We have two different ways that are available for you to participate with prompts! Weekly prompts, and Daily prompts!
Week prompts are four prompts that are for that week!
Daily Prompts are prompts that are for that specific day of the month!
Alt Prompts are prompts that you can use in place of any prompt you may not like or get inspired by!
Unfortunately, I am no good at creating art or images with the prompts listed out at this point in time. That means that everything is listed out below the cut!
Weekly Prompts
Week One (May 03rd to May 9th)
"You're still mastering it."
Circus / Performer / Entertainer AU
Underdog
Oaths and Vows
Week Two (May 10th to May 16th)
"How did you do that?"
Fae / Faries
Misinterpreted Prophecies
Collecting / Harvesting Potion or Spell Ingredients
Week Three (May 17th to May 23rd)
"You shouldn't be able to do that"
Wings
Mentee Besting Their Master
Prophetic Dreams or Visions
Week Four (May 24th to May 30th)
"Isn't 'Abracadabra!' a little cliche?"
Coffee Shop
Time Travel
Divination / Tarot Cards
Daily Prompts
Day 1 — Mental Training
Day 2 — Transformations
Day 3 — Magical Sibling and Non-Magical Sibling
Day 4 — Magic School
Day 5 — Lord of the Rings AU
Day 6 — "That's Impossible"
Day 7 — Portals
Day 8 — Misinterpreted Prophecies
Day 9 — Sorcerer's Apprentice AU
Day 10 — Memory
Day 11 — Magical Exhaustion
Day 12 — "If you answer magic one more time..."
Day 13 — Self-Taught
Day 14 — Using Wrong Ingredients or Components (Getting the Right Answers)
Day 15 — Enchanted Forest
Day 16 — Real World Sleight-of-Hand
Day 17 — Chosen One
Day 18 — Necromancy
Day 19 — Fantasia Sorcerer's Apprentice AU
Day 20 — Using Wrong Ingredients or Components (Getting the Wrong Answers / Exploding)
Day 21 — Love Potion
Day 22 — Loss of Powers
Day 23 — "Are you doing that...?" / "I get it from my [family figure here]."
Day 24 — The Tall, Soon to be Magic Prodigy + The Short, Clumsy Optimistic Sidekick
Day 25 — Someone That Doesn't Believe in Magic
Day 26 — Magic for Mundane or Silly Things (i.e. Using Magic for Magic Tricks)
Day 27 — Ocean / Merfolk
Day 28 — Magical Creatures
Day 29 — Magic with Hostile Intent
Day 30 — Wrong Chosen One
Day 31 — "Remember your [word of choice]."
Alt Prompts
Alt Prompt 1 — Chronomancy
Alt Prompt 2 — Illusory / Illusions
Alt Prompt 3 — Mystical Lagoon
Alt Prompt 4 — Poison
Alt Prompt 5 — Losing a Sense or Emotion to Gain or Keep a Power
Alt Prompt 6 — Power Swap
Alt Prompt 7 — Modern Science being the Magic of the Past
Alt Prompt 8 — Magical Plants
Alt Prompt 9 — Illegal / Banned Potion or Spell Ingredients
Alt Prompt 10 — Witch Trials
Alt Prompt 11 — Soothsayers
Alt Prompt 12 — Animorphing
Alt Prompt 13 — Buying Potion or Spell Ingredients from a Shady Source
Hello, I can't seem to find your AO3 collection. Could you point me in the right direction, please?
Thanks!
Hey there! You can find the collection at THIS link, or by putting magical_may in the collections spot when posting a fic. Even if the collection doesn't appear, once the fic is posted, it should add to the collection!
Thank you so much for the ask and I hope this helped!
“Just what are you doing here, Miss Swan?” Regina had to know. “I was under the impression I wasn’t your favorite person.”
“Yeah, well.” Emma jammed both hands into her jeans pockets. “You don’t have to be a favorite to be important. Henry needs both his moms.”
