PebbleInALake

Challenge: tvmovie20in20
Claim: Star Wars
Deadline: June 14th, 2025

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Fandom: Star Wars (Rebels)
Characters: Chopper, Kanan Jarrus
Words: 200
Notes: For starwars100 Prompt #001b Droid. Set shortly after the novel "A New Dawn".

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Challenge: tvmovie20in20
Claim: The Pitt
Deadline: May 8th, 2025

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It's May 1st, marking the one-third point in the year. I figured today was a good time to check in with my yearly goals and see where I'm at. Overall, it's not bad. I'm feeling pretty good about where I'm at for each of the goals so far.

Fandom goals:
- Write 90k words
I'm currently at 38,500 words for the year. That puts me ahead of schedule for reaching 90k by the end of the year, so I'm pretty optimistic that I can make it.

- Finish 3 WIPs
None finished yet, but I have made some progress on several of them.

- Create 100 icons/graphics
Done!

- Update website every month
Keeping up this one so far. I've actually made some major updates on both the main site and my Briarwood Scrolls site.

- Move Superman fansite to new host
No progress yet.

- Move Librarian fansite to new host
No progress yet.

- Finish one of my bingo cards
I've crossed off a few new squares. Gonna try harder on this one during the summer.

- Create two new fanvids
Started my first new fanvid for the year.

Challenge: smallfandombang
Fandom: La Femme Nikita (TV)
Author: abby82
Link to fic: On AO3

My entry for the smallfandombang comm's Round 14. Three moodboards for the awesome fic "chance is the only game i play with" by abby82.

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Title: Green Eyes
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Verse: Morey UCLA Years
Characters/Pairings: Mason/Corey
Rating: G
Words: 200

Notes: Another double drabble for the fandom_empire Fandom Rush challenge. Takes place post-series when Mason and Corey are at college. They have an apartment together off campus.

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I finally saw "Captain America: Brave New World" yesterday. I actually hadn't intended to watch it at all. I'm more of a DC fan than Marvel, and with the rapid decline in quality the MCU has been suffering from lately, I've pretty much lost interest in their movies altogether at this point. But, I saw a trailer for CA:BNW on youtube and it looked pretty fun so I went.

Maybe it's because I went into the theater expecting less than nothing, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. No, it's not a great movie by any means (to be fair, most MCU movies aren't either), but it is good and I had a fun time watching it. Tbh I'm confused by the level of bad reviews I saw online after the opening weekend. If nothing else, it was far better than most of the other content Marvel has been churning out the past few years.

There were a few issues with pacing and one action scene fell kinda flat for me. (Also, there is one rather important moment in the climax that I wish had been done better, but I'll get to that later.) Other than that, I really didn't see anything wrong with the movie. It had some solid action scenes, an intriguing mystery plot, and genuinely good character moments for everyone. Also, as someone who loved "The Incredible Hulk" movie, it was fun to see so many callbacks to that one.

Overall, I liked it quite a bit more than I thought I would. Not a favorite superhero movie for me, but I definitely wouldn't mind buying this one when it comes out on DVD. As a side note, I took my roommate with me, and she actually is a huge MCU fan who was going solely to hate watch it (she wanted to hate it on principle due to them replacing Steve as Captain America) and even she enjoyed it.

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Some Stargate icons for the fandom_empire Fandom Rush challenge.




As always, my icons are up for grabs, just please credit me. :)

I didn't do too bad on my goal list for last year, so here's hoping for an even more successful 2025!

Fandom goals:
- Write 90k words
- Finish 3 WIPs
- Create 100 icons/graphics
- Update website every month
- Move Superman fansite to new host
- Move Librarian fansite to new host
- Finish one of my bingo cards
- Create two new fanvids

Community goals:
- Be more active in sweetandshort this year
- Complete one full card at comment_bingo
- Be more active in trope_of_the_month
- Post to dreamwidth/tumblr more this year

Can't believe 2024 is over already. Where did the year go??
Time to check in on my yearly goal list and see how I did for this year.

Personal/fandom goals:
- Write 80k words
Total: 122,398
- Finish 2 WIPs
Total: 4 WIPs finished
- Create 100 icons
Total: 100 completed!
- Keep working on my website
Finished several new pages and launched two new sites!
- Move my Superman fansite off GoogleSites
...nope. Sadly failed on this one.
- Finish one of my bingo cards
Came so close on a few, but didn't actually finish any
- Create two new fanvids
Only created one new fanvid this year

Community goals:
(All of my community goals kinda fell apart due to irl stuff, but I'm just gonna transfer them over to my 2025 goal list and try again.)

Also, two life goals were completed this year: Finished NaNoWriMo for the first time ever, and took my childhood dream vacation to Branson. They weren't on the yearly goals list, but still want to celebrate getting those off the bucket list.

Overall, not a bad year. Didn't get all the goals done, but got a lot of them done or at least mostly done, so I'm happy. On to 2025 now!