May the 4th Be With You 2026 Schedule and Quick Links
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Schedule:
(all times are 23:59 UTC unless noted -- dates may be on a different calendar day for you due to time zones)
Feb 6 - Feb 20: Nominations
Feb 13 - Feb 21: Sign ups
Apr 18: Early default deadline
Apr 25: Assignments due
Apr 26 - May 3: Pinch hits, treats, last minute flailing and panic
May 4 00:01 UTC: Works go live
May 11 00:01 UTC: Creators revealed
May the 4th 2026 Archive | May the 4th 2026 Tag Set | Sign Up Form | Requests Summary | Grab Bag | Automagic App List of Requests | Treat Tracker Spreadsheet
Contact the mods by replying to posts or by email: maythe4thmod@gmail.com
Schedule:
(all times are 23:59 UTC unless noted -- dates may be on a different calendar day for you due to time zones)
Feb 6 - Feb 20: Nominations
Feb 13 - Feb 21: Sign ups
Apr 18: Early default deadline
Apr 25: Assignments due
Apr 26 - May 3: Pinch hits, treats, last minute flailing and panic
May 4 00:01 UTC: Works go live
May 11 00:01 UTC: Creators revealed
Contact the mods by replying to posts or by email: maythe4thmod@gmail.com
[multifandom] We Eat Dead Doves Post Mortem drabble prompt challenge - PROMPT SUBMISSIONS OPEN!
Jan. 22nd, 2026 11:08 pmTags:
- fandom: multifandom,
- format: fest/prompt claiming,
- format: prompt submissions,
- frequency: monthly,
- keyword: crackfic,
- keyword: dead dove,
- keyword: fluff/schmoop,
- keyword: kink,
- keyword: proshipping,
- medium: any/multi,
- posting: 2026-02 (feb),
- sign-up/claiming: not required,
- site: ao3,
- site: discord,
- site: dreamwidth
Pinch Hits #5-6, 10-13
Jan. 20th, 2026 11:22 amrfemod posting in rarefemslashexchangeThere are currently six pinch hits, three new and three recurring. They will be due at the same time as assignments, on February 6th, 10PM PST. [Countdown] [In Your Timezone]
To claim a pinch hit, you can comment on this post (comments are screened) with your AO3 username and the pinch hit # that you want or you can reach out via email at rarefemslashexchangemod@gmail.com. While you can comment anonymously, please remember that you won't be able to get notified or see the reply.
( Pinch Hit #5 (fic): Psychonauts (Video Games), Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Dragon Ball, Tekken (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) )
( Pinch Hit #6 (fic): 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, Cage of Roses (Visual Novel), Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) )
( Pinch Hit #10 (fic): aoen (Band), &TEAM (Band), Dark Moon: The Grey City (Webcomic) )
CLAIMED!( Pinch Hit #11 (fic): Original Work, All the Hearts You Eat - Hailey Piper, Fugue Across Worlds, The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan )
CLAIMED!( Pinch Hit #12 (fic): Emelan - Tamora Pierce, Crossover Fandom (Leverage/Legally Blonde, Leverage/SWST, Leverage/Eureka, Tortall/SWST, Wednesday/BTVS), Twelfth Night - Shakespeare, Doctor Who (2005), Leverage (US TV 2008),Palia (Video Game) )
( Pinch Hit #13 (fic): Succession (TV 2018), Be More Chill - Iconis/Tracz, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, 新世界狂歡｜NU: carnival (Video Game) )
To claim a pinch hit, you can comment on this post (comments are screened) with your AO3 username and the pinch hit # that you want or you can reach out via email at rarefemslashexchangemod@gmail.com. While you can comment anonymously, please remember that you won't be able to get notified or see the reply.
( Pinch Hit #5 (fic): Psychonauts (Video Games), Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Dragon Ball, Tekken (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) )
( Pinch Hit #6 (fic): 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, Cage of Roses (Visual Novel), Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) )
( Pinch Hit #10 (fic): aoen (Band), &TEAM (Band), Dark Moon: The Grey City (Webcomic) )
CLAIMED!
CLAIMED!
