Sunshine Revival: Challenge #1

[oceangrey]

Challenge #1
Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'll be doing the Journaling Prompt for the first challenge!

I have some pretty significant goals for July, and the latter half of 2025. I plan to:

• Sort out a bunch of stuff in my room. I may be moving out after this summer for uni so I want it to be as neat as possible in the last couple of months I have in it. That means donating a bunch of books I don't read anymore, and throwing out all the random pieces of paper I've amassed over the years! Not fanworks of course—I'll be putting those into folders that I'll take with me.


• Get further on my reading list. Not just books I might need for my uni course, but also finishing the books I've forgotten about and left unfinished by accident (which is... a significant amount actually). Also I've picked up three from the library! Out of these three I'm currently reading "Control" by Adam Rutherford, which is a fascinating (and understandably horrifying) read. I'm also planning to read further with the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels but there are a lot to get through, so that will most likely take me longer than the rest of this year lmao.


• Going out for walks more. Unfortunately I've been a bit too busy to go out that much, what with the last year of A Levels feeling like a major step-up from the first year for me. Now that's over, I'm planning to get around a lot more, maybe catalogue all the streets I've never actually been down before and go to them, since I might not end up ever visiting them if I move away with uni. Also just going out rambling in some green space in the countryside sometime, which I haven't done for a while.


• Work on my fanworks! The start of this year was actually pretty productive for me fandom-wise, as I published three one-shots and one ongoing multichapter fic on AO3! Also my first time publishing an E-rated fic, which at first I was slightly embarrassed of but everyone was really encouraging about. I hope that I keep up this streak of writing fic because I have about ten WIPs that I want to share. Also I signed up for the AU Roulette Challenge on Tumblr, so I hope to write for that as well!

Thank you to the Sunshine Revival Challenge for posting this prompt! :D

Comments

[oceangrey]

Thank you!

Yeah, it does seem a lot harder than I expected to break through the initial embarrassment of posting, but once that hurdle’s over it’s nice to see everyone’s comments and opinions on it (especially since they’re mostly positive). Alas it feels like I need to jump over the same hurdle again in order to post my second one lmao.

Mine wasn’t a rarepair but the fandom’s relatively small overall, which I guess explains why we had a similar experience with support :D