A rebel intelligence agent finds a holo that they think Leia should have.
Written for Fandom Empire Monopoly 2026 - Prompt: Wildcard
and Sweet and Short January 2026 - Prompt: stay strong
and Deathcember 2025 - Day 7: Family Photo | grave cleaning | return to mother
READ ON AO3 (100 words)
“Here, Princess. We recovered this from a source of ours that collects suppressed material. I thought you might like to have it.”
The holo that the intelligence agent handed Leia lit up to a sight that nearly made her drop it.
It was a professional shot, one she distantly remembered taken for a small news article when she’d first entered the Senate, far from the intimate family holos that had been destroyed with everyone else.
But it was still her mother and father standing proudly with her.
Leia stayed strong as grief threatened to overwhelm her. “Thank you,” she said.
This event is themed around death and loss (and associated topics). Fluffy fics before inevitable doom? Sure. Collecting your deceased nemesis' effects from the morgue? Yeah. Averted death when you'd finally made peace with it? Nice. The goriest, most disgusting, absolutely filthy, borderline(?) erotica death scene you've ever seen? Classic.
Respect the Dead
Be Respectful
Tag Accurately and Generously
No Generative AI
Although additional rules may be added as time goes and situations arise, these are the big three. There are no age, genre, shipping, or rating restrictions. You are only asked that you are upfront and clear about the content. If you are concerned about a particular aspect? Warn for it. If you want to use the prompts with an AI? Don't submit it here.
For event reblogging purposes:
@ this blog on your post sharing your work (or a link to the work) with relevant information such as fandom, rating, content warnings, etc.
Sensitive or otherwise NSFW content should be placed under a cut, with the necessary content warnings above the cut.
Please tag with #deathcember or #deathcember 2025, and the appropriate prompt such as #deathcemberday21 or #deathcemberalt4
Also, due to The Situation: fan-content for JK Rowling's works will not be reblogged here for the foreseeable future.
Epitaph Submittal
Prompts are being accepted! If there's a prompt you'd like to see this Deathcember, send an ask and it will be added to the pool. Prompts do not have to obviously or directly relate to death or loss.
Currently, the plan is to have 31 daily prompts (with a "main" prompt and two "support" prompts) and a handful of alternative prompts. Songs are also enjoyable, and will be shared alongside the written prompts as a playlist. An example of a daily prompt would be
Six Feet Under | empty casket + missing poster
Rest in Peace, Mod
This event is a work in progress! If you have an idea to make it better, feel free to send an ask. Please be kind, as there's only one mod @chaotetothecore, and its work is especially busy during this time of year.
Also—the pfp is copyrighted work of Dzmitry Sukhavarau on Dreamstime. Admin is working to replace it for the longer term.
Broke Horror Fan presents Black Friday and Deathcember on limited edition, fully functional VHS! The last few copies of each title are available now at Witter Entertainment.
Black Friday is a 2021 horror-comedy starring Devon Sawa (Final Destination), Ivana Baquero (Pan’s Labyrinth), Ryan Lee (Super 8), Michael Jai White (Spawn), and Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead). Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump composed the score.
Each Black Friday tape includes a letter from director Casey Tebo and exclusive introductions by actors Ryan Lee and Stephen Peck and writer Andy Greskoviak.
Deathcember is a 2019 horror anthology with segments directed by Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust), Lucky McKee (May), Pollyanna McIntosh (The Walking Dead), Trent Haaga (68 Kill), Julian Richards (The Last Horror Movie), Isaac Ezban (The Similars), and more.
Each Deathcember tape includes letters from producers Dominic Saxl and Ivo Scheloske.
For optimal VHS viewing, the films have been cropped from its original aspect ratio to 4:3 full frame. They are officially licensed and approved by their respective creators.
On Thanksgiving night, a group of disgruntled toy store employees begrudgingly arrive for work to open the store at midnight for the busiest shopping day of the year. Meanwhile, an alien parasite crashes to Earth in a meteor. This group of misfits led by store manager Jonathan (Bruce Campbell) and longtime employee Ken (Devon Sawa) soon find themselves battling against hordes of holiday shoppers who have been turned into monstrous creatures hellbent on a murderous rampage on Black Friday.
Deathcember is the world’s first cinematic Advent calendar. Behind its doors lurk 24 terrifying short films by directors from around the globe, turning the season of love into a season of fear, with gifts of blood and terror to unwrap for audiences everywhere.
um. apologies everyone, the situation is Still Going but i was really looking forward to this event and the idea of not doing anything with it at all is making me sick.
there is absolutely going to be a full month for 2026, and the revised prompt list will be released ehhh pretty soon. only reason it won't be right now, is because i swiped a week for—
Week of Deathcember 2025
It's no month-long marathon, but these were a couple of my favorite prompts </3. Filling the week by January 3 gets you a completionist for this (hopefully one-off) week event!
Day 1: String Lights | broken glass | strangulation
Day 2: Six Feet Under | empty casket | missing poster
Day 3: History to the Victors | war hero | pyrrhic victory
Day 4: Cuetlaxochitl | misidentified | withering
Day 5: Death Loop | almost made it | unfinished business
Day 6: Last One Standing | ascension | dead the whole time
Day 7: Family Photo | grave cleaning | return to mother
The welcome post with rules and faq (to be updated) is found here.
