Just shy of three years ago, I happily stepped in to help when @choicesficwriterscreations needed assistance with CFWC Fics of the Week. Shortly thereafter, the blog's original creator, @loricreates, was ready to step down, and along with @lucy-268 I was honored to take over and continue the great work Lori had started.
The CFWC archive provides an invaluable service to our fandom, but it was always so much more to me. It's a place where people connect, friendships are fostered, and our incredibly talented creators have a chance to be seen and appreciated.
It has been my pleasure to serve as CFWC's mod, and I'm very proud of the contributions I have made during that time. But it's also a lot of work, and lately, it was beginning to feel like a chore. That's when I knew it was time to say goodbye. I'm not going far; I'll still be in the fandom. I may even show up here to help host a special event or two in the future, but for now, I want to spend my time concentrating on other things, both in and outside of the fandom. That includes my writing, catching up on reading, and supporting each of you.
I want to thank @lorircreates, CFWC's founder, for her vision, for creating this space, and for entrusting it to me. It was an honor to take the reins from you, and I hope we've done your "baby" proud.
I want to thank @lucy-268, who was a dream co-moderator. We sure had a lot of good (and crazy) times running the blog together. I'm so glad this fandom brought us together... and we'll stay that way long after this fandom is gone. 💙
I'd like to thank @liaromancewriter, who has graciously offered to take over so that CFWC can continue. Please join me in welcoming Mal as the blog's new moderator! It makes me feel much better knowing I'm leaving CFWC in your hands!
Most of all, I want to thank all of you. Each and every one of you has made our fandom what it is. The creators who make us laugh, cry, and feel things we never expected to feel. The readers and art fans who have encouraged everyone along the way. Everyone who has ever "geeked out" over a beloved story, character, or OC together. Through CFWC, I've gotten to know many of you better, and that has been the best part of the time I've spent here.
So this is my final CFWC post... one last time! :) I can't wait to see what the future brings! 😘
I know a lot of people miss the Blades 1 seduction skill because of the sheer hilarity of how chaotic MC could be and how everyone would be scandalized by who they'd flirt with, and you know what? I do, too.
But what I find myself missing more right now is the beastmaster skill. Just MC being a walking Disney Princess, talking to animals they have no business knowing how to communicate with, leaving everyone in shock because how'd they learn to do that? How are they making that sound with their mouth? What in the actual fuck?
I miss that.
Consider: the owlbear cub getting fussy and MC just starting to soothe it with little chirps and hoots, mimicking it perfectly. The cub calms down and starts doing it back, the two of them communicating back and forth. The party members who never witnessed MC do anything like this are just like ??? but the b1 squad is just like "yeah, classic MC"
what if, hear me out, the ring is just a silly little gift (?????) and the real proposal is tommy and trystan telling detective rose they should look into their dad’s death………..
I've admired @bayleedraws-sometimesx's beautiful work since I joined Tumblr, so when I saw she had opened emergency commissions, I knew I had to get one. Here are Trystan and Emma, probably holding hands in public while somehow still believing they're being discreet.
Ngl, the Desire & Decorum family is kind of wild it you really think about it and it's even worse if you marry Annabelle, get Briar with Edmund, employ Mr Konevi and adopt all the animals
Like there's MC
MCs younger half brother Harry Foredale
MCs older step brother/Harry's half brother Edmund Marlcaster
MCs childhood best friend, ex-ladies maid, and current step-sister-in-law, Briar Daly
Edmunds ex-fiance who is now his and MCs sister in law after marrying their younger brother, Theresa Sutton
Harry's ex-fiance who is now (in spirit) married to his older half-sister MC, Annabelle Parsons
MC and Harry's grandmother, Dowager Countess #1, Dominique Foredale
Edmunds and Harry's mother, Dowager #2, Countess Henrietta
MCs legal lavender marriage husband, Bartholomew Chambers
Their barrister??, Yusuf Konevi
A horse, an pug (which I'm pretty sure would not have looked like that at the time), and some random baby deer???
Plus if you get Mr Harper and Cordelia together, you then also have
MCs wife (in spirits) sister and the estates ex-master of horses, and they're married with a whole baby on the way
Gabe and MC seriously need to start putting their vampire senses to good use, cause how do two people with super hearing always miss when someone's about to walk in on their almost-sexcapades? Babes, somebody's gotta be the lookout.
Some interesting reading - latest Pixelberry review on Glassdoor by an ex-employee, giving their point of view of what's been going on at PB lately. Also says that those 200 people who were let go were around 75% of staff 😬