ExtraPenguin

Now actually posted on the 1st!

AO3 Stats

Stat	2023	2022 then	2022 now	All years
User Subscriptions:	235	203	-	-
Kudos:	2002	2826	4449	43877
Comment Threads:	147	178	220	2960
Bookmarks:	619	648	1117	9631
Subscriptions:	60	77	113	1218
Word Count:	70555	68204	68204	903014
Hits:	15074	22390	35448	456741

Miraculously, I wrote more in 2023 than in 2022. Only by 2k, but considering the RL year I've had, I was not expecting anything along the lines. I had a nice October, but the rest of the year was kind of 0/10. 2024 would have to expend some serious effort to be as bad.

I posted 47 things to AO3 in 2023. Mostly fic, a bunch of art and vids, also a fanmix and an IF.

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Self-recs

Interactive Fiction
I made one. I like it! You play as Maul and you're investigating rumors that Obi-Wan Kenobi has been seen at the local university:
Crossing Over

Art/Comics
I think the Expert Judgement on ... comic with the explorer and her kitty is the best art of mine:
Intrusion Into

Fanmix
I made a fanmix and posted it onto AO3! I should perhaps crosspost it here at some point. It's for the Investigator from the Expanse (books), and thus engages also with the worldbuilding about the Builders. I think I should maybe make a post on the book series actually.
Wake the World for Me

Vid
Y'all already know what I'll rec.
Reincarnation

Fic
Here I have four "main" recs that all do something different.

Force-Found, Fetter-Free is a gen TPM canon divergence fixit and also the longest thing I wrote this year (at under 12k, but w/e). I like the POV structure and the fact that the concept is not the most popular one.

Desert Sons is a gen post-AotC fic where Anakin confesses his Tusken massacre to A'Sharad Hett. It is a serious fic with themes like law relativism and restitution and I think I tackled the topic well.

In the Shadow of Korriban is a gen crossover between SW PT and Babylon 5. I like how I interwove the worldbuilding here.

Starless Void of Ageless Night is 442 words of gen for Europa Report, but readable canon-blind. It's in future tense! I think I did it well. I like being experimental.

There's some other honorable mentions as well – I liked the traps I constructed for the tomb in Beyond the Thunder Sounds (SWTOR), the mythology ~vibes~ of Trust in the Might of a Miracle (SW PT), and the dark mood and such of Ascent (The Luminous Dead).

2023 Resolutions & did I do them

Comments with critical praise
LOL no. 2023 was terrible IRL and I simply did not have the brain to anything like this.

Finish All That is Solid Melts into Air
No. I did add some words, but I did not have the wherewithal in me to sink into a long word-based project.

Find some workable longform writing meta
No. To be fair, I don't think I tried at all. I just forgot this was a thing I resolved to do and it whooshed out of my brain by the 6th.

Write some fic just for me
Yes! Desert Sons, mostly, and In the Shadow of Korriban, definitely.

Improve my vidding skillz
Yes! I think I leveled up with Begin Again (process notes), and then again with Reincarnation (very brief notes). I should probably post full process notes on Reincarnation at some point.

2024 Resolutions

I've decided to include some RL ones this time, since those are ones I should 100% be able to tick off the next time I'm making this post.

Find love
I'll be moving, possibly internationally, later this year. I'll give Tinder etc a second chance there. I want to love and be loved and be physically close with someone. I want to fuck a hot chick. I guess I can suffer through ten billion awkward first dates that people agree to solely on the basis that I am one of the few people in the queer woman dating pool capable of asking people out.

Do [redacted RL sports thingamajig]
The next stage of commitment, if you will. Redaction because the community is small enough I might be doxxable if I mention it.

Finish the work project
It was supposed to be done in October, but shit broke. I want to be fucking done with it so I can move on with my life.

Make a vid from a baihe short film
Either from something longform, like Legend of Yunze, or a patchwork of different sources like for the reincarnation romance project (notes the first, notes the second).

Finish my vid_bingo card
This will include:
- Return to the Sea. A Rey/Leia vid to Sirens - Of Blood and Water by Epica. Technically done, but I need to rip out and redo the first verse.
- character study of [redacted] to [redacted] by [redacted]. I just need to clip it.
- the reincarnation romance project above to Until Eternity by Blackbriar. I need to decide on the source set and figure out how to run cleancredits.
- 00's music. Possibly a Rey vid to either Mortalitas Part IV: From Beneath You It Devours by Nemesea or Show Me the Way by Elis (or the shorter version or original version of the latter). The music deep dive was worth it, esp. when I realized Metal Archives has a Related Bands tab for each entry! Though Elis I found when it was mentioned in a review for a completely different album, so you should read the reviews as well. :)

Write some fic that is weird/wild/experimental
I like doing this. I want to stretch my wings. I want to become me, blobbing out of the boxes of typicality and write something utterly and completely deranged.