A New Year

[cornerofmadness]

I'll be honest. I hold out very little hope for this year being better than last year. I did the Meriam Webster's thing on bluesky, you screenshot their gif and whatever word you get sets the tone for your year. I got moribund. Are you fucking kidding me? Why is that even a choice? Is it literally just spitting out every word in the dictionary.

But moribund feels right for the 2020s which if I'm continuing to be honest sucked donkey dong. 2020 - covid 2021- nearly lost my leg and took a year to learn to walk again 2022-23 weren't as horrid 24 - lost my uncle 25 - lost my last uncle. So while I'm hoping moribund is NOT my word of the year, it feels right.

Right about now is when I do my good things jar (okay usually it's next week when I get back to Ohio but I know what's in it) it has three things, presented my sabbatical research (at work and at my conference), got a story into an anthology (i'll give you that info tomorrow) and I went to an all inclusive resort for the first time in Mexico. Pretty slim pickings for good things. Mostly 2025 was me trying to not lose my sanity.

So resolutions? Eh, I don't really make them. I've given my writing goals. In addition to that I'd like to see if I can come up with lunches that don't spike my blood sugar, I'd like to get more active but what I need more than anything, a cleaning schedule for my home because this cannot go on as is.

I'm still thinking about doing snowflake_challenge. I got really sideways with this challenge a couple years ago and lost my taste for it. But a lot of my list is doing it...sigh

But here, let me share some cool things about me and my writing

one of the first of probably several archive things I'll end up doing. Got this one from lucy_roman
from AO3

Total works on archive - 894

Works written in 2025 - 74

Longest fic written in 2025 The Porn Star Murders Hazbin Hotel

Fic with most bookmarks (also most hits and kudos)Hope is The Thing With Feathers The Owl House

Shortest fic - Needs Unmet Helluva Boss


And here are my writing stats. I have no complaints here: Original fic count 38,727
Fanfic count 359, 707 for a writing total of 398, 434. My only complaint is I wanted 50K of original fic. sigh.

Thanks to a few of the things on sholio's post today I have some community recs

candyheartsex a multifandom gift exchange with a low minimum and a focus on relationships, both platonic and romantic/sexual

traumaticexperiences a (psychological) trauma themed multifandom exchange that will be run on Ao3. Matching will be done on fandom, relationship/solo character, and freeform. You must be 18+ to participate and maintain anonymity until creator reveals.

And one I'm actually in is allbingo and I'm hosting, the public domain fest bingo. come join us.



And for anyone still on LJ and haven't backed up your old blog somewhere else the news is looking bleak. I haven't fully read up on it. I do crosspost there for the few friends who haven't joined me here on DW but it looks like Russia isn't playing games with it any more. You can check out more here on bluesky. and a bit more here on DW about the importing.

Comments

[lucy_roman]

Hmm... I wrote a whole comment and it just disappeared. I shall try again.

Congrats on the writing. You done a lot which is impressive, especially the original fiction. I have been struggling to write anything original this year.
Happy new year!

[kitarella_imagines]

Sending you big hugs🫂

I'm sorry the last few years have been so awful for you. As you know, I can empathise after my own last few years.

Hoping 2026 is better for you, all of us and the world 💗

[spikedluv]

Love the graphic! I feel that very strongly. *g*

Those good things sound like very good things, though!

Wow, that sure is a lot of fanfic words!! Congrats!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. My BFF from college had it in her FB and I had to steal it.

it's too many fanfic words but it's hard to complain about it.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks all around

yay the 2020s have sucked for almost everyone i know. Here's to a better year

[cornerofmadness]

oh dear to disappearing comments

thanks. While I did a lot almost all of the original fic was on short stories and not my long fic which I want to fix this year. Good luck to us both

[lucy_roman]

Thanks, I'm really hoping this will be a good year for writing.