#it's like 2020-2021-2022 I haven't been sick even once

[wikiangela]

I've been sick for a week now and it's been getting better but now today suddenly it's worse - it seems like I'll be spending new years eve in bed so that's fun lol (I'm gonna have to keep myself awake tho bc I work a night shift the next day so ideally I need to go to sleep at like 4 or 5 to be awake at work 😂)

jfc I haven't been this sick since before covid istg - even when I had covid it was basically just really sore throat for a really long time lol

great start to a new year 🥂

[ginnyw-potter-archive]

A recap of 2023

so this is the year I wrote. I wrote more than I have ever done and so I thought it would be nice to look back on 2023 and look a little further back as well.

I used to write fanfic, I think I started about 14 years ago. I am not a native speaker and my English definitely needed some work then. I also have so many qualms about my old writing (I apparently hadn't found out about paragraphs yet), but we all have to start writing somewhere.

I stopped writing little by little, feeling burned out and completely stopped in 2018 (for various reasons). I don't think I wrote anything at all in 2019 or very little. In 2020 I dipped my toes in again with a few oneshots.

End of 2021 is when I started writing again and finally came back to writing Harry Potter fanfic. I started out with a longfic of 70K words! It was a struggle and I think it's like a muscle that wasn't being used. A Guiding Light is the fic that got me back in and I posted it throughout 2022.

And then I started two new fics because I was inspired again. I started posting those at the end of 2022/start of 2023. Knight of Mine and Peverell's Progeny have both surpassed the word count of Guiding Light with ease. It was never my purpose to get to a certain word count, and it is not what I focus on, but going from nearly 0 words in 2020 and slowly increasing, it's amazing to see myself putting out so many words.

And as well this year I focused less on what things I think people want to read and got a little more self-indulgent and it is so rewarding. It really makes me enjoy writing it even more.

My mental health has been shit before and it really took a nose dive in 2018, but this year I finally started feeling like myself again. My anxiety has gotten so much better and in turn I have been sick way less (although I did knock it out of the park at the start of the year with about 5 weeks of various illnesses) so I feel like I can enjoy life more in general. I am not sure if my writing helped me get there or if I am writing more because I am feeling better. All in all, I think writing has been helping me get through various things and it is one of the only things I enjoy doing consistently.

I haven't kept exact track of how much I wrote in the last year but based on my AO3 statistics as they are today (26th of Dec), I think it's safe to say that 2023 has surpassed all the others before.

You can see the majority of what I wrote, 414K of a total 541K, has been posted in the last year. It's crazy to think about. A lot of people found my writing as well this year and it's been so amazing getting that feedback ...as well as crazy paternity guesses with emojis, begging me for horse smut (that is still a no-you know who you are) and bribing me to update early... they really do make my day and some of you are too funny for your own good.

Looking ahead a little, I want to see what else I can achieve in the upcoming year. I am not setting any specific goals for myself other than continuing to work on my ongoing fics and not starting too many new ones (*pushes Pirate AU back under the bed*) Buut I am curious how much writing I actually get up to and so I made myself a little tracker.

Bullet journaling is the only other hobby aside from writing that I seem to be able to do consistently. I just kind of fell out of it in the summer of 2022 and finally picked it back up again for 2024. I think when I wasn't writing, it was a good different outlet for me and I still enjoy it. It simply slipped out of my habits, especially when I moved out on my own last year and I was too focused on keeping up with chores and other stuff. Now I am a little more organised, so I do hope to keep it up. It will also force me to do something else than writing once in a while, which is probably healthy for me.

This tracker looks a little chaotic, I know, but i wanted to get everything on one page. Maybe next year I can tell you exactly how much I wrote.

And word counts are nice but I think improving is also important and I do feel like I have managed to learn a lot of things this year and I will continue to do so in the coming year. I take great inspiration from other people's writing. I always get inspired when I read an especially good fic (which often ends up with me starting a new WIP, send help) and I discover new ways to put in descriptions or how to phrase something a certain way. And talking to other fic writers on here, or discord, is also where I learn a lot. A ton of you are so talented and it is such a joy to be able to discuss things, pick your brains and get feedback. Sometimes I just learn things by reading along to someone else's discussion. Sometimes you find answers to questions you didn't know to ask!

I also want to thank my beta readers, who have read so many words this year. They are so FAST and then apologise for being slow. I cherish them so much.

If you read up to this point, thank you! If you've read a fic of mine this year, thank you as well. If you left me kudos or comments, recced me... you get a little kiss on the forehead.

If you have achievements of your own this year that you are proud of, do share them! (Reblog or send me an ask, I want to hear about it!) Let's celebrate all the work you put in!

