#please don't tag this as ship though it's not

[charlosfest]

❤️Frequently Asked Questions💙

With enough time ahead for the fest to begin, we wanted to gather some information with questions you've had or may have. So, please read further to learn more about the #CharlosFest25

What is it?

The fest is a fandom event to celebrate the Charles Leclerc/Carlos Sainz ship within fandom spaces on the internet and with different fandom activities.

Is it only RPF?

No. Even though the theme has a shippy nature, you're welcome to celebrate Charlos as a duo without tapping into fictional discussions or doing more RPF things.

What kind of stuff can I create for this event?

Anything your heart craves to make! You can write, make fanart, graphics, web weaves, make a killer edit; you can crochet, you can even bake a cake and take a picture!

Where will the event be held?

The event will be hosted on AO3 and Tumblr. For AO3, we have the Charlos Fest 2025 Collection where the works published on AO3 will be preserved. And for Tumblr we'll be tracking #charlosfest25 to make sure we promote all the creations participants make throughout the posting period (August).

How does prompt submitting work?

Starting March, we will begin to receive prompt submissions on AO3. If you have an idea/prompt for a Charlos work (be it fanfic or fanart) you'd like to pitch, this will be the time for you to do it. Once creating process begins (in April), participants will claim the prompt(s) they want and start working on them.

Do I have to take multiple prompts? Can I do my own prompt?

You can take as many prompts as you wish and we will have 'blank' type of prompts for participants to claim and work whatever idea they have, if other prompts don't offer the same idea.

What is the minimum requirement for art, video edits and written works?

For fanart, you can do a colorized sketch at minimum. For video edits, at least 1 minute long. And for written works, the minimum wordcount is 1K (multi-chaptered works are welcome but your work must be new).

Are all ratings and tropes allowed?

Yes, anything goes. From gen to explicit, you can both submit prompts and create fanworks of any rating and trope ever seen in AO3, but, tagging properly is imperative.

How can I participate if I'm not a creator?

If you can't make stuff, you can still be part of the celebration as a reader & cheerleader. With the comment bingo, you'll be able to boost and show your excitement for what other participants are doing!

SCHEDULE || COMMENT BINGO (coming soon) || ASK MORE

[rareomens]

Oh hey, no. Don't do that. Please.

This is a bit of a read but I've spent a long time thinking and editing, and I'm saying this all gently but seriously.

I imagine the above was NOT intentionally said to prick anyone's emotions, but this kind of comment on Rare Omens prompts is like saying it about any of them. It reminds me that so many of these pairs are only tolerated at best by the majority of folks in the fandom. (Every one of these prompts has people who don't like or even actively hate them. Take a look at the prompt list in our pinned post, and marvel at that statement but know it to be true.)

This prompt month event has a "don't like? ignore it and move on" policy. Trust me from experience with my own rare ships: we hear the disgust or hate enough, we know others aren't into it.

If you don't like something, that's okay! If you want to talk about not liking it, that's also okay. BUT PLEASE don't reply to people who are clearly having their fun in a post. It's not necessary and it only makes people feel badly to see it directly in the notifs. It only digs away at feeling welcome to whatever we get from enjoying a pair (or OT3, or polycule, etc). And that can lead to feeling unwelcome in the wider fandom the rest of the time... which is absolutely devastating to feel.

You can post separately and start a conversation to find people who feel similarly if you feel strongly and want to have those conversations—though hating on rare pairs/characters is common and such posts are probably not necessary. Anyone doing so: please DO NOT TAG a ship in your tags when hating on it. Bc the people most likely searching that tag? They DO like it, and don't need to wade through a bunch of negative comments to find fellow fans.

I started Rare Omens bc it was hard to find transformative works for ships I liked (be it as a couple or ANY OTHER way you can pair characters up—as a reminder: it doesn't have to be NSFW; it doesn't have to be SFW either of course). I wanted to find other people who enjoyed what I enjoyed. And to help people experiment with making stories and art they otherwise might never have thought about. And it has gone really well! I've seen NSFW ships, and friend ships, and respected enemies, hated enemies, and AUs of all shapes. Participants over the years have mentioned that they never would've thought to try writing certain characters in stories or draw them off on adventures. THAT, I love. We know there's ever anyone out there excited for their faves and waiting for it.

I also want to say...

I saw this reply earlier today but I was out at a showing of Macbeth where I made the acquaintance of a bunch of Good Omens fans (ranging in age from 20s to 60s at a guess). One of them even cosplays Metatron, and their Crowley and Aziraphale showed pics. It was real fun to see them include a rarer character in their cosplay group. I didn't have a chance to reply to this until now, and I'm glad I waited. I'm thinking about that cosplayer too: it can be disheartening to see "your" rare character excluded from the fun of transformative works.

Right. All this to say:

Please be kind to your fellow fans, even when they're playing with the dolls in ways you would never.

