Snowflake Challenge 2023: Challenge #9

Challenge #9

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, time you spent in the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

I wrote a lot of fic this year!

• I finished a fic that I'd literally started in 2011, when I was 12 or 13. It was the first fic I'd ever written, and it's a Cinderella parody! As such, it had a bit of romance in it, which is hilarious to me because I'm not really a shipper nowadays. It was nice to put that one to rest, though.
  
  • Cinderello: A SonAmy Story | Sonic the Hedgehog | Rated G | Sonic/Amy | Sonic, Amy, Tails, Dr. Eggman, Shadow, Silver | 5 chapters; 8,980 words | For years, Sonic has been the slave of his stepfather, Dr. Robotnik, who has Sonic’s stepbrothers on his side. Everything changes when the household gets a letter…

   

• I finished my favorite WIP I've come up with thus far! It was a fic I'd been planning since 2020, and it's one of the longest works I'd written in a while. It's also a work I'm really proud of, because I personally think I nailed all the humor and character interactions I stuffed in there. And I did a good job with the pacing, too!
  • Blizzard Blues | Super Mario | Rated G | Mario, Luigi, Kamek | 5 chapters; 10,084 words | Mario and Luigi had been out for a walk in the cold mountain air when a sudden snowstorm forced them into a nearby cabin. They’re joined by Kamek, who had also found himself unprepared for the weather and, against his best wishes, has now found himself under it. The bros do their best to take care of him, but the snowstorm doesn't show signs of stopping anytime soon...

   

• I spontaneously wrote, edited, and published a fic in 2 hours. Sure, it was less than 300 words, but that was still a cool thing I did. And that started a whole series of fics featuring Aromantic!Mario. I'm hoping to add more fics to that series this year...!
  • Red-Green Colorblind | Super Mario | Rated G | Mario, Luigi | 239 words | Oh, Luigi’d seen this flag before!

   

• I wrote for a bunch of events with soft deadlines, like Aggresively Arospec Week, Sicktember, Whumptober, and even a little selfship collab on Tumblr! It was nice to prove to myself that I could do stuff like that. I feel like I've gotten faster with writing in general, or at least less willing to hold up the entire process to edit like some sort of perfectionist. Or maybe I'm getting better at nailing things on the first try.

 

Also, for a non-fannish win, I'm a homeowner now~ That sweet sweet mortgage's given me so many adulting points, lol