#writing summary 2024

[grubbin22]

i wrote…i wrote 660k+ words (this is only counting my published works on ao3) in 2024…lets keep it up. happy holidays and happy new year 🫠🧡

[missameliep]

2024 Writing Summary

August

Blades of Light and Shadow

Bonds of Sea and Fire - Part 2

October

Blades of Light and Shadow

Bonds of Sea and Fire - Part 3

Bonds of Sea and Fire - Part 4

Desire & Decorum

Once Upon a Summer - Part 1 (AU)

Once Upon a Summer - Part 2 (AU)

Second Chances - Chapter Twenty Five: It starts with a kiss (AU)

Ride or Die

The One Who Got Away - Read on AO3

November

Desire & Decorum

In a Little Book Shop - Part 1 (AU)

December

Wake the Dead

Twenty Seconds or Twenty Years

[midnightechoes]

2024 REFLECTIONS

I’ll be honest, I spent a good ten minutes trying to figure out a peppy opening for this post. As you can tell, I couldn’t think of one. In many ways, 2024 was a rough year for us all. I’m not going to focus on the precarious state of the world here, even though I would be lying if I didn’t say that it didn’t play a part in how my year went. Instead, I’m going to try to focus on my personal journey through the year. I’ll be reflecting on my year, and what I hope to bring into 2025.

2024 was a year of endings for me. Well, that’s the charitable outlook. You could also say it was the year of things falling apart for me.

Perhaps the biggest was my daily doodle streak. On December 1st 2014, I committed to drawing something every day during that month. And I did it. I was so happy with myself, I decided to try to keep that streak going. I went into 2015 with the ambitious goal of doing a daily doodle every day of the year. And I did that too.

So I kept going. A month streak turned into a whole year streak, which turned into two years, which turned into a little over nine years. Yeah. I drew a daily doodle every day from December 1st 2014 to December 17th 2023. 3,305 days. It is still one of the things that I am most proud of. Sure, some of the doodles were glorified stick figures, or just part of a larger picture that I was working on, but the point is I still drew. Something. Anything. for 3,305 days in a row. I tried to restart it a few times in 2024, but the longest I got was around 60 days.

The streak came to an end over the holiday season because I caught the flu. A bad case of it.

That flu is also the reason I broke my writing streak of over two years. Not as long as my doodle streak, I was over 700 days into writing a little bit every day.

My daily streak of Japanese lessons (on Duolingo and later Busuu) survived the flu, but would also end in the Summer. It also lasted a little over two years, from April 2022 to July 2024.

On a personal level, my diet also fell apart in 2024. I did way too much of “eating my feelings”, and I’ve paid for it.

I told myself that I was okay with the daily doodle streak ending, that it had done what it needed to (get me drawing again), but in hindsight, I miss it. Hell, I think I need it. Since my daily doodle streak ended I’ve struggled to get into a drawing rhythm this year. It almost feels like a chapter has ended for me. One that began with my daily doodles, and kicked into full gear with the arrival of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

Between SPOP, and then CW’s Supergirl, and then RWBY and Mobile Suit Gundam: the Witch From Mercury, I had entered into this wonderful period of creativity, creating fanart, writing fanfics, just making so much stuff.

But I only drew a handful of pictures in 2024, and only did two tiny fanfics. I stopped posting much here, or on my other social media. All that just kind of stuttered to a stop, even though there were a bunch of ideas of things I wanted to draw and write.

I’m hoping to work on getting that spark of productivity back in 2025. I plan to restart my daily doodle streak on January 1st. Likewise I hope to get better about writing again, as well as start doing Japanese lessons again.

It’s sounded all like doom and gloom so far, but there was one very bright spot in 2024. A comic idea called Void Domain Midnight. It’s a concept involving a few of my favorite OCs that I’ve had around for decades now in previous incarnations, along with a bunch of new characters. It stars my OC Youmi, who’s been the character that’s been in my head for what feels like my entire life at this point.

