Harcest Month!

Hope you had a fantastic Apocalypse Day yesterday. To celebrate surviving the end of the world, we're starting up the TUA Bingo event again this year!

This is a very chill challenge, no deadlines, no pressure. Just a fun way to create more fanworks for our lovely fandom to enjoy!

We've provided a few pre-made cards from a list of suggested prompts that were gathered last year (which is why one of them says 2025 on it haha). But please feel free to create your own if these aren't speaking to you or you want to choose specific prompts you prefer. Here is the list of prompts we've come up with that you can choose from, and here is a site that will generate a shuffled card for you! Then feel free to make it fancy if you so desire.

As we said, no deadlines, no minimum requirements. Fanfic, fanart, moodboards, playlists, meta/headcanon posts -- it's all good! You can complete as many or as little as you want. It's all about having fun!

Also be sure to tag any works with #tuabingo26 so we can share them on the blog! We will also open up the ao3 collection if anyone would like to submit their works there as well.

Pre-made cards below:

We've gotten quite a nice number of responses so far, make sure you register to be part of the fun!

Registrations are officially OPEN for this year's Secret Santa! Click here for the submission form.

Submissions will remain open for the month of October

Matches will be sent November 1

Creations will be due December 7

Posting will begin December 25

Klaus and Ben make their way back to the car in a giggling fit, hanging off each other and nearly stumbling into the door as they climb into the backseat. Diego turns to look at them, slightly annoyed.

"You two sure took your time. I was about to send out a search party, did you even get the snacks?"

"Yes! Of course we did!" Ben tries to sober up as Klaus digs in the shopping bag of snacks. "Notice anything different?"

Diego rushes up the stairs to answer the door, the excitement in his chest flaring up again. His date stands there, looking beautiful as always, wearing a miniskirt and a cheeky grin.

"I'm here on time, aren't you proud of me?"

Diego can't help but mirror his smile. "More shocked, actually."

"Hey!" Klaus puts a hand on his hip in fake indignation. "I know I'm always fashionably late, but I don't like to keep my man waiting." He leans forward for a kiss, stopping short a few inches from Diego's face. "You gonna invite me in or are we eating in this hallway?"

They all come home at different times. It feels better to see it as a minor issue.

Ben comes home earliest, from his studio hours. Klaus works part-time, like Ben. Sometimes they hang out, on the rare times that both of them are at home, but it feels somewhat lonely without the others.

Diego works as a firefighter, so he's gone the most. He even has to leave at night sometimes, leaving his boyfriends behind.

Luther is more flexible compared to Diego. He volunteers at an animal shelter, which everyone always teases him for.

Their schedules arent exactly compatible, Luther, Klaus and Ben have more time together compared to Diego, who would be lucky to get to spend a day off without any stress about work. Of course, it affects everything about their relationship.

Things are already shaky as they are, with this apartment they've rented to live in, and even more importantly the fact that they're all in a relationship now. It all feels so distant and far away yet so compact and recent, how things changed and how they fell into place.

Diego is very, very thankful, for his boyfriends and his new life. He muses as he unlocks the door to their apartment, keychains rattling so loudly they echo off of the walls.

The house instantly calms him down, at least a bit. It's spacious, at least enough to house 4 adult men inside of it, and lovingly decorated by all of them. Things are still strewn about on the floor, there are still clothes and miscellaneous belongings packed away in bags and luggage, but it feels like everything is in its right place anyway.

He walks in, tossing his bag carelessly onto the floor and taking off his jackets. There is laughter coming from the frankly cramped living room as he steps through the corridors.

Luther is sat on the gaudy velvet couch, fingers tangled in Klaus’s hair, who is laying down on his lap, hands wildly gesturing as he talks. Ben sits on the floor, a notebook on the carpet and a pen in his hand, leaning against the couch's arm and listening to whatever Klaus is saying.

It's a perfect scene, and Diego almost doesn't want to walk in and interrupt, but inevitably does so as they all spot him in the doorway.

Klaus kisses him, gently, on the lips, Ben kisses him on the cheek, and Luther hugs him tightly. All of his stress melts away, even just for a moment.

Things fall into a domestic rhythm quickly, Diego joins in on their conversation, sat on one of the cushions on the ground. It's never content to stay in one place for too long, as it is when Klaus is leading a discussion, it derails and changes over and over until Luther is telling a story too, something about what happened in the shelter today, He talks about it as if the whole world depends on this one story. But just as quickly as he gets used to Luther's rhythm of storytelling, Ben is cutting through the discussion with a sarcastic retort, and he starts ranting about the government not funding animal shelters enough. He passionately complains and complains until he's run out of things to say.

