#end of year survey

[mi6-cafe]

End of the Year Survey Summary

Thank you all for all of you who left feedback this year! We’ve had the chance to look through your comments and, with the help of our new volunteer team, have distilled them into some actionable items. Now a community survey is nothing without the community, so here we’ll provide a summary of some responses, hint at some plans for the future, and share your best moments!

Full details under the cut, but in short: One new rec list focused event, many returning events, and look out for a quarterly theme coming near the end of the year.

007 Fest and WIP Wednesday are always at the top of the favorite events list, but it was nice to see some newer events were in the top five as well, like Remix and our Halloween commenting challenge. Both of which we plan on doing again this year.

There wasn’t really a huge consensus on whether you all prefer themes or prompts, so that won’t be changing much. We will keep sprinkling in specific prompt lists throughout the year, but some months will just have a broader theme for you to draw inspiration from.

A few people suggested doing more to encourage rec lists, and we are trialing a new event: Weekend Wonders. Once a month we will give a theme/trope/character and ask that you suggest one fanwork in which it features. We will then do a round-up post of all the recommendations at the end of the weekend. You can see the January one here.

It’s been some time since we had writing workshops and there’s been some requests for these again. We are working on trying to develop something with a simpler format so that it’s easier to host. If you want to help with this, please reach out and let us know!

There’s also some interest in creating a zine, but your mods know nothing of this. If any of you do and would be willing to create a community document of what it involves, please do and share it with us!

Saturday Cafes have been much quieter lately, but we now have a set of prompt questions pinned to the writer’s corner slack channel for anyone to answer and hopefully spark some more discussion with whoever else is around and writing.

We tried doing a year-long theme of Characters of Bond last year and it... well, middling success. You seemed to like the idea even though we sometimes forgot to promote it and many of you were busy. Someone suggested quarterly themes and we really like this idea. We likely won’t start until the end year, but we loved the idea!

You all said you do enjoy our creatively named months even if there’s not a specific prompt to go with it. Which is good, cause we enjoy coming up with silly alliterations. Those won’t be going anywhere.

And finally,

Do you have a fun fandom moment/highlight from this year to share? 

Definitely Mac making her entry in the 00Q fandom! I’m not an avid fic reader but her work is always so on point I have a hard time not seeing 00Q through her lens anymore.

i'm obsessed with WIP Wednesdays. I adore seeing snippets of new works

Getting kidnapped during Fest was pretty cool!Honestly the slack in general has been fun. It's hard to have a place to feel safe in fandom these days.

I absolutely loved Remix! It was such a fun challenge and I loved seeing how my own work was remixed.

During Fest, Team 00 had a spreadsheet for contributions (like lyrics to be inspired by, photos, etc). The absolute chaos as we discovered only two of us knew how to use a spreadsheet was AMAZING (and hilarious).

I loved interacting with the authors and getting to know them through their writing and ongoing works and prompts.

Fest was awesome.

This year was a blast. I worked on 4 longish 00q fics (two of which were based on MI6 Cafe themes). My collaboration with Anya for Harry Potter and the Fucking Audacity was possibly the most fun (and also stressful because it was unplanned and I had other things to work on), but I also enjoyed writing my crossover AU and my NTTD fix it. Basically, toward the end of last year I was worried that I was running out of stories in this fandom, and the themes MI6 Cafe supplied definitely spurred new ideas that kept me excited and creative... even if I only used one or two of them in the year, they kept me busy much of the year. And Fest is always fun, but I particularly enjoyed this year. Seriously love you guys! I feel so fortunate that you maintain this wonderful fandom community and space that feels safe and I can contribute to, but that will survive without me when I get too busy with RL (or FTH) to participate much. Thank you!

I’ve enjoyed the fandom since joining, thanks for the work you do and spaces you keep!

Fest is usually a delight

I very much enjoyed the 007 fun Fest and being able to participate in the smaller, less time consuming challenges. It was the first time I had done something like this and my personal highlight was being able to come up with my very own 4 line poem in a bid to rescue the fic author from the villains team :D

For me it was just joining the fandom. I joined around the start of summer this year and it has been a blast so far. I don't engage in fandom spaces often and to join one that is so supportive and chill in its own way is definitely a highlight.

appreciate everything mods have done! This was a fun year.