I’ve been searching for the right story for her for years. I thought I had found it back in 2005 with a couple of friends, but that fizzled out in 2008. And then I spent the next six years trying to rework her story until I had to admit to myself that it just wasn’t working late in 2014.

So she went onto the shelf, and stayed there. I was beginning to think that she’d always just be a case of something I wish I had been able to do, but, in the summer of 2023, a convergence of things came about that got me thinking about Youmi for the first time in years. And, after playing around with stuff for a few months, I think I’ve finally found the story I want to tell with her.

A lot of 2024 has been spent working on and planning her comic, Void Domain Midnight. World building, characters designs, story outlines. I have done quite a bit of work on VDM, and my hope is to begin making VDM in full this winter so that I can actually start releasing stuff this year.

I guess it was wrong to say that my productivity spark was entirely gone. I’ve just been putting it into VDM. But still, even with VDM, I’ve been less motivated to get things done lately than I was in the past. I’m hoping to start building that back up.

Because… I’ve never lost my spark of creativity. That want to make things, that thing inside you that goes “oh I have this cool idea for a fic,” or “wouldn’t this picture look amazing?” That’s still there. I just need to get back to a place where I’m acting on those feelings again.

I think I can do it. Slowly but surely. I need to be patient with myself (admittedly not always something I’m great with), but I think I can get back to making the stuff I love.

So that’s the attitude I choose to bring into 2025. One of optimism. One of hope. Not just for my art, but for everything. I choose to keep working for a better future for myself and for the world. Yeah, my mental health will put obstacles there sometimes, but I know I can work through them, because I have in the past.

I’m going to make fanart of stuff I love in 2025.

I’m going to write the fanfics that I want to in 2025. I may even get back to working on Jackets in 2025.

I’m going to make Void Domain Midnight in 2025. I might even make a few other smaller comics this year.

This is the stuff I want to do. This is what I want to spend my time on. I’m going to do everything I can to make it a reality.

Happy New Year everyone.

[mail-me-a-snail]

⋆˚࿔ 2024 in art + honorable mentions !! (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) .ᐟ.ᐟ⋆˚࿔

wauwie what a year, what a year...i came to terms with being aromantic/aroace, made plenty of new and wonderful friends, got to enjoy art a whole lot more... its kind of fun to see how i started the year out with either very few colors or monochromatic art and i ended it with full color peices !!

i dont like how medic shows up three times in this. or how two of three of the honorable mentions are of him also. goddamn.

[atalienart]

✧*:･ﾟArt summary 2024

2014-2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021

[helsensm]

was I purposefully choosing only Kung Lao art? yes, and?

so… crazy year, huh?

I don’t really like doing this, but I guess it’s kinda a tradition – to look back at the end of the year and reflect? And this one was… something. Political and global stuff aside, it was a weird year personally. Usually there’s not much going on in my life, especially compared to the stagnant Great Artblock period of 2020-2023. But this year…

This was a year, when some of my friends had to deal with devastating news. A year, when I lost my 18 y/o cat, and hardly does a day go by that I don’t miss her. A year when both my mental and physical health has declined rapidly. A year, when I relapsed and attempted suісide. A year, when it seems like nothing in my life changed for good.

But also it was a year, when I was drawing the most. A year, when I finally did things I've been putting off for too long. A year, when I fixed my pronoun in all the bios. A year, when I found new people, good people, skilled and inspiring. And a year, when I met up with friends I haven't seen in a while. A year, when I called for help and decided to stay. A year, when I received so much love – and I really hope I gave back enough too.

Thank you all for being with me this year and I wish you a fantastic 2025! 🥂💖

[logicpng]

this year ended up being somewhat complicated for art. but a lot was done that was worth celebrating either way!

ukagaka/desktop toy projects mentioned:

Quiet Conversation Over Tea (i made most of the shell and some writing)

Aster Assistant Software

Aster Terror Star!

Useless Box

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Art Summary of 2024 (logic.png)

Small changes to CaelOS - Redesign for Urs and logos, tweaks to Aster's design.

