Sunshine Revival Challenge

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Challenge #1 - Lights On [DW link]:

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.

Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.

Looking back at my Fandom Snowflake Challenge goals for Challenge 4 [DW link], I've really just kept up with sharing some fandom events in PF's Fandom Calendar community. I think I was a little too confident in my ability to act like nothing changed when I switched from online work to in-person work. Even though I posted something on PF about this change as a forewarning of me replying to people at a different time of day, I wasn't really expecting that I'd have a whole bunch of time immediately after my shift where I'm just in recovery mode.

In terms of making progress on my existing goals:

1. Designate a certain day and/or time for reading.
Weekly feels like a more achievable goal than trying to do something every day after work, but as long I stick to it, it doesn't matter which day or how long. There's no specific amount pages that I need to aim for. Whatever gets done is what gets done.

2. Eliminate decision paralysis on picking a book to read.
(Oh, I should read the actual books I have. Wait, I keep getting told I should read Project Hail Mary before the movie trailer spoils me on something. But I've got all of Libby to choose from...) Nu, I need to just make a short to-read list and follow the list.

3. Reframe archival progress on SqWA as prep for the possible DW community for archiving [linked post is view-locked to logged in PF users].
I haven't actually decided that I will make a Dreamwidth comm for personal archiving just yet, but that's not the point. I need to turn the SquidgeWorld Archive progress from 'thing I've been avoiding because it's become a guilt-ridden chore' into 'neutral thing that will make the DW comm easier'.

Originally posted on 29 July and backdated to 2 July 2025. Can also be found on Pillowfort.

Comments

[queer_scribbling]

Context for the possible personal DW community:

In November [2024], I shared someone's 'let's think of creative goals for 2025' Tumblr post on my fort where I could chatter a little in private in the comments. One goal I included was:

Creative Goal: Personal Dreamwidth Community

I know I've been meaning to get back to finishing the great cross-posting of my AO3 works to SquidgeWorld Archive, and it's really not that difficult to post on SqWA. It's not an absolute must that I mess around with a DW community as yet another archival space.

However, I'm really compelled by the idea of having a space to also put notes and work-in-progress outlines that can't even wiggle under 'snippet' for AO3's purposes. (Or, to put it another way, notes and speculation that may in fact get really close to or outright break AO3's TOS.) Things like lunar calendars and research for new fictional sports teams.

Could I just put this on my existing DW blog, PF, Tumblr, etc.? I suppose there are certain stories that I could share, and I do have me-only visibility settings on some of my 'draft bin' tag posts that overlap with some notes and snippets. But I don't want to dump a bunch of WIP stuff in PF communities or deal with random Tumblrites in my askbox or notes.

I dunno. I haven't 100% committed to this idea, and maybe, if I go through what I might want to archive, it might turn out that all I need to do is backdate a few posts on my DW blog.

[pauraque]

I could use a better method for picking books and reading them in a timely manner too. I tend to grab too many books from the library and then read them all in a panic before they're due, which does result in books getting read, but I'm sure there's a better way (and it doesn't help with the unread books I own).

[queer_scribbling]

Yeah, there's just so many choices. I think I'll try to work through some of the languishing Xmas gift pile. I'm sure my family would appreciate that I actually read the books they bought even if it's been a few years.