Things I made in 2025!
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merydianThought doing a little round-up could be fun! This is not all-encompassing since I'm mainly just pulling what I posted on my AO3. I'm very scattered and WIP-centric so quite a bit stays on Tumblr or in messages to friends. I keep AO3 for things I finish up to my own standards, but I typically don't have the time to actually reach those standards... Maybe a 2026 goal will be to let myself be more lenient in that respect.
Anyway, listing and compiling things here still feels like a good way for me to feel accomplished. The fact I did anything at all is actually kind of a miracle considering the big gap between 2022 and 2025 on my account and creatively. Thank you Wellbutrin.
Fanfiction
Enclosure - 1000xRESIST - Fixer, Watcher - 771 words - Fixer tasted metal as she ran and ran and ran along the tracks, boots stomping against steel. Another stretch and she would be on the Other Side. If she kept going, kept pushing inherited lungs to their limit, she would finally meet Her.
Echoes - 1000xRESIST - Iris, Mimi - 100 words - Iris's reflection was inescapable. Mimi made sure of it.
Inspiration - The Orville - Topa - 971 words - Topa makes a friend who knows nothing about her.
Preservation - Yellowjackets - Callie, Shauna - 100 words - People die. Photographs persist.
Monsters - Tales of Arcadia - Barbara, Jim - 986 words - A young Jim has a nightmare. Tonight, Barbara is there to comfort him.
Data Harvest - 1000xRESIST - Knower, Mimi - 529 words - Newly appointed to her position, Knower finds a file that elicits more questions than answers. Part of this work uses an optional custom work skin.
Fanart
a brighter world, hand in hand - I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - F!Sol, Anemone - Fanart - Sol, Anemone, and their kids go for a walk in the new Vertumna.
I have some 1000xRESIST art on my fansite for it here.
I also did a lot of style experiments using Brigid O'Reilly from Cloak & Dagger, which are on my shrine for her here. Most aren't very finished though and it doesn't include some other C&D art I think I did.
Oh, and I have an Invisible Inc. fanart piece I should just let go of and upload somewhere... I think any of the Silo studies I've been doing are probably from 2026, but they might count too. I'll maybe come back to that.
Fanvids
[Vid] If I was your girl - Professor Marston & the Wonder Women - Olive, Elizabeth, William - Fanvid - Professor Marston and the Wonder Women fanvid set to "If" by Janet Jackson.
Thirty Seconds - Cloak & Dagger (2018) - Brigid O'Reilly - STILL A WIP TECHNICALLY! So unlisted direct YouTube link. But I like it enough to include it.
Throne - Star Wars: Revels - Seventh Sister/Ahsoka Tahno - I don't remember uploading this!!! I never really put it anywhere officially, but... I guess it's done if I gave it a thumbnail? This is actually quite old but I think I just pulled it back out to add some finishing tweaks, so... it counts...
Fansites
I got back into web development this year and I am so glad for it, omg. I've been having a blast making shrines as an artform of its own.
Here's my homepage.
Most of my shrines are far from done, but the ones that feel fleshed out or designenough to include are:
Earth 2
Terra Nova
Brigid O'Reilly (Cloak & Dagger) - I'm so proud of this one in particular!!!
AND a separate fansite for 1000xRESIST here. I learned so much from this one, omg. It's a separate site since I made it for a particular challenge and I really just wanted more freedom to experiment on it without having to navigate storing it in my main site.
This is pretty janky, but I also want to include my Cryptipedia site for The Secret Saturdays! It's supposed to emulate the in-universe cryptozoology database, but I am still compiling all the canon data for it so the site currently is just a testament to my first JavaScript project kinda working.
Oh, and I made a fake Wikipedia/Wiki page template for things like OCs.
I have a few other things over there you can find via my homepage, but... yeah. This whole year was more about jumping from project to project so I could learn in a greater variety of ways than just chipping away at one thing. It wasn't totally intentional; I think I just kept getting distracted by the next shiny possibility. But I'm hoping to refine the pages I started and fill them with more content now that the HTML/CSS comes easier to me. The same goes for maybe doing some more on AO3 with custom work skins and just generally learning more JavaScript so I can get more creative with the shrines.
