#gyzym

[gyzym]

HELLO TUMBLR 👋 i am ENORMOUSLY excited to say: i've written a book! and i'm writing two more! and they're all queer romcoms! and the first one, FALL INTO YOU, will be out in JUNE. there is a LOT of my heart in this novel, and i absolutely can't wait to share it with you 💜

if you've ever enjoyed my fanfic, particularly stories like What We Pretend We Can't See and I've Got Nothing to Do Today But Smile, then you'll love FALL INTO YOU. it's full of ROMANCE and JOKES but also REAL, MESSY PEOPLE with PROBLEMS and TRAUMA, because those are the stories i love telling! it's chock full of things i adore: set on an APPLE FARM in NORTHEAST OHIO, main characters who hate each other more or less immediately, gratuitous depictions of food, and they were ROOMMATES?, people healing wounds they didn't even know were still open, AND MORE.

i'll be sharing more about this book in the weeks to come (i promise i will try so hard not to be obnoxious about it 🫡 ), and about the next two as we get closer to publication! but until then, i just want to say: the fic stays UP and the author stays GRATEFUL, always. i am honored and humbled by your readership, and really proud of the work i've done for and with fandom, and that's not a tune you're ever going to see me change.

okay, thanks so much for reading!! hope you're all well; i'll just be here having one of the coolest and most surreal days of my life 😂👋💜

EDITED TO ADD 4/29/25: for those who have been kind enough to ask, you can PREORDER Fall Into You here in the US (or here in the UK)! Will have info to you ASAP on options for folks in other countries, this is all as new to me as it is to you, but will keep you very posted 💜

[heliotropepajamas-books]

Fanbinding: I've Got Nothing to do Today But Smile by gyzym

Project 52, Bind 71, Binderary Book #12/end I’ve Got Nothing to Do Today But Smile by gyzym Completed: February 27, 2026 Size: Octavo.  19,867 words, 179 pages.

A classic Inception AU where Arthur is a stressed out corporate lawyer and Eames owns the coffee shop across the street from his office.

This bind was a bit of a disaster once I started printing and assembling.  The first issue I noticed was in the trimming - I don’t know what I did but there wasn’t a right angle on the textblock once I was finished.  I don’t have access to a guillotine at home and I didn’t have the time to go back out and try again (and probably didn’t have the margins to work with either) so I decided to see what I could accomplish with a straight edge and blade.  The results are serviceable but not terribly attractive.  It at least allowed me to avoid making a trapezoidal cover.

When it came time to make the cover I discovered another error.  I was making this at the same time as another octavo, and somehow had switched the endpapers I intended for each book.  It wasn’t the end of the world (at least they both matched) but the whole look turned out a bit more aggressive than I was planning.  The unexpected hazards of working on a Coffee Shop AU and a story about serial killers at the same time.

For all the issues on the outside of the book, the typeset for this text came out really well.  Times New Roman for the body text, which gets a bad rap for being very basic but excels at fitting a lot of text into a small space.  Grenzel for the title, which is another very versatile, not-at-all flashy font.  It picked up some toner haze in the printing process, which means it's probably time for a replacement cartridge.

I may remake this again in the future to try to fix some mistakes, but it will do for now.

[elizabethminkel]

How We Love: Exploring the spicy, imaginative world of romance fanfiction

Three fanfiction experts give their insight into the the social, collaborative, imaginative community of writers and stories.

I was recently on the radio to talk about fanfiction (and the growing connection to pro romance) with the brilliant @annejamison and @gyzym, and I'm so pleased with how this conversation turned out! It's rare that an ostensibly "fic 101 conversation" can get into this level of nuance (a testament to both the interviewees and the interviewer and her producer, who were very thoughtful). And all in under half an hour!

[kissmypoets-hp]

Fanfic Classics (inspired by zeziliazink and bubu0h)

I'm not even exaggerating when I say that these Drarry fics will always be famous to me! I believe I first read these around 2018, and I've reread them multiple times since 🤣 They're hits on AO3 for a reason and I cannot recommend them enough.

Away Childish Things by @letteredlettered

Far From the Tree by aideomai

What We Pretend We Can't See by gyzym

view more fic covers here. art credits below!

Artwork used (in order):

"L'Atre (The Hearth)" by Édouard Vuillard (1899). Credit goes to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection in memory of Virginia Jackson.

