#fandom goals

+ Finish 1 WIP ✏️

+ Reply to comments 📝

+ Catch up on "To Be Read" fic list 📖

+ Run a 2nd TurtleWrimo 🏆

+ Archive all my old stuff on Ao3 📚

+ Watch TOTTMNT S2 📺

+ Stay in contact with friends ❤️

+ Try new fandom stuff ✨️

+ 🐢 Good times, good vibes 🐢

So, I’m now three days late in getting this out, haha. What can I say? Work and the fact that I’m the type of person who really likes to take my time and consider these sorts of things meant that I really took my time in coming up with my New Year’s resolutions, both personal and in terms of this blog. I’ve seen several mutuals New Year’s resolutions when it came to their personal and writing stuff and it inspired me to think about what I want, in the coming year, in terms of my own writing. So here are my New Year’s resolutions for this blog.

The biggest one? I’m going to admit that I’ve started seeing this blog as a job again. I pour a lot of time and effort into it and do treat it as a second job, often pulling what would be considered full shifts at a paid job AFTER my actual paid job working on stuff. With the internal pressure to get commissions back up and to get the Patreon going, that didn’t help matters. But it’s also honestly killed almost all actual, genuine enjoyment of both writing and of the fandoms I write for. So my biggest New Year’s resolution? To stop treating this blog as a job. I’m abandoning, at least temporarily, the thought of taking commissions or using Patreon. It’s simply a lot of added stress and I feel burnt out already. I’m not saying it’s something that is never going to happen again. It’s just that I want to take my time to reconnect with my writing and fandoms again.

I’ll be using the queue to post hopefully on a daily basis. My goal is to write one post a day on the day’s I work (excluding the 10-13 hour shifts because that’s simply too much) or at least one section for a character on the requests where there’s 12-14 characters per request, because there are more than a handful of those types of requests. Honestly, yeah, it might be artificially puffing up the queue, but I’ll likely answer those types of requests character by character, both because most of them become too long to answer due to tumblr’s word count limits for posts and because those are things that take me 12-24 hours alone to answer for all the characters because I do put a lot of thought, care, and effort into individualizing and giving full answers for each of the characters.

On my days off, I’ll be writing requests outside of the queue to keep solid interaction with the readers. I really, really, REALLY miss interaction with the readers. It’s really dipped into very low amounts and I want to do things to encourage that interaction, whether it be chattering with readers or getting more requests in. I really enjoyed the last mini-event I did a whole lot so I’m going to do one of those each month. The event will run all month and I’ll be answering those on my days off, whether it be only for a couple hours or for the full writing day.

My goal is to be better at answering DM’s this year. Because I’ve been trying so hard to do so much, those have really slipped by me. I hope to, on each of my days off, take an hour or so and reply to all my DM’s and be better at keeping in contact with friends and reader’s.

Another big goal of mine is to revisit all my fandoms this year. And with the first goal being completed, I hope to revisit them properly. I noticed with my last revisit of KHR that I wasn’t really enjoying the revisit. I wasn’t able to sink myself into the characters and story, because there was always, in my head, the thought of ‘I have this and that ask, look for any canon evidence that will help’ or ‘I’ll likely receive commissions for this character, pay close attention to the little details there.’ I wasn’t able to actually enjoy just the stories and characters like I used to be able to. Without the pressure, and without the thought that I need to revisit this or that fandom at this specific time because there are a lot of requests for it, I can really just revisit and fall in love with my fandoms all over again.

Each month, the blog is going to have a featured fandom. It’ll likely be whatever I’m revisiting or have revisited lately. It’s whatever fandom I’m all in on at the moment. While I’ll always take requests for all fandoms, this is the fandom you’ll likely see unrequested posts for or where requests might be answered a little bit quicker.

I’d like to podfic at least one of my friend C’s fics this year, both because I enjoy podficing and because it gives me the perfect excuse to check out on of her fics from start to finish.

I’d like to post at least one fic on AO3 this year.

