Hey! I absolutely love your Grimm Stats posts! I have two questions: 1. Will you be doing one for every single episode? (please say yes!) and 2. What exactly do you mean by “Heinous Writer Pun”? It’s been a long time since I’ve watched those first few episodes and I’m blanking on what the pictures you’ve attached to that statistic correlated with. Thank you so much and keep up the good work!! ~:A:~

Hi there! I’m really glad you like the Grimm Stats, and I’m more than happy to answer your questions!

Right now, the plan is to do one a week for the duration of the hiatus. I’d really like to do more beyond that, but I’m not sure I will. The main reason for this is that making the stats posts takes up a massive amount of time. I have to rewatch each episode, of course, pausing frequently to take notes as I go.

Once that’s done, I then have to create the graphics for each stat. This part actually shouldn’t take as long as it does, but I’m working with an ancient laptop so it takes forever.

So, long story short: I should definitely get through season one during the hiatus, but I’m not sure I’ll continue after that. If I do, I’ll definitely be taking a break before moving on to season two.

As for the heinous writer puns, these can be anything in the dialogue of an episode–or something shown/occurring on screen–that constitutes a pun or ridiculous joke on the writers’ part, especially something that the characters don’t necessarily acknowledge as such.

This, of course, excludes anything explicitly said by Wu, as those comments are so numerous as to have their very own category.

For instance, in the second episode, the family of Jägerbars (bear-type Wesen) have a son named Barry. Their last name is also Rabe, which is an anagram of bear.

A lot of the puns show up this way, actually. Another great example is in the episode “Lonelyhearts.” The Wesen-of-the-week, Billy Capra, is a goat-type Wesen called a Ziegevolk who is trying to impregnate as many women as possible (ick).

“Billies” are male goats that are still capable of producing offspring, and “capra” is literally the genus that goats belong to. So…his name is basically Goat McGoat.

It’s also entirely possible that I’ll miss some puns, so matter how diligently I try to count them, because especially in the early episodes the writing was full of them, seemingly in every frame.

Here are the prompts for July. Remember: you can submit for only one prompt, or all prompts, or just a couple, or you can submit more than one fic for a single prompt if you want! It’s all about having fun with writing fic.

The theme for this month is ships! Each week will be a different ship-related theme.

Week One (July 1-7)
Canon Couples! Any couple who’s relationship is canon or was canon. Monrosalee? Silverhardt? Fair game! Lasseroe? Madalind (Meisner/Adalind)? Absolutely!

Week Two (July 8-14)
Slash Couples! All your favorite slash couples, show them some love. Wuffin, Rosette, Monhardt, Griffinhardt…those are just a few examples! Maybe you shipped Adalind with her old friend Selena? Or Renard with Sebastien? Write about it!

Week Three (July 15-21)
Rarepairs and Crack Ships! Remember the cute mermaid girl and the guy who played Mike Newton in Twilight? Because I sure do. Whether it’s two characters who’ve never met, who’ve barely interacted, or who just don’t get a lot of ship love but are so canon it hurts…this is the week for them!

Week Four (July 22-28)
OT3s! My personal favorite has always been Monrosehardt. Or maybe Monrosette. But there are so many to choose from! 

Don’t forget: post your fic as a text post or link and tag your submissions with grimmsummerficathon2016 and the number of the week you’re writing for! You can also post to our AO3 Collection.

Not a fan of these prompts? Submit some ideas of your own!

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