Two End of Year Memes for 2022
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redfiona99Yes, the fact that I'm only posting these in March 2023 does reflect how busy I have been.
1) Was 2022 a good year for you?
It was fun. Stupendously busy in parts but fun. I like fun.
2) What was your favourite moment of the year?
I am going to have to split this into several options.
So favourite for reasons that make no sense beyond how lovely she was to the crowd at the Commonwealth Games - Jazmin Sawyers bronze in the European Championships. I know this is supposed to be about me, but you have no idea how lovely she was.
Option 2 - Engel, live, Rammstein, close enough to smoulder from the pyros (then again - those pyros ...)
Option 3 - The view over onto the sea in Tenby the first night there.
Option 4 - Same holiday - I got to meet my sloth (okay, more reasonably, I got to see the enclosure where the sloth a friend sponsored for my birthday lives) (she features in this video - https://www.folly-farm.co.uk/news/sloth-retirement-home-upgrade/)
Option 5 - The electroslice worked and I got my smear test all clear.
3) What was your least favourite moment of the year?
Anything to do with the BIFT. I am particularly fond of the yearly go round of "you need more referees, any means and price necessary" followed by "why have we spent so much on referees?" the week after the competition. In 2021 it upset me, in 2022 I was prepared and merely have rage. I spent 3 days in full on Emergency Goran mode. No-one wants me in Emergency Goran mode for extended periods of time.
4) Where were you when 2022 began?
Bradford
5) Who were you with?
The mothership
6) Where will you be when 2022 ends? / Where were you when 2022 ended?
7) Who will you be with when 2022 ends? / Who were you with when 2022 ended?
Also Bradford, also the mothership.
8) Did you keep your new years resolution of 2022?
The flat is still not tidy, but the fencing twice a week did mostly happen.
9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2023?
Tidy flat (stop laughing over there), gym more consistently - the rail strikes are really not helping with that.
10) Did you fall in love in 2022?
No.
11) If yes, with who?
12) If yes, do they know?
13) Do you regret it?
14) Did you breakup with anyone in 2022?
No.
15) Did you make any new friends in 2022?
There continues to be a lack of opportunity, unless we include new fencers (who are all lovely). I have been better at keeping in touch with old friends, including old ones now unexpectedly in Wolverhampton.
16) Who are your favourite new friends?
See above.
17) What was your favourite month of 2022?
Oooh, this ones difficult, because there's May into June which featured Iceland, Vienna and Germany.
Or July into August which featured my all-clear, Rammstein and the Commonwealth Games.
Or October into November which featured holiday, sloths, fencing and the Rugby League World Cup semi.
18) Did you travel outside of theUS UK in 2022?
Yes, apparently work were determined I would make up for the travel I haven't been doing, so Iceland, Austria, Germany and the US.
19) How many different states did you travel to in 2022?
Hey, for once I can answer this. It was supposed to be Louisiana (not counting Charlotte or Chicago because I was just flying through them). It ended up being UK to Charlotte to New Orleans, no problem, New Orleans to Chicago, many problems, overnight in Chicago, down to Dallas, back to UK.
20) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2022?
Thankfully no.
21) Did you miss anybody in the past year?
Mostly old uni friends.
22) What was your favourite movie that you saw in 2022?
Cyrano. I repeat, crying through 3/4s of it.
23) What was your favourite song from 2022?
So, two answers:
1 - song that was new to me in 2022
2 - song actually new in 2022
(No, I will not include "Dicke Titten" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thJgU9jkdU4) even though I love it for all the wrong reasons - Til Lindermann wrote a song that rhymes and scans in translation as well and knew full well he was doing it)
24) What was your favourite record from 2022?
I repeat my traditional "my backlogs have backlogs" note.
25) How many concerts did you see in 2022?
One - Rammstein. After waiting for 2 years due to COVID. M is awesome.
26) Did you have a favourite concert in 2022?
Did I mention, Rammstein, live?
27) What was your favourite book of 2022?
I didn't do enough reading. I need to read more.
28) Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2022?
No, the "this much is enough" has finally sunken in.
29) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2022?
No.
30) How many people did you sleep with in 2022?
0
31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year?
I should have been nicer to a couple of people. I am working on this.
32) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2022?
