It's tiiiiiiiime! All the prompts have been selected thanks to all your help, which means it's time for all of us to lock in and get ready for our favourite time of the year: celebrating Tamlin!
Save the date becuse Tamlin Week 2026 takes place on:
APRIL 12TH TO APRIL 18TH, 2026
Below, you'll find all the key information about the event, including how to participate, prompts, rules and frequently asked questions we've recieved over the years!
DAY 1: Music / Poetry
DAY 2: Prophecy / Cursed
DAY 3: Fashion / Heirlooms
DAY 4: Mate / Companionship / Family
DAY 5: Shapeshifter / Masquerade
DAY 6: Spring Court After Dark (NSFW) / Community Collaborations*
DAY 7: Free Day / Alternate Universes
*Note: For Community Collaborations, the prompt is for you, the members of our community! We encourage you to reach out to friends (or make new ones) to create something together đ
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All works must focus on Tamlin! This is a week about celebrating him, after all. He should be the central character and the focus of submissions.
We accept any types of submissions such as fanfiction, fanart, memes, edits, playlists, headcanons, moodboards, poetry and anything else!
AI is not permitted and will not be reblogged.
All ships welcome, as long as Tamlin is at the forefront. We encourage general and platonic works too.
Please tag your works appropriately. This includes NSFW, Mature, Explicit, potential triggers, etc. Please follow the rules of each platform. For example, on Tumblr, there are guidelines for NSFW images and on AO3, this requires the appropriate tags and ratings. That said, NSFW/Mature content is allowed.
New works must be created for the event. Chapter updates for existing works is acceptable too, as long as they're created/posted during the event. We already do our best to reblog existing works on this blog throughout the year, so we ask you to make something new for Tamlin Week!
For more information, such as our FAQ, see below.
How do I participate in Tamlin Week?
Create your content and post it on Tumblr.
Make sure to tag us @tamlinweek and use our tag tamlinweek2026.
If you're posting on AO3, make sure to add your work to the Tamlin Week AO3 collection. You can do this when creating/editing a work.
If we don't reblog our post withing 24 hours, feel free to send us a message with the link. Please keep in mind we can get a lot of reblogs so on some days we may be slower than others.
If Iâm not a creator, how can I support Tamlin Week?
You're in the best position to support Tamlin Week and its creators, and it's super fun to do! Here's what you can do:
Reblog
Comment on their work both here or on AO3
Hype your community up! Share the works you love. We'll be doing our best to reblog Tamlin works up until the week too!
Encouraging each other is the best way to keep the wheel of fandom turning, so please don't be shy to tell creators how much you enjoyed their work!
Who is in charge of Tamlin Week?
Tamlin Week keeps growing every year, so we've also expanded our team! We still have our three original mods and familiar faces: @highlordofkrypton, @praetorqueenreyna and @goforth-ladymidnight. We've also welcomed three lovely new mods: @geniemillies @matrixsss @yaralulu!
If you have a question that doesn't appear here, feel free to send us an ask! You can also share headcanons, ideas and anything else that comes to mind, we're all ears. All asks will be published on the blog, so please let us know in the ask if you'd like for us to respond privately!
Thank you, and we're looking forward to seeing you all during Tamlin Week 2026!
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the spirit of valentines days has possessed me to draw last minute doodles of tamlin x everyone i could draw for today but the quality progressively gets worse bc it's 3am and i was drawing at the speed of light :
tamcien my beloved
toxic yaoi
toxic yaoi pt 2!
flwer autism đˇ my first tamlain art r u proud of me
i already drew my oc with tamlin let's not be greedy so i draw bonus tamlin x johan for u @highlordofkrypton !! the blorbos!!
AND AND BONUS BONUS PT2 OF OUR OCS BC THE SPIRIT IS GENEROUS THIS YEAR!!!!
Hey y'all! In hopes of focusing more on writing, I decided to try and put all my fic updates in one monthly post.
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ERIS VANSERRA
reverse vertical horizontal // x Tamlin's Brother (Enfys) // Hockey AU - Complete but "side stories" are being updated (and open to requests)
Enfys Rutherford is a legendary goaltender for the Spring Court Falcons, but he's on the tail end of his career and his little brother Tamlin is a rising star set to surpass him. He's struggling to cope with the end of everything he's worked for, and he finds himself in the arms of another retired champion: Former Olympic Gold Medalist and Figure Skater, Eris Vanserra. Together, they navigate what it means to grieve who they used to be and be better older brothers for their younger siblings.
