Punch Card Goals
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goals_on_dwInstead of a traditional goal list, I turned my intentions into punch cards!
If you’re a crafter, a goal-setter, or someone who just wants their habits to feel more like play than pressure, this might be your new favorite New Year ritual (or anytime you want to set new goals).
This is also a great approach for people who like tactile things. It would probably work well for children too.
MerMay
Jan. 5th, 2026 07:03 pmysabetwordsmith posting in goals_on_dwredonthemoon is calling for MerMay prompt ideas. There's a potential working list for 2026 plus previous examples from 2024 and 2025. You can comment to leave suggestions, or just grab what's already there for your inspiration.
Books
Jan. 5th, 2026 03:36 pmysabetwordsmith posting in goals_on_dwbookclub_dw has chosen The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst as our book for January.I'll make the discussion post on January 31, 2026. If you have any discussion questions you'd like to be considered, please comment to this post.
Looking for something new to read? This community works just like a facetime book club -- members pick a title per month, read it, and talk about it. \o/
Doubt
Jan. 5th, 2026 02:19 pmbiteshelterMy major project for the last couple of months has been a zine about some of my recent personal experiences. Lately, I’ve been feeling stuck trying to continue it.
I’ve previously mentioned on this blog that I struggle with things like identity and keeping in touch with people. While working on these things, I started putting together notes on the ideas that have been useful to me. The result was something with enough overlap and recurring points that I felt able to connect it into a model that roughly covers everything I’ve found effective.
Finding ways to put the model into practice has been helpful. However, since many of the concepts are related to plurality, neurodivergence, and queerness, I found myself in awkward positions trying to explain my experiences to people.1 I figured it may be a good idea to compile these ideas into a single reference text. So, I started a zine.
Writing the zine has been difficult. The further I get into it, the more doubtful I am that it’ll be of any use. I started with some confidence because I knew that many of the guides I had been using before felt lacking to me. There were things I knew I wanted put into writing. After actually planning this thing out, I now feel overwhelmed by how much I don’t know, including whether putting this in a format for distribution is worth the effort. Even though there are a million self-help guides out there, and I’ve been helped by writings similar to this one, I feel like this project is a childish thing to be working on.
I want to continue this project despite my doubt. I know that I’m still proud of my first zine even though I consider it highly flawed. It seems likely that this zine will end up similarly: Even if the process is difficult, I’ll learn from it and be proud that I made something. I’m less willing to bet on other people being interested in it, but there’s a chance for that, too. I hope trying to focus on this being helpful for myself before worrying about readability or distribution will keep me motivated. I’d still like to get a sense of who I should consider sharing the zine with when the time comes, but the main priority is making sure I actually write it.
1: I help with intergroup dialogue facilitation sometimes.
Fandom Snowflake Challenge #3
Jan. 5th, 2026 04:05 pmscribblemoose posting in snowflake_challengeMeet the Mods Post
Challenge #1 * Challenge #2
Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.
( Challenge #3 )
And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.
And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.
New Year's Book Prediction Meme
Jan. 5th, 2026 01:34 amysabetwordsmith posting in goals_on_dwfound via
vass * Grab the nearest book.
* Turn to page 126
* The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026.
Batman: Journey to the Center of the Multiverse by AddictedApple
Jan. 4th, 2026 06:10 pmmichelel72 posting in fancakePairings/Characters: Kyle Rayner/Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Everyone
Rating: Teen
Length: 90k words
Creator Links: AddictedApple at AO3
Theme: crack treated seriously
Summary: Jason Todd discovers that he can travel through the multiverse (on top of his usual weirdness, ie, immortality) and chaos ensues.
Reccer's Notes: I recently fell hard into the Batman fanfic space, and this story bowled me right over. It takes Jason's canon resurrection (and the bizarre canon explanation for it), then posits a slow growth of powers from there -- from a recurring inability to stay dead, through the ability to skip universes, and beyond. All the canon reboots become a part of the story, and the pairing is a hilarious portrait of two guys being oblivious. Each chapter's notes contain extensive canon citations, which adds another level of awesomeness. Great fun and very affecting.
[Edited to add] Content note: The starting author notes include, "I will now put a blanket trigger warning for everything that happens in DC canon." That should be taken very seriously; the cited DC canon gets dark, and many abusive canon events are included in this story.
Fanwork Links: Journey to the Center of the Multiverse
Picture Your Accomplishments
Jan. 4th, 2026 01:17 pmysabetwordsmith posting in goals_on_dwmistressofmuses shared a beautiful reading tracker from 2025. Does anyone else have images of your 2025 goals that you'd like to share? Did you make a temperature blanket or other project? Draw a pretty bullet journal page? Do sketch-a-day for a year? Photograph a long project in progress? Share an image or link in a comment, or if it's bigger, you can make a separate post.
12/28/25 - 1/3/2026
Jan. 4th, 2026 12:40 pmorangeblossomteasCW: Animal Death
his cat died.I have plenty more things to read this month though for other challenges on LibraryThing and The Spellshop for
bookclub_dw.I've been trying to recolor the Windows Calculator and I finally figured out how to run the repository, but Visual Studio says it can't read a few files. I'm thinking I might have to download and use the 2022 version of Visual Studio instead. (The last time the read-me on GitHub was updated was 2 years ago and that was just for higher quality screenshots so it says the latest version is fine, but that might not be true.)
I'm trying to figure out my general goals for the year ahead. I have some craft stuff planned and I set a goal of 6,000 words in TrackBear. I'm hoping to write more than that, but at least with a small goal, it's really easy to get ahead so if I have to take a break from writing for some reason it'll be fine. I also want to get back into photography this year.
