#New Year's resolutions

[shorthistorian]

Make this your New Year’s Resolution. I promise it will pay off.

[fanfic-reading-challenge]

The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge

Welcome to another year of the Fanfic Reading Challenge (FRC)!

I won't bore you with the history of the challenge, this year, but I will welcome you to check out past posts that do explain some of it, as well as include a brief overview of what, exactly, this challenge is, though it does change year to year. (Essentially you read fics to complete goals and win bragging points and an artsy badge.)

This year is especially different, as I had the extreme pleasure of having @noxsoulmate as a partner in crime in keeping me hostage on track to completing this year's FRC. Another valued member of the mod team is @jandjsalmon and speaks for all of us if you need questions answered!

As for the challenge....

This is, indeed, a challenge. Of course.

First of all... you must obviously read fanfiction. As if you don't already!

You also need to download and make your own copy of the spreadsheet, which can be found here, as well as below in the important links section.

To participate in the challenge, you read fics that match the tasks in the challenge. An example of a task can be: "read a fic with a title containing the word purple in it." Should be easy! Of course, there are harder ones.

Which is why there are different modes of challenge to the FRC. These are as follows:

Participation (Complete 1 task)

Regular Mode (Complete 80 tasks)

Hard Mode (Complete 150 tasks)

Extreme Mode (Complete 220 tasks)

Complete (Complete 250 tasks)

The challenge lasts from January 1st, 2025, to December 31st, 2025.

There are badges that go with the modes completed, and even a secret 6th badge that will be fairly obvious if you look at the spreadsheet! Doesn't mean it'll be easy to complete though. *smirks* (Blame Noxy)

Most important of all: this challenge operates on the honour system. We don't check your work, or your reading logs (see below), so I mean, I guess if you want to be slippery with the rules, you do you, and that's on your conscience, but honestly it's so much fun to see how much you can get done by following the letter of the law/tasks! You can be slippery even with following the tasks fully. It's great fun. ;D

I think that's enough for an intro, really, maybe too much.

Important Links and Reading Logs/Trackers

As there is a component of the FRC that includes tracking numbers of words read, most of us use a reading log/tracker to keep count of how many fics we read, including data such as words, of course, chapters, month completed, ship, author, title, fandom, link to the fic, and such. It's a great place to mark what fics you want to read in the future as well!

This year we have FOUR trackers on offer, quite different from one another, so take a look, play around with them and check out their "intros", and choose according to what you think will work best for you!

Fic Tracking Sheets

Juulna's 2025 Reading Log

Noxy's 2025 Reading Log

2025 Jandy's Fic Tracker

Taru's Fic Tracker 2025

Discord

We have a blast on Discord. From general chatter to sharing pet pics to being there for each other during the tough times to forming lasting friendships and making friendships you’d never make in a ship- or fandom-specific Discord, to asking for help ‘rolling the dice’ (pick a number between 1-10!) to choose the next fic to read, to finding some of the really challenging task fills in fandoms people might not have ever read but are willing to try, or finding fandoms someone has never read and is very tentative about stepping out of their box, but they’re being 100% supported and know they don’t need to complete the fic for it to count for the task, stepping out of their comfort zone… we’ve formed a very odd group of, if not friends, then companions (but there are definite friendships that have formed!! Just ask the people who have started watching NHL and NFL together in our off topic channel!).

In any case, our Discord is not necessary, but it is a worthy and tactical element to completing many of the tasks of this challenge. 💙

And.... without further ado....!

The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge! (link)

There is an info/rules page as the first sheet on the spreadsheet that should fill in any further questions you have. It also has more contact info than just this page if you have any further questions and perhaps need a more immediate answer for your needs.

*Occasionally you will run into something that looks like an error, and it may in fact be one! Let us know if you see it. It's hard not to make a mistake on as large a spreadsheet as this.*

Please, first of all, have fun and just read fanfiction that you enjoy! I (Juulna) did that last year and didn't even come close to completing the entire challenge, and I still had a blast because I was enjoying what I was reading and rereading. Others took the challenge right to the completed end. Others forgot about it halfway through but still had fun, and some even went back and filled in the sheet for a really good showing! The challenge is what you make of it, what you want from it. So... just have fun. Read fic. Smile. Enjoy. :)

Second of all... well, we would love if you signal boost this post!!!!

Third of all, we do have our pinned post that includes a link to this page and that will include a link to our Discord and all our trackers as well, including past links for memento and informative purposes.

Thank you, and a blessed 2025 to all!

[monstersandmaw]

Little friendly reminder that there will be a lot of 'Year in Review' type posts all over socials etc. where people will post their successes and curated high points, and while it's wonderful that people have achieved all these amazing things, it can also be demoralising if you feel like you didn't achieve much, or anything at all.

So remember that it's ok if your achievement is just being here still, reading this right now, and heading onwards into the unknown of another year. You've got this.

