donutsweeper

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/76794381

Peut-être était-ce le froid hivernal qui était propice aux virus.

Peut-être était-ce la retombée du stress qui s’était accumulé depuis la mort de l’ancien pape, et la préparation du conclave.

Toujours était-il que Thomas Lawrence, à deux semaines de la papauté d’Innocent XIV, tomba malade.

Words: 3442, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Français

Fandoms: Conclave (2024)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Vincent Benítez (Conclave), Thomas Lawrence (Conclave), Raymond O'Malley (Conclave)
Relationships: Vincent Benítez/Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
Additional Tags: Sickfic, Pre-Relationship, Self-Loathing, Post-Canon

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76794381

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This puts me at around a year since I fell into Scum Villian’s Self-Saving System fandom, which is neat! I typically am in a fandom for less than a year, or wander on as it dies down but delightfully SVSSS has staying power insofar as there are still folks actively and frequently creating fic in it and so there’s more for me to enjoy (an potentially podfic in the future). And as it’s a relatively closed canon I don’t need to worry about stuff happening that makes me less interested in the canon. But aside from the SVSSS fervor of this year, I have also dabbled in some other fannish spaces as well.

I virtually attended Citrus Con this year, I think because I saw someone talking about it on Bluesky, and it was a very right-time alignment for reminding me how I used to be really into manga/anime. I’ve been keeping up with anime somewhat through watching with friends but not seriously keeping track of what I might be interested in or reading manga. So now I’m getting caught up.

Lurking in the Citrus Squad discord led me to discovering Korean webcomics. Now I’m in a bunch of tiny fandoms, following 23 ongoing webcomics and keeping tabs on 13 that are on hiatus. As someone who wants fanvids of all the things I love, this has also meant getting a TikTok account because that’s where the edits/vids fandom is for Korean webcomics, so that’s also been a new experience. I haven’t started vidding webcomics yet but I’m definitely observing what I think works, or doesn’t, and hoping that I figure out vidding still images effectively for myself in the next year. This has also meant learning new pronunciation and proper nouns for podfic, which is a bit harder coming from webcomics than Kdramas because at least with dramas I have the show audio to try and mimic, but for webcomics by the time I start recording something I have possibly been pronouncing words incorrectly in my head for a while. So I’m starting to learn phonetic interpretation of transliteration of Korean better (I hope).

I’m now also dipping my toes in the world of Korean webnovels, in addition to having been consistently reading (or listening to) danmei over the course of the last year. I anticipate finishing 2ha in the coming year, and getting to enjoy catching up on the fandom without fear of spoilers. And once that happens I’ll probably get back into Critical Role as my primary audio-accompaniment to the hours and hours of physical therapy I have to do every week. But I am interested in webnovels as long-form story telling, enjoying what I’ve read so far, and curious to check out more of the fan translations particularly for genres that interest me (Korean hunterverse webnovels have been a good match for tropes I like).

I started doing embroidery last year, so that’s a creative thing I’ve been doing this whole year. I’ve done a few fannish pieces this year, but hope to do more in the next year. (Last year was Perihelion polar fleece, MDZS bunnies, and Utena shadow girls, this year was a humpback whale for Lays of the Hearth Fire, SVSSS bingqiu, a Ghibli-esque train and rice fields image (ongoing), and a character for a gift swap - perhaps I should do an embroidery specific post with pics at some point). My plan for what’s next is a Moshang thread painting fanart piece.

Podfic

This year I posted 62 podfics totaling 91 hours. That’s ~20 hours more than last year, which makes sense as I did more long podfics than normal - SVSSS is very good for long fic. I went into the year intending to record 2 ~120k fics, I wound up adding to that several in the 30-90k range.

I recorded in 20 fandoms, primarily Lays of the Hearth-Fire, Scum Villian’s Self-Saving System, Summer Hikaru Died, and S Classes That I Raised.

