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Posting opens in a little more than twelve hours!

The RISE OF THE GUARDIANS Hope Week event for 2024 starts at 12:01AM Eastern US Time on Sunday, 31 March.

Please remember to ping @rotghopeweek AND use #rotghopeweek2024 in one of your first five tags.

If you are posting elsewhere, like AO3, Neocities, Twitter, etc., please let the mods know so it can be linked here on the ROTG Hope Week blog.

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Hope Week in seven days and counting!

Check out the pinned post at the top of the blog for guidelines!

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Counting down to ROTG Hope Week 2024!

Three weeks until entries can be posted for this year's RISE OF THE GUARDIANS seven-day Hope Week event!

Check the pinned message at the top of this blog for guidelines and prompts.

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Regarding this year's prompts.

Mod Sylph here.

I've heard there's some confusion over the games chosen for art or fanfic creation in the 2024 event.

The first prompt in each day is a game that one or two people can play, the second prompt is one for a whole group. That should give people a lot of leeway in what they wish to create. And remember, you don't have to do all fourteen! One per day is fine.

I hadn't realized that some of the games cited were so obscure. So here's some links for context.

Day One: Jacks/Charades

https://thegeniusofplay.org/genius/play-ideas-tips/play-ideas/jacks-game.aspx#:~:text=Player%201%20tosses%20a%20ball,progress%20to%20the%20next%20round.

https://www.puzzleshq.com/tips-tricks/games/how-to-play-charades/

Day Two: Ping-Pong/Billiards

https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Ping-Pong-(Table-Tennis)

https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Billiards

Day Three: Jenga/Scavenger Hunt

https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Jenga

https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Scavenger-Hunt

Day Four: Pinball/Roleplaying Games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_role-playing_game

Day Five: Chess/Video Games

https://www.instructables.com/Playing-Chess/

Video games

Day Six: Dominoes/Card Games

https://www.britannica.com/topic/domino-game-piece

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/popular-card-games-37330134

Day Seven: Cat’s Cradle/Hopscotch

https://www.instructables.com/Get-Wound-Up-In-Cats-Cradle/

https://www.playworks.org/game-library/hopscotch/

Hoping these are useful and helpful in finding inspiration. Happy creating!

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ROTG Hope Week 2024 - 31 March through 6 April

The last few years have been rough on many of us, and we could all use a little Hope.

So once again we're back for the RISE OF THE GUARDIANS April[ish] fandom creation event, starting on Easter Sunday, March 31st at 12:01AM Eastern US Time, and ending on Saturday, April 6th at 11:59PM Eastern US Time.

We're trying something a little different this year - one overarching theme, that of games, with a daily Column A choice and a Column B choice, so that participants can take their pick of one or two prompts to fill per day.

GUIDELINES:

7 days, 14 prompts, with your choice of one or two prompts per day.

Visual, aural, textile, and literary works are allowed - fanart, fanfiction, gifs, edits/manips, cosplay, fanmixes, crafts, or ask-and-answer IF THEY FIT THE PROMPT.

Creation of original material is preferred for this event, rather than reblogs.

Inspiration should be drawn from the GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD bookverse and the RISE OF THE GUARDIANS movieverse.

Don’t feel like you ***must*** post a piece Every… Single… DAY, and/or fill every single prompt.  Burnout is not fun.  But do try to post at least ONE piece during the seven days of the challenge.

Be sure to tag your works with @rotg-hope-week, and list #rotghopeweek2024 in one of your first 5 tags.

Please tag works accordingly, and be sure to use any warnings for sensitive and potentially triggering subjects.  

HAVE FUN, and support your fellow creators.

PROMPTS:

Day One: Jacks/Charades

Day Two: Ping-Pong/Billiards

Day Three: Jenga/Scavenger Hunt

Day Four: Pinball/Roleplaying Games

Day Five: Chess/Video Games

Day Six: Dominoes/Card Games

Day Seven: Cat’s Cradle/Hopscotch

Your mods this year are @sylphidine and @bunnimew.

Find your center, and let's keep that Guardians spirit alight!

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ROTG Hope Week 2024 - Guidelines

The last few years have been rough on many of us, and we could all use a little Hope.

So once again we're back for the RISE OF THE GUARDIANS April[ish] fandom creation event, starting on Easter Sunday, March 31st at 12:01AM Eastern US Time, and ending on Saturday, April 6th at 11:59PM Eastern US Time.

We're trying something a little different this year - one overarching theme, that of games, with a daily Column A choice and a Column B choice, so that participants can take their pick of one or two prompts to fill per day.

