Welcome to CoLu Week 2017!

Dragonshost is hosting Cobra/Lucy Week for the third year running! I know it's early, but I wanted all of you to know that it was happening and that, yes, I will of course be participating this year! CoLu is life, you guys.

Now, because I've made compilations of past CoLu Week stories, this year is going to be a little different. Any days marked with an asterisk will not be posted in this story, but in their own stories. You'll see titles for those particular stories next to the prompt below so that you can find and read the past entries before CoLu Week comes up, and give those ones a follow/fave that way you get the notification when they're updated.

When those particular days arrive (Day 4 and Day 6), there will be an update on this story for that day, with a simple note that reminds you to see the other story that chapter's a part of, along with the story name. The update on this story for those days will be a couple hours after I've updated the actual story.

Dates: August 6th - 12th, with the 13th as a bonus day.

Prompts:

Day 1: Blossoms

Day 2: Pool

Day 3: Endearment

Day 4: Hollow* (This will be posted in Who Says Fairy Tales Are Normal?)

Day 5: Serpent

Day 6: Invitation* (This will be posted in I Married a Lunatic)

Day 7: Frost

Bonus Day: Curse

This week will obviously be rated M (it's me, we're talking about... Of course that's the rating…). I'm laying down the blanket disclaimer here:

Please be aware that this is M for a reason.

I don't do trigger warnings at the beginnings of chapters, so be aware that some of the entries for this year may be triggering to individuals. If you feel uncomfortable while reading my work, please stop reading it and find your happy place. If you do want to continue reading it, but you're unsure if it's something that you can handle, I'm more than willing to answer messages concerning the stories. So, you do have the option of messaging me and saying, "I'm concerned that this story might be too much for me. Can you tell me if [insert triggering thing] is in there?" It doesn't have to be super specific, but if... let's say, mentions of rape... are triggering to you, then just ask me. I'm more than happy to let you know what is and isn't in a story that's already been posted. Yeah, it's a couple extra steps on both ends, but that's the only way I see this being feasible without a tagging system in place like on AO3.

Please note that the prompts marked with asterisks are continuations from previous CoLu Week stories. I'm doing something a little different this time around. Any CoLu Week stories that have been continued (either last year from 2015, or in 2016 and then again this year) will have their own separate stories. This is to make it easier for you guys to re-read them without having to search through the CoLu Week entries.

Remember: There will still be an update on this story during those days, but the page will be nothing more than a note for you to go to the other story where the prompt has been posted, along with the name of the story and maybe the FFnet url.

I can't wait to see what the rest of you decide to do for this. I'll be posting notes on my stories as a reminder when it gets closer to the event, and you'll see updates on my other social media doodlies as well as my profile. If you'd like to let me know you're working on something, or want to send me a link to a CoLu Week entry from FFnet, post it as a review on this chapter or to my facebook page. I'll most likely put those links on my Tumblr with the proper tags so others can see them as well.

From the mods running it: "As always, please only use your own original content."

If you'd like your artwork or fanfics to be featured on the CoLu Week page on Tumblr, please go here: colu-coalition . tumblr . com

I can't wait to see what you all do. I'm so excited to write for this!

One last important note!

The beginning of CoLu Week this year will mark my hiatus from fanfiction to work on my novel. I'm not sure how long the hiatus will be, but I've spent so much time focusing on getting my stories updated on this site that I've neglected the 50,000 words I already have written. And I'm not even halfway through the book! I really want to get published, and the only way to do that is to hunker down and finish the manuscript, then edit it like crazy. Then find a publisher to pick it up and market it.

I care about each of my stories, and I love my readers. I will never abandon any of my stories, no matter how long they go before they're updated again. I know that not all of my readers will see this, but this seems like the best place to put the announcement since hardly anyone reads FFnet profiles.

So, I'm not disappearing forever. I'll still read messages, respond to some reviews, and maybe get a chapter written here or there after the hiatus starts. Because we all know that I have a hard time writing just one story at a time. I wanted to get some other stuff written before this hiatus started, but I spent all my time leading up to CoLu Week writing and proofing these stories for you guys. I hope they're good enough to tide you over until I return!

Keep writing, reading, reviewing, following, and favoriting!

~~GemNika.