Personal Favorite: Embers by alfgifu and Tarnished Gold by Prim_the_Amazing tying for first place in this category as two of my long projects this year that I particularly loved

Completed goals

- Record the rest of the Embers series by alfgifu

- Record some long SVSSS fic - and how! I did 5 podfics of at least 40k each. This was more than I was even anticipating when I set this goal last December. SVSSS fandom has been such a joy <3

- Participate in VoiceTeam

- Continue making cover art for all my podfic

What’s next (future goals)

- VoiceTeam participation

- Continue making cover art

- If particular author completes a particular SVSSS WIP - ask for permission & if granted record (preferably as part of PodficBigBang, but idk if author will be finished timely for that and I’m waiting to ask for recording permission for when they’re done)

- Podfic for Blind Go (if I get permission from author of fic I’m thinking of for it)

- Get all my stuff duplicated to SquidgeWorld so I have diversification off AO3 (I’ve been sidetracked onto other projects and this one has been backburnered so idk when it might realistically happen, maybe this is a 2027 thing)

- Get all my stuff backed up onto the audiofic archive - happily I might be able to rely on the kindness of others and not do this myself since I keep failing to do it.

Vids

I made final drafts of a total of 13 vids this year. I have 3 vids in-progress at the moment. I don’t have any dominant fandom this year, a selection of Festivids fandoms and some anime.

Personal Favorite: expert in a dying field (my VidUKon GPOY vid, I do enjoy wallowing in my tropes)

Viewer favorite (views/kudos):

Both YT and AO3 agree on the same vid this year: Vigilante Shit

Most fun: Intricate Rituals

Hardest to make: Rust - I signed up for this fandom for Festivids last year knowing the show was ongoing, turns out I don’t like trying to make a vid for an actively ongoing canon, I don’t enjoy constructing a vid when not entirely sure what I’ll get out of the last episodes of a season. Suffice to say I now know I prefer to vid a canon once a season is complete (even if there will be future seasons).

Things I learned this year: I feel like I’m getting better at audio editing (thank you sandalwoodbox!).

Completed goals:

- I sent vids to some cons

- keep growing diversity of my music collection but also listen more to songs of artists I’ve liked so I can be familiar with them/know them well.

Ongoing goals:

- make another collaborative vid w/ sandalwoodbox (we did a tiny bit of work on this but still very much ongoing)

Future Goals:

- Make and send AMVs to AMV Contests?

- Make a webcomic vid?

Fic

I wrote one fic for Yuletide this year, so just a little bit once again, but I felt better about my writing process this year and I want to see if I can keep writing over the course of the next year. I feel really rusty but like I could enjoy it if I got back into writing regularly like I used to. I had an idea for an additional fic but didn’t write it. Hopefully I’ll do more in the new year without needing Yuletide as encouragement to write.

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falena

So, guess what fandom completely took over my brain? Well, looks like I'm in good company, judging from the honestly frightening number of stories that gets posted to the Ao3 each day. I've been trawling the tag whenever I have a bit of time, like the good obsessive fangirl that I am, and I'll share my findings with you. :D Also, a heads-up, I'm going to be locking my rec-cember posts tomorrow or the day after. I don't like to have a lot of public posts on this journal.

All stories are Shane/Ilya, even when the story doesn't focus on the relationship. As usual, I live for AUs. Assume spoilers for The Long Game for all of these, I've read the books a couple of times but not recently so I can't quite keep the timeline straight in my head.

Gen

love takes miles 7K words, mixed media. Ten years of Hollanov as seen through fandom. This is clever and so much fun!

how do you feel? 10 K. * Shane Hollander, interviewee, throughout the years.* Fantastic Shane character study.

Missing Scenes

wanna get stuck in your head . 31 K. He only realizes he’s doing it when it’s too late to stop. He’s standing in the drink aisle of the grocery store, checking the expiration dates on the cans of Coke, mentally cross-checking them with Boston’s away game schedule, and the reality hits him like someone shook one of those cans and popped it open. A snap. A fizz. A mess. Shane is making space for Ilya. A series of missing scenes expanding on the episodes/books, lovely Shane exploration.

