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overlord_mordax) wrote2024-12-31 06:54 am
overlord_mordax) wrote2024-12-31 06:54 am
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End of the Year Report
Partner woke up feeling better this morning. No fever, much more lucid than last night. Able to take a shower and enjoy breakfast. I'm still not feeling particularly bad (no sore throat, very mild fatigue) but I'm still expecting it to hit me- when I least expect it of course.
Had black coffee (decaf), and peanut butter mousse (peanutbutter, cream cheese, heavy cream, vanilla, sweetener) for breakfast and that was very enjoyable.
Sitting here now, deciding how to use the last day of calendar year 2024.
What a year it's been.
Started the year writing Resident Evil. Then moved to writing Urusei Yatsura. After that, Ace Attorney, and we actually finished a whole, very well received Ace Attorney longfic, though I have a lot of complicated feelings about it.
We read the entirety of One Piece this year, starting in May. It took us about 2 months to catch up and it was a very frustrating experience in a lot of ways. There are just enough things to like about One Piece to keep us coming back.
Now, here at the end of the year we've gotten back into Final Fantasy 7, which was not at all what I expected. Honestly the material is a lot more natively enjoyable than OP, which is refreshing.
According to AO3 statistics, partner and we wrote over a million words this year, which I think is pretty impressive. it's definitely our highest recorded word count. It might even be our highest ever yearly word count, though the year we wrote Danganronpa 4 might have given it a run for its money.
Two new system member woke up this year, Cable, who we hadn't seen since we were around 11, and Elizabeth who had never been awake in the system before. Monet/Lucrecia joined us in our partner's system this year as well, which was a hell of a day.
In January of 2024 we had started keeping a paper journal, which we worked on quite diligently-- for a month. We're planning to try again this year but I don't expect it to turn out a lot better.
We made roast duck for christmas this year, which was a first. It came out really well, and I'm hoping to make it a tradition. I don't plan to make the movie we watched with christmas dinner a tradition though. 1985's Santa Claus the movie apparently bombed for a good reason.
The system members who were the most active this year were probably: Chris, Hubert, Kaoru, Hal and Jas, Kirigiri (me), Jasmine, and Nikolai. Which, interestingly aside from Kaoru is the old gang from back in high school.
At the end of May we (Kaoru/Bobby, Hubert and Athena) went to the local zoo which was probably the best day trip of the whole year. We have a ton of photos and everyone had a wonderful time, even if we were really tired by the time we got back. The hot dog place Bobby found for us to eat at on the way home was also killer and we've been back there a few times already.
In October we made baklava for partner's work potluck and it came out amazing! I couldn't have a lot of it, but I was really impressed with how well it turned out despite us never having made it before. It just goes to show you how well cooking/baking will go as long as you follow the recipe.
We had a couple of fun trips in early June. There was a trip to the big thrift mall which was really enjoyable, and on June 2nd, which was the day that one piece "really hit" Komaru/Buggy and Leon/Shanks put a bunch of picnic food in the cooler, got in the car and did a spontaneous beach trip.
Here at the very end of the year, we've finally been able to get into drawing again without pain, which marks the end of an extremely frustrating 3 year hiatus. I can't say enough how much drawing does for our mental health.
The new year is always tied up with our birthday for us, since it's so close to it. In just two weeks we'll be in the final year of our thirties, before we hit the big "40" in 2026. We started this journal back in high school. It's a hell of a thing to be still updating it today, even hosted on another website.
I don't know. I felt nostalgic this morning.
It was a good year. A really good year.
Had black coffee (decaf), and peanut butter mousse (peanutbutter, cream cheese, heavy cream, vanilla, sweetener) for breakfast and that was very enjoyable.
Sitting here now, deciding how to use the last day of calendar year 2024.
What a year it's been.
Started the year writing Resident Evil. Then moved to writing Urusei Yatsura. After that, Ace Attorney, and we actually finished a whole, very well received Ace Attorney longfic, though I have a lot of complicated feelings about it.
We read the entirety of One Piece this year, starting in May. It took us about 2 months to catch up and it was a very frustrating experience in a lot of ways. There are just enough things to like about One Piece to keep us coming back.
Now, here at the end of the year we've gotten back into Final Fantasy 7, which was not at all what I expected. Honestly the material is a lot more natively enjoyable than OP, which is refreshing.
According to AO3 statistics, partner and we wrote over a million words this year, which I think is pretty impressive. it's definitely our highest recorded word count. It might even be our highest ever yearly word count, though the year we wrote Danganronpa 4 might have given it a run for its money.
Two new system member woke up this year, Cable, who we hadn't seen since we were around 11, and Elizabeth who had never been awake in the system before. Monet/Lucrecia joined us in our partner's system this year as well, which was a hell of a day.
In January of 2024 we had started keeping a paper journal, which we worked on quite diligently-- for a month. We're planning to try again this year but I don't expect it to turn out a lot better.
We made roast duck for christmas this year, which was a first. It came out really well, and I'm hoping to make it a tradition. I don't plan to make the movie we watched with christmas dinner a tradition though. 1985's Santa Claus the movie apparently bombed for a good reason.
The system members who were the most active this year were probably: Chris, Hubert, Kaoru, Hal and Jas, Kirigiri (me), Jasmine, and Nikolai. Which, interestingly aside from Kaoru is the old gang from back in high school.
At the end of May we (Kaoru/Bobby, Hubert and Athena) went to the local zoo which was probably the best day trip of the whole year. We have a ton of photos and everyone had a wonderful time, even if we were really tired by the time we got back. The hot dog place Bobby found for us to eat at on the way home was also killer and we've been back there a few times already.
In October we made baklava for partner's work potluck and it came out amazing! I couldn't have a lot of it, but I was really impressed with how well it turned out despite us never having made it before. It just goes to show you how well cooking/baking will go as long as you follow the recipe.
We had a couple of fun trips in early June. There was a trip to the big thrift mall which was really enjoyable, and on June 2nd, which was the day that one piece "really hit" Komaru/Buggy and Leon/Shanks put a bunch of picnic food in the cooler, got in the car and did a spontaneous beach trip.
Here at the very end of the year, we've finally been able to get into drawing again without pain, which marks the end of an extremely frustrating 3 year hiatus. I can't say enough how much drawing does for our mental health.
The new year is always tied up with our birthday for us, since it's so close to it. In just two weeks we'll be in the final year of our thirties, before we hit the big "40" in 2026. We started this journal back in high school. It's a hell of a thing to be still updating it today, even hosted on another website.
I don't know. I felt nostalgic this morning.
It was a good year. A really good year.