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We love a good list, lads. Oh yes we do. It's that time again! Time for the lofty yet reasonably attainable goals list. I recently went back over my 2021 goal list and was really surprised by how many of the goals I actually fulfilled or made significant progress on. This last year, well couple of years, felt like one big never-ending day where nothing goes right! But then I look at the list and check off the things and I realize: "hey wow actually I did some really difficult and worthwhile things despite all the adversity I faced!" and, friends, it feels good.

So, here we go again! Also on tumblr here.


Fannish

• Take one day a week off entirely from fandom. Brazenly stealing this one from gracerene, but holy heck it's such a great idea. I run a large fandom community and several events and it's so easy to get sucked in and never take time away to just do other stuff.


• Post recs to tumblr and DW when I read excellent fic. I made new fandom specific banners for this a month ago! Looking forward to getting back to rec'ing more often.


• Comment on every fic I rec. In past years I've put this one as 'comment on every fic I read' or even 'comment on every fic I bookmark' but then I for some reason get big anxiety about it and just fail miserably. I do already kudos every single fic I read, but I am distilling the comment goal down to just ones I rec this year to keep it a bit more manageable.


• Log all the fics I read. By this I mean put them in calibre and note them in my hobonichi so I can do an end of year 2022 reading post. I logged all my published novel reading and comic reading this year, I'd like to add fics next year.

Creative

• Draw for fun again. Being an illustrator has sort of killed my will to draw when I'm not working. I am not going to assign an amount to this and make it a "do it once a week" sort of thing, just... the goal is to start enjoying drawing again. Whatever that happens to look like.


• Pick up oil painting. I used to oil paint a lot, but now all my stuff is digital. I miss it! So this year I am going to get back to doing that sometimes, I think. As a mini-goal under this, I'd like to teach Luna (my daughter) to oil paint as well.


• Try pottery or weaving. I've been thinking about both of these for awhile and they're both pretty spendy to get into so I need to pick one and then do it.


• Put my bracelet crafts on tiktok. Not much to say here. I make bracelets as a de-stressing activity and I think it would be fun to put up little videos of my bracelets when they're done.

Personal

• Read 100 books. I crushed my goal of 52 and left it in the dust in 2021 and I started in July. I think I'll have no problem with this, but I want to have it on here so I keep up my momentum.


• Set up a loose daily routine. 12th year running, let's do thiiiissss. I was looking at my LJ the other day and saw my goal list from 2010 and it had this on it. I am pretty sure every year since has too and I fail it every year. So come on 2022, this is the year. This is the year we stop being a drifting lump of flesh meandering through our days waking up at 3pm.


• Finish up my dental work. I got a great start on this in 2021, but I still have some to go and making appointments and not cancelling them is hard for me.


• Participate in weekly Torah study. I was SO good about this at the beginning of the year last year then just sorta fell off. Maybe I'll tie this in with my day off fandom and take Saturdays off completely and actually go to either in person or zoom Torah discussion.

Now that I am finally completely done with school for two weeks I am drawing like mad. I have my entry for TWBB most of the way done (forests are hard) and am working on finishing up a couple tarot cards. Then I will have awhile before any big bangs are going and before school starts back up so expect loads of sketches!

P.S. I did manage to snag that 4.0 for the term so that's rad. :D

Title: Goodbye
Pairing: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Medium: Wacom Cintiq Companion/Photoshop CC.
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Title: The Boy Who Runs With Wolves
Pairing: Gen
Rating: PG
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Starting stream in about five minutes here. There will be drawing, music, and even webcam. Come heckle me~ http://www.livestream.com/gracelessart

Title: The Banshee
Pairing: Gen
Rating: G
Medium: Photoshop CC/Wacom Cintiq Companion
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Today is writing day.

I am trying to get as much writing done as possible. Big Pretzel drabbles, fullmoon ficlet, my circus au, laying out personal prompts, etc. I even filled a kinkmeme.

I've been really sick for the last week. Pretty much every single symptom you can think of aside from death and I have had it.
I think I'm on my way to getting better, but the fatigue is real. Oh man. I am very tired.

In other news this is getting me through my day:

My new tablet will be here today. I'm so unbelievably excited.

I am waiting to start the prompt for fullmoon_ficlet, because I want to do an artlet with my new tablet! I wish it would hurry up and get here.
It might be as late as 7pm. :/ Damn UPS not giving delivery windows so I can take a shower without worrying about missing it. I have to sign for it, so if I miss the delivery I'll have to wait until tomorrow and I can't be home all day tomorrow.

Anyway! I am going to work on a backup ficlet in case my tablet is late or something like that.

Cute Valentines Day Sterek fluff <3

Anyway~ I'm off to google docs to work on that fic. Maybe it will distract me from how excruciatingly slow time is moving.

Yesss... I set to to download as soon as midnight hit last night. I seriously logged like ten hours in the fucking demo.

I am so loving it. This game is everything I ever wanted from square. They have taken all the good elements of their other games and smashed them together. So great.

I finally watched Teen Wolf. I normally livetweet/blog the episodes, but I was so sick last night I couldn't even look at a gif without wanting to hurl

( Spoilers for Silverfinger )

And I just got done watching this week's Supernatural as well.

( Spoilers for The Purge )

Anyway, I am still sick as hell so I am off to bed. Hopefully my head will be clear tomorrow and I can get into some serious meta about Silverfinger.