Ep 2 The Wrong Conclusion. Hayden & Shane. 505 words. “Um,” Hayden started, and his whole face was flushed red. Shane couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen Hayden look so flustered. “Lily sent you a dick pic.” I have a soft spot for Hayden Pike. He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but a good friend.

Ep 3

u might want to get tested . Explicit. 5.3K words. Lily: U might want to get tested Jane: Hilarious. Fuck you. Fantastic voices. Perfectly in character. And hilarious. I actually LOLed a few times while reading.

Ep 4

Too Nice. Explicit. 3.3 k. Hollander's parents weren't mean enough to him, Ilya decides. He's an only child, too — that has to have played a part. Almost certainly, nobody ever sat backwards on Hollander's chest and farted into his mouth while he tried to get away. Nobody ever poked his lower lip when he was sad and said a bird will come poop on this if you don't put it away. And definitely, nobody ever said my son can be lazy, right in front of his face, right in front of the owner of the new team that picked him first. This is hot, but what I like the most is Ilya's POV on Shane.

Ep 5

measure of a man Shane&Rose. 1.2k. “Nine.” Her voice is flat with disbelief. “Rose.” He drags a hand over his face.“Nine. Like—inches? No metric nonsense? God, I kind of wish it was metric nonsense. That can’t be right.” I love Rose teasing Shane but also helping him out. Such great banter and characterisation.

Ep 6

Keep Pace. I've seen quite a fair bit of fic about Yuna Hollnader, this is the only one I found focussing on David. Absolutely perfect, feels straight out of canon.

Future fic and/or stories set after The Long Game (aka book 2)

Tad Too Tight . 803 words. Being married on the same team can be proven difficult. Especially for rookies that don’t know the extent.

Dig Two Graves 28 K. The Montreal Voyageurs won't stop slinging mud at Shane in the press, so Shane and Ilya decide to get revenge the best way they know how. This is extremely angsty, be warned. Mind the tags!

two-man advantage. 4.7K. Two-Man Advantage: At Home with Hockey’s Biggest Power Couple, by Matthew Cooper. Their on-ice rivalry turned into the NHL’s most unexpected love story. Now, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov say they have no plans to slow down. The GQ profile fic. I love external POvs in the form of a magazine article.

AUs

I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) . 30 K. Explicit. Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends. And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it? I like how having Shane a heritage Russian speaker changes the dynamic between our guys.

WIPS

I dont' usually rec unfinished stories but these are so good, I'm keeping all my fingers crossed for them to be actually finished!

Concussion Protocol AU. Instead of Shane, it is Ilya who suffers a concussion during the Boston-Montreal game in April 2017. This is a total angst-fest! I love how the author is exploring properly in jury recovery and what looking after someone with that sort of problem entails. And the psychological repercussions for all involved.

Half Agony, Half Hope by CorvidCordelia 26K so far. Au. Three years after Shane broke it off (not that there was anything to break off), he gets a concussion and the Metros bring in Ilya to fill in for him. A breakup and makeup fic inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion. I live for update notifs for this fic! It's that good.

Home Ice Advantage .Shane gets traded to Boston AU.

The Pitt

Since one of the WIPs I found only because I recognised the author's name from *the Pitt, I give you their Kingdon fic: Frank Langdon and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by CorvidCordelia. Groundhog Day AU. A fannish classic, and when it's done well like in this case it is super-satisfying!

umadoshi

Ah, the end-of-year attempt to bundle everything into tidy categories.

I had twenty-two manga volumes out this year, which was a big jump from the last couple of years (when so much of my freelance time went to working on Guardian--twelve last year and fifteen in 2023). Here's the list!

