Black Rose

I posted five fics to AO3 in 2025, in addition to being a neutral spreadsheet mod for Battleship. I watched a couple TV shows, a lot of movies, and read a whopping 12 books for the first time in years. 2025 was a weird year.

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Fandom Goals

Here are my 2025 fandom goals, none of which I accomplished:

Don't participate in bangs/fests/exchanges until July 1 or I've posted 2 fics outside an event, whichever comes first (not counting my in-progress treat for Candy Hearts)
Post 4 fics outside of bangs/fests/exchanges
Post 3 unfinished fics from the past two years
Post one work to AO3 that isn't fic
Post my Stranger Things post-canon Will/Mike/Eleven fic before the final season comes out and josses everything

My 2025 royally sucked for reasons that had nothing to do with politics or current events (so all that suckiness was happening in addition to the other suckiness). It's honestly a miracle that I wrote anything, let alone that I wrote things and modded one of the biggest most complex exchanges in fandom and read twelve books to completion.

Instead of making more goals I won't meet, I'm going to list a bunch of good things that happened to me in 2025, because it's important to remember that good things happened.

-I finished twelve books, the most I've read in probably a decade. Some of those books are going to be forever favorites.
-A lot of people had a great time with Battleship despite the stress, and my hard work and time commitment made that happen.
-Oasis reunited!! I couldn't travel to see their reunion tour because life sucked, but good quality concert videos on YouTube got me through a really tough month.
-I got to see Jaws and Scream on the big screen for the first time.
-The "I Lied To You" dance sequence in Sinners exists.
-Will Byers got a nosebleed, which I've been desperately wanting to see since season two.
-I got to see Mission Impossible stunts in IMAX for the first time, and the arctic sub sequence in Final Reckoning was absolutely worth the wait.
-I got to see The Brutalist in 70mm, and the part in the beginning where the camera flips over to film the upside down Statue of Liberty took my breath away.
-Stardew Valley was a much needed escape this year, and my himbo husband Alex was always there to tell me how buff I'd gotten from farming.
-The Stranger Things finale was much kinder to my ships than I anticipated, and the Duffers did two things I really wanted them to do.

For boring real life reasons, I've had much more free time in 2021 than I did even in 2020. I'm apparently coping by binge-consuming every piece of media on my to do list. Some of them are developing into fandom interests, so I figured I'd dump them all in a post.

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