"Everything is fine". Everything apparently was not fine and they've told everyone except the people who could try to fix it.
33) Did you treat somebody badly in 2022?
Not deliberately, accidental unthinking unkindness which will be rooted out.
34) Did somebody treat you badly in 2022?
Not deliberately, I don't think, but people need to learn that I do not respond well to be backed into metaphorical corners.
35) How much money did you spend in 2022?
Not that much. I have been good and saved a lot.
36) What was your proudest moment of 2022?
I won a knock out match at the Merseyside. Which I've done before but still.
I also won a match at the Welsh which I hadn't done before, and a knockout match at the BIFT. Which, okay I was the higher seed in but only just. I got 4 hits on an Olympian. I made an Olympian complain at the referee because she wasn't hitting me. That last one will take some beating.
37) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2022 and change something, what would it be?
I am actually pretty solidly happy with 2022.
38) What are your plans for 2023?
Um, usual plan to storm the fencing rankings, tidy the flat, new PBs in the gym. Grander plans including the vaguest of vague plans to walk Hadrian's Wall this summer. It is still in the planning stage.
My Year In Fic
Fics
No one likes to hear I told you so - https://archiveofourown.org/works/39926601 Entirely selfish Mission: Impossible 2 fic.
Running Till The Road Runs Out - https://archiveofourown.org/works/36749140 The much muttered about canon-welding Wolverine: Origins into the original trilogy Gambit fic.
A Suitable Husband - https://archiveofourown.org/works/42493275 Last of the Summer Wine lgbtfest fic
Take the treasured dreams, but leave me what I've found - https://archiveofourown.org/works/37415680 the Jamie Noble + Mickey James gen fic with background Jamie/Layla and sinister Regal
What He'd Never Thought To Want - https://archiveofourown.org/works/41668761 Tsubasa KuroFai identity porn, or "every Tsubasa writer writes a furisode fic"
Yet Here We Are - https://archiveofourown.org/works/36252073 Irene Adler-centric Sherlock sort of gen fic
6 fics rather than the 12 I was aiming for, it was all going so well and then the second half of the year happened. I feel the same is likely to happen in 2023.
My favourite story this year:
My best story this year:
I would split these out, with my favourite being the one I like the most, and best being the one with the most hits on AO3 but "What He'd Never Thought To Want" is by a long way the fic with the most hits. It's probably also the best technically. It does what I intended it to do, in the style I wanted it to be in.
Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Yet Here We Are. Apparently, no one wants Adler gen fic!
Most fun story: Take the treasured dreams, but leave me what I've found - Jamie is just adorbs and Mickie really is the best bro ever.
Most sexy story: What He'd Never Thought To Want by a long way.
Story with single sexiest moment: Yet Here We Are - "She finds herself imagining what different implements would sound like against his skin, how they would feel, how it would feel."
Hardest story to write: Running Till The Road Runs Out - It's been worked on in fits and starts since at least 2010 (going off my yearly WIP posts). The content wasn't the problem so much as Gambit, who reveals nothing, have to feel in a safe enough space to reveal stuff, and having to write that space convincingly. Of course, since I posted it I've visited New Orleans so there's things I'd tweak to get the vibe of the place closer to right, but I am quite happy with how it turned out.
"Holy crap, that's *wrong*, even for you" story: No One Likes To Hear I Told You So - In my defense, the wrong is canonical.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: No so much shifted, but "Take the treasured dreams, but leave me what I've found" shifted from being Jamie/Mickie to Jamie&Mickie, and between them throughout the writing process, and I spent a lot of time thinking about the difference between what "I, the consumer" might want, "I, the writer" want to write and what fitted the characters.
Biggest disappointment: Complete lack of response for Yet Here We Are. Given I've also written different Irenes Adler and gotten many hits, I am not sure what about queer gen Sherlock! Irene didn't attract attention ... probably every word in that description ;) (As you can tell it's less disappointment and more intrigue)
Biggest surprise: A Suitable Husband was not supposed to be that bleak by the end of it. Like, I have no idea how that happened.
Most unintentionally telling story: Um, there is probably slightly too much of me in Yet Here We Are's Irene. Lots of it is me. Like, I get miffed at people who are like "your kink is a sign of some form of trauma." It really isn't. It just is a think that's entirely hardwired in me, probably more so than my orientation is.