I’m currently writing ‘novels’ of past works for a character, and some new personalized stuff, for two of my friends. I’d also like to reformat my masterlist into that novel format, with an easy to use table of contents, and have that as a public document. This would include all works under my Polycanons name and original and updated versions of what I wrote under my former ff.net name. Yes, Ghostie, that means more Dogs: Bullets & Carnage smut.

Thank you to @crazybutgood and @softlystarstruck for the tag and for your lovely goals!

[Transcribed: 2022 Fandom Goals by joy. 1) Draw Stuff not based on fics. Trust What you want to see. 2) Open Comissions??? 3) Make system to remember what I read and not lose fics. 4) Participate in Community. 5) Write. Don't worry if someone sees it or not! I started reading fics 2 feel safer and drawing to express my gratitude. If you see this, thank you for making things, or loving them a lot. xx J]

Thanks to @andithiel and @stargazing-enby for the tag, and making me feel less invisible. I love you ❤️I've never been really fond of New Year's goals because they tend to weigh a lot on me, but I'd like to make a small list of stuff I can do to make my fandom experience more enjoyable:

1. Join fewer fests. I'm not saying 'no fests in 2022!!!!' because I know I'm not capable of completely steering away from them, but I surely need to choose more carefully which fests to join, better spread during the year (like, not all at the same time) and generally only a limited number, like 2 or 3.

2. Write more for me. Gosh, this sounds already stupid, because we always say this and we're always so proud like, yeah I write for me etc. Truth is, somewhere along the way, I totally forgot this. And I'm blocked, and can't write a word, because I totally forgot what it means to write a scene or a story I love just for the sake of it, without thinking and fearing my readers' judgment. But I want to find again that feeling while I write!

3. Read more. But, read more of what I like. Not what I think I should be reading because everyone says I should be reading it or because it's written by X and Y. Read without checking the author, without checking the kudos, or stats. Only the tags and summaries.

4. Be respectful of my own time and needs. I'm not great at this in real life either lol but I want to try at least in fandom. So this goes with n.2 and n.3 and also Tumblr. For my own health, I'll be here only when I feel like it, without feeling obliged to my followers or comparison (i.e. this other account posts so much, I should do the same!). No. Bad Ale.

5. Try and finish at least one of my WIPs ? Please? God if you're there ? Thanks.

Thank you @etalice for tagging me! I'm going to call them Wishes too, since my main goal for the year is to lessen the stress of setting goals and signing up for stuff and biting more than I can chew etc etc

I've given some thought to my intentions for the year, life and writing-wise, but here I'm going to focus only on my fannish ones:

Read more, esp longer fics. I’ve said before that I read very little fanfic in 2021; not only that, but rarely did I start anything over 3-4k. Lately, however, I've been in a real mood for lengthier works. I've been tearing through 20-30k fics and am looking forward to the longer ones. There's a lot of fic to catch up on, and although I've got a book TBR list as long as my arm, I'd like to make time to include fanfic in my monthly reading. read a few

Enjoy fandom when I can. I struggled to phrase this but what I mean is this: in the past year or two, I've distanced myself from fandom, which was beneficial for many reasons, but also because it gave me the clarity to examine what I want out of such a community. It can be easy to feel pressured by a need to do more: more reading/writing/interactions/events/fests/commenting/reblogging etc. I'm fully-employed now, unlike before, my circumstances have changed drastically, so all I have time for is to lurk. I look at art, I read some fic, occasionally I might rec something. It's not a lot, but this is all I have time for and this is what makes me happy, so, for the foreseeable future, lurker it is. done

That being said, I do want to finish one fanfic WIP. Which I wanted to do last year too but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I've got a fair few WIPs and of course I'd like to finish all of them but, at the very least, I want to get one done and posted. Just one, dear fandom gods, please. DONE!

