Here are your 2025 TF Rare Pairing Fest prompts! (Graphic by Aristiana)
In text form:
Week 1
October 12: Slasher Flicks//Shooting Star
October 13: West Side Story//Good Eating
October 14: K-pop Demon Hunters AU//Grace
October 15: Sandwich Shop//All That Jazz
October 16: Groundhog Day//What do you mean we’re out of __?
October 17: Are you sure that was the right button?//Grease
October 18: Singin' in the Rain//Peak Performance
Week 2
October 19: Bark at the Moon//Muffins and Coffee
October 20: Psychological Thriller//My Fair Lady
October 21: Clarion Call//I Saw You Looking Lonely
October 22: Dance Like Nobody Is Watching//Sky Full of Stars
October 23: Breakfast in Bed//Arts and Crafts
October 24: Going to the Aquarium//Slow Dance
October 25: Petsitting Chaos//It’s A Cold Day
Optional Bonus Theme: Recordicons/Mini-Cassettes
If you use the 2025 Bonus Theme, you'll get a special badge this year, in addition to the participation banners!
As always, if you have questions drop us a DM or email the mods at tfrare.pair(at) gmail!
hey everyone small life update + store reopening!!!
my partner and i are all moved into our new place with our kitties and settling in. my store is here and ready to go so i am holding a sale for older/less selling items i'm planning on phasing out. make sure to get them now before theyre gone!! 🫶
my acrylic charms are also now available for international as well! i am shipping from the US, so apologies for the high rates 🙏
please consider supporting us!! we are currently down a car due to someone hitting us head on (no injuries past bruising but my fugly car is totaled 💔) and i am still waiting on my job transfer. it would mean the world to us if you took a gander! :]
May 2nd, 2026 is the racing event we’ve all been waiting for: the Kentucky Derby Iacon Derby 2026!! We’re celebrating any and all Cybertronian racers - whether they’re a Velocitron native or tearing up the racetracks on Earth, it’s their time to shine!
Event details:
This is a one day, casual event to celebrate the poorest, most maligned members of Cybertron’s population: famous racers. They need your support!
Five prompts are available to you as part of this challenge - pick the one that speaks to you the most, combine at will, or just stick to your own whims; the prompts are here to inspire, not confine!
Post a drabble, draw a doodle, or just write up some meta about who you think really deserves to win this race! Every little bit counts, and no participation is too small.
You can find the prompts and more details (and some bonus rules that might just win you a fabulous prize!) below the cut.
Time to rev up and roll out!
Praise for Iacon Derby 2026:
“A Cybertronian is like a horse… if you think about it.” - Mod Rumble
“Well, they do run on horsepower.” - Mod Saberhorn
Event guidelines:
🚗 There is an AO3 Collection for this event. You can find out more about adding your work to a collection here.
🏇 If you want us to reblog your contribution to this event on Tumblr, please ping us @mtmtevents and tag your work with #mtmtevents and #iaconderby2026 - this gives us the best chance to celebrate your work!
We will continue to reblog and check the tags for a week after the event, and the AO3 Collection will remain open for the rest of the month of May. Don’t worry about getting everything done exactly on time - just have fun!
🚗 This event focuses on Racers in Transformers. OCs are acceptable, and characters that are not ‘canonically’ Racers would also be acceptable, as long as your contribution still centers around the idea/concept of “being a Racer”. They need to live and breathe (vent?) for the racetrack! This is their career, and they’re not planning on retiring tonight!
🏇 There is no word limit for this event; feel free to post a 100 word drabble, or a 10k fic. Give us your doodles, your long-winded ramblings, your fanvids. Whatever this event inspires you to create, we want to see it!
🚗 NSFW is allowed, and all that entails! Please tag your work, and please be sure to read the tags on AO3 before engaging with someone else’s work.
🏇 AI-generated content (including images, text, ‘reference’ posted in the work, etc.) is not permitted. This event is for fun! The AI can’t have fun for you.
🚗 Have a question that’s not answered here? Feel free to reach out to us by Askbox. There are two mods on this blog who both work fulltime, so we will do our best to answer any questions in a timely fashion, but please be patient! If you would like a question to be answered privately, please say so at the beginning of your message. All other asks will be answered publicly. (PSA: If the vibes are off, Teletraan-1’s automatic defense system will activate and delete your message.)
Prompts:
War Emblem
Genuine Risk
Foolish Pleasure
Always Dreaming
I’ll Have Another
BONUS PROMPT: Mystik Dan
BONUS BONUS PROMPT: Mystik Dan (the horse, specifically, it has to be the horse we’re not joking we want to see the horse in there)
Prizes:
There will be prizes posted for those who complete the Derby on its official date of May 2nd. Check back here on May 3rd to do a victory lap with us!
