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Another year, another round of the snowflake_challenge!

Today's prompt was:

Update your fandom information. 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.

—which I think is the usual starting prompt for this challenge? I nearly skipped it, but I decided to take a look at my various profiles (namely, dreamwidth and AO3) to make sure that everything is how I want it. I did end up adding a few interests to my profile, so I suppose I did get something out of it?

Mostly, I'm just happy that it's this time of year again, and quite determined to do my best to complete as many of the challenges as possible this year! I did fairly well last year—better than I had in many years, even if I still didn't manage all the posts I wanted to do, so fingers crossed that I can manage similar levels of participation or better this time.

an index of my fills for this year’s snowflake_challenge, to help me better keep track of what I’ve done and what I still want to do.

Day One - update information on your fandom profile
Day Two - set goals for the coming year
Day Three - create a fandom wishlist
Day Four - tell us about yourself
Day Five - [deliberately skipping]
Day Six - share a favorite piece of original canon
Day Seven - create a list of fannish resources
Day Eight - talk about a current fannish project
Day Nine - rec the latest thing you made
Day Ten - five things
Day Eleven - create a fanwork
Day Twelve - [deliberately skipping]
Day Thirteen - make a rec list
Day Fourteen - [prompt not yet released] try something new
Day Fifteen - [prompt not yet released] fandom wrapped

Happy 2024!

And for me, happy truly is the key word here—I’m entering this year in a such a good place. 2023 had its ups and downs like all years do, but I’ve reached such a good place in my personal/real life this year. The kind of good that I was honestly worried that I’d never manage to achieve. So, I’m entering this new year feeling quite happy and hopeful for the future. /sappy

► Every year, I tell myself I’m going to do the snowflake_challenge again—and every year since my last successful attempt in 2017(!), I’ve failed at that. But not this year! At the time of my typing this, we’ve reached Day 2 of the prompts.

Day One’s prompt was to update your fandom information on your profile. I don’t really have an introduction post in the traditional sense, nor do I particularly feel the need to have an in-depth profile—I left those things behind back when I left lj. But there is one thing that I have changed my mind about, and that’s the interests portion of my profile. Again, it’s something that I used back in my lj days, but have always left blank here on dreamwidth—but now, that’s no longer the case.

Granted, it’s been so long that I’m not entirely sure what makes for “good” interests to include on it anymore, but regardless! I can always fiddle with it later; the important thing is that it’s no longer empty.

Day Two’s prompt is to set some goals for the coming year. I think that, fannish-wise, the main thing I’d like to do is make more space for writing again in my life. More specifically, I would like to finish some of my old WIPs—and even more specifically, I would really like it if I could tackle a good chunk of my list of Scum Villain WIPs—but really, the main point is writing, and taking joy in doing so.

► As the above suggests: I’m still rolling around in my Scum Villain revival feelings, yes. ♥ I’ve now finished reading the official translation—volume 4 was literally my final book of 2023, and I finished it on the final day of the year. Honestly, can’t think of a better note I could have ended it on <3 The intensity of my love for this novel knows no bounds.

► Here’s my usual gaming year in review round-up for 2023: ( beneath the cut )

► Still need to do my writing wrap-up—I haven’t looked what needs to go on there yet, but based on my memories, it should be a short one—but I’ve run out of time to do so before I need to go to bed, and I would like to post this entry tonight, so I’m just going to post what I have now and see about doing that + a few other things I wanted to write about next time.

► My Mystic Messenger update of the day: ( vague spoilers for the end of Day Five/Day Six )

► I ran across an AMV rec on FFA (well, several, actually, but I only watched the one for the anime I knew), and now I want to pass it forward. It’s Death Parade - Lorem Ipsum, and I thought it pretty well-made. (And hey, an excuse to use my Death Parade tag again! I honestly thought that wasn't going to happen.)

It’s been years since I last regularly watched AMVs… I don’t know if I miss it, per se, but I do still appreciate a good video. I might check out more of this person’s AMVs later. idk.

► I was waiting for the Day Three post of the Fandom Snowflake challenge to go up before posting this so that I could include it too, but… I think I’m going to skip out on this one. One thing that I’ve figured out over the years is that setting monthly and yearly goals don’t really work for me (as much as I love to read about other people’s goals and how they do on them). Setting daily and weekly goals (while keeping the broader picture of what I’d like to eventually achieve in the back of my mind) works much better for me.