#rotg fandom events

[rotg-hope-week]

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

[rotgoc-celebrations]

Rise of the Guardians 10 Year Anniversary!

10 years ago on November 21, 2012, Rise of the Guardians premiered on the big screen! 10 years, and so many of us are still here enjoying this wonderful fandom. Let’s celebrate the anniversary by highlighting and reblogging some of our favorite fan creations that have kept us here and brought us so much joy, even 10 years later! :D 

There are no strict rules to the event. All fans are welcome! Below is a list of themes to use to pick out some of your favorite fanworks to share. These can be anything from fanfic, fanart, cosplay, headcanons, memes, roleplays, playlists, analysis, or just your favorite parts from the movie or book series! 

Be sure to use the tag #rotganniversary for your reblogs, and @rotgoc-celebrations​!

Also join us in the rotg discord server for movie streams on Saturday November 19th at 6PM EST and Sunday November 20th at 3PM EST! (Just shoot a message to the mods at @bunnimew​ for an invite if the link doesn’t work!) 

Have fun, show creators some love, and let’s keep believing! 

Wonder

Fix it 

Dreams 

Hope 

Sequel 

Memories 

Fear 

Memes 

Fun

Belief

[rotg-halloween]

ROTG Halloween Challenge 2023!

40 days and counting down to this year's autumnal RISE OF THE GUARDIANS thirteen-day-long fandom event, starting on 19 October 2023 and concluding on 31 October 2023.

2023 EVENT GUIDELINES

13 days, 13 prompts.

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

Unlike other fandom events, reblogs of previously created material are welcome IF THEY FIT THE PROMPT, but creation of original material is preferred.

Inspiration can be drawn from the GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD bookverse, the RISE OF THE GUARDIANS movieverse, and any and all associated AUs.

OCs are welcome and encouraged to interact with RotG/GoC characters.

Crossovers are welcome, but please make sure that the focus POV is a character from RotG/GoC.

Works in progress are welcome and encouraged, as long as they fit the prompt. No reason not to celebrate Halloween all year ‘round! No need to worry about having to have something complete before posting.

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 13 days of the challenge.

Be sure to tag your works with @rotg-halloween, and list #rotghalloween 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.

2023 Prompts

19 October 2023 / Day One: Hill

20 October 2023 / Day Two: Wormwood

21 October 2023/ Day Three: Train

22 October 2023 / Day Four: Bone

23 October 2023 / Day Five: Insubstantial

24 October 2023 / Day Six:  Exit

25 October 2023 / Day Seven: Apart

26 October 2023 / Day Eight: Melting

27 October 2023/ Day Nine: Kaiju

28 October 2023 / Day Ten: Guide

29 October 2023 / Day Eleven: Evening

30 October 2023 / Day Twelve: Hungry

31 October 2023 / Day Thirteen: Overlord

[rotgsecretsanta]

Just a reminder that posting for RotG Secret Santa 2023 begins tomorrow, December 24th, in whatever timezone you're in! :D

Be sure to @rotgsecretsanta in the body of your post and use the tag #rotgsecretsanta or #rotgsecretsanta2023 so we can match your gift with the person that requested it!

Remember, the new deadline for posting ends on January 20th!

Happy Holidays and happy gifting! ❄️❄️❄️

[freak-like-meemy]

For RotG Halloween 2023

Day 1: Hill

@rotg-halloween

Ship: Jack Frost/Katherine Shalazar (Jatherine)

Tags: Inspired by Nightmare Before Christmas, Fluff, Dorks in Love, Awkward Romance, Slow Burn, Cute Ending.

Summary: Jack wishes to join Katherine by her side and gaze into the stars~

[sylphidine]

I am expecting to get some interconnected pieces done for @rotg-hope-week, set in the same "Golden Age of Constellations" Regency AU as A Tight Ship, but they may not be completed and posted in a timely manner.

[silveryuusage]

Days 11 & 12, evening & hungry. This will be my last submission for this event sadly, but please enjoy it either way @rotg-halloween

RotG Halloween Challenge, days 11 & 12

[the-gateway-to-madness]

overly sarcastic productions

i'm literally just advertising osp they're so GOOD for fandom inspiration.

Rise of the Guardians fan who needs inspiration for an OC? Red's got a whole series about myths.

