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I started the year with mainly a list of potential projects to do over the course of it. I also had one main goal that appeared early in January: to post one fic to my AO3 account every month. Mainly because I think future-me will find it very funny. And because I already almost did this last year by complete coincidence; I just missed March and August. And I can clear out a bunch of my shorter WIPs this way, too.
Because of this new goal, though, a lot of my planned projects have taken a backseat. But still, I've made progress on a few of them!
One of those is making a personal Neocities website. I'd say it's about 70% done, at this point; It's almost done enough to go live, anyway. Mainly need to fill in a few more pages and change the site's color scheme/backgrounds. I have color pallets and tileable images picked out for those, but fiddling with the CSS feels too annoying to bother with currently. It'll probably not be that bad when I actually sit down with it, though.
Another project is doing a little analysis of my own fic, mainly about the amount of words until the first line of dialogue in them but also about whatever's interesting. I've gathered the stats for that and a bunch of other stats about all the fics I've ever written in a big spreadsheet. I also got a Tableau account? A free version of one, anyway. It's been so long I don't remember the specifics. But anyway I can make cool visualizations if I want to. Which I do!
The third project that I've gotten to this year was making an AO3 collection for fics of one of my blorbos that actually feature him as a prominent character and not a lamppost with a magic wand taped to it. This one is interesting because I'm not actually going to make a collection anymore; I'm going to use an alt account to bookmark all the fic that fit my criteria instead and tag those bookmarks appropriately. I also want to expand this system to a different character who is in even less fic, because I think she's neat. So even if I didn't actually do this project, figuring out its bounds and scope was still important!
The projects I didn't get to and are thus being pulled forward to next year are:
Additionally, I want to add a few things to this list of goals and projects. The first is the subgoal of finishing the self-shipping section of my website. I've never written that much about my self-inserts and OCs before outside my brief foray into self-shipping Tumblr, and I've got like years of lore in this head of mine. So that will be a challenge!
The next few's inclusion is dependent if I start them before the year ends or not. There's a category of video game-related goals - finish LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom, play LoZ: Ocarina of Time 3D, get back into Ring Fit Adventure, play The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, play Chicory: A Colorful Tale, play the Xenoblade Chonicles 3 DLC. There's also the goal to read some real books, lmao. I've got a decent to-read pile on StoryGraph! Looking forward to finally reading the Murderbot Diaries, among others!
(Also it would be cool to learn how to cross-stitch. And paint some more rocks.)
Because of this new goal, though, a lot of my planned projects have taken a backseat. But still, I've made progress on a few of them!
One of those is making a personal Neocities website. I'd say it's about 70% done, at this point; It's almost done enough to go live, anyway. Mainly need to fill in a few more pages and change the site's color scheme/backgrounds. I have color pallets and tileable images picked out for those, but fiddling with the CSS feels too annoying to bother with currently. It'll probably not be that bad when I actually sit down with it, though.
Another project is doing a little analysis of my own fic, mainly about the amount of words until the first line of dialogue in them but also about whatever's interesting. I've gathered the stats for that and a bunch of other stats about all the fics I've ever written in a big spreadsheet. I also got a Tableau account? A free version of one, anyway. It's been so long I don't remember the specifics. But anyway I can make cool visualizations if I want to. Which I do!
The third project that I've gotten to this year was making an AO3 collection for fics of one of my blorbos that actually feature him as a prominent character and not a lamppost with a magic wand taped to it. This one is interesting because I'm not actually going to make a collection anymore; I'm going to use an alt account to bookmark all the fic that fit my criteria instead and tag those bookmarks appropriately. I also want to expand this system to a different character who is in even less fic, because I think she's neat. So even if I didn't actually do this project, figuring out its bounds and scope was still important!
The projects I didn't get to and are thus being pulled forward to next year are:
- Write/post my Beach Vacation longfic WIP
- Gif-ing the Super Mario Bros Super Show cartoon
- Writing a smut fic (for the first time!)
- Writing an all-dialogue fic
- Binding one of my fics into a book
- Recording one of the a cappella arrangements sitting on my laptop
Additionally, I want to add a few things to this list of goals and projects. The first is the subgoal of finishing the self-shipping section of my website. I've never written that much about my self-inserts and OCs before outside my brief foray into self-shipping Tumblr, and I've got like years of lore in this head of mine. So that will be a challenge!
The next few's inclusion is dependent if I start them before the year ends or not. There's a category of video game-related goals - finish LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom, play LoZ: Ocarina of Time 3D, get back into Ring Fit Adventure, play The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, play Chicory: A Colorful Tale, play the Xenoblade Chonicles 3 DLC. There's also the goal to read some real books, lmao. I've got a decent to-read pile on StoryGraph! Looking forward to finally reading the Murderbot Diaries, among others!
(Also it would be cool to learn how to cross-stitch. And paint some more rocks.)