... by touching each other's butts.
LUCIEN VANSERRA
cherry picking // x Cassian // Hockey AU (sequel to reverse vertical horizontal) - New work, WIP
Lucien Vanserra is a one-of-a-kind hockey player. Following in the footsteps of his brother and his husband, he uses his background in figure skating to become an exceptional hockey player. His rise in the NHL is suddenly halted by a bad collision and a several months long recovery process. Now that he's back on the ice, he struggles to find his groove again, too afraid of getting hit again. Now a liability, he needs to find a way to soar on the ice again. There's just one problem: the player that hit him has been traded onto his team.
TAMLIN
by the horns // x Beron Vanserra // Modern Ranch/Famer AU (Mild BDSM) - New work, WIP
Tamlinâs family, the Creightons, are an old family with new money that have been buying out all the lands around for their business paying out the farmers handsomely. The only exception is the Vanserra farm; Tamlinâs father had left it untouched as a favour for an old friend, but Beronâs bad attitude is worsening by the day and if he doesnât get it together, Tamlinâs father might just buy it out from right under him. Tamlin thinks he can help, if only Beron will let him in (in more ways than one).
mastr // x Johan // BDSM Modern AU - Chapter 9 & 10 Update
Tamlin has always had simple, vanilla relationships with women. Tamlin also can't stop watching hardcore gay BDSM porn, so much that he doesn't know if he can get off to anything else anymore. One day, he decides to join the fetish and kink dating app mastr to see if this is really what he wants or just a fantasy. The last thing he expects is to meet his dream man... who hasn't been online in 2 years.
the softest lives // x Rhysand // Modern Married/Fatherhood AU - Chapter 4 Update
Rhysand finally has everything he's every dreamed of: a husband, a house and a daughter. Tamlin has been away on a business trip for too long, and he celebrates his husband's return with soft, gentle sex.
CHRIS REDFIELD X LEON KENNEDY
these residents are (re)tired // multiple moments across their relationship, oneshot chapters - New work, WIP & open to requests
Little, sweet moments of Chris and Leon's married life with children.
thoughts on Tamlin showing Beron how persuasive a cock can be? pls pls pls đĽşđ
my brain just lit up like a christmas tree. honestly i still need to get a better handle on my tamlin pov voice. what better practice is there than this? :â˘) it really is a very interesting manifestation of tamlinâs anger and wounds from being a jilted/abandoned lover. i also think beron is uniquely capable of getting tamlin to a point where he would ~use his cock as persuasion~ because beron would draw on his own anger and unacknowledged wounds from being a jilted lover to needle at tamlin. actually not even needle. heâs such an instigator and so emotionally tormented about loa cheating on him that heâd be stabbing tamlin right through. probably out here calling tamlin impotent and incapable of wooing a female to loyalty, let alone him to war. cue tamlin just . on beron, snarling and ⌠bricked up, for some reason? the moment between them where they both Realize. beron calling him a filthy fucking untrained mutt; didnât anyone ever teach you where itâs appropriate to handle your needs? but heâs power-sexual so being manhandled like this, the shock and indignity of it, as no one has dared treat him since he was a boy ⌠beronâs bricked too WHOOPS
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Tamlin barged into Beronâs palace, his claws unsheathed, fur dusting his arms and legs as the beast begged to be unleashed. Beron lounged on his throne, one leg over one of the arm rests, staring at his nails, entirely unbothered. The audacity of the Autumn High Lord to leave his wards downâŚhe knew Tamlin was coming.
Beron did nothing to stop Tamlin as he shoved him down against the throne, his claws pressing against Beronâs throat. Heâd often fantasized about ripping out his throat after what heâd done to Lucien. Now, in this moment, he was so close to making it a reality.
âYou dumbfuck,â Tamlin snarled. He saw his spit drop on Beronâs face and watched disgust form there. He did not care for Tamlin holding a weapon to his throat, but he drew the line at saliva. Typical. âYou got us banned from Elain week.â
âElain week?â Beron asked innocently, as if he didnât know. Fucking smug ass weak piece of shit he could snap like twigs before him. Tamlinâs claws curled in deeper, drawing blood. âYes, you idiot. The week where they write stories about her and sing tales of her beauty and power. Elain Archeron. Ring a bell?â
Beron flicked an invisible speck of dust off of his immaculate robes. âSince when do you care about my sonâs mate?â
Tamlin shook him roughly, frustration building in him. Insufferable difficult piece of work. âBecause sheâs the mate of my best friend, and the sister of my Feyre. Now stop acting ignorant, you fucking slut.â Beron smiled slowly, blood trickling down his neck. He was enjoying this, Tamlin knew. He was enjoying this far too much.