"Olive Trees at Collioure" by Henri Matisse (1906). Credit goes to the 2019 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

"Corridor in the Asylum" by Vincent van Gogh (1889)

[drarry-reccage]

Five Women Neville Longbottom Has Loved and Lost by @gyzym (2k, NR)

Tags: Angst, Five Things, Just Read It - It's Beautiful

Luna gives him a long look and laughs throatily, tugging at the spring grass beneath her fingers. He is captured (not for the first time) by the curve of her smile, the ease behind her eyes. "Neville Longbottom," she says, serious in an instant, "what have you lost?" She is looking at him, hard, the clouds gone from each of her irises, and Neville realizes in a slow, languid sort of way that no one has ever asked him that before. He pulls the gum wrapper from his pocket and leans forward and kisses her, soft and sweet, by the lake in the sun on a Tuesday. She smiles into his mouth, shifts herself into an odd position (her legs, crossed over each other on his lap, are smooth under his hesitant hands), and he can feel her laughter, can taste its nutty flavor on his tongue. This is hardly their first kiss—Neville has wanted her and had her in some strange places, some strange days. He thinks he might love her but it's hard to know; it would be like loving water, or air. Her hair is curled in his fingers, a thousand shades of pale, and her wrist is touching his face, leaving him aware that her pulse is erratic, echoing calls from too many directions.

(rec by @cailynwrites)

You likely know and love @gyzym already if you're a follower of this blog, but this little bite-size thing is as beautiful as What We Pretend We Can't See but in a tinier little package. Also available as a 🎧podfic 🎧narrated by @ellamcsmellbella.

[fuckyeahgoodomensfanfic]

Good Omens Fic Rec: Be As You've Always Been

For six thousand years, Aziraphale did his best to exist within the strictures of Heavenly conduct. It wasn’t a perfect practice; his relationship with Crowley, just for example, was never exactly what one might call “officially sanctioned,” or even, “particularly wise,” but the important thing was that Aziraphale tried. He wasn’t a very good angel, but he did his best, more or less. Wasn’t that all anyone could really ask of him? It doesn’t really feel fair, is the point, that in reward for saving the world, Aziraphale seems to be having something of an existential crisis.

Length: 58,132 Words AO3 Rating: General Audiences Best for/Keywords: Safe in Public, Through the Ages, Pre S2, Crossover (Discworld) Major Triggers: None Read it here, fic by gyzym

*Minor Spoilers* This fic truly is phenomenal. This one gripped me, blew my mind, and the dialogue between our pair was perfect! It's clear that a lot of love and labor went into this story, and it really honors the style of Terry Pratchett.

Following the failed Apocalypse, Aziraphale decides it's time for a change. Heaven can't control him anymore, and so he lets loose! Time for colors and textures, to be as loud as he pleases! He gets a full new wardrobe, a fresh coat of paint on his nails, and a beautiful blue convertible that made my heart swell over and burst. All that's missing is to figure out what he is now, what's he supposed to do, and what exactly does Crowley feel for him in return?

Everything you've ever loved about Good Omens is in this. Deep philosophy about human nature and life itself wrapped up in humor and love. I am not familiar with Discworld, but it's influence was clear and easy for me to follow. I could clearly point out where it came into play, and I never felt out of the loop. It was explained perfectly and made so much sense in this world. One of it's concepts/it's big reveal quite literally made me stop reading to ask my cat if he was, "seeing this shit" (he was not). I am in such genuine wonder and excitement over this story. It's a love story of course, but there is so much to unpack in this. I truly think this is a must read, and I would love to know your thoughts about it!

I'm going to end with a stolen line from a comment on this fic, "Free Will and Kindness are at their best at their intersection... the best of kindness is an authentic choice, and the best use of free will is to be kind."

Read it here, fic by gyzym

[lostdrarryfics]

Hi! I'm looking for a Drarry fic on AO3 that takes place when they're both in their 20s or 30s. The only plot points I can remember are that Draco has a magical hidden garden/green space in London somewhere, and that he and Harry get drunk at one point and fly through the garden before kissing. I also remember it being a pretty slowburn fic with no hookups or anything until they confess, but I could be wrong about that. It's not one of the more popular fics on AO3 (sorted by bookmarks) either. Thanks for the help!

We believe you are looking for What We Pretend We Can’t See by gyzym (131k, M)

Don’t forget to bookmark, leave kudos and comments!

[runawaymarbles]

💗 and 📝 and 🤠!!!

💗 a fic you’ve reread again and again and why!

Okay I weighed whether it was rude to do this since the Wayback Machine is down, but, Winter of Banked Fires by Yahtzee. It's a post-X3 fic in which the entire crew + Erik and Mystique end up holing up in Canada, and it's handle on characters is so good and the progressions are enough to make X3 palatable to me.

📝 a fav fic quote

They say Man was made in God's image, and that's not wrong, exactly, except for how it's all wrong, except for how it's always been wrong, because Man was made in God's image, that first time, but man, lowercase, widespread, always evolving into something worse, man was made in the image of man, who was made in the image of Man, who spent too much time gorging himself on apples to remember much about whose image it was he was made in.

build me a city, call it jerusalem by gyzym

🤠 favorite au genre?

I'm not sure I really have one, to be honest. Unless we're counting Canon Divergence. I mainly read AUs when they've been posted by an author I really like, or it's just a "slightly to the left" situation (e.g. everything is the same except there's also hanahaki, or whatever.)

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