2024 Goals

[phantomtomato]

Spurred by today’s Snowflake Challenge, some things I want to accomplish in the coming year:

• Post at least twelve journal entries about my reading, an average of one a month. I wrote ten of these last year but fell off immensely during the autumn term. Accommodating the possibility of another busy term, I won’t hold myself to precisely one per month… I also like the option of doing more than one post per month when I hit a book that I think merits its own post… but if I can hit ten, I can hit twelve!


• Publish 150k words on AO3 (aka my pledge level for getyourwordsout!)


• Write fic for one of my canons-of-one. I dream up all these fic ideas when I read books, but the fact that there’s no one else in the fandom and no fic on AO3 means they always end up at the bottom of the priority list. I keep thinking that bethefirst is going to motivate me, but that’s not quite been effective, so… for just one of these nobody-fandoms, sit down and write something for myself. If it aligns with bethefirst, great! If not, also great! But write it for my own sake.


• get tenure

I’m on my way to my first reading post of the year, at least! Just cracked open Where Angels Fear to Tread today and Forster’s writing should make this a breeze.

Comments

[phantomtomato]

Congratulations!! Applying to doctoral programs is so exciting; I hope you land in a lovely department with a supportive advisor! And I’ll be looking out for your posts in the coming months!

Howards End has been in a few exchange tagsets recently, I think? I’m sure I’ll have to get to it eventually, and A Room With a View, if I’m going to someday call myself a proper Forsterite. I hope you write it up when you finish!

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

Thank you 💖 I love my thesis project, and both my prospective advisors have been absolutely lovely so far - I feel like I've found the right niche and the right place to be. My disability makes engaging with some aspects of academia quite challenging, but I still wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Crossing fingers that you get tenure this year!

I requested Howards End for Yuletide, and received two lovely fics for it! It's a canon that lends itself quite well to femslash, as it contains a very intesne and unusual female friendship.