EAD Birthday Bash + 2021 Fandom Goals

[darkrosaleen]

In my year end wrap up, I mentioned that I didn't write a single treat in 2020; I actually hadn't written a treat since Trick or Treat 2019. I have since posted my first treat in over a year, and it's a joke spreadsheet.

I joined Exchanges After Dark (an 18+ fic exchange discord server) at the end of December, and a couple weeks later I signed up for their annual Birthday Bash exchange, a badfic/crack flash exchange where typical gifts include macaroni art, Lorax erotica, and spreadsheets. The atmosphere in EAD is delightfully chaotic and takes almost nothing in fandom seriously, which is what I desperately wanted from my exchange experience.

For this exchange, I created only spreadsheets and received only (o)possums. If you're like me and Going Through Some Shit, maybe bad possum fanart will make your day a little better like it did mine.

My possum haul

Sesame Street spreadsheet
The Raven Cycle spreadsheet

Speaking of, I have a discord! I'm even online sometimes! It's darkrosaleen#2516, if we've talked on here feel free to friend me.
I didn't include 2021 goals in my year end wrap up post, but I sat on it for a while and came up with a list. It's not a super ambitious list, but I have a lot more free time these days (sob) and 2020 taught me that while I need flexibility and gentleness with my goals, I feel better if I'm actually doing things.

-Post twice as many fics as exchanges I sign up for (for my purposes, a pinch hit I take for an exchange I'm not signed up for counts as 1 signup)

-Sign up for no more than three traditional exchanges, but as many flash or experimental format exchanges as I want

-Sign up for Darkest Night with a set of violence/death/horror-related freeforms

-Write some of the following things, which I never got to write last year because I only wrote for exchanges/the exchange gods laughed at my gaming attempts:

Second person POV
Rule 63
Extreme graphic violence
More of my niche kinks
The extremely specific BDSM scenarios I always request and never receive
Reylo
More kink negotiation
Deeply, hilariously personal 00s settings
Epistolary fic (I worked on an original epistolary novel last year and it was SO FUN)

-Post a complete original work online outside of an exchange