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beauty and the beast sideblog. i post about both the 1991 and 2017 films, the broadway musical, and any other batb interpretations that come my way. fandom meme lord and fic librarian. i follow from rose-of-the-underworld

[beauty-beast-week]

Beauty and the Beast Week 2026 starts in 1 month, on August 24!

The theme this year is ✨Magic✨ with the following prompts:

(Text version of prompts here)

Even though the theme for the prompts is magic, your works do NOT have to include literal magic. The prompts are meant to expand your ideas in fresh directions, not limit them to strict topics. That being said, you can of course also create works that are about the literal things in the prompts. Whatever inspires you! And if you’re stuck, there are 100+ free ideas at #inspiration.

You do NOT need to use all the prompts on a day, just one.

You do NOT need to post on all the days, just one.

All types of fandom works are welcome, as long as it contains at least one Disney BatB character (crossovers, OCs, and reader-inserts are allowed too!). See the full rules and FAQs.

You have plenty of time left to start creating something now or finish up existing WIPs. We hope you will join us in celebrating Disney’s wonderful Beauty and the Beast productions!

Follow this blog to see all the creations as they are posted during the week.

[beauty-beast-week]

Beauty and the Beast Week 2026

It's spring! Which means before you know it, it's summer, and that means it's almost time for the third annual Beauty and the Beast Week!

In 2024 it was in September, and in 2025 it was in August, and it's hard to tell from the numbers which was a better date. The event is open to everyone, so I'd like to accommodate as many people as possible.

Please vote even if you're not planning to participate as a creator, but a few things to keep in mind if you are a creator:

You can schedule posts ahead of time on Tumblr, so even if you are unavailable for a certain week, consider if you will have time prior to that week to finish and pre-schedule your works.

Though we enjoy having the works posted during the actual week, in the spirit of celebrating all together, it is still perfectly acceptable to post stuff late!

I'm not including a "none of the above" option in the poll since these are the only dates that work for me as the host. If none of them work for you, just pass on voting, and I'm sorry you won't be able to join us this year!

When should we hold BatB Week this year?

A) August 3-9

B) August 24-30

C) September 14-20

Option A or B, but not C

Option A or C, but not B

Option B or C, but not A

Any of these dates are fine with me

Voting ended onApr 14

[lumiereswig]

next year will be the 10th anniversary of batb 2017 and i think we should all do something unhinged about it. maybe a fic fest? or a fic exchange? a week of fics?

i know i'm not very active in the fandom anymore but i still have a lot of love for these characters. tagging me old fandom pals to see if there are any ideas @batbobsession @forr-everrmorre @im-too-obssesed @cad-enza-blog @sweetfayetanner @tinydooms @saberhilt-blog @morgaine2005 @naturepointstheway @theteaisaddictive @ticenchantedtoc @gryffindorbraids @prince-adams-japris @ anybody else i forgot to tag (some of you have moved urls so i'm not sure if i'm tagging the right blogs but we'll see)

and i'm tagging people who were active in 2017ish but i know there are new fans too! this would be welcome to everybody, chip in if you have an idea

[prince-adams-japris]

Thanks so much for thinking of me and tagging me 🥹 I think about this fandom and the fun we had all the time ❤️ I’d love to do a 10th anniversary event!! I think it would be so nice

[prince-adams-japris]

15 minutes into library and chill and he gives you this look

[prince-adams-japris]

Belle after Beast transforms

[a-lost-illusion]

Enchanted Christmas as an AITA Post

My tenant (19F) has decided to organize a Christmas party on my property, even though I (20M) strictly forbid the celebration. My reasons would take a long time to get into, but let’s just say IT RUINED MY LIFE TEN YEARS AGO AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN THE SAME SINCE. Today, I discovered she’d left the grounds to pick out a Christmas tree (breaking another part of our landlord-tenant agreement), and nearly drowned in the process. I rescued her, brought her back to my property, and locked her in a dungeon to rot for breaking her word. My organist friend (51M) says I made the right call, but now I see she left a gift in my room, so I’m starting to have my doubts. AITA?