You did great, and I'm genuinely so proud of you, and you are enough. xxx

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[thepeacefulgarden]

[bhaal-battle-beer-bard]

New Year's Resolutions / Affirmations

Kiss the vampire elf

Kiss the vampire elf

Kiss the vampire elf

[questionableadvice]

~ Family Circle magazine, 1953 (Resolutions for teen-age girls)

[songofsaraneth]

i will say the one thing about my New Year's Resolutions post going viral is that lots of people have done my own resolutions so much better than me now lmao. blogger who made a whole website with ratings for their Fruit Adventures i love you. i barely remembered to take photos of all my fruits which are now just randomly scattered through my camera roll. tumblr user who managed THIRTY FOUR different pasta shapes in a year where did you find them it took me all year just to hit 20 and then i ran out of shapes available in the 2 cities i checked. showing up to your home with a bowl so i can get a little of each

[minimiffy]

Here's to a new year with more friendship and fun

[dk-thrive]

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticising, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

— Anaïs Nin, The Dairy of Anais Nin, Volume 1 (1931-1934) (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966) (via Thoughts)

[poetryofmuses]

November is a long breath. It's a transition between autumn and winter. The days are shorter and nights are gloomy. November is merely a formality, a procedure before December and new year. It's a month never longed for, nor loved. A month when over, is forgotten. November is when hearts are broken.

[dionysiaproductions]

The Advertisements: "Make a New Year's resolution to write more words and/or create more art with our AI software!", "New Year = New You join our fitness cult and never leave it", "This year get the romantic partner of your dreams! by becoming the algorithmic average of beauty"

Me, who made a New Year's resolution 15 years ago not to make any more New Year's resolutions: No thanks on the toxic tech-capitalism. I'm just going to mess around and try some stuff

[electron-road-suspect]

About the New Years Resolution to eat a dish from every country: How are you gonna decide what dishes to eat from a country? Did you make a kind of plan for this or will you just freestyle it?

Do you need/want suggestions?

I am totally going to freestyle it! I decided on doing this just this morning, haha. I don't have an order picked out or anything but I am pretty sure my first dish will be American food 😂 and my second will be a dish from Mexico (omg, perfect opportunity to go get mole *drools*).

My thought is that I will try to eat a notable or signature dish from each country, but if all else fails I will just eat something I know is traditional or common in that country. It will be whenever the opportunity presents itself and if it's a country that doesn't have a lot of restaurants/groceries/local friends in my area, I will attempt to make it myself!

I would LOVE suggestions! 😍

[carinasibila]

PICK A CARD How to Keep Your Resolutions for 2025

Disclaimer: Only take what resonates and leave the rest behind. I am only posting this reading on profiles I’ve listed on my Linktree (https://linktr.ee/carinasibila) – all other profiles that might post it are fake. Decks used in this reading: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tarot Blue Bird Lenormand* The Curious Cat Club** PILE 1 Knight of Pentacles, Cross*, Fish** Back of the deck: Ace of Pentacles Your resolutions for 2025 require a lot of slow detail work in order for you to be able to keep them. This might cause you to get impatient and do regular check-ups on your progress. The cards, however, caution you to be careful not to do too many check-ups: just get started and try to go with the flow for the most part. This way, you’ll avoid the danger of stressing yourself out over the slow forward movement and thus have a higher chance of keeping your resolutions. PILE 2 Queen of Pentacles, Snake*, Ohm** Back of the deck: King of Pentacles According to the cards, the key to your success in keeping your resolutions for 2025 is you laying the emotional foundations for working on them; a certain degree of emotional equilibrium is especially important in this regard. Without those foundations, all your hard work won’t be enough to keep your resolutions. Thus, before setting out to work on achieving your goal(s), set aside some time for meditation or other ways to gain a clear mind. PILE 3 II of Pentacles, Tree*, Sumo** Back of the deck: Queen of Chalices The cards show that you might have made too many resolutions for 2025 and are therefore in danger of keeping (almost) none of them. Thus, ask yourself: which of your resolutions truly matter to you? Once you’ve determined your priorities, concentrate on one resolution at a time. Start with the one that is most important to you and pour all your heart and efforts into it.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[duckprintspress]

Read Queer in 2024: A Storygraph Reading Challenge!

Looking to queer your bookshelf in 2024? Then join us as we host a low-key, fun reading challenge!

The idea is simple: read even one queer book, and you can win this challenge! Once you’ve done that, you can explore our 39 bonus prompts, encouraging you to read queer books new and old, queer books from different genres, queer non-fiction books, and queer books about identities you are familiar with and those you’re unfamiliar with. We’ve been working on populating the list with suggestions (and would definitely love your help in fleshing them out, there’s so much great queer lit out there – I personally primarily read queer books from East Asia so those stories are rather over-represented in our suggestions right now!) and we’re really excited to see what books people read, what books people suggest, and how many queer books we, collectively, can read in 2024!

So as you plan your reading with an eye toward the new year, why not join us? We’d love to have you!

You can see all 40 of our prompts and join the challenge here!

And, looking for a supportive, friendly community to chat with about all your new reads? Come join our Book Lover’s Discord, too! Joining is absolutely not a requirement, but it is a great way to make some new bookish friends!