( @tfrarepairing @tfmicroevents @thebigbangblogproject if you wouldn't mind reblogging for exposure, that would be great!! 💚🏇)
@mtmtevents we are so sorry that we weren't able to promote your event for you! Tumblr decided hold all notifications for the Rare Pairing and Jazz Week accounts until the 28th and then dumped like sixty notifications in mod eerian's mailbox at once. Next time we'll do better!
Hey there all you Autobots, Decepticons, Neutrals and others! The moment you've all been waiting for is here!
It's the 2026 Jazz Week prompt list!
This year, we're changing things up just a little from the usual format and adding wild card prompts! These are prompts you can swap in for a day's prompts if you don't like either of them but still want a bit of direction for your fills. These are optional, like all Jazz Week prompts, but we hope they inspire.
Remember, Jazz Week is all ages, all ratings and all types of creative works! Create freely and tag appropriately (during posting in July) and have fun!
See you July 19th!
And, as always, the text version of the prompts for those of us who can't see the graphic:
July 19: Space//Light Show
July 20: Planning//Past & Future
July 21: Trio//Peekaboo
July 22: Swing time//Care
July 23: Telephone Game//Ballad
July 24: Avalanche//Heist
July 25: Oath//On patrol
더 많은 사웨재즈사웨 프로파간다가 필요합니다. 저희 사악한 jazzwave 일당들은 당신만을 믿고있습니다
zㅋㅋㅋㅋ구라가 아니라 바로 터져버렸습니다ㅠ 너무 웃기네요 그렇군요 이런 저라도 프로파간다를 위해 이 한 몸 불살러 질러 보겠습니다 이건 예전에 재즈 앤솔 축전으로 그렸던 만화인데 용기내어 프로파간다 한번 올려봅니다... 한국어ver는 트위터에 올려두었습니다 (파일 많아지니까 깨짐여ㅠㅠ
FOR MORE JAZZWAVE!!!
Rise up, evil Jazzwave nation!!!
We must unite!!! ✊😤
Hello hello! We're putting this out here early so everyone can plan on Rung Rarepair Week 2026! This will be running from June 21st through the 27th--see you then!
Hey everyone! This event has been going twice a year for a while now! I've been wondering what to do to keep folks interested and had considering that this might be better as a once a year event. However, there's always been some interest in canon Cybertronian/organic oc entries. If I were to host it, I would replace the summer event with it.
Would you be interested in a canon Cybertronian/organic oc ship week?
Our next TF Micro Event (after an accidental hiatus, sorry about that!) is Lambo Twins Weekend, a mini-fest dedicated to the Autobots' heavy hitters, Sideswipe & Sunstreaker!!
This is an all ages, all creation fest! Anyone can participate at any level, and bring any kind of fanwork! There are no maximums or minimums, just bring your Lambo Love! And be sure to celebrate both twins, please.
The theme for Lambo Twins Weekend is: GROUNDED
Use it as much or as little as you like, including ignoring it completely. Your creations are NOT required to include it, the theme is just for creators who like a little nudge.
Fills can be posted anywhere, but if you want us to share, make sure to @ tfmicroevents on Tumblr or Bluesky (and/or send us your offsite link)! (Currently, there is NOT an AO3 collection, but mod eerian is open to making one if there's enough demand.) Creations also do not have to be unique to the fest, but please don't post them before February 21 if you're double dipping.
Lastly, remember to have fun and don't stress! If you’re not finished by the 22nd, don't sweat it! We'll share any and all late creations!
Our next TF Micro Event (after an accidental hiatus, sorry about that!) is Lambo Twins Weekend, a mini-fest dedicated to the Autobots' heavy hitters, Sideswipe & Sunstreaker!!
This is an all ages, all creation fest! Anyone can participate at any level, and bring any kind of fanwork! There are no maximums or minimums, just bring your Lambo Love! And be sure to celebrate both twins, please.
The theme for Lambo Twins Weekend is: GROUNDED
Use it as much or as little as you like, including ignoring it completely. Your creations are NOT required to include it, the theme is just for creators who like a little nudge.
Fills can be posted anywhere, but if you want us to share, make sure to @ tfmicroevents on Tumblr or Bluesky (and/or send us your offsite link)! (Currently, there is NOT an AO3 collection, but mod eerian is open to making one if there's enough demand.) Creations also do not have to be unique to the fest, but please don't post them before February 21 if you're double dipping.
Lastly, remember to have fun and don't stress! If you’re not finished by the 22nd, don't sweat it! We'll share any and all late creations!
blaster, as a cogless carrier bot with no cassettes, sometimes experiences flares of pain in his spark. his spark is intended to support cassette bonds, but without those bonds it's unstable. given that at this point, none of the miners really know what cassettes are, all they can do for blaster is offer him a shoulder to lean on when he needs it. physical contact with others doesn't make the pain go away, per se, but it makes it a little easier to endure. smokescreen, by nature of being a part of blaster's mining team, is often the anchor that blaster holds onto during these moments
there is in fact a whole fic being written about this au and though it is mostly blaster-centric, smokey does feature pretty prominently in it hehehe