[shadowwingtronix]

Hello 2022...Don't Be Like 2021

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I was planning this as a v-log, which I'll still do later this week. However, I did want to post something so you all knew I was still around. 2021 was that kind of year, what with me getting sick from who knows what and then needing surgery to remove a hernia. It hasn't helped that over the last few days I've really been feeling terrible. Dreams are by nature a bit weird, they only exist in our subconscious or wherever (I'm not anywhere close to being a dream or brain expert) but over the last few days my dreams have felt..."creepy" isn't the right word, but there's been a certain unsettling atmosphere to them that would leave me feeling disconnected during the day, like I was wearing my body instead of inhabiting it. I don't know if it was the weather, which has been unusually warm and wet for the end of December and start of January, or some other issue, which is why I need a few more days to pull myself together. I'm still feeling a bit iffy and frankly it's a bit scary (I'm not sure if this is mental, medical, or spiritual but with my luck it's all three) but at least last night I didn't have that problem. Maybe I just need to get out of this house and do something? Between my own medical issues and the continuing 2020 plague panic I really haven't gone out much on top of not having the money to go anywhere or anything to do if I did. Even an introverted homebody like myself has limits and I think lately I've gone way past those limits, which may be part of my problem as well. All this is why the v-log didn't get made as well as a few things I wanted to discuss in it not getting done. Once I do those the v-log will happen. I just need a few extra days now thanks to all this.

So if you're reading this at The Clutter Reports I should have an extra posting for you this week which is the v-log and maybe nothing to report outside of pulling down the Christmas decorations. If you're reading this at BW Media Spotlight there will (depending on how the mental health thing goes) still be the next Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: Prime Directive as the book is nearly done. Expect a full summary book report at The Clutter Reports when that happens. If you're reading this at The Tronix Tumblr...sorry if this posted more than once; I'll fix it and if the full post doesn't come up I'll post the full thing there. My news really won't affect the Tumblr much but the other two sites and my YouTube channel will.

The short version is that this year I'm going to be doing a bit more assessing, though I do want to get at least some of the creative projects I was denied doing in 2021 (either due to the aforementioned medical issues or as a side effect of recovery and finding the energy) accomplished in 2022. It depends on how and when I get sick again, so this is less a "I'm going to" and more "I'm going to try". The assessment stuff in action will be more visible at The Clutter Reports than BW Media Spotlight because that's just the nature of the sites. A lot of the assessment involves the physical junk around me, but you'll see more results at BW and I'll try to keep folks updated. It will all be in the v-log when I get it done.

So I hope your year is starting off well and I'm hoping to resume operations before the month is out. I just have to deal with some mental health issues (and hopefully no other ones) and pull myself together. Hopefully I sound worse than I am and will get back to doing stuff soon, before the week is out God willing. I'll explain more of 2022's plans in the v-log (because that went soooooooo well in 2021...did I accomplish ANYTHING I set out to do?) but I just wanted to let you all know what the hold-up is and what's going on with me. Have a good year, everyone!

[theyadoretree]

Update: Good morning everyone. Today is Friday. December 31, and today is new year's eve, and happy new year, and I want to say that 2021, was not a good year for me, but it's pretty challenging but 2020, was not a good year either, you know with the struggles of depression, anxiety, and mental health, I've been going through it all year long I say, for 10 years, and I haven't been able to move forward with my life, still stuck in the past, in 2022, I don't know what it'll take for me to overcome, to be more creative, I say that I'm a young woman. I haven't done anything fun before (DragonCon, anime weekend Atlanta, and momocon. I keep canceling my plans because I don't have any money, maybe next year, I'll probably get a chance to attend once the covid is over but I'm scared to attend any conventions, that's why I staying home from getting sick, I'm trying to get well by staying home tomorrow on new year’s day I know it's pretty messed up, that everyone gets sick from it everywhere they go, they travel, they go to the mall, did you know they got a covid case.) You know people who don't wear a mask during the pandemic because they didn't care, I say whenever comes to it, I've has been getting a cold for 7 days and I'm still in the healing, you know in the of trust in God, still not well, trying to get better, you know just to feel good, maybe so I can try to dance around the house more, play music, and laugh like I was before, fix me tea to heal me to be active again, and now I'm still drinking water, to help me, taking hot baths and usually lay down to relax so I can get more sleep so I can write a journal to help me remember something that I could even imagine. Okay, I guess I'm finished with this one, maybe I'll write more essays about my cold. I won't be on Instagram until next year. Anyways, see you guys next year, stay safe. 2022.