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Carry On Through the Ages RETURNS in 2025!

Hello! Jodotha here (your friendly neighborhood mythological creature) to tell you the good news: Carry On Through the Ages is back for 2025! Yay!

If you want to participate, just create something for the Carry On fandom with a historical bent, and post it during our open posting week of October 19-25th (no need to sign up ahead of time).

If you post it on Tumblr, please tag us and use the hashtag #COTTA 2025 so we can reblog it. If you post it on AO3, we’ll have a collection you can add your work to.

If you would like reminders as time inevitably marches onward (or just to hang out) please join the COTTA Discord server and/or follow this blog with notifications.

TL;DR: COTTA posting will be from October 19-25 this year! Fic, art, memes—we welcome whatever your creative minds come up with!

Have more questions? Check out our FAQs! If you still have questions after that, please Ask here on Tumblr, or DM me on Discord.

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Thank you to @monbons @cutestkilla @artsyunderstudy and @thewholelemon for the Six Sentence Sunday tags, and to everyone else who's tagged me recently ❤️

In case anyone's wondered why I've disappeared from Tumblr and AO3, I'm working on something original. I hope (intend) to have the first draft complete by mid-September. Shockingly, it's an mm, magical romance set in a version of late 1800s New York because why the fuck does England get a monopoly on magic?

FAQ

Q. Is your hero a murderer with a busted leg?

A. Why, yes, he is.

Q. But has he burnt his fingerprints off?

A. Indeed, he has.

Q. Is he in disguise, on the lam, terrified of touch, and somehow involved in theater?

A. You know me too well.

Q. So you're saying he has loads of baggage?

A. Absolute heaps.

In the meantime, there's plenty of my Carry On, wolfstar, and RWRB on AO3, and even a bit of Captive Prince, Dark Rise, drarry, and Saltburn. I contain multitudes.

Also, since a couple of people have asked about podfics and bindings, my permission statement is here. To summarize: YAY!! 🎉 Have at it! I'm so excited to see what you do. (Unless, there's money or AI involved, in which case, may you and your heirs be plagued by demons.)

See you on the other side! ✌️

(Not gonna tag anyone. Just gonna pin this for future reference.)

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Hello lovelies, I hope you're all having a nice weekend. Sending extra love to @iamamythologicalcreature and @eepybois since I know you've both been having a rough time recently.

Here are some Pride-themed jesters to hopefully brighten your day:

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't thinking of my beloved Fool while drawing the first one. I may need to do a recoloured version to make them fully into the Fool in his black and white motley. Or maybe a nice Buck blue? These ones in their current state are going to be turned into stickers and prints for a Pride market next weekend (:

Some sentences, an overshare and tags below.

Pride [T, 1K]

Continuing with the Pride theme, here's not quite 6 sentences from a Snowbaz thing I wrote weeks ago and completely forgot to post about on tumblr. Baz's POV:

My vampire instincts can’t always tell the difference between hunger for blood and desire for him. I gasped at the sensation of my teeth swelling and clapped a hand over my mouth. Simon only smirked, jutting his chin in the direction of a group of people wearing horns and weird colour contact lenses. I took his point and relented, careful to swallow the flood of saliva filling my mouth before baring my teeth at him with a teasing growl. I wasn’t expecting the sudden look of hunger in Simon’s eyes.

Thank you so much @monbons for sharing my fic when I didn't, and for your wonderful comment, I'm so sorry I haven't responded yet! It meant a lot to me, so I promise I will when I'm able to.

Overshare time

CW for talk of grief/death in this section. Feel free to skip it if thats too heavy for your Sunday, I totally understand. Though I will say it ends on a positive note in the last paragraph.

In June a very dear friend of mine died. Georgia was 30, and the closest thing I had to a little sister. We grew up together. Went on joint family holidays as kids. We drove each other crazy. We loved each other.

Many years ago, Georgia introduced me to Fan Girl and thus to Simon and Baz. I borrowed her copy of Carry On and fell in love with it.

Three years ago, we moved in together. It was the first time either of us had lived in the city. It was something that would've been daunting to both of us had we done it alone. But together we muddled through. We lived together for two years. A lot of growing and changing was done in that time. We realised we both needed ADHD and autism screenings. We both struggled with a lot of mental health issues. We went through some really hard times together.