1) Was 2022 a good year for you?
It was fun. Stupendously busy in parts but fun. I like fun.
2) What was your favourite moment of the year?
I am going to have to split this into several options.
So favourite for reasons that make no sense beyond how lovely she was to the crowd at the Commonwealth Games - Jazmin Sawyers bronze in the European Championships. I know this is supposed to be about me, but you have no idea how lovely she was.
Option 2 - Engel, live, Rammstein, close enough to smoulder from the pyros (then again - those pyros ...)
Option 3 - The view over onto the sea in Tenby the first night there.
Option 4 - Same holiday - I got to meet my sloth (okay, more reasonably, I got to see the enclosure where the sloth a friend sponsored for my birthday lives) (she features in this video - https://www.folly-farm.co.uk/news/sloth-retirement-home-upgrade/)
Option 5 - The electroslice worked and I got my smear test all clear.
3) What was your least favourite moment of the year?
Anything to do with the BIFT. I am particularly fond of the yearly go round of "you need more referees, any means and price necessary" followed by "why have we spent so much on referees?" the week after the competition. In 2021 it upset me, in 2022 I was prepared and merely have rage. I spent 3 days in full on Emergency Goran mode. No-one wants me in Emergency Goran mode for extended periods of time.
4) Where were you when 2022 began?
Bradford
5) Who were you with?
The mothership
6) Where will you be when 2022 ends? / Where were you when 2022 ended?
7) Who will you be with when 2022 ends? / Who were you with when 2022 ended?
Also Bradford, also the mothership.
8) Did you keep your new years resolution of 2022?
The flat is still not tidy, but the fencing twice a week did mostly happen.
9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2023?
Tidy flat (stop laughing over there), gym more consistently - the rail strikes are really not helping with that.
10) Did you fall in love in 2022?
No.
11) If yes, with who?
12) If yes, do they know?
13) Do you regret it?
14) Did you breakup with anyone in 2022?
No.
15) Did you make any new friends in 2022?
There continues to be a lack of opportunity, unless we include new fencers (who are all lovely). I have been better at keeping in touch with old friends, including old ones now unexpectedly in Wolverhampton.
16) Who are your favourite new friends?
See above.
17) What was your favourite month of 2022?
Oooh, this ones difficult, because there's May into June which featured Iceland, Vienna and Germany.
Or July into August which featured my all-clear, Rammstein and the Commonwealth Games.
Or October into November which featured holiday, sloths, fencing and the Rugby League World Cup semi.
18) Did you travel outside of the
Yes, apparently work were determined I would make up for the travel I haven't been doing, so Iceland, Austria, Germany and the US.
19) How many different states did you travel to in 2022?
Hey, for once I can answer this. It was supposed to be Louisiana (not counting Charlotte or Chicago because I was just flying through them). It ended up being UK to Charlotte to New Orleans, no problem, New Orleans to Chicago, many problems, overnight in Chicago, down to Dallas, back to UK.
20) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2022?
Thankfully no.
21) Did you miss anybody in the past year?
Mostly old uni friends.
22) What was your favourite movie that you saw in 2022?
Cyrano. I repeat, crying through 3/4s of it.
23) What was your favourite song from 2022?
So, two answers:
1 - song that was new to me in 2022
2 - song actually new in 2022
(No, I will not include "Dicke Titten" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thJgU9jkdU4) even though I love it for all the wrong reasons - Til Lindermann wrote a song that rhymes and scans in translation as well and knew full well he was doing it)
24) What was your favourite record from 2022?
I repeat my traditional "my backlogs have backlogs" note.
25) How many concerts did you see in 2022?
One - Rammstein. After waiting for 2 years due to COVID. M is awesome.
26) Did you have a favourite concert in 2022?
Did I mention, Rammstein, live?
27) What was your favourite book of 2022?
I didn't do enough reading. I need to read more.
28) Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2022?
No, the "this much is enough" has finally sunken in.
29) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2022?
No.
30) How many people did you sleep with in 2022?
0
31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year?
I should have been nicer to a couple of people. I am working on this.
32) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2022?
"Everything is fine". Everything apparently was not fine and they've told everyone except the people who could try to fix it.