Oh goodness: Fest. It was amazing! LOVE all the creativity! And it seems like it created a momentum throughout the year.

There have been so many moments for me, as a new member of the fandom, to be bowled over by the sheer talent and incredible camaraderie. Thank you, thank you, for the welcome and the amazing creative community!

[eldritchsurveys]

1161.

Number of Movies/Documentaries I Watched in 2023: 226 Genre I Watched the Most in 2023: I... don't know. horror, probably. Mike showed me what I was doin wrong with using Lboxd so when I take this for 2024 I should hopefully have stuff like genre stats

1. Best Movies I Watched In 2023? >> from each month, one new-to-me favourite and one old favourite that I rewatched: 1. Hagazussa / Velvet Goldmine 2. Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. / Twelve Monkeys 3. Nanny / The Fly 4. Sugar & Spice / Dead Ringers 5. Rigor Mortis / Birds of Prey 6. Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse / Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 7. You Won't Be Alone / Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey 8. Swiss Army Man / His House 9. In the Earth / The Woman 10. Perfect Blue / Silence 11. Akira / The House That Jack Built 12. Angel Heart (didn't rewatch a fave in December)

2. Movie I Was Excited About & Thought I Was Going To Love More But Didn’t? >> I wasn't exactly excited about Beau is Afraid but I definitely thought I would enjoy it more than I did. the first 20-30 minutes or so were pretty fun and weird but then it just... *longsuffering sigh* I had also hoped The Blackening would be a bit funnier than it turned out to be. still watchable and I'd still like more Black horror-comedies, but I definitely wanted more guffaws out of it. I'm not even gonna bother talkin about Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania... (at least Kang was good) OH! Renfield! THAT'S the one I was excited for and heavily disappointed by. I knew there was one (also, Last Voyage of the Demeter. not at all my favourite year for Dracula movies, that's for sure)

3. Most Surprising (in a good way) Movie I Watched in 2023? >> I was surprised by both Akira and Perfect Blue because I just assumed they would be a bit inscrutable to me (when a lot of "buffs" speak highly about a work I assume it's some shit I won't understand), but they really drew me in. also surprised by Host (2020) which I'd assumed would be watchable but not really anything to write home about considering the gimmick. but they pulled that one off pretty well!

4. Movie I “Pushed” The Most People To Watch (And They Did) In 2023? .

5. Best Sequel of 2023? Best Ending of a Movie I Watched in 2023? >> Across the Spider-Verse and as for ending I'm just gonna agree with prev "can't beat a dancing naked man" (Saltburn) because that was pretty good

6. Most Action Packed/Thrilling Movies of the Year? >> the John Wick quadrilogy

7. Movie I Watched in 2023 That I Am Most Likely To Re-Watch in 2024? >> In the Earth, The Lodge, maybe Noroi? I might rewatch I Saw the Devil because for some reason I forgot a lot of that one despite enjoying it

8. Favorite Poster for a Movie I Watched in 2023? .

9. Most Memorable Characters/Talent of 2023? >> oof... can I just say Ben Wheatley (director) for talent because he really sucker-punched me with the two movies of his that I watched this year

10. Standout Writing / Directing of a Movie I Watched in 2023? >> obviously that goes to whoever wrote Call Girl Of Cthulhu

11. Most Thought-Provoking/Impactful Movies I Watched in 2023? >> The Vast of Night, Silence, Titane, Perfect Blue, Akira, Aniara. also 2001: A Space Odyssey except the thought it provoked was "why am I still fucking watching this" and the impact it had was "I'm annoyed to the point of anger and I have a splitting headache"

12. Movie I Can’t Believe I Waited Until 2023 To Finally Watch? >> Die Hard lmao. it was way more entertaining than I expected. also how did I go my whole life without ever learning that Alan Rickman was the bad guy in that also Battle Royale and ofc Akira

13. Favorite Scene From a Movie I Watched in 2023? >> oh man this is impossible, give me a break

14. Movie That Shocked Me The Most? (Because of a plot twist, character death, etc.) >> I didn't expect Swiss Army Man to be quite what it was (this is not a complaint, I loved it, but the whole farting business definitely threw me for a loop lol) honestly my bar for shock is seeing Oldboy for the first time last year having never had it spoiled for me and losing my whole ass MIND at the plot twist. nothing has come close to that since

