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Gigolas Week 2026

I'm here to announce that I'm gonna be hosting Gigolas Week this year (and hopefully the years coming)! Rules, prompts, and extra tidbits below! :) 

To add your post to this blog, you can tag it with #gigolasweek2026 and tag me @gigolas-week , OR submit it through the submissions box on my profile <3

I apologize, I dont really know how Ao3 collections work, so if something goes wrong, please message me @beetletusked or leave a comment under this post. Feel free to message me if you have any questions as well!!

GIGOLAS WEEK RULES

✦ The media HAS to be gigolas focused.
- (Poly ships that include gigolas (ex: poly hunters) are ok :))

✦ Any kinds of media are allowed! Edits, moodboards, fics, art, photography, etc. Create to your heart's desire! (Can be both SFW and NSFW. ;))

✦ To be put on the masterlist / reblogged, please tag your post with #gigolasweek2026 and or tag me at @gigolas-week on tumblr :)

✦ ALL PROMPTS (and dates) ARE OPTIONAL! You can create whatever, whenever :)
GIGOLAS WEEK Ao3 RULES

✦ The media HAS to be gigolas focused.
- (Poly ships that include gigolas (ex: poly hunters) are ok :))

✦ Fanfics can be both NSFW and SFW! Go nuts!!

✦ To be put on the collection, please tag your post with #gigolasweek2026 and submit it to the gigolas-week-2026 collection on ao3 by @/beetletusk, right here!

✦ ALL PROMPTS (and dates) ARE OPTIONAL! You can create whatever, whenever :)
┈┈・ Prompts ・┈┈

Day 1, August 23
-  Courting ✦ Accidental Confession
- Sex Pollen / Aphrodisiacs ✦ Mutual Masturbation

Day 2, August 24, 
- Gifts ✦ Stone
- Size Difference ✦ BDSM

Day 3, August 25, 
- Alternate First meeting ✦ Meet Cute
- Somnophilia ✦ Frottage

Day 4, August 26, 
- Firsts ✦ Celebration
- Overstimulation ✦ Multiple Orgasms

Day 5, August 27, 
- Language ✦ Miscommunication
- Face Sitting / Fucking ✦ Riding

Day 6, August 28, 
- Competition ✦ Rivalry
- Marking ✦ Posession

Day 7, August 29, 
- FREEFORM!!!

Innumerable Stars 2026

The 2026 schedule:

Nominations Open: Sunday, 02 August 2026, 8:00 PM UTC 
Nominations Close: Sunday, 16 August 2026, 8:00 PM UTC
Sign-ups Open: Sunday, 16 August 2026, 11:59 PM UTC
Sign-ups Close: Sunday, 30 August 2026, 8:00 PM UTC
Assignments Out: Monday, 31 August 2026, 8:00 PM UTC
Assignments Due: Sunday, 11 October 2026, 8:00 PM UTC
Works Revealed: Sunday, 18 October 2026, 8:00 PM UTC
Authors Revealed: Sunday, 25 October 2026, 8:00 PM UTC

Silvergifting Week 2026

Silvergifting Week 2026 info 

The fifth year of Silvergifting Week will run August 10-16, 2026!

Silvergifting Week is a Tolkien fandom event on Tumblr. This event encourages creating fanworks that prominently feature a romantic, sexual, or queerplatonic relationship between Celebrimbor and Mairon | Sauron | Annatar.

All kinds of fanworks are welcome as long as they are created by you: fan art, fan fiction, headcanon, moodboard, fan craft, playlist, cosplay, meta, etc. This is mainly a Silmarillion fandom event, but it also welcomes fanworks inspired by the Rings of Power television series.

Do not use generative AI. Fanworks made using generative AI are not accepted.

The tag of the event is #silvergiftingweek. When posting, use this tag and/or tag this blog @silvergiftingweek. This blog will reblog all submitted works. Please respect general Tumblr content posting rules when participating in this event. Mature and potentially triggering content should be marked as such and posted under cut.

The list of prompts for year 2026 can be found here.

Happy creating!

Prompts

Day 1 | August 10 First meeting First time Fluff

Day 2 | August 11 Soulmates Attraction Spicy

Day 3 | August 12 Sunrise Eclipse Burning

Day 4 | August 13 Living in Ost-in-Edhil Forbidden experiments Dark Academia

Day 5 | August 14 Hurt/comfort Betrayal Manipulation

Day 6 | August 15 Alternative first meeting Canon divergence AU Offspring

Day 7 | August 16 Valinor Post-canon Modern AU

The prompts are totally optional, they are just for inspiration!

