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Challenge #4

Since this is the start of a new year, this challenge will be e to set your own goals! Of course we can all make large or ambitious goals, remember that small and/or short goals are also good! Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm not usually one for goals - I'm much better off following my attention and pursuing whatever I'm passionate about at the moment - and this year is no exception!!

My big endeavour this year so far is War and Peace Daily! I'm following a substack that sends a chapter to your email every day, alongside an associated discord server to discuss it, and there's also a subreddit /r/ayearofwarandpeace for the same purpose (though annoyingly the discord and subreddit go by different translations which differ in their chapter divisions early on; apparently they recombine later!).

Will I finish it? Probably not!!!!! I definitely have not retained my childhood skill of reading very long books quickly, and indeed tend to groan at anything that takes up too much time. But I enjoy analysing: I got through Crime and Punishment super quickly back in uni just because I had so much to say about it, and I hope I'll be able to channel that fandomy energy into this book as well! Also, I enjoyed the miniseries, so I already know there are some things that appeal to me about the story: Russian history, the entwined lives of nobles, ships to write about, et cetera.

It'd be nice to finish it and be able to say I had! But also, I am enjoying my time so far, and I hope that will continue! :)

Aside from that... there are a lot of things I'd like to do, but without being quite so structured about it. I've decided to start journaling a bit through Obsidian; it's nice to just have a separate software that can put me in Journaling Mood when I get it up. (I'm having Claude AI walk me through setting up a livejournal-style 'listening to:' etc. list of trackers, but it's been a bit bumpy so far... :'D)

I also would really, really like to get a bit more progress on FE4. Maybe once my nanna is done with her visit and I have nothing else taking up a lot of my time I'll start the next map?? I literally only got one map done last year which is kind of shocking, especially since that was the first new chapter to my Let's Play after some people actually commented on it! <3 But last year was busy, and this year... well. frankly I have no earthly clue what I'll be doing this year lmfao (<-- unemployed again :')))))) )

welp. Icon-making would be nice to get back into? I'm thinking of making something for

ic_animated's new challenge. And my dad and I bought some cheap electric bikes recently so I should get into that and actually do some exercise with myself.

That's more than enough of a list, right? Too much, honestly!!! But I might throw out all of this in two week's time, so I might as well be thorough :P