We don't have to force ourselves to like anything or interact with it (in fact: don't interact, talk privately to your friends who understand), but we gotta let people have their sandbox too. Because if we're excluding our weirdest and wildest takes, the most gloriously crackfic pairings possible, then we're not safe for anyone. We're not transforming anything.

Ship and let ship.

Thank you.

It’s Rare Omens 2025 Day 4

Aziraphale and Metatron!

Are the Guardian and the Voice lovers, enemies, siblings, friends, work colleagues? Share your prompt fills of the Guardian and the Voice and tag us.

You can also post to the **AO3 collection** Rare_Omens, which we'll check regularly throughout the prompt month.

[prick-love-for-arting]

my piece for the @hqelectricboogalooexchange

a take on Modern Magic with Ennoshita, Mai, and Akaashi. (aka my excuse to stare at my Mucha postcards and have fun with lighting)

for @a-flux-uchiha

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[fluttershybunny]

moree ajc art ~ + the ajc art i just made to send back to people who send me nice jamagrams >x< <3333 my beloveds

[butterflysonnets]

yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

[solivagantingrebel]

The commenting situation in this fandom is really fucking atrocious, huh.

[shoechoe]

I think the most unrealistic thing to me about Invader Zim is the fact that Dib instantly hates Zim. Like maybe this is just me but if I was an elementary schooler that was obsessed with outer space and paranormal entities living in a borderline-dystopian corporate hellscape and my dad neglected me, I had no friends whatsoever, all of my classmates hated and bullied me for being weird, and nobody ever listened to me or took me seriously, and then one day an alien in disguise showed up in class that only I could tell was an alien, I would absolutely not declare myself his mortal enemy and try to capture him to have him killed and dissected for the good of the human race. I would beg to be his best friend and hope he would take me with him as the world blows up

[whenthelightisrunninglow]

for some reason i always think of them when i see that screenshot idk why

[jeanne-de-valois]

doctor huh??????????

(on my current rewatch of new who I'm still stuck in 10 zone, and thus have to admit to something terrible. Apparently I am a Doctor multishipper to the degree that I've clowned myself into shipping Doctor/Donna romantically. I won't apologize for it, they protested too much and made me think about it. )

[happyocelot]

I think people need to reread Naruto and realize that the main plot of Naruto, was in fact, his journey to become Hokage. The manga started with Naruto wanting to become Hokage and ended with him becoming Hokage.

I saw some shipping war stuff a few hours ago with people arguing with @hyuga-eyes, trying to invalidate the canon NaruHina pairing by saying that the main plot of Naruto was saving Sasuke.

In fact, saving Sasuke was introduced as a subplot only at the very end of part 1/beginning of Shippuden. Hundreds of chapters/episodes into the series.

So you tell me, what was the main plot before then? You know, during the Land of Waves, Chuunin Exams, Konoha Crush, and so on? And the many other important things Naruto did throughout the series that didn't have much connection to saving Sasuke at all, like befriending Kurama, meeting his parents, fighting in the war, fighting Pain, learning Sage Mode, searching for Tsunade, learning Rasengan...I could go on and on.

I fully understand that his friendship with Sasuke was an important part of his journey, but it was still a PART of his journey, not the whole journey. And there's no need to invalidate his relationships with his other friends (including Hinata). They were an important part of his journey too.

[nostalgia-tblr]

"are people not into that?" i ask, after posting my weird niche shit to the internet, despite knowing it to be weird niche shit.

[wolverineheight]

get his tits out gmonday (this is not ship art ty)

[nozoroomie]

I'm only slightly sorry for all the Wicked posting gang. They got me good. They really, really did.

[crescentfool]

on spoiler tags

since reload is coming out soon, i wanted to give people some heads up for tags i'll be using as a courtesy. please curate your experience accordingly! if you haven't used the mute feature, here's how to 👍

i will continue to use #persona 3 for all posts related to p3 (it's my main tag)

for posts about reload specifically, i'll be using #persona 3 reload, but it might also be worthwhile to mute the abbreviations #p3r and #p3re.

for the people who don't know anything about p3, i will attempt to tag spoilers for p3's events as #persona 3 spoilers but i cannot guarantee that i will remember to do so...

i hope everyone enjoys their experience with the game! i will still post here occasionally, but in general i'll be steering clear of socmed until i'm finished with reload.

tangentially related- i expect splatoon 3's side order dlc to come out during this time. all stuff related to that dlc will be tagged with #side order and will also be tagged as #splatoon (main tag)

thank you for your time! enjoy gaming, and remember to drink water 🥤

[thatpersonwhosaidtheywouldnt]

If the Wally West tag is gonna be flooded with the birdflash art, I need ya'll to start respecting my man and giving him his closed cowl. I swear all birdflash art is Wally with his Rebirth knock-off Kid Flash suit.