When does this event take place?

NateJo Week runs from Sept 1, 2026 (Nate’s birthday!) to Sept 7, 2026.

How does this work?

A pair of prompts is chosen every day. Feel free to pick and choose, combine, or go with an alternate prompt. You can participate all seven days or just on the days you feel like it.

How can I participate?

Prompts

You can participate by creating whatever you’re inspired to based on the prompts: fanart, fanfic, poetry, crafts, moodboards, ship playlists, or headcanon posts. The only stipulation is the work should primarily focus on Nate and Jo. (And archive lock your fics if you post on AO3!) Otherwise, there are no restrictions.

Post to the AO3 collection NateJoWeek2026, which will open at the beginning of NateJo Week, or use the Tumblr Tag #NateJoWeek2026 so we can reblog and see your work!

Daily Challenges

You can also participate by doing the daily challenges (which have prizes!) More specific info on them + specific prizes coming in a separate post. Daily challenge entries must be during NateJo week to be considered for a prize.

What if I want to make work for a threesome or moresome pairing including Nate and Jo, like SidNateJo or MikkoNateJo?

That’s totally fine + welcomed in this event! The only thing we ask you to avoid is fics that are not in the spirit of the event, such as fics with an explicitly unhappy ending for NateJo in favor of another endgame pairing.

What HRPF pairings can I request if I win a prize from completing a daily challenge?

Players accused of a credible crime can’t be requested. Further, each author/artist can have their own lines about what they’re willing to make.

I have another question not addressed here.

In a Sunday matchup between the New York Islanders and Colorado Avalanche, jam-packed with storylines, Jonathan Drouin’s return to Colorado is perhaps the most fascinating. Not because he spent his entire career with the Avs, but because the fit was exactly what the Avs needed for two years. And more notably, he didn’t want to leave. “He (MacKinnon) brought me here. One of the main reasons why I came here was him. It felt it was a very close group over there, kind of sucked to leave, but some of those things happen,” Drouin said.

“It sucked. Sometimes you gotta make decisions for your family or other reasons,” Drouin said following morning skate about having to depart via free agency. “I enjoyed my time in Colorado. I would’ve loved to stay here for the rest of my career, but the business side doesn’t allow it sometimes.” “But again, you look at your options, you look at different things, and you got to make decisions sometimes for yourself a little bit more, and for my family as well …,” Drouin said. “Those decisions are not easy. They’re not fun talks with teammates and telling them you’re going to be leaving, but it’s part of the business we’re in and it’s part of the game we’re playing.”

The Avalanche’s front office and Drouin had conversations leading up to July 1 about trying to find a way to keep him here. But it wasn’t a fit. Drouin likely wanted to get paid as a top-six forward, but the Avs didn’t have a spot for him with Gabe Landeskog’s return a sudden reality. Had he stayed, Drouin likely would’ve slotted into the Victor Olofsson role as a depth two-way scorer who can pitch in on the power play. But there was no way the Avs could’ve paid him the two years, $8 million he got from the Islanders to play in that spot. His two-way play added to his value. “Soon after joining us, he really dug in on the defensive side of things, and was a highly regarded defensive player for us, too,” Avs coach Jared Bednar said. “You have to be in this league if you’re going to play top line minutes with top guys. You’re going to face a lot of other top lines. So you have to round out your game and become a better defensive player. And he did that and earned a lot of trust with me.”

i said originally that dicky doesn't know about it and there's an interesting universe where that's true - he knows that there was some sort of condition in murph's negotiation but he doesn't know, precisely, what it was, and murph doesn't tell him, not directly. he doesn't want him to know just how much he needs him, and it's a little too desperate for just bros if he admits that i wouldn't stay unless you could stay too, and it's a little weird and tamper-y that he's even thinking about threatening this and by the time he's deep enough for there to be something to tell it's too deep to admit, and dicky can't know any of this about him at all costs. and of course they say they were planning to sign him all along but it's never quite clear to anyone how true that is. it's never quite clear how much of it is murph's threat and how much of it is original intent and maybe he didn't need to do any of that but maybe he did. and he doesn't want dicky to have to worry about any of that - whether his worth/usefulness to the team depends on murph at all or that he's beholden to murph in any way so he just. doesn't tell him. i think that is fun.

2nd base: exist in a public space together

3rd base: you witness me have a real, candid emotion

a wiggle so nice he did it twice