"The Guy in the Glas"

Writer's vacation, a murder at 11 pm, and a series outline 😅

Dear Readers,

This is officially your fault. And Kat's (@thatfanficstuff). 😇

I wrote a one-shot about a police officer asking out Jack Abbot. YOU jumped on that and liked it.

Then I was apparently forced to write a non-smutty companion piece that was basically Valentine's Day slander. YOU liked that even more. 😂

So I started a cute little series.

That series now has ten chapters and counting.

I spent my two-week vacation writing Chapters 8 through 10 so I could keep the biweekly posting schedule no matter what life throws my way. 💪📚

Yes, that means I'm buffering chapters now.

For once, Future Me is not being left completely unsupervised. 😎

Then, while working on Chapter 10, I needed a nickname for Morgan. Unfortunately for all of us, Kat's fic A Little Secret (Rabbot x Reader) was living rent-free in my head. 🦝

The rest is history.

Then I finished Chapter 10, fully intending to move on to other projects. Preferably smaller ones.

Instead, at 11 pm, I murdered Colleen Fernandez and started looking for somewhere to dump the body. 🔪

🎉 Voting Time 🎉

My very first real series, ‘Of Serpents, Magic & Wings’, is officially complete at 11 entries! 🐍✨🪽

Bowing deeply to everyone who followed that journey. ❤️ ‘This is the End’.

Now, that opens up a spot for a new series beside ‘Between Always & Never’. 📚

And you can get a word in without having to say a word.

I’ll let you vote.

Well, first I’ll introduce the fighters candidates, starting July 5th. ⚔️

Each series concept gets two pitches.

📌 First pitch – Sunday evening: Series header + excerpt

📌 Second pitch – Friday evening: Moodboard + a general description of the series themes

🔥 Week One – Chicago PD – Spot On Jay Halstead/Greg ‘Mouse’ Gerwitz/fem!reader M/F/M triangle

⚔️July 5th First Pitch 🎨July 10th Second Pitch

🩸 Week Two – John Wick – What Counts John Wick/fem!reader M/F slow burn

⚔️July 12th First Pitch 🎨July 17th Second Pitch

🏥 Week Three – Emergency Room – Matches Dr. John Carter/fem!reader M/F enemies to lovers

⚔️July 19th First Pitch 🎨July 24th Second Pitch

🚒 Week Four – 911 – Adults are Stupid! Evan ‘Buck’ Buckley & Eddie Diaz 3rd person POV Family tension

⚔️July 27th First Pitch 🎨July 31st Second Pitch

🎲 Week Five – Community Wild Card Throw me ideas, or I might throw one more candidate at you.

⚔️August 3rd First Pitch 🎨August 7th Second Pitch

It took me five months and two weeks to reach 1,000 likes. 🏕️

Thank you to all the readers, and special thanks to the biggest contributors, ranked by total contribution:

🥇 1st place - The Pitt series Between Always and Never 421 likes

🥈 2nd place - the Warmanuary one-shots 181 likes

🥉 3rd place - my apparent need for therapy regarding Mondays, resulting in the one-shot You vs Monday 128 likes

Honorable mention to everyone who read, liked, reblogged, commented, screamed in the tags, or enabled my nonsense. Thank you. ❤️

You vs Monday

Monday wants to kill you or or make you kill someone. One wrong step, one very handsome silver fox who works at PTMC and whose first name begins with J. There can only be one!

warnings: I hate Mondays! All described events and people are purley fictional ;) And all my collegues are still alive - I hope.

It’s Monday. A power outage took out your alarm clock. So, you’re fifteen minutes late. The shirt you put on first this morning had a spot that resisted the washing machine. Your travel mug’s cover broke when you pushed it off the counter in your haste this morning. And you found your driver's-side window decorated by a cryptic handwritten note ‘Mark 412-555-7318’. You don’t know a Mark that would leave his number on your car. Now you’re sitting on the bottom of the two steps leading into your favourite coffee shop – in your rush to make up for lost time your feet missed a step.

And of course, people stop and stare. You’re gathering a small crowd. Taking a breath, you put your right hand on the ground to push yourself up. And pull it back with a yelp – that hurt.

“Hey, let me help you.” A silver-haired guy is kneeling beside you and gently reaches for your scraped hand.

