Fandom Year in Review: 2019

Your main fandom of the year? Gotta be Arrowverse, certainly in terms of how much time I spent with the source and thinking about it. I need to find a fannish community around these shows, because I think it would be really fun.

Your favorite movie seen this year? Knives Out. Runner up: Captain Marvel

Your favorite book read this year? The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year? Of music that was new to me, the Kingdom Hearts piano solo collections by Moisés Nieto.

Your favorite TV show of the year? Still The Good Place. I'm so sad this is ending.

Your favorite video game of the year? Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, which I liked way more than KH3. (Not that I disliked KH3, exactly, but I had very many issues with it.)

Your best new fandom discovery of the year? That would have to be Arrowverse, although it's not 100% new since I've been watching Supergirl from the beginning.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? I wanted to like Kingdom Hearts 3 much more, especially given how long we waited for it. I got stalled on my total canon replay (on the final battle of KH1); I want to pick that up again in 2020 and see how far I get.

Your fandom boyfriend of the year? Brainiac 5, aka Brainy, aka Querl Dox

Your fandom girlfriend of the year? Nia Nal, Sara Lance, Carol Danvers

Your biggest squee moment of the year? That's a tough one. Maybe the culmination of Yasha's most recent story arc in Critical Role.

The most missed of your old fandoms? I dunno, all of them? I miss being active in fandom really kind of at all.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? I did write one Arrowverse fic (Brainy/Nia, natch), but I feel as though I ought to have more ideas in me. Maybe once we're through with the Crisis arc and back to the regular storytelling.

Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year? Wonder Woman 84! And the series finale of The Good Place. But otherwise not a lot -- I've been out of the loop in terms of what's coming out in 2020, and I think I'm good with that.

December and 2019 wrap-up; January and 2020 goals

Days written: 21/31
Words written: 9,086
Words of fic written: 1,884
Stories worked on: One
Stories posted: One (reveal in January)
Days written in 2018: 244
Words written in 2018: 96,470
Fic words written in 2018: 28,389
Fic words posted in 2018: 23,615

( Charts are here, as usual )

( Final check on December and 2019 goals )

I mentioned on my Fic Year in Review post that I was thinking about taking a break from fic writing. Not that I will refuse to write fic if ideas strike me -- the exact opposite, in fact -- but a hiatus from pushing myself to do it, from forcing the words to come no matter how intrigued or inspired I am... or I am not. This feels counterintuitive to me in many ways, because for my first several years in fandom, I found that writing was the thing that got me out of the rut. But if those charts above say anything to me, it's that the rut is now a groove, and if I keep rolling hard down this road, I may wear this groove so deep that I'm never getting out. So here's my thought: keep writing, but focus on journaling and other non-fiction writing, not on fanfic. But keep myself open to the possibility of fic, maybe sign up for a challenge or two, and see what happens.

To that end, annual goals:

1. Hit the 240-day Habit Pledge goal for getyourwordsout.

2. Post in my journal at least two days per week (not counting Monday Media Musings) and write a full post for Lady Business at least once per month (outside of contributing to group projects.

3. At the end of each quarter, consider whether to add some goal relating to fic to this list.

4. Add every book to Goodreads within a week of finishing it, and continue the Monday Media Musings series.

Goals for January:

1. Participate in snowflake_challenge again.

2. Write at least 5 days per week.

3. Finish the Person of Interest essay and post it.

It's hard to think of goals that aren't fic specific. Either it'll come with time, or I'll realize that I really do want to be working on fic, too. But for now I want to take the pressure off. We'll see how it goes.