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Clexaweek2019 Basics

Okay kru, Clexaweek2019 officially begins tomorrow so here’s a refresher on the Clexaweek basics!

THEMES:  Monday 02/25 - Useless Lesbian Tuesday 02/26 - No Strings Attached Wednesday 02/27 - Only One Bed Thursday 02/28 - Nipples Friday 03/01 - Tinder AU & Nerd/Popular Trope Saturday 03/02 - Enemies to Lovers Sunday 03/03 - Free Day

Use the tags #Clexaweek2019, #Day (_), and #(prompt). Make sure you put those first three tags in first because as we all know, tags and searching can be finicky. Feel free to use whatever other tags you want (#Clexa, #Clexa fic, #Clexa fanart, what have you), but just make sure to definitely list those three at the beginning. You can submit a link to me here, either directly to the work or to your tumblr post, and I will reblog it. If you post on ao3, add the work to the collection Clexaweek2019.

Please remember to leave a comment on a fic you read. Even something as simple as “ajfkdsajlfdk;sa” is very much appreciated. Kudos are nice, but comments are the real validation. Please, please, please leave a comment! Please remember to reblog and not just like posts on Tumblr. When people make art and moodboards etc, reblogging is how the post is spread and showed to more people. And feel free to comment on those too (and creators love stalking the tags to see what people say as well!). Letting a creator know what’s awesome about their work is what encourages them to continue creating, so please keep that in mind! We all support each other here! That being said, usually every year there’s at least one troll who posts a stupid (and terribly written) fic on purpose to try to get attention. If that happens, IGNORE it. Don’t give it hits, don’t comment on it, nothing. Report it if the tags are incorrect, but otherwise ao3 can’t do much, so don’t give the troll any attention. Our fandom is so big and awesome that new works will flood the tag anyway so yeah, just let those terrible works fade into obscurity. 

At the end of Clexaweek, I will make a masterlist of all the content created. My fandom wife @clexabookmarks also makes lists of the new fics. If you notice we’ve missed a work just let us know! It can be so chaotic running this while working full time so it’s easy for some works to slip through the cracks. Just hit us up and we’ll add it in!

If you have any questions about Clexaweek, ask here. If you want me to give you some prompts, you can hit up my ask box or you can peruse my tagged list of Clexa prompts. If you would like to view previous Clexaweek Events, they can be found here: Clexaweek2017, Clexaweek2018. There are also Clexaweek collections on ao3.

HAVE FUN! :D Can’t wait to see what you all come up with! I’ve missed you all, kru. Welcome home.

Stretch! Especially neck and shoulders if you watch/ use screens

I turn 30 next month so here’s what I learned in my 20s:

—don’t work for startups, they’re always one ‘innovative idea’ away adding ‘sell your kidneys on the black market’ to your job description.

—keeping a collection of basic OTC medicine on you will save your life one day. I recommend Advil, Imodium, and TUMS.

—those little single-use glasses cleaning wipes are 1000% worth the money

—overly self-depreciating jokes just make people uncomfortable, wean yourself off of them

—you can buy dehydrated mini marshmallows in bulk online and they’re a godsend for hot cocoa

—people don’t care if you have fidget toys on your desk they just want to play with them

—try to go to bed BEFORE the existential ennui kicks in

awesome! the never ending joy of this fandom

this week on who wants to hide their feelings

(insp.)

You know what I don’t get?  When fanfic authors apologize for long chapters.  It’s like?  You gave me bonus content, for free, and you’re sorry about it?  Bruh.  I have already named my firstborn after you.  Dude.

Here’s an invaluable writing resource for you.

Excellent thread.

clarke griffin constantly taking the commander’s breath away.

Day forty

of @the-wip-project‘s challenge

Q40: How do you start a new story?

A40: I start with the scene that the idea came to me with. I write out that scene as completely as possible. Afterwards, I re-read it and think of what is needed to make this scene make sense.

Day 2 of @the-wip-project ‘s 100 day challenge

My current wip is a love letter to my home town. It’s also a call for people to “love the body they have the day they have it”.