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meridian_rose

[originally made and posted at Lands of Magic for a holiday challenge December 2024 and I was rather in a rush...]

Come to my Christmas Party! With an alphabet themed playlist, food, drink, and festive dress! Pets definitely making an appearance. Plus 2 desktop wallpapers.
1 x fanmix 26 tracks + front cover
4 tumblr size graphics featuring a mix of stock and a lot of my photos advertising my party
2 desktop wallpapers
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meridian_rose

Fic meme from

kitarella_imagines at this page:

If you’ve written fics for more than one year on AO3, go to your statistics page. Click on the different years at the top to see the categories of statistics for each year.( Read more... )
Thoughts

I've been through every iteration of "comments are great" to "I can't bear to read comments" and how important or not comments/hits are.
I know I skew to the smaller fandoms and often rare pairs and/or non-explicit fic. So looking back I've been lucky to have had some good comments, a decent number of subscriptions and bookmarks over the years. When I was part of communities focussed on particular fandoms I wrote more often, I posted more often, I read and commented more often.

It seems my peak was 2016-2017 though. And part of that is the shift to tumblr and Discord and away from LiveJournal and Dreamwidth and the resulting lack of community and connection. My output has decreased for various reasons. I often struggle to 'bother' to write unless it's for a challenge community or gift exchange unless I'm really excited/riled up by canon.

It's been interesting to complete this meme and I've had a lot of nostalgic feelings and looked back over fic I was/am proud of, but overall it seems the (my) heyday is gone.