Or, Regina falls into the portal with the wraith from S2 and has a little trouble (and a little help!) getting home
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1,967 words
@whumpay 2026, day 15: Forced To Watch / “No one is coming to save you.” / Waterboarding
Regina yanked ineffectually at the magic-suppressing cuff on her wrist. It was awkward, what with her hands being looped around the back of a chair, but it wouldn’t have made a difference either way. She huffed in frustration and stared hatefully at the woman in front of her.
“I need you to stay here while I keep up appearances as Lancelot, but worry not,” Cora was saying, smiling beatifically. “Soon enough, you shall be back where you belong. By my side.” She stepped forward and cupped Regina’s cheek in her hand. Regina recoiled violently. “My daughter,” Cora murmured gently, dismissing her defiance entirely. As always. “I’ve missed you so.”
Cora swept out of the dilapidated cottage that she had imprisoned her daughter in. Regina sighed, the fight suddenly deserting her. She glanced around the room, half-rotted tables and chairs illuminated poorly by the dim light pushing through the murky windows. It was practically in ruins … like the rest of her homeland, she assumed, if what she saw today was anything to go by. Not that she had had the chance to see much since she had been sucked back into the Enchanted Forest.
Her powers had come rushing back to her the moment she came through, and she had been able to contain the wraith. She pitied whatever poor soul came across its unstable prison, though. Her mother had found her not long after that, and they had fought a mighty battle.
There was just something about the exhilaration of whipping fireballs around, transforming her desires into reality, enforcing her will upon another person that felt like nothing else in either world she had lived in. Her childhood had been an endless series of tests and threats, and the sensation of magic rushing through her body felt like a reassurance that she would never be that powerless again.
Feelings weren’t reality, though.
She had only regained her magic for a few short hours before her mother had defeated her and bound it away from her with this detestable cuff. Instead of repaying her for her attempted matricide, her mother instead prattled away about how she knew her daughter loved her and they could conquer the cursed land together and be a happy family there.
Regina would only allow for one person to be her family, and she wouldn’t let her mother get anywhere near him.
If she had to stay in the Enchanted Forest and destroy every portal her mother raised until the end of time, she would do it. No one in that world would miss her for one second, except her sweet darling Henry.
She was certain he would miss her. The past few months have just been … pre-teenage rebellion. She grew less certain the more she thought about it, so she stopped thinking about it.
The door to the cottage crashed open suddenly, admitting two women from the torrential downpour. One was wearing heavy armor, and the other a sodden dress. A Royal, from the look of it.
“Please, misses, I’m so scared,” Regina hunched over to make herself look less threatening. “There was this scary man, and he tied me up here, and he could be back any minute, and I’m so scared of what he’s going to do. Please, help me get free.”
The women inched closer, looking over her carefully. “Please-” she repeated.
“Wait, Mulan,” said the one in a princess dress. She looked almost familiar. She clearly thought Regina looked familiar to her, if her look of horror was any indication. “It’s her. She was with Maleficent when she- when I-”
The armored one, Mulan apparently, protectively stepped between Regina and the other one. Aurora, Regina realized. The daughter of Maleficent’s mortal enemy, Briar Rose. Regina had a feeling she might not be feeling too merciful towards witches these days.
“How dare you ask us to rescue you!” The girl was becoming hysterical. “You’re a monster! Who would come to save you?!”
“Aurora,” Mulan pulled her back.
“No one’s coming to save you!” Aurora shouted. “I hope you get what you deserve!”
“We should go.” Mulan shepherded Aurora back toward the heavy deluge, and as she turned, Regina noticed a very familiar pouch.
“How did you get that pouch?” Regina demanded. The spell ensnaring the wraith had been very delicate. If anyone had disturbed that pouch…
“What do you care?” Aurora stared at her in suspicion from behind Mulan.
“I think it might be housing a very dangerous monster,” Regina answered cryptically. “You should be very careful with that.”
“What did you do to him!” Aurora tried to shove past Mulan to get to Regina.
“Um, nothing, obviously. I’ve been tied up here?” Regina replied, motioning toward her bonds with her head. They didn’t need to know exactly how long she had been tied up.
“Aurora!” The warrior reprimanded once again.
“She did something. She- she had to do something to Philip. I just know she did. She set a trap for him or something so he would pick it up and get Marked,” she babbled frantically.
