the sound is what found us

[reflectedeve]

I think I'm going to avoid the fannish year in review meme, because my year has been so oddly lopsided. However, here is a roundup of this year's fanart (I think I need the reminder):

January
"I'm on fire, aren't I?" (from The Detective's Secret and the Mystery of the Dancing Flowers) (My Chemical Romance; Frank/Gerard)
the Dewees geis montage (from The Detective's Secret and the Mystery of the Dancing Flowers) (My Chemical Romance/The Hush Sound)
Korse/Gerard doodle (My Chemical Romance/Killjoys)

February
art-watching (My Chemical Romance; implied Grant Morrison/Gerard)
BL/ind Patrick doodle (Fall Out Boy/Killjoys)
some like it hotman (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
stay helpless (Fall Out Boy/Killjoys/Black Cards/Ashlee Simpson; implied Pete/Patrick)

March/April
a doodle & an illustration for Nothing To Confess (Fall Out Boy/Killjoys; Pete/Patrick)
Grant Morrison bakes cookies (comics RPF)
Frank and the red repose poppy (from The Detective's Secret and the Mystery of the Dancing Flowers) (My Chemical Romance)

May
Korse at the Carnival (My Chemical Romance/Killjoys/thegaystarfish)
illustration for The Kids From Yesterday (My Chemical Romance/pre-Killjoys)
Show Pony birthday doodle (Killjoys)
inappropriate conduct (in the turbolift) (Star Trek:AOS, Kirk/Spock/Uhura; NSFW)
working late (Mindless Self Indulgence; Lindsey/Jamia)

June
a Pond visits the Loch (Doctor Who)
it's good enough for me (Castle)
illustration for Angels From The Neon (My Chemical Romance/Killjoys)
come closer (Sailor Moon, Michiru/Haruka)
Castle/Firefly fusion
henshin yo! (Sailor Moon)

(nothing in July)

August
all tied up (Due South; adapted from DONE With Love; NSFW)

(nothing in September/October)

November/December
Saturn birthday drawing (Sailor Moon)
Happy Holidays yeti!Dewees (My Chemical Romance)

I'm heading back north on Monday to hang out in my mostly-empty little town working four-hour shifts for a couple weeks! (And not before time; the statute of limitations on spending harmonious time with my parents is definitely running out.) Among other plans, I think I'm going to be participating in akamine_chan's Fandom Snowflake Challenge. Seems like the perfect way to celebrate fannish things a bit before grad school eats me again. :D

As for real-life reflections on the year, well ... honestly, there's just too much. I left my first for real adult job after three years (gratefully and with much rejoicing, though it was a perfectly good one), left the city, and went to the school of my dreams. Which ATE me. That's already more than enough, without feelings and identity crises and ~life lessons that I'm trying to learn and not dwell on (or ramble about).

(That said, yesterday I bought the cutest bra I have ever owned. Which was a small thing, but ... this year, I feel good about my body in a way that I never have before, and I am so immensely grateful for that. So that's one thing! And I am having this problem where I can't stop staring down at my own chest every five minutes. /o\ Um. Hi. Sorry. Anyway.)

Also, before I disappeared, I got to meet a whole bunch of you this year, and get to know a few more of you much better, and that has been one of the best things.

2012 is going to be amazing, okay? Let's get that done.