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Lautski Nation, we are so back!

(Q&A + general info under cut!)

Welcome to the third semiannual Lautski week. This event occurs twice a year, once in the summer and once in the winter, to commemorate the shared love so many of us have for Hatchetfield High's most unlikely it couple! Mod is @peterstankoffski and uses they/them pronouns, and you've probably seen me lurking around the lautski tag since it was created. It's been a lovely little 2.5 years getting to enjoy this ship with everyone.

This year the summer event will be in July instead of May so everyone who is interested has plenty of time to prepare. I understand now through June is fairly bust for many people due to finals, so moving it later into the summer was definitely for the best (thank you to everyone who voted in the dates tiebreaker poll the other day!)

And with that, some FAQ!

Q: What are alternates?

A: Alternates are two extra prompts in case one of them leaves you stumped! They can be used any day, or they can not be used at all! It’s up to each individual participant!

Q: Do I have to do all seven days?

A: You’re free to do as many as you want! You can do all seven, you can do just a few, hell, you could do all nine in you wanted! This isn’t a challenge, it’s an event. The main goal is to make some posts about this ship we’re all brainrotting for and having fun.

Q: What can I make?

A: Anything you want! Art, fics, edits, memes, etc. Nothing’s off the table.

Q: How do I post?

A: I’ll reblog anything made for the event to this blog and my main. If you’d like to be featured, please @ THIS blog. Additionally, I’d recommend tagging works with #lautski week so everyone’s works can all be found in the same place.

Q: I was late! Can I still post?

A: Of course! I’ll keep reblogging new posts tagged #lautski week and/or mention this blog through July 17!

Q: Can I post to AO3, then link it back here?

A: Feel free! This year I will also be setting up a Lautski Week collection, which I will link on the blog closer to time. Feel free to use it!

Q: Can I post to (insert any other fanfic site here) then link it back here?

A: Same as AO3. Go ahead!

Q: One of my wips fits *insert prompt here!* Can I post it for that day?

A: You can, but please don’t post before the event begins!

Q: Am I allowed to write smut?

A: Yes, but please have it properly tagged on both tumblr and AO3. On this blog, I will use the additional tag "smut warning"

That's it for now! I'll reblog this occasionally between now and July, plus advertising and answering any additional questions, but other than that, enjoy the rest of your spring (if you're in the Northern Hemisphere anyway)! See you all again soon 💜

#!!!! #lautski nation wake UP 💚 #lautski week

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Oh we are so back

Helloooooooo, lautski nation! The admin has risen AGAIN with another interest check!

No, we're not doing this in April. Last event was a bit more last minute since I had enough interest I had to put together the prompts, my submissions, and forms out in about a month. BUT now that I know there's semi-interest for doing this twice a year, I had more time to prepare. Hence, this summer's interest check!

FAQ under the cut! I'll be accepting responses until APRIL 6 and will periodically reblog this on here and main until then. But for now, I hope you all have a great rest of the week and hope to update you all soon!

FAQ:

Q: Is the interest check required to take part in the event?

A: No! This is just how I get a general idea for what kinds of posts that we can expect to see, and also find out what kinds or prompts of challenges people would like to try.

Q: Will there be formal sign-ups later?

A: Nope, this is all in good fun. Just post whatever you like during the event if it catches your interest.

Q: If this is biannual, how long will it run for?

A: Until either me or the Hatchetfield fandom at large grows bored of it. Both events have been pretty successful so far, so I wouldn't be surprised if it lasts a little longer.

#suddenly I have awoken from my slumber

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Day 7 - Wish

@lautski-week !!

another lautski week down!! finishing it off with them watching a shooting star. I wonder what they wished for <3

#lautski week #peter spankoffski #stephanie lauter #lautski #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #starkid #team starkid #hatchetfield #nightmare time #teddy’s art

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Day 6 - Leaves

@lautski-week

alternate prompt bc I was just feeling a little bit of fall lautski vibes <3 they hold hands while walking through falling leaves in autumn, real

#lautski week #lautski #peter spankoffski #stephanie lauter #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #hatchetfield #starkid #team starkid #nightmare time #teddy’s art

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Day 5 - Moon

@lautski-week 💙

loosely based on the prompt, but Stephanie Lauter is absolutely Peter Spankoffski’s moon!!!! (and of course, he is her sun <3)

#insert Mariah’s tweet about the sun and moon rings #lautski week #stephanie lauter #peter spankoffski #lautski #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #hatchetfield #starkid #team starkid #teddy’s art

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Day 4 - Fireworks

@lautski-week <3

omg they’re watching the fireworks together. hgjshls

#lautski week #lautski #peter spankoffski #stephanie lauter #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #hatchetfield #starkid #team starkid #nightmare time #teddy’s art

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Lautski Week - Day 3 (Movie)

Nerdy Prudes Must Drive. Get it? Because they're in Detroit?

