#can't really put it there but also very proud of the half dozen of classic pieces i learned on the guitar it's been a while but feels good t

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Creator’s wrap 2020

Only an hour left to this year, just enough for one a last post to beautifully end 2020. Thank you @cryhardanddanceharder and @mortt-artsy for tagging me! It was really cool to reflect on what I’ve made this year!

It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 favorite works (fics, art, edits, etc.) you’ve created this year and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you’ve brought into the world in 2020. If you don’t have five published works, that’s fine! Include ideas/drafts/whatever you like that you’ve worked on/thought about, and talk a little about them instead! Remember, this is all about self-love and positive enthusiasm, so fuck the rules if you need to. Have fun, and tag as many fellow creators as you like so they can share the love! <3

1 - If music be the food of love, play on, or as I like to call it my Oud Fic. I’m just really proud of that one, it’s the first time ever that I follow through with a multi chapter fic idea and I’m really happy with how I managed to blend history, canon, and my interpretation of the characters as well as a healthy dose of self indulgent music talk. Having the opportunity as a guitarist to rant about the instrument I love so much for thousands of words was truly one of the biggest highlight of this year. It also helped me work through some of 2020 bs, looking at you chapter 7 that is nothing like I planned thank to an imprompu quarantine.

2 - Lost and found again out there among the paths. My gift for the Andromaquynh Secret Santa, The entire time I was writing the fic I felt really unsure of where I was going with it, I never write hurt/comfort so this really was a challenge for me and I’m happy with what I did. It’s not until a couple day before posting that it clicked for me. I feel really proud of the way I wrote them, I usually have a hard time writing character study but here I think I did it right. But my favorite part is the last one where they dance together, I could just see it happening as I was writing and it was very gratifying to have this easiness back after struggling for the hurt/comfort, felt like I did something right.

3 - The careful craft that is love, the beauty of choosing it over and over. it is rare for me to love all of the main ship in a fandom but I do for TOG and there’s something about Book of Nile that really does it for me. Entirely based on a cool gifset I saw, I just decided to go full fluff and tenderness with this one, just wanted to write something comforting for the hard day and I think I succeded for that. Almost put the first Book of Nile fic I wrote but this one wins thanks to the very snobby title I chose. As I’ve known for a while now, I’m a big believer of building love not stumbling upon it by luck. It happens because you want it to and I think that’s the main message you get from this fic, which I’m proud of too.

4 - A burden shared is a burden halved. I wrote this one in a day half asleep and out of it after a particularly hard migraine and I was overwhelmed with how much support and kindness I got from other migraine sufferer in the comments. I felt really good to know that my work connected with them on a deeper level, that some detail I wrote like the painful smells and the sense of guilt that being taken care of induces was felt by them, and that they felt true and real. Nothing like being seen and understood by other to make you happy.

5- Special mention to my first ever gifset that I’m pretty proud of. A really angsty Andromaquynh gifset after I spent an evening info dumping about a childhood fantasy series on tumblr and going through all the quotes I could apply to TOG. I think it’s pretty neat for a first try and it’s definitly making me want to experiment more with gifs, after years of hesitating I’m finally starting so yay! The TOG fandom has been a great place for me on many points this year, least of them boosting my motivation and creativity and the feedback I got. I’m not used to many comments and so many kudos on my fics.

Also, here’s to all the wips and ideas in my head that I’m not even sure I could post one day but that are there for sure. My five-part Natasha character study I see you in my drafts, as I do this very self indulgent Quynh lives au series I’m working on, one day you’ll see the light of the day and I’ll post you.

I’m tagging for this (but a no pressure tag): @themoonwheniamlost, @rupzydaisy, @polarcell and anyone else that see this and wants to do it. It feels really good to look back and see all you’ve done, a great ego boost I recomend it even if you don’t post it, you deserve to feel prouf of your work and what you’ve created