Horus hears a heresy

What is NOT allowed?

Hate and bigotry of any kind — sexism, racism, transphobia, queerphobia, any other kinds of predjudice or being an indiscriminate asshole — all not allowed. 41st Millenium is a dark place, but in the here and now let's be civil to each other.

GenAI use — we're here to appreciate human* passion and creativity regardless of skill level

(*we do however welcome any friendly abhumans or xenos willing to take part in our event)

Character or ship bashing — have your fun and let others have theirs, we're here for good vibes.

Can I include Rogue Trader and Dark Heresy CRPG characters for this week?

We consider any work focusing heavily on Rogue Trader and Dark Heresy CRPGs by Owlcat to be outside scope of this event, however we understand that many original characters take on lives outside of the game's canon. Creations featuring original 40k women who may be Rogue Traders or DH Acolytes but focus on their lives, backstories, or futures outside of the Owlcat games or their relationships to the canon characters from these games are welcome in this event. Use your best judgement.

If you are primarily interested in canon Rogue Trader characters, we recommend you check out @rtwomenweek

How do the prompts work?

Each day (except the last) has two prompts: the source of origin or the faction for the woman you are creating for, and a general prompt. You can use either, or combine them if you wish. The prompts are intentionally broad — the goal is to inspire our participants and give them more creative opportunities, rather than limit them.

Are men/non-binary characters allowed?

The focus of the event is female characters in the 40k universe, and as such, your work for the event should center them. However, we do not limit who else can feature in your works! Many of the canon ladies have male colleagues/romantic partners/family members/comrades/bitter rivals/etc, and if you want to focus on one such relationship, you're more than welcome to. Same goes for your original characters.

Are genderbends/trans headcanons allowed?

You are free to include genderbent/transfem versions of canon male characters in your work as long as it centers a canon woman character or a female OC. (For example, f!Orikan/Vishani work qualifies for this event and so does an ungenderbent version, but f!Orikan/f!Trazyn does not.)

You are free to include original female characters from a canonically all-male faction. (For example if your work centers on an OC Novamarine from an AU where all Space Marines are women, or an OC Blood Angel who realises that she's a trans woman we will happily reblog it)

Of course, you are completely free to center your work on trans women characters, original, headcanoned or otherwise. Trans women are women.

Where else can I find you?

The event will be run on tumblr. Use #40kwomenweek to tag your post and/or mention this blog and we will reblog it. You can also add your work to the ao3 collection here. We will be monitoring the tag and the collection submissions for a week longer after the event ends to give you a little extra time as well.

How should I tag my work?

For us to find your post, you should tag with #40kwomenweek or @ our account

Additionally — we are only two people, and as such have not familiarised ourselves with every book/game/show/piece of lore out there. We are kindly asking you to include some information in the post with your work, so we can tag it correctly.

For canon characters: Full name, faction, source (Black Library publications, games, animation, other)

For OCs: Indicate that this is an OC and list the relevant faction

What about this thing that you haven't mentioned/considered?