Done This Week

Hello, 2024, I am going to be brave in you. Please do not kick me down a flight of stairs, thank you. I will be obligated to get back up again anyway, so really, let’s just save ourselves some trouble.

Lewisia: 3 new pieces, plus another bonus piece written, January posts queued

Day job: 36 hours, a short week in which it turned out all the problems had just held themselves back during my vacation, awaiting my return, so the place could blow up under my supervision--it’s nice to be needed, he said through gritted teeth

Cooking: stuffed mushrooms for our New Year’s all-appetizer dinner, processed the Buddha’s hand I finally found (half frozen for savory uses, half candied into what turned into more of a very sweet marmalade), Cabot cheddar soda bread--absolutely phenomenal, used a nice, aged Scottish cheese so it’s got some real flavor to it, turned out more attractive than it had any right to as well

Gardening: ordered seeds--I’m going to festoon the wildflower field with a fresh batch this year, also found a source for true dandelion seeds

Listening: The Best of Me by Rick Astley (I unironically love his music, “Angels on My Side” is real fun)

Aftermarket Parts: received hard copy of medical necessity letter, made first contact with surgeon’s office for a consultation

Other: first session with my new D&D group (largely made up of people from the group I had been gate crashing previously), in which I am no longer the only trans person (woo!) and to whom I am now out (eep!)

Fandom Snowflake 2024 Challenge #2

Challenge #2

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm setting various goals for myself this year, not all of which I plan to spell out here. Readers will probably see the end results of some of them, but no promises. "Doing a thing" and "posting about the thing" are, unfortunately, two separate tasks for me and sometimes conflicting ones.

But! Let's talk a couple of fandom goals, at least. For the past two years, I've done Whumptober. The results have been ficlets or semi-complete fragments of a theoretical larger story. All put together for the month, it's over 50k words, but I run it all together as chapters of a single story post. Which means I have continued my bare minimum, just-scraping-by habit of one new thing on my AO3 a year.

In addition to doing Whumptober again this year, I've got two fandom goals.

I want to write and post one other fic. Any fandom, any length, so long as it is a completed, stand-alone story.

And I want to record and post one podfic. Same deal--any fandom, any length. I haven't even gotten my mic out in ages, let alone edited audio. But I want to show off my new, lower voice.

Small goals, low stakes. I just want to ease myself back into making more regular contributions to my fandoms again.

Fandom Snowflake 2024 Challenge #3

Challenge #3

Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I would love some podfic recs for Stranger Things. I'm mainly here for Steve/Eddie, though Steve&Robin platonic stuff and found family stories for the group in general would also be very welcome. Light and funny is good, as is quiet and introspective. Not looking for anything too heavy right now.

I would especially like some shorter podfic. There's some truly glorious long fic/podfic out there, but I sometimes want to get my fix with something shorter than 7+ hours! I know some of my favs from the Marvel fandom have been putting out ST podfic as well, but I'm not familiar with most of the people out there podding for ST.

Relatedly, does anyone have any short fic for Stranger Things, fitting the above criteria, that they want to hear recorded? I'm looking to get back into podficcing, and choosing stories is often the real stumbling block for me. Having help narrowing the field would be great.