Star54kar

I'm 100% normal about the Sam/Sebastian ship for Stardew Valley, and in June, you can be too! Introducing Sambastian Week 2026! Running from June 7-13th, it's a no-pressure, just-for-fun event centered around Pelican Town's skater boy and emo "just good friends".

All submissions are welcome - fics, drabbles, ficlets, art, cartoons, doodles.

If you're ao3 inclined, the collection can be found here (it will be open closer to the date):

Sambastian Week 2026 | Archive of Our Own

Otherwise, you can use the tag #Sambastian Week 2026 and I will do my best to reblog any entries.

Shout out to @egggargler @halixius @ladytrashpaws @eemamminy-art @caelwynn @hullygeee and @astellus for your help in getting this out of my imagination and into existence! And a special thank you to @theasnewgroove who originally discussed a Sambastian week back in 2025! This wouldn't exist without you!

We have reached the conclusion of the 2026 Promptis Gift Exchange. Whether you were a participant, or simply along for the ride to read the wonderful stories and view the exceptional artwork, thank you for helping to make this gift exchange a joyful event. 

To all of our talented participants: thank you for all of your hard work and for being a part of this event. You have gone above and beyond to contribute incredible Promptis fanworks for your gift recipients and this exchange. You are what makes it so special and I’m so happy for you to finally be able to reveal which fanwork you created for the Promptis Gift Exchange.

At this time, all of our wonderful creators are now free to post your stories/artwork anywhere else that you desire. We also advise you to update the posting date of your Ao3 post at this point so that your contribution appears as a new work under your own name.

If anyone is aware of any stories or artwork that were created in response to any other fanworks in the exchange, please let me know by sending me a link or by pinging me at @promptisgiftexchange so I can give it a boost. Likewise, if any of you have plans to write or draw anything as a response to the gift you received, I would love to be made aware of them once they are completed so I can promote it as well.

I would also like to give a special shout out and thank you to @ffxv_zine_news on Bluesky. Your continuous reposting and support of the Promptis Gift Exchange (especially considering the fact that I wasn’t tagging your account while I was promoting individual works over the course of the last two months) did not go unnoticed and is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support and promotion of all of the individual stories and pieces of artwork that our participants worked so hard on, and for all of the wonderful things that you do everyday for our FFXV community as a whole.

Another huge and heartfelt thank you goes out to our wonderful Pinch-hitters, RikuKingdomHearts3, star54kar, and sunflowercosmos who stepped up to create additional gifts. Yet another enormous thanks goes out to GingerEl, and RikuKingdomHearts3 for their willingness and ability to switch posting dates when other participants ran into unexpected problems. You guys are the best and I appreciate everything you’ve done! 

Once again, thank you to everyone who has been a part of the 2026 Promptis Gift Exchange. I am so grateful to have had such a successful sixth round. It has been a fantastic two months, filled amazing Promptis fanworks! All of that is thanks to all of you! 

I hope to see you all again next year for our seventh round. Please continue to follow us for more information that will come out later this year for the 2027 Promptis Gift Exchange. In the meantime, if you are not already a member of the Promptis Discord Server I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to join us for year round Promptis fun. Anyone who loves Promptis is welcome to join us. It's a great place to chat with nice people about Promptis, and share fanworks that you love. I have included the invitation link to the server below.

Promptis Server- https://discord.gg/Xfw4jQWQ28

Creator Reveals and Masterlist

Without further ado, here are the reveals for the 2026 Promptis Gift Exchange. You can find the reveals detailed in the following places: 

Ellipsis Reader Link- (organized by the type of fanwork) 

https://ellipsus.com/read/AYqQzDVL1tKRf9voaGpT9/Promptis-Gift-Exchange-2026-Creator-Reveals

You can also, as always, locate the entire collection on Ao3- https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Promptis_Gift_Exchange_2026/works

Please support our incredible creators as we lead up to our creator reveals on Sunday, May 31, 2026 by leaving them a comment and kudos on Ao3. They did a wonderful job so please let them know if you enjoyed their work!

You can catch up on anything you missed here on Ao3:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Promptis_Gift_Exchange_2026/works

You can also find our Weekly Wrap-up posts linked below.

The FFXV 2026 Remix and 2026 Remix Madness are now open!

WHAT IS THE REMIX EVENT?

The FFXV Remix is an event where you recreate someone else’s FFXV content with your own interpretation. It is an event intended for people who are interested in stretching their creative muscles and playing in someone else’s sandbox. Sign up for this event because you want to create in someone else’s world, not because you want to receive anything. There are no pinch hitters, so there is no guarantee that your work will get remixed, in the end. At the end of the day, the Remix is not a gift exchange. The person assigned to your works does not have to create content you would want to consume. To quote someone back from the early beginnings of the dawn of the remix challenge, “even if you don’t like what’s done to your story, your story is still *yours* and no one can take it from you. Someone else playing with it doesn’t change the original text.”

The remix is for you if:

You want the challenge of being randomly assigned a creator's works to remix.

You're comfortable with random matching.

You meet the minimum number of works required to participate.

WHAT IS THE REMIX MADNESS EVENT?