Want some historical context for your ocs' backstories, for any number of fandoms but especially ROTG if you're me? Blue covers irl historical events.

Tales of Arcadia fan who wants more tasty tasty Camelot lore to develop? Red has one about general Arthurian legend, plus one about Arthur's knights. Heck, she's watched Trollhunters. Look, look, this is from February 2018-

Red totally called it and I couldn't be more pleased lol

Interested in story structure and writing? Red talks about storytelling tropes too! The whole channel is a fandom nerd's dream. I highly recommend it.

So... yeah.

[bunnimew]

The World is a Cage

Rating: T  Fandom: Rise of the Guardians Relationship: Jack Frost/Pitch Black Tags: Dark!Jack, Lonely!Jack, Bitter!Pitch, Altho only as much as can be crammed into less than 2k Summary: For the @rotgsecretsanta 2023 prompt: Jack/Pitch with Dark Jack post ROTG when he continues to not fit in amongst the Guardians as the events with Pitch simmer down. Art or fic. Happy ever after only please.

When all you want in the world is to not be alone, wish fulfillment requires the cooperation of someone, literally anyone, else.

On AO3 here.

Here he was again.

Alone.

Jack sat on the edge of a skyscraper over looking New York City. It was beautiful up here, and it was cold. A little bit fun, and very, very dark. The city glittered far below him, the ambient sounds of life drifting up between the buildings to remind him bittersweetly that people were down there. Life kept on, the world continued to spin, humanity continued to thrive, even as it left Jack behind.

Jack picked at his nail polish as he admired the sights. It was black, with a white crackle coating. It reminded him of ice. It felt right. And, well, applying, removing, and reapplying nail polish gave him something to do with all the hours he didn’t spend with kids because…

He had nothing, and no one, else to fill those hours with.

Jack had been right from the beginning. The Guardian lifestyle wasn’t right for him. The kids were great. Jack had always loved the kids. But the endless work, the on-call schedule, the, and he didn’t care how much the others tried to deny it, bribing in exchange for belief?

It wasn’t for him. 

It never had been.

There had been a brief time, when Jack continued to pester and bother the others, insisting on making them notice him, pay attention to him, but it got exhausting. Jack had read enough books in the painful years between emerging from the lake and being chosen to know a relationship as one-sided as that wasn’t a real relationship at all.

Jack stopped pestering them. Jack waited for them to notice he was gone. They probably had noticed, but they hadn’t done anything about it. If Jack caught the baby teeth out and about, they might fawn over him for a minute, but then they left. And Tooth never showed up to say hi in their place. 

So that was that. No more to be said. Jack wasn’t really one of them. No more to be done. So Jack did nothing. 

He slid off the edge of the rooftop and let the winds carry him south.

Time and again, Jack found himself wondering what if. Jack hadn’t had to become a Guardian. There had existed at least one other path his life could have taken, and Jack knew it was stupid to wallow in the past, but he really, truly didn’t have anything better to do. Once he’d brought the snow day, once he’d made sure the kids had fun with it, his job was done and all Jack had left was to loiter by himself and think about it.

And his favorite place to do that was where his choice had been made.

Except…

Someone was already there. Pitch sat against an outcropping of ice, as if he needed to shelter from the frigid wind. It was strange to see him like that, curled up and slumped over. Or maybe it wasn’t strange, and Jack just remembered the times when he stood tall and towered with his spine straight and shoulders back the most clearly. Jack had seen Pitch laid low before. Multiple times throughout their fights. Pitch looking strange here said more about Jack, and what he chose to remember, than Pitch. 

There was no point in pretending they weren’t both here. Jack could turn and leave, but he didn’t want to. Pitch had probably noticed him already, what with the black hoodie surrounded by all this white ice. Jack would be hard to miss. And what would the Boogeyman think if Jack walked away now? Probably not anything true. Probably something self-deprecating and uncharitable of Jack’s character and there was no reason to let this remain the status quo between them. 

It took effort to walk up to Pitch. There were a lot of ways this conversation could go badly. Pitch’s gift was always knowing the worst thing he could say to someone. There were a handful of ways this conversation could go well, though, and on the off-chance Jack could spend a little time feeling slightly less lonely than he currently did, it might be worth it. 

“I admit I'm surprised to see you back here,” Pitch said when Jack stopped mere feet from him, soft voice barely audible even in the quiet of this place.