The Ancient Magus' Bride vol. 20-21 (Seven Seas)
The Ancient Magus' Bride: Wizard's Blue vol. 9 (Seven Seas)
A Certain Scientific Railgun vol. 19 [pinch hit] (Seven Seas)
I Abandoned My Engagement Because My Sister is a Tragic Heroine, but Somehow I Became Entangled with a Righteous Prince vol. 3-4 [new-to-me series] (Seven Seas)
My Love Story!!, Vol. 14: In College!! vol. 14 (VIZ)
Now That We Draw vol. 2-3 [new-to-me series] (Seven Seas)
Pet Shop of Horrors: Collector's Edition vol. 1-4 (Seven Seas)
Queen's Quality vol. 21-24 (VIZ Media)
The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent vol. 10 (Seven Seas)
World End Solte vol. 4 (Seven Seas)
Yona of the Dawn vol. 43-45 (VIZ Media)

I also just did my annual update of my complete list of adaptation credits, which now includes Guardian and my pseud for it; at this distance, I don't really see any reason not to include it. (Please don't prove me wrong, world.)

As for media intake (not counting anything I may read or watch today), this year I read eighty-five (!) novels/novellas, seven of them rereads (all Murderbot audiobooks with

scruloose). You can see that list and my other media intake here.

And I have my 2026 media intake post set up and ready to go.

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rydra_wong

* I supported one of my best friends who was in an abusive relationship, which got extremely scary before the end.

* I finished and posted the first fanfic I've written since the Epic Psychiatric Misadventures 16 years ago which reduced my brain to scorched earth, and I think it's one of the two best things I've ever written:

a word you've never understood (Prophet, post-canon, Adam/Rao, 9143 words)

* I started playing Dark Souls, and I beat Ornstein and Smough.

* I did some RL stuff which I can't talk about here without doxxing myself, but which was my tiny contribution to trying to make the UK suck less.

* I discovered I could go for a "run" (very slow run-walk intervals) ending up by a spot in a brook where I could quickly change and dunk myself, and this enabled the dunking to be viable much later into the year than you might think (context: my brain's idiosyncrasies means that a few minutes of cold water immersion is FREE DOPAMINE, so this is the bribe for the "run").

Other than that, the year's been a shitshow of injury, endless IC flare-ups and consequent pain and sleep deprivation, endless exhaustion, endless terror and worry about my friend, and the inevitable slide into depression by the end of the year as a result of all the aforementioned stressors. Hopefully it will be transient, and my meds cocktail and many many years of practice will suffice to haul me out.

sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, with perfect fortitude, saying “look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from that which resembles the grave but isn’t!”.

It's been a shitty year. I lived.

umadoshi

( Media intake for 2026 )

naushika

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It's already Jan 1, 2026 where I am, so wishing everyone a very happy new year and I hope that this year will treat you much better than the last.

This is also your weekly read-in-progress post~

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People Change by Vivek Shraya
Quick relisten to the audiobook looking for inspiration for a talk I was giving. I've got to say that while I love Shraya, this isn't my favourite project of hers. It could've either been an essay or a full-length book, but the pamphlet length didn't really dig in enough, but also felt a bit repetitive. I do like several of her core points about resistance to change and the lack of ceremony for it, though.

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
I really love this book, and have read it three times now and written a paper about it, and then everyone in my book club hated it. Woe!

Magical realist auto fiction about a trans girl who runs away from home to end up on the streets in ~~Montreal~~ The City of Smoke and Lights. There she deals with magic, lateral violence and falling in love, and joins a vigilante girl gang to fight back against men attacking her community. It's whimsical, earnest and full of feelings, and I'm very charmed.

Hopefully Thom writes more novels. She wrote this in her twenties and seems to have gone back to poetry.

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Reread for school. I still really enjoyed this. It's meant to be educational, and can be a little didactic in places, but I (being content with my assigned gender) thought it did a really good job of explaining the challenges and joys around changing gender expression in our moment. Also, the author is a giant nerd, which I appreciate (the highschool GSA turning into a The Lord of the Rings movie fanclub remains intensely relatable). I'm glad it's out there for kids who are feeling gender, but can't put words to exactly how or why. Which I guess is why it's one of the most banned books in North America, and has been for the last five years.

