2016, Transition Year
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schneefinkThis was kind of a weird year for me.
Fannish Stuff
I wrote much less fic than I did last year, unfortunately, and I published less than 10k. I'm in one of those creative phases where I'm overly critical of my work, which doesn't help. I did write 25 detailed D&D session summaries, which took up a lot of my writing energy.
Fic I wrote:
Steerswoman:
Sufficiently Advanced Crystal Orbs, a surprise crossover I wrote spontaneously after a prompt gave me the idea.
Hockey RPF:
Accept No Substitute, a short fic in which I packed some of my feelings about the Pens' goalie situation, and that was before the playoffs.
Legend of Eli Monpress
First Rest, post-canon fic that I wanted to exist even though I didn't really expect anyone to read it.
Nirvana in Fire:
this time, don't wake, I wanted good things to happen to Liyang so I wrote it.
New Life, Different Fur, short post-canon fluff, very appropriate for this fandom.
Step Forward, canon-divergent AU where things are better than in canon but not perfect by far.
Gladiator – Dami Im
See Your Silhouette, apparently my first femslash fic on the Archive and it's not even a love story.
I read a lot and tried to leave many comments, and I also occasionally recced stuff. I'm still mainly on DW and post there regularly. I'm less often on Tumblr than last year, I spend more time on Twitter (and will probably get a fannish one in addition to the hockey account), I spent a bit more time on Reddit, and sometimes I'm still on LJ.
I left the OTW, and while I feel very bad about how, I'm still glad I did it.
My main fandom this year was hockey the sport, with hockey RPF a distant second. The Penguins won the Stanley Cup!! It was unexpected and awesome. Definitely a highlight of my year.
From a time-investment standpoint, my second main fandom was probably D&D. I started playing early in the year and loved it. (I didn't write summaries for our last few sessions but basically we successfully completed the time travel ritual and are now in a different timeline, with new monsters.) My character is now level 12 and choosing new spells and feats becomes more annoying every time.
D&D "fandom" however is different from the media fandoms I'm used to so I'm not sure how to count it.
I read many books this year! After I finished university I finally felt like I had time to read books again, and it's great. I also watched several TV shows, and my list of things I want to check out grows constantly. I read/watched many new things that I liked, but not all of them made me feel inclined to search out fic/fannish content (and for some very little exists.) I still read fics from almost all of my older fandoms, and many from miscellaneous fandoms when I see something recced. New things I felt fannish about, to varying degrees and for a more or less short time and in no particular order: Agent Carter, Underground, Yowamushi Pedal, Queen's Thief, Books of the Raksura, Natsume Yuujinchou, Nirvana in Fire, Noragami,… Huh, I thought there was more. Maybe I'm forgetting something? Ah well.
Non-fannish things
I had two major things I wanted to accomplish this year: finish my thesis and get a job. I did finish my thesis, and I got my bachelor's degree \o/
After that I traveled to the US for three weeks, visited my relatives, tried to lower my dose of meds and then switched back when I realized it wasn't working. 2016 had several terrible political events, which made things harder.
Unfortunately I didn't get a job. I did write job applications but not as many as I should have. That's definitely something I have to do in 2017. It's so difficult to find interesting positions! I give myself 3-4 more months looking for interesting stuff and then I'll look for anything to earn money.
Both my roommates changed a few months ago and both for the better, so that worked out well. Instead of two I rarely talk to, now one of them is one of my best friends and the other is very friendly too.
I have pretty much stopped debating (more often than not I'm too lazy, especially when it comes to research and news), I'm too old for my old choir now, and I switched from ice hockey to climbing for schedule reasons. I do like climbing a lot, but once I have a job I want to take up ice hockey again, there are classes in the evening they're just more expensive. D&D is a new almost-weekly evening fixture, but I definitely have time for more hobbies, I should look around.
Plans for next year:
- Get a job. This is important.
- Go on at least one date. I haven't been on a date in years.
- Expect more from myself. For some time now it's been too tempting to settle on what I know I can handle, energy-wise, instead of trying for more and risk failure, and it's a dangerous trend towards stagnancy.
- find a new choir
- be more active about spending time with friends
- do sports twice a week
- write more/more regularly
- spend less time in bed in the mornings (seriously, it's getting bad.)
As always, I can't express the many ways in which being part of the fannish community, specifically on DW, has helped me and enriched my life this past year. Thank you all so much. 2017 threatens to be challenging, but nevertheless I wish you and your loved ones good fortune, health, courage, and joy.
