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Jackson Avery Appreciation Week 2017: Day 6- Favourite Character Growth Moments

Happy Pride!

I'm in awe of how eloquently and profoundly expressed that was. I also want to thank you so much for sharing that! What they have done with such an amazing character and true love story is tragic and devastating but we take back the power to decide it doesn't end that way.

I was 13 when Jackson stood up at April’s wedding. I squealed and spent the whole day on twitter and on this blog that was already called queenkepner. Their love story inspired and excited me so much that I decided to try and write fan-fiction for the first time.

I was 16 when Japril The Movie came out, and I dreamily watched as a decade of their lives unfolded in front of me. While the end had me in tears, seeing their lives flicker in front of my eyes, I remained hopeful they would make their way back to each other.

I was 18 when they reunited in Montana, and though I had lost some faith in the show, I watched the episode anyway. I felt like a 13 year old staying up in her dimmed bedroom all over again. I started writing again after the episode, something I’d long forgone, fueled and excited by their love.

This year, I will be going to university to study writing and literature. I’ve started my own book, I’m in the midst of writing a Japril fic with well over 30,000 words, and none of this would have ever happened without Jackson and April’s love story.

They compelled me at an age where I didn’t know much about love, showed me what it’s like when two people become best friends after a tragedy, and when best friends turn into something more. Their clumsy relationship in on-call rooms, his stoic perseverance to let her get married, the storm inside of him when he saw the love of his life about to marry someone else. Then, a blissful marriage, she’s the one and i love our secret marriage bubble and a love so real and so profound I haven’t felt the same for a fictional couple since. Through weddings and child loss and divorces and child birth, they remained each other’s person, and I will never believe the terrible writing they’ve given us this season in order to fit their own twisted narrative.

Jackson and April are soul mates, and they are fictional, which means I choose to decide their story doesn’t end like this. I’ll leave you with this quote, which fits many of the things that I still wish to say, 6 years after I created this blog for them. To Sarah and Jesse, you remarkably brought together two characters that changed my life, I thank you. To Jackson and April, you showed me what an epic, world-shattering and soul-searing love is. Thank you.

For you, a thousand times over.

gone but not forgotten 🧡

I have looked at you in a million different ways

                                    and I have loved you in each and everyone of them. (insp.)

rhett waiting for people to laugh at his joke and rhett laughing at his own joke

200 followers giveaway

It seems somehow fitting that I got to 200 followers the night before I posted the last chapter of Let Me Be Your Light. It still boggles my mind how many people like to read my scribbles! It really seems like yesterday when I got 100 and that felt so wild to me. I can’t really describe how strange 200 feels. This is gonna sound exaggerated and overly emotional but being here with you guys and creating for you has seriously changed my life. I am more me now than I have been in years. 

THANK YOU! 

Doing the rhink fic giveaway was so much fun the last time I want to do it again! 

If you want to, you can read the last giveaway’s fics here: 1st prize, 2nd prize and 3rd prize.

To enter you have to be my follower and either like or reblog (or both, for two chances!) for a chance to win a fic written by me according to your specification. Fluff/angst/smut. I can try my hand at kinks too. (I don’t write otp4/underage nsfw stuff/non-con.)

1st prize: A rhink fic of at least 3000 words.

2nd prize: A rhink ficlet of at least 1500 words.

3rd prize: A rhink ficlet of at least 1000 words.

I’ll choose the winners on  Tuesday June 25th. You have until 20:00 EEST to participate.

Japril fans, ASSEMBLE!

Jackson and April mean a lot to us. Everyone’s japril journey started at a different time but one thing we have in common is that we love them and still root for them. We have Sarah and Jesse, who have been nothing but invested in japril’s story, trying their best to deliver a performance that takes our breath away and every time they have a scene together, they own it. In the last few days a lot has happened which made everyone question if our favourite couple will ever be given another chance to be together in any sense. Whatever happens, we know we love them and we will never stop fighting for them. We would like you to help us show our gratitude and love to japril and especially Sarah and Jesse who remain the best captains ever and support us and always find a way to calm us down. We would like to have japril trending on twitter for the last two episodes before the hiatus begins!

Thursday November 9th for the 300th episode, join us for a simple “japril” trend to show that japril are an integral and important part of grey’s anatomy.

Thursday November 16th for the episode 14.08, join our trend “we love japril” to express how much japril means to us and to show that we don’t give up that easily!

*Remember that we’re NOT trying to get someone mad or angry, we’re spreading positivity about japril and our trend is for showing love to them, Sarah and Jesse, and showing our gratitude to all the writers, producers and directors who made our story happen. Please don’t tweet “I hate ___ for doing ___ to japril” but rather “I love japril for/ I can’t  wait for japril to/ grateful for Sarah and Jesse and etc. giving us japril/ and etc.) Positivity, guys :)

IMPORTANT!!! Guidelines for trending:

1. We are trending a word and a phrase, NOT a hashtag (#) since it’s easier to trend something without this symbol. 2. If you don’t have your location on, it doesn’t count your tweet!! So please turn your location on! (Go to Settings  - Privacy and safety) 3. Timezones!!  We start trending at 5pm EST, 10pm UTC, 11pm CET, 2 pm PST, 4 pm BRT and etc. so be prepared to start! Google 5pm EST and it automatically should show you what time is it for you. Please keep tweeting AT LEAST for an hour and if possible keep tweeting during the US air time and after. 4. If you feel like you can’t come up with many tweets so quickly during trending, try preparing in advance. Every tweet counts! Use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com to schedule your tweets especially if trending begins in the middle of the night for you and you love your sleep or you have to rest before school/work and etc.

Finally, we can’t wait to see your amazing tweets and share love and positivity for japril with you! If you have any questions, please contact @16confessions, @safooa, @insideimfeelinpurrdy and @japril

Delayed rage/rant

Grey’s just completely gutted all of the Japril fans. The direction they chose to take their storyline in and they way they did it is so heartbreaking and disrespectful to the fans and all the love and emotional investment and attachment we have built for their relationship. It’s disrespectful to their journey, to the albeit bumpy but uniquely beautiful story they shared. This is disrespectful to all the amazing things about Japril: their friendship, their chemistry, their deep love for one another. Also, this is a slap in the face to what Jesse and Sarah have created, their commitment and dedication to the characters and the fans, and their own long term investment in building this relationship. Even introducing the idea of this storyline, it feels like they've ruined, or at least tainted, the beauty of Japril.