Jack decided to play along. “Not as surprised as me,” he said. “Weren’t you trapped?”

Pitch didn’t look at him, but his voice grew in volume as he got comfortable with speaking, as he eased into his monologue mode. “Only for a little while, Jack. Everything erodes over time. Even my own fear. It was always just a matter of time that I would break out again.”

It didn’t sound like Pitch was sharpening his words into blades, so Jack took another risk and sat down beside him. He didn’t feel safe, exactly, just… like the worst thing Pitch could do wouldn’t be as bad as being alone again. “Everything erodes, huh? I’m not so sure about that.”

Pitch tch’ed, but it was soft. Gentle mocking. Could be much worse. “If you’re about to preach about love lasting forever…”

Jack couldn’t help it. He laughed. “I mean, I wasn’t. But now that you brought it up…”

“Ugh,” Pitch groaned, shaking his head and turning away. “Optimism. Disgusting.”

“I don’t know,” Jack teased. “Calling your own escape inevitable seems like a pretty optimistic thing to do.”

Pitch waved his hand. “That’s fatalistic. It’s a different thing.”

“Who says it can’t be both?” Jack shot back. He was, despite everything, enjoying himself. Enjoying this verbal spar with Pitch. 

“It could be both,” Pitch reasoned, “but it isn’t. Being optimistic about my escape implies I thought my situation would be somehow bettered by it. However,” Pitch gestured at the desolate landscape around them, seemed to swipe right over and ignored their sculpture frozen in time. “As you can see, it was not. I am still powerless, I am still hated, and I am still without my nightmares. My cage has simply been expanded to include the rest of the world, Jack.”

Feeling trapped, even when you could go anywhere. Jack was sad to realize how similar their situations were. As horrible as Pitch had been, Jack wouldn’t wish this on anyone. And he wasn’t… hoping Pitch would rise again and terrorize the world, but he was in a place now where he totally understood Pitch giving the Guardians a taste of their own medicine. Where Jack might enjoy it if he saw it happening again. He loved kids, but… 

Kids were resilient. They would be okay without the Guardians bribing them for a little while. 

“Does it help to know I’m in here with you?” Jack asked tentatively. 

Pitch looked at Jack out of the corner of his eye. His expression wasn’t giving Jack a whole lot of hope, but he waited quietly for Pitch to answer anyway. “Are you really? You have believers now, Jack. You can do whatever you like.”

He couldn’t, though. What Jack wanted to do was belong somewhere, and no matter what he did, he couldn’t change that he didn’t belong anywhere. 

He could have some fun though.

“What would you say if I offered to help you rough them up some?” Jack said with the tone of changing the subject.

Pitch stared at him with wide eyes, silent for long seconds. Then his eyes narrowed. “You can’t mean what I think you mean.”

“I mean,” Jack said, “I don’t want to eliminate them. I like kids, Pitch, I don’t want them stuck with nothing but nightmares. But,” he emphasized with a playful little smirk, “I wouldn’t mind seeing Bunny all tiny and cute again for a while.”

Pitch scoffed and looked away, a grumpy hunch to his shoulders. “You’re only offering me half of what I want.”

“I’m offering you more than what you have.” More than what both of them had. A reprieve, if nothing else. It was worth a shot. It was worth Jack’s effort. He continued, putting weight behind his words. “I’m serious, Pitch. I want to see them struggle. I want to see them go for more than a day without belief. I want them to notice me again. To remember I’m fucking here!” 

Jack didn’t know when he’d started shouting, but he was. Jack panted as he stared out at the snow and ice around them. At the sculpture they left here so long ago. At… what they could do. 

Together. 

Jack turned back and found Pitch staring at him with wide eyes again. Speculative eyes that traced up and down his figure, his face. “You’ve changed.”

“I haven’t, really,” Jack said. “I tried playing it their way. It didn’t work. So it’s time to try yours. What do you say?”

Pitch seemed reluctant, like he didn’t trust that Jack was telling the truth. And honestly? Fair. Jack had played a significant part in fucking him up the first time, so it was only reasonable that Pitch wouldn’t believe him now. Jack would just have to convince him. 

Eventually, Pitch sighed and quirked an eyebrow. “Better than sitting on my ass out here, I suppose.”

