The rest of what I read and watched this year

So, sometime in the middle of the spring lockdown I just - stopped making these posts. Which were one of the few things I still make on DW. Partly because of, well - life - between moving and Covid-19 lockdown and nobody really reading this anyway.

I think, if I should make a New Year resolution, it should be to actually write reviews for at least some of the things I read over on Goodreads.

I did read quite a lot, though not nearly as much as other years. I didn't even reach my reading challenge goal, though 151 books at the end of the year isn't bad, is it?

You can find my 2020 reading on Goodreads.

And as for what I watched after the first couple of months:

( Not a lot for most of a year. )

2020 - A year in fic

As always starting with the last, namely my 2020 Yuletide fic. Which in this case ended up being Jumanji, the original movie fra 1995.

Rubicon (4213 words) by oneiriad
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jumanji (1995)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Judy Shepherd, Peter Shepherd, Alan Parrish, Carl Bentley, Sarah Whittle (Jumanji), Nora Shepherd, Van Pelt (Jumanji)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary: In another, kinder world Alan Parrish's final roll of the dice won the game. This is not that world.

Yuletide was my second exchange this year. The first was the Fandom 5k exchange, where I wrote Tetrao Lepus Pseudo-Hybridus Rarissimus L. for the new Constantine comics run (which I recommend, if you liked the first ones. We are very much back to the classics in story style here). I liked writing it and had fun reading up on weird cryptids for it, though maybe not my most amazing exchange experience.

Apart from that, I found a new fandom this year. I spent a good deal of the early year and then lockdown first reading my way through Mo Dao Zu Shi the novel and then watching The Untamed. And since I've been dabbling in writing - nothing long, nothing truly serious, and several crossovers.

Midwinter is a bleak little glance at a world where nobody came for WWX and the Wens.

One Guest Does Not Trouble Two Hosts is, well - I couldn't not write a story featuring Sun Wukong.

Terrible As The Dawn is a glimpse of Yiling Laozu!Lan Wangji, and All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter is a doomed to be unfinished WIP for the idea of what if the core transfer had failed and left both WWX and JC coreless.

Rule Number 4077 is just silly.

A Funny Thing Happened at the Qinghe Games was written for a prompt asking what if it was "possible to re-form one's core when one has it taken out".

Ophidian is a crossover with a bit of Chinese Lovecraftiana I read this year. If you like Lovecraftiana, I'd recommend the short story collection, "The Flock of Ba-Hui" by Oobmab (though the translators added a framing story that annoyed me).

Puppetry was a pinch hit for an exchange starring Xue Yang.

A Matter of Taste is - my very dirty and utterly ridiculous little fic about Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian working on certain sexual issues in their life? I don't know what I was doing there.

And then there's MDZS Crossover Outlines, which is exactly what the title implies.