The ao3 collection "deathcember2025" is available here, and will remain open forever. (du-du-du-duh)
Thank you everyone for your interest this year, and although the month list didn't work out I do hope you can enjoy the week list in its stead, whenever you may choose to fill it <3
The ask box will be processed before new year's: the prompts were all successfully added to the masterlist, but at that time Mod was unable to answer them due to a different Situation. All anons will get answered to make sure they know what's up <3
Please mention this blog on any works you'd like featured here, and a Happy New Year regardless <3
She'd once been a powerful Sith.
Written for Fandom Empire Monopoly 2026 - Prompt: freedom
and Sweet and Short January 2026 - Prompt: dust
and @deathcembers 2025 - Day 4: Cuetlaxochitl | misidentified | withering
and Gen Prompt Bingo Round 29 - Prompt: strength
READ ON AO3 (300 words)
A pitiful creature, trapped in the dark. She had always been such, of course, but the teachings of the Sith she had sworn to all that time would not allow her to see this, not when it had allowed her to pretend at strength, at power and domination and freedom.
But that had all been taken from her now. Her apprentice had committed a betrayal of the worst kind, and instead of killing her as a proper Sith should, had inflicted upon her former master a far crueler fate. Stripped of all that she’d believed she’d had, that stregth, that power, that freedom. Stripped even of her words, and left to perish not of the apprentice’s blade or their mastery of the Force, but the mere elements, withering her away to dust.
Still, despite being reduced to this, she clung to life, clung to the dark side, half-mad and full of rage. She lashed out at anything that came near, driven only by hate. Gone were the days of masterful planning, of conquering systems at a time. Now she was only a half-believed rumor on a tiny backwater planet; a ghost in all but her own flesh.
And then the girl appeared.
At first she thinks the girl is nothing, just another creature she can bring terror and death to in a desperate echo of what she used to be.
But then, as the girl grasps the saber, the Sith’s hold of it in the Force entirely impotent…
Then, she knows what the girl is. A cruel cycle, continued.
The Sith is reduced further, a mere vision of the future for a girl who will not heed it.
All she can do is scream wordlessly, aimlessly raging against her fate, as the girl cuts her down upon her own blade.
Broke Horror Fan presents Holliston: The Christmas Special and Deathcember on limited edition, fully functional VHS! The latest genre films to join our retro home video line are available now from Witter Entertainment.
Holliston is created by filmmaker Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen). Green also stars with Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2), Corri English (Unrest), Laura Ortiz (The Hills Have Eyes), Dee Snider (of Twisted Sister), and Dave Brockie (of Gwar).
The 2012 episode of the horror sitcom arrives on arrives on VHS in a black clamshell case with artwork by Vasilis Zikos. 100 copies are available, with 25 on limited edition red VHS tapes. Autographed versions can be purchased from ArieScope.
Each tape includes a letter from Adam Green. Stay tuned after the episode for special features: the entire episode with a cast/crew audio commentary and A Holliston Halloween short film.
Deathcember features segments directed by Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust), Lucky McKee (May), Pollyanna McIntosh (The Walking Dead), Trent Haaga (68 Kill), Julian Richards (The Last Horror Movie), Isaac Ezban (The Similars), and more.
The cast includes Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Stefan Kapicic (Deadpool), Barbara Magnolfi (Suspiria), Jeffrey Reddick (Final Destination), AJ Bowen (You’re Next), Tiffany Shepis (Victor Crowley), Matt Mercer (Contracted), Sean Bridgers (Room), and Steven E. de Souza (Die Hard).
The 2019 Christmas horror anthology arrives on VHS in a black clamshell case with artwork by Adrian Keindorf. It is limited to 50 copies. Each tape includes letters from producers Dominic Saxl and Ivo Scheloske.
For optimal VHS viewing, the films have been cropped from their original aspect ratios to 4:3 full frame. They are officially licensed and have been approved by their respective creators.
When the gang finds themselves trapped in the apartment without power during a Christmas Eve blizzard, their night of reminiscing brings on an eventful turn for Adam and Corri’s complicated relationship. Meanwhile, a deranged serial killer known as the Christine Cringle Tingler has escaped from a nearby prison and is on the loose in the small town of Holliston.
Deathcember is the world’s first cinematic Advent calendar. Behind its doors lurk 24 terrifying short films by directors from around the globe, turning the season of love into a season of fear, with gifts of blood and terror to unwrap for audiences everywhere.
After a failed run, Zagreus prepares to try again.
Written for Fandom Empire Monopoly 2026 - Prompt: immortal
and Sweet and Short January 2026 - Prompt: ready
and @deathcembers 2025 - Day 5: Death Loop | almost made it | unfinished business
READ ON AO3 (100 words)
Work Text:
Zagreus dragged himself out of the river, groaning. Death was merely an inconvenience, immortal as he was, but it was a frustrating one nonetheless. Especially when he’d almost made it, that crisp surface air close enough to taste.
Then, a brief bit of carelessness and his journey was set back to its beginning.
But he would not be deterred. Each time had brought him closer, and next time would not be “almost”.
Zagreus spared a moment to check in with his friends, but he didn’t linger long; he was ready to set out again. As many times as it took.