Other
These aren't 2025 creations, but I started putting a bunch of my old and previously deleted works onto the new amazing femslash archive, Sunset! You can find my account here.
I participated in a lot of events this year which I was really happy to be able to do. I really shouldn't have in retrospect, lol. I burned myself out a bit because I reallyyy don't have the time for them actually, at least not right now. But it was really fun to get back into the exchanges scene for a bit. I had a lot of fun working on refining old exchange letters and making new ones and, of course, most of the above creations here wouldn't exist if not for those events! I also got a ton of wonderful gifts in them, omggg. I just unfortunately gotta step back until I can get a better handle on my life so I can show up more fully in those spaces. In my current state I feel like I can't do that very well which wouldn't be fair to other people x_x
2026 Goals
SO I think for 2026 I need to stick more to challenges that only involve myself like bingos or the Get Your Words Out challenge. I did sign up for that with the 75k word goal, though I likely won't hit it. It's more just something to motivate me. I also dug out an old Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt card I'm finally using! I just got a Silo fic up for it actually. So these and similar challenges seem like good ways for me to keep momentum. I'm hoping to compile a page on my site for my favorite challenges and events, too, and just overall write some meta or essays about fandom itself.
I guess jumping off that, I do want to just... participate... in fandom more in 2026. I want to get better at seeking out other people's fanworks and leaving comments and having positive discussions! I am so bad at actually Engaging a lot of the time. I can toss posts out into the void because going one-way takes significantly less time and I feel less pressure than when it comes to two-way socializing. And that's so ridiculous because I'm in fandom TO socialize! I have so many people I love and appreciate and genuinely want to talk with, but I get very in my head about making sure I'm conveying myself totally perfectly with 0 possible way of being misconstrued, etc, to the point where I just... never actually comment back half the things I mean to. Sorry you've dealt with that from me x_x But it's why I do wanna pull back a bit on my rambles in hopes that doing so will give me more capacity for two-sided participation. Maybe ironic since I'm rambling here so much, lol, but I do hope to at least lessen this on Tumblr.
I also sometimes still get so caught up in discourse that fandom isn't as fun for me. I've been a lot better with it this past year, but I prefer to focus more on what I'm actually passionate about in an additive sense? I want to write fics based in my interpretations rather than feel like I need to defend my interpretations to strangers on the Internet who are just looking for someone to yell at. It's hard because I do love media analysis and tracking how different people came away with different ideas can be so fun! I love reading headcanons and theories etc! And my health is so bad that sometimes I have the mental energy to mindlessly scroll Tumblr or Reddit discussions, but not read a fanfic. But again maybe I do need to just... try to redistribute the energy I Do have. Idk. Really the key for me is noticing when people start insulting other fans they disagree with rather than talking about Why they disagree with the take itself. And recognizing that at least has helped me know who to block on sight, in addition to how I really don't put myself into arguments anyway at least? But yeah, when I am too connected to the discussions piece rather than the fanworks piece it gets rough; I can just as easily see someone's theories and headcanons by reading their actual fanfiction than by having to subject myself to people yelling at each other.
ANYWAY other goals are to just make more things and refine my skillz. In particular I want to get better at webdev and fanfics that utilize custom workskins or other unconventional fanwork types like fanmixes and diegetic documents and meta/essays. I want to get better at art, but art is painful for my hands so that's kind of difficult... I want to actually FINISH MY FANVIDS instead of abandoning them as soon as I reach that final stretch.... and I want to push myself further out of my introspective oneshot fanfic comfort zone. Etc. Really I just want to stop being so hard on myself because looking back, I finished SO many creations 99% of the way in but because I couldn't get over that last 1% perfectionism hurdle, they never saw the light of day. I think I'd have a better time if I just... weren't like that, lol... and by putting more out there in fanworks form I can probably better support the vibes I'm chasing. Exchanges were great for me because I of course worked SO hard on everything I made, but having a deadline to cut me off got me to actually post those things, so... that's another thing, maybe. Idk. I just really want to prioritize creating over scrolling and actually being a positive force in fandom communities when I do have the time to be in them, which is what I probably could have said instead of taking 3 paragraphs to say it jl;sdljf.