He takes your slightly bleeding hand into his warm one.

“I’m Jack Abbot – ED attending at PTMC.”

“PTMC? The hospital?”

“Yes. The scrapes are superficial.” He lets go of your hand. “Does anything else hurt?”

And since this little Monday-induced therapy session somehow became my most successful fic so far, you all just earned yourselves a companion piece.

So, readers:

Who gets trapped in the next Monday from hell with office!reader because he asked you out?

Google can and likely will appeal. The case could eventually end up before the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), Germany's highest civil court.

What's important here is that, for the first time, a German court questioned whether AI chatbot disclaimers really protect companies from liability and basically said "no".

A fandom is like a community garden; the plants and trees are fanworks, the paths and benches are structures like ao3 and kinkmemes and themed weeks or months. Comments, and kudos? Those are fertiliser. You don’t necessarily see them at work, but they make the trees grow stronger and the flowers bloom brighter. When you comment on a fic or piece of fanart, you are nourishing our shared garden and helping to make the soil fertile for future works.

I want commenters to feel proud of that contribution. Whether you turn up with a wheelbarrow of the stuff to tip on your favourite flowerbed or just drop a heart emoji in the donations box, you are helping to make the soil richer, the garden more beautiful.

And you know what? Sometimes you need to just sit in the garden without feeling obliged to do anything to maintain it. That’s okay. It’s your garden too! As an author, I don’t want people coming to my stories with a sense of obligation; I want them to be able to enjoy them and be restored by them. If they don’t have the energy to comment right now, that’s okay.

But a comment isn’t the price of an entry ticket to someone else’s garden; it’s an investment in your garden, in your community. You won’t always see it bear fruit, won’t always know what part of the whole it helped grow. But you can know what you put in, and feel proud of being part of the team nourishing and maintaining this wonderful space we all share.

This is the End

- or maybe not (that's up to you).

Anyways, this is the end of this Good Omens series.

My very first real series is complete. And honestly? What a journey this has been.

Making the headers and dividers nearly drove me mad at times. But all is well that ends well.

I do have ideas for a small bonus encore and maybe even a second “case.” If I’ll find the time for it? We’ll see.

Before I go though, I want to sincerely thank the readers who liked and reblogged this series and the amazing blogs that helped spread it beyond my own corner of Tumblr. Not to mention the ones who helped me choose the quotes for What History Forgot and Not Forgotten.

Seeing people return for new chapters, reblog scenes, or give this story a chance genuinely meant a lot to me.

(Names listed below in order of appearance.)

@isadibus

@gun-roswell

@dianaforever

@chloecarroll

@inevitably-ineffable-husbands

@gypsi-kat01

@ineffable-houseplants

@hawt-pants-exe

I'm making this because I can't handle design tools . Then I hit a wall trying to make a line divider in a specific colour. I stubled into this "work-a-round" by accicent when I made my first cut out dividers.

This tutorial uses the free version of FotoJet.

Where do we go from here?

So far every chapter in this series has explored something different on purpose 👀

🩺 Professional Performance → mutual support

🍕 Coming Down & Priorities → domestic fluff / off-duty intimacy

⚡ Heated Discussions & Break in Protocol → conflict & arguments

🚔 Hard to Swallow → case work / medical chaos

So now I’m curious:

Feel free to elaborate in the tags, comments or DM’s 👀

I’m genuinely curious what people are looking forward to.

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

Instead of splitting notes across every reblog in a way that fragments the conversation, the original post could remain the central node that accumulates the total note count and credit for the creator. That keeps attribution clear and preserves the existing structure of Tumblr’s reblog chains.

At the same time, individual reblogs could track their own likes locally. That would allow Tumblr to see which versions of a post are actually resonating — whether that’s funny commentary, thoughtful additions, or meta in the tags — without removing engagement from the original post.

Those signals could then be used to surface particularly successful reblogs within the thread (for example “most liked reblog” or similar), rather than splitting the entire note ecosystem apart.

It’s not really about whether reblogs have their own likes — it’s that OPs can lose track of their own post and stop seeing how people are engaging with it.

That’s why I think the total note count + notifications need to stay centralized on the original post, even if reblogs get their own local engagement.

That way you can give individual reblogs recognition without breaking visibility for the original creator.