A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson
We got assigned a couple of chapters of this for school, and to be honest I skimmed them (not having realised how long they were, and not managing my time very well). However, I circled back and reread the whole book towards the end of term, and got a lot out of it.

Gill-Peterson is a leading historian of trans feminity, the ways governments have tried to suppress it, and the ways it's flourished despite that. A lot of her work has been around John Money's gender clinics, and how race and gender interacted in the mid 20th century, but this takes a wider look at gender variance across the former British empire, from the 19th century up to the present moment.

It came out a few years after Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans, but approaches similar types of history from a different angle. While Heyam is talking more about the instability and variability of gender, especially in the British Empire, Gill-Peterson is more interested in how imperialism forced those variations into narrow categories in order to control them. Heyam's common history centres on how gender categories have always been porous (albeit in different ways), and Gill-Peterson's on the commonality of challenges regardless of self-categorisation.

I especially liked the final chapter, about how we might reframe the current gender conversation. To the point where I would take pictures of the pages, highlight lines, and add them to the group texts, getting responses like, "I don't know what you're talking about!" and "What?" But, in context, those lines are bangers! Trans-exclusionary feminism is coming from a scarcity mindset! So there.

selenak

1. Your main fandom of the year?

Still 18th Century history, Prussian-Austrian-Hannoverian-French edition, with the occasional ancient history interlude. Though ancient history might take over as the primary runner next year!

2. Your favorite film watched this year?

It's a race between a surprise "came for one character, remained for all of them" movie, none other than Thunderbolts*, and the superb thriller September 5, which manages among other things to do something Steven Spielberg tried to in one of his movies and does it better.

3. Your favorite book read this year?

This year I am truly spoiled for choices. I both read some books that have been around for a while as well as very recently published ones, and for the most part, enjoyed or even loved most of them. I think it's a race between Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik and Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh.

4. Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?

For complicated real life reasons:

Watch on YouTube

5. Your favorite TV show of the year?

While tv had some let downs for me this year - *cough* Strange New Worlds *cough* - it also had some great new discoveries and some lovely continuing faves. I feel I can't answer this question fairly unless I firstly differentiate between "favourite miniseries" and "favourite continuing show", and in the second department "favourite new-to-me- show" and "favourite returning favourite". So: Favourite miniseries - there were several excellent ones, but really, for "took my breath away with each episode and performance, and format, tells a concluded story and THANK GOD DOES NOT APPEAR TO GET AN UNNESSARY SEQUEL": Adolescence . Favourite continuing series familiar to me - look, Andor had a superb conclusion and I really appreciate the scriptwriters on social media doubling down on just who the Evil Empire is in rl these days, but it's not Andor for the simple reason that while I was not upset about the writing for Bix as I've seen other people be, it really wasn't up to the rest of the show's standards. And it's not Wheel of Time, either, even though I went from like to love in this season and still feel like shaking my hand at the injustice of fate because of the cancellation. So: It's Foundation all the way. I loved the third season and will happily say more about why on the January Meme.
Favourite new to me show: Pluribus, aka Vince Gilligan did it again.

6. Your favorite online community of the year?

Still

rheinsberg.

7. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?

The play Born with Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, which I saw in London in August: really intense and clever on stage Shakespeare/Marlow slash fiction, with Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel superb in the roles; delightful in itself, but also, I now have a new playwright to keep an eye on!

8. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?

Strange New Worlds, season 3. Alas.

9. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?

I would never compete with Lois Lane, but this year's Superman is an incredibly endearing version of Clark Kent, and arrived just at the right time.

10. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?

Demerzel from Foundation, and I got two great stories starring her as Yuletide gifts. Runner up: Kleya from Andor, and Juliette Binoche in what just may the definite Penelope performance in The Return .

