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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gifts of Eos 2026 is officially underway! Pairings have been sent out to everyone! If, for some reason, you did not receive your pairing message, please reach out.

The banner for Gifts of Eos. It features the carbuncle bumper sticker decal from the game on a black background. It has borders in a metallic gold as well as cursive lettering in the same metallic gold that reads 'Gifts of Eos'.

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hello! Happy start of August! Sign-ups for Gifts of Eos 2026 #FFXV fan exchange are live! The form will remain open until October 1st 00:00 Central. We've also moved away from Google Forms to CryptPad this year in an effort to avoid services that scrape for AI training. cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Please note that the creative period could start sooner pending how fast we get through the pairing period! :> We've also gone ahead and made some addendums to some of our FAQ answers, and added a new rule that you can see in the images below (alt text for screen readers):

Rules Expansion

We have made an addition to our rules with this being one of them:

If you have received something, please take the time to show appreciation for the gift that was made for you. This is, as stated before, a free event, and everyone is volunteering their time and effort willingly to make something nice for someone else within the fandom. Please repay that effort in recognition of their gift to you by saying something nice in the form of a comment or nice tags pending on platform.

We, unfortunately, had a couple incidents where people worked hard on their submissions that seemed to receive no acknowledgment from the recipients they were for, and we would like participants to please not leave the person who did your gift hanging, or feeling like it was disliked. We can't control how you feel in the end, and it will always be unfortunate for everyone involved if the work is disliked, though we would like it if everyone at least extended the courtesy of acknowledging something was made for you.

FAQ Changes and Updates

We have expanded upon some of our FAQ answers for, hopefully, better clarity on our carrd:

What is allowed in the exchange?

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We ask that all OC creators that enjoy seeing their OC or OC x canon ships to not feel shy about being resolute in asking for content of your creations born of love for the setting we've all had the joy of experiencing and creating for. This exchange is about spreading joy and hopefully receiving joy in return. That includes your OCs if you love them and having them in the world of FFXV.

This was added as an addendum to this segment because it felt like a lot of people were really shy about asking for any FFXV OC content. While we do recognize that, yes, this is a space where we want to celebrate our favorite canon characters, we also want OC creators who have their FFXV characters know that they are allowed to also celebrate their own creations. Please be kind to OCs; they were created out of love for their creators' experiences with FFXV to play in the world of Eos in their own way.

Is this event meant to be anonymous?

Nope. You don't have to be anonymous if you don't want to be. We do, in fact, encourage you to reach out to your gift recipient just to make sure you're on the same page as one another (and also to make sure that you have the right person). […]

If you want to keep your work and submission a surprise until you're done, or until the deadline, that's still fine. If this is the case, we're always open to having you contact us to be a middleman in contacting your recipient to keep them aware of any complications, or ask for any needed clarification so that you retain your anonymity.

Due to some miscommunication last year between participants, we had an instance where there was a mix up in who was receiving what, and a participant ended up being the recipient of two gifts. While we're not going to enforce reaching out if you want to keep your submission a surprise, we are always happy ourselves as the moderators of this event to act as messengers between two people to keep the anonymity aspect.

This extends to any participants wishing to drop out for any reason at all; if you do not want your recipient to know who you were, but still want to communicate that you're dropping out for us to find a pinch hitter, we will keep you anonymous to your recipient so that your privacy is ensured.

What is the minimum word count for written entries?

1,000 words is the very bare minimum of what we'll be comfortable accepting as a finished ficlet. With the increase of time for 2026's Gifts of Eos, we hope this will be more than enough time to write something that meets that, or surpasses that.

This word count will not apply to things such as lyrics or poems, which generally tend to hover around an average of ~150 - ~170 words. Same consideration for haikus as they are meant to follow a 5/7/5 format and could not reach that if it is one on its own. That said, we do recommend maybe writing multiples of said forms of writing instead of settling on one or two given how small a word count they usually average at.

We've gone ahead and bumped up what we'll allow as the bare minimum of word count for a finished ficlet for the event is, as well as are encouraging people that are more inclined for poetry or song lyrics to do more than just one or two pieces for the event.

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A delayed announcement! But thank you everyone that made Gifts of Eos possible! Alt text of the below screenshots for screen readers. The Gifts of Eos gallery can be found here: giftsofeos.carrd.co#gallery

Hello everyone! It's been a couple days since deadline, and while this announcement was meant to go out yesterday, we ran into some stuff that needed to be taken care of on our end that delayed it. We apologize for the lateness!

First and foremost, we want to thank everyone that got their entries in! It has been an absolute delight to see what everyone came up with during this event! Part of yesterday was spent compiling all current entries and putting them into the gallery section of the Gifts of Eos Carrd so that they can be viewed all in one place. This will be updated periodically as later entries come in!

Second, we want to assure everyone that hasn't gotten their entries in yet that everything is still good and fine! You're good and fine.

As a general address to those that ever need grace or more time in general for any reason: we always want you to prioritize your health and / or other things in your real life that take precedence over an online event. We never want to pry into what personal stuff you've got going on, and genuinely want you to weigh how much something is impacting you in real life is versus taking the time to do something that will maybe only add onto that stress.