“If he was foolish enough to pick it up and get marked, that’s kind of on him,” Regina remarked snidely.
“You don’t know anything about him!” Mulan snapped.
Regina smiled. “But I do know of a way you could get him back. How bad do you miss him?”
The two women looked at each other, clearly upset, but also desperate.
Regina didn’t bother to hide her smirk.
~~~
Regina stumbled along in the mud behind their horses and tried to calm her fury at the indignity. She had convinced them to take her with them on their journey, though they were too smart to remove her Enchanted Cuff. Going on a dayslong fetchquest to help these two fools rescue their lover was hardly Regina’s choice of activity, but once they got to where they’re going, they would need her help and remove the cuff. Then she would be free to repay them for their … generosity.
Despite the pouring rain, Regina felt a warm spot on her hip, like a sunburn. She patted the spot with her bound hands, trying to decipher what was happening. The warm spot moved, jumping up her ribs, around her shoulder, and down to her wrists. She looked around warily, wondering who was following them.
“Did you hear that?” Mulan halted the horses suddenly, surveying the surrounding woods.
“I can’t hear anything over the rain,” Aurora began, but Mulan shushed her.
Regina tried to hide her grimace. Her wrists were starting to burn.
“Over there!” Mulan started to steer her horse around, but at that moment, Regina’s cuffs exploded. The women had only a moment to look shocked and horrified, before she knocked them both out.
“Are you alright?” Regina turned to see Emma, of all people, materializing from the woods. Even in the pouring rain, she looked luminous. Regina turned her attention to her burned wrists before she had to squint or something.
“I’ve been better,” she replied sardonically. “And since when did you have magic?” She concentrated on healing so she didn’t have to think too hard about what the interloper was doing here.
“Since uh landing here, I guess.” Regina could hear her shrugging. “I didn’t really know what I was doing, just figured I should get those cuffs off you.”
“A good choice,” Regina noted, in a way that suggested that was a rare occasion. “And I assumed you didn’t know what you were doing when you nearly set me on fire. You didn’t want to experiment with telekinesis before you tried explosions?” She had finished healing her wrists. It would be weird not to look up now.
Emma was blushing, though she acted like she didn’t notice. “I don’t know, maybe I was just asking myself what would Miss Fireballs do?” She retorted.
Regina didn’t know she had made that big of an impression. Her mouth settled into a satisfied little smile before Regina realized it and wiped it off.
“And just what are you doing here, Miss Swan?” She had to know. “I was under the impression I wasn’t your favorite person.”
“Yeah, well.” Emma jammed both hands into her jeans pockets. “You don’t have to be a favorite to be important. Henry needs both his moms.”
Aw, isn’t she just the picture of benevolence? So sweet that Regina could practically feel her teeth rotting inside her mouth.
“I thought I was evil and couldn’t be trusted with children,” she countered.
“I know you’d never do anything to hurt Henry,” Emma responded, sincere belief shining from her eyes. Regina found herself taken aback, being on the other side of such faith.
“You’re right, I won’t,” Regina affirmed, voice low with sincerity. “Let’s get ourselves back to our son.” She mounted one of the horses and steered him to start walking back the way they came.
“Wait!”
Regina turned to find Emma holding up her sheriff’s notebook and a pen. She sighed. “What?”
“We should leave them a message so they can save their prince.” Emma waved the items at her.
Regina rolled her eyes and magicked up a parchment with detailed instructions into Mulan’s hand. She doubted they could succeed in such a daunting task, but they did seem rather determined.
“Are you happy now, Miss Swan?” Regina waved a hand toward the road.
“Immensely,” Emma snarked back, mounting the other horse and passing her on the road.
Regina rolled her eyes again and followed her.
~~~
“You think this will work?” Emma shouted across the road. She wasn’t skilled enough with horseback riding to sustain a gallop, but they had managed a slow canter.
“Do you have a better idea?” Regina shouted back.
Vines whipped out of the forest and grabbed them off their horses, holding them suspended in the air. “Yes, in fact, I do.” Cora glided toward them.
She tsked. “My foolish daughter. I was so hoping we could go to Storybrooke together, but if you keep misbehaving, I’ll have to leave you here.”