Quiet conversation over tea - Collab with Zichqec for Ghost Masquerade 6.

corru.observer fixation - Pulled me out of a major artblock. it's also a great game you should play it.

Aster Assistant Software shell remake - Now with animated tails!

Buckshot Roulette fixation - So many sketches holy shit, I fell in love with this man sorry.

Aster Terror Star release! - Finally! It took me a year! It didn't need to but i'm still proud.

Useless Box released - …Only took me one day. Dressups update soon?

Great God Grove fixation - how long has it been since I finished a story based game? You should also play it

[vro0m]

Can't believe we're only halfway through the season and at the same time I can't remember what happened so far.

Someone send me a summary please. What happened. What did we do. Where are we.

[snowysaur]

2024 year in review/art summary. i realized i never made these for 2021-23 either so here's all of them. i think i haven't been drawing as much these past few years, oh well support me on: patreon | kofi | redbubble

[benevolenterrancy]

you know, I really wasn't expecting Jin Guangyao to win the most spots on my art summary this year but you know what he deserves it, probably, maybe... I think I did less art than usual this year though because I spent most of the spring frantically writing a couple massive fanfics, and then most of July I was traveling, so it was rather feast or famine art-wise for me

and now for the breakdown!

This year SVSSS managed to pull into the lead as the fandom I drew the most art for which... is honestly pretty impressive given that I started that series in August? my apologies to literally everyone who could not have expected this sudden deluge... very different from Hogan's Heroes and Torchwood which were my most prolific fandoms last year (ᵕ—ᴗ—);;;

The other fandoms I drew at least several pieces of art for this year include: MDZS, TGCF, Hogan's Heroes and The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish.

The fandoms I drew only 1 or 2 pieces for were: The 10th Kingdom, MASH, The Apothecary Diaries, Back to the Future, Cybersix, Discworld, Dungeon Meshi, Final Fantasy, Lost in Space, The Salt Grows Heavy, Torchwood, Tintin, and Wicked.

The actual breakdown of art for anyone interested

PLUS a bonus gideon and harrow that i was told i had to include u.u

[true-blue-sonic]

Espilver Week day 1: Invisible

"The Wisps are truly remarkable creatures, are they not?” the chameleon muses one warm afternoon.

With a smile Silver nods at Espio’s question, studying their strange companions fluttering and cooing around in the distance. The two of them had been exploring around following a tip Sonic had provided them with, and Silver has to admit: the Lost Hex is nothing to sneeze at. Windy Hill could not be better to just wander through with his beloved at his side, his quills fluttering and Espio humming contently at the breeze. But the fact Wisps had come rushing right over with coos galore means that the place isn’t as alone and deserted for lovebirds to spend their dates at as Sonic had proclaimed, even if Silver doesn’t mind it. There’s worse companions to have than a bunch of curious aliens.

“They always look so funny. And they’re so nice to us too,” the hedgehog answers, giving the Red Wisp that had snuggled itself into his hands and refused to remove itself from the decadent affection elicited on it since yet another caress over its head. Espio has found himself a similar object of the Wisps’ interest, with how a Magenta one is doing its very best to stay balanced on top of his crest where many of its siblings have fallen off already. The antics make Silver laugh, which makes the Wisps laugh and Espio too, and that is the sweetest reward of all.

The Red Wisp’s tentacles twitch and curl like the flame of a fire, Silver studying it curiously. “I wonder where they get their special powers from. What creates Hyper-go-on,” he brings up. It's question he’s wondered before, but during wars and racing events there’s not much time to ponder those things over. The Wisps seem to know, though; or at least, they respond with a whole bunch of chatters that Silver can’t follow in the slightest. “Sorry, we don’t have any communicators,” he apologises.

“We’ll have to make do the old-fashioned way. Guess-work. Let us see… It is either something very special or very mundane,” Espio nods from where he grabs and scrutinises the Magenta Wisp so closely Silver can only presume his look of seriousness is tremendously exaggerated, though it wavers at the response of cries the hedgehog swears are disappointed. At least that means he kind of has an idea what’s going on!