Jack slapped his knee loudly and grinned. “That’s the spirit!”

Pitch turned that eyebrow on Jack. “What? Having nothing left to lose?”

Jack nodded readily. “And everything to gain.”

Pitch pressed himself up to sit with his back straight, his expression fluttering into one of focus and resolve, like the curtain of self-pity and yearning had been pulled back in a rush. “Alright, then. If you’re really serious, let’s make a plan.”

Jack eagerly spun in his seat, crossing his legs and dropping his staff in his lap. This was already the most Jack had talked to anyone in years, and now Pitch was gearing up to talk to him for hours yet. It was all Jack wanted, really, that and a little payback. If they could strike the perfect balance, then Jack would do everything in his power to keep this conversation, these plans, this partnership going for as long as they would exist as spirits.

Jack pushed his hands into his knees and leaned forward to smile at Pitch. “Let’s make some chaos.”

[avocadrawz]

Just a smol journal to look back at🫖

Last month has been WILD. And by wild I mean like traumatizing events, adventures, and shit I have never thought I would get to do or witness in this life especially as a 22 yo teen. It’s crazy to think that in a year I’d actually become a doctor like WHAAAAA I FEEL LIKE I’M JUST A KID.

Internal medicine outside the med school has been a BLAST. It’s coming to an end tmr and is it weird I’m kind of sad? Oh heck I never liked internal medicine I always preferred surgery course over med but the past month was so fun??? My resident is one of the best doctors I’ve ever rounded with and the most appreciated part is they are so kind and they let me manage the conditions by myself, let me know what’s right and what’s wrong or what lies in between😂 The interns are so friendly and we even went on trips (Back in med scl years I was a dorm person like I need personal time to draw and write novels because, let’s face it, even when you happily chose your major,ANY kind of studying is ALWAYS tiresome.)

For a kid with bad anxiety and severe impostor syndrome, ironically, extern year is slowly helping me cope and get better and feel better about my shitty myself.

I have been drawing a lot too and taking a dive back into my childhood novels and I think I have improved a bit. I hated my art for while back in surgery because I was so stressed out and I had no room for obsessions and fandoms and books and I had the BIGGEST art block ever. Now, an escape to tumblr and pjo or rotg or fictional worlds is keeping me tethered to positive lights in life 🥺

Surgery is back in 2 days and I’m dreading the attendings but *sigh* one month and I’ll be done with themm. I’ll go back, take the test, celebrate with some salmon sashimi🦆

Special thanks to @aiuredsworld for fangirling, hyping, growing, and drawing with me. 🍣 later💕

PS. go check out her art. She drawS TONS OF SWEET DRARRY OF YOUR DREAMS!

[rotg-hope-week]

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!

[ksclaw]

I posted 740 times in 2022

61 posts created (8%)

679 posts reblogged (92%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@chigrima

@ksclaw

@srrrokka

@fanarchoslashivist

@sumi-sprite

I tagged 569 of my posts in 2022

Only 23% of my posts had no tags

#rise of the guardians - 121 posts

#lmao - 63 posts

#pitch black - 61 posts

#ksclawart - 52 posts

#rotg - 48 posts

#important - 46 posts

#jack frost - 29 posts

#guardians of childhood - 21 posts

#rambles - 21 posts

#reference - 18 posts

Longest Tag: 135 characters

#i once got a very stinging rejection based on how i 'clearly didn't have at least 5 years experience and that's what we're looking for'

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Idk if you're still big in the fandom, but I feel like its worth mentioning the RotG 10th anniversary is this year so maybe the fandom can plan something together? I don't reach a lot of people but I feel like you do so maybe this message will inspire you or others to start planning something big? Love all your works btw ❤

Oh thank you <3 And lots of us are active on a discord server. We might figure something out, and figure out an event for it. @bunnimew might have a few ideas perhaps?

29 notes - Posted March 6, 2022

#4

Late submission for @rotg-hope-week : Honeycomb

Mini!Nightmare and Pastel Elf got themselves into trouble. Bunny doesn’t even know _how_ they got an entire bee swarm after them into the Warren

38 notes - Posted April 26, 2022

#3

Finally got this finished for @rotg-hope-week : Snowdrop

In Flower Language, a Snowdrop has the following meaning: Purity, Hope Rebirth, Consolation or Sympathy.