The sun-themed prompts for Day 3 | August 12 are to celebrate the total solar eclipse happening on that day.

Celedriel Week 2026

Celedriel Week 2026 Prompts

July 14 
First Meetings, Impressions, The Heart Stirs 
A Gaze Caught. The Fire Ignites. 
“Is this the love they speak of in songs and poems?”

July 15 
Dedication. Courtship. The Heart Blooms. 
Gifts of Love. Words and Songs. 
“Oh beloved mine, where might I rest but your embrace?”

July 16 
Marriage, Vows, The Heart Bound in Love 
An Exchange of Rings. Melding of Houses. 
“This I vow from here on forth, and beyond the world’s end.”

July 17 
Kingdoms. Refuge. The Heart Endures 
Crowns of Silver. Realms Rise and Fall.  
“With you by my side, I have nothing to fear.”

July 18
Separation. Conflict. The Heart Grieves. 
War and Loss. When Paths Diverge. 
“How far will the lonely road take us before we renew our love again?”

July 19 
Lothlorien. Children. The Heart Heals. 
When Wounds Mend. The Throne of Elvendom.  
“By our toil, future generations shall persist before the Shadow.”

July 20 
The West. Undying Love. The Heart is Eternal 
Beyond the Tribulations. The Last Ship. 
“In the end, it is you and I who remain past the fading of the ancient days.”

Esoteric Tolkien Week 2026

That's right, Esoteric Tolkien Week, your center for all things strange, mystical, inexplicable, and unfathomed in Arda and beyond, is back for round two! We are open to all types and ratings of fanwork, and are eager to welcome returners and new faces alike. A few bits of useful tattle for the moment:

• Further information and event guidelines can be found here
• Event planned to run July 13th - 19th, 2026
• An ao3 collection will open closer to the run date—if you have any work hanging around that you'd like to submit now, or just want to get inspired, you can find the small but mighty 2025 collection here

Prompts

Day 1 - Lands, Wander, Documents

Day 2 - Waters, Return, Music

Day 3 - Skies, Demand, Inventions

Day 4 - Underground, Trammel, Relics

Day 5 - Ruins, Bargain, Art

Day 6 - In the Dark, Endure, Weapons & Armor

Day 7 - At Home, Abandon, Gifts

Tolkien Gen Week 2026

Tolkien Gen Week will run from July 6-12, 2026!

This is a week to appreciate all of the incredible characters and relationships within Tolkien’s legendarium that fall under the broad category of “gen.” There is a great wealth of wonderful gen content in the Tolkien fandom, but those creations are not always the most visible because of the shipping-focused nature of fandom at large. This week is an effort to give them the appreciation they deserve.

This year, Tolkien Gen Week will run from July 6-12, 2026!

Any content and creations are welcome as long as it is non-romantic and non-sexual! You can create edits, gifs, fanart, fanfic, fanmixes, and more! Please tag your posts with #tolkiengenweek AND @ mention this blog @tolkiengenweek so they can be easily found. If your submission turns into a long post, please put what you can beneath a “Keep reading” divider. You may also post your creations to our AO3 collection.

Below are some prompts for each day of the week. They are not mandatory, but they are here to inspire you. This post will lead to an explanation for each one.

1. DAY ONE: Family ● Mentorships ● Community
2. DAY TWO: Friendship ● Animals ● Group Dynamic
3. DAY THREE: Gray Spaces ● Enemies and Rivalries ● Fealty
4. DAY FOUR: Solo ● Work and Craft ● Language
5. DAY FIVE: Culture ● Diversity ● Traditions
6. DAY SIX: Environment ● Places ● Objects and Symbols
7. DAY SEVEN: Freeform

This event is being organized by @arofili. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to message this blog or my main.

For further clarification, check out our FAQ, code of conduct, and prompts pages! Happy creating!!

Tolkien Disability Pride 2026

Starting July 1st ObscureDurins will be hosting

TOLKIEN DISABILITY PRIDE

This event focuses on ALL creative works focusing on disability in Tolkien's universe.

You can do worldbuilding, fan fic, fan art, share a favorite character, your favorite headcanons, write a song, poem, show us your LOTRO Oc!ANYTHING providing-

• Absolutely NO USE OF AI IN ANY PART OF THE PROCESS
• Ableism and violence against Disabled character should be done with nuance and plot in mind. Remember this is a pride event we are more than willing to have dead dove- provided it is done justly and tactfully.
• Tag all your works appropriately and place under a read more.

