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[lucy-268]

Elsa, I love you and I had so much fun doing this with you. In mid-December, as you know, I stepped out of the fandom because I needed a (short) mental health break and I think this is the third time I’ve been on tumblr since then. I appreciate you so much for keeping this community alive.

@liaromancewriter, I am glad that this community will continue. Thank you.

Just shy of three years ago, I happily stepped in to help when @choicesficwriterscreations needed assistance with CFWC Fics of the Week. Shortly thereafter, the blog's original creator, @loricreates, was ready to step down, and along with @lucy-268 I was honored to take over and continue the great work Lori had started.

The CFWC archive provides an invaluable service to our fandom, but it was always so much more to me. It's a place where people connect, friendships are fostered, and our incredibly talented creators have a chance to be seen and appreciated.

It has been my pleasure to serve as CFWC's mod, and I'm very proud of the contributions I have made during that time. But it's also a lot of work, and lately, it was beginning to feel like a chore. That's when I knew it was time to say goodbye. I'm not going far; I'll still be in the fandom. I may even show up here to help host a special event or two in the future, but for now, I want to spend my time concentrating on other things, both in and outside of the fandom. That includes my writing, catching up on reading, and supporting each of you.

I want to thank @lorircreates, CFWC's founder, for her vision, for creating this space, and for entrusting it to me. It was an honor to take the reins from you, and I hope we've done your "baby" proud.

I want to thank @lucy-268, who was a dream co-moderator. We sure had a lot of good (and crazy) times running the blog together. I'm so glad this fandom brought us together... and we'll stay that way long after this fandom is gone. 💙

I'd like to thank @liaromancewriter, who has graciously offered to take over so that CFWC can continue. Please join me in welcoming Mal as the blog's new moderator! It makes me feel much better knowing I'm leaving CFWC in your hands!

Most of all, I want to thank all of you. Each and every one of you has made our fandom what it is. The creators who make us laugh, cry, and feel things we never expected to feel. The readers and art fans who have encouraged everyone along the way. Everyone who has ever "geeked out" over a beloved story, character, or OC together. Through CFWC, I've gotten to know many of you better, and that has been the best part of the time I've spent here.

So this is my final CFWC post... one last time! :) I can't wait to see what the future brings! 😘

[lucy-268]

My overall too 5 are the same as yours but:

1. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?

2. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart

3. Guilty as Sin

4. The Smallest Man That Ever Lived

5 loml

OK TTPD is FUCKING amazing. I usually have to warm up to albums, but I fucking love this. My top 5 after first listen.... (always subject to change...)

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

loml (OMFG this song)

The Smallest Man That Ever Lived

Guilty as Sin?

Very, very subject to change.

[lucy-268]

Hey! Happy Holidays! Since the year is almost over, I decided to make an edit for your pairing to celebrate 2023 coming to a close. I hope you enjoy it!

Thank you. This is the first I saw this, I think it was mid-December since I logged onto Tumblr.

This is wonderful and it brought happy tears to my eyes and heart.

I appreciate this and don’t even have the words to express myself.

💚

[lucy-268]

@choicesficwriterscreations

Today has been a day. At least tomorrow is Friday.

Rainy Days and Mondays

A/N –As I write this note, it’s Monday, we’ll see how long it takes to actually finish and post this one shot. Earlier today I tried (and failed) to post a video of The Carpenters Rainy Days and Mondays. It was raining when I woke and it rained most of the day. I’ve just felt like the song for the past four or five days. When I couldn’t post the video (YouTube apparently hates me) I decided to write this. I used Wacky Drabble prompt #73 (it can be found in bold). @aylaramseycarrera, you sent me a prompt and I’ve kind of included it here, but I have another fic planned for it. It’s also in bold. Songfics - I may use songs to inspire my fics and I may use the titles, but I don’t write songfics where lyrics are used in the fic. I did this time, and you will probably never see it in one of my fics again. My masterlist is here.

