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Beauty and the Beast Week 2026 is coming in August! Here are answers to some questions I’ve gotten or that you may be wondering about before participating in the event:

Can I join?

Yes! This is an open event with no registration. You don’t need to notify me or get my permission. Everyone is welcome.

Do I have to do something for every one of the prompts on a day?

No! Just one is fine. You can do more if you wish, or multiple works for the same prompt, but none of this is necessary. The list of prompts is here.

Do I have to do something for every day of the week?

No! Again, just one is fine, though you can do more if you wish.

Can I combine prompts from different days in one work?

Sure! You can post the work on the first day that the work applies to, or the day that the work most fits with, or the free day. I’m not picky.

Can I combine prompts from this event with another event?

As long as your work for this event is new and follows the rest of the rules, yes, you can use a work for this event and another event at the same time. For instance, let’s say you post a steampunk AU on August 1 for the AU-gust event, and then you want to repost/reblog it on August 28 for the BatB Week “top hat” prompt, that would NOT be allowed, because the work isn’t new. However, if you create a work for August 25 that fits both the Monster Hunter AU of AU-gust and “curse” prompt of BatB Week, and post it for both events, that’s fine!

Do I have to write about actual magic?

No! The magical prompts can be treated as metaphorical and interpreted however you wish. For instance, you can take the “spell” prompt and write a story about Belle winning a spelling bee. Or you can take the “Say the magic word” prompt and draw a comic of Beast being grumpy about having to say please. The prompts are meant to expand your ideas to new things you haven’t tackled before, not limit them to strict topics. That being said, you can of course also create works that are about the literal things in the prompts. Whatever inspires you! And if you’re stuck, there are plenty of free ideas at #inspiration.

What should I do if my work doesn’t fit with any of the prompts?

That’s what day 7, the free day, is for! Anything goes, that day (provided you still follow the rules, of course).

Do I have to create my art/fic/whatever on the day itself?

Nope. Create it now, and just hold off on posting it until the day of the prompt you used.

Does my fic/art need to take place in the Disney BatB universe, or are AUs allowed?

As long as you have at least one Disney Beauty and the Beast character, you can stick them in whatever universe you wish. Make Belle a mermaid in a pirate AU, make Gaston an astronaut in a space AU, give Cogsworth and Lumiere a meet-cute at a coffee shop, or just keep everyone in the canon-compliant universe of the film. Anything goes!

Which versions of Beauty and the Beast are allowed?

Any Disney version of Beauty and the Beast, or Disney product in which their BatB characters appear, is valid. Obviously, the 1991 and 2017 movies are the most obvious, but as long as you use at least one BatB character, you can also make a fanwork related to the spinoff movies (Enchanted Christmas and Belle’s Magical World), the Broadway musical, any TV show (House of Mouse, Castle Quest, BatB 30th anniversary special, etc.), any video game (Dreamlight Valley, Kingdom Hearts, Villains Cafe, Speedstorm, Mirrorverse, etc.), or other media (comics, books, Lorcana, etc.).

Can I include non-BatB characters in my creations?

Sure! As long as you have at least one Disney Beauty and the Beast character, you can include whatever other characters you wish. Characters from other media, OCs, reader inserts, they’re all fine. And remember that there is no bashing of others’ characters or ships! Accounts that do so will get blocked. Review the full list of rules here.

Can I make [fill in the blank]?

Yep. Any type of fanwork you can dream up is welcome, not just fic and art. Crochet a Beast hat and post a pic of it, make a photo montage of yourself doing cosplay, make a music video, we love it all!

Is NSFW allowed?

Yes, with any sort of content and kink you like, but since there may be minors following this account, please tag it appropriately. If posting mature content directly on Tumblr rather than AO3, also use its community labels function and/or hide the content under a “keep reading” link. And minors—do not engage with content that is not meant for you.

Is AI allowed?

Absolutely not. This account will not reblog, include in master lists, or include in the AO3 collection anything that was made with AI involved to any degree. Even if you just use AI to make a banner to go along with your fic that you manually wrote, we will not reblog it. Review the full list of rules here.

How do I post my work so it gets included?

The most important thing to be sure to do is to tag the @beauty-beast-week account in your Tumblr post so we can see it and reblog it from this account. Also, please use the hashtag #batbweek and/or #batbweek 2026. Full posting instructions will go up 3 weeks before the start of the event.

Should I post my fic on AO3 or Tumblr?

Whatever you prefer. If you post it on AO3 and also make a Tumblr post to link to it, we will reblog the Tumblr post. If you only post to the AO3 collection, we will have nothing to reblog, but we will still link to your work in the master lists.

I don’t post my art on Tumblr; can I still participate?

Yes, but you’ll need to send us a DM via Tumblr with a link to your work on Instagram, Bluesky, X, DeviantArt, etc. We will then include it in the master lists.