“I won’t let you anywhere near Storybrooke!” Regina snarled, and the vines tightened around her in response.
“Oh my, is that a protective instinct I hear?” Cora laughed. “You’re a failure. You can’t protect anybody. That Dark Curse you sacrificed so much for? Failed! Exactly as the Dark one intended. You were a mere puppet to him, and yet, all of the (peons) in Storybrooke hate you. Nobody wants you over there. You’re weak, patheti-”
“I do, I want her over there,” Emma rasped out. “So does our son.” Emma caught Regina’s eye, clearly expecting her to do something.
“Oh, ‘our son’ ?” Cora gasped dramatically. “Regina, is there something you want to tell me?”
“Yeah,” Regina hissed. “Go to hell!”
Regina reduced the vines to dust, releasing her and Emma onto the wet road. She and Cora circled each other.
Regina was careful not to repeat the mistakes she made in their earlier fight, but it didn’t matter. Everything stopped when Cora reached inside her chest and clutched her heart. Regina vaguely registered Emma shouting, “No!”
Suddenly, a shockwave of light rumbled across the Forest, and Regina collapsed to the ground.
~~~
Regina felt the faint sensation of being carried. “C’mon, Regina, you gotta wake up,” Emma whispered in her ear. “For Henry. For our son.”
“For our son,” she croaked.
“Oh, good, you’re okay.” Emma sighed in relief.
“Okay is a relative term, Miss Swan.” Regina left her head on Emma’s shoulder because she was too tired to lift it. Yeah, tired. “Let’s just get home.”
“Yes. Home.” Emma smiled, and it was like light was radiating from her entire face.
Or maybe Regina was just passing out. She closed her eyes just in case.
Maybe she could allow for two people to be her family. Maybe.
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I hope you enjoyed this! Please let me know what you thought! (pls be kind T.T)
For @flashfictionfridayofficial's prompt of "What is the prompt?" and a weekly prompt from @magical-may!
"Isn't 'Abracadabra!' a little cliche?"
Helen paused, the sparkles from her wand freezing and hanging in the air. It was a simple spell, so there was no fear of it blowing up for just a few seconds. "What?"
"Abracadabra," Rush asked, leaning against the stage. Despite the slight scoff in their voice, their eyes gleamed with curiosity. "It's a cliche word for magic. Why use it as a shortcut command?"
Ah. They were still new to this. "It's cliche, yes, but it's easy to remember during performances." Plus, non-magical people expected abaracadabra or shazam or something silly like that. "My first performance, I decided I would use the classic spell, instead of just using a shortcut."
"…And?"
She could still remember standing there on-stage, her very first lone performance, and the spell had disappeared from her mind. Everyone had stared at her. It had been so tempting to whisper, beg for a line or a prompt, except everyone there had thought she was just a normal stage magic act. There was nobody to help her.
"I blanked. I managed to squeak past it, but I stood there for what felt like forever, trying to remember." She waved her wand, whispering the spell, and it unfroze, lighting up like miniature sparklers. "That was when I realized why people used those shortcuts, no matter how cliche they are."
Rush blinked and slowly nodded. "…What will be my word, then?"
The spell whispered softly as the miniature sparklers grew brighter and brighter, filling up the room with their glow.
Okay, so, I believe that I have fixed the issue for those of you who may have had any lingering issues.
Both the Parent Collection and the Collection itself is open, though Moderated. So I will be going through every night to accept stories or anything else into the collection!
Also, I forgot I had it moderated, so I believe after tonight I will mark it as unmoderated!
*Edit (03/20/2026)* Note; these are NOT this year's event prompts. The event prompts are pinned to our account! We also changed the header of this post due to potential confusion.
Dialogue Prompts
"Are you doing that…?" / "I get it from my mom/dad/parent."
"You're still mastering it."
"Remember your (insert word of choice)."
"How did you do that?"
"If you answer magic one more time…"
"You shouldn't be able to do that"
"that's impossible"
"Isn't 'Abracadabra!' a little cliche?" (Reword if you like!)
