir-week (without the slash). Depending on how many people participate, I may reblog your submissions as soon as I get home from work (on week days during the event) or it might be the following day.
Who is running this shindig?
Hi, I'm @lucifers-legions! I write fanfiction, have way too many OCs, make moodboards (it's therapeutic), and simp over Gondor and Rohan blorbos. I started writing Boromir fanfiction in 2012 and have been obsessed with him ever since. I'm still trying to figure out this whole event mod thing, so please be patient with me, and thank you in advance for your understanding.
What are the prompts for this event?
Day 1: Brother of Faramir, Childhood, Protector and Teacher
Day 2: Son of Finduilas, Maternal Family, Grief and Loss
Day 3: Son of Denethor, Paternal Family, Thorongil
Day 4: Teen Years, Captain of Gondor, Friend of Rohan
Day 5: The People's Prince, Rivendell, Member of the Fellowship
Day 6: Change of Fate, Fourth Age, Alternate Universe
This is a blog dedicated to keeping track of all your favorite Merlin fests! Whether or not you're a seasoned fest participant or a total newcomer, it can be very useful to keep track of ongoing events and this blog exists to be a quick, simple, and accessible way of doing that.
The blog has two main features:
1. Calendar of the Month
At the start of every month, a calendar and summary of all the upcoming events and fest deadlines for the month will be posted, with links to each fest's relevant tumblr/livejournal/carrd pages. This will be edited and kept up-to-date if any more fests are announced during the month.
2. Extended Calendar
The extended calendar can be found either on the desktop version of this blog, or the carrd page associated with the blog. It's a fest calendar of the current and upcoming months, with the fest timelines added as they are announced. Do keep in mind that the further away a month is, the less accurate it is going to be in the long term.
The extended calendar is currently updated until: September 2025
For further information and a list of the currently tracked events, please consult the FAQ. It can be found here as a tumblr post, here on the desktop site, and here on the carrd page.
It’s 2025 which means… another round of the After Camlann Big Bang! Sign-ups are open now!
What is the After Camlann Big Bang? It's a fandom fest that pairs writers with artists in order to create epic fanworks inspired by the world and characters of the BBC show, Merlin!
TWO DAYS left until the Lord of the Rings Secret Santa posting deadline!
The deadline is only two days away, and we hope the writing is flowing. ❤️ There are ten works in the queue already, and we're looking forward to seeing the rest drop in. You can find the countdown timer HERE.
If you have claimed a prompt and are unsure if you'll be able to fill it by the deadline, please email the mods or PM them!
Almost all prompts have been claimed, but we're still looking for Rings of Power writers! We have a RoP prompter whose prompts (Nori and Poppy gen fic or Poppy meets Halbrand fic) haven't been claimed yet. Signal boost or go browse the prompts, or both! ;) Our goal is to make sure everyone gets at least one prompt filled. ❤️
FIVE DAYS left until the LotR SeSa posting deadline!
We hope the writing is going well. ❤️
We're still looking for writers, and as our goal is to make sure each prompter gets at least one fill, we're hoping you can help us out by signal boosting or having a look at the unclaimed prompts to see if one might tempt you. There are summaries of the prompts below as AO3 unfortunately doesn't allow for linking directly to individual prompts.
Fandom: *The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types *
Prompt: "Third wheel Aragorn to Gimli/Legolas. During the quest Aragorn observes the new and blooming love between his friends but as they travel as the Three Hunters he has no one to talk about it. So he writes in his journal or in unsend letter to Arwen or just thinks before sleep (or any other form the author might come up with) about everything he sees happening between Legolas and Gimli."
AU prompt:
Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types
Character: Fíli
Prompt: "An AU in which Fíli survives Azog and Bolg's Durin killing spree and becomes the next King Under The Mountain. I welcome whatever other character inclusions that your heart desires, though not in a way that makes them the focus over Fíli. I would especially love Dís as King Mother and Balin or Dwalin as Closest Living Relatives."
Kinky prompts:
Fandom: *The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types *
Prompt: "Daddy/Doll - soft BDSM and Dollification. Elrond's got mad caregiving vibes, Thrandy in my canon is a hot mess constantly. Things don't work out for him because he doesn't have anyone to help him be soft again. Losing his wife turned him into a jerk. That protective steely exterior is pushing everyone away. Make Elrond tear it down! That man can make anyone sweet! Let's be real we all know Elrond is lonely too. He needs someone to love after losing so many people in his life, especially his wife."
Fandom: *The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types *
Prompt: "Daddy/Princess - soft BDSM, BDSM lifestyle rules daily. It's finally time to come out to their parents about their relationship. How will this go over? Can they exist as a happy family and put aside racism? you decide! (We know at the very least Elrond genuinely can)"
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Prompt: "I would love something in which sub!Annatar teaches Tyelpe how to do shibari/rope bondage/predicament bondage, especially if they are playing on Tyelpe's scientific curiosity and desire to learn new things. Super bonus points if Annatar doesn't come."
Romance/relationship prompts:
Fandom: *The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth *
Prompt: "Just the High King and his Herald and an exploration of their relationship."
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Characters: Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot, Halbrand
Prompt: "if anyone chooses to go there, I applaud you. :D Basically "what if Nori meets Halbrand and not The Stranger", and it goes decidedly NOT gen. Anything from cute one-sided crush to messed up dubcon is totally welcome, just please make sure Nori is an adult (by hobbit standards) if there's any sexual content."
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Characters: Eönwë/Sauron; Mairon, Eönwë
Prompt: "Something set in the Earliest Days of Arda (despite the Eonwe/Sauron tag... I guess that covers Mairon before he became Sauron too). Perhaps Mairon and Eonwe sneaking off together behind their Valar's backs when they should be working? Something a bit more innocent/playful - though an E or M rating is fine - but with hints of Mairon's awful personality peeking through."
