**Note: I’m doing some blog maintenance. This is a backdated post (I don’t know if it’ll go into anyone’s feed readers – you can ignore it if so!). I’ve moved my goals info from my primary Goals Page to this post so I have the results of my 2025 stuff recorded somewhere. Below is copy/pasted directly from my Goals Page on 12/31/25.

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My goals this year are less goals and more directional steps toward the future I’m planning. They are small and specific, which means that there are quite a lot of them. In general, my year will be focused on FLIGHT – travel, the decision to leave the US and start working my way out of the country, learning to soar on my own independence, embracing an identity that makes me happy rather than tangling me in roots that no longer serve.

Below are my steps this year, in no particular order, updated with progress as I go along.

Writing (5 of 3+)
Focused on my fanfiction, both in progress and what I plan to tackle.

• Finish The Regret List (WIP) – done!
• Finish Dead Right (WIP) – done!
• Publish To Catch a Ghost (Bang) – done!
• possibility: S3 swap fic – done!
• possibility: collab with Rainstorm – done!

Travel (4 of 4+)
There’s a theme here…

• Germany (Feb) – done!
• Spain (April) – done!
• IneffableCon and London (Aug) – done!
• Transatlantic reunion cruise (Oct/Nov) – done!
• possibility: Alaska (May) – moved to 2026
• possibility: Sherlock House
• possibility: Austin Tattoo Invitational (Aug) – nope, culled

Tattoos (4 of 4+)
Some planned, some scheduled, others to just have on the list!

• Christmas match (S) – done!
• GO match (K) – done!
• broken mirror (D, M+) – done!
• 1+ cat memorial (tbd) – done! Plus a second!
• possibility: upper arm sleeve (fall) – put off due to costs

Art (2 of 4+)
A few outstanding digital art pieces I’ve put off too long.

• redo pub scene – done!
• BL karaoke group
• K as Chris – done!
• quintet for TM/RL
• possibility: official cover art for fics

Other
The miscellaneous stuff that doesn’t fit elsewhere.

• Download AO3 fics for future reading (24): 24 of 24 – DONE!
• Acquire specific photobooks (7+): 8 of 7+
• Overdue medical visits (6+): done or culled re: personal situation
• 2025 Book Priorities (45): 43 of 45
• 2025 Watch Priorities (10): 7 of 10
• Misc maintenance items (12+): 12 of 12+

Last updated: 12/31/25