#2020 wrap ups

[lapdogchase]

if you ever think "why bother posting my spotify wrapped/apple music replay nobody really cares anyway" think of ME. I CARE. i love that shit i love seeing what music people like and how many minutes they listened to music etc. PLEASE post them i love it i love ittttt it's like a holiday for me

[samwise1548]

Sad Milk doodles

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[ID: Three marker doodles on paper, of an original fairy character. Milk is a small, white, female fairy with long dragonfly-like wings, wearing a dress and pigtails in her hair. In each of the doodles Milk is either sad or upset.

The first doodle is of her floating, looking directly at the viewer unamused. The second doodle, she is similarly looking upset at the viewer, except that in this one she looks over her shoulder.

In the last one, Milk sits on a platform, her knees pulled close, shielding her sad expression. Text to the right of her reads "Why'd you have to do it, Honey?"

The drawings are each put in front of blue noxes to make them stand out from the white paper. Pink crayon hearts float around the group of doodles. \End ID]

[maddymoreau]

My F/O’s source never finishing its main storyline was not on my 2024 bingo card . . .

[j-crow]

me if im being honest

[only-lonely-stars]

2024 Writing Wrapped

As you probably know if you follow this blog, I am an exceptionally nerdy person! We all love when we're presented with the statistical breakdown for what music we listened to, books we read, etc., and personally I love a statistical breakdown for just about anything.

I present to you my 2024 Writing Wrapped, brought to you by Excel!

This year I've kept track of my wordcounts from February 24 until December 31. Prior to February, I really didn't write at all.

In 2024 I wrote a total of 297,220 words, for an average of 812 words per day (including January in that average, during which I did not write).

On average, I wrote 24,768 words per month. My most productive month was November, when I wrote 53,943 words. My least productive (recorded) month was March, when I wrote 7,463 words.

I wrote on 233 of 366 days this year. That's 64% of the year spent writing! My longest streak was 56 days (8 weeks), spanning from October 15 until December 9. My most productive day was November 28, when I wrote 4,448 words.

(In case you're curious, I wrote 426 words on February 29. Leap Day didn't impact the stats very much, did it?)

During 2024, I did not publish anything traditionally. I published six new fics this year (5 completed, 1 ongoing)! They were published between April 20 and December 5. Between 10 chapters, they come to a total of 33,091 words. In comparison to how much I wrote this year, that represents 11%.

What did I write the rest of the year? Well, I have a whole lot of drafted fics that may or may not get published, piled up in Google Drive. A huge chunk of this writing was put into drafting a novel with @dragon-gem - between the two of us, that came to 167,034 words. Towards the end of the year, quite a bit of these words have gone into planning another novel, which I hope to start drafting relatively soon.

What's coming in 2025? Here are a few of my goals:

Write at least 200,000 words

Finish my ongoing fanfic, Orange is the New Black

MOST AMBITIOUS: Draft the sci-fi novel I am currently plotting

MOST IMPORTANT: Keep having fun writing!

Thanks for coming along with me on this journey of creativity. Writing is a hobby that I fell into by copying my cool older sister who also wants to be a novelist (Grey, I love you). It brings me boundless joy to have so many creative friends who inspire me to write and share my work.

May God bless your New Year with his endless love!

[coconut530]

Wrap it up!!

Thank you Jewel Ham

[poetryincostume]

The Madwoman

Aesthetic wrapper, 2020

Original gothic-inspired design , styled here with bra by Karolina Laskowska

Upholstery damask, silk ribbon, petersham ribbon, silk/steel yarn

[monsterritory]

To whom it may concern I've scheduled the end of Chapter 1 for Alate through February

Tapas | Webtoons

[delurkr]

"Factum fieri infectum non potest" = "It is impossible for a deed to be undone" (popular translation) and I mean. Abraham. My man. THANK YOU FOR DYING AND HAVING THAT ON YOUR GRAVESTONE.

It goes two ways: think before you act, and you can't change the past. Excuse me while I grab some tissues and go scream into a pillow.

In the one sense, it's yet another warning from the game to lead your characters toward personal improvement, because their actions will permanently doom them otherwise. And THE OTHER WAY. The other way is what I LOVE about the hallucination interpretation. What's done is done, get past the fantasy, nobody wins, I mean I am obsessed with that element in stories, and the WAY that statement is just sitting there??? all cute and subtle??? on that gravestone??? THE DETAILS. Bro when I TELL you it feels like they made LH just for me.

[imblocking-you]

Reading Lovesick Dog manhwa and something about it just...resonates

[doyeons]

and for the third (or fourth..?) year in a row, she’s found her way somewhere into the top 10

[marciliedonato]

I honestly want to see my wrapped asap if anything just to see exactly how much I beat that health song like a dead horse despite it being out with maybe a month or less left on the countdown I want to see the magnitude of my nonsense this time show me the data

[nexttimeisnotthesame]

[LIST] DRAMAS/MOVIES/ANIMES THAT I WATCHED DURING 2024

New year, new list! It's 2024 Woooooooo! As usual, l will also put currently watching dramas that cross between 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 (if applicable). I don't do long reviews but if I really like a drama you will see me gif it 😉

