Today's slice of life
Jan. 3rd, 2022 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12The last few days of holidays have passed exactly as I wanted: yoga every day, walks around the river loop, a bit of cooking, a bit of tidying and decluttering, and quite a lot of reading. I'll say more about the books read so far in later posts, but I felt I had to say something about Perhaps the Stars, the conclusion to Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series, because it first hit me in the heart in Chapter Four, and then kept punching.
I read the book in two days, but the last fifty pages took me over an hour to finish, because I couldn't stop crying. What a staggeringly, breathtakingly, compassionately human achievement this book, and this series is. If you have read it, you will understand why this specific description is the highest praise I could give it.
(The book also confirmed what I knew from the very first chapter of Too Like the Lightning beyond any doubt: I am a Cousin to my bones, right down to their worst hypocrises, which were on full display in this book!)
Challenge #2
In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I've already set my non-fannish goals in my 2021 yearly meme a few posts back, so I won't rehash those. That post also includes some more general online presence-type goals (in summary, avoid Twitter, be chatty and present on Dreamwidth). My other main goal is to increase my participation in exchanges, challenges, fests and similar. In 2020, I wrote my main gift and five treats in Yuletide, I participated in![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomtrees and sunshine_challenge and wrote a bunch of extra fic. In 2021, I wrote ... my one assignment fic for Yuletide. I know that was all I could manage, but I want to do more in 2022. My goals, in concrete terms: at least one fic in addition to the main assignment in Yuletide, at least one fic produced for a non-Yuletide exchange/fest/challenge, and at least one fic written not for any exchange/fest/challenge. I think that's achievable.
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And tomorrow it's back to work (from home, thankfully, for the rest of the week). I feel fortified. These two weeks on holiday at home have been so deeply, deeply restorative.
I read the book in two days, but the last fifty pages took me over an hour to finish, because I couldn't stop crying. What a staggeringly, breathtakingly, compassionately human achievement this book, and this series is. If you have read it, you will understand why this specific description is the highest praise I could give it.
(The book also confirmed what I knew from the very first chapter of Too Like the Lightning beyond any doubt: I am a Cousin to my bones, right down to their worst hypocrises, which were on full display in this book!)
Challenge #2
In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I've already set my non-fannish goals in my 2021 yearly meme a few posts back, so I won't rehash those. That post also includes some more general online presence-type goals (in summary, avoid Twitter, be chatty and present on Dreamwidth). My other main goal is to increase my participation in exchanges, challenges, fests and similar. In 2020, I wrote my main gift and five treats in Yuletide, I participated in
fandomtrees and sunshine_challenge and wrote a bunch of extra fic. In 2021, I wrote ... my one assignment fic for Yuletide. I know that was all I could manage, but I want to do more in 2022. My goals, in concrete terms: at least one fic in addition to the main assignment in Yuletide, at least one fic produced for a non-Yuletide exchange/fest/challenge, and at least one fic written not for any exchange/fest/challenge. I think that's achievable.And tomorrow it's back to work (from home, thankfully, for the rest of the week). I feel fortified. These two weeks on holiday at home have been so deeply, deeply restorative.