#WhiteCollarGrabBag

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For the White Collar Grab Bag, prompt #1 - Caroling!

What’s more fun than matching with your landlady and singing carols with her to everyone at your holiday party?

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Run, run, as fast as you can

You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbr—

Oh, hi Peter!

For the @operationmorewhitecollar Holiday Grab Bag prompt #4: Baking

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For the @operationmorewhitecollar White Collar Holiday Grab Bag prompt #7: Traditions.

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Holiday Grab Bag

Gosh, can you believe it's almost December already? It seems this year has flown by. But that just means it's about time for another OMWC creative event! As always, we love creations of all sorts, so write a story, draw a picture, make a video, drop a rhyme, record a podcast, or anything else you can think of; we love them all!

This year, we're doing things just a little bit differently, though. We've got a month's worth of prompts up for grabs (1-31), but it's a secret grab bag--you choose a number, and we'll give you a prompt. Just send us an ask or DM with your chosen number. (Please make sure you don't ask anon, so we can reply directly to you.) We're hoping we'll get takers for all 31 prompts, and if we get even more requests, we'll add some extra choices, scramble the numbers, and start over again.

We're going to do our very best to keep the list up to date in real-time so everyone knows which numbers are still up for grabs (we're marking off the claimed boxes with Santa), but there could be some obvious logistical challenges to that. So when you send your request, please send your top THREE number choices, and we'll send you back your prompt(s). Everyone is definitely welcome to submit multiple entries, but as we begin, we're going to ask you to claim no more than two at a time, so when you send your number request, let us know if you want 1 or 2. You can always come back for more after those are filled!

Also, we'll be making a small charitable donation of $5 for each of the first 31 entries we receive. We'll be splitting the contribution between The Trevor Project (an organization important to Matt) and the American Diabetes Association (an as-yet-undecided organization important to Tim). (We've reached out to ask him and are hoping to hear something back soon; we'll update as soon as we know.) It's our chance (and yours) to have a little fun and give something back, too.

A few more details:

The prompt numbers don't have any relationship to the days of the month; post/share any time in December.

An AO3 collection will be created within the next couple of days, but it will be unrevealed until December 1. Feel free to add your works whenever you'd like.

While the prompts are definitely winter/holiday-themed, you're free to interpret them in a non-holiday manner if you wish. (That might be a little harder for some of the prompts than others!)

Really, the prompts are open to any interpretation--fluff, angst, gen, ship, SFW or not, etc. Whatever way the prompt speaks to you works for us.

When you share on your socials, please be sure to tag us/use #WhiteCollarGrabBag.

We really didn't mean to make this so complicated! Basically: pick a number, get a prompt, create something!

We can't wait to see what you come up with!

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Holidays with angst, fluff, and romance--what could be better?

Joyeux Noel, Joyeux Neal

I've posted my fill for the Operation More White Collar holiday grab bag! My prompt was: Movies

That stymied me at first, since last year I posted a WC holiday story titled Movie Night 😆 This time I went with the concept of home movies and wrote a story set during and after the final season. So I'm posting on the anniversary of the series finale.

Here it is! ~4000 words of angst, fluff, and romance that culiminates on Christmas

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Procrastinated writing my second holiday grab bag prompt by making another fill for the first...

(prompt #14: wrapping paper) (the other thing I made for the prompt was this fic)

Colouring page version under the cut in case anyone is interested:

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Crimbo limbo, grab bags, and a hint of 2024

So. Recently we were exposed to the phrase 'crimbo limbo' for the first time, and, truth be told, we loved it. It's just such a fun thing to say! But, while the term might technically apply to the current week, personally, we sorta feel like the entire month of December qualifies, only in a different way. While the Brits (and the rest of us, too, just without the nifty nickname) are celebrating their limbo with a whole lot of lazy, non-scheduled fun, doing whatever in the heck they might feel like doing, it seems to us the rest of the month exists in a different sort of limbo, the kind that is all about Crimbo--discussing it, planning for it, celebrating it--while the rest of life takes a far distant backseat. At least, that's our excuse for why we mostly dropped off the face of the earth the past few weeks! We've missed being around, though, so we're going to try to get ourselves back on track.

Thankfully, the grab bag challenge has rolled right along, and most of our prompts have been claimed at this point. But, we do still have a few left for the taking, and there are still several days left in the month, so there's still time for you to pick a number and join in the fun. We've updated the image in our pinned post, but just to make it simple, we'll say we've still got numbers 2, 3, 10, 13, 21, 22, & 25 available if you'd like to give it a go. Just let us know which number you'd like, and we'll give you a prompt!

Lastly, as we've discussed, our Developing Drabbles challenge will come to an end this month, but we're not getting out of the prompt business. Next year, we'll be providing simple prompts in the form of an ongoing bingo challenge. Details coming next week, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, we hope everyone enjoys their crimbo limbo!

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Last fic of the year? There are days left! 😁

Finale fic of 2023!! :D :D 

For @operationmorewhitecollar‘s Holiday Grab Bag Prompt, “Hot Chocolate”

So for my last fic of the year, you’re gonna get my classic hurt/comfort with a lot of fluff sprinkled in between. I do hope you enjoy! 🥰

SUMMARY: *finale spoilers*

Keep reading

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This is adorable!

Also, we've mentioned how there's never enough White Collar art, right?

Run, run, as fast as you can

You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbr—

Oh, hi Peter!

For the @operationmorewhitecollar Holiday Grab Bag prompt #4: Baking

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Love, love, love! 😍

For the White Collar Grab Bag, prompt #1 - Caroling!

What’s more fun than matching with your landlady and singing carols with her to everyone at your holiday party?

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Can't wait to see what kind of traditions they're up to!

For the @operationmorewhitecollar White Collar Holiday Grab Bag prompt #7: Traditions.

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Wait. You're saying we get a fic, and art, and a way to make our own art, all from one prompt? Wow! Way to set the bar! 😉

Procrastinated writing my second holiday grab bag prompt by making another fill for the first...

(prompt #14: wrapping paper) (the other thing I made for the prompt was this fic)

Colouring page version under the cut in case anyone is interested: