#2016 positivity

[notoriouscs]

2016 Positivity Challenge!

I am really excited to have been tagged in something! Thanks @flslp87! You are my first!! Of course, you had to tag me in something really difficult for me since I'm probably the least positive person on the planet, and 2016 was a pretty awful year. But I gave it my best shot! Hard to explain how much it means to me (someone with major anxiety issues and 20 followers, half of whom are spam I think), to have someone in fandom say they want to get to know me better! ❤️ 1. I discovered OUAT! I found CS videos by accident on YouTube, and they looked like an amazing enough couple that I decided to check out the show. Sorta hard to get through all of season 1, but I stuck it out knowing Killian was coming up. And of course, he hooked me! 2. I discovered fandom. I have never been a part of one before, but I finished binging the show during the Season 5 hiatus and NEEDED more! 3. I discovered fan fiction. I read a ton of it now, but never knew it was even a thing before. This year my depression and anxiety really got the better of me and made it so it is a big deal just to leave my house. This fandom, fanfic, and Tumblr have helped me immensely just get through the year alive. 4. I sold some pieces of furniture I'm pretty proud of. 5. I also painted some pieces for my own space that I love. And I painted a wall that looks like actual wallpaper. 6. I spent a lot of time at the beach, which I enjoy. 7. I am grateful everyday for my awesome dog, Biggie Smalls, who helps me get out of the house and makes sure I'm ok! 8. My sweet cat CJ lived through another year of providing snuggles, putting him 3 years past his vet's prognosis when he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 9. I organized my grandpa's 96th birthday celebration and watched him celebrate with his kids, grandkids, and great grandchildren! (And I survived all that family visiting for a week!) 10. I made it through another year. Sometimes, that's a win.

[holdouttrout]

2016 Positivity Post

@oparu tagged me on her post to share good things that happened in 2016 and add generally to the positive side of the scale.

10 good things that happened in 2016

1. I started to play piano again, which is an absolutely wonderful happy place for when I'm feeling stressed. I love working through pieces that I used to breeze through--no, really.

2. I started to feel confident at work again after an incredibly bad mistake at the beginning of the year.

3. I became more comfortable with myself as not-straight and talked about that with people that I love. Even though I don't yet have a firm answer to how I do identify, I feel so much more at home with myself and I got to know some really amazing people better because of it.

4. I lived by myself the entire year.

5. I signed up for two ficathons--one supernova/big bang and one Secret Santa exchange--and I completed ONE of those, which is more than zero. :-)

6. I wrote a lot of fic!

7. One of my very best friends had her second baby and I got to be there at the birth!

8. Even though my trip home was more than a little eventful, I still got to go to AT9 and spend time with @pepperf and @shinewithalltheuntold, two of my very favorite people in the world.

9. I got to get to know several people on tumblr better, including and especially oparu, who is one of the nicest people I've ever met and an absolute joy to talk with.

10. I went to see Bastille perform with @knightedrogue, on a very cold night in December.

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

Two days ago, I came out to my mom. While she wasn't accepting per se, she was tolerant and willing to learnt to accept me for who I am. It definitely felt better with that weight off my chest.

[allherstarryfays]

2016 Positivity

I was tagged by the best of the best @gcatherinev

RULES: List 10 good things that happened in 2016 (could be about you, the world, your friend, etc. as long as it is positive things) and then tag 10 friends.

1. I met my current husband and we married in September. 

2. I received a department scholarship, which pays for half of my tuition.

3. The road for Stydia endgame began on Teen Wolf.

4. I reunited with one of my best friends from adolescence after 6 years of separation. 

5. In October, I gained a new niece and nephew. 

6. I went to the At Home With Monsters: Guillermo del Toro exhibit at the LACMA. 

7. I went stargazing in a field up a canyon late at night and made out with my then fiance. 

8. My oldest sister got accepted into and began law school. 

9. I had a heart-to-heart with my youngest, chronically-ill sister and it was the first time we’d had a real conversation in almost three years. 

10. I finished The Passage trilogy and the last book was so amazing, it may be my favorite trilogy of all time. Justin Cronin almost always responds to my tweets too. 

I’m tagging @eyress, @allyjanejarm @dreamscome-alive and anyone else who wants to join in!

[hexiewrites]

ten good things

I was tagged by @mxrcusflint - thank you! it’s so important to see the silver linings of things & remember how good the year was.

rules: list 10 good things that happened 2016 (could be about you, the world, your friend, etc. as long as it is positive things) then tag 10 friends.

1. I finished my second degree!!! no more school for a while at least! 2. the end of 2.5 years of long distance - and the end of long distance in my relationship, period. 3. saw lots of good movies (moana! fantastic beasts! rogue one! and that was just in the last month!) and listened to lots of good music 4. my partner accepted a job out west and we’re making plans to move to my favourite city on the other side of the country in 2017. 5. spent lots of time with good friends, made new friendships and cemented old ones as well 6. I wrote my first ever multi-chapter fic, that clocked in at over 80k! and people actually like it! 7. (knock on wood) my skin is finally finally clearing up omg is this the real life 8. discovered hamilton, listened to it nearly non-stop 9. travelled to PEI and Newfoundland, meaning I have now been to all ten of Canada’s provinces! (I also went to Alberta and Nova Scotia and Quebec and New Brunswick and Ontario this year, but I’ve been to all of those ones before 2016) 10. my cousin got married, which also meant an amazing three day trip through the Scottish highlands.

