So the time has come to say goodbye to 2024…a goodbye I’m personally glad to say because this year was not kind to me for the most part.

I’ll start with the positives, the few highlights. Monetarily, things went really well this year, I made a good amount of money despite needing to commission two chapters of my comic for my now finished story, Pipp the Poltergeist. If not for that, this would’ve been my most profitable year by far. Plus, my DeviantArt account has gained a significant amount of traction, largely thanks to the release of the aforementioned comic. I’m also very satisfied with the way I concluded my story, Pipp the Poltergeist, this year and the work I did on the other story I completed this year, Forgotten Comet.

Onto the negatives…my goodness, was this year brutal, the absolute worst year I’ve had so far in regards to relationships with my friends and family in recent memory. That garbage I went through this year with almost getting 15K stolen from my bank account and almost getting scammed by e-check fraud on top of it? That was nothing compared to what I had to go through this year with my family and people I thought were my friends. I lost two longtime friends this year. The first turned out to be someone who had been lying to me for years while going behind my back and doing absolutely disgusting stuff. The other was someone who had stopped treating me like a friend for a long time, lied about me to another friend of mine when I finally had enough of the nonsense, and cut me and that other friend out after not being able to handle being exposed.  

In regards to my family, my older brother has gotten extremely distant after getting involved with some questionable stuff and my older sister…is done. I found out this year that she never actually changed after her rehabilitation, she’s very likely gone back to drugs. She also couldn’t have made it any clearer this year that she’s never going to change. Her lying almost ruined my Christmas and my family’s finally through with her. I’ve even been getting more concerned lately with my physical and mental health, feeling all the stress I’ve been going through this year has been playing a part in my sleeping patterns and eczema being extra terrible as of late.

I really don’t enjoy talking about this year with how much heartache I had to go through, it was insane. I want to do my best to make 2025 a comeback year where I’m more motivated to do art (didn’t draw much this year), get more games done (only did eight this year), and possibly even write another story even after I considered retiring from writing stories with MLP: Tell Your Tale getting cancelled this year demotivating me immensely along with everything else. 2024 was a grueling year for me, but I’m very happy for you if it’s a different story for you.