#mallorca files

[elvieshezza]

mayorca files day 1 - news

a quick silly little doodle! this might be the only thing i manage for the month tbh. deadlines nd shit

@hmswintake-mallorca-files @allthemurders

[hmswintake-mallorca-files]

Welcome to The Mayorca Files 2026, Mallorca Files fans! This a prompt-a-day event for May for The Mallorca Files, for all types of fanwork.

Participants can create for as many of the prompts as they wish — one is fine! Some alternative prompts are available and can be used as replacements or additions.

Entries can be any type of fanwork: fanfiction, fanart, video edit, picture edit, collage, gif, headcanon, meme…

The only thing definitely not allowed is the use of generative AI.

Please only post works on or after the day of the prompt, apart from alternative prompts, which can be used on any day. If you are late for a prompt, that’s fine — post when you can, even if it’s after May. 

If you are posting your work on Archive of Our Own (mostly fanfic, but can be art or edits too), add it to the Mayorca Files 2026 collection (“TheMayorcaFiles2026”). If you are posting your work on Tumblr or Instagram, tag it with “#MayorcaFiles2026”. Make it clear somewhere on your work which prompt it is for.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me here, Instagram, or in the Mallorca Files or Cosy Crime discord servers!

Prompts

1. News

2. Barrel

3. Memory

4. Goose

5. Three

6. Tie

7. Sand

8. Sleep

9. Trapped

10. Lobster

11. Vehicle

12. Surrender

13. Bench

14. Alone

15. Together

16. Hold

17. Chase

18. Knife

19. Rough

20. Salty

21. Red

22. Fling

23. Metal

24. Rain

25. Hand

26. Pillow

27. Swim

28. Broken

29. Drag

30. Shiver

31. Picture

Alternative prompts

1. Heart

2. Free

3. Shock

4. Family

5. Buy 

6. Wave

7. Fair

8. Rescue

9. Whisper

10. Fist

I’m tagging a few people here who have posted something TMF-related at some point, in case you want to join in 😊

@misscrawfords @happyrandomdance @rhombiee @mari-beau @beautifulscreaminglady @bitchbrisket @jacnaylor @midnightanddiamonds @legendarydreamer4ever @sulami7

[tunglo]

Been bingewatching The Mallorca Files this weekend and this really pretty goth forensic pathologist (Alex Hafner) was like the cherry on the murder mystery rom-com cake. Then S3 began and he turns up with a shaved head.

Why must all my shows spring surprise haircuts on me??

[fmd-jade]

So I just started watching 'The Mallorca Files'.

It's about a British (played by a Welsh actress) and a German (played by an Austrian actor) police detective stationed on Mallorca and working for the local police force. And yes. I know it's a television show made for entertainment. And I know the whole setup is complete BS.

But what really tickles my marble? It's the whole language thing. Half the cast is German portraying Germans (as far as I’ve watched the show). Quarter of the cast is Spanish portraying Spanish people and the rest is English. And everyone speaks freaking English. Even when the same -non English speaking - compatriots are amongst themselves.

Oh, the German friends who are visiting the island for a stag night?! Speaking English.

The Spanish who live on Mallorca? Speaking English.

And all of them with audible accents so you as the viewer are clued in that they’re ‘the Germans’ or ‘the Natives’.

Look, I get that it is a BBC show primarily made for a UK audience. But the first episode established that the German police officer speaks Castellan and maybe a bit of Catalan, the native tongue of Mallorca (correct me here if I'm wrong). And it is established that the English police officer, upon being stationed on Mallorca, starts to learn Castellan. So let them speak Castellan! Even if it's just to order a coffee or something.

And when the German detective interrogates one of the many German persons of interest, why not let them speak in their native tongue? Might be more useful.

And for anyone who doesn't understand either language, use subtitles, for f*** sake!

And the reason I think they do this is because they expect their audience to

A: not be proficient in foreign languages and B: be too lazy to read subtitles.

Which is just downright insulting.

Have you seen ‘The Parliament’?! Wonderful show about the European Parliament with people from all over Europe and in my opinion they did a wonderful job with the language barriers. As in they provided subtitles when necessary which made the show that much more authentic.

[irisreticulata9]

Hercule Flambeau and Max Winter 🤝 looking hella cool 😎

[hazellion]

The Mallorca Files

Mallorca Files is essentially Death in Paradise, but with a female stuffy British lead and set in Spain. The two lead characters, Miranda and Max, have vague and ongoing chemistry. It's cute, but the show can't make up its mind about where the relationship is going. Still a fun watch though!

[sulami7]

The Mallorca Files Season 2 The Best of Max & Miranda

I think we all knew this gifset was coming- these two man, the sexual tension this season has been unbelievable

[hmswintake-mallorca-files]

Today’s Mayorca Files prompt is ‘barrel’, so I’ve set the episode ‘Sour Grapes’ to a folk tune about the grape harvesters of Binissalem 🍇🍷