Hi friends, bad, neglectful mod here. 😔 I’ve had some work/life changes that led to lots of new real-life admin responsibilities, and ended up putting off mod duties for too long. I know the due date just passed, but want to float ideas for extensions. Please vote in the poll ⬇️

hello friends, and happy Wednesday! any #WIPWednesday snippets to share (and for birthday boy fun, share a Namjoon-centric snippet if you have one)!

a young man wearing sunglasses and a denim jacket looks down at something

ALT: a young man wearing sunglasses and a denim jacket looks down at something

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there are still a few recommendations in the queue that I'll save for future weeks, but thanks to those who have recc'd so far! i'll also start unclaimed prompts this weekend. 🩶 last mgmt note: I'll be out of the country for 2 weeks starting next Thursday! answers might be slow.

hi friends!! been working LOTS of overtime so haven't been around, sorry for being so absent! but seeing as it's Friday, how about we start fic rec Fridays? I'd love to see your favorite stories, so submit your favorites here! you can submit multiple links in the same form forms.gle/97TCmpCznasw...

GREY AREA FIC RECOMMENDATION FORM

want to share your favorite grey area fic? submit the story here!

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hello! could the prompter for this prompt (page 9) please reach out via dms? a potential author has a question!

do you ever put something off for so long that the thought of finally doing it makes you feel guilty for the long wait, so you push it off even longer?? yeah, that's your mod with claim acknowledgement emails. 😳 sorry for the wait everyone!! will work on some admin work tonight.

hi friends! sorry for being MIA for a few days, had quite a work week! but I am excited to see SIXTEEN claims so far! have you browsed the available prompts yet? archiveofourown.org/collections/...

CLAIMING NOW OPEN! Go find your favorite shade of morally gray in the prompts now! archiveofourown.org/collections/...

last day of prompting! time to get your ideas in here - claiming will open tomorrow! archiveofourown.org/collections/...

I feel like these two are the most likely irl to seek revenge, so this tracks!

winter@lavishtae.bsky.social · last yr.

oh god

and what an amazing picture it is!! 👀

hals@poetaureate.bsky.social · last yr.

this paints an intense picture 👀

I truly can't believe they're a rare pair, especially at tae's current buff stage.

audge⁷ -- an armpit sommelier@btsaudge.borasky.com · last yr.

mmm, the taejoon of it all

Prompting ends Saturday! Have you gotten your 15 prompts submitted yet? If not, now is your chance!

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 i’ve already submitted prompts but what if more

grey area {bts fest - CLAIMING OPEN!}@greyareabtsfest.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello everyone! I accidentally deleted the graphic so can’t do a true update to the schedule, but we are extending prompting by 5 days for everyone to get their last few prompts in! Prompting will officially close JULY 5. Claiming will open JULY 6!

Aaah BOF shout-out! I hold them to blame for my descent into K-pop. This sounds so incredible, I absolutely LOVE a dark chaebol!! 🩶

⚘ myrre ⊙⊝⊜⁷@myrre.bsky.social · last yr.

omfg. hear me out. boys over flowers but make it dark? the chaebol sons forced to go to a prestigious uni when hs/nj hear tae singing in the gym showers late one night. they take him to their club room and goad him until he confesses to sneaking onto campus bc his water’s shut off again. +

RAPLINExJIMIN: JM has a long history of scamming people, his ability to disappear and become someone new a stuff of legends. But when he gets tangled with his newest target NJ, he realizes that something about him is familiar... and his two business partners too. His past has come back to haunt him.

grey area {bts fest - CLAIMING OPEN!}@greyareabtsfest.bsky.social · last yr.

OUR FINAL GAME! Screenshot the 4 images in the threads below and build a prompt from it! make sure to quote so we can all see, and don't forget to post it to the collection! starting with character(s) #1:

OUR FINAL GAME! Screenshot the 4 images in the threads below and build a prompt from it! make sure to quote so we can all see, and don't forget to post it to the collection! starting with character(s) #1:

Hello everyone! I accidentally deleted the graphic so can’t do a true update to the schedule, but we are extending prompting by 5 days for everyone to get their last few prompts in! Prompting will officially close JULY 5. Claiming will open JULY 6!