Right so uh. I made a really long post about a lautski Teen Beach Movie au last week (this one) and frankly haven't stopped thinking about it since then. Still don't know when I'll get to writing anything but at least I can post this for lautski week! Also unlike Disney Channel I spent more than five minutes researching fashion in the 60s (,,,,i have a thing for the music and fashion of the 60s and 70s icl) (also sorry if it looks weird, i'd NEVER drawin richie, max, or kyle before now)

#RAD!!! #them frfr this is so real #they’re all absolute icons sjjdjsls #ember <3

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Day 3 - Movie

@lautski-week :)

shhh they’re staying in and watching some Star Wars together. as they deserve <3

#pete Is shorter than steph. to me #lautski week #peter spankoffski #stephanie lauter #lautski #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #hatchetfield #starkid #team starkid #teddy’s art #mariah rose faith casillas #joey richter

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Lautski Week Day 2 (Chocolate)

Wandering the aisles at Target would come to fruition with something soon enough, surely.

Pete had specifically said he never wanted anything for the holiday season. He didn’t consider himself particularly religious in the first place, so it’s not like any of them were meant for him, anyway (or at least, that’s how he put it).

Steph still didn’t want to leave him empty handed, though. Her boyfriend deserved the world, and she’d give it to him if she could. For now, though, something smaller under the guise of “usual December sales prices” would do.

She eventually found herself in the winter specific candy aisle, the one with the specialty chocolates and mint flavored everything that every store seemed to spawn out of nowhere on Black Friday. She eyed the items up and down. She always made a point to keep some chocolates on hand in case of his blood sugar getting fucked or something, but knowing he had a natural sweet tooth anyway meant she could also treat him just because she felt like it.

She glanced at the specialty gifts. The ones that were normal candies repackaged in a candy cane shaped package. An utter waste of plastic for sure, no matter how festive they looked on the shelf. One in particular caught her eye. The Hershey’s kisses.

Pete had once mentioned off hand he actually preferred Special Dark to most chocolates, the only exception being Milky Ways (and even then, he wouldn’t reject a midnight bar over a regular one). She searched the selection for one with the purple foil-wrapped treats. No such luck. On the shelf above, she noticed a regular bag of dark chocolate kisses. It would take a bit of cheating, but buying one of the other plastic canes, stashing the original chocolates for later (for Pete, who was she kidding), and refilling it with his favorite could make for a pretty decent non-denominational gift.

Steph thought her boyfriend deserved the world. An assortment of chocolates created just for him could be a good start.

#this this this <3 <3!!! #ough I love them so much I could never state it enough #my brainrot is very fueled ty love #ember <3

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Day 2 - Chocolate

@lautski-week !!

[Steph] looks around to make sure no one’s watching, then removes a chocolate bar from her pocket, offering it to him.

“here. contraband.”

(nick lang pete under the cut <3)

#abstinence camp lautski you will Always be famous #lautski week #lautski #stephanie lauter #peter spankoffski #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #hatchetfield #starkid #team starkid #nightmare time #teddy’s art

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for @lautski-week whoaaa... prompt for today was blue so i was gonna do a drawing in all shades sof blue and then. decided against it so...

omg them the straight people i care about...

id in alt, Reblogs > likes

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Polaroids taken by Ted Spankoffski.

This silly little cosplay for day 1 of Lautski week. Idk if I'll do more, but I had this soft little idea.

#real

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Happy Lautski Week! Here is my piece for day one. It's very fluffy, but I have more angst planned for later in the week, so I figured I'd start things off pretty light. I used the first prompt, "Blue."

@lautski-week

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Day 1 - Blue

@lautski-week be upon ye!!!

“Pete? You’re scaring me. What’s wrong with you?”

Peter grinned. Even without an answer, Steph had felt herself recoil when he started singing.

#self rb

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Lautski Week - Day 1 (Blue)

You know the au where you see in black and white until you meet your soulmate? Yeah.

Teddy had said that school wouldn't be so bad go raise some hell. Whatever that meant. And even if there were any capability of that, Pete probably didn’t have it. The idea of actually going to school with people was already scary, and the principal deciding he was smart enough to go straight into the first grade with the big kids made it worse. Everyone was going to be taller and probably meaner. He’d never deal.