I decided to play with the “rebirth” part, in relation to a certain part of the books with Jack and Nightlight and saw it as an excuse to play with painting in Clip Studio. It was a fun challenge and I’m happy with the final result.

42 notes - Posted April 27, 2022

#2

Hope Week day 2: Chocolate eggs

Still working on Day 1, but for now, here’s for Day 2 of @rotg-hope-week

Bunnymund knew he was missing something. In the beginning, he had thought Jack had been messing with his eggs, or that North’s elves had been trying to start trouble. Maybe even Sandy had some cravings, but the Dream Weaver usually asked first.

And then he had found the hoof prints. Which had led him to the true culprit.

“So. What do ya have t’ say for yerself?” He fumed.

The Nightmare tried, and failed, to look properly innocent. The problem was that it had the evidence smeared all over it in the form of chocolate as well as pastel colors.

48 notes - Posted April 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Listen, with the Plinko meme going on, it was only a matter of time.

63 notes - Posted January 9, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[rotg-halloween]

Halloween Isn’t Over! Deadline Extended For 2023 Entries!

The spooky fun continues. The 31st of October may have passed, but Halloween is an all-year-round state of mind.

Therefore…

Still accepting entries through MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH!

A reminder about the prompts...

A reminder about the guidelines...

And please remember to ping your entries with @rotg-halloween

Thank you, everyone who keeps the Rise Of The Guardians / Guardians of Childhood fandom going.

—Mod Sylph

[rotgsecretsanta]

RotG Secret Santa 2023 is Live!

The Secret Santa Stocking Stuffer list for 2023 is live!

If you signed up, check out the list above to pick your gift to make! You should have a copy of your responses in your email if you’ve forgotten which ones are yours.

If you didn’t sign up but you’re looking for inspiration, feel free to check out the list anyway and make somebody’s day this winter! The main requirement would be waiting until Dec 24th to post your work. <3

And here’s the FAQ again if you’re unsure about anything. My DMs are always open, too!

Have fun and Happy gifting!

[thetorturedmusesdept]

Was that [BRENTON THWAITES]? Oh no no, that was just [JACK FROST], a [CANON CHARACTER] from [RISE OF THE GUARDIANS]. They are [TWENTY-THREE] years old, use [HE/HIM], and [ARE] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long.

FULL NAME: Jackson "Jack" Overland "Frost" AGE: 23 SPECIES: Human/Spirit FANDOM: Rise of the Guardians GENDER IDENTITY: Cis male; he/him SEXUALITY:  Heterosexual NATIONALITY: American ETHNICITY: White HOW LONG HAS YOUR CHARACTER BEEN HERE?: One Week JOB: Spirit of Winter / Guardian of Fun WHERE HAS YOUR CHARACTER BEEN PULLED FROM IN THEIR FANDOM?: After the events of the movie! HAS ANY MAGIC AFFECTED YOUR CHARACTER?: Nope, he has all his memories intact.

FACE CLAIM: Brenton Thwaites SPECIAL / RECOGNIZABLE FEATURES: Usually carrying a large staff. HAIR COLOR: Brown EYE COLOR: Brown ACCENT: American

SIBLING(S): One younger sister named Mary PARTNER(S): None. CHILDREN: None atm. PARENT(S): Mr. and Mrs. Overland

- blah - blah - blah - blah - blah - blah - blah - blah

platonic connections: Friends, since Jack could definitely use friends outside of the other Guardians! more platonic connections: Anyone from ROTG but especially his little sister, Jamie, Sophie, and Tooth!! other immortals/etc: Anyone that can relate to him/he can relate to in any way would really be beneficial! fun-lovers: Lovers of fun, the Guardian of Fun has arrived! Let's all have a blast! people who need fun: Too serious? Don't know how to let loose? Never having a good time? Let Jack change that for you! romance: Jack has been a little lonely these past 300+ years, so I'd love to see him meet someone and fall in love for sure.

[sylphidine]

[Banner art designed by Ickaimp]

OCTOBER 19TH THROUGH OCTOBER 31ST

Less than two months until the RISE OF THE GUARDIANS Halloween Challenge event for 2022, especially delightful since this is the tenth anniversary of the movie’s release.

Please check out @rotg-halloween for more information on the prompts and guidelines.

Let’s get spooky. ---Mod Sylph