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[johnwgrey]

CARRY ON COUNTDOWN 2022 - A MASTERPOST BY JOHNWGREY list of prompts under the cut for length

THE END

AU/ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

EXPECTATIONS

CAKE

BLOODLINES

SIDE SHIPS/ALTERNATIVE SHIPS

VEIL

LYRICS

STAFF

ANGST

WLW

DEVOUR

DEVOTION

CRYPTID

FLUFF

BRIDGE

MATCH

SHEPERD

HEAL

FANGS

FIRST SNOW (FIC - 2.2k)

RITUAL

HURT/COMFORT

SHOWERS

SLEEP

MISTLETOE / PLAYLIST

TURN

SHIVER

PARTY

THE BEGINNING

(in yellow are the ones I'm most happy with)

[chen-chen-chen-again-chen]

Six Something? Sunday

Hello hello hello!! Thank you for the Sunday tags, @onepintobean, @johnwgrey, @fatalfangirl, @forabeatofadrum, and @artsyunderstudy!

I don't have sentences, but I do have a thing for Jelly Babies, my Swithin/OMC (Swegory) fic which keeps growing tentacles and tails:

[ID: Grimm Family Tier List (GREGORY'S {troll emoji} RANKINGS)

S Tier - {Unicorn emoji} Swithin (duh the S is right in his name)

A Tier - {Vampire man emoji} Baz (Simon's bf, good egg)

A Tier - {Rose emoji} Daphne (keeps offering me food) (Note: yes, Daphne's emoji is a rose because of Billie Piper)

B Tier - {Cookie emoji} Tyr (great baker, nice, will probs move up to A tier)

C Tier - {Vampire woman emoji} Mordelia (scary, always on her mobile)

D Tier - {Joker emoji} Sophie (chaos demon, likes taking the piss out of me)

F Tier - {Horse emoji} Swithin's dad Malcolm (Is this too mean????)

Hello tags, and a blather about productivity & rest under the cut!

I want to say a huge thank you to every kind human who sent me their blessings and good wishes for a restful Sunday. It’s been a weekend full of R&R over in this here lazaretto (as my spouse and I call our haunted house), filled with good pizza, daytime naps, luxurious head scritches, and cackling over the anime My Next Life as a Villainess (which is hysterical. Everybody’s gay for the protagonist. Everybody).

I wrote a lot of Jelly Babies at what is (for me) a truly insane place, churning out the first 6-7 chaps in a weekend because I could not. Stop. Thinking about it. This was followed by three days where I was put on a steroid, Prednisone, for a post-COVID ear infection, and it made me VERY ENERGETIC and VERY UNFILTERED (good for writing Gregory, in other words), and I felt a lot like that gif of the cat smashing at the keyboard.

Then the slump hit, as it invariably does! I do truly feel incredibly blessed when my trio of the DMC (the Daemon, Muses, and Creativity) take over and I can write and write and write. But I know enough now about that process to brace for the impact when the DMC leave and I am just a human again, left to tend to my fleshy body and to learn how to walk again when before I was able to fly.

Writing and posting Jelly Babies is a huge push out of my comfort zone, which is good for me. It's so funny to me now, looking back on this post about Why I don't usually post WIPs. "The tears of Mummers House" was such a good exercise in posting a WIP, but that was like wading in a kiddie pool whereas now, with Jelly Babies, I feel like I have firmly pushed myself into the deep end (in the good way). Bless COC and every human (looking at you, @sailorblossoms) who has been an inspiration for just making the work, putting it out there, and Having Fun With It.

I really struggled with whether to take a break from posting today. Part of my brain was like "But my family is STARVING, I have to FEED them" and a much more sensible part was like, "Every single person reading this story would wrap you up in blankets and tell you to take a nap." So again, thank you for being wonderful, and I'm so excited to return with more sweet baby gays tomorrow! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Pressure-free hello tags, and I hope y'all have a restful Sunday: @bookish-bogwitch, @captain-aralias, @cutestkilla, @excalisbury, @facewithoutheart, @hushed-chorus, @ionlydrinkhotwater, @larkral, @martsonmars, @moodandmist, @nightimedreamersworld, @raenestee, @sailorblossoms @thewholelemon, @whogaveyoupermission, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe

[theotherhufflepuff]

Six Sentence Sunday

Thanks for the tags @ileadacharmedlife @mostlymaudlin and @johnwgrey!

Exciting news - I'm on the list for an invitation for an AO3 account so hopefully by the end of the month I'll be able to upload all of my existing fics there!

I don't have anything new I can share atm so I'm promoting an old one again. This snippet is from my COC fic To Be Young And Stupid, which you can read here.

This is only 5 sentences but 🤫

We drive all the way home from Watford in silence. Natasha is sulking in the back seat; she’s wearing her hair in French braids and she’s spelled it bright pink – Bunce taught her that. It does suit her, but now doesn’t seem like the appropriate time to say so.

