Re: 2019 Resolutions
Dec. 29th, 2019 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI want to be a better plant parent.
I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me, but sometimes plants die. At the beginning of the year, I was like, What is happening to my beautiful children?!?!?, completely failing to take into consideration the fact that this is the first time in my entire life that I’ve lived in the same physical location long enough for my plants to mature. I released my geriatric plants into the wild, gave the ones that got too large for me to handle to people who had a more appropriate space to keep them, and repotted the rest.
I want to play more video games!
I sure did spend two hundred hours on another playthrough of Breath of the Wild, not to mention an additional one-hundred-plus hours on Final Fantasy XII. I lost momentum after that and played like maybe the opening hour of a handful of smaller indie games that never succeeded in capturing my attention. Instead of investing time and energy into new games, I compulsively played Ocarina of Time from start to finish four times in a row. I’m not sure this counts as meeting the resolution, but I’ll let it pass.
I'd like to archive all my old Legend of Zelda meta on AO3.
Done.
I want to express appreciation to more writers through Kofi.
I did, but only to the tune of about one donation per month. Not that many writers have Kofi. I wrote a long post about this on Tumblr about a month ago, for what it’s worth.
I am going to start and finish reading House of Leaves.
This pretentious piece of garbage isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, but I read every godawful word of it.
I don’t feel like I accomplished much during the past twelve months in terms of quantifiable objectives, but I do feel like a different person than I was at the beginning of the year. I was in a very dark place for most of 2018, and this year has mostly been about trying to find my way out. I’m not sure what to say, except that I’m getting there.
I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me, but sometimes plants die. At the beginning of the year, I was like, What is happening to my beautiful children?!?!?, completely failing to take into consideration the fact that this is the first time in my entire life that I’ve lived in the same physical location long enough for my plants to mature. I released my geriatric plants into the wild, gave the ones that got too large for me to handle to people who had a more appropriate space to keep them, and repotted the rest.
I want to play more video games!
I sure did spend two hundred hours on another playthrough of Breath of the Wild, not to mention an additional one-hundred-plus hours on Final Fantasy XII. I lost momentum after that and played like maybe the opening hour of a handful of smaller indie games that never succeeded in capturing my attention. Instead of investing time and energy into new games, I compulsively played Ocarina of Time from start to finish four times in a row. I’m not sure this counts as meeting the resolution, but I’ll let it pass.
I'd like to archive all my old Legend of Zelda meta on AO3.
Done.
I want to express appreciation to more writers through Kofi.
I did, but only to the tune of about one donation per month. Not that many writers have Kofi. I wrote a long post about this on Tumblr about a month ago, for what it’s worth.
I am going to start and finish reading House of Leaves.
This pretentious piece of garbage isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, but I read every godawful word of it.
I don’t feel like I accomplished much during the past twelve months in terms of quantifiable objectives, but I do feel like a different person than I was at the beginning of the year. I was in a very dark place for most of 2018, and this year has mostly been about trying to find my way out. I’m not sure what to say, except that I’m getting there.
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Date: 2020-01-02 12:59 am (UTC)2019 was a big recovery year for me too. I have hopes that 2020 will be awesome for both of us.
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Date: 2020-01-02 03:15 pm (UTC)I will be honest with you, the only reason I put so much effort into reading House of Leaves is so that I would be able to viciously tear apart the people (almost always older men) who insist on informing me that it is A Great Work of Literature and that I Will Learn So Much by reading it.
My strategy is to ask them what they enjoyed about the and then proceed to explain, in excruciating detail, why whatever it is doesn't particularly work that well in context. People usually leave me alone after that...
...usually because it soon becomes painfully clear that they haven't actually read the book themselves.
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Date: 2020-01-02 08:23 pm (UTC)I'm at the point in my writing where I definitely am realizing how much I don't know how to do and how far I have to do, which is frustrating because I'm not even published yet, but I guess I get to try with a first novel that will be more polished, maybe? Sigh.
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Date: 2020-01-07 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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