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1 Favorite fictional characters this year Ooh okay rather than including characters who I want to asterisk as full of potential if they got more screen time or more episodes, I'll keep things truer to canon and focus only on 2025 shows: Carol and Manousos from Pluribus both got into my head in the best of ways (and Helen, short-lived as her actual during-canon life was, managed to feel so loved in that she's up there! Zosia is fascinating as part of a dynamic, but she's still so wrapped up in the plurality of the hive that I feel intellectually dishonest calling her an individual character!); Deborah and Ava continue to delight me on Hacks; and for as soapy as it was, boy am I delighted by Margo and Sophie on The Hunting Wives (and someone wrote a Callie pov character study fic that was sooo good and really brought her to the fore in new ways for me!).
10. Biggest fandom disappointment of the year Debating how controversial I wanna be lmaooo but I think to keep it...relatively mild, I was super bummed out by the ever-deeper toxicity of the aaa fandom, which kept me from sharing fics that I was otherwise so excited about writing for a show whose short duration left us with so much in terms of unexplored or only partially hinted at material that would have been really fun to play with in fic. I thought with time, things might mellow, but the writing I saw on the wall in the early days seems to have only come true and then some instead, and while I know you can carve out a bubble for yourself in fandoms, etc etc., I just....I played that game already in another big femslash fandom years ago, and it's the exact kind of thing that ruins fandom for me. I'd like my fandom angst-free (that should stay in the fic!)
24. Fandom resolutions for next year I have a couple fic ideas that I'd really love to manage to carve out time to write!! This year I think I let the idea that so many people won't read WIPs anymore mentally psych me out of starting to draft my longer fic ideas because I knew I wouldn't be able to finish them in any kind of prompt manner during the term, but I want to try to get over that and trust that people will be there!













