happy ONE YEAR anniversary to me making this google doc! this doc turned into a fic which turned into another fic which turned into another & now a year later i’ve:
- written 403,973 words of fic for the book of mormon musical
- written 50 different fics
- made & gifted fanart to the absurdly talented cast
- reached over 18k hits and over 2k kudos on these fics
but more importantly i’ve met so so so many wonderful fantastic kind people thru this fandom. but more importantly i’ve felt valued & supported as a creative. but more importantly i’ve had people come back again and again to read my work. it’s corny and it’s stupid but a year ago making this doc and writing a fic filled with the most 2017 core tropes fundamentally changed my life in so so so many inconceivable ways.
i think if i told 18th july 2025 me what my life looked like now i would not believe myself. for a bit of backstory, i’d just finished a BA degree in writing & had just started my current job & finished a novel and felt so at a loss for what to do with myself. all of my friends were staying in my uni town during our MA & i was the only one commuting in. my job was exhausting, hard, emotionally taxing work, and i didn’t really know or like anybody on my team. life just felt weird and scary and so unfamiliar. i was bored one day and thought hey. i loved writing that one book of mormon fic i wrote last year, i have a spare day, i always wanted to write a roadtrip fic when i was 15, i might as well just do it now!!!! and i did and it was so much fun i wrote another fic and then another and very quickly the same people started showing up in my comments. which is where i get sappy and shoutout the wonderful, kind, supportive @crowgirlz and @mauvemusee. u guys had absolutely no reason to leave essays in my comments but you did & it meant the absolute genuine world to me. i wouldn’t be writing this rn & looking back at the last year with such genuine fondness & love without u two. on the subject of thanking people, there r too many of u to tag, but the whole fishtank server on discord. com… yall the real goats. that’s twin. anybody who has ever interacted with my writing in some way i appreciate u all more than you’d ever know. anyways. fast forward to august 16th & i see the show for the first time in a year and a few weeks later, on a random saturday, i wake up with an indescribable Need to go and see the show again. which is when i met my now best friend. i don’t know what i would have done this year if i didn’t have any of this & it has only happened because of u lovely people leaving kudos and comments so 4 that im so thankful.
it is a little silly and a little ridiculous that a musical about tap dancing fictional mormons including the line “joseph smith fuck frog” has led to all this but for all of its many many flaws i’m so grateful 2 the book of mormon for giving me all this. this post is partially about my writing but mostly about how beautiful & kind this community is & can be. thank you all so much 💜 happy mormversery to me
