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I will remember four things about this year:

1. Finished the most ambitious vid I've ever attempted, The Greatest, and, by taking the risk to invite further donations, raised an extra $1,000 beyond the initial bid for U.S. & international charities. It couldn't have been done without friends and the wider fannish community.

2. Dove into the Zahn McClarnon project and fell hard for Longmire.

3. Put forth my most sustained effort to date in consuming Native-centric and Native-produced books, movies, poems, podcasts and documentaries/nonfiction. Simultaneously enjoyed the art (or critiqued it, depending) and tried to evolve my understanding of what it means to live as colonizer and colonized in what we call the U.S. and Canada. To be continued in 2019.

4. Participated in the local friend group's BookIt!-style autumn reading challenge, modded by disgruntled_owl. Read a ton of books, shared reactions with the other readers, blacked out the Bingo card, went to an excellent wrap party.

Well, and 5. Attended the final Vividcon.


Vids

I posted three vids this year: two Festivids, followed by the gigantic project that was "The Greatest." The break it was necessary to take after that vid lasted longer than expected, but I'm getting back into the groove now, and besides, some of that creative energy went to fic writing, which I'm not going to complain about.

Jan. 14
Too Sexy for My Fangs (What We Do in the Shadows)
2:12

Jan. 15
Hey Ya (What We Do in the Shadows)
2:30

May 18
The Greatest (Multi) #FandomTrumpsHate
4:27

Dec.+
Mystery Festivid(s)

Total: 9 minutes – a little less than last year


Fic

The year Zahn McClarnon characters revitalized my fic writing! I also wrote a story for the Trick or Treat Exchange for the first time.

Sept. 8
Five Endings for Constance Heck (Fargo: Year Two)
3,300 words

Oct. 30
The Lion Tamer and the Strongman (Submissive Circus Strongman - Original Work)
3,200 words

Plus WsIP:

• Mathias/OFC dubcon aphrodisiacs (Longmire) - 3,500 words
• Noncon got me back in the business of writing fic (The Red Road) - 2,400 words
• The polyamory fic I have to write because no one else did (Midnight, Texas) - 700 words
• Unfinished Trick or Treat attempt I'd like to pick up again (Original Work) - 220 words

Total: 13,320 words – double 2017, on par with 2016
(Plus ~40,000 words for work, for perspective & my own records)


2018 fanwork goals

How did we do?

Vidding:
✔ Finish the auction vid before WisCon
✗ Make other auction vid for deelaundry
✗ Make something for the last Vividcon?? Pressure!
✗ Make at least one vid that isn't for someone else—the vampire Mary Sues vid of my heart, probably
✔ Co-mod the multifandom vidding panel at Vividcon
✔ Learn at least one of these programs designed to capture streaming video

Writing:
✔/✗ Keep it up with the Mary Sue tinkering
✔/✗ Experiment with adjusting day-to-day habits to try to write more; maybe take time off work when the writing bug bites?
✗ Finish the languishing Jinni/Dustfinger crossover fic!!
✔ Post more media reviews, yikes

I feel I could have produced more, but I experienced a mid-year mood slump and then lost autumn/early winter to work and travel.

Habits-wise, I took a long weekend in September to do nothing but finish a fic, which proved successful. I'd like to do more of that in the new year. A small prize from something I wrote for work should help if I choose to travel for it. I also let myself prioritize a fic or two over getting my actual job done, because those obsession-driven creative periods are increasingly precious.


2019 fanwork goals

Vidding:

• Write some posts about vidding for the 10th anniversary of making my first one
• There are several vids I'd like to make, most notably The One with All My Longmire Feelings, deelaundry's belated #FandomTrumpsHate vid, and, if I still feel like it, a small multivid based on Zahn characters. Plus the above-mentioned one expressing my Mary Sue vampire feelings, but no rush on that. And something for FanWorksCon? Maybe the sports multivid I tabled a couple of years back? Eh, we'll see.
• Caption remaining uncaptioned vids
• ✔ Upgrade to a paid Spotify account so I can be exposed to more new music and generate vid ideas
• Actually use AfterEffects before I forget the training from last year

Writing:

• Finish the Zahn stories, or at least the Red Road one
• Finish that stubborn Jinni/Dustfinger crossover before the new Helene Wecker book comes out!
• Continue to experiment with adjusting day-to-day habits to facilitate writing

General:

• Go to the new FanWorksCon in August
• Go to Longmire Days in Wyoming if Zahn will be in attendance??
• Choose a cloud backup service

ETA: Whoops, and people too, of course! This year we acquired a toft & a J., which has been great. Synn and I got to spend a whole afternoon with xenakis & lunarflares when we visited Montreal in the spring. I met one of my vidding role models, sol_se, at Vividcon. On Twitter, I've especially enjoyed the added company of mk_york_books and glassesojustice, who, among other things, share the Longmire love. Locally, a couple of core fan-friend groups continued to strengthen; I enjoyed spending a little more time than usual with unfinishedidea; and in the new year, I'd like to see more of linaerys now that she's closer to town, as well as some people whom I only seem to run into at cons in other states, such as inkjunket. It's also long past time to visit friends in D.C. for its own sake, not attached to a business trip or whatnot. In the words of Karloff's creature: Friiiiiieeeeeeennnnnds goooooooooddddd.