Low pressure tags/friendly hellos to @bookish-bogwitch @takitalks @urban-sith @moodandmist @captain-aralias @stillmadaboutpetra @martsonmars

[martsonmars]

Six Sentence Sunday

Thanks @urban-sith @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @johnwgrey @fatalfangirl for the tags!

You've heard of Six Sentence Sunday, but what about Six WIPs Sunday???

Under the cut because it's going to be a long ride.

1. I'm still on my Daphne bullshit, so here's a sequel that idk when will see the light.

Her husband had taken the receiver and listened to his son say, The Mage is dead. He had just nodded, and she didn't know if she was more happy that he hadn't burst into tears, or more disappointed by the lack of reaction – because if this didn't shake him, she had no hope of affecting him ever again.

2. For COC Day 2 - Wings, that I'll probably finish for next year's COC. (A bit NSFW.)

I push him off me – barely containing a whine when his fingers slip out of me and leave me even emptier than usual – and kneel on the floor. It’s hard and cold against my skin, and it feels like the right punishment for the kind of person I am. My father would probably laugh if he saw me now, naked and almost begging at the feet of a passionate socialist. (Then his laugh would turn into a mask of almost dissimulated disgust.) (Then he’d kick me out of my mother’s house and never let me see my siblings again.)

3. For COC Day 10 - Body Swap. Thanks Christina for suggesting gossip material.

He snorts, and I know I’m not the only one reliving the conversation we had last week – he’s seriously convinced Miss Possibelf and nurse Christy are shagging, but he’s just wrong. (It’s Possibelf and Professor Mino, of course. I even sold twelve Minobelf pins since the start of the school year. I know I’m right.)

“Well, let’s avoid teacher talk then,” I concede. “Do you think Gareth thrusts his hips in private too, or he does it only for our enjoyment?”

4. Specky Baz chapter 3! It's fully outlined but between writing crises and exams idk when I'll have time to write it.

But we're always touching anyway. Holding hands in the classes we share (I've never been more glad that I'm right-handed and he's not) and during meals, even when our friends start making gagging sounds and call us disgusting. (The teachers don't say anything. Mr Benedict tried to say we were disrupting the classroom's atmosphere, but when Baz quietly complained with Miss Possibelf she told the professor to shut up, because holding hands is not a crime and he did not comment when Elspeth basically sat in her boyfriend's lap half of the time last year.)

5. Goblin!Baz. I haven't forgotten about it. After COC and server exchange are over I'll pick it up again because I miss it.

“Magic doesn’t want you dead,” I say. It’s true. I don’t think magic is sentient, and even if it were it probably couldn’t be arsed to worry about stupid fights. This is a stupid fight. The Mage never even told me why it started. When he began teaching me about dark creatures he just told me the goblins were evil and dangerous for Normals and mages and any other poor creature. He told me they were bloodthirsty monsters feeding on the flesh of their victims. Then he brought me to a meeting I don’t remember a word of, and he took me to that club and made me kill them. Like you’d kill a mosquito that’s bothering you in the middle of the night.

I don’t think the Mage ever stops to wonder if these creatures have a life.

6. Snippet of exchange fic that I've written right now here on Tumblr just to share it.

"So? Are you going to stand all day in the middle of the room like a proper numpty?" she asks, waving her broom in the air so threateningly that my (sometimes awake by miracle) self-preservation instinct makes me duck my head. I'm cowering in fear in front of a woman who's a whole head shorter than me, and this is probably how the world should work.

I realise I still haven't moved, so I pick up my bag and look at her helplessly.

"You really have no idea how to be in the world, do you?" she says, something that dangerously looks like a smile softening her face. I shake my head and she pushes her glasses up her nose. "Alright. Let's start over. I'm Penelope. Penelope Bunce."

If you've made it this far, I love you. If you haven't, I love you anyway.

Tagging @wellbelesbian @tea-brigade @sillyunicorn @mostlymaudlin @facewithoutheart @palimpsessed @otherpeoplesheartachept-2 @forabeatofadrum @bazzybelle @prettylightsbigcity @dragoneggo if you have anything to share or just to say hi <3

[johnwgrey]

DAY 01 OF COC - THE END

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DAY 20 OF COC - FANGS

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DAY 23 OF COC - HURT/COMFORT

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DAY 17 OF COC - MATCH

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DAY 19 OF COC - HEAL

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DAY 15 OF COC - FLUFF

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DAY 27 OF COC - TURN

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DAY 25 OF COC - SLEEP

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DAY 28 OF COC - SHIVER

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DAY 05 OF COC - BLOODLINES

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DAY 26 OF COC - MISTLETOE

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DAY 10 OF COC - ANGST