There was also a lot of laughter and silliness. She was shy with outsiders, but had a wicked sense of humour and often cracked me up. I introduced her to my friends, we played D&D together, we cried at Yuri On Ice, and sang the theme tune while cooking dinner.

Grief is not unfamiliar to me. This November will be the 10 year anniversary of my high school best friend Rowan's death. Losing him at the age of 25 was the biggest blow I have ever faced. My first tattoo is for him. I wear him on my arm and carry him in my heart. (Incidentally I designed his first tattoo so he wears me on his arm too).

Loss is an all encompassing pain at times, but Rowan has taught me it is survivable. He's reminded me of this over the past month, holding the pieces of my heart together for me while I try to adjust to this new normal. I am fortunate to have a good support system of friends and family around me. July 4th was Georgia's 31st birthday. My friends bought me a plushie cat bus from My Neighbour Totoro. I felt loved and safe.

I'm not completely sure why I felt the need to share this with you all. Other than to perhaps say 'this person existed and I love them'. And maybe to let you know that, if you're hurting or struggling in some way too, you're not alone. It's all too easy to feel isolated and hopeless. But even though I've not been able to keep up with posts and comments over the last month, seeing everyone's updates on here has been a wonderful tether to the world. A reminder that you all exist and are experiencing the complexities of life too. And during all that, you somehow still make time to check in with the rest of us, offering up beautiful artwork and heartfelt stories, sharing the things you love and are passionate about. And thats kind of incredible. So thank you for being here and making this corner of the internet a cosy place to be.

If you're still reading, thanks for sticking with it. Much love to you all, and a gentle no pressure tag to share if you feel like it ♥️

@youarenevertooold @iamamythologicalcreature @alexalexinii @cattocavo @that-disabled-princess

@orange-peony @cutestkilla @rimeswithpurple @larkral @best--dress

@scribble-tier @theimpossibledemon @artsyunderstudy @thewholelemon @raeny-day

@nightimedreamersworld @itriednottothinkaboutit @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @angelsfalling16 @willowjh

@the-beard-of-edward-teach @monbons @katatsumuli @fiend-for-culture @tragediegh

@aristocratic-otter @argumentativeantitheticalg @lovelyladzzzz @nausikaaa @blackberrysummerblog

@prettygoododds @mooncello @leofrun @willowjh @tragediegh

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Thanks for the tags @katatsumuli and @best--dress!

Describe yourself ONLY with pictures you have, you CANNOT search or download new pictures

Under the cut!

No pressure tags to @leithillustration @youarenevertooold @fiend-for-culture @bazzybelle @drowninginships @monbons @cutestkilla

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Thanks for the tag, @youarenevertooold!

I'm coming out of hiding somewhat randomly to answer a quiz XD

I know none of you are very familiar with my writing, since I haven't actually written in ages, but this result actually made me laugh. My writing does many things, but I seriously doubt it makes people feel like everything is finally okay. It is turbulent, though! So I could believe the comparison to the ocean, but "tranquil" is not a word I often have cause to use.

The tranquil blue of a calm sea

Any reader lucky enough to read your writing is blessed with a calm feeling and the knowledge that everything is finally okay. Your writing pulls your readers in quickly and refuses to let them go until the story is complete. Your readers are often kept awake into the early morning with the need to finish what you’ve written as quickly as possible. The flow of your writing can either be calm and gentle or harsh and turbulent. Either way, it moves in mesmerizing waves that entrances everyone.

This was fun though! No pressure tags to @leithillustration @best--dress @valeffelees @wulff13 @fiend-for-culture

hi so i made a uquiz that will tell you what color is your writing? 

i hope you have fun and enjoy it! i would love it if you reblogged your result and told me if you agreed/disagreed with it!! 

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I refused to leave when the experiment was over and bargained my way up to three marshmallows.

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would you still like me even if i experienced emotions

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It is an ultimate cruelty of the human brain and/or the universe at large that PTSD stacks.

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Six Sentence Sunday

Friends, I feel like laying on the floor today instead of posting anything. No particular reason! Just feeling like everything I write is awful! I genuinely don't know how I'm going to rally to write or post anything ever again.

I guess I'm going to use this opportunity to say--this text fic may end up short and sweet, because I'm overthinking it and otherwise, I may throw it in the dumpster and light it on fire. Do you get like this? The longer I sit on it, the more it feels like it needs to BE something, something big, something significant.

But sometimes, what we have, or what we're able to write, is a mini-cupcake and not an entire dessert buffet, you know? And when I started writing it, I just did it because it's fun to write texting fics, not because it needed to be making a Statement or have a complicated plot. I never even envisioned it having a plot! Just wanted these two messes to be accidentally falling for each other in your basic wrong-number texting situation.

It's hard for me to remember sometimes that fic writing is, at its heart, something we do voluntarily. Because it's fun or fun adjacent or a thing we torture ourselves with but for pleasure, on purpose, because we want to. It's not a job; it's not an obligation. It's a thing we can choose to do however we like. It matters that we let ourselves do things not because someone pays us, but because we want to.

So I'm going to try to keep wanting to, okay? And I'll start with a snippet (would you believe it's six lines exactly???) below the cut and tags, too. feel free to tell me something that you're going to do this week just because you want to.

Baz: Who did you give my number to? Agatha: Oh. My. God. Agatha: You’re still talking to him. Agatha: Baz, please. Please please. Give him a chance. He’s exactly your type. I know for certain. Agatha: GIVE LOVE A CHANCE Baz: I’m blocking your number.

anyone noticed yet that Baz talks a big "blocking your number" game and doesn't actually follow through? anyway. don't forget. tell me the thing you're going to do this week for fun.

@alexalexinii @alleycat0306 @aristocratic-otter @artsyunderstudy @best--dress

@blackberrysummerblog @bookish-bogwitch @bachusekart @bookishbroadwayandblind @brilla-brilla-estrellita 

@confused-bi-queer @cutestkilla @drowninginships @emeryhall  @facewithoutheart

@fiend-for-culture @iamamythologicalcreature @ileadacharmedlife @ivelovedhimthroughworse @j-trow-95

@jyae23 @katatsumuli @larkral @leithillustration @letraspal

@martsonmars @messofthejess @monbons @mooncello @nausikaaa 

@noblecorgi @onepintobean @orange-peony @pato-roldnart @palimpsessed 

@prettygoododds @raenestee @rimeswithpurple  @roomwithanopenfire @run-for-chamo-miles 

@shrekgogurt @skeedelvee @talentpiper11  @the-beard-of-edward-teach @theimpossibledemon 

@valeffelees @whatevertheweather @youarenevertooold @you-remind-me-of-the-babe 

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I said it was a possibility and here I am. Thanks @thewholelemon and @facewithoutheart for the tags today <3

Well, you all already know I'm sick in the head so no need to update you on that although I will say I spent the past few days alternating between "oh god oh god oh god oh god oh fuck oh shit oh no oh no" and "wow, @mooncello's playlist for 'more than a footnote' is a fucking banger." I think it temporarily cures depression. (You should listen to it.)

I've been thinking a lot about what @thewholelemon posted earlier today about feeling like the longer you sit on something the more it needs to be something big and that's how I'm feeling right now. Like, it's taken me this long, shouldn't it be amazing by now?

I've decided to say, "fuck that," to myself. My writing isn't amazing and it doesn't have to be! I write for fun and the most fun I had writing was for the Countdown and I think that's because I thought to myself daily, "what would make me kick my feet and giggle?" and "what would make this my favorite chapter yet?" So I'm going to try to approach my writing like that this week.

I'm back to working on 'In truth' because I already have over 10k words written in my drafts and it's time to set this baby free!

Snippet and a ✨little extra treat✨ below:

Here's a little snippet of the next chapter from Simon's POV:

*Also apologies for any typos or grammatical errors, I've been hiding my work away from the incomparable Jenny because I hated everything I was writing so much but I'm a new person now (as of 1 hour ago.)

I called on Baz, as I was in the habit of doing daily at that point, and he asked if I would mind moving our socialisation to the park. I had agreed until I realized he intended for us to go on horseback whereupon I flatly refused. “But you ride when you’re in the country, do you not?” Baz asked, his expression discerning but with the hint of a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. “I do not. Why would I?” I responded. “Why would you not?” “I repeat. Why would I? Horses are God’s most horrible creatures,” I said and he laughed, the sound so bright and genuine, it sent a spark through me that I’ve still not been able to shake.

I love that Simon canonically doesn't like horses. It's hilarious.

Okay, now for a little treat.

I sew most of my clothing. I sew a LOT. It's one thing that I know I can do and am proud of. I love sewing. I love clothing. I love making physical objects. That being said, my style is a lot more Simon Snow. My style is not at all like Baz's style. My body type is not at all like Baz's body type. However, I yearn to dress Baz. So here's a tiny Baz outfit for you.

