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After the madness of 2018, I was expecting 2019 to be a much quieter, less busy year.

And of course, I was hopelessly, gloriously wrong about that!

There may not have been travels to Iceland and broken limbs to contend with, but there were six cons, European travels, lots of art, lots of writing and, yes, beautiful fandom madness!

I attended three Supernatural conventions, JIB in Rome, Darklight in Paris and Crossroads convention, back at my spiritual fandom home at the NEC in Birmingham, UK. I had the privilege of getting up close and personal with J2M once again, and also my darling British Men of Letters, who seem to become more adorable every time I meet them! Should I be concerned that they greet me by name now?

In addition to my Supernatural cons, I also dropped in on MCM Comic Con and Film and Comic Con London over the summer, and finally, a brief toddle off to Heathrow to a Torchwood convention in October.

One goal I unfortunately knew I was going to miss was fanfiction words. Over the last few years, I’ve set myself the goal of writing more fanfiction words than the previous year. Last year I managed to write 30,205, however, this year I only managed 27,003. The reason for this was some pretty intense studying between February and June, so taking that into account, I don’t think it’s as much as a disappointment as it first appears.

So, without further ado, here are the fics that made up those words:

Fanfics

Fast and Forty
When you Wish Upon a Car
Love Story - a birthday fic for

meazrael_64
It's a Dog's Life - written for

disneymagics in the

spn_bigpretzel Spring Fic Exchange with art by

twisted_slinky
Water Boys - written for the

spn_bigpretzel 'Summer of Fun' Comment Fic Challenge
Animal Magic - written for the

spn_bigpretzel 'Summer of Fun' Comment Fic Challenge
Sight for Sore Headlamps - written for the

spn_bigpretzel 'Summer of Fun' Comment Fic Challenge
The End of the Road - a challenge to myself to write an ending to Supernatural
Thyrsus - written for

spn_summergen
Just Say No - a birthday fic for

theymp
One Night in January - written for a charity auction
Hell's Kitchen - written for

jj1564 in Crowley's Christmas Fic Exchange on

spn_bigpretzel
Baby's Christmas Wish

Drabbles

I did manage to write 56 drabbles for the two drabble challenges that I take part in. I'm not going to list them all, but you can find them all HERE

Artsy Fartsy Stuff

Digital

Happy Birthday

milly_gal some Sam love
Banner for my story 'And Baby Makes Three'
Season Fifteen celebration
Jensen birthday collage
Banner for belated birthday greetings
Banner for

spn_bigpretzel Spring Fic Exchange
Pie Day collage
Illustrated drabble for International Happiness Day
Sam and Jared icons for

a_newdream4xmas
Happy Easter
Illustrated drabble for Sam Winchester's birthday
Happy Birthday

supernutjapan
Happy Birthday

sasha_dragon
Burnt Offerings artwork for

jdl71 in

spn_bigpretzel Spring Fic Exchange
Happy Birthday

amberdreams
Happy Birthday

julchen11
Banner for

spn_on_parade fifth birthday celebrations
Banner for

spn_on_parade Fifth birthday Oldies but Goodies Reccing Meme
Banner for

spn_on_parade Fifth birthday Friending Meme
Banner for

spn_on_parade Fifth birthday Guess the Episode
Banner for

spn_on_parade Fifth birthday Cooking with Crowley
Banner for

spn_on_parade Fifth birthday Mods Mini Meet Up
Banner for

spn_on_parade Fifth birthday Songspam
Happy Birthday

jj1564 collage
Happy 4th of July
Banner for my story 'a Head for Trouble'
Illustrated Drabble for Jared's birthday
Banner for the

spn_bigpretzel Summer of Fun Comment Fic Challenge
The Joy of Kale - fill for Summer of Fun Comment Fic Challenge
Happy Supernatural Day
Banner for

spn_bigpretzel Hallowe'en Team Drabble Challenge
Seasons Greetings
Thank you

metallidean_grl
Once a King in Narnia, Always a King in Narnia - art for

zara_zee in

spn_reversebang
Go Ask Alice, Dorothy - art for

tiggeratl1 in

spn_reversebang
Banner for Crowley's Christmas Fic Exchange on

spn_bigpretzel is now in its 8^th year and still going strong. During the year, the lovely

jj1564 came on board as co-mod at the community and really has taken the comm to a whole new level. The Drabbles Every Weekend (DEW) challenge maintains its popularity and regularly produces some great little works. The comm also hosted its flagship challenge, the Spring Fic Exchange, together with the Summer of Fun Comment Fic Meme, the Hallowe’en Team Drabble Challenge and that old charmer, Crowley, dropped in to treat us to a rerun of his Christmas Fic Exchange.

The Mini Mayhem carries on over at

spn_on_parade where our resident population of minis continue to perform for around 120 members. We celebrated our fifth birthday with a month of celebrations during July and you can find everything that happened HERE. Huge thanks to my lovely co-mods

jj1564 and

milly_gal together with all our members who have kept our cute and cosy little bucket o’ crazy rockin' and rollin' for another year.

I was thrilled to be able to take part once again in

spn_summergen as an author, and enjoy some great collaborations in

spn_reversebang as an artist.

And finally, I continued running the weekly Drabble challenge alongside the lovely vansgroi over on Fanfiction.net

So, that was 2019, it's been a blast. I’m heading into 2020 with no small amount of trepidation as, I think, is every other Supernatural fan. The little Show that could may be finally hanging up its flannels, but I’m not going anywhere… Sorry!