Hello:)

To all of you 'De Beste Wensen voor 2022'; best wishes for 2022!

I've refreshed all the sticky posts, so on top of my Dreamwidth & Livejournal you can find a new bookpile [DW] and my updated ArtMasterlist for 2021 [DW] (as well as all my artworks from previous years:)
In 2021 I made a lot less art for the SPN fandom than in previous years, yet in between real life distractions I have been active in the Land of Art all throughout the year; those graphic designs can be found through the landofart TAG.
Although there have been fewer SPN challenges to participate in creatively, I was also busy behind the scenes as the sole moderator of the SPN_ReverseBang and the QuickyBang.
The CSI-Nick/Greg fandom also took up a lot of my time; I still moderate the NicknGreg Tumblr and in addition I've been working on transferring the WMTDB fanfic archive to AO3, in collaboration with the OpenDoors Committee. The latter is not done yet, and I expect it to take up quite some time in 2022 as well.

Out in the real world, despite the lockdown, working at home and the social distancing, there was a good thing to come out of last year, which is of course my permanent job contract. On top of the work I have been doing for the past five years, I was made senior of my favorite project and thus will be overseeing the set up of an urban version of our geodata collection program!

As for 2022? I hope to at least stay a little creative in fandom and I plan to keep in touch with all of y'all online and maybe even offline if we get the chance to travel again!

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Woohoo, managed to make reservations for two plays in London in March and July. The latter will be Hamlet with Cush Jumbo at the Young Vic; the first one is Endgame with Alan Cumming, Daniel Radcliffe and Jane Horrocks at the Old Vic. Looking forward to making arrangements for both these weekends. If you're in the UK and want to meet up for a cup of tea in London or anywhere else, let me know! I'm an introvert hermit, but I do like chatting over a (non alcoholic) drink or meal:)

I signed up for a February reading buddy in the thestoryinside to help me pick what to read next from my 2020 bookpile [DW]. It's a lovely low pressure community where you can chat about books in all genres (including non-fiction). If you would like a bookbuddy too (you get to make a readinglist for them!) - go to this post.

I'm planning to organize another round of the quicky_bang. Last time there were plenty of authors and awesome short fics, but a rather low ratio of artists, as per usual in fandom. So I want to warm up first by doing a head count of interested fandom artists. Go here to let me know if you're an artist up for a quicky and spread the word among your social media, please!

Another fandom hangout I'd like to promote is the Sunday Morning Porn Club, aka smpc; we'd love for more naughty authors and artists to become active members! Of course consumers of pervy pleasures are also always welcome. You are invited to squee or give input on how to make your Sundays better, here:)

Last but not least, a short update on life.
On Friday I had a bit of a surprise, when two years after menopause I got another period. What the fuck, body. I've been having such a lovely relaxed life, don't want to start this mess again. I did some reading and apparently this can happen for 7-10 years? Can I nope out of this? Now I'm even happier with my bath bucket [DW], because soaking in a warm bubblebath for a couple of hours was exactly what I needed. <3

My elbow is healing nicely; I tried to get the stitches out today, but I couldn't reach well enough to cut through them with my left hand. So I do have to wait until my dinner with mom on Wednesday and she can help me with that:)

Went to a really cool presentation on Deep Learning and how to train a computer to recognize bridges, which could be very helpful for collection of geodata in the future. I definitely want to explore the more technical side of GIS, so this was inspirational and gave me a few ideas on how to expand my potential jobsearch (because my contract is unfortunately not indefinitely).
Next month I will train a new group of MGCP data collectors again, so the next few weeks I will be busy updating the course and instruction manuals. There may be some changes coming to the workplace that I'm not too sure about, but I'm still enjoying the day-to-day exploring of the world (currently checking out Venezuela!), so I'll hold on to that until we know more about the future.

In the meantime I also hope to find joy in making some more Japan picspams;)

J.

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Snot is not completely gone yet, but I can breathe through my nose again and I seemed to have been able to avoid moving on to the barking cough (although I haven't slept through the night yet without waking up from an extremely dry throat, so keep your fingers crossed). Did of course work throughout the week, because it beats being bored at home;)

I've opened up a new round of the quicky_bang, so here's a call out to all SPN/RPF authors to submit short fics so us needy artists can claim them and get creative! There are already some stories on offer for eager artists, GOGOGO!



Other fandom news: I'M GOING TO THE SPN CONVENTION IN BIRMINGHAM!!! I know, I know: for years I've been saying a con isn't my thing and I still stand by that, but I'd already bought myself a ticket for the Saturday Night Special (because a concert is different from a con, okay and Birmingham is so relatively close, shush) and then the day tickets went up for sale and the costs for a Sunday seat were acceptable, so I went for it.
I still have to arrange travel and organize a place to sleep, but that will have to wait until after I have paid for the GIS course I'm starting this week.
Even though I am a hermit and a loner, I do love to meet up with fellow fangirls, so if you are going to this CON too, let me know! (PM or mail is cool if you don't want to expose yourself). It's also perfectly fine to not want to meet me there and only share that you're going, you won't hurt my feelings, but we can squeeeeeeeeeeeeee, yay;)

Oh, right, the course, don't think I mentioned that here yet. This Friday I will start a course called Cartography in GIS (Geographic Information Systems). So instead of working on Fridaymornings, I will be getting up even earlier to travel to the GeoFort to learn more about making maps professionally. Since this training will benefit my employer, they pay part of the bill and the rest will be taken from my weekly salary. That's why I can't make arrangements for Birmingham until I get fully paid again. Hey, I'll go camping there if I have to, but I WILL be there in MAY. Who's with me?

J.

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Ugh, I have a snothead *sniffles*. I did go to work though and was rewarded with a lovely NewYear's lunch (scored a kroket, yay!). On my way back home I delivered all my cards and parcels at the post office, so they are on their way, whoopwhoop. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all that;) (Thank you for your card, felisblanco!)

Am working with somer on this year's first round of SMPC Sundays, read our pervy promo-post here to find out if you want to join in! We love artists, authors, lurkers and commenters:)

I updated my ArtMasterlist with my latest 2017 creations and put up a new Booklist sticky. You're welcome to check out either or both;)

Looking forward to a new year of fangirling!

J.

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In the last couple of days I finished another set of artwork, got fired, did some sightseeing and bought my first mobile phone. So how was your week?

I also cheered on my brother and his friend who ran a 10K race in Kampen, a quaint little town nearby. Afterwards brotherdearest indulged me (and held my bag!) while I went all touristy with my camera in search of the best angles to shoot the cool old buildings.

( Let's walk through historic Kampen...Collapse )

More about the job-thing and that phone later. I have an art-post to prepare first!

J.

(I'm more concerned with the new phone than the loss of my job - that's been a long time coming.
Hugs are appreciated for both issues though:)

Ugh. My artwork is now in that 'fuck-it-this-is-never-gonna-work'-stage, so I'm giving up for today. Am not in a good mood to be creative anyway, let's blame that on the period, to at least get something out of that. *sighs*. Right. A weekly update... (Don't worry, it comes with a happy link to the adorable nephew, so it's not all blah;)

( and I'm not gonna talk about work, so it's really not that badCollapse )

What have you been up to?

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