15. OTP (One True Pairing) – You will go down with this ship? >> those two girls from Do Revenge

16. Favorite Non-Romantic Relationship? >> the vampire family in Near Dark

17. Best Movie I Watched In 2023 That I Watched Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody? >> Noroi: The Curse but also The Adjustment Bureau was an incredibly solid and cute flick (both Sparrow's recs)

18. Most Exciting Worldbuilding/Most Vivid Setting? >> ooo let's see... well, I did rewatch The Neverending Story this year :p Rigor Mortis had a really memorable setting for me but I wouldn't call it exciting OR vivid. like, it was just an apartment building lol. it was just... I don't know. I can't explain it. it sticks in ya El Hoyo (The Platform), maybe? definitely an intriguing setup and setting there. A Field in England was literally just a goddamn field in England but man.... I also like the new worldbuilding ideas Hellraiser (2022) brings to the table.

19. Movies That Put A Smile On My Face/Were The Most Fun To Watch? >> Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Ref, Cocaine Bear, Sugar & Spice, Airheads, Polite Society, Totally Killer, Do Revenge, D&D: Honor Among Thieves, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Earth Girls are Easy, both Sister Acts, Call Girl of Cthulhu, Idle Hands, Van Helsing, and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. yeah there were a lot of these this year

20. Movie/Documentary That Made Me Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2023? >> Swiss Army Man and Akira, but also Velvet Goldmine, Do the Right Thing, Crooklyn, and Sister Act 2.

21. Hidden Gem Of The Year? >> not sure how to determine this

22. Movie That Crushed My Soul? >> [insert another snarky comment about 2001]

23. Most Unique Movie I Watched In 2023? >> so many of the movies I've seen this year were incredibly unique to me! let me see if I can find one I haven't already mentioned... ah yes, of course. how could I forget Mad God 💀

24. Movie That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)? >> I will refrain from mentioning That Movie again (although that is the true answer lol) and instead I'll go with... Lake Mungo bc I thought that was gonna be way more interesting than it was just based upon the fact that the tumblr girlies used to be all over that shit back in the day

25. Notable Mentions of the Year? >> some more movies I really liked that didn't get a chance to get mentioned yet: The Banshees of Inisherin, Baskın, On the Count of Three, Hell House LLC, Ringu, and Mad Max 2.

Bonus: Favorite Movie Moment?

Bonus: Five Movies I Am Anticipating in 2024? >> Furiosa, the Joker sequel, apparently there's a new Alien flick coming out? Dune Part 1 was Fine, I guess, so I might as well see Part 2 🤷🏿‍♂️ meh

[sometimesraven]

It's been A Year, huh. I started 2024 with high hopes for my content and career, and ended up spending most of it trying to figure out how to exist with my illnesses and mental health issues lmao. But I feel I've learned a lot, and I'd like to move forward with my audience in mind. I've put together a survey and I'd be super happy if you could answer as many questions as you can, no matter how invested you are in my work or how long you've known me. It's all anonymous, so you're free to be 100% honest <3

FILL OUT THE SURVEY

[signourneybooks]

2023 End of the Year Survey

2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 Yes we are at that time of year again where we start looking back and often we do that with the end of the year survey as created by The Perpetual Page-Turner. The last updated survey was updated in 2020 (that I can find). As per every year I’ve discarded some questions about love interests and others I never have an answer for haha. You can see it…

[flufftober]

Flufftober 2024 Wrap-Up

Another October has passed, our fourth round of Flufftober is history, and every year we're more and more blown away by the phenomenal participation 🥰 some of you we recognized from previous years while others joined us for the first time; some of you brought us daily entries while others showed up only a few times. Whichever it was, please know this:

We love you all and we thank you for yet another great year!!

🔹 Badges

You've earned them - so please feel free to use them 😘

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As always, we would love to hear your thoughts about this round and also find the top five prompts of 2024 - those will once again become next year's alt prompts, so please take a few minutes to fill out our

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There's always room for your suggestions for prompts so go ahead and shape our future prompt lists 😉

🔹 Reblogs

As always, we'll keep reblogging all your entries as long as you tag and/or mention us - it just won't be as often anymore as it was during October.

