Romancing Barret Week

Meteorites, it’s time again for the Annual Fanworks Exchange! Sign ups are now open and will close at 11:59 pm EST on June 21st. Sign ups and assignments will be via AO3 (Archive of Our Own). If you don’t have an account, some of the mods do have invitations available. You can message with your email address OFF Anon on Tumblr or Twitter to request an invitation but they are first come, first serve.

Please read through the instructions carefully, and make sure to give us contact information in case we need to follow up on any details! We want to make sure we make the best matches we can.

You can sign up on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/collections/2026Exchange/signups/new

Tumblr based FAQ: https://ff7central.tumblr.com/exchangefaq

Once sign ups close, the mods will begin the match up process to find you a match! Assignments should be out by end of day July 1st, but if there are any delays, we will let you know.

You will have until 11:59 pm EST July 31st to complete your gift. If you need to drop out for any reason, please let the mods know as soon as you can so we can find a pinch hitter. Don’t worry, we all know that life is a box of uncertainty right now, and there is no shame in needing to step away. Gifts will be revealed August 7th, so we have a bit of time to look after any late pinch hits.

All right, Barret Wallace fans, it's time to mosey! Join us July 5-12 for our fifth annual Romancing Barret Week, a multiship week for acknowledging and celebrating Barret as a romantic partner!

July 5 - soulmates | unexpected

July 6 - dark thoughts | halcyon days

July 7 - working together | make-believe

July 8 - time travel | second chances

July 9 - challenge | smooth sailing

July 10 - hurt/comfort | when it rains

July 11 - on the road | date night

July 12 - free day!

ALL Barret ships are accepted and encouraged! Likewise, we welcome any level of participation, whether you do one sketch of your OTP or go all out trying a different ship each day. This event is also open to all types of fanwork, as long as you make them yourself! Don't disappoint Barret by using AI.

And yes, we welcome: explicit content, poly ships, queerplatonic relationships, trans headcanons, and crosscanon ships.

Use the tag #RomancingBarretWeek and/or tag us @romancingbarret to make sure we can see and reblog your work. Please keep anything spicier under a cut or AO3 link with appropriate content warnings.

We will not reblog any ship or character hate. Let’s keep it positive!

Title:Let's Get Physical Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy VII (1997) Characters: Barret Wallace, Aerith Gainsborough, Tifa Lockhart Pairing: Aerith Gainsborough/Tifa Lockhart/Barret Wallace Rating: Explicit AO3 Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Vacation, Costa del Sol (Compilation of FFVII), Threesome - F/F/M Summary: Vacation is for spending time with his favorite ladies - who cares about the rest of Costa del Sol? Notes: Happy Romancing Barret Week!!! Written for the prompt: vacation / summer heat. ♥ Check out the goodies at @romancingbarret !

As for Aerith and Tifa? Well, they were in Barret’s arms now. Though they’d made it to the beach, it wasn’t long before Tifa perched herself in Barret’s lap and pressed her lips to his. Aerith came up behind her and teased Tifa’s neck with kisses. His hand slid into Aerith’s hair and pulled on the strands while he slid his tongue into Tifa’s mouth. All three were panting by the time they came up for air. Tifa leaned back into Aerith’s embrace even as Aerith leaned forward to kiss Barret. “We should go inside,” Tifa murmured. “Why?” Aerith whimpered as Barret dragged his teeth over her lower lip. “We can have fun right here.” Tifa ground her hips down into Barret. He bucked up into her. “I don’t want anyone else to see,” she moaned. “Want to keep you two to myself.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cloud Strife & Barret Wallace, preship if you squint, Yuffie Kisaragi & Cloud Strife Characters: Cloud Strife, Barret Wallace, Yuffie Kisaragi Additional Tags: Concussions, Whump, Cloud Strife Whump, Vomiting, Blood and Injury, i have NO IDEA how this got this long, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Altered Mental States, i don’t know how to tag this it’s 12k words of cloud being severely concussed. Summary:

He doesn’t feel like a SOLDIER right now. Doesn’t feel like much of anything, of anyone. Scooped out and left as a hollow splatter on the concrete. He doesn’t want any of this, doesn’t want to be touched or helped or spoken to or seen at all. He wants to stand up and walk away and fix it himself. He wants to be left alone to die. He wants to be held until it stops hurting. For better or worse, he’s not getting anything he wants right now.

Cloud Strife hits his head really, really hard.

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII Remake Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Barret/Tifa, Barret/Tifa/Cloud/Aerith Wordcount: 2,300 Additional Tags: Polyamory Summary: Cloud pauses for a moment. “How close are you and Tifa, exactly?”

♥ Will Romancing Barret Week be happening again in 2026?

Yes! This is a recurring event starting the first Sunday of July.

♥ I created/found a Barret ship piece - will you reblog it?

We’d love to! Between the overall rarity of Barret ships and Tumblr’s finicky tagging system, things can be hard to track down. We appreciate being pointed in the direction of any shippy Barret posts.

We are happy to reblog any of the following:

All media types (fanart, fanfic, gifsets, meta, etc)

Any and all romantic/sexual Barret ships or QPR

Explicit content, provided any artwork has a SFW preview or Mature label, and fanfics include appropriate content warnings

We will not reblog:

Ship or character hate

AI-generated works

Artwork that has been reposted to Tumblr by someone other than the artist, unless the artist has given express permission

♥ What about a fic rec from AO3?

If the author hasn’t shared the fic on Tumblr themselves, we’re happy to post the AO3 link!

♥ Do you accept crossover ships?

Absolutely! Barret deserves some cross-dimensional love, too.

♥ Where can I find posts for a specific ship?

We maintain a ship index of all ships archived to this blog! All posts are tagged with the relevant ship name(s), media type, and creator to help you find what you’re looking for.

♥ What about other works featuring Barret?

The purpose of this blog is to promote Barret shipping, but we will occasionally reblog posts that portray him with a sexual or romantic gaze that may not feature any specific ships.

♥ Are you on other platforms?