We are more than happy to allow time that is needed, as well as reach out to your gift recipient in order to make sure that everyone is in the loop of what's going on and when to kind of expect a gift be made. Likewise, if you ever need to drop out, let us know and we can start getting our pinch hitters sorted so that an ideal pinch hitter that still fits the bill of enjoying the content that can be made for the recipient in question can be contacted.

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Hello everyone! It is Dec. 1st, which is the deadline for our first ever gift exchange event! We've already seen so many lovely entries, & we're excited to see the rest! We'd also like to reassure everyone that if you need extra time, please be sure to reach out!

The Gifts of Eos banner that reads 'Final Day!'

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

With the expressed interest of the author who does not have an account on Bsky, we are sharing their work here on their behalf. Siwan's charming fanfiction entry for @crazyloststar.bsky.social! A charming chocobros polyship entry! Read the rest of it all here: archiveofourown.org/works/75035986

A preview for a fanfiction gift entry to Gifts of Eos 2025.

Fanfiction Entry by Siwan for crazyloststar

The House in the Woods

“Remind me again why we had to push the car all the way to Hammerhead when we could have called for it to be towed there?”

Prompto was sitting on the ground, his back resting against the garage’s outside wall, panting heavily. Noctis had slumped next to him and seemed on the verge to take a nap. Gladio rolled his eyes at them; he was standing, arms crossed, but soon a little smile danced on his lips when he replied:

“Because you two obviously need that kind of exercise to strengthen you a bit more.”

“And may I also point out the fact that considering we are short on gils as it is, we couldn’t afford the extra cost,” Ignis added, being his usual rational self.

“Wait, if we don’t have money, how are we going to pay for the car, and more importantly, where are we going to sleep?!?”

Prompto had jumped on his feet and he looked concerned, while Noctis simply yawned as if he couldn’t care less. Gladio patted the blonde man on the back.

“I believe it’s about time we have that camping trip we always wanted together, and maybe we can find some work in the process.”

Ignis was about to protest and remind him that they were supposed to reach Altissia as soon as possible, but the Prince’s shield had a point. In their current predicament, they were grounded and depended on when the Regalia would be fixed and how they would be able to pay for the repairs.

“Alright, let’s get started. Gladio, Noct, why don’t you check the camping gear supplies, see if we have everything we need; meanwhile Prompto and I will head to the diner, buy some food and see if anyone knows of some work we could do in the area.”

“Sounds like a plan!” The shield said and grabbed the prince by the shoulder, forcing him to stand up. “Come on your Highness, now is not the time to nap!”

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Good morning and happy Friday, everyone! Popping on to give everyone a gentle reminder that there are officially 10 days left until the hard deadline! When submitting your entries, please remember to reach out to us on any of our official platforms so that we can share and document it!

the gifts of eos banner, and it says that there are 10 days until deadline

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

An update today to help clarify some concerns that have been brought up to us! :> These updates will be making their way onto our carrd shortly.

Hello, I hope you've been having a good weekend!

We come with an announcement and update that will be going into our general rules and FAQ for everyone that is participating, and for any future participants!

Touching upon submissions:

We were asked how submissions should be done, and our response is that we would like it if you could submit your entries to us via Discord, through our Bluesky messages, through our ask box on tumblr, or via email (giftsofeos[@]gmail.com).

For clarification: you are free to upload your entries anyway you want to; we are not wanting to limit how you wish to showcase it (just please respect your gifter's request if they personally don't want it public for any reason at all that is their own). We ask for you to submit your entries to us via one of the aforementioned methods so that we can mark it down as complete on our end!

With that said, an addendum to written entries:

It's come to our attention that some writers are curious as to what the minimum word count is for submission. We have gone ahead and said that 500 words is the minimum of what we'll be comfortable accepting as a finished ficlet.

This word count will not apply to things such as lyrics or poems, which generally tend to hover around an average of ~150 - ~170 words. Same consideration for haikus as they are meant to follow a 5/7/5 format and could not reach that if it is one on its own.

Thank you for your time, and as always: if you have any questions, concerns, or inquiries, please don't hesitate to bring them up! We do appreciate them so that we can make clarifications and important updates like the ones above! :>

Happy creating!

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Pairings have been sent out! Alt text for screen readers!

Please make sure to check your preferred contact methods for one of these:

Discord: a message from either admin (@/freejayfly or @/destinidestati)

Emails: You'll have received an email from GiftsofEos@gmail(.)com. Be sure to check your spam folder just in case.

Bluesky: Please check your private chat messages from the Gifts of Eos Bsky account.

Happy creating!

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Sign ups are now live for Gifts of Eos until September 30th 11:59 PM Central! We hope to see many of you wanting to celebrate #FFXV / #FF15 with your fellow fans! :> forms.gle/NHbf25U5UW8g...

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Ahhhhh!! One day left! How very exciting! :D

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Happy Saturday, everyone! Time sure flies! We're already ten days away from our sign ups for our first ever Gifts of Eos #FFXV / #FF15 fan exchange! I hope you're as excited as we are! You can find more information about the exchange here: giftsofeos.carrd.co

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Gifts of Eos @giftsofeos.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Currently, our basic FAQ looks like this on our tumblr! (gifts-of-eos.tumblr.com) We are happy to answer questions and assuage concerns while we work on organizing this event! :>

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