[polarspaz]

Beauty and the Beast Screenshot redraw! This movie, Hunchback and Lion King are my favorite Disney movies! ((Belle is also my favorite princess.)) (づ ◕‿◕ )づ

[drmistytang]

"She glanced this way, I thought I saw. And when we touched, she didn't shudder at my paw. No, it can't be; I'll just ignore. But then, she's never looked at me that way before."

~~~

And, finally, we're at the end of my series of tributes to the wonderful fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast. Book-ended with Disney's definitive version~!

See more only on my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/mistytang

And Prints! www.inprnt.com/gallery/drmistytang/

[drawnby27emilys]

Some recent BatB pieces 🥀🥀

[adventurelandia]

Belle by Steven Thompson

[depsidase]

[ahallister]

I can actually think of an alternative explanation: small print press. He’d put out orders for various rare books with the traveling merchants who’d come through town, and every so often they’d turn up with one and he’d set about printing a hundred copies or so, then sell the fresh new copies to merchants heading towards various university towns like Avignon, Grenoble, Toulouse, etc. He’d likely keep a couple copies of each book for himself, generating a library, and might wind up with all sorts of books he couldn’t profitably make copies of to sell to the universities, like fairy tales.

If that’s his business model, then Belle might be the closest thing he’d have to an apprentice, since we can see he’s getting on in age and might have nobody else to even consider passing the business along to when he slips the mortal coil. As one final thought, her dad is an inventor, and might be the bookseller’s only actual local customer, which might also explain the relationship. Her dad would occasionally want certain types of books on natural philosophy, and the bookseller would be the one with contacts who could procure them. Just look how dangerous it was for him to go traveling all alone! Far better to leave that sort of business to professional traveling merchants.

[galwednesday]

If you combine these ideas, then you wind up with a bookseller who was training Belle as an apprentice for both small press publishing and money laundering, only to watch his very promising student be swept away by some rich guy the whole town was trying to kill twenty minutes ago. He admires her hustle, but it leaves a gaping hole in his succession plan.

Fortunately there are two newcomers in town, one with an eye for mechanics and meticulous attention to detail and one with a love of risks and charm to spare, and that's how the neurotic clock and slutty candlestick take over the legitimate and criminal wings of his enterprise respectively.

[beauty-beast-week]

Thank you to everyone who participated in Beauty and the Beast Week 2025! We had so much fun seeing all the creativity and love for our favorite story!

Keep posting: Though the week is over, we know some folks are still working on their creations, and we’ll keep reblogging them for as long as it takes, so keep tagging us and adding your fics to our AO3 collection. We don't mind late entries!

Share feedback: Would you fill out this short anonymous survey to share feedback about the event? It’s open to everyone, not just people who created something this year.

Play Bingo: Has anyone gotten a Bingo yet? I am so close on my card! You can generate a card here and use it as you read fics and look through the art and other works. Post it when you’re done, we want to see!

Keep enjoying the works: The complete event master list and round up post will be coming soon, and in the meantime you can check out each of the daily master lists and the AO3 collection. Be sure to keep reblogging and leave nice comments on everyone's beautiful creations! ❤️

[riddlerosehearts]

He looks at her like he just realized what love is.

For Beauty and the Beast week day 4 - Monkey! I hope this makes sense for the prompt—the quote, and Adam & Belle's relationship as a whole, just really reminded me of the theme of curiosity that could be associated with monkeys! @beauty-beast-week

[prince-adams-japris]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

@beauty-beast-week day 3 - octopus: fitting in

Rating: Teen

Characters: Beast, Belle

Relationship: Beast/Belle

Summary: Belle always struggled to fit in.

[zoeloveconvers99]

@beauty-beast-week

Day 3 entry:Octopus-Fitting In

When you’re free from a decade long curse but now you have to conform to aristocracy

[prince-adams-japris]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

@beauty-beast-week day 2 - bird: freedom, travel

Rating: Teen

Characters: Beast, Belle

Relationship: Beast/Belle

Summary: A gilded cage is still a cage.

[prince-adams-japris]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

@beauty-beast-week day 1 - wolf: hunting, hunger

Rating: Teen

Characters: Beast, Belle

Relationship: Beast/Belle

Summary: There is a hunger...