Guess who's back with a brand new and admittedly chaotic edition of our Pride Month challenge!
For 2026, we present:
Summer of Pride - This or That Trope Edition!
That's right, we're going beyond Pride Month and creating all summer long!
For twelve weeks, beginning June 1st, we encourage you to create something, choosing this or that from our predetermined list.
Y'all, when we say these tropes battled it out to be featured, we mean it! We literally spent an evening coming up with our competitors and let them duke it out as either Yoshi or Kirby on Super Smash Brothers... so yes, when we said chaotic, we meant chaotic!
We hope you will join us (@queenofbaws, @unicornaffair, @jadedsunshine) in participating! Use the tag #SummerOfPride2026 so that we can find and share your posts.
As always, we're encouraging CREATIVITY! Doesn't matter if it's fanfic, art, a mood board, a list of headcanons, whatever... if you create it using one of the tropes as inspiration, we hope you'll share it!
Returning to the Summer of Pride Event! I picked Chaggie for this one since I like the ship and thought it was funny that Charlie saw Vaggi and immediately was like "Mine 👐"
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Band of Brothers (TV 2001)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carwood Lipton/Ronald Speirs, background Edward “Babe” Heffron/Eugene Roe
Characters: Bill Guarnere, Eugene Roe, Edward "Babe" Heffron, Carwood Lipton, Ronald Speirs
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Roommates, Banter, Getting Together, Lip is a diva bc he’s stressed, Sharing a Bed
Series: Part 2 of Summer of Pride 2026
Summary:
Summer of Pride 2026 - Week 2: Roommates
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Some uninvited guests show up to Lipton’s apartment looking to crash the night. Carwood and Ron have to share Speirs’ bedroom.
HAPPY SUMMER OF PRIDE WEEK 2: Roommates or Long Distance
Thanks again to the organizers of this challenge!! please give them love and consider participating :)
Its a drabble this time! It was fun! (Spoilers for The Amazing Digital Circus finale!)
It all happened so fast for Ragatha...
One second she's hugging Pomni, another she watches the small jester leave to find Jax... And the last second was the sight of her almost being stalled by the large, glitchy mass...
Within a blink of an eye, Zooble had managed to yank Pomni back to the group. A small explosion of bright white light followed, scaring the abstraction away...
Both Zooble's arm and Pomni's whole body glitch out... Unforming briefly and reforming, various colors shift around on their models... The feeling makes Pomni shiver.
Seeing that Pomni's eyes are still closed, Ragatha kneels down to her level. She hesitates only for a moment before tucking her arm underneath the jesters head, "Pomni!"
She cradles her to help her sit up more, "Pomni! Are you okay?" She can feel the glitch crawl up her arms, but she isn't concerned about that one bit.
Pomni stirs awake, "Who are..." She holds up her hand, only to see a cartoon-ish blue glove instead of skin. Those pinwheel eyes stare back at Ragatha with a hint of fear, "What... Where are we?"
The ragdoll lets out a shaky breath, "...Home, Pomni..." A smile emerges onto her face, "We're home...."
The jester smiled back but has a confused look in her eyes, "I'm guessing that's my name? Pomni..."
Ragatha shifts her a little closer in equal confusion, "Of course it is. That's always been your name..."
Gangle speaks up from behind Ragatha, "Oh no..."
Zooble holds the ribbon hand, "What? What's wrong?"
Gangle rubs her chin with her other hand, "Judging by the fact she can't even remember her name... That tells me she might have amnesia..."
Zooble's eye widens in shock before looking at the jester.
Kinger ponders for a moment, "Hmm... I supposed it's possible her memories could have been deleted... Or maybe simply put in the wrong place?" He looks down at the girls with a sad tone to his voice, "I hope they're not corrupted..."
Ragatha's eyebrows knit in worry, "Amnesia?! So she won't be able to remember the circus? Gummygoo? Everyone?" She looks into Pomni's eyes, "...Us?"
Seeing the confusion in her eyes... Ragatha holds her blue hand, "Pomni... Can you remember anything?"
Pomni pauses... The pinwheels in her eyes start to turn while she thinks... Eventually they stop while she looks into Ragatha's eyes, "Uh... No, not really? ...It's a bit fuzzy honestly." She squeezes her hand a little with a smile, "...But I do remember this. I think."
Ragatha squeezes her hand harder in return, "Then its a good thing we're all in this together, right?"
Pomni's heart hammers against her ribs upon seeing her smile, "I..." She feels herself blush a little, "Yeah!" Her eyes land on the rest of the group, "...Yeah, I'm... Glad you're all here with me."
Okay so like Gangle and Zooble were definitely dating during the series, right? Like 100% they got together somewhere along the line. (Besides the end credits of episode 9, I mean)
I like to think it was some time after episode 4 (Fast Food) and it turned into a secret, mostly due to Jax.
Zooble has parts that can turn into keys. She doesn't use them at all since it's not cool to invade people's privacy. But they always have the one for Gangle on their person.
Gangle doesn't really drink a lot, something Zooble knows. But will make her whatever she wants. Will give her a Shirley Temple to be cheeky (matching colors)
Gangle likes to draw them like her favorite anime couples. (I can SEE the Princess Utena references in my mind.) No one realized since she always keeps the drawings in her secret sketchbook in her room room, where Zooble watches her draw. Plus I don't think anyone else in the circus really watches a lot of anime. Especially shojo.
When no one was looking, Zooble would try to replicate food Gangle would describe or draw from an anime. If asked, they'd simply shrug and say they had a similar idea.
Kinger was actually the first to find out, technically. Though he doesn't remember. He's supportive in his own way though.
Then Ragatha found out and she thought it was very cute. (She also wants someone to flirt with her too) Gangle was nervous at first since she had a crush on Ragatha prior. Ragatha still has no clue.
Pomni found out by accident. She walked into one of the many rooms of the circus and saw them holding hands. Her pinwheel eyes spun around for a second before it clicked in her head. She then quickly stepped out of the room, like Ragatha in the ending credits.
The only person who didn't know/wasn't aware was Jax. Mostly because Zooble didn't want him to make fun of Gangle.
(Was planning on doing Life is Strange for this one but I really couldn't think of anything beyond Zooble and Gangle for it. I like to think all the protagonists besides Alex secretly dated at first.)
Fandom: Tougen Anki
Relationships: Ichinose Shiki/Kougasaki Jin
Events:
@au-roulette - College AU
Summer of Pride-This or That Trope Edition! Week 2: Roommates or Long Distance (x)
Summary:
The apartment wasn’t large by any means, but it had everything he needed. Jin’s eyes lingered upon a closed door as he walked by it. There were bullet hole stickers plastered all over it and a Keep Out sign in the middle. Crooked, as usual. He rolled his eyes and continued on his way.
His roommate was, well… ridiculous. That was putting it nicely. He knew the guy wouldn’t be up for another few hours. Even then it was likely he’d be late for his first class. Some people just weren’t built for 8am lectures. Jin didn’t particularly love them either, but he did like how much of the day he had left for himself because he’d scheduled early classes this semester. Even if said time was spent studying more often than not. Oh well.
He stepped into the kitchen and grabbed himself a bottle of water from the fridge along with the lunch he’d prepared last night. He looked at the other lunch there. Messy and somehow crooked, it was seemingly wrapped by a toddler who was in a hurry to move on. Really, his roommate was all kinds of hopeless.