( Pinch Hit #13 (fic): Succession (TV 2018), Be More Chill - Iconis/Tracz, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, 新世界狂歡｜NU: carnival (Video Game) )
Works Due This Saturday; 'Ware Outage
Jan. 20th, 2026 11:07 pmmodzilla posting in fffxGood luck everyone!
Works are due at 11:59pm EST, Saturday 24 January | see countdown.
That's soon.
Additionally, AO3 is going down for 15 hours on January 21st. So you won't be able to upload a draft or check your assignment on AO3 during that time.
Good news! You can always check the details of a prompt at the app.
This is a great time to check your recipient's Do-Not-Wants - because if your story or comic overlaps with an unwanted topic, you still have time to change it, check with a beta, send your recipient a question through me, or default.
Good luck again to everyone currently working!
Works are due at 11:59pm EST, Saturday 24 January | see countdown.
That's soon.
Additionally, AO3 is going down for 15 hours on January 21st. So you won't be able to upload a draft or check your assignment on AO3 during that time.
Good news! You can always check the details of a prompt at the app.
This is a great time to check your recipient's Do-Not-Wants - because if your story or comic overlaps with an unwanted topic, you still have time to change it, check with a beta, send your recipient a question through me, or default.
Good luck again to everyone currently working!
Chat corner 2026-03, socially awkward edition
Jan. 19th, 2026 08:03 pmannathecrow posting in dreamwarsHi,
welcome to the weekly chat corner. Have anything SW-related to talk about? Come and tell us.
~ ~ ~
Do you ever interact with Star Wars fans who aren't shipping-fandom fans? What has it been like?
I have a coworker who's a SW fan, and it's weird. He knows a lot of the lore, especially the older EU stuff, so I've had some really good talks with him, but the amount of times I did a tire-screech stop in the middle of saying something because oh SHIT, nope, that's shipping fandom, I will not openly admit to the guy I've read erotica about his favorite character...! XD
Pinch Hitters' Prompts: Round 6
Jan. 14th, 2026 01:37 ammodzilla posting in fffxGREAT GRATZ (gratitude and congratulations) to pinch hitters! We have several outstanding pinch hits to claim.
If anyone has a pinch hit for this round of fffx but did not sign up at the start of the exchange to get both an assignment and a gift, you are welcome to leave prompts of your own here, in the comments. This round's tag set contains fandoms, characters, ships, and concepts that participants are already interested in, but you don't have to stick to what's already there - give prompts for whatever fandom(s) you want.
Please give your AO3 name and specify if you're interested in art, fic, or both. Please do not say whose pinch hit you are working on. Please make sure your AO3 preferences are set to allow you to receive unassigned gifts.
There is no minimum treat length - works submitted in response to these prompts may be shorter than 20 panels or 5,000 words.
Works for pinch hitters (including treats for past pinch hitters, at the tag) can be counted towards the achievements attriplecrownofexchanges (should they be resurrected). Or, if you were considering a treat in this exchange (thank you) and the existing requests haven't sparked an idea yet, maybe a new prompt will.
If anyone has a pinch hit for this round of fffx but did not sign up at the start of the exchange to get both an assignment and a gift, you are welcome to leave prompts of your own here, in the comments. This round's tag set contains fandoms, characters, ships, and concepts that participants are already interested in, but you don't have to stick to what's already there - give prompts for whatever fandom(s) you want.
Please give your AO3 name and specify if you're interested in art, fic, or both. Please do not say whose pinch hit you are working on. Please make sure your AO3 preferences are set to allow you to receive unassigned gifts.
There is no minimum treat length - works submitted in response to these prompts may be shorter than 20 panels or 5,000 words.
Works for pinch hitters (including treats for past pinch hitters, at the tag) can be counted towards the achievements at
triplecrownofexchanges (should they be resurrected). Or, if you were considering a treat in this exchange (thank you) and the existing requests haven't sparked an idea yet, maybe a new prompt will.Pinch hits #4, 18, 23, 28, 30, 32, 39-41, 45, 47-50
Jan. 14th, 2026 01:24 ammodzilla posting in fffxHappy New Year! Works are now due this year - this MONTH - happily not quite this week.
