User blog:Sunshineandravioli/Back Just in Time

As I'm sure you all know by now, about a week ago I finally returned to the wiki after an extended hiatus (...which is a nice way of saying I disappeared for nine months ><"). But what no one, myself included, realized is that I came back just in time to recall and panic about a very special day.

That's right, guys. I'm three years old now! :D And I've got the special birthday picture to prove it! (For the record, this was done in watercolor and ink. See? Told ya I could paint! X3) Considering that, sadly, I was gone for the majority of year 2, this year is extra special to me. It's a chance to get all the stuff done that I didn't get done last year, and to thank you guys yet again for still welcoming me back wholeheartedly in spite of my long absences and lack of progress on... well, everything. XD I really, truly love you guys :3

To go into a long ramble on what I plan to do in my third year on this wiki would be a bit repetitive, since I already covered such plans in length on my return blog, but I'll sum up what you can expet in year three anyways. Along with admin-ing, chatting with you guys and generally spreading pixie-ness around the wiki, I plan to catch up on all the reading I've missed during my absence (there's an awful lot X.X), start a new camp later in the year (probably in the spring), and begin posting my weekly review blog tentatively entitled "Stuff Sunshine Likes" (the first review will be posted this friday if all goes well ^^). I'll also be continuing to post art, work on EX, Total Wikia Elementary, Total Wikia Pokémon and other collaborations, along with rewriting my lost Total Sonic Island chapter and redoing the series outline. With any luck, at least one of these stories will recieve a new chapter or two in the near future.

Another plan for year three that I've been working on and discussing with you guys is my plan to begin posting a non-TDI fanfiction here on my blog, which generated enough intrest that I decided to go ahead with it. Recently I posted a collection of excerpts from these stories and a poll in order to see which story I should potentially start posting first, trying to gauge which story would generate the most intrest and excitement (thanks again to everyone who voted or had input :D). What I found was somewhat surprising - while one story got some intrest that I was expecting, another that I thought people would simply pass over got quite a bit of support and intrest, especially after the preview was posted. This actually presented me with a bit of a conundrum - while I, personally, enjoyed writing one story more and wished to post that, the other recieved such unexpected support and excitement that it didn't feel right for me not to choose it as my first posted story.

So I took the easy way out. I'll be posting both.

It's official - my first non-TDI fanfictions will be Portal/Professor Layton crossover New Initiative and Professor Layton fanfic The Process of Shattering. My goal is to post chapters of these every Wednesday on alternating weeks, meaning that next week the first chapter of New Initiative will be posted, followed by The Process of Shattering the week after that, and so forth. Should I fail to complete chapters on a weekly basis (very likely ><"), they will be posted as finished in an alternating fashion. Thanks so much to everyone who supported these fanfictions, and I'll hope you'll all enjoy the forthcoming first installments! :D

On a final note, I wish to extend my congratulations to a pair of certain someones on this wiki... last year, I learned that, by happenstance, my wiki-versarry just so happened to coincide with the aniversarry of these "certain someones". Congratulations, Lord and Lady Gideon! May a good year come to all of us! :3

~ Love and Ravioli,  Sunshine  ♥ 02:58, January 26, 2012 (UTC)