Hello! Less than a week to go for prompting, and we have 69 (eyyyy~) prompts in the collection! Do we think we can get to 100 soon? I ran a poll on twt asking if people wanted a week extension on prompting, and it looks to be a resounding YES! I will also be putting together one last prompting game~

ten days left of prompting!! don't forget to post your prompts to the collections, and if you need inspo, have you played one of our games yet? bsky.app/profile/grey...

grey area {bts fest - CLAIMING OPEN!}@greyareabtsfest.bsky.social · last yr.

maknae line just love to stir things up, they would use that mind control well! 💜

Jellichi | KurageCharms@kuragecharms.bsky.social · last yr.

Maknae line, soulmates, mind control DAMN that is def a grey area...

I get to meet so many Geminis through this! I love this potential, yoongi could absolutely be an unreliable narrator... did he truly find his soulmate? 👀

kam⁷@banginxcypher.bsky.social · last yr.

yoongi, soulmates, unreliable narrator.... THERES POTENTIAL

ooh yes, I love enemies to lovers, especially a workplace one! bring on the bribery or the office politics or the boss/employee dynamics!

juni 🌱@juninamjuni.bsky.social · last yr.

yoongi, workplace, enemies to lovers (please don't laugh at my haunted big three 🫵) thinking thots, thinking thots!

Ooh yes I love a good apocalypse story! The fight to survive really brings out that opportunity for morally grey decisions… 🤔

Cupcake 🧁@smolcupcake.bsky.social · last yr.

SJ, apocalypse, forced caretaking Oh there's def smt here ....

oooooh yes please! I hope this prompt speaks to some writers!

a woman is talking to a little girl in a hospital bed and says these are a few of my favourite things .

ALT: a woman is talking to a little girl in a hospital bed and says these are a few of my favourite things .

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Emma;@emmascribbles.bsky.social · last yr.

Okay okay… we got Namjoon… marriage… mind control. So what if we have age gap Namkook where seemingly sweet and innocent junior intern JK finds out some dirt on his much older boss (and crush), and blackmails Namjoon into marriage and a weirdly desperate codependent relationship…

hello fellow gemini! 👯‍♀️ oh yes, I love seeing lies and plans fall apart and the desperation to get it back straight, yoongi is in for a tough time! who do you see as the fellow time traveler? 👀

winter@lavishtae.bsky.social · last yr.

yoongi, marriage, time travel (chuckles) so like, yg successfully living a multitude of lives in different timelines. until he meets a fellow traveler for the first time ever, and his beautifully-constructed lies all fall apart. so does his present-day marriage, sabotaged by righteous justice.

ohh what a cool idea, of rap line time traveling to BENEFIT from the apocalypse! 🤯

yangmal (socks)⁷@ddaengbiased.bsky.social · last yr.

Rap line, apocalypse, time travel 🤔

yoongi / magic / mind control... sorry yoongi, you're the victim here! Taehyung just wants to read yoongi's mind, he's dying to know if his hyung likes him back! but the spell goes wrong and now he can CONTROL yoongi. is it so bad if Tae just... pushes Yoongi in the right direction, into his arms?

grey area {bts fest - CLAIMING OPEN!}@greyareabtsfest.bsky.social · last yr.

🩶 NEW GAME! 🩶 using your zodiac sun/moon/rising signs, create a story using the main character(s), the setting/trope, and some fun ao3 tags associated with 'morally grey' stories! remember to reblog this post with your idea and post into the collection!

printing 'vote for namjoon' stickers as we prompt! and when his soulmate turns out to be a criminal, maybe?? 🤔

✨sugaskookie✨@sugaskookie613.bsky.social · last yr.

OoOooOOoooOo okay… Namjoon, soulmates, politics

hoseok almost murdered me today with that video, so this tracks... 💀

audge⁷ -- an armpit sommelier@btsaudge.borasky.com · last yr.

hyung line, marriage, attempted murder