#starting soon ! I'm having to stream it because im on holiday

[magic-is-something-we-create]

2023 recap + 2024 plans

i wrote 261,200 words in 2023; 172,500 of those for Whispers, 88,700 for Goddess-Touched!

i read 16 books to completion, beta'd for an additional 2, am currently reading 3, and got partway through 5 others before having to put them down.

i maintained my streaming schedule with only a handful of emergency-related exceptions, and drew, uh, a shit ton over the course of the year!

writing goals for 2024:

fix Echoseers (full stylistic rewrite, along with some plot tweaks)

finish the first draft of Goddess-Touched (and edit it hardcore as well)

work on as-yet-unnamed book 4 of tms

fix up Whispers with the added feedback of beta readers

start querying Whispers (i'll look into self publishing down the road if i don't end up finding an agent. the way my brain functions i must cling to the hope of not having to market it myself tooth and nail for the time being)

POTENTIALLY. if my brain fixates on it. write the script for The Lost so that i actually have something to work with to make the comic happen

one of my offline friends is starting to get into writing, and im hoping to help them through some of the early rough patches and potentially co-write a thing with them!!

i completely dropped the ball on the weekly writing updates so im gonna try and get back to that on wednesday. and potentially get back into the weekly ask games!

non-writing goals for 2024:

youtube. i want to make speedpaints and worldbuilding videos and shit. ive already made the basic animation stuff to have a lil sona to do the gesturing for me and i know how to make videos i just havent done it in a While

twitch!! i want to stream a bit more often because its fun and if i let myself branch out into video games as well as art itll be easier to do that. u might see me streaming in the evenings sometime soon. (psst im not streaming this weekend as im still doing a shit ton of holiday/social stuff but the weekend of the 13th ill be back to both patreon and twitch baybee)

SPEAKING OF i want to get my shit together enough to do like. monthly short story releases for my patrons/ko-fi members. early access, that is, so if i post one in january, it'll be posted here a month or two later for all to see/read

i want to read as many books as i did in 2023, if not more! im also considering adding book reviews/thoughts to youtube or patreon/ko-fi perks

my weekend hiatuses aren't going anywhere. having time where im not actively engaging with tumblr + don't feel obligated to do Anything online has done wonders for my mental health and i highly recommend it. focus mode on my phone and leechblock on desktop has helped so so so much

and that's all i'm sharing here!! i hope 2024 is a better year for all than the last <3

[frogcraftingg]

a lil froggy update

hi dears! been quiet for a while here and just wanted you to know i've not forgotten about this platform!!

recording and editing has been going slow-i had covid for nearly a month with another month of recovery, and then about 1 week after i started feeling better i came down with something that was very bronchitis-like in nature. the past 2 weeks i've been feeling better and would say im operating at 90% again.

because of this i don't really have much content to post right now but I'm happy say this will be changing soon! i've got a house i've been working on over on Twitch almost done (VODs here if you want to catch up) and i'm working on a new longplay with commentary with mods! 🫶🩷

i'm looking forward to having a wonderful 2024 fill with lots of videos and streams over on youtube~

and we are less than 50 subs away from 100k im screamingg what???? 🥲🫶🩷🩷

anyways, hope you all have a safe new year and had a wonderful holiday season!!!

see u again for another post soon <3

xoxo, froggy

[angelicpersonals]

Streamer Friends

So, I am not going to subscribe to befriending streamers anymore. Heres why. Situation 1: I'm friends with them for 3+ years pre-streamer. They become streamers, I support them until Affiliate as a moderator and dedicated viewer. They then literally never talk to me again and get into streamer friend groups. The only way I could stay friends was if I got big enough to help support their career with influence. Situation 2: I'm friends with them for 3+ years when they are a small streamer. They become bigger, they stop talking to me in DMs or private. Hide me from their fans like a secret side chick and only refer to me in a professional setting. Situation 3: I'm friends with them 2+ years when they are a small streamer. They only message me when they feel like it which can be once every 3 - 4 months. If I message them they ghost me and never respond even if its to answer their messages. They then turn on me and call me a bad friend when I stop messaging them and blame me for the friendship falling apart because its "been too long since we last talked" Situation 4: I'm friends with them for 2+ years. They become a streamer, they start throwing me under the bus to their fans for my autism. Any time I fumble and make a mistake they get angry screaming at me for making a mistake (like missing a social cue in a serious conversation not realizing its serious) and this incites their fans to bully me. I'm the one who ends the friendship in this situation. They'd always excuse it with "trying to protect their brand and reputation" would make fun of any art I drew if any of it pictured them in a "negative" light aswell. One such friend got p*ssed I made a gift for her birthday with a few empty coffee cups in the background. It literally was a joking nod to how she always claimed she was addicted to coffee. But she took it as an insult WHILE I was explaining it and she showed it on her stream and made fun of it / publically shamed me. This is COMMON for me and is why I don't make art for others anymore. (has also happened with youtuber friends) Situation 5: I'm friends with them for 3+ years. I'm there for every stream to get them to affiliate, then im there for a few streams after. By the time they get close to Partnered or get big enough to be in a streaming group I tend to fall off because I need to focus on my own life. During that time I am a dedicated moderator and supporter. But as soon as I fall off for my own life and step down as a mod. I'm not their friend, they remove me even though I've explained in detail why im stepping down. Or they ghost me from then on. Situation 6: I'm friends with them for 2+ years, they are never around anymore when they become bigger streamers. We never even talk in DMs, they miss every holiday, every birthday, not even saying 2 simple words. Never checking in on me even when I check in on them. But they have 0 issues checking in on streamers. However when I tried to stream people in this situation were never there to support me or would schedule their streams later in the day every time I went to start mine. (By that I mean it'd be like theirs is at 10am then as soon as I set mine to 8pm they suddenly will shift theirs to 8pm) and our mutual friends would always support them over me.

A non streamer and a streamer seems to be in most cases doomed to fail. Theres cases it doesn't but I noticed it doesn't only happen with me. Basically if you can't further their career many streamers will no longer have a use for you. Friendship means nothing when fame and money get involved.

[yousaytomato]

It's Bake Off season!!

There's a significant amount more of you following me than this time last year, so for those people -

For the next 10 weeks, for around an hour, at 8pm BST on a Tuesday, I live-blog The Great British Bake Off, I will tag everything as #GBBO so please block this if that sounds too annoying, or to avoid spoilers!

I normally don't post too much thought, especially in the early weeks, but, a heads up