🌟 = my rating ½ = half a star

KDRAMAS

The Story Of Park's Marriage Contract (열녀박씨 계약결혼뎐) 🌟🌟🌟🌟

My Demon (마이 데몬) 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Lovely Runner (선재 업고 튀어) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍

CDRAMAS

撒野 (Mutual Redemption Love) 🌟🌟🌟🌟

皎月流火 (Secrets of the Shadow Sect) 🌟🌟🌟🌟½

莲花楼 (Mysterious Lotus Casebook) 🌟🌟🌟🌟 (watched latter 45%)

授她以柄 (A Tale of Love and Loyalty) 🌟🌟🌟

我们在黑夜中相拥 (Embrace in the Dark Night) 🌟½

九重紫 (Blossom) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍💜

DNF

小亭台 (Rise From the Ashes) - after 17 ep

Currently watching

黑白密码 (Chase the Truth), ep 2 [ON HOLD]

MOVIES

Culpa mía (My Fault) 🌟🌟🌟½

ANIME

DNF

赘婿 (My Heroic Husband) - after 5 ep

[cleolinda]

AITA for banning my husband and father in law from the delivery room due to their intensely stressful/creepy behavior during my pregnancy?

There’s a famous Reddit post from 2020 where a pregnant woman wrote that her husband and father-in-law were a little too comfortable with their certainty that she was absolutely going to die in childbirth just like her husband’s late mother. It was to the point where her FIL was insisting that she go ahead and put all her clothes into storage, because she was obviously going to die in the hospital and it would save them the grief of packing up her things afterwards. Like. It was WILD.

When I tell my husband [that she feels suspicious of her FIL], he calls me paranoid, but I feel like my FIL WANTS me to die; his whole life identity for the past 35 years has been “amazing single dad” (never dated or had close friends or even hobbies really), and it seems like he’s looking forward to being able to guide my husband through what he went through. At this point, I’d honestly be happy to never see my FIL again, and I certainly don’t want him in the delivery room, especially since he told me he was “putting [his] foot down” about me not being “allowed” to have an epidural…. My husband, in addition to backing his dad on everything, acts like my due date is my death date, and has completely pulled away from me.

The commenters (and me, honestly) were convinced that the husband and FIL were either going to kill her outright to fulfill this expectation, or just make decisions about her care that might conveniently let her die.

And then she never posted again.

Over the last four years, people have frequently mentioned that post, always leading to a thread of people saying, “Oh god, I still worry about that woman.” I did too. It became one of those famous unresolved posts that people always wondered about.

Until yesterday, when someone on r/BestOfRedditorUpdates dug up a 2022 update she had posted on a different account:

TLDR; I had a beautiful and healthy baby girl, and I divorced my ex-husband. I lived, obviously.

She writes that she put her foot down about having her own mother in the delivery room rather than her FIL (!), and she WOULD be getting an epidural. Her husband lost his shit. And in his outburst, he let slip--

I admittedly lost my temper, and told him that I wasn’t going to die- it wasn’t my fault his father’s trauma wormed it’s way into his head, and that he needed to fix it without taking it out on me. He yelled at me that he didn’t need therapy. That caught me a little off guard; I asked him why he went to his therapist and was given advice about my death if he felt he didn’t need it. His expression gave it away, and he caved not long after. It turns out there was no therapist. It was just his dad. During the times he was supposed to be at therapy, he was with his dad. I’m still fuming.

And that was when she got the fuck out.

I’ll wrap this up- I’ve got an adorable little toddler tugging at my leg atm. I’m alive, I’m happy, and I’ve got my baby in my arms. Life is good.

I truly never thought we'd see a resolution to this, and I feel like there's probably a good number of people who remember it, so I thought you might want to know.

ETA: Brilliantly, I put the link in at the top; here it is again for convenience.

[theinfinitedivides]

38 and 40, wrapped

38. Sting's Desert Rose (Brand New Day)

40. Youka's Hm Hm Hm (VENIN)

(ask me about my Spotify Wrapped!)

[whitneyavalon]

Grateful to have collaborated with so many brilliant people this year:

🎭 Live musical “A New Brain” at Celebration Theatre all summer with this glorious cast and crew!

🛠 National commercial starring Anisa Khamvongsa and me!

🧜‍♀️ Original villainous song and music video “The Ocean Will Be Mine” performed with Garrett Clayton and written with Ryan O’Connell!

👗 Premiered a new project on the big screen at Buffer Festival and filmed with Ryan George & Julie Nolke while in Toronto!

🦷 Released dark comedy short film “Moment of Tooth” starring Noah Bean!

🏆 “WTF 2020s” (my original song performed with Thomas Lennon) won an award at Cordillera International Film Festival and screened at multiple Academy Award-qualifying fests!

🐙 Duetted with a purple Alyssa Preston in our Adele parody “Ruling in the Deep”!

🐲 Released “Dragonfare,” an original fairy tale with magical music by Hildegard von Blingin’!

🎤 Voice over work included dubbing for a top-3 Netflix series (thanks Joe Fria!), playing Dorothy Parker in a narrative podcast (thanks Shipwrecked Comedy!), and singing on a musical concept album (thanks Stephen Kramer Glickman!)

Lots in the works for you to enjoy in 2024. In the meanwhile, if you need a laugh this holiday season, add my videos and/or music to your playlists. 💖