This is a post with general info about this event. You can find the prompts here:
Prompt Lists 2026: [Image] | [Text Only]
-> [ 2026 Overview | Tag | AO3 Collection (tba) ]
Prompt Lists 2025: [Image] | [Text Only]
Prompt Lists 2024: [Image] | [Text Only]
Prompt Lists 2023: [Image] | [Text Only]
Prompt Lists 2022: [Image] | [Text Only]
Prompt Lists 2021: [Image] | [Text Only]
The Summer of 51′s is a fandom event for the Emergency! (1972) fandom, which runs all throughout August, and is intended to be a yearly affair. It essentially consists of 31 prompts plus a few wildcards, which people can use as inspiration to produce fandom content.
While the original inspirations for this event - whumptober and such - largely revolved around fanfiction, all kinds of content are welcome: fic, art, meta posts, gifsets, video edits… you name it.
You can do as many prompts as you want to, whether that’s one or 31 doesn’t matter.
You can participate in any format you choose - art, writing, poetry, fiber arts, gifs, interpretive dance… whatever you choose!
You can interpret the prompts in any way you like; I didn’t have a “correct” interpretation in mind when I came up with them either.
You can start working on the prompts early if you’d like, though I’d suggest waiting until the day the prompt’s scheduled for to actually post the thing you made.
You can also start working on the prompts late - we appreciate late content all the same.
You can also work on prompts from past years (but if you post them to the AO3 collection, please put them in the collection for the year the prompt was from)
If you’d like, feel free to tag your finished works with “#summer of 51′s” - ideally in addition to any applicable fandom tags.
First and foremost, don’t sweat the details, have fun and share the fandom love!
Pretty much like you’d think - There’s prompts, one for each day of August, in the prompt list linked at the start of this post. You can take the prompts and make something fandom-related that’s inspired by them. If you’re feeling particularly generous, you then share the thing you made with the rest of us, optionally tagging it as “#summer of 51′s” in addition to whatever you’d normally tag it as.
If you’re not in the mood for a particular prompt, you can swap it out for a prompt from the “wildcard” pool at your leisure (or just skip it entirely, but the wildcards are more fun ;P).
There will also be daily posts with the Prompt Of The Day on each day in August, because I spent some serious time coming up with an aesthetic for this event and I fully intend to make that everybody else’s problem.
(This is Version 12 of this post; if you’re looking at a reblog, remember to check the OP for updates!)
