#macnamander week

[macnamanderweek]

Would anyone be interested in this blog/event being revived for 2024?

It seems like Ship Weeks are having something of a renaissance in the Hatchetfield fandom as of late, especially since NPMD came out on Youtube.

[vesperione]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37481791

McNamander Week day 4:

Prompt: Many Dimensions

Major Character Death

Featuring: Xander lee, John McNamara, Wilbur cross, Charles, spitfire, stu, miss Holloway and some familiar faces 😉

Additional tags: they both die at the end AU, insanity, alternate dimensions, eldritch gods, fire, broken heart syndrome, straight angst, implied sexual content, tears, cigarettes, father figures, Xander lee rides a motorbike

Summary: They both get the call at midnight. They have so much to prove, yet they’re only 21 years old. Their lives have just started, and now they have to end. It can't be stopped. Death is only inevitable

TW/CW: Death by a room getting lit on fire and being caught in that fire, death by broken heart, suicidal implications, insanity, parental abuse, getting kicked out, homelessness, (mentioned) sexual content non descriptive

[violetheart77]

Heard that there was some kind of MacNamander event going on? And that the Day 1 theme was Stars or something like that . . . ?

I may or may not also have a more serious MacNamander Week entry coming up later this week (although would you believe me if I told you that I did genuinely approach this one with some level of serious thought about narrative/thematic visualization?)

Alternate versions under the cut because I’m that much of a menace to society

[nonbino-chaos-fox]

Oki so tell me about this Caleb James thing it looks interesting.

Also, give me some found family headcannons for califormia and Macnamander on the run pls I love them.

I get to ramble about both yay! :D (Sorry for the delay, got caught up in a meeting.)

Also, this is gonna be long so here is your break!

(And trigger warnings for: corrupt government groups; unethical experiments on children; kidnapping; death; mentions of bad family lives; violence;

Okay, gonna start out with the corrupt!peip au because it is the first one I want to talk about rn. (If you want to go straight to Caleb James, there is a marker for where that begins.)

So in the beginning, it is just John, Hannah, and Lex on the run together. At first, Lex really doesn't like John because she is a rebellious teenager and he works for the people who have just been psychologically tormenting her. But Hannah trusts him immediately (also helps that Webby tells her to trust him as well) and eventually Lex starts warming up to him.

During their time together on the run Lex and John form this weird snarky sarcastic father-daughter relationship where like 80% of what they say to each other is sarcasm, but Lex still doesn't fully trust him. Then at one point, they are staying in this small town under fake aliases and on the spot, Lex comes up with a lie that she and Hannah are John's daughters.

Hannah and John also bond a lot because they both have ASD and also John is really good at helping her out when she is having a panic attack. They don't spend a lot of the story directly interacting mainly because Lex is protective and she doesn't trust John at the start, but eventually they spend some time together and he kinda unofficially adopts him.

Then eventually Ethan turns up! Yay! John almost instantly adopts him as his son, and they bond a lot early on over their mutual love of mechanics and working with their hands. I don't have much of a plan for when Ethan arrives. But he probably arrives kinda wounded ('cause running from the government is dangerous) and John helps patch him up which instantly wins a bunch of approval from Lex. (Especially because they had gotten into an argument shortly before Ethan shows up.)

Then after a while (like a solid couple of months for the characters), we finally have the return of Xander! John is overjoyed to see him again and they have a very sweet reunion which is kinda interrupted by peip soldiers trying to kill them... again...

Xander is not really a person who gets along with kids much (social anxiety!Xander my beloved), but he eventually befriends them. Plus, him and Ethan bond over both of them having to go on month-long searches for the people they love.

Also, Xander and Hannah bond over art, because I feel like that, would be adorable and I am a big fan of artist!Xander as well.

So yeah, that is what I have planned for our chaotic weird found family who are on the run from the government.

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Now onto my personal original story:

Caleb James

"My name is Caleb James, I'm seventeen years old, and last week- I died."

I don't quite remember where this opening sentence came to me, but as soon as it did I was immediately hooked to this story that didn't even exist.

This is a story about a teenager who lived in a small town in a small family with a boring life. I mean sure there was always legends of ghosts and ghouls, but what small town doesn't?

His family wasn't anything strange, his dad was the local town pastor, his mum is a stay-at-home mum who sells pyramid schemes to her neighbours and friends, his older sister is a rebellious stoner, his younger brother is the golden child with his entire life planned out ahead of him.

But Caleb's just Caleb. He's the middle child, no expectations, no worries, no controversies, he is a boring kid with nothing important going on.

And then he died, he doesn't quite know how he did, but he's dead and buried. But his soul isn't in heaven or hell- it is in the wheatfields.

A week after he died he woke up in his childhood home all alone, the power still works, but there is no signal or internet and the tv is nothing but static. But there is something strange when he goes outside, his house isn't on the street he's been on for his entire life.

His house is in the middle of endless wheatfields.

He tried going through the wheatfields and it took him all day, but he ended right back up at his house. As if the world was looping on itself with the endless fields.

