That's right: this round, as well as all hypothetical future rounds, will be multifandom! As mentioned in our pinned post, we began as a Ted Lasso-specific event, but we have always intended to eventually open the event to everyone in the spirit of the curiosity, kindness, and friendship that Ted embraces.

This is a great question! In our Prompt Doc, we say that you may follow the prompts as rigidly or loosely as you wish, meaning there are no rules as to how or when you choose to use the prompts, if at all. So long as you share your work during an active round and it meets all other guidelines, it doesn't matter to us when you share a work for any of the prompts.

That particular question on the submission form is more just for us. We want to know if the prompts are inspiring anybody, or if we're just doing unnecessary work that folks aren't responding to. So far though, it looks like folks are digging it! Which we're really pleased about because we like them too :)

We consider a fusion and a crossover to be distinct.

We adhere to this definition of a crossover presented over on Fanlore:

In the most common form, characters from Fandom A may meet characters from Fandom B (i.e., a Stargate Atlantis story in which The Doctor visits Atlantis, perhaps with a Companion or two in tow).

The first fourish fusion subtypes, also over on Fanlore; transposed settings, objects, premises, and stories are all fair game. Provided characters don't meet across fandoms.

So, TLDR: You're totally allowed to make the Ted Lasso characters Starfleet officers, witchers, immortal action heroes a la The Old Guard, Seattle-based surgical residents, or whatever else as long as characters from that fused setting do not make an appearance.

Great question! You're right, we've noticed that AO3, for whatever reason, is not always keen on auto-populating the collection's spiffy title. You have two options:

You can go to the BAG 26-B collection initially and use the post to collection button

You can also type BAG26B in the Post to Collections / Challenges section of the new work page, as every collection on the archive has a unique name

Even though it doesn't auto-populate, we've still had success sharing our own works to the collection using the second option.

Great question! We do not host or endorse any Discord server. We hosted a server during our first round in 2025 and upon reflection elected to do away with it by our second at the beginning of 2026. We have no intention of creating, hosting, or endorsing another.

We here at Be A Goldfish have an open-facing event philosophy. Closed doors are out, sharing with the class is in! We do not align with models of fannish participation wherein everything is tucked away, out of sight, and out of mind. We don't like cliques or ingroups, either, and we feel that Discord-based fandom spaces promote them. Our thoughts regarding this issue are echoed in this post by @lonelyroommp3.

Good Question! It's not by request we just haven't opened it to viewers yet. We're still getting everything ready for the upcoming round and we've been making updates to the RuleDoc (which is the same as the the FAQ, we changed the name since it wasn't actually a FAQ). We just want to make sure it's finalized before folks can read it.

We'll open it up once our promo posts go live on 1 June, so this coming Monday. Once it's live though, it will remain static for the entire round and no further updates will be made.

Yep! Alt text is fine. As long as the description/alt is part of the original post (to prevent the spreading around of reblogs without a description), it's up to you to decide what's best for your work.