2022 Fandom Goals (ノ・∀・)ノ
Thank you so much @sugareey-makes-stuff for the tag! Excited to see what you create this year and looking forward to Wood You Rather!!
It’s been a year since I started reading Drarry again let alone any HP works and it’ll be a year in April since I posted my first fic after hiatus. I’ve read a ton of amazing stories since and have been lucky enough to meet a few friends in this fandom. All my love and joy to you on this new year.
☆ Interact, be there, be present: I might have convinced myself to be completely unapproachable so this is me working on that. I’m beyond nervous most of the time since fandom and groups can be so vast and a bit hard to navigate through. Whether I’m participating more, commenting more, replying or (this is the tricky bit) sending asks or DMs or even offering to alpha read. Alpha reading is something I love doing, but could not do so much last year due to fest writing. I love talking about ideas and headcanons, it’s one of my favorite things ever.
☆ Read and write more rarepairs and polytriads: I’ve become obsessed with Lunasy, Dron, and Cedric/Drarco/Harry, Charlie/Draco/Harry and Flintwood to name a few. I can't wait for Polyship Week 2022 in March! At the moment I'm beyond excited for HP Rare Pair Fest which just started posting!
On that same note, I am also multifandom at heart. There’s a lot of fandoms that I love and am dying to write for. Some of these include: Dune, Hades, The Umbrella Academy, Bleach, Ted Lasso, The Witcher, Castlevania and more Kylux.
☆ Less fests and more challenges: I signed up for nine fests last year and I only got to write for six of them. That’s still impressive. I wholeheartedly love what I wrote, but I also put aside a lot of WIPs to meet deadlines. I want to check in on those unfinished works, see how I feel about them, and perhaps try to work on them again.
I also found out about the Chocolate Box challenge earlier today. While I do not think I’ll be able to meet the deadline, I am looking forward to doing more similar challenges that are not just limited to one fandom. Season of Kink is one I’m excited for later this year.
☆ Read more AND comment more: While on the subject of fests this is one thing I am hopeful to do more of this year. To be an active participant in these fests as a reader and commenter. My bookmarks have gotten bigger and I’m ready to dive back in as a reader. Letting writers know that their work left an impression on me! I want to do more of that. It means the world to me when I get similar comments so I want to throw that energy back into the world.
At the end of the day it’s all about not being too hard on myself. Some days I may not be present and that's okay. I will miss out on some things and that's okay. Trying to be constantly present and afraid of fomo will only tire me out. It's what I'm dealing with right now. I’m excited to keep writing even if it’s in smaller doses. Thanks for reading and for sticking by thus far. I’m excited to see what we all make this year.
Tagging the following, though no pressure at all!! Apologies if you've done this already and I missed it! - @triggerlil @clarey-potter @yourtokentrophywife @fangqueen @static-abyss @thusspoketrish @yletylyf @anaxandria-writes
