flamingsword | Snowflake 8! (Reply)

Challenge #8
In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Things I won at this year:

I wrote a character fairly believably, even though her personality diverges from mine at most points? Yay for reading enough Darcy Lewis-centric fanfic to have a handle on how fandom portrays her.

I think I’m learning how to give up on stuff that is bad for me in my personal life? When my friend broke off our friendship, I did not immediately fight for getting back a friendship that was emotionally draining and slightly toxic on both sides. I recognized that we both have other, better friends and let go, and I am really proud of that.

I have blogged way more this year than last, even though it’s my own stuff and not therapy content. (Which admittedly I should get back to.)

I have still not gotten covid. A lot of that is luck, but some of it is also choosing to do almost all stuff online that I wanted to do in person. I’m so grateful to past me for being a paranoid little shit.

I hope you, too, are proud of yourselves, for making it through another hellish year. You survived! Thank you!