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We're pleased to announce the first Trans* & Inter* Conclave Week!

Modelled after Trans Terror Week, this is a trans* & inter* event, run by trans* & inter* folks, to highlight trans* and inter* fanworks creators and their work. The event will be running for seven days from August 31 through September 7, 2025.

Rules & FAQ

Prompts

AO3 Collection

As per the rules, this event is specifically for trans* and inter* content creators, however cis perisex allies are more than welcome to show their support by sharing works posted.

There is NO restriction on type of content! Art, fics, edits, playlists, videos, textile art, cosplay, ... everything is welcome! You can also make a Creator Spotlight post - a post highlighting yourself and your work, and we’ll give you a boost.

Submissions to our tumblr are open. You can also post to your own blog and tag your works #transclave and/or ping us @transconclaveweek to make sure we see what you've made!

Your mods are @ardyforshort, @yourlocalnerdychristian, @veganthranduil, and @sententiousandbellicose. If you have any questions, please head to our ask box.

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On So Called Discourse

(July 2025)

The fanwork creator is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal fanwork and conceal the fan is fanwork’s aim.

The commenters, reccers, and critiquers of fanworks are those who can translate their impression of beautiful things into another manner or a new material. The truest form of criticism is an account of your personal experience of the work and the ways in which it affected you.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral fanwork. Fanwork is well made, or badly made. That is all.

Real-life moral values form part of the subject-matter of the creator, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

No creator desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.

No creator has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in a creator is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

No creator is ever morbid. The creator can express everything. Thought and language are to them instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to them materials for an art.

All fanwork is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

What fanwork really mirrors is the spectator, reader, and consumer of fanwork rather than the source canon.

Diversity of opinion about a fanwork shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the creator is in accord with themselves.

We can forgive someone for making a useful thing as long as they do not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All fanwork is quite useless.

Loosely based on Oscar Wilde, From the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray

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like???

OKAY!!! WE GET IT!!! HE'S PRETTY!!!

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Dear Archbishop of Kabul

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the conclave book describing Tremblay’s papal candidacy as “he had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one” is actually so fucking funny. mr Robert Harris did you have any idea how well this would age

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Belitedesco comics

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everything is so bleak in this world but at least you can accuse old men of being gay for each other. they can never take that from us

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Cada vez que intento hacer algo de lawrenitez termino con otro ship random, ¿DE DÓNDE C0Ñ0 SALIÓ ESTO? 😭😭 perooo ,por otro lado, dos viejitos en su rutina como pareja casada para dormir🥰(pre-divorcio canónico).

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what you learn from hobbies:

consistent practice opens up whole worlds of skill that you couldn't imagine

making mistakes in the process of learning is not only natural, it is also essential

activities that you enjoy can give you more energy back than you spent on them

wow everything is so expensive

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If you ever wanna feel better about yourself just know that I've recently been ghosted twice by the same guy like he literally came back for seconds

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first summer in the Vatican

Vincent being like "I kinda want to stay under the rain cos it's fun but hey a plausible reason to stand reeeeeeally close to my crushes"

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Take this cup away from me

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papal white

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A tiny Conclave (2024)

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This has probably already been said, but they should do Dracula Daily but with Lord of the Rings. Email me on the day Frodo & Co go into the forest. Email me on the day Gandalf falls. Email me when the ring is dropped into Mt Doom. I just want a real time experience of how long this journey takes.

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