Disclaimer: Characters belong to PB, but Charley is kinda mine.

Rating/Warnings: Teen/None

Series/Pairing: Open Heart - Ethan Ramsey x f!MC (Charley Valentine)

Word count: 1,079 without lyrics; 1,211 with lyrics

Keep reading

[lucy-268]

@choicesficwriterscreations

You Make It Feel Like Christmas

Series/Pairing: Open Heart - Bryce Lahela x f!MC (Maggie Layne)

Disclaimer: Characters belong to PB; Maggie is kinda mine

Ratings/Warnings: PG, maybe. None, really. Fluff, fluff, and more fluff.

Word Count: ~4,600

Summary: Bryce plans a fun game for Maggie for Christmas.

Notes: Much thanks to @leelee10898​ and @emichelle​ for running the 12 days of fictmas. I still have stories to read and I’m working on them. This is my second and final submission for the 12 days of fictmas, but I still have at least one more Christmas fic to post this year (some of the prompts from the CFWC Winter Season prompt list by @cfwcadm​ sound fun!). Thanks to @starrystarrytrouble​ for prereading for me. You are awesome as always.

Keep reading

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Throwback for @choicesficwriterscreations and the Fics of Christmases Past @choicesholidays

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

Series/Pairing: Open Heart - Ethan x f!MC (Charley Valentine)

Disclaimer: Most Characters belong to PB. Charley is kinda mine, and I’m also claiming Jonah, Jessica, and Rachel.

Rating/Warnings: E / NSFW🍋 IF YOU ARE UNDER 18, PLEASE DON’T READ THIS.🍋JUST DON’T.

Summary: The Ramseys celebrate Christmas.

Word count: +/-3,060

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[lucy-268]

Have a great week :)

You have a great week too! This was such a great time to see this! Thank you. 😊

[lucy-268]

@jerzwriter - This is going to have to be an agree-to-disagree.

OKAY TUMBLR. IT'S TIME TO SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL.

Reblog this if you pronounce “.gif” as “GIF.”

NOT JIF,

GIF.

And here is the link for the opposite.

WE SHALL SEE WHICH ONE PREVAILS.

[lucy-268]

@jerzwriter - Sorry to call you out like this, Elsa, but Die Hard IS a Christmas movie.

OKAY TUMBLR. IT'S TIME TO SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL.

Reblog this if you pronounce “.gif” as “GIF.”

NOT JIF,

GIF.

And here is the link for the opposite.

WE SHALL SEE WHICH ONE PREVAILS.

[lucy-268]

@choicesficwriterscreations

Rainy Days and Mondays

A/N –As I write this note, it’s Monday, we’ll see how long it takes to actually finish and post this one shot. Earlier today I tried (and failed) to post a video of The Carpenters Rainy Days and Mondays. It was raining when I woke and it rained most of the day. I’ve just felt like the song for the past four or five days. When I couldn’t post the video (YouTube apparently hates me) I decided to write this. I used Wacky Drabble prompt #73 (it can be found in bold). @aylaramseycarrera, you sent me a prompt and I’ve kind of included it here, but I have another fic planned for it. It’s also in bold. Songfics - I may use songs to inspire my fics and I may use the titles, but I don’t write songfics where lyrics are used in the fic. I did this time, and you will probably never see it in one of my fics again. My masterlist is here.

Disclaimer: Characters belong to PB, but Charley is kinda mine.

Rating/Warnings: Teen/None

Series/Pairing: Open Heart - Ethan Ramsey x f!MC (Charley Valentine)

Word count: 1,079 without lyrics; 1,211 with lyrics

Keep reading

[lucy-268]

[lucy-268]

😂

open heart | book 1, ch 3

[lucy-268]

I've been having a tough time lately, and when I don't have the energy for everything keeping up with social media is one of the first things I slip on. But I still care about all my writing buddies, so:

Reblog if you're not offended when people take a long time to answer asks, forget to reply to your replies, lag behind in tag games, or skip several weekly ask games.