Tag: "tolkien disability pride" AND "obscuredurins" to get your work featured.

We have an AO3 collection!

This is a spoonie friendly event! We accept past works, WIPS, and encourage this as our time to display PRIDE in our community.

Tolkien Native Language Appreciation Fest 2026

And we are on year #2 of organizing this fest! Last year's edition went fairly smoothly, hopefully this year we will see more people participating!

As mentioned, this is an event aimed to celebrate the diversity in the Tolkien fandom, which takes inspiration both by Tolkien’s profession as a linguist and inventor of all the languages in his opus, and his own characters’ prowess in several languages.

Not only this, but diversity also in the fandom itself! The Tolkien fandom encompasses quite literally the entire world!

So here we are, on year two, organizing this fest as a celebration once again!

As per usual, here's the details!

The event will take place the week between the 16th June and the 22nd June.

To be able to participate, please follow the below steps.

• Reblog this post and follow this blog.
• Use #jrrtlanguagefest preferably in the first five tags, so I am able to reblog your creations
• Mention the languages used in the caption of your post - a translation is encouraged so everyone can enjoy your creations
• There is no limit per day, you can post as many creations as you wish.
• You can submit any form of creation, from art, to writing, to music, even to crafts!
• Please tag the language you are using. A translation is optional, but appreciated

For rules and guidelines, please see the FAQ post.

Please refer to the pinned post on Tumblr for all useful links!

Feel free to send the moderators a message or an ask should you need further clarification!

Scribbles and Drabbles 2026

June 1: Sign-ups and art submissions open 
July 7: Artist sign-ups close 
July 19: Art submissions close 
July 24: Gallery opens 
July 25 & 26: Art viewing parties 
July 30: Author sign-ups close
August 1: Claims Day (Times to be announced) 
August 2: Additional Claims Open 
August 3: Art posting begins 
November 1: Drop-out without penalty deadline 
November 15: Fic submission deadline 
November 28: Reveals! 

Russingon Week 2026

Russingon Week will run from June 15th to June 21st, 2026.

Rules

1. Be kind and courteous! No shaming, harassment, or bigotry will be tolerated.
2. Works featuring any interpretations, themes, and topics are welcome. We encourage creators to use appropriate archive tags and content warnings where needed.
3. Creations of any sort (fanfic, fan art, meta, moodboard, fan song, rec list, interpretive dance, rescuing a loved one who is currently chained to a cliff) are encouraged! <3

How to Participate

• Make a work of any sort that centers a romantic or queerplatonic relationship between Maedhros and Fingon. If you post on tumblr, @ this blog (russingon-week) or tag it #russingonweek and we’ll reblog it!
• Sometimes tumblr notifs can be wonky, so feel free to message us or send us an ask if we haven’t noticed/reblogged your work.
• You can also feel free to anonymously submit anything you’d like using the “submit” function on the blog.
• We’ll provide a link to the AO3 collection once that’s live. :)

🦅Russingon Week 2026: Prompts!🦅

Russingon Week will be running next month, from June 15th - June 21st 2026! If you’re wondering what to work on, here are some prompts for inspiration; these are of course entirely optional and here just to inspire you.

Day 1 – June 15th: LIGHT

• Valinor
• Youth
• Truth and integrity
• Poetry, song, and unusual word-craft
• Fairy tale AU

Day 2 – June 16th: GOLD

• Kingship and royalty
• Beleriand
• Gifts
• Physical media, cloth, fiber-craft
• Canon divergence AU

Day 3 – June 17th: DARKNESS

• Lies and deceit, hidden things
• Maedhros’ captivity
• The Helcaraxë
• Audio fanworks (music, audiofics, playlists etc)

Day 4 – June 18th: BLOOD

• Kinslayings
• Fathers and loyalty
• Nirnaeth Arnoediad: “his blue and silver banner…”
• Painting and writing, in and out of universe
• Wild West AU

Day 5 – June 19th: FIRE

• Dagor Bragollach
• Fingon’s kingship
• Explicit and heated fanworks
• Weaponry
• Rebirth

Day 6 – June 20th: AIR

• Rescue from Thangorodrim
• Scent and touch
• Fix-its
• Conversations, dialogue-fics, ósanwë
• Line-art, simplistic, or black and white art

Day 7 – June 21st: SEA

• Beginnings and endings
• Brothers and family
• Travel & Journeys
• Diary, epistolary, and travel logs
• Fusion AUs