Anyway, I'd love to hear about other people's fandom goals for this year. :) Hope everyone has been doing wonderful and thank you for reading!
Anyway, listing and compiling things here still feels like a good way for me to feel accomplished. The fact I did anything at all is actually kind of a miracle considering the big gap between 2022 and 2025 on my account and creatively. Thank you Wellbutrin.
Fanfiction
Enclosure - 1000xRESIST - Fixer, Watcher - 771 words - Fixer tasted metal as she ran and ran and ran along the tracks, boots stomping against steel. Another stretch and she would be on the Other Side. If she kept going, kept pushing inherited lungs to their limit, she would finally meet Her.
Echoes - 1000xRESIST - Iris, Mimi - 100 words - Iris's reflection was inescapable. Mimi made sure of it.
Inspiration - The Orville - Topa - 971 words - Topa makes a friend who knows nothing about her.
Preservation - Yellowjackets - Callie, Shauna - 100 words - People die. Photographs persist.
Monsters - Tales of Arcadia - Barbara, Jim - 986 words - A young Jim has a nightmare. Tonight, Barbara is there to comfort him.
Data Harvest - 1000xRESIST - Knower, Mimi - 529 words - Newly appointed to her position, Knower finds a file that elicits more questions than answers. Part of this work uses an optional custom work skin.
Fanart
a brighter world, hand in hand - I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - F!Sol, Anemone - Fanart - Sol, Anemone, and their kids go for a walk in the new Vertumna.
I have some 1000xRESIST art on my fansite for it here.
I also did a lot of style experiments using Brigid O'Reilly from Cloak & Dagger, which are on my shrine for her here. Most aren't very finished though and it doesn't include some other C&D art I think I did.
Oh, and I have an Invisible Inc. fanart piece I should just let go of and upload somewhere... I think any of the Silo studies I've been doing are probably from 2026, but they might count too. I'll maybe come back to that.
Fanvids
[Vid] If I was your girl - Professor Marston & the Wonder Women - Olive, Elizabeth, William - Fanvid - Professor Marston and the Wonder Women fanvid set to "If" by Janet Jackson.
Thirty Seconds - Cloak & Dagger (2018) - Brigid O'Reilly - STILL A WIP TECHNICALLY! So unlisted direct YouTube link. But I like it enough to include it.
Throne - Star Wars: Revels - Seventh Sister/Ahsoka Tahno - I don't remember uploading this!!! I never really put it anywhere officially, but... I guess it's done if I gave it a thumbnail? This is actually quite old but I think I just pulled it back out to add some finishing tweaks, so... it counts...
Fansites
I got back into web development this year and I am so glad for it, omg. I've been having a blast making shrines as an artform of its own.
Here's my homepage.
Most of my shrines are far from done, but the ones that feel fleshed out or designenough to include are:
Earth 2
Terra Nova
Brigid O'Reilly (Cloak & Dagger) - I'm so proud of this one in particular!!!
AND a separate fansite for 1000xRESIST here. I learned so much from this one, omg. It's a separate site since I made it for a particular challenge and I really just wanted more freedom to experiment on it without having to navigate storing it in my main site.
This is pretty janky, but I also want to include my Cryptipedia site for The Secret Saturdays! It's supposed to emulate the in-universe cryptozoology database, but I am still compiling all the canon data for it so the site currently is just a testament to my first JavaScript project kinda working.
Oh, and I made a fake Wikipedia/Wiki page template for things like OCs.
I have a few other things over there you can find via my homepage, but... yeah. This whole year was more about jumping from project to project so I could learn in a greater variety of ways than just chipping away at one thing. It wasn't totally intentional; I think I just kept getting distracted by the next shiny possibility. But I'm hoping to refine the pages I started and fill them with more content now that the HTML/CSS comes easier to me. The same goes for maybe doing some more on AO3 with custom work skins and just generally learning more JavaScript so I can get more creative with the shrines.
Other
These aren't 2025 creations, but I started putting a bunch of my old and previously deleted works onto the new amazing femslash archive, Sunset! You can find my account here.