The story covers him trying to find out where he is, what happened to him, and what the creature in the wheatfields is. It follows both his afterlife in the Wheatfields and his life back when he was alive.

So yeah! Here are my rambles about corrupt!peip and also Caleb James! I really hoped you liked learning about what I have planned out and what these stories have to hold.

[vesperione]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37439770

Oh my god it’s me again hello tumblr x

Anyways meet mcnamander day 2

Let Me Hold You Before You’re Gone

Prompt: Mission

Featuring: Xander lee, Charles, spitfire, a handful of PEIP ocs and John 👍

Additional tags: Xander pov, Xander centred fic, John is mentioned for this reason, xanders a simp, (none of those tags are on ao3, the following are) oh wow it’s the apocalypse, angst, xanders 11PM mental breakdown, songfic, song: it won’t always be like this (inhaler), zombies apocalypse, but not like apotheosis, anyways, nightmare time spoilers

Summary: Xander managed to cross the bridge from Clivesdale to Hatchetfield just as a ruckus erupted in Hatchetfield. Now, he’s trapped in his house with his family while the man he loves is trapped with his egotistical husband. It’s been days. Xander’s tired. He needs to get to John and he needs to get to John now.

Content warnings: implied domestic abuse, favouritism within families, mild depictions of graphic zombie gore and several other things, thoughts of murder

Have a field trip with this one x

[vesperione]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37414084

you really didn’t think, even with the chaos that is Blue Bottles and Disinfectant, that i’d forget about THEM, would you?? Me? Statistically mcnamanders biggest fan?? How unfortunate of u and ur soul if u underestimated me

ANYWAYS

Mcnamander Week Day 1

Prompt: Stars

Title: The Stars Are Out And I’m Going To Bed

General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply

Featuring: Xander Lee, John McNamara, Howard Goodman and the mention of some PEIP Ocs

Tags: fluff, zoom, little shop of horrors, theatre kid Xander lee

Summary: John has a meeting with Howard Goodman in the early hours of the morning as that was the only time slot that they could both fit in. However, Xander demands to be present in the meeting, but fails to be awake. John now had to manage a meeting with the president and his fast asleep husband

[macnamanderweek]

Happy Valentine’s Day to 💖 Them 💖

[macnamanderweek]

Wake up dudes new MakeSweet Heart Locket gif template dropped

Only 3 more days until MacNamander Week officially starts!

[macnamanderweek]

Announcing MacNamander Week!

Hey all you Hatchetfans!

Do you love General John MacNamara and Xander Lee of the United States Military, Special Unit P.E.I.P.?

Do you especially like shipping them?

Do you wish there was more content of them in the Hatchetfield fandom?

Introducing a brand-new content-creating event all about our favorite PEIP partners!

When is MacNamander Week?

Since Black Friday was uploaded to Starkid’s Youtube on March 1, 2020, this event will run the week of February 27 to March 5!

Is there a daily prompt list for this event?

Yes!

February 27: Stars

February 28: Mission

March 1: Anniversary

March 2: Many Dimensions

March 3: Monsters & Men

March 4: Universal Truth

March 5: I Never Left

Please note that these prompts are only ideas/suggestions, NOT strict rules, so you can follow them as closely or as loosely as you want according to whatever they mean to you! Or if you have your own ideas, that’s awesome too!

What kinds of content can I make for MacNamander Week?

Any kind! Stories, art, moodboards, edits, headcanons, theories/meta—the only limit is your imagination!

Feel free to make your pieces as fluffy or angsty, action-packed or funny, or anything-at-all as you want!

Do I have to participate every single day to join MacNamander Week?

NOPE! You can do as many or as few of the days as you’d like—and don’t stress about getting your pieces posted on the exact day they were made for either. First and foremost this is supposed to be fun, after all!

How can I share my MacNamander Week pieces?

You can tag your work with #macnamanderweek to help people who are participating or otherwise interested in this event find it! Posts in that tag will also be shared on this page!

(*Note: Though this event “officially” uses the MacNamara/MacNamander spelling of John’s last name and the ship name, we will also check #mcnamanderweek for entries, so don’t stress if that’s the spelling you’re used to using!)

Are there any other rules/guidelines?

If applicable to your work, please use any relevant trigger warning/content warning tags when sharing. THIS INCLUDES NIGHTMARE TIME 2 SPOILERS!

Other than that, the only real rule is to Have Fun! :D

We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

[macnamanderweek]

ARE YA READY, KIDS?! MacNamander Week officially starts in just ONE WEEK!

[macnamanderweek]

MACNAMANDER WEEK IS OFFICIALLY HERE!

Remember to tag your posts with #macnamanderweek so we can find them to share here! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

[macnamanderweek]

Get hyped! MacNamander Week starts in two weeks!

[macnamanderweek]

If any of y’all are planning on writing/crossposting entries to AO3, would you be interested in a MacNamander Week collection on AO3 where you could add your works?

I’ve never started an AO3 collection before, but I’d definitely be up to trying it if it would be useful to participants for sharing works/finding other entries!

[macnamanderweek]

Three weeks until MacNamander Week starts! Who’s excited?!