And the fest is over! I’m glad this at least gave some of you a laugh, and I’m very thankful for the entries we got! Since there were no written entries, I decided to save my own written stuff for Izzy Bingo; I’m going to take the ao3 page down, close the carrd etc tomorrow ❄️☀️

This is the last fortnight of @izzmasinjuly.bsky.social and I’m going to start posting my own snippets soon!

🍗 CHALLENGE FOUR 🍗 Izzy’s in the kitchen and he’s working hard! Are you going to distract him with some foodie flirting or are you putting some floury handprints on his buns?

Recycling an oldie for @izzmasinjuly.bsky.social #ofmdfanart #izzyhands

This @izzmasinjuly.bsky.social post is a little low effort but I'm determined to participate in *all* the challenges no matter how busy I get so🤷 It appears that Setde has gotten a little *too* into the eggnog and now he's texting his crush! Oh no!😬 Read the alt text at your own peril.

Hear ye, hear ye, ‘tis time to unleash your most terrible puns

☃️ CHALLENGE THREE☃️ Who’s going to jingle Izzy’s bells? It’s snow joke how cute he is. Weave this prompt into a bingo card offering or tackle it on its own!

It’s a blindingly hot day here in the UK and only set to get hotter: make it steamy instead and join my winter holiday themed bingo ❄️☀️🥵💦 izzmasinjuly.carrd.co

…unless you’d like to be on the naughty list. It’s a long list and he’s very thorough.

Don’t forget: the challenges are weekly and the bingo cards are running for the whole month. Get on Izzy’s nice list and pick a prompt…

This was yesterday's challenge but he's getting a trip to the office supply store for all his organizational needs. This is both sentimental for him & also sexy. Someone's using post-it notes as pasties on their nips & getting papor cuts in awkward places

🍦 CHALLENGE TWO 🍦 It’s my birthday, and I’d like you to give Izzy a little treat

@izzmasinjuly.bsky.social I'm not an author but your challenge was very inspiring! Author Stede's deathless prose strikes again:

Happy Friday! This weekend I’m going to be watching some terrible/wonderful holiday romcoms to get me in the writing mood; do you have a favourite?

THE FIRST CHALLENGE ❄️ Find a way to weave one of these into your work this week, and earl yourself a little bonus (the bonus is festive cheer, and possibly some unfestive smugness)

IZZMAS IN JULY IS GO!!! ✨🎄🍦🎁🌞♠️✨

IZZMAS IN JULY starts tomorrow ⛄️💖🍦 It’s got awards! It’s got challenges! It’s got an official ruling on if Die Hard counts as a holiday film! Find out more about the challenge here ❄️☀️ izzmasinjuly.carrd.co#faq

Two naughty people switching the nametags on everyone else's gifts! Confusion, insanity, and hilarity ensues.

Lo, July approaches and so does this funny little fic fest. Do you have a favourite holiday film trope? ❄️⛄️💖

✨💝BAD SEX TIPS💖✨ Magazines have given us some truly horrific ‘tips’ to spice things up in the bedroom—sometimes literally

✨🎄TROPES🎄✨ All the weird and wonderful cliches from your (well, my) favourite holiday films.

Here we go, it’s time to deliver the cards—I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them

I’m open to suggestions as well—what would you like to see? Would you prefer challenges or more cards? Or maybe a DND style encounter table? Let me know here or on discord!

There’s going to be extra bonus challenges throughout the month too, if I can’t fit them onto the cards! Types Of Romantic Interest (childhood best friend, elf in disguise, the ex that got away…) Weirdly Specific Businesses (Christmas cookie shop, reindeer farm, Scrooge-esque accounting firm)

Cards are coming tomorrow! There will be two: - Holiday Movie Tropes - Weird Magazine Sex Tips

I don't know who you are but this is completely deranged and I love that.

What is Izzmas in July? It’s a celebration of holiday romance movie tropes: specifically, the ones involving ridiculous on-theme moments. Woman opens Christmas cookie bakery, her hot customer turns out to be secretly Santa, etc

FAQ and a bit more info on timing now up! Please let me know if you have any other questions/suggestions ✨ izzmasinjuly.carrd.co