#here’s to 2025

[luxjii]

Happy new year 🎉

[myobsessionsspace]

[badlucksav]

As 2024 comes to a close and we reflect on this year, I hope we can all give ourselves a pat on the back for making another trip around the sun. Maybe this was a really good year for you. Maybe this was a really hard year. Maybe it was a bit of both. Overall, I hope you found kindness in 2024.

I hope you experienced many new firsts. First kiss, first love, first job promotion, first apartment, first car. And the smaller firsts too. Maybe you tried to cook a new dish and it turned out amazing. You tried a new perfume and loved it. You went on a first date and it sucked, but you tried again and it was kismet.

I also hope you experienced many new lasts. Last heartbreak. Last final. Last first date. Last goodbye. Last day of high school or college or that crappy job you hated.

Things come and go. They begin and they end. But we’re all here, living on this little miraculous planet in this solar system, making our orbit around the sun over and over until we return to the dirt. There’s something peaceful in that, I think.

Anyway. All of this to say, I hope 2025 is good to you. Better than 2024, or 2023. I hope this is the year you grab life by the throat and really live it if all you’ve been doing lately is existing. (That’s really okay too, but you deserve to live voraciously). Read new books this year. Go to concerts. Ask for that raise. Change careers. Go back to school. Adopt the dog who’s been at the shelter the longest. Go on a hike. Stick your toes in the ocean. Do something you’ve been afraid to do, something you’ve been putting off, something you convinced yourself you can’t or won’t or shouldn’t do. Do the thing you’ve been afraid to do on this trip around the sun.

Here’s to 2025.

[darkenedroses-world]

Happy New Year my loves!! I hope you have a happy and safe new year!!

I wish everyone the best for this year and i hope to continue making fics for you all! On here and on Ko-Fi!!

I love you all💕💕

as a surprise and a gift for helping me reach 100 followers, yall get a face reveal❤️

[capseycartwright]

happy new year pals! i hope your 2025 is better in all the ways you need it to be

[sunflouwerhabit]

IN YOUR EYES, I’M ALIVE. 🐈‍⬛⛈️🥯

snippet time to reign in the new year!

a little glimpse into mine and @bravetemptation ‘s first story in 2025! written for the @1dangstfest !!!

happy new year, lovelies 🧡💛 we can’t wait to share this one come february! may none of you ever forget your corn flakes. amen.

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[themosthatedbeingg]

Happy year of the snake !!

[red-mountain-flower]

it’s almost 2025, and i just wanted to thank everyone for making the end of 2024 so much better for me.

i haven’t been here long, and you guys don’t really know me, but i struggled with school a lot this semester and this community gave me a place to chill and think about things that didn’t make my anxiety go through the roof.

i’ve never ever posted art before this year, and everyone was so kind and supportive. you have inspired me to do things and create for myself, because i want to, and not care what anyone else thinks. i can’t wait to spend a whole year in this community, and i can’t wait to see what we make together❤️

[myobsessionsspace]

[gnabnahcsworld]

Happy new years my loves I hope you beautiful people have an amazing year. I hope it’s filled with nothing but happiness, peace, prosperity and fun. 2024 was definitely a year to say the least but if things felt a lil hard last year, just know they do pass, and I’m glad ur still here trying. I wish you all nothing but the best and I’m always rooting for you all in whatever u do. Sending u all a big hug, muah! 💋🍾🥂🎆🎇🥳🎉🫂

[dreamingofaizawa]

Happy new year to all, and to all a wonderful year of joy and fulfillment ❤️ I love you all

[dee-writes-angst]

Happy new years, my darlings, I’m so grateful for each and every one of you. Here’s to another amazing year with all of you 🥳❤️

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[tawnysoup]

Finally now that the comic is fully public on comicfury, I get to share it with all of you here, too <3

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[stilltangledupinhindsight]

I’m not okay but I hope you all are. What a year right?