7 days, 14 prompts, with your choice of one or two prompts per day.

Visual, aural, textile, and literary works are allowed - fanart, fanfiction, gifs, edits/manips, cosplay, fanmixes, crafts, or ask-and-answer IF THEY FIT THE PROMPT.

Creation of original material is preferred for this event, rather than reblogs.

Inspiration should be drawn from the GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD bookverse and the RISE OF THE GUARDIANS movieverse.

Don’t feel like you ***must*** post a piece Every… Single… DAY, and/or fill every single prompt.  Burnout is not fun.  But do try to post at least ONE piece during the seven days of the challenge.

Be sure to tag your works with @rotg-hope-week, and list #rotghopeweek2024 in one of your first 5 tags.

Please tag works accordingly, and be sure to use any warnings for sensitive and potentially triggering subjects.  

HAVE FUN, and support your fellow creators.

Your mods this year are @sylphidine and @bunnimew.

Find your center, and let's keep that Guardians spirit alight!

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Five weeks and counting until this year's Rise of the Guardians Hope Week event!

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Jack Frost. That’s all. Bingo free space. Bonus if you change his hoodie for any kind of cool outfit.

Local idiot Icicle trading out his tiny impractical hoodie for a bigger, even more impractical parka.

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Bunny being grumpy about the holiday season and North being smug about it.

Not pictured, the ridiculous amount of Christmas lights currently covering every inch of the North Pole

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Prompt 12: Alice in Wonderland AU

Cast:

Pitch Black as Cheshire Cat

North as Caterpillar

Tooth as The Mad Hatter

Sandy as Doormouse

Bunnymund as White Rabbit

Jack as a Playing Card (forgive me I couldn't resist)

Bennet as Alice

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For request # 23. jack is given a hand knit big fluffy sweater made of yeti fur from Phil.

Might be a little too warm for him… Happy Holidays❤️

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For request # 70. pitch and his locket.

This was so fun to work on. Happy Holidays❤️

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[NDU] Scratch Spins And Shadow Dances

Written for the annual Rise of the Guardians Stocking Stuffer event for 2023.

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Prompt 30 - NDU Verse (Pitchiner and Pitch)

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“Skiing?” “Good God, no.”

“Ice fishing? Snowshoeing? Tobogganing?”

“I haven’t a clue what that last one is, but it sounds truly vulgar.”

“Oh, come ON. It’s like a long flat sled that’s got a big curl up front, but no runners. You can fit like four or five kids on it, you shoot down the highest hill you can find, and you all jump off before you fall into the ravine or hit a tree.”

“Then I certainly haven’t participated in such a thing.”

“Seriously? Nobody ever did winter stuff with you when you were a kid? That’s just sad.”

“Winter weather out-of-doors involves getting cold and wet. I would think you would know me well enough by now to realize that being cold and wet irks me."

Pitch leaned forward from where he was perched on Coz's lap and gave him a rare, affectionate cheek nuzzle instead of a spiteful ear nip. He continued, "If you can keep your mind out of the gutter, I'm sure you can guess my OTHER favorite indoor winter sport, by simple process of elimination."

Coz gave him a shit-eating grin back. "Hmmmm… pickleball?" 

That earned Coz a hard smack on the shoulder as Pitch hissed like a scalded cat. “Do you really think my mother would allow such a pedestrian, uncultured, NOISY pastime in her house?”

“Nah, I guess not. Alright, Mr. ‘I’m too sexy for my pickleball’, I give up.  What indoor winter sport does the lofty Black family approve of and you call your favorite?”

With the air of one conveying a secret for the ages, Pitch replied proudly, "Ice skating!"

Coz mulled that over, confused for a minute until he figured out that by "indoor winter sport", Pitch was referring to an actual skating rink. He responded, "Huh. We finally have something in common."

“You skate?”

“Of course I skate.  You can’t grow up on the border of The Great White North without learning how to ice skate.”

“I’m not talking about ice hockey, you oaf.”

“Neither am I! Not to mention being part Russian. It's in the blood. You’d be surprised at what I can get up to when I’m bladed up.”

“Hmmmph.”

“I’m guessing that you and Piki grew up with little silver blades on your feet, to go with the silver spoons in your mouths.”

He'd meant that to sound banter-y, but it was apparently the wrong thing to say.

“If you’re going to be rude, I’m going to skip this line of inquiry.” Pitch started to wriggle off of Coz's lap, but not before Coz saw a flash of hurt quickly cross his bedmate's sharp-featured face. He shot out one beefy arm, circled Pitch's slim waist with it, and hauled him back in, holding him close to his chest.

