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It's that time of the year again...COMFORTEMBER 2023

Hello and welcome to our fourth year of Comfortember!!! 🍂

First and foremost, I want to give a huge thank you to @highly--distractible for hosting this last year, thank you so so much, I appreciate it more than you know. The break was much needed 💜💜💜

Thank you for your patience on this, I know it's a little late. Here are the prompts for 2023:

For anyone who is seeing this for the first time (first of all, welcome!), Comfortember takes place for the month of November and each day has a comfort-themed prompt for any art medium like writing or fan art. Comfort can mean anything you want it to, from a fun slice-of-life story to the aftermath of an action-packed scene, anything that warms your heart while sipping hot cocoa.

The alternate prompts are there as replacements for if you don't want to do a particular prompt but still want to complete a prompt for the day.

This challenge is open to anyone in any fandom, and the link to this year's collection on AO3 is here!

Please send asks for any questions, I will be online more so you'll get your answers more quickly (well, relatively speaking, I can't answer while I'm at work 😅). Here is a link to the FAQ for reference.

The link to the Comfortember Discord server is here, and please use the #comfortember tag when you post on Tumblr so all posts can be found under a single tag.

I hope you all enjoy these prompts and don't feel pressured about a deadline!! The most important part is having fun, you can complete this when it is best for you 💜 Thank you for participating!!!

*The prompts are written out for easy readability and access under the cut.*

#my first reblog since my hiatus and it's a shameless plug lolz #comfortember #comfortember 2023 #so excited for this year!!!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

My first submission for Comfortember 2023!

If you would like to participate, the link to the announcement is here, and the link to the AO3 collection is here!

Prompt# 9: Aftermath

#baloobird writes #comfortember #comfortember 2023 #harry potter #bill weasley #ron weasley #weasley family #hurt/comfort #aftermath

stillctrsara

Do you have any IronDad recommendations?

I have looked at this every day since you asked it, and felt overwhelmed every time, because there are SO. MANY. GREAT. STORIES. AND. AUTHORS. And because I had anxiety about forgetting/leaving people out. But I'm going to answer anyway.

A small (and very incomplete) collection of some Irondad authors I definitely recommend (according to my Ao3 subscriptions): I have read/want to read/will read pretty much everything they write. Though I am sometimes woefully behind because real life and but-I-must-write problems. (Some of them are still currently writing and a few are not.)

baloobird @baloobird

Bergen

Call_Me_Coley @call-me-coley

Celestial Sea Witch @celestialseawitch-ff

Cheerios_me_lovely

for_the_night @imyoursavinggrace

Grumperella @grumperella

happyaspie @yes-i-am-happyaspie

iron_spider @iron--spider

ironfidus @ironfidus

JAWorley (though I can't even begin to keep up with her prolific stories while writing myself!)

kingdomfaraway @asyouleft

madasthesea @madasthesea

Mendeia

niniblack @niniblack

OllieCollie @cajun-fangirl

opal_earrings @opal-earrings

peacockgirl

sahiya

Savana_Malark

spagbol99 @spagbol99

spdrmain

(Also, I may have missed tagging Tumblr accounts when one exists. Or they might have a different name here. Because I'm old and sometimes can't keep up.)

#awww thank you 🥺#i haven't been inspired to write irondad this year and i hope that changes cuz i miss them

the-memedaddy

meirl

yes-i-am-happyaspie

“You can’t eat doughnuts with sprinkles and have an iced coffee without taking a selfie, Mr. Stark… There are rules about this sort of thing.”

Artwork by happyaspie

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#wong you're invited to my queue

drempen

My spiderverse 2 prediction 🕷

#wong you're invited to my queue

happiness-in-yiddish

#wong you're invited to my queue

snake-and-mouse

To any fic writers who worry they are wasting their time... I read a fic for a relatively small and inactive fandom about three years ago. And there was one specific scene where a character watched another dancing like an idiot to a beyonce song and it was so sweet and loving that even now years later I have that song on one of my spotify playlist so every once in a while it will play and remind me of that fic, and every time it does I smile and feel a little happier.

The stats on a fic will never really tell you if your writing touched someone. There's no numerical way to show you what impact you made. Maybe you are wasting time, or maybe you are writing something that someone will remember for a long time, something that will never fail to make them smile.

#wong you're invited to my queue

catfunnies

#wong you're invited to my queue

causing7laughter

#wong you're invited to my queue

causing7laughter

#wong you're invited to my queue

queen-mabs-revenge

in my heart it’s the five of us

#idk who these people are but i love them #wong you're invited to my queue

princessamericachavez

I’m a huge sucker for characters that chose to be heroic. Like, no big profecy, no great chosen one moment, just someone who consciously decided to do the right thing because someone fucking had to.