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[usuallyhats]

A few days late, but happy new year! This isn't a full end of year round up post, because I am bad at that kind of reflective thinking, and am really more of a just trying to make it to Friday person than a goals and achievements person, but here's a few things:

• 2022 was quite a hard year in a lot of ways: between the ongoing pandemic, work feeling like it was constantly busy, and some really sad and hard things happening to some of my favourite people, I just feel like I spent the whole time getting more and more tired. But there were also some really wonderful times with said favourite people, real beacons of joy and care and community. <3


• One definite good thing was that I got back into vidding this year, by which I mean I was finally hit with an idea both strong enough and easy enough to get started on that it managed to override all the bad brain stuff that had got itself attached to vidding over the last few years. I only made a couple of vids this year, but I've never been hugely prolific, and the most important thing is that making them felt easy and fun again (aside from the usual yelling about what a terrible hobby vidding is) in a way that didn't seem possible a year ago.


• I didn't watch much new-to-me TV this year, other than new episodes of Taskmaster and Critical Role, but I absolutely loved The Legend of Vox Machina (of course) and A League of Their Own. I'm also halfway through a group watch of Nirvana in Fire, which I've never seen before and am absolutely loving. Everything about it is just so good??? All the time??? How???


• Oh and I've also picked up my very slow Classic Who rewatch again, I'm two thirds of the way through The Dalek's Master Plan and having a great time. Maybe a post about that soon.


• I read a lot of books this year, and more to the point, read a lot of books that I loved. A few of this year's books were rereads, which is something I've been really struggling with these last few years - I'm still not doing amazingly at being able to reread in general, but I do seem to be able to reread Discworld, which is a huge relief.


• I'm not really doing resolutions at the moment, but this year I do want to try and finish at least one of the books that have been hanging around on my "currently reading" tag on Goodreads for years, plus maybe knock a few more things off the "owned, unread" tag (a holdover from when I imported my LibraryThing account approximately one hundred million years ago). I'd also like to try and keep my "want to read" tag out of triple figures (possibly by doing some judicious pruning of things that I'm not sure I actually do want to read at this stage), but if I don't manage that, that's ok - I'd rather have a ballooning tbr list than not make a note of a book I might love.

Comments

[marah_sarie]

I am happy you are vidding again! Also your post has made me realise how much I miss Classic Who?? I haven't watched any in ages. It's an anniversary year, so even better for rewatching some classic serials -- I should really do that! Happy New Year, and I hope 2023 treats you well!

[usuallyhats]

Yay, excellent, what a good idea! I picked up this rewatch because seeing other people talk about Classic Who also made me realise I missed it, so I'm glad I could pass that on. :D Happy New Year!