#and 2023

[mooni]

FUNDY ITSFUNDY FUNDY

and with that you've summed up my entire 2024

[sunflouwerhabit]

2023 musings 🤍

on march 1st, i published my first work of the year (little miss down the line extra inning 10! back in the olden days when they were still the drabbles!). between then and december 28th, 488,045 words and five different universes became a part of my little writing family. 3 new fics, 7 dtl innings, and 1 write this down vault chapter.

(you may be wondering when i sleep. the answer is never).

over those 302 days, i ventured into 3 new universes and met characters who now hold a piece of my soul. in the name of being honest, it’s fine to fake it ‘til you make it (‘til it’s true), and and now i date cate’s brother are timestamps of this chapter in my life. i’m filled with so much pride thinking about them and i’m so happy they became a part of me this year. writing them was this year’s best adventure

i’m also filled with pride when thinking about the way you all have not only embraced the three newbies, but down the line and write this down and their respective “vault” chapters as well. just… have i told you how much fun i’ve had this year? i’m having SO much fun and i’m still a little gobsmacked every day that there are people who want to read these stories. like??? what???

i call my fics my children (they are. i MADE them!!) and in some ways, they still feel like my little secrets, even though they aren’t and i’m so happy they aren’t, because this year brought me not only new readers, but new friends who have made my life unequivocally better. i love, love, love this little community we’ve built, and im so grateful everyday for it. thank you, thank you, thank you. THANK YOU.

thank you for reading my stories, for the comments and dms and messages i take too long to answer. thank you for caring about my characters and for making harder days so much better.

thank you to liz, who was kind enough to write a story with me and who is kind enough to also just be the most incredible, hilarious, hardworking friend. i love you and in the name of being honest SO much and i’m forever proud of the story we created together :-) SEE YA IN CHICAGO !!!! @bravetemptation 🤍🤍🤍

thank you to pey, who has been my writing partner in every sense of the word all year. i have the coolest, funniest beta reader and editor and co-conspirator and i’m just the absolute luckiest because i know this fun will continue well into the new year. thank you for everything you’ve done to make these stories possible, pey! i’m so grateful and love you more than words can express @l0ueh-oioi

and thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone on here. i couldn’t possibly hope to name you all, but you make my life so much better and i’m just so lucky that this little corner of the internet gets to be such a major part of my life. here’s to 2024, and all the more universes we have left to explore 🤍

sending all my love and wishes for a happy, healthy, safe new year. just. thank you for 2023. 💜

- lexie :-)

[cakefuck]

bloated 2024

[duckduck-buck]

*gently holds the 911 show* I’m sorry baby, the kpop and genshin people kept me from you, but I prevailed and came back home.

[flyingwide]

thinking about the time I went to a Jays game with my undergrad internship program and there was a guy from the Netherlands. he wanted me to explain the game so I was like “ok where should I start? what do you know about baseball?” he looked at me and said “nothing”

I died inside a little but then I got to explain the batshit antique weirdness that is Major League Baseball

[h41eigh]

self portrait I, II, and III

[batik96]

The year is four days old and it’s already been A LOT. If things could just ... chill ... for a bit? And not in the way things tend to do in the winter, I’d be OK with that.

I’m tired of headlines about people dying. I’m tired of headlines about people being sick and/or injured. I’m tired of headlines about catastrophic weather and catastrophic war. I’m tired of headlines about crappy people being crappy and other crappy people thinking it’s cool and letting them get away with their crap.

There are 361 days left in 2023. I propose:

More chocolate More cute animal videos More/better health (and more time to exercise; I want more time to exercise) Fewer crappy people Less exhaustion (mental and physical)

More happiness. For everyone.