Last Year's Calendar
Jan. 1st, 2016 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsSo, it's the new year now. As such, it's time to take down my old wall calendar, and I'm taking a moment to look over the things I had marked on it.
At the beginning of 2015 I was going to the Writer's Group in the city. That was nice while it lasted. After a while, most of the people who were there when I first joined fell away somehow or other and the people left were involved in like writer's guilds and self-publishing. More power to 'em, but I was there to talk art, not talk shop (and there was one person who had this authoritative critiquing style that just really rubbed me the wrong way), so I threw in the towel.
I still do go to the movie group up there, which has become pretty ordinary for me.
I did Once Upon a Fic (no word if it's going to be held again, AFAIK) and I wrote that big Snow White and Rose Red Space Opera A/U. That was fun.
I also wrote my wonderful, crazy, climactic Psychic Force fic. I gave myself the deadline of posting it on February 14th (a main character's birthday), kind of knocked myself out the meet the deadline, and then the person I gifted it to didn't get the notification. I'm still proud of that, more of having done it than how it came out, although I like how it came out, too.
Last year, Yuletide left me generally excited about fic exchanges, and I have reminders written in the calendar for several that I thought I might do but didn't end up doing. This year I'm in a very different place. I still plan on doing Yuletide every year, but I won't sign up for anything else until/unless I decide I feel like it.
I have a couple of Tenso shipments noted, so clearly I was ordering stuff from Japan. Probably Psychic Force junk. Yeah, I've kind of cooled on that again (not as in I don't like it anymore but I'm not excited about it anymore), but it's fun when I'm hot for it, and I still think about that story-world sometimes.
--Oh, now I remember, I was ordering untranslated Moribito novels, too. Finally found raws someplace, but the hardcover editions are still really nice.
Throughout, I keep noting various birthdays and the normal stuff I do at the UU, board meetings and such... Also times when I had library books due. ^_~
On the fandom exchange front I did do Parallels. Like I'd done it in 2013 and regretted skipping 2014, but I didn't get really excited this time. I am pleased with the Haibane Renmei art piece I did, tho.
I also marked the day my 3DS came out; since I wanted a limited edition one, I did my best to play it safe, pre-ordered and got it on release day; still haven't hardly played a game on it, but it'll be there when I get to it. I don't remember exactly when it was this year that I got obsessed with Legend of Zelda, which helped bring me back to playing video games after I'd been off of them for a while. (Oh, speaking of video games, that reminds me, I did solve Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and the GBA port of the original Phantasy Star.)
Not so sure Zelda was what started it, though, since, although I didn't put this stuff on the wall calendar, this was like the Year of Kickstarter for me, with Bloodstained and MST3K. Bloodstained is very likely what brought me back to gaming, given the evidence that the first thing I picked up upon my return was a Castlevania game.
I currently seem to be off of anime, though; I haven't watched much in some time. Probably the Haibane Renmei re-watch for Parallels is the last thing I did... I should try to get back to it.
So, there you have it, kind of an aimless, cursory year in review before I tuck the old calendar in the trash.
At the beginning of 2015 I was going to the Writer's Group in the city. That was nice while it lasted. After a while, most of the people who were there when I first joined fell away somehow or other and the people left were involved in like writer's guilds and self-publishing. More power to 'em, but I was there to talk art, not talk shop (and there was one person who had this authoritative critiquing style that just really rubbed me the wrong way), so I threw in the towel.
I still do go to the movie group up there, which has become pretty ordinary for me.
I did Once Upon a Fic (no word if it's going to be held again, AFAIK) and I wrote that big Snow White and Rose Red Space Opera A/U. That was fun.
I also wrote my wonderful, crazy, climactic Psychic Force fic. I gave myself the deadline of posting it on February 14th (a main character's birthday), kind of knocked myself out the meet the deadline, and then the person I gifted it to didn't get the notification. I'm still proud of that, more of having done it than how it came out, although I like how it came out, too.
Last year, Yuletide left me generally excited about fic exchanges, and I have reminders written in the calendar for several that I thought I might do but didn't end up doing. This year I'm in a very different place. I still plan on doing Yuletide every year, but I won't sign up for anything else until/unless I decide I feel like it.
I have a couple of Tenso shipments noted, so clearly I was ordering stuff from Japan. Probably Psychic Force junk. Yeah, I've kind of cooled on that again (not as in I don't like it anymore but I'm not excited about it anymore), but it's fun when I'm hot for it, and I still think about that story-world sometimes.
--Oh, now I remember, I was ordering untranslated Moribito novels, too. Finally found raws someplace, but the hardcover editions are still really nice.
Throughout, I keep noting various birthdays and the normal stuff I do at the UU, board meetings and such... Also times when I had library books due. ^_~
On the fandom exchange front I did do Parallels. Like I'd done it in 2013 and regretted skipping 2014, but I didn't get really excited this time. I am pleased with the Haibane Renmei art piece I did, tho.
I also marked the day my 3DS came out; since I wanted a limited edition one, I did my best to play it safe, pre-ordered and got it on release day; still haven't hardly played a game on it, but it'll be there when I get to it. I don't remember exactly when it was this year that I got obsessed with Legend of Zelda, which helped bring me back to playing video games after I'd been off of them for a while. (Oh, speaking of video games, that reminds me, I did solve Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and the GBA port of the original Phantasy Star.)
Not so sure Zelda was what started it, though, since, although I didn't put this stuff on the wall calendar, this was like the Year of Kickstarter for me, with Bloodstained and MST3K. Bloodstained is very likely what brought me back to gaming, given the evidence that the first thing I picked up upon my return was a Castlevania game.
I currently seem to be off of anime, though; I haven't watched much in some time. Probably the Haibane Renmei re-watch for Parallels is the last thing I did... I should try to get back to it.
So, there you have it, kind of an aimless, cursory year in review before I tuck the old calendar in the trash.