33) Did you treat somebody badly in 2022?
Not deliberately, accidental unthinking unkindness which will be rooted out.
34) Did somebody treat you badly in 2022?
Not deliberately, I don't think, but people need to learn that I do not respond well to be backed into metaphorical corners.
35) How much money did you spend in 2022?
Not that much. I have been good and saved a lot.
36) What was your proudest moment of 2022?
I won a knock out match at the Merseyside. Which I've done before but still.
I also won a match at the Welsh which I hadn't done before, and a knockout match at the BIFT. Which, okay I was the higher seed in but only just. I got 4 hits on an Olympian. I made an Olympian complain at the referee because she wasn't hitting me. That last one will take some beating.
37) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2022 and change something, what would it be?
I am actually pretty solidly happy with 2022.
38) What are your plans for 2023?
Um, usual plan to storm the fencing rankings, tidy the flat, new PBs in the gym. Grander plans including the vaguest of vague plans to walk Hadrian's Wall this summer. It is still in the planning stage.
My Year In Fic
Fics
No one likes to hear I told you so - https://archiveofourown.org/works/39926601 Entirely selfish Mission: Impossible 2 fic.
Running Till The Road Runs Out - https://archiveofourown.org/works/36749140 The much muttered about canon-welding Wolverine: Origins into the original trilogy Gambit fic.
A Suitable Husband - https://archiveofourown.org/works/42493275 Last of the Summer Wine lgbtfest fic
Take the treasured dreams, but leave me what I've found - https://archiveofourown.org/works/37415680 the Jamie Noble + Mickey James gen fic with background Jamie/Layla and sinister Regal
What He'd Never Thought To Want - https://archiveofourown.org/works/41668761 Tsubasa KuroFai identity porn, or "every Tsubasa writer writes a furisode fic"
Yet Here We Are - https://archiveofourown.org/works/36252073 Irene Adler-centric Sherlock sort of gen fic
6 fics rather than the 12 I was aiming for, it was all going so well and then the second half of the year happened. I feel the same is likely to happen in 2023.
My favourite story this year:
My best story this year:
I would split these out, with my favourite being the one I like the most, and best being the one with the most hits on AO3 but "What He'd Never Thought To Want" is by a long way the fic with the most hits. It's probably also the best technically. It does what I intended it to do, in the style I wanted it to be in.
Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Yet Here We Are. Apparently, no one wants Adler gen fic!
Most fun story: Take the treasured dreams, but leave me what I've found - Jamie is just adorbs and Mickie really is the best bro ever.
Most sexy story: What He'd Never Thought To Want by a long way.
Story with single sexiest moment: Yet Here We Are - "She finds herself imagining what different implements would sound like against his skin, how they would feel, how it would feel."
Hardest story to write: Running Till The Road Runs Out - It's been worked on in fits and starts since at least 2010 (going off my yearly WIP posts). The content wasn't the problem so much as Gambit, who reveals nothing, have to feel in a safe enough space to reveal stuff, and having to write that space convincingly. Of course, since I posted it I've visited New Orleans so there's things I'd tweak to get the vibe of the place closer to right, but I am quite happy with how it turned out.
"Holy crap, that's *wrong*, even for you" story: No One Likes To Hear I Told You So - In my defense, the wrong is canonical.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: No so much shifted, but "Take the treasured dreams, but leave me what I've found" shifted from being Jamie/Mickie to Jamie&Mickie, and between them throughout the writing process, and I spent a lot of time thinking about the difference between what "I, the consumer" might want, "I, the writer" want to write and what fitted the characters.
Biggest disappointment: Complete lack of response for Yet Here We Are. Given I've also written different Irenes Adler and gotten many hits, I am not sure what about queer gen Sherlock! Irene didn't attract attention ... probably every word in that description ;) (As you can tell it's less disappointment and more intrigue)
Biggest surprise: A Suitable Husband was not supposed to be that bleak by the end of it. Like, I have no idea how that happened.
Most unintentionally telling story: Um, there is probably slightly too much of me in Yet Here We Are's Irene. Lots of it is me. Like, I get miffed at people who are like "your kink is a sign of some form of trauma." It really isn't. It just is a think that's entirely hardwired in me, probably more so than my orientation is.