11. Your biggest squee moment of the year?

( Spoiler for Wake Up, Dead Man ensue: ) Runner-up: ( Spoiler for Demerzel's backstory in Foundation )

12. The most missed of your old fandoms?

I'm missing - and probably I'm employing rosy glasses here - the way media could be discussed without one part of the viewership crying "Woke!" and other crying "betrayal" if their ship of choice doesn't become canon. (Latest example: Stranger Things. Which btw I'm enjoying, but one look at fandom discussion and I ran.)

13. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?

I'm currently eyeing Severance.

14. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?

The Vampire Lestat, aka season 3 of Interview with the Vampire. Can't wait to find out what this particular creative team will do with both the present day rock star Lestat frame and the memoirs part, plus unless I'm mistaken it looks like they're already incorporating bits of The Queen of the Damned. And speaking of Anne Rice adaptations, I'm also very curious what Tom Ford will make of her historical (non-supernatural historical) novel Cry to Heaven, starring Nicolas Hoult.

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Current Location: Bad Wiessee

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Shows: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Original characters, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Sam Carter, Evan Lorne
Categories: M/M
Length/Words: 04:11:31 / 46,642
Content notes: No AO3 warnings apply. Contains imprisonment, state-imposed amnesia, and mind-altering devices that act very like torture.
Author on DW:

librarychick_94
Author's Website: maisierita on AO3, librarychick_94 on AO3
Link: Forget Me Not [fic] on AO3, Forget Me Not [podfic] on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: The story may well be widely known, so this is just as much to recommend the podfic that librarychick_94 completed recently. This is a wonderful story and an excellent podfic, an epic work at over four hours. Librarychick_94 reads with great pace, nuance, and characterisation and it's a really gripping listen. The story itself I found unputdownable when I first read it - one of those fics that keeps you up into the small hours to finish reading. Despite having had their memories wiped as a judicial punishment by an off-world civilisation, Rodney and John remain very much themselves. Rodney, as a scientist, has higher status in the prison complex, with his own apartment, and John is assigned to him as his servant. The worldbuilding is intriguing, and the ending very satisfying. Both the podfic and the fic are highly recommended!

( snippet of the fic under here )

james_davis_nicoll

In return for tutoring, half-dragon Ruri rewards her classmates with knowledge about the draconic world. Terrible, terrible knowledge.

RuriDragon, volume 7 by Masaoki Shindo

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I got a positive response on doing a low key January challenge! My intention is to post weekly on Wednesdays, which will cause there to be five weekly challenges.

For the first week, we are looking at making day time resting spots more restful. What this might look like:

Favourite Chair* has Stuff! on it --> Stuff! is moved somewhere else.
Floor on the way to Favourite Chair has tripping hazards --> clear a path.
Line of sight from Favourite Chair to window has something that irritates you --> Resolve at least one thing.
December related detritus in your relaxation space --> pack it up.
Cushions are leaking --> repair, replace, put a cover on, put it somewhere else....
There is a task that you notice Every! Single! Time! you stop for a rest --> move it, progress it, hide it ...

* for a value of chair that is where you rest when you aren't resting in bed. If you don't have one of these, then the challenge is to make one. Can you clear a space near a window so you can look outside? Standing and watching the traffic/clouds/birds/local wildlife counts as resting!

On easy mode, Stuff! gets added to a pile on the floor / chucked in a cupboard or box / made a problem for Future You. For each bit of extra energy you have, work through the list of: Rubbish in the bin. Put things that have homes away. Identify things that need returning or rehoming and put them in the 'return' and 'rehome' piles respectively. Find homes for things that don't have them.

Whether you do one thing once, or aim to do a little bit everyday, is entirely dependent on what you have time, energy, motivation and cope for. Reporting in can be done whenever you want, or on the (semi-)regular checkin, or the challenge checkin. If you have a thought about what you want to aim for, tell us in the comments!

