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Happy 2014, everyone! It's time to square away some of last year's things, I guess. 2013 was another low-fannish-output year for me; I feel like I did very few things that were not either my thesis/some other academic obligation or zouk! But here they are anyway.

( writing roundup (you can see I clearly read more than I wrote): )

It seems that I iconed not at all this year (!?), but I did make a somewhat unorthodox first attempt at fanart, hahaha: Kise the cockroach! xD Oh, KuroBase fandom. I don't play in your sandbox very often, but clearly I will happily continue to be enabled into ridiculous things.

Anyway, short list, but I was also very busy getting my master's! And I got published, and I made my first conference presentation, which was a success! Plus, I spent a lot of time on zouk: performing, traveling, going to classes and workshops and congresses, dancing ALL the socials, volunteering, and generally making new friends with a whole lot of people. So challenges and all, 2013 was a pretty good and productive year. :)

I've seen a few mentions of one-word intentions for the coming year, and I think I want to give it a try! The last few years seem to have been all about finding a direction and/or building for me, so this year I want to focus on something a little different, something that takes a little more effort. This year I want to focus on connection. Of course, I have some concrete goals for this year- get a job, somehow arrange things so I can continue to zouk as much as possible, get back to writing poetry, try to increase my fannish output- but if I don't manage to do all of that, I'd still be happy to get better at connection. ♥

This was a low-output year even for me, but given the amount of time I spent on applications and Potluck and Kaleidoscope (go Team Darkness! ♥), I guess that's not too bad!

( writing roundup: )

( icons: )

Happy new year, loves! :)

We spent the night at home, my sister and I, with cheap lobster and unopened wine, nearly sleeping through the last few seconds of 2009. (Our parents rang in the new year at Taipei 101, in the company of old and rarely-seen friends- a getaway that they fully deserve, although my dad remains chained to his work and his laptop.) I passed the time watching CSI and NCIS and (ha) The Replacements rather than any of the new year's countdowns, and was quite content with that.

( 2009: me and you )

Anyway! Moving right along, here's a fandom/writing retrospective:

( Fic )

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( On race )

Phew. Apparently I wrote a lot more than I thought I did. *g* Icons and more Yuletide recs to come later!

ETA: Yuletide reveals! This year my assigned story was five exercises in aggravation {Junjou Romantica), and I also wrote eating together (Saving Face) for Yuletide Madness. I find it inordinately amusing/amazing that all of the Saving Face fic this year was written either for or by me. &hearts &hearts xD