Something that occurred to me now and it's not quite fandom-related is this: many years ago, back when I first joined GYWO, I used to post a writing review at the end of the month (how much I'd written, which WIPs I worked on etc). I stopped doing it when I got into a long writing block, but I feel ready to go back to it again. Or maybe something like the Six Sentence Sunday, which was quite motivating in the summer, even though it felt like speaking into the void. Sometimes I avoid sharing lines because the snippet I have is so terrible and I feel embarrassed, but I think it might be a good idea to work through the shame of sharing less-than-good writing. So, I guess, my last intention is to come up with a way to reflect on my writing for the month or share bits of it, as a way to track my progress. still working on that one

Hmmm...who to tag? I think everyone has done it by now. Let's see if @coriesocks @trixietricoter @aibidil and @sixappleseeds feel like doing it? Also, if you haven't been tagged but wish you had: here's me tagging you!

It’s crazy to think it’s been two years since I got back into Drarry and joined the community with a more active role. I had no idea the blog would last this long, but it’s been quite a ride! This year was nothing like I had planned and I’m now moving past the bittersweetness of it all to start looking at what comes next. When I was still a lurker I used to wander between ships and fandoms, and the 2-year mark is when I’d naturally take a break and move towards something else; I can’t say whether or not that’s happening but while I’m still here I figured why not commit to at least one new year resolution?

2021 was full of adjustements as I saw the fandom flourish in so many incredible ways but ended up participating way less than I intended to. I had big expectations that never really came to life so I don’t wanna establish any rigid goals or ambitious numbers and set myself for disappointment.

I’m rather thinking of going back to the basics - meaning a bigger focus on my relationship with fanfic in general, and less on my relationship with fandom in particular. It’s time to accept that I can’t and don’t need to know or keep track of everything (a bad habit born out of making reclists on demand) and that putting too much pressure on myself or letting external factors dictate what and how I post in here is probably not a healthy way to go about something that I should be doing for fun.

After being quieter in my corner I realize that doing things in my own pace is the only way to move forward with the blog. It’s hard to honor this statement with so much going on around here so scaling down on both Discord (done) and Tumblr (planned) is probably a good start. I’m not setting goals beyond that because my job still sucks, time’s still an issue and inspiration comes and goes, so I just wanna be gentler to myself and set a low pressure environment at first. Hopefully that will translate into reading more rare pairs, writing more single recs and even occasional reclists if inspiration hits, and being a better friend to a few people. I don’t wanna limit myself but I don’t wanna embrace the world either. Next year I am letting go of things that are not my responsibility and redirect my time and energy to what really brings me joy and fulfillment 💜

thank you to @corvuscrowned for tagging me! it’s been such a pleasure being in the drarry fandom and i’m so looking forward to another year of my favourite wizard boys! these are my mix of fic & art goals for 2022:

☆ write longer, multi-chapter fics i have a few ideas for fics that have just been sitting in my wip folder, intimidating me, but i really want to try my hand at them for 2022!

☆ fest fics i love the idea of fests! i feel like i struggle with deadlines though, especially since i consider myself a fairly slow writer ^^’ however i have signed up for a few fests for 2022 and plan on signing up for a few more and aaa i really want to be able to commit and finish a few fics. my current wip is for a fest and it’s been slow-going, but i’m really hoping it turns out well

☆ engaging in the fandom more i have received so much love and support from this fandom and i’d love to give some of that back! this includes replying to all the comments that have been sitting in my inbox for,,, forever,, and also commenting more on fics that i enjoy! i’d also like to try reaching out to people more and making more fandom friends rather than just quietly lurking and posting lol

☆ more drarreo!! i love this triad. i love them so much. which means i want more of them! more fic! more art! and i will make it.

☆ exploring other pairings i am obviously primarily a drarry shipper, but there are so many other pairings i enjoy too that i haven’t made anything of! i wanna try drawing more romione, linny, ginsy, drastoria, deamus + more!

☆ more diversity there are so many different characters in hp that are all different shapes, sizes, ethnicities, genders and with headcanons, that number increases even more! i want to feature more of that in my art! i want to draw a wider range of body types and people of colour and trans!characters! i want my art to be even more queer and POC, to reflect myself and the communities i’m a part of.

Some fandom goals for the new year! I worry a bit about listing them, because of the pressure I will inevitably put on myself to complete them all, but...