#2024 is also a leap yeap!

[mayra-quijotescx]

[Image description: Article headline that says "Girls! Why Not Wed A Cowboy?" and helpfully adds the following context, in smaller print: "They make great hubbies and---it's leap yeap." End description.]

One does wonder what it being a leap yeap has to do with wedding a cowboy, but I'm sure the article elaborates.

Evansville Press, Indiana, February 5, 1912

[mx-metronome]

Hi hello! I have not finished a cross stitch in three years! 2024 is starting off very weird, I literally got this idea in my head two days ago. Made a pattern by eyeballing a screenshot, picked my colors, and 7 hours later I have a Starlo. My desk now has 100% more yeehaw on it.

I first learned about Undertale Yellow just a week ago, but I was so blown away by the characters! I like Starlo a lot, like him enough that he SHATTERED my hiatus like glass, something I didn’t think I’d ever see happen again.

I stitched him on 18ct aida because I can’t do over one on 28ct anymore, my eyes are fucked up. Also “red clashes with my colors” my ass, he looks great in this red frame I had lying around.

It’s so strange, something felt right the whole time I worked on him, and now it feels wrong that I’m not working on anything else yet. I’m not promising a renaissance, but given my circumstances, there’s a nonzero chance that I’ll be back to my needle on the regular after THREE YEARS of trying and failing to start or finish anything.

Merry Leap Yeap, let’s see what else 2024 has for me 👀

(Pattern available upon request)

[crehador]

COSMIC IS DEAD, LONG LIVE COSMIC!

it's official: i wrote a fic a day, every day, in 2024

that's right. 366 days (leap yeap) of samaichi. in a row. if it doesn't sound real well let me tell you. it feels pretty damn surreal to me too

i set this challenge for myself because one of my biggest weaknesses as a writer is actually finishing stuff. my past is littered with the corpses of countless wips, and while i've gotten a bit better about finishing things in recent years, i still needed some major work in that department

so the idea for dailies was born. the idea was, specifically, for drabble-esque dailies. all samaichi, all around 100-300 words but definitely under 500 words each. like a writing warm-up, essentially, before working on other things

which... um......

yeah, so that didn't end up happening. the all samaichi part is the only bit i stuck to lol

only 9 of 366 works actually wound up being under 500 words, and 7 of those 9 were in january when i guess i was still at least kinda-sorta trying to stick to my original intentions

suffice it to say there was no work done on other things. [redacted] au my beloved stalled at around 20k words back in 2023 and has been untouched ever since

i do sort of wish i'd worked on longer projects this year (though thirteen rooms au clocked in at 57k and the one with the clones is approaching 50k too so... there wasn't nothing in the longer projects department) but overall i'm pretty damn proud of myself for seeing this through

the goal for next year! is of course to actually work on the longfics that have been simmering for all this time

i also want to challenge myself to work on another of my weaknesses as a writer: reading my own work

like listen i know it's a bad habit/trait to talk shit about your own work, and much like finishing things, i think i've gotten better about that in recent years. but i'm still ass at rereading my own writing without cringing myself half to death

so that's the project (or one of the projects) for next year! now that i've written a fic a day, i can read a fic a day next year (and two on one day because it is. no longer a leap yeap lol)

i may even read and pick out one thing i like about what i wrote. because pride in moderation is a skill worth learning i think

and because i can't stand to lose dailies entirely, i also want to go into next year with the resolution of posting very very short not!fics and hcs every day

(i really mean it this time. short. short! i swear! they will be ramuda-sized)

most likely i will sort my 2025 samaichi nonsense, of which there will be lots, into one tag (have not yet decided what this tag will be) so it will be easily searchable and mutable. well. searchable in theory. but this is tumblr dot com

to sum up. proud of myself. bit in disbelief. happy with this. onwards to bigger things (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