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The year is (almost) over! Thank you 2022.

In retrospective, I think it was pretty great for me.

I even dare to say it dethrones 2016 (for me) because of the many stuff that happened.

Heh, some people sit there and throw dirt on the year like it's getting out of fashion, I bet they put ketchup on their hotdogs.

For me, a year can become good with your own will. You have complete freedom to condemn the year as much as you want, but, remember, you can make a change.

My Achievements

So, I started 2022 with a new original character, a pink "unknown animal" boy called Yvrann, then a shark boy called Uahamo. Back then in 2016 I could hardly come up with characters, let alone original ones. I did have Yvrann in some pics, but, I only have one pic of Uahamo, and I think it would be fun to make another pic of him.

I started my major in Psychology. On the first semester I did great at all the courses, and later on the second semester I took an extra course along with the ones I meant to take. I also did great there. I think this is a thing meant for me.

So much that I got a lakesprit sona, a being of the psyche! I feel like I have found my vocation and the path that I should take in my life: one of being a psychologist like Jung drawing art and writing things, and also having a lakesprit as a sona.

Later I started the PMD: Starscape Weaver comic, which has another lakesprit character... Emronia the mesprit, being the protagonist in the comic. That comic also led to the creation of many other poke OCs like Debvye the Maractus, my Mismagius, and my Meloetta. I hope that one day I manage to have like a hundred of those.

Then October was the peak of the year, la creme de la creme. That was when I did Emrotober where I did a pic each day, with colors, and with me attending university too. I was even doing comic pages, which are much harder than single images or what people were doing at Inktober. Perhaps, what made me do so good at it was the sense of urgency, or that I was doing many things at the same time, or timing what I was doing. Perhaps even pretty good time scheduling. Perhaps luck even.

On November I returned to Newgrounds and really settled in. You can guess why.

At the end of November and all through December I've been writing the epic poem that I plan to release on late February, I also did some commissions, but, the time management was now turning into a competition between the final exams, the commissions, and the poem. I did great at the finals, the poem is doing ok at like 33k words for now (it must reach 50k words and then be edited and polished), and I did get some commissions done. I hope my clients have been patient, some have been waiting for weeks as I did other things.

December is also the month of hanging out with family to celebrate the Holidays, so, I spent some time with my family too.

I think at the end of the year I did more pics than the previous year.

Outside of art and things I create I listened to a lot of music, with new singles and albums.

I did make a playlist for each month with each new song I had listened to:

January February March April May June July August September October November December

I do listen to new music albums like ones that indie music enthusiasts and exotic music enjoyers mention, because they form the memories of a year. I did remember 2016 so well because of the music I listened on that year. So, I tried the same thing this year.

New Year New Me

That is one of the mantras that many people say at the end of the year. And many joke that they end up being the same old "old year Johnny". I think I tend to make a change, but that usually happens in the middle of the year. Obviously, in 2022 I was a New Me early on because I started the Psych major. But, in the middle of the year I became a lakesprit and a lot of other pokepeeps got really interested in me.

This 2023, I think part of the New Me will be that I will obviously be someone who wrote a 50k poem. In 2023 I will also end up organizing the lore regarding my art, especially the fan content I do. So, 2023 will be like the year of Lore and Writing!

2023 will be my year

That is the other mantra. "New Year New Me" is Coke, and "2023 will be my year" is Pepsi, they are the behemoths of the funny claims people make at the end of the year.

For me, 2022 was my year... because I did so great in it.

But, as for 2023, I dare to challenge myself to do even better, so that way I can also say it will be my year.

I think saying "my year" sounds slightly selfish. We share the same year like the roads the cars go through, so, in a sense it could be "our year"

I'm not seeing enough movement! - New Year Resolutions and New Week Resolutions

Okay, enough goofing around, let me put my New Year Resolutions for 2023:

-Posting the 50k Epic Poem in late February (there is a very good reason why I picked that time)

-Posting a sequel to that Poem later in the year, it will be shorter, and an epilogue to the previous poem

-Making three animations at least (I think I could make them about the poem)

-Making at least three music tracks (Could be either about the PMD comic or the poem)

-Making at least 20 more pages of the PMD comic

-Revealing Emronia's old friend (as a lakesprit!)

-Making some sort of encyclopedia or database for my lore to organize it.

I know what the poem is about, but I can't tell you because of spoilers. But, since I'm kinda getting tired of not mentioning, I think I could start dropping hints to build up the hype

New Year Resolutions have such a long deadline, how about New Week Resolutions?

I plan to have resolutions for week that start on Mondays and end on Sundays.

This first week will be a bit unusual, I will start it on the first and end it on the eighth.

So, the resolutions for the following week are:

-Finishing my part of Washy's art trade

-Writing 5000 more words on the poem

Alright okay... I'm gonna give the poem a name.

The name of the poem is... Ahruium

That's it is all I got for now!

I think that is all I have.

Those are my goals and retrospectives!

I hope to see you in 2023.