âAh, yes. Shame. Now youâre stuck on the outside, forced to deal with the likes of me.â His catlike smile made Tamlin see red, and before he knew what he was doing, heâd reached down and clamped his mouth on Beronâs neck. He heard the autumn lord gasp as Tamlinâs claws slid around to his back, digging into his spine, keeping him from struggling. After a couple of minutes, Beron went limp, and Tamlin, with great effort, extricated himself from him.
âMe dragging you to the battlefield wasnât enough, hm?â Tamlin crooned, the tangy and ember taste of Beronâs blood coating his mouth. âYou are just begging for punishment from me, so badly.â Beronâs dark eyes were wide, and the temperature of his body, normally so high, had decreased to normal temperatures. He took heavy breaths as he stared at Tamlin, who could not stop glaring at his lips.
âIâm not sure a warrior brute like you can dole out a proper punishment,â Beron answered. That was enough of that. One move of his claws, and Beronâs clothes began to rip. Tamlin bared his teeth at him. âLet me show you what Iâm capable of, Beron Vanserra.â
Hi! So I decided to put a little resource together for the ACOTAR fandom. Since many people join the SJM/ACOTAR fandom and have never been in fandom before, they encounter a lot of fandom terminology that they are not quite sure what it means or have seen others use it incorrectly so they get a false impression of the meaning of the word. So I put this together, including examples from the fandom, so that people can use it as a reference to learn more about what these terms mean and when they're appropriate to use. This list is focused on words related to shipping.
Tldr definitions (note: these are definitions that I wrote based on my own experiences/research on fanlore. These are always up for interpretation and meaning and nuance change over time and depend on fandom context)
Canon ship - a relationship where the characters have romantic interactions in canon
Fanon ship - a relationship where in canon the characters are platonic but the fandom has accepted as a ship with romantic undertones, canonical potential, or has become so popular within a fandom it's has surpassed the need/desire for canon
Crackship - a pairing of two characters where the idea of them together is strange or funny depending on the circumstances. Often in these ships, the characters have little or even no interactions in canon
Rare pair - agnostic to fanon or canon status. A rare pair simply means the fandom does not make a lot of fan content for it.
End-game - This is a canon ship that is together by the end of a series.
Slash ship - Fanon ships that feature queer relationships. M/M usually takes on the term slash and F/F has the term femslash.
OTP - Stands for One True Pair. This is a ship that a shipper considers to be the most important one that they love in a fandom.
NOTP - anti-OTP, or a ship that a shipper detests/is squicked out by
Multishipping - the act of shipping a character with multiple other characters.
For more context and thorough examples read more under the cutÂ
First, what the heck is a ship?
The origins of shipping and becoming obsessed with fictional relationships predate our modern understanding of fandom. Modern fandom roots can be traced as early as Star Trek: The Original Series. But the terminology of calling a couple you like a ship or the act of obsessing over fictional (and sometimes non fictional) couples "shipping" has its origins in the X-Files fandom. While ACOTAR is a romance, many fandoms do not have romance as a central element of its plot, and yet, shippers find a way. That's exactly what happened for the fans of Mulder/Scully. Those who wanted them to be in a romantic relationship were called "relationshippers" which then got shortened to "shippers". The verb "to ship" would appear later from this origin.
The way to think about "what is a ship" though is really based on do people think up romantic scenarios with these two characters? If yes, then you have a ship. And in ACOTAR, oh baby, are there MANY, MANY SHIPS.
Canon vs. Fanon ships
Where does a canon ship end and a fanon one begin? Now that, my friends, is not as clear cut as you might think.
I think this discussion is very important for the ACOTAR fandom because of the state of the ship war currently. Often, there is back and forth about which ship is canon or fanon (and *eye twitch* people throwing around crackship as a derogatory term to de-legitimize a ship which makes me wanna punch shit).
I'm gonna burst everyone's bubbles and say, I personally think Elriel, Elucien, and Gwynriel are all CANON ships.
Why? Well, that's the part that is up for interpretations my friends. What is deemed canonical romantic interactions? That is where a lot of lines can become blurry and if you have ever shipped a fanon ship before - you KNOW what I mean by that. Is it a charged glance? A caress of a hand that lingered too long? Is it a shared kiss? Or do the characters have to explicitly declare "I'm yours and you're mine"?
