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What are you doing next month? Do you like minecraft youtube? Do you want to join a fanwork creation event? You do you love making gifts for people, coming up with creative works that mash tropes and tags together, and cheering on your team as they progress through a story?

Consider MCYT Battleship - three weeks of speed creation that will have you making things you never thought were possible! Our signups just opened!

Originally inspired by the multifandom exchange Battleship, MCYT Battleship has teams working together to clear bingo-style boards of tag and tropes by posting fanwork gifts that use those tags, and beating word count bosses by creating enough longer or more complex works. Writers, Artists, Podficcers, and Web Weavers are all welcome, and you can join on either an all ages team (open to everyone) or 18 plus team (adults only, can post e-rated work). See a detailed description of how gameplay works here, and join the discord here!

Love to write fluffy family dynamic? We need people to hit those fluff tags when they come up. Your wheelhouse is closer to an Iron Lung AU? You can opt into e-rated gore in the 18 plus collection, and people do do that. You love writing short? Our minimum word count is 300 words. You're not the speediest of creators? People who can deliver a gift in the final round, two and a half weeks in, are pivotal for team morale.

Want to write RPF? It's an allowable fandom. You love a fandom that's brand new? You don't need a canon fandom tag to join. Yuri warrior? F/F is a goal that needs to be hit. Want to stick to family friendly? In the all ages teams all content needs to be sfw. Love angst? Major Character Death is a goal that needs to be hit. Want to be distinctly not family friendly? The 18 plus collections have their own assortment of tags to hit, including roughly half nsfw tags.

Whether you create for a fandom with thousands of works in the tag or if you are the only person posting for an obscure non-english MCYT series— you are welcome! Come join us.

Sign up on Ao3, (all ages here, 18 plus here), and join us on discord!

And if you find that signup page imposing (we know it has a lot of of moving parts), we have a written signup tutorial here, and a video tutorial here, or feel free to ask us questions in the discord! If the relationships you want to request aren't available yet, you can add them here, and once you're done filing out your requests, we'd like you to to fill out this form so we know how best to place you on a team!

Writers, start your engines—it's time to start creating!

This year AUfest is a mini-bang, with writers writing complete works of 5k or more, and artists making art pieces to accompany your work. The signup process is simple—writers show the mods they have a half draft during the writer signup period (June 13 - 17) to be entered into claims, and artists put their names in for short lists of works they're interested in during the artist claim period (June 20-21). Mods make teams, and then teams work together for the final half of the event before we all post together.

Wanting to put Tinarose in an arranged marriage? Come on down. Pomme and Sunny are going on an adventure? Join us. Still not over the Copper King's vigil? You are welcome. You need to put the Nosy Neighbours in space? A fantastic thing to do. You want Infernus to take over the world? Who doesn't. Slimeknight need to experience more horrors and you are just the person to do it? Come sprint with us. Shan urban fantasy draft burning to get down on paper? You know an artist can't wait to illustrate that. Flamefrags mafia au sending you visions? You deserve to make that a reality. Joeleo gladiator heist needs to be written? We agree.

Any MCYT, any AU—come join us! Let's head towards our mid-point signups together!

MCYTBLR Aufest 2026 is a mini-bang where writers make a fic of 5k or more, and they are paired with artists who have a month to make an art piece to accompany the fic. We have many fandoms and dozens of au types represented, and we'd love to have you be involved. The artist claim period has just begun, with the list of available works just released in the discord!

If you'd like to join a team, you have 24 hours to read and consider your options before the claim form opens at 9am EST on the 20th, where you'll have an additional 24 hours (until 9am EST on the 21st) to submit the options you'll be interested in being matched to!

New this year, we are doing machine matching, so you do not have to scramble to get your claims in—a submission any time in the 24 hour period is fine. You list 3 or more works that you'd be okay to be matched to, and we will crunch all the numbers to make sure everybody gets assigned to a team. Want to list 30 works that have caught your eye? Go for it! Really make the machine work through the numbers.

Also new this year we have the chance to mark down that you'd be okay to be matched to any work in entire fandoms, so you can simply say "match me to anyone in hermitcraft" and as long as your medium and age matches the request, we'll take care of all the fiddly bits for you.

You can participate as a visual artist, a web weaver, a podficcer, or "other" (open a ticket in the discord to work out minimum expectations for your art form if so). Note, if you are unable to list 3 or more pieces that are in your fandom and which are requesting your medium, open a ticket in the discord and we'll make a note, you can still participate.

Saw this post after 9am EST on the 21st but before 10am EST on the 22nd and you still want to be involved? Join the discord and talk to the mods, we should be doing a second round of matching and you still can still join a team. The exact hours should be available in the discord! Come join us, we'll get you all the details! Saw this post after THAT? Feel free to still join, we are still going to need pinch hitters!

It's time! You've had a month to work on your fics, and it's time to submit it so an artist can be assigned to you. The form to submit is available in the discord, and mods are standing ready to answer questions. You will have to be halfway through your draft to be accepted for claims.

Not halfway through your draft yet? You just heard about the event and are starting right now? Don't panic! The form to signup will be open until 23:59 on the 17th of June, so you have five days to do some intensive sprinting. As long as your projected draft is 5k or longer, it is some form of AU drawing from some form of MCYT, and you are at the halfway mark or higher, you're welcome to join! Come talk to the mods to make sure you're involved! Space AU, Pixie Hollow Fusion, Foster AU, Gladiator AU, Roleswap AU, Canon Divergence, Bad Guys Won— it's all welcome.

DSMP, QSMP, Hermitcraft, Unstable Universe, SMPLive, Yogcast, SFAWTDE, Aimsey SMP, Empires, HBG SMP, A ReGect, RPF— big or small fandoms are welcome, whether or not they have a canon tag, and whether they're a classic fandom or if the video they're based on just launched last week.

The discord is open, and AU Fest 2026 has kicked off. This year we are a mini-bang, with writers making a complete story of 5k or longer, and artists making an art piece to illustrate their work. Any MCYT is welcome, and any AU type! If you want to write the cubes doing something achingly romantic, if you want to write family fluff, if you want to explore toxicity and betrayal, or if you want to plot out something dense and twisty—come join us! Any publicly-available MCYT is available to draw on for your fandom.

Writers, you're welcome to join us in the discord for community, mod access, discussion, and sprint channels, and Artists—even though your creation hasn't started yet you're welcome to come hang out! We'd love to have you!

Tag nominations for MCYT Battleship are now open! And what is that, you ask?

MCYT Battleship is a fanwork-creation event where the works people make match other people's requests (so that the event ends with a big gift exchange), and the requests are made from a central list of relationships, and that central list of relationships is what we are building right now. We need your help to make sure that every relationship someone might want to request or create for is ready for them! Platonic and romantic relationships are both accepted.

Whether your favourite relationship has thousands of fics or if you love rarepairs, whether you want to nominate with familial relationships in mind or if you're a F/F warrior, if you just need to make sure that one duo in particular is on the list or if you need to make sure that 25 different relationships related to your favourite cubito are all available, if you want to nominate a married couple or a 6-person group— we need your nominations! Fandoms do not need to be canonized to be nominated, we welcome smaller SMPs as well.