[lucy-268]

Prompts

December is full of holidays. It is also a month of days that celebrate food, animals, people, and even clothing. Hopefully you find a prompt or two that inspire you!

[lucy-268]

Why did you call people worms?

Is this like the bog thing? Are we late to the game again? lol

[lucy-268]

I just started It Lives in the Woods. Once I finish I will catch up with Riikka.

November MC of the Month: Riikka Lovisa Yläkorpi

Please welcome November 2023's MC of the month! Each month, we will highlight one MC or OC that is currently on our Meet My MC / OC List. The MC / OC is selected randomly on the Wheel of Names, and eligibility requirements can be found here. We accept MC / OC profiles on an ongoing basis. Please feel free to send yours in!

This month’s MC of the month is…

@aallotarenunelma 's Riikka Lovisa Yläkorpi!

In your own words, tell us what you like most about your MC / OC.

What I love most about Riikka is how she always finds a way to talk about Finland and share about her Finnish culture. She was born and raised there until she moved to Westchester when she was 2. Her father was born and raised in Porvoo/Borgå, Finland and her mother was born and raised in Astoria, Oregon, where there's an important Finnish community. It explains why she's so deeply connected to her Finnish roots.

Do you feel your MC / OC is like you at all? How are you alike or different?

Riikka and I share the same height (163 cm), the same main love language (quality time), and a love for raspberries and salmiakki. We also share the same romantic and sexual orientations (demigray), but that was completely accidental. It was only a few months ago that I realized I was also gray, not just demi.

Unlike her, I don't have Asian origins, I have only one culture and one native tongue, I am not an only child, I am not allergic to peanuts and spring is not my favourite season.

What is most important to your MC / OC? What is their motivation in life? Happiness is most important to her. Happiness for her and also for everyone else. She wishes for people around her to be utterly happy, especially her loved ones.

What are their biggest pet peeves/dislikes? Riikka's biggest pet peeves are cruelty and any forms of abuse. She also dislikes peanuts because of her severe allergy and rutabagas.

If your MC / OC could change one thing - anything - what would it be? That would be hanging out with Mr Red. If she could go back in time, in every timeline, she would not follow Jane and would tell her how bad that idea is. Each time, it has impacted the group and left Dan with PTSD and a high level of anxiety to manage.

What is your MC / OC’s favorite quote or song? "Voimallinen tahto vie miehen läpi harmaan kiven." ("A strong will takes a man through a gray rock.")

This quote is from the classic book Seitsemän veljestä (The Seven Brothers) by Aleksis Kivi.

Because Riikka has a silly side, she enjoys telling Dan "eteenpäin sanoi mummo lumessa", which translates into "forward, said granny in the snow". It means to keep going through difficulties with determination.

Both quotes are about sisu. It's a Finnish concept hard to translate but that could be explained as perseverance, strength of will, tenacity, courage, bravery during moments that seem hopeless.

Is there anything else you’d like to share about your MC / OC?  (It can be why you created them, how they’ve inspired you, or you could write a little blurb as if it is coming from your OC - an acceptance speech. :) )

Riikka is very special to me because she's my first ILITW MC. Unfortunately, she passed away in a violent manner during my very first playthrough, leaving me shaken. I had to grieve her before being able to replay the book and create another MC.

Because I couldn't forget her, I decided to write a series, Darker Than Night, that follows the original timeline. It's very angsty but also cathartic.

I also had the idea of an AU series telling about how the lives of the children would have changed if they hadn't had the sleepover in the woods. This AU series is titled In Joy and Sorrow and it starts when they are in junior, so a year before when the book starts. I love this series because I can talk about so many important and different topics, and there are wonderful OCs. Even my four other It Lives MCs are dropping by from time to time.

Thanks to this series, I've really gotten to know Riikka, and I keep on learning about her. And now, she can fully live a great life she should have never lost so young in the first place.

Here are some stories to learn more about Riikka:

Darker Than Night

Joy and Sorrow