I've shipped a lot of kinds of ships. Canon. Fanon. Canon that had its end-game blown up. You name it, I've shipped it. And to me, a canon ship is anytime the writer of the canon is putting characters in a romantic situation, regardless if they end up together or not by the end of the series. If they wanted you to feel butterflies and think "could they?", and you felt butterflies, well my friends, you're responding to canon romance. And we've seen evidence of all three ships having those moments.
But, what does that mean for fanon ships? I have shipped a fanon couple where I got butterflies from their canonical scenes together. I've read into their moments and thought "wow, that was romantically charged". I think this is where the lines of canon and fanon are blurred. Because what this comes down to is, did the author intend this? Or am I seeing more into an interaction because I like it? Most fanon ships do hinge a lot of their interest in said ship because of what happens in canon. But, often times, the authors of said content are not necessarily wanting you to take away from their writing that these two characters are interested in each other romantically. You just can't help it. You see it. You see the potential, and you want it to go there so you see more of it the more you look.
Sometimes fanon ships are very clear that the canon is not even hinting at these two characters together romantically. And that is perfectly fine. To me, a fanon ship is a ship that has become so ingrained in the fandom community that the fandom thinks of these two together romantically. That it doesn't really matter anymore what the canon says or doesn't. The fandom has created this relationship and it lives and breathes within what the fandom builds for it. Azris is a perfect example of a fanon ship in ACOTAR. The canon interactions between Azriel and Eris are sparse and platonic in nature, yet the fandom itself has created a whole fanon around them with a large enough community that as soon as you enter the ACOTAR fandom, you immediately know this ship exists.
Rare pairs and Crackships
These two terms are often used interchangeably as if they are synonyms. Now, a rare pair can be a crackship but not all rare ships are crackships and vice versa.
Generally, a rare pair is devoid of canon or fanon connotations. A rare pair is a ship that receives little attention from fans and has few associated fanworks. So, a rare pair could be a fanon couple that few people think about romantically. For example, Emerie and Gwyn have a lot of interactions in canon. I would not think shipping them together to be a crackship because I mean, they're friends, they like each other, they read smut together. There are a lot of scenarios one could imagine them falling in love. But they have a whopping 12 fanfics under their tag in AO3. Therefore, they are a rare pair but not necessarily a crackship.
A rare pair can also be a canon ship. For example, Thesan and his unnamed lover are canon. However, when you look up their relationship tag on AO3, there are 23 works and most do not appear to be focused on them.
I also have seen people use rare pair for very popular ships (like Azris) when they mean fanon. Again, rare pair is really an indication of "how much fan content can you find for this" not necessarily are they canon.
Crackships really were birthed from the intention of putting two characters together "4 da lulz" to bring back early 2000s internet lingo. Crack shipping is usually a pairing that the idea of them together is a little absurd but also fun. Beron/Tamlin is a quintessential crackship example, especially why it came to be (but we will avoid getting into all the origins of that). There is no real reason to think Beron or Tamlin would ever have a romantic interaction and thinking about it makes you laugh. Crackships can sometimes turn into fanon ships. This is another example where the lines do get blurry. But really, crackshipping is about intention and the use of absurdism within fan creation.
I also want to say, often what I see in the Elucien v. Elriel and Elriel v. Gwynriel ships wars is the use of crackship in a derogatory way, and thinking that if one of these ships does not become end-game, therefore, it proves the other was a crackship. Simply put - no. That's not how it works.
End-game
Related to the above point, I think often where the ACOTAR ship wars really derail themselves, is conflating fanon/canon/endgame with each other. I don't see people often using the term end-game, when really, it would help so much with the judgmental and strange ship policing that this fandom loves to do. Specifically, this fandom has a hard time talking about the value within shipping fanon, or shipping the blurriness between fanon and canon for any characters that do not have end-game potential. ACOTAR is not a complete series. Therefore, in a strict definition, no couples are end-game. However, given the genre, there are several couples who are clearly going to be end-game. And really, what I think the ship war community needs in their discourse, is to start using the term end-game when they want to discuss the outcome of Elucien, Elriel, or Gwynriel having a canonical Happily Ever After. The reason being is that you can use end-game, and not insult another ship. End-game is simply a fact. There is no hierarchy involved in what ship is best or not. Because ships can be beloved whether they're canon or fanon or canon who did not end up together. And they all can have very valid reasons why people ship them despite not achieving end-game.