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Well, that's it for 2025. Trump hasn't killed us all (yet) and I got a lot of books read.

December 2025 and 2025 as a Whole in Review

osprey_archer

1. Bought the Hummingbird Cottage.

2. Resolved to read a book from my TBR shelf each month. Happy to say I have kept this resolution! Also kept the sister resolution to read purchased books in a timely manner rather than add them to the TBR shelf to languish.

3. Moved into the Hummingbird Cottage.

4. Started work on my garden. This was not wholly successful - the already established mint has unfortunately completely gotten away from me - but I did manage to grow a nice array of herbs, and at least planted two cherry tomato plants, which I think got a little too much shade to flourish as they should. A beginning at least!

5. Learned how to cross stitch and completed MANY cross stitches. (Bsky thread with photos of my cross stitches.) Highlights include the Halloween cat, the fat red bird, and the unfinished trio of Puss in Boots. I have completed Puss Putting on Cape and Puss Putting on Boots but not yet Puss in Full Regalia with Plumed Hat… Then I needed some emergency Christmas presents so I ended up giving them all away and will need to begin the Puss in Boots trio all over again.

6. Finished the Newbery project! This has been either seven or twenty-five years in the making, depending how you’re counting.

7. Roasted a duck.

8. Made marshmallows! A friend sent me homemade marshmallows over a decade ago, and I’ve been chasing that homemade marshmallow high ever since.

9. All Christmas Book Advent, during which I read nothing but Christmas books during the advent season. Successful AGAINST MY WILL, as I attempted to break my vow on December 24, only to discover that the book with which I intended to break my vow started on Christmas Eve. Have considered this challenge for years so glad that I gave it a go, but have established to my own satisfaction that All Christmas Books is Too Many Christmas Books for me.

10. Picture Book Advent! In which I checked out 24 Christmas picture books from the library, wrapped them up under the tree, and opened one to read each day. I enjoyed this so much that I intend to make it a yearly tradition. Already planning to cross-stitch little Advent tags numbering 1 to 24.

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ao3_conclave_feed - Le meilleur des remèdes
topaz_eyes - Post from my phone - happy last day of 2025
pi - Year in Review
emrinalexander - (no subject)
falena - Rec-cember Last Day: Heated Rivalry (Again)
umadoshi - 2025 professional output and media intake (link)
rydra_wong - This year
umadoshi - 2026 reading/media intake post
naushika - (no subject)
geraineon in cnovels - Happy New Year + Read-in-progress post
minoanmiss - OK this is adorable
muccamukk - Last Reading Wednesday of the Year (November Edition)
selenak - End of Fannish Year Meme: 2025
mific in stargateficrec - Forget Me Not - podfic and fic (by Maisierita, read by librarychick_94) (M)
james_davis_nicoll - RuriDragon, volume 7 by Masaoki Shindo
fred_mouse in unclutter - January challenge (1 of 5)
minoanmiss - "Artists canceling Trump-Kennedy Center shows are traitors!"
maevedarcy in gamechangerhr - 16 Heated Rivalry icons
james_davis_nicoll - December 2025 and 2025 as a Whole in Review
osprey_archer - 2025: A Year in Review

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Le meilleur des remèdes

Post from my phone - happy last day of 2025

Year in Review

(no subject)

Rec-cember Last Day: Heated Rivalry (Again)

2025 professional output and media intake (link)

This year

2026 reading/media intake post

(no subject)

Happy New Year + Read-in-progress post

OK this is adorable

Last Reading Wednesday of the Year (November Edition)

End of Fannish Year Meme: 2025

Forget Me Not - podfic and fic (by Maisierita, read by librarychick_94) (M)

RuriDragon, volume 7 by Masaoki Shindo

January challenge (1 of 5)

"Artists canceling Trump-Kennedy Center shows are traitors!"

16 Heated Rivalry icons

December 2025 and 2025 as a Whole in Review

2025: A Year in Review

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December 2025

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