AU Prompts
Circus/Performer/Entertainer
Lord of the Rings AU
Sorcerer's Apprentice AU
Fantasia Sorcerer's Apprentice AU
Coffee shop
Enchanted Forest
Mystical Lagoon
Fairies
ocean/mermaid
Wings
Magic school
Magical creatures
Fae
Trope Prompts
Modern science being the magic of the past
Time travel
Young apprentice learning from an elderly wizard/sorceress
The tall soon to be magic prodigy + the short clumsy optimistic sidekick
Magical exhaustion
underdog
Chosen One
Wrong chosen one
Misinterpreted prophecies
Mentee besting their master
Other / Additional Prompts
Love potion
Loss of powers
Power swap (similar to a body swap)
Losing a sense to gain/keep a power
Magic for mundane/silly things (using actual magic to perform magic tricks)
Mental training
Magical sibling and nonmagical sibling
Portals of some kind
Real World/Sleight-of-hand-not-fantasy magic
transformations
magic used with hostile intent of some kind
someone that doesn't believe in magic
Self-Taught
Memory
Illusory
Necromancy
Chronomancy
Using the wrong ingredients/components and getting the right answer
Using the wrong ingredients/components and exploding
Different types of magic users
Using magic for sexual purposes,
Soothsayers
Divination
Tarot Cards
Prophetic Dreams / Visions
Horny Potions
Poison
Magical Plants
Oaths / Vows
Animorphing
Witch Trials
Buying Potion or Spell Ingredients from a Shady Source
Collecting / Harvesting Potion or Spell Ingredients
Illegal / Banned Potion or Spell Ingredients
Suggestions
You could reserve a few days for different types of magic (ex. Fire Magic, Electric Magic, Ice Magic, et cetera)
*Edit (03/20/2026)* Note; these are NOT this year's event prompts. The event prompts are pinned to our account! We also changed the header of this post due to potential confusion.
We have two different ways that are available for you to participate with prompts! Weekly prompts, and Daily prompts!
Week prompts are four prompts that are for that week!
Daily Prompts are prompts that are for that specific day of the month!
Alt Prompts are prompts that you can use in place of any prompt you may not like or get inspired by!
Unfortunately, I am no good at creating art or images with the prompts listed out at this point in time. That means that everything is listed out below the cut!
Weekly Prompts
Week One (May 03rd to May 9th)
"You're still mastering it."
Circus / Performer / Entertainer AU
Underdog
Oaths and Vows
Week Two (May 10th to May 16th)
"How did you do that?"
Fae / Faries
Misinterpreted Prophecies
Collecting / Harvesting Potion or Spell Ingredients
Week Three (May 17th to May 23rd)
"You shouldn't be able to do that"
Wings
Mentee Besting Their Master
Prophetic Dreams or Visions
Week Four (May 24th to May 30th)
"Isn't 'Abracadabra!' a little cliche?"
Coffee Shop
Time Travel
Divination / Tarot Cards
Daily Prompts
Day 1 — Mental Training
Day 2 — Transformations
Day 3 — Magical Sibling and Non-Magical Sibling
Day 4 — Magic School
Day 5 — Lord of the Rings AU
Day 6 — "That's Impossible"
Day 7 — Portals
Day 8 — Misinterpreted Prophecies
Day 9 — Sorcerer's Apprentice AU
Day 10 — Memory
Day 11 — Magical Exhaustion
Day 12 — "If you answer magic one more time..."
Day 13 — Self-Taught
Day 14 — Using Wrong Ingredients or Components (Getting the Right Answers)
Day 15 — Enchanted Forest
Day 16 — Real World Sleight-of-Hand
Day 17 — Chosen One
Day 18 — Necromancy
Day 19 — Fantasia Sorcerer's Apprentice AU
Day 20 — Using Wrong Ingredients or Components (Getting the Wrong Answers / Exploding)
Day 21 — Love Potion
Day 22 — Loss of Powers
Day 23 — "Are you doing that...?" / "I get it from my [family figure here]."