The drab hall lying ahead of him went on forever and ever, or so it would seem if he didn’t at least have shadows and the room numbers to rely on. So he watched carefully for room 12. That’s where the first grade class was.

He wondered how many of the adults or even way older kids saw things way more clearly. After all, they’d be old enough to date, right? And that would mean finding a soulmate. And when people meet their soulmate for the first time, they’re able to see colors. Teddy was able to see color for a few years, before Jenny disappeared. He didn’t speak on it much. But once when Pete asked what colors actually were, Teddy had said they made things so much brighter.

Pete found room 12 eventually, though. He opened the big creaky door and walked around, scanning for the desk with his name on it. All the desks were grouped in clusters of four. Three girls were already sitting at his. One of them said “hi” to him as he approached. As soon as he sat though, something in his vision shifted. The best way he could describe it was a splash, as if the change literally rolled down like the way small waves rippled in the lake if you threw a rock into it. And then everything was different. More diverse in a way he could have never imagined before. Maybe brighter.

Oh. Oh my gosh, he thought. Are these colors?

Pete briefly glanced at the girl who’d said hi before he sensed a strange spark and looked down again. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the light, cool hue on her dress. He looked up and out the window. The sky was the same shade.

Pete quickly decided that this color was his favorite.

“What color is the sky?” Pete asked on the drive back to his parents’ house.

Teddy had picked him up. Pete noticed his car was the same color as the sky and his classmate’s dress.

“Blue,” Teddy said. “...why?”

“I think I see colors now.”

Pete knew of course, just how young he was compared to other people when it happens to them, but he didn’t fully grasp the weight until Ted pulled over at the nearest public parking lot to ask him about it, and if he was sure, and did he know who it was, and what does he think of color anyway?

Pete was fairly sure, and he didn’t fully know really because three people were at his desk group, and colors were so beautiful. He never would have imagined it was to this extent.

Pete shut his locker, already so ready to just get to lunch. If he did, that would be the day’s halfway point, and after enough taunts from Jagerman, he was more than ready to go to Beanie’s like every other day.

Sitting comfortably in his place in the woodshop, Pete went over the sketch of the third stupid bird house he’d be making this year. Hey, Mr. Houston never told him to stop making them, and it was a bit more complex than two separate cutting boards, and since he was here to learn different techniques (even if Mr. Houson almost always gave an A anyway), then he was making progress.

Steph Lauter sat next to him. She’d been speaking to him more and more this year. And every time, it seemed less and less like a prank.

Until today, anyway.

“So,” she said nonchalantly, “Can you see the colors?”

His mind suddenly reeled. No one had ever asked him that. It really wouldn’t matter to anyone else anyway. He knew his soulmate had to be someone in his grade, of course, but who would want to be stuck with him? He truly felt bad for his soulmate, knowing they’d likely be cooler in every capacity. 

Especially Steph. 

So why was she asking him?

But Pete nodded. “Y–Yeah. I can. Since I was a kid.”

“So you’ve met your soulmate, then?”

“Logically, yes.” Pete looked down, trying to concentrate on his work. “Didn’t ever figure out who it is, though. Someone in our grade, that’s all I know.”

Sometimes part of him hoped it was her given how fluttery his mind could get when she spoke to him. Then he’d always remember, he was a loser, and she was Stephanie Lauter. What kind of match made in heaven would that be? Maybe yet another prank pulled on him, this one by the universe itself.

He eventually spoke up again “...can you?”

“See color?”

He nodded. She did too.

“Cool,” he said quietly. “...do you know who yours is?”

“Nah,” she said. She looked at him, smiling. “But I’ve got a good guess.”

Pete could feel himself going warm. He wrote and rewrote his measurements for his draft even more furiously. But he couldn’t ignore her forever. He sighed. 

“Y’know something?” he said. “One of the first things I saw after it happened was this dress you were wearing, because we were in the same class. It was blue. Then when I saw the sky I thought to myself, ‘if anything can be the same color as where outer space is, it must be good.’ Blue’s been my favorite color ever since.”

She stared at him, still grinning fondly. “Pretty clever for a kid, huh?”

He shrugged. “I still think it’s the prettiest anyway.”

The conversation started to fade there. The implications did not take much a further hold in Pete’s mind. It wouldn’t matter forever. Soon enough the universe would give him another chance to make it click for Pete, just how much that day in school when she wore the blue dress mattered to Steph, too.

#AUGJUGH #I justtt #I love them I love this im so feral for them istg— #they’re actual soulmates <333 #ember <3

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Lautski Week - Day 1 - Blue

It's Inevitable, for us...

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@lautski-week happy lautski week!! :D