I've noticed that, sometimes, the opportunities I'm most hesitant to go for end up being some of the best experiences if I do go for them.
@thelostdex was an easy example of this - it's a project that aimed to make a sort of in-universe pokedex for beta pokemon, and as such needed (expanded) pokedex-esque entries for these various beta pokemon. they were looking for extra writers, and honestly I knew... basically nothing about beta pokemon going in, but it sounded like the sort of thing some of my buddies in the fandom would be really invested in and so I was like. hm. do it for them. can't hurt to apply-
and then I got in and it was so much fun.
anyway, my own pokedex entries for the LostDex can be found here on ao3 <3