Day 24 — The Tall, Soon to be Magic Prodigy + The Short, Clumsy Optimistic Sidekick
Day 25 — Someone That Doesn't Believe in Magic
Day 26 — Magic for Mundane or Silly Things (i.e. Using Magic for Magic Tricks)
Day 27 — Ocean / Merfolk
Day 28 — Magical Creatures
Day 29 — Magic with Hostile Intent
Day 30 — Wrong Chosen One
Day 31 — "Remember your [word of choice]."
Alt Prompts
Alt Prompt 1 — Chronomancy
Alt Prompt 2 — Illusory / Illusions
Alt Prompt 3 — Mystical Lagoon
Alt Prompt 4 — Poison
Alt Prompt 5 — Losing a Sense or Emotion to Gain or Keep a Power
Alt Prompt 6 — Power Swap
Alt Prompt 7 — Modern Science being the Magic of the Past
Alt Prompt 8 — Magical Plants
Alt Prompt 9 — Illegal / Banned Potion or Spell Ingredients
Alt Prompt 10 — Witch Trials
Alt Prompt 11 — Soothsayers
Alt Prompt 12 — Animorphing
Alt Prompt 13 — Buying Potion or Spell Ingredients from a Shady Source
*Edit (03/20/2026)* Note; these are NOT this year's event prompts. The event prompts are pinned to our account! We also changed the header of this post due to potential confusion.
Dialogue Prompts
"Are you doing that…?" / "I get it from my mom/dad/parent."
"You're still mastering it."
"Remember your (insert word of choice)."
"How did you do that?"
"If you answer magic one more time…"
"You shouldn't be able to do that"
"that's impossible"
"Isn't 'Abracadabra!' a little cliche?" (Reword if you like!)
AU Prompts
Circus/Performer/Entertainer
Lord of the Rings AU
Sorcerer's Apprentice AU
Fantasia Sorcerer's Apprentice AU
Coffee shop
Enchanted Forest
Mystical Lagoon
Fairies
ocean/mermaid
Wings
Magic school
Magical creatures
Fae
Trope Prompts
Modern science being the magic of the past
Time travel
Young apprentice learning from an elderly wizard/sorceress
The tall soon to be magic prodigy + the short clumsy optimistic sidekick
Magical exhaustion
underdog
Chosen One
Wrong chosen one
Misinterpreted prophecies
Mentee besting their master
Other / Additional Prompts
Love potion
Loss of powers
Power swap (similar to a body swap)
Losing a sense to gain/keep a power
Magic for mundane/silly things (using actual magic to perform magic tricks)
Mental training
Magical sibling and nonmagical sibling
Portals of some kind
Real World/Sleight-of-hand-not-fantasy magic
transformations
magic used with hostile intent of some kind
someone that doesn't believe in magic
Self-Taught
Memory
Illusory
Necromancy
Chronomancy
Using the wrong ingredients/components and getting the right answer
Using the wrong ingredients/components and exploding
Different types of magic users
Using magic for sexual purposes,
Soothsayers
Divination
Tarot Cards
Prophetic Dreams / Visions
Horny Potions
Poison
Magical Plants
Oaths / Vows
Animorphing
Witch Trials
Buying Potion or Spell Ingredients from a Shady Source
Collecting / Harvesting Potion or Spell Ingredients
Illegal / Banned Potion or Spell Ingredients
Suggestions
You could reserve a few days for different types of magic (ex. Fire Magic, Electric Magic, Ice Magic, et cetera)
Hi! I came across your interesting "Magicial May 2026" and I think all the prompts are really great! I'd also be interested in the remaining prompts from the selection. ^^ Especially the 13 AU prompts. Perhaps you could publish a list of the prompts for us? Because I would really love to be inspired by them, if that's possible! That would be wonderful! Thank you so much! I already think the project is fantastic!
Hey there! We can absolutely do that, though it will most likely be a little closer to May... Think end of March sorta time frame!
And I am so very sorry for this post being (like... a week and a half) several days late.
In total we had 8 submissions to our form about prompts and 13 suggestions from a friend, but we received 67 prompt suggestions!
We are working on sorting prompts into categories and on how we are splitting the prompts!