Fannish Stuff
I wrote much less fic than I did last year, unfortunately, and I published less than 10k. I'm in one of those creative phases where I'm overly critical of my work, which doesn't help. I did write 25 detailed D&D session summaries, which took up a lot of my writing energy.
Fic I wrote:
Steerswoman:
Sufficiently Advanced Crystal Orbs, a surprise crossover I wrote spontaneously after a prompt gave me the idea.
Hockey RPF:
Accept No Substitute, a short fic in which I packed some of my feelings about the Pens' goalie situation, and that was before the playoffs.
Legend of Eli Monpress
First Rest, post-canon fic that I wanted to exist even though I didn't really expect anyone to read it.
Nirvana in Fire:
this time, don't wake, I wanted good things to happen to Liyang so I wrote it.
New Life, Different Fur, short post-canon fluff, very appropriate for this fandom.
Step Forward, canon-divergent AU where things are better than in canon but not perfect by far.
Gladiator – Dami Im
See Your Silhouette, apparently my first femslash fic on the Archive and it's not even a love story.
I read a lot and tried to leave many comments, and I also occasionally recced stuff. I'm still mainly on DW and post there regularly. I'm less often on Tumblr than last year, I spend more time on Twitter (and will probably get a fannish one in addition to the hockey account), I spent a bit more time on Reddit, and sometimes I'm still on LJ.
I left the OTW, and while I feel very bad about how, I'm still glad I did it.
My main fandom this year was hockey the sport, with hockey RPF a distant second. The Penguins won the Stanley Cup!! It was unexpected and awesome. Definitely a highlight of my year.
From a time-investment standpoint, my second main fandom was probably D&D. I started playing early in the year and loved it. (I didn't write summaries for our last few sessions but basically we successfully completed the time travel ritual and are now in a different timeline, with new monsters.) My character is now level 12 and choosing new spells and feats becomes more annoying every time.
D&D "fandom" however is different from the media fandoms I'm used to so I'm not sure how to count it.
I read many books this year! After I finished university I finally felt like I had time to read books again, and it's great. I also watched several TV shows, and my list of things I want to check out grows constantly. I read/watched many new things that I liked, but not all of them made me feel inclined to search out fic/fannish content (and for some very little exists.) I still read fics from almost all of my older fandoms, and many from miscellaneous fandoms when I see something recced. New things I felt fannish about, to varying degrees and for a more or less short time and in no particular order: Agent Carter, Underground, Yowamushi Pedal, Queen's Thief, Books of the Raksura, Natsume Yuujinchou, Nirvana in Fire, Noragami,… Huh, I thought there was more. Maybe I'm forgetting something? Ah well.
Non-fannish things
I had two major things I wanted to accomplish this year: finish my thesis and get a job. I did finish my thesis, and I got my bachelor's degree \o/
After that I traveled to the US for three weeks, visited my relatives, tried to lower my dose of meds and then switched back when I realized it wasn't working. 2016 had several terrible political events, which made things harder.
Unfortunately I didn't get a job. I did write job applications but not as many as I should have. That's definitely something I have to do in 2017. It's so difficult to find interesting positions! I give myself 3-4 more months looking for interesting stuff and then I'll look for anything to earn money.
Both my roommates changed a few months ago and both for the better, so that worked out well. Instead of two I rarely talk to, now one of them is one of my best friends and the other is very friendly too.
I have pretty much stopped debating (more often than not I'm too lazy, especially when it comes to research and news), I'm too old for my old choir now, and I switched from ice hockey to climbing for schedule reasons. I do like climbing a lot, but once I have a job I want to take up ice hockey again, there are classes in the evening they're just more expensive. D&D is a new almost-weekly evening fixture, but I definitely have time for more hobbies, I should look around.
Plans for next year:
- Get a job. This is important.
- Go on at least one date. I haven't been on a date in years.
- Expect more from myself. For some time now it's been too tempting to settle on what I know I can handle, energy-wise, instead of trying for more and risk failure, and it's a dangerous trend towards stagnancy.
- find a new choir
- be more active about spending time with friends
- do sports twice a week
- write more/more regularly
- spend less time in bed in the mornings (seriously, it's getting bad.)
As always, I can't express the many ways in which being part of the fannish community, specifically on DW, has helped me and enriched my life this past year. Thank you all so much. 2017 threatens to be challenging, but nevertheless I wish you and your loved ones good fortune, health, courage, and joy.