The following pinch hits are due at 11:59pm EST, Saturday 7 February. That's a little under four weeks from this post, and two weeks after the main deadline. To claim, please reply with your AO3 name, and let me know which recipient/PH number you want. You're also welcome to claim by emailing mod.modzilla@gmail.com. You can swap from your current assignment to a pinch hit; if so, please say that's what you're doing - otherwise I'll assume you're picking up an assignment on top of any current assignments.
Minimum requirements: An art gift must be a completed comic at least 10 pages or 40 panels long; a fic gift must be a story at least 10,000 words long. You can also fulfil a pinch hit by giving two complete half-length works, if your recipient has opted into that for the fandom(s) you are creating in. Any work must be for a fandom your recipient has requested and one character/relationship/worldbuilding tag requested in that fandom, and must avoid their DNWs.
Pinch hits can now be claimed in 5k or 20-panel increments if the recipient has opted into receiving half-length works. Please say in your claim if you're claiming a pinch hit for 5k (fic) or 20 panels (comic), and for what fandom.
( Pinch hit #4 - art, fic [varies by request] - 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends, Thor (Movies), Hannibal (TV) )
( Pinch hit #18 - fic - Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling, Crossover Fandom x2 [Grimm TV/Guardian TV, Grimm TV/Christabel - Coleridge], 长公主在上 | Zhǎng Gōng Zhǔ Zài Shàng (Web Series), 绅探 | Detective L (TV) )
( Pinch hit #23 - art, fic [varies by request] - Shadow of the Leviathan - Robert Jackson Bennett, LitenVerse - Nino Cipri, Stellar Harvest series - Eleanor Arnason, Original Work, Crossover Fandom [Queen's Gambit TV/Man Who Fell To Earth 1976], The Breakfast Club (1985) )
( Pinch hit #28 - art, fic [varies by request] - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) x2, Overwatch (Video Game), Slow Horses (TV), Brew Solves - Fandom, Dangan Ronpa Series, Death Note (Anime & Manga) )
( Pinch hit #30 - fic - 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, The Fall of the House of Usher (TV 2023), 成化十四年 | The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty (TV), Among Us (Video Game), F1 (Movie 2025), One Piece (Anime & Manga), 重启之极海听雷 | Reunion: The Sound of the Providence (TV 2020) )
( Pinch hit #32 - fic - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), Murder She Wrote, Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon), G.I. Joe (Cartoon), Voltron: Lion Force (1984) )
( PARTLY CLAIMED - Pinch hit #39 - fic - Stargate Atlantis, Kolja | Kolya (1996), Cesta do pravěku | Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955), Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies) )
This pinch hit can be fulfilled with one 5k story.
( Pinch hit #41 - fic - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, DCU (Comics, Numb3rs (TV) )
( Pinch hit #45 - art, fic [varies by request] - Dragon Age (Video Games), Breaking Bad, Succession (TV 2018), The Owl House (Cartoon), Falsettos - Lapine/Finn )
( Pinch hit #49 - art, fic [varies by request] - NoPixel (Web Series), Crossover Fandom [various], 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, Video Blogging RPF, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), Sakamoto Days (Anime), Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF) ここは今から倫理です。| Koko wa Ima Kara Rinri Desu | From Now On We Begin Ethics (Manga), 吸血鬼すぐ死ぬ | Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu | The Vampire Dies in No Time (Anime), Bandom )
Pinch hit #40 - art, fic - ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Superman (Movie 2025), Original Work, The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
Pinch hit #47 - art, fic - Hetalia (Anime & Manga), Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Star Wars Original Trilogy, The White Vault (Podcast), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Pinch hit #48 - art, fic [varies by request] - Final Fantasy XII, Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1995), Original Work x2, Vampire: The Masquerade, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
Pinch hit #50 - art, fic - ヲタクに恋は難しい | Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii | Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Anime), Digimon Adventure Zero Two | Digimon Adventure 02, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Haikyuu!!, 月刊少女野崎くん | Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Dramacon (Comics), And Another Lovely Day (Webcomic), SK8 the Infinity (Anime), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney, Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types
The following pinch hits are due at 11:59pm EST, Saturday 7 February. That's a little under four weeks from this post, and two weeks after the main deadline. To claim, please reply with your AO3 name, and let me know which recipient/PH number you want. You're also welcome to claim by emailing mod.modzilla@gmail.com. You can swap from your current assignment to a pinch hit; if so, please say that's what you're doing - otherwise I'll assume you're picking up an assignment on top of any current assignments.