"Hey. Hey, hey. I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. I was only trying to say you must have been really cute on skates when you were a kid."

"Hmmph," Pitch groused again, but sounding less annoyed this time. He relaxed a bit in Coz's grip.

"My Russian great-aunt ran a skating concession stall up in Malone when I was little," Coz continued, "and she was really patient with the kids. If I close my eyes, I can see you there, too."

"Maybe in another lifetime," Pitch said musingly. "I doubt that my parents ever wintered  north of Saratoga Springs."

Coz wisely held his tongue this time, resisting the urge to scoff at the notion of rich people “wintering” in spots that saw not even half the snow he was used to. He said instead, “So. You. Me. Ice skating. Interested?” 

“You’re on. But ***I *** get to pick where and when.”

“Anything you say, dear.”

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“You do know we could have just driven down, parked at my grandparents' place, and taken the subway here, don’t you?” asked Coz a week later from the backseat of the town car he and Pitch were currently riding in.

“Yes, we COULD have,” replied Pitch smugly, “but I wouldn’t want you all tired out and stiff before we even got to the rink.” Pitch couldn’t help grinning at the double entendre he’d slipped in there, and from the grin and the “oh HO” he got as an answer, Pitchiner hadn’t missed it. 

He gave himself a pat on the back. Had this been his twin brother trying to impress Jack Sickle, Piki would have sprung for buying a VIP package with unlimited skate time, never thinking to ask if Jack even LIKED ice skating, finding out the hard way about Jack’s traumatic past experiences with frozen water, and then flailing around for the rest of the date while Jack fell apart emotionally.

Pitch had more awareness of others’ sensibilities than Piki did, or ever would. [Never mind that it had been PROTO who’d told Pitch about how Jack’s sister died.  Information was still information.] He gave himself credit in finding out what Pitchiner considered fun, and had planned this outing accordingly. 

And no, this was not a date. He wasn't in love with dating Pitchiner.

Yes, it was Rockefeller Center. But no, he wasn’t trying to make a splash with money the way Piki would have.  Pitch’s current intent was to rent some skates and to do two 40-minute skate sessions with food and hot beverages in-between. Even the round trip limo service that he'd arranged between the NDU campus and midtown Manhattan was a practical concern, not meant to be flamboyant.

Nothing extravagant, therefore. Just something that normal people did at Christmas time.

Not a date.

He promised himself he wouldn’t laugh… much… at Pitchiner’s skating. After all, The Rink at Rockefeller Center was not some glazed-over puddle in the backwoods. Indoor ice skating required thoughtful panache, not mindless brawn.

An hour later, Pitch found himself taken aback.

He was used to looking at Pitchiner with attraction and lust. And quite frankly, who wouldn’t? He was muscled in all the right places and had a handsome face, even with the crooked nose.

Pitchiner in bed with Pitch was one tasty feast of a man.

Pitchiner on the lacrosse field was an unstoppable force of nature, one Pitch had to admire even if he didn’t understand the rules of the game. Not that Pitch would ever admit to such admiration out loud. 

But Pitchiner on ice skates… well, “beautiful” was the first word that leapt to Pitch’s mind, and once having leapt there, the word “beautiful” refused to be dislodged.

Somehow Pitchiner managed to convert his formidable muscle and sinew into something tight and focused. He wasn’t showy with his axels and spins. But he stuck every landing, pulled himself into and out of crouches and slides, and dammit, his sensual movements made Pitch regret his extra layers of clothing.

Pitch had at first restricted himself to circling the outer perimeter of the rink, with occasional twirls when he could be sure not to crash into other skaters. Having seen Pitchiner in action, he made up his mind to let loose, just a little.

He put on a bit of speed and caught up to Pitchiner, pulling just ahead of him in the circuit. Wordlessly he held out one gloved hand and was relieved to have Pitchiner reaching back.

Together they skated in silence, hand in hand, keeping pace with each other, complicated feelings on both sides expressed in motion, without words.

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Prompt 16! [No Ship] Becoming a Guardian is an inevitable fate. Pitch finally becomes one after centuries of bad blood, kicking and screaming all the way.

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Prompt 28! Mother Nature in Art Deco 1920s Fashion!

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Prompt 21: Jack getting dressed up for some fancy event (Bonus: is a little grouchy about not being allowed to wear his hoodie to said event)

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Prompt 20: Jack getting a hug from the other guardians!

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