The conversation loops back around again, Back to Klaus and Luther and Ben. And Diego can only make a couple comments here and there, so out of the loop that Ben, Luther and Klaus have understood on a completely wordless way.

There's a slight nagging thought at the back of his head, a sense of shame that he's missing out on all of their lives, not picking up on the meanings of their inside jokes, not getting to slow down and just exist around them.

It never solidifies into anything beyond a repressed anxiety, for Diego, something he can ignore and hope it will solve itself, as he does with most things.

His boyfriends are just as content to settle into the collective rhythm of conversation and light cuddling as he is, to relax together.

That is, until Klaus speaks, cutting through the comfortable silence that has filled the space all around them.

"Quit your job. Stay with us forever."

Klaus says, looking at Diego as he rests his head on Luther's huge lap. And Diego almost wants to say he will. To cut his losses and quit his job, stay with his boyfriends at home everyday.

It's a wonderful, comforting dream to have. Maybe one day they will have made enough money to at least sustain that for a month.

"Maybe." He says, fingers toying with the buttons on Luther’s shirt. He suddenly snaps back into reality as he verbalizes what he's thinking freely. "But that's crazy."

Klaus snorts, "You literally said "Maybe"."

"It is crazy," Ben says in a mocking tone, and Diego knows he's going to say something that will piss him off. "But a true man is willing to do anything for his dearest lovers."

Diego scoffs and rolls his eyes. He bites back a retort and instead feels oddly warm about how much more Klaus-like Ben has become ever since they've all gotten together, distantly wondering (and musing) about all the conversations and discussions between the two that he's missed while at work.

"Ben's right, you know. A True man will drop whatever gets in the way between his love immediately. For capitalism is the biggest enemy of connection."

He raises a fist dramatically at the end of his speech, before bringing it back down to play with Klaus’s hair.

"Hey! You Assholes are ganging up on me! All of you also have jobs!!"

Diego's voice rings loud in the quiet of their living room, genuine as much as it is satirical. How would they even make it work? Diego quits work and they, what? Leave him at home to be a househusband to come home to?

The thought is just a bit thrilling. Just a bit.

"Well, My job is pretty relaxed, So is Ben's, Luther practically has no job," Klaus speaks, before getting interrupted by a loud, very offended gasp and a light smack on the head from Luther, "Your job is like, a full time commitment. You put so much of yourself into it there's none left for you. Or us."

Diego's heart does hurt a bit at that. His job really is intense and eats up so much of his time, that he feels dead tired whenever he has time free. He doesn't hate his job, in fact it feels good in a way he has seldom experienced in his life, it fulfills a part of him that still wants to be a hero.

To feel needed, he presumes, and to be a part of an action.

He sighs, leaning his head on the couch cushion and trying to rub off the tiredness. "I'll look into it."

Ben snaps his head from where he's sitting, "Shit, Really?"

There's a sincerity in his voice that soothes the ache. Distantly, He thinks that he wants to be able to hear that more often, to be the reason that he hears Ben speak without trying so hard.

"Yeah, I'm not quitting this job but I'll talk to some people, about whether my hours can be shortened, or, whatever."

9th entry for @harcest-month

Type: moodboard

Pairing: Kliego

Requester: Supernaturalavenger

A/N: kliego deserves a fun beach day 😤

8th entry for @harcest-month

Type: moodboard

Pairing: Kliego

A/N: kind of going for a darker vibe with detective!Diego and psychic!Klaus working a case because their paths cross.

For @phantomofmischief for @harcest-month

"I'll get my things."

Diego rolls his eyes as Klaus pats his chest, and yet, he waits for Klaus to get his things, whatever they may be to drop him off wherever he wants to go because he always waits, and he always will.

Klaus has his feet up on the dash babbling on about something or other and Diego looks over at the gummy bears in Klaus's lap, "What, you're not gonna offer me one? We've been patrolling for hours and you haven't offered me one gummy bear."

Type: moodboard

Pairing: Horrance (Umbrella!Ben/Klaus)

Requester: @fiyero3305

Request: Could I see an Umbrella!Ben/Klaus moodboard? I'm thinking something in the rainy, wistful realm

A/N: apologies but it definitely turned out extra sad 😅

One week down and we're so happy to see people creating and requesting! Here is the list of all creators currently participating in the event. Feel free to click the links to find their offering posts and request works from them!

fiyero3305 pebbles-12345 phantomofmischief notafraidofheights tua-headedcalf 5iego