I pressed his trousers and everything. His shirt has no buttons but I think Simon would prefer it that way ❤️ I would make a matching Simon outfit but I already have a full scale version of it and I wore it today (jeans, trainers, and a Pitch Watford football shirt that I switched out for a white t-shirt after I spilled pad thai on myself.)

I am starting to work on a Watford logo to embroider onto a shirt or sweatshirt but more to come on that when I actually do something...

Anyways, I hope you had a lovely pride month 🌈 (and if not, I hope tomorrow is fucking amazing.)

Tags & well wishes & hellos:

@argumentativeantitheticalg, @arthurkko, @artsyunderstudy, @asocialpessimist

@bachusekart, @best--dress, @blackberrysummerblog, @bookish-bogwitch, @bookishbroadwayandblind

@carryonmylovelies, @confused-bi-queer, @cosmicalart, @courfalicious, @excalisbury

@facewithoutheart, @freclface, @greybazzy, @harrie-leithillustration, @hushed-chorus

@iamamythologicalcreature, @ic3-que3n, @ileadacharmedlife, @jyae23

@larkral, @lovelettersto-mars, @mooncello, @noblecorgi, @orange-peony

@raenestee, @rimeswithpurple, @roomwithanopenfire, @run-for-chamo-miles

@shrekgogurt, @sillyunicorn, @seducingavampire, @skee3000, @sleepyphobzz, @stitchyqueer

@talentpiper11, @terra-fae, @toc-the-scrambled, @the-beard-of-edward-teach

@thewholelemon, @tiarrrita, @valeffelees, @youarenevertooold

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dev & niall are back.

read the final chapter on ao3.

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Simon is lucky to have such good friends in you.

🌹💛

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not to sound like a weak, morally impure centrist over here, but i think online leftist communities need to be a little more accepting of the concept that most people are just. not that well informed. we live in a society that provides access to an overwhelming amount of information and yet which discourages actually diving into much beyond the surface level. Most of the people you meet out in the world are just not gonna know much about a lot of what you care about, but that's not the same as being against those things, or being unwilling to learn, or being unnamenable to those ideas. Our modern society is an unending cascade of information and misinformation and disinformation and filtering through that shit enough to actually have a solid grasp of a subject, let alone a nuanced antiestablishment political take, is a skill that takes time and effort to develop, time and effort that is in very short supply. It really bothers me when I see leftists talk about how capitalism keeps us down by taking up all our time and energy and making recovery, both physical and emotional, cost what little we can afford, and then turn around and get upset that people are politically uninformed. On some level, you gotta meet some people where they are, and have a little faith in them to be open to new ideas and information. Ignorance is not inherently intentional, and it's not the same as antipathy.

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Simon & Baz at the beach🩵🩵

Carry on, by Rainbow Rowell

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♥️🧡💛💚💙💜

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🍒 CHERRY BABY 🍒 COMING APRIL 2026 PREORDER A SIGNED COPY HERE

This is a contemporary adult novel, which means that it's about emotionally compromised 30-somethings who live in Omaha. The wonderful cover is from art director Elsie Lyons and designer Jim Tierney.

In more detail:

A breathtakingly honest novel about sex and art and forgiveness — and loving yourself enough to believe that someone else might.

Everybody knows that Cherry’s husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie…

Almost nobody knows that he isn’t coming home.

Tom is the creator of Thursday—a semi-autobiographical webcomic that's become an international phenomenon.

Semi-autobiographical. That means there’s a character in this movie based on Cherry … “Baby.”

Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby.

Cherry never wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page—let alone on the big screen. But there’s no getting away from it. Baby looks so much like Cherry that strangers recognize her at the grocery store.

While Tom’s in L.A., getting rich and famous and being the Internet’s latest boyfriend, Cherry’s stuck in Omaha taking care of the dog he always wanted and the house they were going to raise a family in … and wondering who she's supposed to be without him.

Cherry had promised to love Tom through thick and thin.

She’d meant it. 

One night, Cherry decides to leave all her problems at home. She ventures out to see her favorite band play her favorite album … and someone recognizes her from across the room.

Russ Sutton knew Cherry when she was a young art student with a fondness for pin-up dresses and patent leather heels. Before Tom.

Russ knows Cherry. He likes Cherry.

And best of all … he’s never heard of Thursday.

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You know I will actually