#new year asks

[randommemestouse]

Anon Day - New Year's Edition

It's the new year, now is a GREAT time to get any lingering thoughts out of the way!

Confess something your muse would never openly say to mine!

Tell my muse what yours thinks they did good and/or bad with this past year!

Give my muse advice they need to hear going into the new year!

Tell me about favorite moment our muses shared from this past year!

Ask/Tell my muse anything regarding this past year or New Year's!

Practice good reblog karma!

(Taken from @twosidedsana's original New Year's post, but switched it up a bit and removed the year)

[sybilius]

New years asks! 4, 8, and 14

4. Movie of the year?

Femme (2023). Absolutely insanely good queer film about a drag queen who is hate crimed by a closeted gay homophobic dude and decides to seduce him to get revenge. It uses the seedy erotic thriller genre to maximum effectiveness while telling a very good story. I thought about it nonstop after I saw it.

8. Game of the year?

PENTIMENT. Krippe you should totally play it. The Disco Elysium - Pentiment - Pathologic 2 trifecta is real and this game has so much heart. I loved it.

14. Favorite book you read this year?

I really liked Shunryu Suzuki's biography, Crooked Cucumber. It was neat to read about someone who had lived through so many different Times™.

[michelleelizabethtanner]

Fanfic asks 5 & 20!

Ty so much for the ask!

5. Which WIP is first on your list to complete this year? Will you post a snippet?

I am DETERMINED to finish at least one entry into the 2024 Brio Fic Week. Idk what suddenly happened where my brain no longer can make Brio kiss and instead is just rotting on Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise, but here I am, designing adorable cottages every day instead of smut writing. 😂

I have a good start though, I swear. It’s gonna happen. If I have to take a PTO day off work and make it happen, this fic is happening.

A Raw Snippet (I haven’t read through yet so this may change, but this is kinda the general feel I was hoping for):

20. Any plans to work on original fiction this year?

I don’t think this will ever happen. Original fiction is hard because you have the task of worldbuilding and characterization from scratch, which requires so much skill to do well. For me specifically, I also would need to feel some sort of passion or attachment to original characters to feel moved enough to invest the hours and hours it would take to create all this from scratch. And idk if I have it in me right now. Creating chemistry is difficult, as we know. Because as consumers of media we know that we don’t always feel that chemistry from fictional characters. So it’s kinda like all these stars have to align for the magic to happen. I suppose there are fictional genres other than romance, but pfffft, who wants to write that? 😂

But also listen, I am TELLING y’all, the GG fandom writers are so far ahead of the traditional romance authorship currently monetizing the most lazy and cliched trope, it isn’t even a competition. Maybe I’m biased because I especially love the Brio chemistry and I love reading original takes on what it looks like, I am yet to find a published work that executes the way you all do. There is so much self doubt in fic writing. But please believe me, if Colleen Linear-Storytelling Hoover can hoover in those bucks, the masterpieces we have gracing our AO3 fandom tag would have no trouble. The world-building, the use of character-affirming symbolism, the subtle exploration of the personal psyches and an unlikely kinship between two damaged, guarded people… We HAVE all that. Our trope is tailored. It’s sprinkled with believable, in-character pieces of structure that make it something unique and beautiful. Our “stuck in an elevator,” or our “high school dating AU,” or our “jealous of new love interest who won’t work out anyway,” is so much more immersive and visual than all these romances I keep trying to tolerate but can’t take seriously because those authors aren’t you guys. Fic has absolutely ruined me.

New Year Fic Asks

[blarrghe]

Happy new year! :D

For the ao3 wrapped…

5, 6, 15, 28 ?

Oooh thank you for the asks!

5. What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

Probably Strange Feelings in the Party Camp. I don't write for Origins much and it was several deviations from my usual style, but a lot of people left sweet comments!

6. Favorite title you used

I suck at titles lol. But maybe "Whore" for being what it says it is (smutfic in which Dorian likes getting called a... you guessed it) and "Zevran, That's Stupid" which was a chapter title in Party Camp where Zevran is... well. You know. I am very creative you see.

15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

UGH. The Purge of Wycome still has that ONE chapter left. Unless I finish it today. You never know

I'll be finally starting to post something I've been working on for a while though, excited about that! (it still needs a title...)

28. Favorite work you wrote this year?

A Complicated Match, which I started in 2022 but finished in August. And The Purge of Wycome which I swear I will try to finish today ;)

[hauntedsuns]

12&21

Talk about a new friend you made this year

I made a lot of friends this year, so it's hard to pick! where we friends last year? im not sure, but ive loved talking with you! and then there's catwings, whose just amazing and also Ezra, whose planning a fic with me! overall very grateful for everyone in my life rn

What’s something new about your place of residence (room, home, or general location) now vs the start of the year?

Air Ventilation! They did LOADS of renovation and rebuilding this year, we now have a ventilation system, brand new windows and a new balcony!

[yvesdot]

Bookish & Craft Asks To Usher In The New Year

This is for readers and writers (though writers should be both)! Feel free to answer for books you've read or pieces you're writing, or for both. A happy, warm New Year to all of you.

Describe your experience reading/writing this year in one word.

How has this year and this specific point in time affected your reading/writing life?

Did you have a reading/writing goal this year? How did you do? What's next year's goal?

What reading/writing achievement from this year are you proudest of?

Did you manage to get out and do something literary in person? Think of seeing a play, going to a reading, visiting a bookshop, inspecting your friend's bookshelf, taking a writing class, or anything else that feels meaningful to you.

Did you re-read any books, and if so, how long ago did you originally read them? Did you read more new books or rereads (try to guess!) and why?

Discover any new writers this year? Tell us about them!

Did someone do something kind for you (buy you a book, write with you in a coffee shop, read your book review, leave a nice comment on your writing, etc.) this year? Thank them!

What do you hope to see in your and/or others' writing in the future? Feel free to name trends, themes, ideas, inspirations...

Share a song you read/wrote a lot of words to this year!

How many books/projects are you in the middle of right now, and which do you hope to finish by the end of this year?

What book/project most surprised you this year?

What book/project did you most enjoy reading/writing this year?

What book/project changed your worldview?

What's your favorite book of all time, and are you thinking of it differently this year?

Name a Book or Project of the year-- this is different from all those questions above! Explain your criteria.

What writing/reading lessons did you learn this year? What would you go back and tell yourself at the beginning of the year? What are you telling yourself now?

Look back at your posts from the beginning of this year. What were you thinking about?

Share a writing/reading memory from this year that sticks with you.

What will you be taking with you from this year into the next?

[ihaveonlymydreams]

2 and 6 for the new year questions!

2. what was the highlight of your year?

Getting to walk as a new PhD in my graduation ceremony! It was something that I had looked forward to for years and used as an image to keep me going on my dissertation, and it was so wonderful to get to put on the robes and the hat and have the hood fastened on and just know that I MADE IT.

6. what is the one new thing you discovered this year (could be a place/hobby/song etc)?

I discovered pho! (when I say discovered, I mean it was introduced to me by @im-not-the-one-youre-looking-for) and it is So Delicious that I crave it regularly now. Thank you Rae 🍜

[ahbbie]

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Oh my god, I actually thought you sent me the black heart and I freaked out cause: 

But then I realized that if you click the red heart emoji, it literally just automatically turns black (i hope lol).

I love you sm! ✨