The Cat Returns Birthday Bash

The Cat Returns Birthday Bash prompt list is now live!

The event will run from July 19th to July 25th, is open to anyone who wants to participate, and you can create whatever you want. Fic, poetry, traditional art, digital art, just as long as it is Cat Returns related, with the exception of Free Day, where you can share original works as well.

The prompts for this year are:

19th - Found Family / Nobility & Aristocracy 20th - Happy Birthday / Free Day 21st - Reincarnation / Curse 22nd - Amnesia / Child Acquisition 23rd - Masks / Mythology 24th - Fairy Tale AU / Time Travel 25th - Second Chances / Jealousy

The Cat Returns Birthday Bash 2026 prompt list is live!

The event will run from July 19th to July 25th. It is open to anyone who wants to participate, and you can make whatever you want for the event. Fic, poetry, traditional art, digital art, whatever you get inspired to do, so long as it's Cat Returns related, with the exception of Free Day, where you can share original works as well.

The prompts are:

19th - Found Family / Nobility & Aristocracy 20th - Happy Birthday / Free Day 21st - Reincarnation / Curse 22nd - Amnesia / Child Acquisition 23rd - Masks / Mythology 24th - Fairy Tale AU / Time Travel 25th - Second Chances / Jealousy

Babysitting/Child Acquisition

Fairy Tale AU

Jealousy

Neighbor AU

Second Chances

Toto Appreciation

Day in the life/Domestic AU

Magical Girl AU

Movie Night

Nobility/Aristocracy

All submissions are in, now it's time to vote!

I will place the prompts below, and since there are so many, I'm upping the voting cap from our usual 6 to 10. Pick the top 10 prompts you would like to see, and either submit your vote to the ask box here, or DM Mod Ro through the Cat Returns Server (the link for which is available here)

Amnesia

Average Day in a Loving Relationship

Babysitting/Child Aquisition

Battle/Fighting

Bureau Clients

Crossover

Curse

Day in the Life/Domestic AU

Demon Deal

Fairy Tale AU

Fluff

Found Family

Identical Stranger

Isekai

Jealousy

Louise’s Fate 

Magic

Magical Girl AU

Masks/Masquerade

Movie Night 

Mythology

Neighbor AU

Nobility/Aristocracy 

Potion

Pre-Movie

Reincarnation 

Sci-Fi

Seaside Town

Second Chances

Swapped Perspective 

Sweets & Treats

Time Travel

Toto Appreciation

Vacation

Yuki Appreciation

Voting will last until June 6th, and the official prompts post will go up in June 7th.

Toto Appreciation

Yuki Appreciation

Isekai

Fairy tale AU

Crossover

Sci-fi

Louise's Fate

Second Chance

Fluff

Magic Girl AU

Coming at you from a new blog, it is once again time for the Cat Returns Birthday Bash!

I am Mod Ro (aka @ro-visiting-the-bureau), and I shall be running the show this year while co-Mod Cat (aka @catsafarithewriter) focuses on life things.

As always, the Bash will run for the week of July 19th, TCR's US release date anniversary. This year, that will be July 13th-19th (7/13-7/19). The Anniversary prompts, as always, shall be Happy Birthday/Free Day, but that leaves six (6) days of prompts to fill.

Prompt submissions will be open for one week from May 23rd to May 30th. After that, the submitted prompts will be shared, and another week of voting (May 31st to June 6th) to confirm our selection. Send prompts to this account, or if you’re in the TCR discord, you can send them there as well.