I did it!

My bingo experience this year was a tale that grew in the telling.

But, here at last, I offer you my first-ever completed bingo card – which I believe qualifies as hard mode, and hero mode, aaaaand I even made it a little bit extra difficult for myself by self-imposing an additional criteria of all women/NB authors.

I finished a version of this card back around late summer. I only stumbled into r/fantasy around May, after abruptly reigniting my boyhood love of reading at the beginning of the year. I was tearing through books at a pretty rapid clip, and even with the April 1 st kickoff for books to be eligible, I could've been done by late July.

But when I looked at the list and realized that about a third to half of my entries were already hard mode, I decided to go for a fully hard mode card.…