The FFXV Remix Madness is an event where people give permission for anyone to recreate specific FFXV content with their own interpretation. Submit your own FFXV works to this event because you want to provide others with the chance to play in your sandbox. Claim prompts in this event if you’re interested in stretching your creative muscles. This is not a gift exchange. There are no matches, no pinch hitters, and no guarantee that your work will get remixed. People who claim a work for Remix Madness do not have to create content the original creator would want to consume. To quote someone back from the early beginnings of the dawn of the remix challenge, “even if you don’t like what’s done to your story, your story is still *yours* and no one can take it from you. Someone else playing with it doesn’t change the original text.” Remix Madness is a free-for-all version of the main FFXV Remix. No assignments, no matching—just remix madness using the prompt meme challenge in AO3. Remix Madness runs like a prompt meme instead of a gift exchange. You don’t need to sign up to remix someone else’s work. And there’s no word count minimum for what can be submitted for remixing—anything goes, as long as it’s complete.

Remix madness is for you if:

You don't have enough qualifying works to participate in the FFXV Remix.

You're concerned about the random matching system in the FFXV Remix.

The Main FFXV Remix & Remix Madness run at the same time. You can do both or pick and choose which is right for you.

The FFXV 2026 Remix and 2026 Remix Madness are now open!

WHAT IS THE REMIX EVENT?

The FFXV Remix is an event where you recreate someone else’s FFXV content with your own interpretation. It is an event intended for people who are interested in stretching their creative muscles and playing in someone else’s sandbox. Sign up for this event because you want to create in someone else’s world, not because you want to receive anything. There are no pinch hitters, so there is no guarantee that your work will get remixed, in the end. At the end of the day, the Remix is not a gift exchange. The person assigned to your works does not have to create content you would want to consume. To quote someone back from the early beginnings of the dawn of the remix challenge, “even if you don’t like what’s done to your story, your story is still *yours* and no one can take it from you. Someone else playing with it doesn’t change the original text.”

The remix is for you if:

You want the challenge of being randomly assigned a creator's works to remix.

You're comfortable with random matching.

You meet the minimum number of works required to participate.

WHAT IS THE REMIX MADNESS EVENT?

The FFXV Remix Madness is an event where people give permission for anyone to recreate specific FFXV content with their own interpretation. Submit your own FFXV works to this event because you want to provide others with the chance to play in your sandbox. Claim prompts in this event if you’re interested in stretching your creative muscles. This is not a gift exchange. There are no matches, no pinch hitters, and no guarantee that your work will get remixed. People who claim a work for Remix Madness do not have to create content the original creator would want to consume. To quote someone back from the early beginnings of the dawn of the remix challenge, “even if you don’t like what’s done to your story, your story is still *yours* and no one can take it from you. Someone else playing with it doesn’t change the original text.” Remix Madness is a free-for-all version of the main FFXV Remix. No assignments, no matching—just remix madness using the prompt meme challenge in AO3. Remix Madness runs like a prompt meme instead of a gift exchange. You don’t need to sign up to remix someone else’s work. And there’s no word count minimum for what can be submitted for remixing—anything goes, as long as it’s complete.

Remix madness is for you if:

You don't have enough qualifying works to participate in the FFXV Remix.

You're concerned about the random matching system in the FFXV Remix.

The Main FFXV Remix & Remix Madness run at the same time. You can do both or pick and choose which is right for you.

Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

gandalf is scratching his head in moria, and legolas is thinking "oh man, the wizard noticed something off *besides* the obvious balrog that we all are aware of??"

Heya!

Thinking of hosting a FFXV event to celebrate the 10th anniversary! This would be in Southern California, later in the fall. We have an interest check form to gauge potential participation. Please share and spread the word!

✨Google Form ✨

Would love to be able to celebrate with folks in person. 🖤

I haven't made any socials other than IG yet. If this becomes a thing I'll make additional ones but you can follow there for now!

What our lives could have been

In which Noctis isn't royalty and Prompto isn't a clone and they're just two guys who fell in love and live a regular life

The live out in the outskirts near a lake where noct can fish and prom can take photos

At this time emails have been sent to all participants of the 2026 Promptis Gift Exchange with a link to the Mandatory Check-in Form. The email it has been sent to is the one connected to the Ao3 account you used to sign up for the gift exchange. If you have not received it, please check your spam folder, and contact us if you still can't find it. The form is due March 15, 2026 by 11:59pm EDT.

Also as a reminder, the check-in period is the final opportunity to drop out of the exchange. If you do need to drop out after the check-in period has passed, please contact me ASAP so we can discuss the circumstances.

Those of you who have played in the Promptis Gift Exchange before, or have followed the event as a reader/viewer in the past will notice on the check-in form that there has been a slight change to the way the posting period will work this year. We have a lot fewer participants playing this go around, to the tune of roughly half of our usual average. Over the past few months I've been reflecting on the best way to ensure that the usual wiggle room in the schedule for those who need a later posting date is maintained for those who need it.

Here's What Has Changed as a result:

The final due date/posting begins date has been pushed back a week and will now be beginning on Monday, April 13, 2026.

The structure of the posting period has been altered. We will be moving to a format of having four new posts per week (Monday through Thursday) and the Weekly Wrap-up post will go up on Fridays. There will be no posts on Saturdays or Sundays this year.