I also urge the ACOTAR fandom to realize that end-game is not the end of YOUR experience of your ship. Your ship lives on despite what the canon may or may not give you. Even if you ship a canon ship that does not achieve end-game, you can create those fanon end-games for yourself. Many popular ships end up being popular because of the effect of that ship not achieving end-game. And while I am using the prime-ship war as examples within this post, I've seen other microshipwars popping up within the fandom as well. So, I'm not trying to pick on this specific set of conflicts, it's just the one I see most prominently.
OTP vs NOTP
I think the ACOTAR fandom could also really benefit from adopting this terminology.
The point of declaring OTPs and NOTPs is a way for you to signal to others in your fandom, "This is how much I care about this ship. Whether I love it it or hate it. Tread carefully". These terms are not meant to say one ship is better than the other from a moral standpoint. Instead, it's to indicate to others that you have a strong preference. You're going to love your OTPs regardless of what arguments others throw at you to convince you to not love them. You will probably be very annoyed by your NOTPs regardless of what others try to do to convince you that they're actually cute/sexy/hot/perfect for each other. And what the ACOTAR fandom could benefit from, from readopting OTP/NOTP language, is having a common understanding where different shipping communities boundaries are and how they can better utilize those boundaries to prevent constant fighting. Now, ship wars are inevitable because of how people see their OTPs and NOTPs, but general rule of thumb is - don't engage with your NOTP's content for your own mental sanity.
Multishipping
Multishipping can be used in many ways. Some people use it to say, hey I'm in this fandom, and I ship a lot of couples. But the origins of multishipping as a term, comes from ship war discourse in other fandoms. Multishippers generally are people who ship one character with multiple other characters. For example, if you ship Elain/Lucien, Elain/Azriel, Elain/Gwyn, Elain/Tamlin, etc etc etc, you are a multishipper. I generally would not consider someone a multishipper if all of their ships do not cross streams. It just sort of means that you ship a lot of couples. Which tends to be normal for romance series with a lot of couples. Maybe not a single of those couples is your true OTP, and that's what you mean by saying you're a multishipper. And that's okay. I think though that multishipping generally in other fan spaces is a marker of you telling others that you don't draw harsh lines with who you see characters with. I often see multishippers not declaring NOTPs. It's kind of a state of how you go about shipping often. I, for one, identify as an OTP shipper. I've never really multishipped. But I also have a very strict standard of what I call my "ships". Anyways, this is to say, this term has a lot of uses. And sometimes it can be confusing which of these uses a person means when they say it.
Slash shippingÂ
I've seen over the years that slash as a terminology has fallen out of favor. In the past, slash shipping was the pinnacle of shipping in fandoms. The term slash comes from the first modern fanon ship, Kirk/Spock, where the / between their names, which we now all know and use to indicate a romantic pairing (note: & is used to indicate a platonic interaction between characters), exists because the Kirk/Spock shipping community really were the originators of shipping communities creating fan content and sharing it in with each other in a massive way. In general slash (and femslash) is an important modifier of shipping because it explicitly tells you that this is a queer ship which often were not mainstream and considered canon until more recently. With the rise of canonical queer ships, I think the subversiveness of shipping queer couples has lost it's edge, therefore slash is not needed as much anymore to directly state the nature of your ship.
I wanted to keep this in the post though, because I think it's incredibly important history for ALL ACOTAR fans to understand. Shipping queer couples, and especially shipping FANON queer couples, has always been the backbone of fandom. Kirk/Spock walked so Destiel could fly. These are all queer ships that have strong fanon roots (and that fanon has had impacts on their canon) and have shaped fandom and your concept of shipping and romance tropes in inextricable ways. You don't have / without Kirk/Spock. You don't have Omegaverse, without gay shipping within the Supernatural fandom. And I wanted to make this point because this fandom has a strong het (heterosexual) ship bias. Which is okay. It's a romance series with a lot of heterosexual canon couples. But, I think because of that, many people are not entering this fandom with an understanding that people shipping queer fanon couples have been the ones who were the originators of many fandom terms that we have come to know and use today.
Conclusion:
I hope you all found this informative and that you can take away something from this post that can help you have better interactions and ability to communicate with others in this fandom. Again, I want to stress, that this is heavily influenced by my own 25 years of experience being in fandoms. And I haven't seen it all. Others will have different interpretations of these terms and experiences using these terms. So, feel free to add on anything that you think would be helpful to those in the ACOTAR community to better understand how to "ship and let ship". I do think that ship war are inevitable and not necessarily a bad thing. But using the right terms can help you engage in a more respectful way within ship war discourse.