🔹 Fluff Boosts

Fluff Boosts are now open again - so remember to send us your own events, challenges, bingos, prompt lists, etc. and we'll give you a signal boost 💖

🔹 2025

Next year's list is once again almost done and since it will be our 5-year-anniversary, we have some surprises planned for you. We might also have something planned for early 2025, so make sure to keep an eye on the blog...

💚 We hope to see you all again in 2025 💚

[fjordfolk]

I was reading through posts on the Lundehund after the recent news and was wondering, why are characteristics like the closing ears and weird shoulders never to be demonstrated in the show ring? The legs I get since that’s just not nice for the dog but the ears? And how do you confirm that the dog follows the breed standard if it’s not demonstrated?

The traits noted in the breed compendium to not be demonstrated in the ring are the 90 degree extension of the front limbs and the bending of the neck. For context, these ones:

It's because these are extremes. It's one thing for the dog to do it naturally, by themselves and under their own control - or even by a trusted person in a calm environment. In a foreign, hectic environment, maybe handled by strangers, it could cause injury.

(The 'typical Lundehund temperament' also doesn't, uh. Lend itself to compliant demonstration. This is why we watch dog shows and joke that 'the Lundehund enters the ring, waiting for the handler to look away so it can f*ck off back home. 10/10 standard compliance!')

The closing of the ears doesn't have a do-not-demonstrate in the guidelines, so I suppose it could be demonstrated. Probably by asking it to please behave like a normal dog, or something like that.

As for confirming that the dog is bred to standard - that's ultimately the breeder's job. Every breed has required traits that won't be properly demonstrated in a show ring, or traits that can be played up for the occasion. Lundehunds are rare and breeders are an exclusive group, they've fought tooth and nail for many decades to keep this breed as special and true (read: fucking bizarre) as its environment and purpose have made it. So when a project dog gets entered into the studbook, I expect two things: 1) This is a dog they have faith in and that checks all the boxes and 2) if it didn't Do The Things that make a Lundehund a Lundehund, they'd be publicly executed.

[onlyswan]

onlyswan year-end survey as i have begun building plans for our journey in 2024 👩‍💻

what is your favorite/s from the drabbles i’ve put out this year (second in which collection)? themes, lines, paragraphs, or scenes that stood out to you? and if it is not too much to ask- who is your favorite character, oc or jungkook?

which year/s would you like to see more of from 2017 to 2023? and which season (spring/summer/autumn/winter)? (yes this is very important) (like very) (no one: ..... me: *writes a metaphor to reveal the season* *clutches chest in distress* oc… must wear… season-appropriate outfit…theyneedtoknow)

[thoughtpeek]

I'VE FINALLY FINISHED BROTHERSHIP IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!!

[asphodeldreams]

the only reason i haven’t been posting as much lately is because all i can think about at the moment is spider-man and like. i keep forgetting that this isn’t an rvb blog. it’s just my blog. i can just post my spider-man shit here too LMAO

[titobeauvi]

I HAVE A MEETING WITH MY BOSS' BOSS IN 25 MINUTES EVERYONE PRAY FOR ME THANKS

[mi6-cafe]

End of Year survey analysis.

Last weekend the Cafe mods and the newly expanded volunteer squad met to go over the survey responses and make some plans for the next year. Here's some of what we talked about:

Monthly formats

To accompany our quarterly theme (something we started based on 2022 survey feedback), we are going to start making more of our monthly themes format based. You can look forward to some themes like poetry, epistolary, and moodboards. Thanks for helping us brainstorm!

Changes to Saturday Cafe

Some of you expressed interest in having a little more of of a focused time thing during Saturday Cafe. We are going to try rotating a point person to run a couple prompt-based sprints over on discord during these Saturday Cafe days. We will be adding a discord role to be notified of these events when we win the battle against discord settings.

Updates to events page

We have a lot of events. We've updated our static page listing all of what we've got going on and where it happens. Check it out here: https://mi6cafe.wordpress.com/events/

Event swapping

We are not running Riverhouse Remix this year. We will be trialling a new spring-time event.

Instead we are going to finally try a version of LDWS that is focused on creating moodboards!

The return of workshops

It's been a few years since we regularly did workshops, but people expressed interest for these again. Stay on the lookout for a survey to help us gather who is available to host. These work best when we get a big group of rotating hosts.

