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When I look back at 2014, the most important part is "it was better than 2013." In fact 2014 was mostly about my recovery from how depression hit me in 2013. It wasn't as fast or as easy as I hoped it would be, but there was progress. I feel much better now than I did a year ago, and I hope I can say the same thing this time next year.

Fic I wrote
March:
Comfortable In This Place, Hockey RPF, 1.2k, gen
Werewolf!Brandon Sutter worrying about being traded.
June:
Assuming Shape, Young Avengers, 4k, gen
The story of Sarah Altman.
December:
Rainbow Patches on Our Jerseys (One Day), Hockey RPF, 500, gen
Pens drabbles about coming out.
Losing Down, Hockey RPF, 4.3k, gen
Simon Despres' 2014 training camp experience.
Make the Night a Little Less Loud, The Maze Runner (2014), 1.2k, gen
Thomas and Minho in the Maze, missing scene from the movie.

Plus two and a half Hockey RPF kinkmeme fills that are still anonymous, between 8-9k all together. Even excluding those I wrote more than twice as many words this year (over 11k) than last year (5.5k), and about half of them in December. I hope that predicts good things for my fic output next year! I enjoyed writing, and I enjoyed finishing some things from my huge folder of WIPs and outlines. Next project, I want to write some things for fandom_stocking, even though there's not much time left.
(Interestingly, most of what I write nowadays is in present tense. Not sure why, but I like it.)

Hockey and Hockey RPF, both strongly focused on the Penguins but also some other teams to lesser degrees, were my main fandoms this year, and still are. There were many others I followed for some time and/or flirted with to various degrees, like Young Avengers, Young Justice (still so mad it got cancelled), MCU (especially CA:WS), Young Protectors (why so much "young"), Vorkosigan Saga… I have a huge crush on Babylon 5, but I'm still watching and not at the diving-into-fandom stage yet because spoilers. I enjoyed several movies, like HTTYD2 and, recently, Maze Runner. (I'm currently working on my own theories/headcanon that would make TMR make more sense.) And I still read from almost any fandom if fic comes recommended.

Platforms: My main platform is still DW, and I'm very happy to have met many new people here. December was fun, and I want to keep being active. It was also a bit of a "I can write about whatever I want" confidence boost, so I probably will :-)
I was less on LJ this year. I have periods where I'm a lot on Tumblr and then very little. I still stalk some Twitter accounts for Pens news, but have so far resisted getting an account, which I almost didn't expect. I'm regularly on reddit, but mostly the hockey parts.

Offline, I got my social life back! Okay, that's a bit too dramatic. Last year I stopped doing many things because I felt like I couldn't handle them anymore, like debate, choir, sports… Now I'm in the choir again, I'm playing hockey, and most importantly I spend a lot more time with friends. (I'm still not debating a lot. Maybe this year? I kind of miss it.)

I got my driving license, I worked over the summer, I made little progress with my thesis but I now have a detailed plan that I feel optimistic about. I had a few crushes on people, but nothing serious. Apart from recovering from depression, I had no major illnesses or injuries (there were many broken bones in my extended family, unfortunately, but nothing serious.)

I have many plans for 2015!

I want to finish my thesis and finish my Bachelor's degree. I want to move out of my parents' house and to understand my finances. I want to find work, ideally something interesting, that I can do for a year or two, until I feel confident that I'll be able to handle a Master's degree (that I still really want to get eventually.) I want be better informed about current issues and what's going on in the world and I want to be better at talking about it.

I want to make new friends and not lose contact with old ones. I want to visit relatives in New York. I think I'd like to have a romantic relationship if an opportunity presents itself. I want to keep doing things that are fun, like singing and playing hockey and writing fic and watching TV together. I want to cook and bake more often and I want to read more poetry. I want to discover good books and stories and movies and shows and other exciting things I've never seen before.

I want to lose the fear that whenever I'm feeling good I'm just a tiny step away from another major setback. I want to become better at overcoming my procrastination tendencies and have fewer moments where I feel like I have no control over my actions. I want to have more moments where I'm genuinely happy, and I want to be able to enjoy them more when they occur.

Thank you all for being here. All the best to you and your loved ones for 2015.