Coming Soon: May Trope Mayhem 2026!

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The Sixth Annual May Trope Mayhem Starts Soon!

What is May Trope Mayhem? It’s Duck Prints Press’s annual multi-fandom/original work creation event! Our creators have shared their favorite tropes, and we’ve picked 31, one per day of May, to make an awesome, fun, diverse list of prompts to inspire your creativity. Come May 1st, we invite everyone to create a ficlet, artwork, gif set, photo montage, or whatever else they feel like, inspired by the trope of the day. We’re open to any fandom or no fandom at all, original characters and old faves, any ship (yes even that one) or no ship or reader inserts or, or, or… If you can imagine it, we’d love to see you create it!

Check out past May Trope Mayhem’s…

• the 2021 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
• the 2022 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
• the 2023 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
• the 2024 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
• the 2025 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
• the AO3 Parent Collection

No changes are being made to the rules for 2026, so you can get the gist by checking out the past challenges.

The 2026 May Trope Mayhem List will be released on April 2 2026. Follow us on the social media of your choice to make sure you don’t miss it!