2018 and 2019 in fandom

(Is it weird that I still don't have any MCU icons? Idk I've been using the soft sexy Gwen one so long it just feels right.)

I started off 2018 feeling pretty good about fandom, did the Snowflake Challenge and everything. I set these goals:

• make ten Dreamwidth or Tumblr posts, of which
  • five are not fanworks posts, and
  • five are not in January or December
• make ten fanworks, of which
  • one is a fic, and
  • one is a podfic of more than an hour

Strangely enough, I filled almost all of these goals in both 2018 and 2019, even though I had a stretch of seven months (October 2018 to May 2019) without a Dreamwidth or Tumblr post, and a stretch of fifteen months (March 2018 to June 2019) without a new fanwork. The one piece I didn't manage was to write any fics in 2018 – I also hadn't written any in 2017 - so it was really exciting to come back and write five fics in the second half of 2019, as well as coming back to podficcing and to fannish involvement/feelings in general. I honestly wasn't sure I'd come back at all, let alone in such an active way.

( podfic lists and thoughts )

( fic list and thoughts )

So, all that said, my Official Fannish Goals for 2020 are the same modest ones I set for 2018: the 10 posts and 10 fanworks with some sub-goals.

Once I add those three #itpe podfics, my AO3 category stats will look like this:

• M/M (127)
• F/F (126)
• Gen (122)
• F/M (120)
• Multi (47)

I'm pleased with how close the first four numbers are and would like to keep that spread from going over ten, but I won't be upset if it does.

My secret ambition for 2020 is to organize a podfic of thingswithwings's Steve Rogers epic Known Associates, with eight seven readers for each of the eight seven main chapters. I think that would be awesome.

Happy New Year, fannish friends! I'm really happy and grateful to have you in my life again!