I participated in a lot of events this year which I was really happy to be able to do. I really shouldn't have in retrospect, lol. I burned myself out a bit because I reallyyy don't have the time for them actually, at least not right now. But it was really fun to get back into the exchanges scene for a bit. I had a lot of fun working on refining old exchange letters and making new ones and, of course, most of the above creations here wouldn't exist if not for those events! I also got a ton of wonderful gifts in them, omggg. I just unfortunately gotta step back until I can get a better handle on my life so I can show up more fully in those spaces. In my current state I feel like I can't do that very well which wouldn't be fair to other people x_x
2026 Goals
SO I think for 2026 I need to stick more to challenges that only involve myself like bingos or the Get Your Words Out challenge. I did sign up for that with the 75k word goal, though I likely won't hit it. It's more just something to motivate me. I also dug out an old Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt card I'm finally using! I just got a Silo fic up for it actually. So these and similar challenges seem like good ways for me to keep momentum. I'm hoping to compile a page on my site for my favorite challenges and events, too, and just overall write some meta or essays about fandom itself.
I guess jumping off that, I do want to just... participate... in fandom more in 2026. I want to get better at seeking out other people's fanworks and leaving comments and having positive discussions! I am so bad at actually Engaging a lot of the time. I can toss posts out into the void because going one-way takes significantly less time and I feel less pressure than when it comes to two-way socializing. And that's so ridiculous because I'm in fandom TO socialize! I have so many people I love and appreciate and genuinely want to talk with, but I get very in my head about making sure I'm conveying myself totally perfectly with 0 possible way of being misconstrued, etc, to the point where I just... never actually comment back half the things I mean to. Sorry you've dealt with that from me x_x But it's why I do wanna pull back a bit on my rambles in hopes that doing so will give me more capacity for two-sided participation. Maybe ironic since I'm rambling here so much, lol, but I do hope to at least lessen this on Tumblr.
I also sometimes still get so caught up in discourse that fandom isn't as fun for me. I've been a lot better with it this past year, but I prefer to focus more on what I'm actually passionate about in an additive sense? I want to write fics based in my interpretations rather than feel like I need to defend my interpretations to strangers on the Internet who are just looking for someone to yell at. It's hard because I do love media analysis and tracking how different people came away with different ideas can be so fun! I love reading headcanons and theories etc! And my health is so bad that sometimes I have the mental energy to mindlessly scroll Tumblr or Reddit discussions, but not read a fanfic. But again maybe I do need to just... try to redistribute the energy I Do have. Idk. Really the key for me is noticing when people start insulting other fans they disagree with rather than talking about Why they disagree with the take itself. And recognizing that at least has helped me know who to block on sight, in addition to how I really don't put myself into arguments anyway at least? But yeah, when I am too connected to the discussions piece rather than the fanworks piece it gets rough; I can just as easily see someone's theories and headcanons by reading their actual fanfiction than by having to subject myself to people yelling at each other.
ANYWAY other goals are to just make more things and refine my skillz. In particular I want to get better at webdev and fanfics that utilize custom workskins or other unconventional fanwork types like fanmixes and diegetic documents and meta/essays. I want to get better at art, but art is painful for my hands so that's kind of difficult... I want to actually FINISH MY FANVIDS instead of abandoning them as soon as I reach that final stretch.... and I want to push myself further out of my introspective oneshot fanfic comfort zone. Etc. Really I just want to stop being so hard on myself because looking back, I finished SO many creations 99% of the way in but because I couldn't get over that last 1% perfectionism hurdle, they never saw the light of day. I think I'd have a better time if I just... weren't like that, lol... and by putting more out there in fanworks form I can probably better support the vibes I'm chasing. Exchanges were great for me because I of course worked SO hard on everything I made, but having a deadline to cut me off got me to actually post those things, so... that's another thing, maybe. Idk. I just really want to prioritize creating over scrolling and actually being a positive force in fandom communities when I do have the time to be in them, which is what I probably could have said instead of taking 3 paragraphs to say it jl;sdljf.
Anyway, I'd love to hear about other people's fandom goals for this year. :) Hope everyone has been doing wonderful and thank you for reading!
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Date: 2026-01-08 07:46 pm (UTC)Happy 2026. I hope you have the best year ever, and I am looking forward to spending the year seeing what amazing things you do next. 💜