ONE WEEK left until the LotR SeSa posting deadline!
We hope the writing is going well. ❤️ We already have a few finished fic in the moderation queue, yay!
We still have a few prompters without claims, and as our goal is to make sure each prompter gets at least one fill, we're hoping you can help us out by signal boosting or having a look at the unclaimed prompts to see if one might tempt you. There are summaries of the prompts below as AO3 unfortunately doesn't allow for linking directly to individual prompts. You can find all the prompts HERE.
Prompt: "Third wheel Aragorn to Gimli/Legolas. During the quest Aragorn observes the new and blooming love between his friends but as they travel as the Three Hunters he has no one to talk about it. So he writes in his journal or in unsend letter to Arwen or just thinks before sleep (or any other form the author might come up with) about everything he sees happening between Legolas and Gimli."
AU prompt:
Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types
Character: Fíli
Prompt: "An AU in which Fíli survives Azog and Bolg's Durin killing spree and becomes the next King Under The Mountain. I welcome whatever other character inclusions that your heart desires, though not in a way that makes them the focus over Fíli. I would especially love Dís as King Mother and Balin or Dwalin as Closest Living Relatives."
Kinky prompts:
Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
Prompt: "Daddy/Doll - soft BDSM and Dollification. Elrond's got mad caregiving vibes, Thrandy in my canon is a hot mess constantly. Things don't work out for him because he doesn't have anyone to help him be soft again. Losing his wife turned him into a jerk. That protective steely exterior is pushing everyone away. Make Elrond tear it down! That man can make anyone sweet! Let's be real we all know Elrond is lonely too. He needs someone to love after losing so many people in his life, especially his wife."
Prompt: "Daddy/Princess - soft BDSM, BDSM lifestyle rules daily. It's finally time to come out to their parents about their relationship. How will this go over? Can they exist as a happy family and put aside racism? you decide! (We know at the very least Elrond genuinely can)"
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Prompt: "I would love something in which sub!Annatar teaches Tyelpe how to do shibari/rope bondage/predicament bondage, especially if they are playing on Tyelpe's scientific curiosity and desire to learn new things. Super bonus points if Annatar doesn't come."
Romance/relationship prompts:
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Prompt: "Just the High King and his Herald and an exploration of their relationship."
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Characters: Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot, Halbrand
Prompt: "if anyone chooses to go there, I applaud you. :D Basically "what if Nori meets Halbrand and not The Stranger", and it goes decidedly NOT gen. Anything from cute one-sided crush to messed up dubcon is totally welcome, just please make sure Nori is an adult (by hobbit standards) if there's any sexual content."
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth
Characters: Eönwë/Sauron; Mairon, Eönwë
Prompt: "Something set in the Earliest Days of Arda (despite the Eonwe/Sauron tag... I guess that covers Mairon before he became Sauron too). Perhaps Mairon and Eonwe sneaking off together behind their Valar's backs when they should be working? Something a bit more innocent/playful - though an E or M rating is fine - but with hints of Mairon's awful personality peeking through."
TEN DAYS to the Lord of the Rings Secret Santa deadline!
Our goal is to make sure every prompter gets at least one fill. Currently, there are some prompts for The Silmarillion and The Rings of Power that still haven't been claimed, so come have a look. Maybe one of them will tickle your fancy? Or tell a friend. 😉 All signal boosting is much appreciated. ❤️
You can find all the prompts HERE as the prompt meme format doesn't allow for linking to individual prompts.
Claiming a prompt: use the "Claim" button next to the prompt you want to claim. (You can find open prompts under "Prompts" in the subcollection header.) Several people can claim the same prompt. You can also claim a prompt without having submitted any of your own.
If you are new to the format, AO3 has a helpful FAQ here.
This year's timeline (2024):
Prompt Posting: November 1st to 25th.
Claiming: November 26th to December 27th.
Collection Open for Posting: November 26th to December 27th.
The Lord of the Rings Secret Santa posting deadline is in TWO WEEKS!
There are now TWO WEEKS left to get those fills in! That means we're halfway to deadline. We hope the writing is going well! Claiming will run all the way until the posting deadline on December 27th.
Currently, just under half the prompts have been claimed. Our goal is to make sure every prompter gets at least one of their prompts filled, so all signal boosting is VERY appreciated as we would love to see more prompts claimed! ❤️ There's gen prompts, kinkfic prompts, serious and sillier prompts, m/m and f/f as well as m/f prompts, so come have a look and see if anything tickles your fancy. There's prompts for The Hobbit, The Rings of Power, Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
You can find all the prompts HERE as the prompt meme format doesn't allow for linking to individual prompts.
Claiming a prompt: use the "Claim" button next to the prompt you want to claim. (You can find open prompts under "Prompts" in the sidebar.) Several people can claim the same prompt. You can also claim a prompt without having submitted any of your own.
If you are new to the format, AO3 has a helpful FAQ here.
This year's timeline (2024):
Prompt Posting: November 1st to 25th.
Claiming: November 26th to December 27th.
Collection Open for Posting: December 1st to December 27th.
All Fills Due: December 27th.
Reveal: December 31st
The Rules (2024):
Your fill is due December 27th 11:59 pm Pacific Time (you can find a countdown here). Please post it to AO3 (and nowhere else, until January 10th) via the prompt page.
As a matter of fairness, please make your story more than 750 words (1000 is better).
Once claiming has opened, please only claim a prompt if you plan on actually fulfilling your end of the bargain, and please only claim one prompt at a time. After you have completed your fill, you may claim a new one.
It's a good idea to follow us here on Tumblr or join the Dreamwidth community so you can keep track of any admin posts.