Minimum requirements: An art gift must be a completed comic at least 10 pages or 40 panels long; a fic gift must be a story at least 10,000 words long. You can also fulfil a pinch hit by giving two complete half-length works, if your recipient has opted into that for the fandom(s) you are creating in. Any work must be for a fandom your recipient has requested and one character/relationship/worldbuilding tag requested in that fandom, and must avoid their DNWs.
Pinch hits can now be claimed in 5k or 20-panel increments if the recipient has opted into receiving half-length works. Please say in your claim if you're claiming a pinch hit for 5k (fic) or 20 panels (comic), and for what fandom.
( Pinch hit #4 - art, fic [varies by request] - 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends, Thor (Movies), Hannibal (TV) )
( Pinch hit #18 - fic - Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling, Crossover Fandom x2 [Grimm TV/Guardian TV, Grimm TV/Christabel - Coleridge], 长公主在上 | Zhǎng Gōng Zhǔ Zài Shàng (Web Series), 绅探 | Detective L (TV) )
( Pinch hit #23 - art, fic [varies by request] - Shadow of the Leviathan - Robert Jackson Bennett, LitenVerse - Nino Cipri, Stellar Harvest series - Eleanor Arnason, Original Work, Crossover Fandom [Queen's Gambit TV/Man Who Fell To Earth 1976], The Breakfast Club (1985) )
( Pinch hit #28 - art, fic [varies by request] - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) x2, Overwatch (Video Game), Slow Horses (TV), Brew Solves - Fandom, Dangan Ronpa Series, Death Note (Anime & Manga) )
( Pinch hit #30 - fic - 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, The Fall of the House of Usher (TV 2023), 成化十四年 | The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty (TV), Among Us (Video Game), F1 (Movie 2025), One Piece (Anime & Manga), 重启之极海听雷 | Reunion: The Sound of the Providence (TV 2020) )
( Pinch hit #32 - fic - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), Murder She Wrote, Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon), G.I. Joe (Cartoon), Voltron: Lion Force (1984) )
( PARTLY CLAIMED - Pinch hit #39 - fic - Stargate Atlantis, Kolja | Kolya (1996), Cesta do pravěku | Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955), Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies) )
This pinch hit can be fulfilled with one 5k story.
( Pinch hit #41 - fic - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, DCU (Comics, Numb3rs (TV) )
( Pinch hit #45 - art, fic [varies by request] - Dragon Age (Video Games), Breaking Bad, Succession (TV 2018), The Owl House (Cartoon), Falsettos - Lapine/Finn )
( Pinch hit #49 - art, fic [varies by request] - NoPixel (Web Series), Crossover Fandom [various], 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, Video Blogging RPF, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), Sakamoto Days (Anime), Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF) ここは今から倫理です。| Koko wa Ima Kara Rinri Desu | From Now On We Begin Ethics (Manga), 吸血鬼すぐ死ぬ | Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu | The Vampire Dies in No Time (Anime), Bandom )
Click for links to CLAIMED pinch hit requests!
Pinch hit #40 - art, fic - ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Superman (Movie 2025), Original Work, The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
Pinch hit #47 - art, fic - Hetalia (Anime & Manga), Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Star Wars Original Trilogy, The White Vault (Podcast), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Pinch hit #48 - art, fic [varies by request] - Final Fantasy XII, Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1995), Original Work x2, Vampire: The Masquerade, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
Pinch hit #50 - art, fic - ヲタクに恋は難しい | Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii | Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Anime), Digimon Adventure Zero Two | Digimon Adventure 02, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Haikyuu!!, 月刊少女野崎くん | Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Dramacon (Comics), And Another Lovely Day (Webcomic), SK8 the Infinity (Anime), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney, Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types