Initially we wanted to do the prompt a day (which that element is staying!) but it was also thought that there could be a prompt set for a week or the month as well as the prompt a day! And Alt Prompts for any prompts that may not strike your fant(a)sy! (Fantasy / Fancy, get it?)
Just fun additional things for those who may not like or want to do prompt a day specifically!
We are working on doing that right now, so prompt will be out later tonight or early tomorrow morning CST!
Broken Down Prompt Stats below the cut for those who are curious!
9 Dialogue prompts
14 AU prompts
1 Prompt was discarded from the AU prompts, making AU prompts actually 13 instead.
10 Trope prompts
and 34 'Other/Additional' Prompts!
We also received the suggestion on using specific days for different types of magic, examples being Fire magic, Electric magic, Ice magic, ect...
I saw in a prev post that prompts will be out on Feb 17th. Are the prompts delayed? :o
I dont mean to rush you or anything. Take care, mod <3
Ah! Yes! Sorry, Prompts are going to be a bit delayed. I kept meaning to make the post about them, but I've been exhausted lately and sleeping far far too much to remember dates and commitments.
Thank you so much, and I should have prompts out soon (few days or so)!
Hey all! Figured as we slowly make our way to the beginning of Magical May, we would release the rules and FAQs (that are absolutely based off of our fellow Month Events, so thank you to every month event ever)!
We'll Begin with the Rules
Absolutely NO A.I.
If it is found that you have used A.I., your works will be removed from the Ao3 Collection.
Properly Tag Your Works.
This Event is very open ended and Lightly Moderated, so we are not moderating on whether or not your works are Safe for Work or not.
Despite talking as if we are a collective, there is only One Moderator. Not everyone is going to want to read a work about NSFW or Dark or Whump topics, Not everyone is going to want to read Angst or Hurt/Comfort or Fluff. Properly tag, please.
A lot of other things that would be in rules is also heavily touched on in the FAQs, but if there's something you think we should add, feel free to let us know!
Now that the Rules are out of the way, Here are FAQs!
Who can Participate?
Everyone! Whether you create Edits, Fanart, Fanfic, Mood boards, Collages, Scrapbooking, ect..! Get creative with it!
Is NSFW Allowed or is it just SFW?
As explained in the Rules, specifically under "Properly Tag Your Works", this event is open to all sorts of works; NSFW and SFW, just please properly tag your works.
How do I tag?
We would love it if you could tag your works / creations using #MagicalMay, #MagicalMay2026, and/or #Magical May 2026 so that it is easier for us to find your works and reblog them!
We would also like it if you could add what day your work / creation is for and what the prompt was, just to make it a little easier. Example: #MagicalMay Day One, #Magical May Prompt
Is there an Ao3 Collection?
Yes! There is an Ao3 Collection, and it will open on May 1st! During the Month of May and Onwards, you'll be able to Find The Collection HERE.
Do I have to write or create for all the Prompts?
Absolutely not! You can write for as many or as little prompts as you would like!
This event is meant to be fun for everyone, and not everyone can write all the prompts, or may not be inspired by a specific prompt and not want to create for it.
Can I combine prompts with another event or bingo?
Absolutely! Encouraged even!
What Fandoms are allowed?
This is a Multi-Fandom Event, meaning any and all fandoms are allowed! Original Work and OCs are allowed! RPF and Nameless/Generic are welcome!
Just a note: but I will not be reblogging any works pertaining to Harry Potter or any Harry Potter Adjacent, like the Marauders, due to Her influence, Her harm, and Her advocating and funding Anti-Transgender / Transphobic Campaigns and Bills.
Can I combine prompts?
You cannot combine days in a single chapter, but you can make multichaptered works, each chapter can be for a different day! It would be preferred if you posted the days in order, but we cannot stop you from doing things out of order and having fun with the event!
We will be trying to reblog any and all works that are posted for the event during the month of May!
Is there a Minimum / Maximum Word Count?
Nope! Write as little or as much as you want!
Do I have to post my work to AO3, or can I just post it to Tumblr, or a different site?
You can post to Ao3 or Tumblr! Does not have to be both or one over the other!
When posting to Tumblr, make sure to use our tagging system and / or tag our account @magical-may!
What if I have more Questions?
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