I’m not going to get my work done on time; can I still participate?

Please do! We’re happy to accept late entries! We understand that life happens, so just tag us when you’ve posted it and we’ll reblog it, days/weeks/months later, though it may not make it into the master list post at the end of the event.

How can I connect with the other people participating in this event?

Building personal connections between those in our fandom community is the main reason @firawren created this event, so while there’s no Discord server specifically for this event, there is the “Frozen Hearts Worth Melting” Discord server. It’s a super chill server for Beauty and the Beast and Frozen fanfic writers and artists; DM @loonysama if you want to join this server. Also, feel free to DM @firawren if you’d like to connect one on one; I’m always hungry for more BatB friends!

I can't really say I think 1991 Mrs. Potts would be the same. I think she has a few medicinal teas, but not ones she's made herself. She knows how to prep them, how to safely use them, all that, but she doesn't make them herself.

And last for now is Belle in a piece from Elie Saab's Autumn/Winter 25/26 collection

i was just wondering if you had any more headcannons for her (with cadenza, with belle 😉, or just anything fun cause it’s lacking for my fav lady)

sorry i'm so late on this! thank you for reading all those fics, that made me so happy

have a new mini fic

"What do they mean they didn't know? How did they not know." Madame de Garderobe is at her leisure in her new salon, a room Adam promised her beside the garden with giant spreading windows and doors that she can, thank god, now walk through. She doesn't ever stay in one place for very long—she can't bear to be shut up, she always wants to travel and see new things—but when she's in the palace, she curls up here. And now here she is, with sheaves of newspapers spread around her, one magazine dangling from her fingertips.

Belle wrinkles her nose and flicks through the papers. All the headlines are heralding the return of the great Garderobe!, the announcements of her new world tour, declarations she'll be singing Medea in the newest piece by Vivaldi. All good news, for certain divas. But only new good news.

"Magic's tricky, madame. I mean, you could ask how an entire village forgot we had a prince living next door. Where did our taxes go? Our whole government operation should have been—"

"Taxes. I am above taxes." Madame is getting a little operatic with it. "Government! I do not speak of government. I speak of the soul. The world forgot my performance in Medici? They spoke not of how I tore the very being from Cleopatra and sang the King to tears! Mozart wrote a new opera and he did not call for me? He spurned me? In my torment!"

"In your torment as a closet. I don't think you could have made the engagement even if he'd tried."

"I could sing as a HATBOX. I could sing as a COINPURSE," rings out the diva, and the whole palace hears it. "Magic! Magic taking me from the lives of the people! They did not say, why do we not hear from the Muse today? Where has the beautiful lady gone? You tell me they forgot me?"

"It was part of the curse!"

"It WAS the curse. A wardrobe I can be! A has-been I will not."

"But you're not a has-been!" Belle holds out the papers. The Sun has decided Garderobe is both pregnant and holding George III hostage in a sunny resort in Ibiza; it figures. "You're more of a been, is-being, than ever! The people are so happy to remember you again."

"Hmph." Garderobe pairs an orange with a stiletto, haughty, but contemplating. "So in all those years, so many years of being stuffed away like so many costumes, in the mold and the dust of the rooms upstairs....they simply did not think of me? Not good, not bad, simply....they could not? They did not feel the light go out?"

"No, of course not. Do you think Lumiere's family never wrote to him just because? Do you think Mr. Potts stayed in the village without his wife or son for fun? Everyone forgot everyone who was here. Even if they were beloved. Even if they were needed."

"What a terrible spell," says the diva, and Belle wants to laugh: the prince as a monster is fine! The great lady not debuting Eurydice, this will not do. But she understands, too: Madame de Garderobe's whole life has been given to dark rooms full of clapping hands. What is the worth of a life if it disappears so quickly? What sort of legacy is a singer whose voice remains trapped in the room?

"We must think of a new magic," Madame de Garderobe decides, shifting away the papers, moving to the window to stare at the gardens. "A new magic so I may never be forgotten! So a voice can go on singing, if darkness or death should put it out."

"Well," says Belle, "I've been doing a little experiment with a thing I call a record-player. It's not quite magic, but it's more dependable."

i know i'm not very active in the fandom anymore but i still have a lot of love for these characters. tagging me old fandom pals to see if there are any ideas @batbobsession @forr-everrmorre @im-too-obssesed @cad-enza-blog @sweetfayetanner @tinydooms @saberhilt-blog @morgaine2005 @naturepointstheway @theteaisaddictive @ticenchantedtoc @gryffindorbraids @prince-adams-japris @ anybody else i forgot to tag (some of you have moved urls so i'm not sure if i'm tagging the right blogs but we'll see)

Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Walt Disney