And finally, your fandom highlights from 2023!

I continue to love WIP Wednesdays for the hype :)

I've been pretty MIA this year, but I'm always so touched by the new friendships I've made through MI6 cafe, they really mean a lot to me.

i enjoyed stretching my creative muscles in fest with art of all things! :D

I love fest

007 Fest is always fun!

I really enjoyed seeing everyone come together to complete the short stuff bingo. It didn't look like we would complete it at first, but then in a few short hours suddenly there were more recs than squares!

Probably my favorite thing I made for Fest was the video of the Bond baby book.  I haven't made a video since a wedding video in the early naughts so it was fun new challenge and even though I misread the assignment, I still had a blast making it.  I also enjoyed hosting the moodboard workshop.  Writing has been a bit of a struggle this year, but also enjpyed making progress on wips.

[pynkhues]

How about May December?

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

Oh, man, I'm dying to see it, but it doesn't come out theatrically in Australia until 1 Feb and it's one I think I want to see on the big screen.

Ask me about movies!

[m0e-ru]

okyakusan i miss my employee so bad. who wants to take a crack at figuring out what the fuck is the actual plot to gsa sl au in my inbox

[flufftober]

Flufftober 2023 Wrap-Up

My friends! Another October has passed, another round of Flufftober is over, and once again we couldn't be happier with the phenomenal participation 🥰

Thank you all so much for such a great year!!

🔹 Badges

You've earned them - so please feel free to use them 😘

🔹 End Survey

Once again, we would love to hear your thoughts on how this year went for you as well as determine the top five prompts of 2023 - remember that those will become next year's alt prompts, so please take a few minutes to fill out our

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There's also room for your suggestions for future prompts - next year's list is mostly done but I made sure to keep a few spaces open specifically for those wishes. So go and shape our future prompt lists 😉

🔹 Reblogs

As always, we'll keep reblogging all your entries as long as you tag and/or mention us - it just won't be as often anymore as it was during October.

Important: We noticed that many people tagged us as #flufftober 2023 (with a gap) instead of #flufftober2023 - thankfully, we noticed this early on, as it does make a difference. It might very well be why in previous years many posts got "lost". Since the event was already going strong, we didn't say anything to not confuse anyone and instead checked both tags - but we hope you'll understand that we won't be doing that in future years! We understand it might be an aesthetical thing for some of you but in that case, just make sure to mention our blog within the post so you appear in the activity log. We'll make sure to remind you in next year's main post 😊

🔹 Fluff Boosts

Fluff Boosts were "closed" during October but are open again now - so remember to send us your own events, challenges, bingos, prompt lists, etc. and we'll give you a signal boost 💖

🔹 2024

As said above, next year's list is almost done - so yes, we'll definitely be back 😁 but that's not all, as we do have something planned for you for the beginning of 2024 - so keep an eye on the blog in January when we'll reveal our surprise...

[marvelat-words]

2023 End of Year Book Survey

Holy guacamole, this little blog of mine is ten years old! Where the hell did that time go? On reading books, apparently.

As is customary by now, I’m celebrating the new year with an end of year book survey.

Full post.

[onlyswan]

What is your favorite/s from the drabbles I’ve put out this year (Second In Which collection)? — “in which jungkook is giving up on you but you have so much love left to give.” because i love the angst 😞🫶

Themes, lines, paragraphs, or scenes that stood out to you? — i really like when jungkook is possessive over oc or gets jealous 🤭🤭 or angst/smut bc i love yearning and desperation…👀 also! oc getting close to the bts members like jimin n tae <3

Who is your favorite character, OC or Jungkook? — geukie! but i love oc’s depth and overall character, my beloved oc 😭🫶

Which year/s would you like to see more of from 2017-2023? — 2017 or 2018 for nervous fetus oc & jk <3

Which season? — winter is my all time favorite season because the emotions that come with it and you get to cozy up with your loved ones / take care of them when they’re sick but a summer love is also a dream 😣!

AAAAAAA giving up drabble my beloved you are so loved 🥺🥺🥺 the blood sweat and tears it took to write you were so worth it </3

hehe thank you sooooo much for taking the time to answer every question i truly appreciate it a lot !!! 🥺🩵

why is winter being everyone’s favorite season a big news to me omg 😭