#solareclipseweekinfo

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id: a banner reading 'solar eclipse week' and 'may 24th - may 30th'. to the right is two circles - the moon covering most of the sun. end id

welcome to solar eclipse week, a week-long event centered around the romantic (or queerplatonic) pairing of heart and mind (from chonny's charming chaos compendium)!

it'll run from may 24th to may 30th. fanfiction and fanart are both allowed.

mods are mod purple (me at @homoeroticjunoincident, the one that made the banner), mod blue (@birdboy-blues) and mod red (@lunar-perihelion). you should check out all of our blogs for some awesome cccc art :D

this post will be updated with the prompt list whenever it's made, which will be as soon as possible. for now, i encourage any and all prompt recommendations!

any questions or recommendations? send an ask! all informational posts about the event will be tagged '#solareclipseweekinfo'. also, i’m going to make a tagging list for important posts like reminders, so send an ask if you want to be on it!

links: rules - submission - prompt list - this blog's tagging guide

image credits: @birdboy-blues made this blog's banner, this blog's pfp is by Luc Viatour who can be found at https://Lucnix.be, i made the image attached to this post

[solar-eclipse-week]

id: a prompt list. the prompts are listed in the below post. at the top is a banner reading 'solar eclipse week' and 'may 24th - may 30th'. to the right is two circles - the moon covering most of the sun. at the bottom is a symbol of a black heart with a symbol of a white crown inside it. end id

heart and crown icon from iconpacks.net and feen on Flaticon respectively

prompt list!

day 1: [open/closed] sky

day 2: [new/old] photos

day 3: [beautiful/awful] flowers

day 4: [repaired/destroyed] metal

day 5: [sincere/forced] apology

day 6: [forged/broken] promises

day 7: free day!

about the format:

each prompt is a noun with a choice of two adjectives. you can pick either adjective for your prompt. you can also pick both if you want a challenge. for example, on day 1 you would do either "open sky", "closed sky", or "open / closed sky" (the slash could be "and", "or", or similar).

how to use these prompts:

the prompt should be the main subject of your work in some way. this can be literally or figuratively: for example, a day 1 work could be about the sky, or it could be about freedom (or the lack of it).

the prompts are pretty broad on purpose. "sky" could just be the sky, or a sunrise, or wings, or anything else which is significantly related to the sky.

don't worry too much about using the prompt 'correctly' or 'incorrectly' - as long as there's an attempt made, that's fine.

do i have to complete the prompts in a specific order?

yes, please try your best to complete the prompts in day order during event week. however, during the buffer period, the order doesn’t really matter, so you can save a prompt for later.

why these prompts?

solar eclipse has always been about duality to me (mod purple). the duality of logic and emotion, or the duality of love and hate, or the duality of peace (concord) and cacophony (conflict). so when i was making a prompt list, i wanted something to reflect that. afaik it's a pretty unique structure, but in my mind that makes it more fun :)

taglist: @archivist-caleb @lockedintoeternity @breadhalfburnt

[solar-eclipse-week]

id: a banner reading 'solar eclipse week' and 'may 24th - may 30th'. to the right is two circles - the moon covering most of the sun. end id

tagging guide!

posts are tagged with the mod that made them. informational posts are tagged with '#solareclipseweekinfo', and alerts for the event are tagged '#solareclipseweekalert'. as for asks, they'll all be tagged with 'asks' and the url of whoever sent the ask. any original post that isn’t tagged with ‘#solareclipseweekinfo’ or ‘#solareclipseweekalert’ will be tagged with ‘#solareclipseweekmisc’.

all submissions that meet the rules will be reblogged with '#solareclipseweek2026' as well as op's url, the day, the prompt, and any triggers. triggers are in the form of '#tw [x]'.

here's an example! if i on my main blog (@homoeroticjunoincident) wrote an M-rated fic about solar eclipse on day 1 with the prompt 'example', depicting abuse, it would be tagged: '#solareclipseweek2026 #homoeroticjunoincident #day 1 #example #tw abuse #rated M'.

[solar-eclipse-week]

id: a banner reading 'solar eclipse week' and 'may 24th - may 30th'. to the right is two circles - the moon covering most of the sun. end id

rules & guidelines!

restrictions:

your work must be primarily centered around the romantic or queerplatonic pairing of heart and mind.

if your work depicts a common trigger in any detail, or if it's not safe for work, make sure to tag, warn, and rate accordingly! in these cases, either use a readmore or don't fully show the work in your post, and make sure your warnings are clear!

keep in mind:

this is a bit short notice for an event, so there will be a 2 week buffer period after may 30th where works will still count and i will still monitor everything! this means the event will fully end on june 13th.

try your best to incorporate any of the prompts into what you make. the prompt list is linked here.

the goal of this event isn't to nail people with a bunch of restrictions, it's to encourage more works to be made about solar eclipse! so, even if you're worried about not doing it right, please feel free to submit anyway!

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what makes something romantic or queerplatonic instead of just platonic really?

tricky question!

the lgbtqia wiki’s page on queerplatonic relationships says:

A queerplatonic relationship is a partnership which does not fit the "traditional" models of friendships or romantic relationships.[2][3][4] Queerplatonic relationships often have characteristics commonly associated with romantic relationships, such as deep emotional intimacy, prioritization, and commitment,[2][3][4][5] while still defying a "platonic or romantic" categorization.[2] Queerplatonic relationships have a flexible dynamic, and each relationship is tailored to the needs of the individuals involved, with no outside societal expectations or guidelines to follow.[6][7]

the point of queerplatonic relationships is that they necessarily do not have set rules or traits to them; technically, any relationship could be categorized as ‘romantic’, ‘queerplatonic’, or ‘platonic’ depending on the preference and feelings of those involved, however heart and mind are characters and aren’t real so we can’t really ask their opinion on the matter.

thus, we must use a different metric than what we would use in real life aka just asking people’s opinion. for this purpose, i’d agree that “deep emotional intimacy, prioritization, and commitment” are typically important to defining a queerplatonic relationship, and can be used as metrics for portrayal of one.

so what would this look like?

deep (emotional) intimacy: confessing things that are important to them, relying on each other for support, and possibly physical intimacy (being really touchy, cuddling, kissing, etc)

prioritization: the other matters significantly to them and they wouldn’t feel right existing without them. they treat each other as Something Other than a ‘friend’ or an ‘enemy’, a different category of relationship which lends itself to different things, and which is particularly significant to them

commitment: there’s some sort of bond between them, not necessarily spoken, that ties them together. an understanding that they wouldn’t, or couldn’t, leave the other, that the other is ‘it’ for them in some fashion

but like. there isn’t an objective difference between a queerplatonic and a platonic relationship. we won’t be measuring whatever you make with, like, an aromantic thermometer. as long as they don’t look at the camera and go ‘i love being platonic besties with my favorite friend [heart/mind]’* it’s probably fine.

*more seriously there should a sense of the above three things - or, more generally, a deep significant connection that ties them together.**

**but again, there isn’t going to be a ‘this romantic to ride’ line, that sounds unfun

[solar-eclipse-week]

id: a banner reading 'solar eclipse week' and 'may 24th - may 30th'. to the right is two circles - the moon covering most of the sun. end id

submission!

tag @solar-eclipse-week in the post of what you made

tag what you made with '#solareclipseweek2026'

it'd also be a great help if you submitted what you made to the ao3 collection, 'solareclipseweek2026'! note that fanart is also allowed on ao3 :)