(once again, not tagging anyone right now because sick. open invitation - if you want to participate, consider this me tagging you & tag me when you do it so I can see!)

[wolveria]

Some Good Personal 2016 Stuff

I moved out for the first time

I didn’t just move out, I stuffed my little car with everything I could and drove halfway across the country to a new state where I didn’t know anyone

I discovered The Clone Wars animated show

I found the Star Wars fandom

I became active on Tumblr

I discovered I was a grey asexual

I adopted an 8 year-old cat who had already gone through 3 homes and was at risk for being euthanized because she was so shy

I got an apartment

I’m living on my own for the first time in my life

I went from living in the desert for 30 years to living where it rains and snows; I’m still in shock there are trees and this thing called seasons (no, I’m not Rey or Luke, but I could be)

I met awesome people IRL like @captainmazzic because of Star Wars

I completed a 100K+ word Avengers fic from 2015

I started working on my massive Star Wars fanfic project

I wrote two moderately successful rarepair Obi-Wan/Bane fics

I made a bunch of Star Wars AMVs despite having never touched video editing before this year

I was laid off in July and rehired in December, just as I was ready to give up finding a source of income

I fully committed to becoming an author and started outlining my original story

I visited an Oregon farm sanctuary and hung out with lovely sheep, cows, and goats all day

I accidentally created a Star Wars clone-centric blog with a bunch of cool-ass followers

I flew back see my family for the first time since I moved out and watched Rogue One with them for Christmas

I got to watch Rogue One twice

I’ve made the most amazing friends on Tumblr

I’m still alive

[dangerouslygay]

Highlights of 2016

Let’s not lie for a second - 2016 has been an absolute shitshow and globally not a very good year, but to spread positivity as we endure the last few hours, I’m going to list off some positive things that happened to me in 2016, and tag @dktroye and @lyrahidesherdragoneyes to do the same ((my only other irl friends that have tumblr sans @awk0beauts who tagged me)). 

- I celebrated my 16th birthday in true me style - at a waterpark, which was amazing and a great time. Also now I’m legal! Yay!

-The sleepover following our time at the waterpark was probably the highlight of my birthday. It got deep - like really deep - meaning i got to know all my friends a little better. Given that it got deep, there were /many/ tears, but that for me was another milestone;

-I cried in front of friends for the first time. For the first 10 (ish) years of my life i was in an extremely toxic friendship with a manipulative person who took advantage of my good nature and used it against me, which lead me to becoming pretty emotionally closed off when i started secondary school, and hiding any real emotions behind humour, so for me being able to genuinely cry and shed tears in front of friends was huge. This was also the first time I told anybody fully about that friendship in a manner where i admitted it was manipulative.

-Following this, I have become more emotionally stable and open with friends, and peers in general.

- I have been clean for a year and a half! I used to struggle with self harm but last year I promised to stop, and so fat I have kept it up.

-I have become more confident and learned to love myself a little more than last year.

-I have broadened my music taste and learned that I don’t have to limit myself to just one genre of music. (Needless to say this has resulted in some pretty weird playlists. fall out boy followed by dexys midnight runners, anyone?)

- I have vastly improved my makeup skills!!

- My fashion sense has matured and I am now more confident about how I look.

- I have become more confident about my body.

- I’ve bonded with and become closer to all of my friends so that we’re now all a lot more open with eachother

-Finally, I have become more confident about my sexuality and done some great things with the Diversity Alliance at my school, and we hope to do more great things next year!

May 2017 bring everyone luck and good fortune!

Ellie xx

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happy things in 2016

I thought for new year I’d just make a little list of good things that have happened to me personally this year. A lot of these are quite small personal things, but this year we gotta celebrate every tiny thing we can get our hands on; apart from that, I genuinely feel I’ve made more progress this year than any other in my entire life. 

Got my first proper job in February. It was a horrible job, but I stuck with it for five months. Summoned up the courage to hand my resignation letter to my horrible boss in person.

Got another, much nicer job from July to September. 

Saved up about £1000 from these two jobs.

Learned to sail on an amazing six-day trip. It sounds cliche but this was a literal dream come true because I discovered I wasn’t absolutely awful at something I’d always wanted to do. It was also my first trip away by myself. 

Moved into university 300 miles away from home to live in a house with 19 other people

Made sort-of friends with at least two of them, and five other people want to live with me for another year (!!!)

Went through most of the process of finding a house to rent next year with these five people

Have been shopping and cooking interesting meals for myself every week. Have not consumed a single ready meal or frozen pizza. 

Learned a lot of awesome veggie/vegan recipes and how to cook vegetables in exciting ways, so I’m now eating a lot less meat

I’ve been going swimming 2-3 times a week at uni and really enjoying it, even though the first time I tried I just walked around the outside of the building a couple of times and was too scared to go in

Successfully switched subjects after realising what I was studying wasn’t right for me. This was actually really easy but needed a lot of energy to get the process started. 

Developed a much more positive attitude towards autism, entirely through my own effort and research (plus a couple of positive fictional characters)

Had several, uh, frank discussions with my dad about this (I was legit terrified of bringing it up with him).

BECAME GAYER

I’d be super happy if people reblogged this to add their own, or message me yours! Let’s get a happy chain going <3