So one of the nice things about the resurgence of Ao3 discourse on tumblr towards the end of 2018 was that everyone came out of the woodwork to talk up the Archive's mission and features - I learned a LOT about what I could do. I'd been flirting for months with the idea of polishing & publishing some of our massive, massive amount of fantroll RP, but now I'm also considering publishing some of the writing I've done adjacent to a D&D campaign or two... and, of course, thinking about actually publishing fic makes me come up with ideas more often. I ran out of time this holiday season to post a Christmas Tolkien fic, but I had an idea this morning, talking to my sis about the books we've both been reading recently, for a classic 5+1 covering a "missing scene" in the second Aubrey/Maturin novel, so! It's good to feel like I might be participating in fandom more, for the first time in coming up on four years. Now for the follow-through.