Wriggling a finger onto the body of the Red Wisp and grinning at the giggling squeal it elicits Silver hums. “I guess it doesn’t matter so much. But it’s nice the Wisps have managed to make their home here. It’s a great place to live,” he muses, more to himself than to Espio; but Windy Hill is gorgeous and just ambling through it with Espio as the sun shines on his face and the trees sway in the breeze gives plenty of room for happy thoughts. No wonder the Wisps so delightfully chase each other around and draw Silver and Espio’s attention towards flowers and critters scampering around without a care in the world. And even Espio looks carefree, the other drawing a deep breath of the fresh air with a smile on his face.

“Indeed. I can imagine it gives them plenty of space to use those powers of theirs.”

“Certainly,” Silver agrees, a Blue Wisp squeaking loudly and immediately transforming in a cube the moment he and Espio look over. “Very impressive,” the hedgehog encourages their new friends. “What’s your favourite power, Espio?”

“Psychokinesis,” the dry retort comes… as does many an adorably angry leer from the Wisps cluttering around them. “Okay, okay,” the chameleon relents with a chuckle. “I like… Crimson Eagle best.”

Silver’s lips twitch up in a grin. “Because it allows you to fly?”

“Shush, you,” Espio chastises him fondly as Silver very elaborately takes to floating in the air. The hedgehog can see some reasons why his beloved would like the ability to fly best… “Which one do you enjoy?” the other adds, Silver’s ears shooting right up.

“Jade Ghost!”

“…Because it allows you to turn invisible?”

“No, because it allows me to focus on my missions without everyone constantly getting in my way-” Silver falls right into explaining… before blinking. “Oh. Because I’m invisible and they can’t see me.”

That elicits a snort from Espio’s side and a delighted coo from a Jade Wisp in the distance. "But I'm not playing favourites," Silver assures the Red Wisp he's holding still, that's quite promptly taken to pouting- and shrieking, as its Jade companion comes rushing right over and bonks it right out of Silver's arms.

The hedgehog gasps by instinct, as his hold promptly houses a completely different Wisp that expectantly chirps at him and tugs at his fingers. Beside him Espio laughs, as does the Magenta Wisp smugly sprawled out in Espio's grasp with an air that it would not be removed so easily. “Eager, aren’t you?” the chameleon smiles at the Jade Wisp, that coos in approval with its little mouth forming a grin. Its red companion has taken the change less well: mad squeaks and growls fill the air around Silver and Espio, three eyes narrowed angrily and a tendril shaken as if it’s a fist. Adorable, Silver stops himself from cooing out loud. Espio clearly thinks the same, a fond golden gaze meeting Silver’s. “Both of you, pipe down," the chameleon soothes. "You’re reminding me quite a bit of a certain someone when you act like this, heh.”

“That’s not true! I also like Jade Ghost because it means I don’t need to constantly attack people which costs way too much time," Silver huffs back, Espio laughing most teasingly from where he gets shoved by psychokinesis. Incorrigible, that beloved of his, the hedgehog decreed with a shake of his head; even if hearing Espio laugh like that always makes him flutter on the inside. "But I guess you are not bothered much by that, are you, little one? You did just push your friend right away to get some attention. I would never do such a thing myself," he adds to the Jade Wisp he's holding, Espio taking the angrily-jabbering Red Wisp to soothe and cuddle instead while the hedgehog shoots a teasing little grin to his own charge. It promptly makes a similar peeved noise as its friend, Silver muffling a laugh as it bonks its head against his stomach…

And a zap of energy going through him makes the fur on his spine rise, though as Silver looks down at the Wisp he can look quite a bit through himself, too.

“Huh,” Espio remarks over the giggles and squeals from their various companions. “Your friend there didn’t like to hear that, tenshi.”

With a curious hum Silver sticks out his hand: he’s very much still here, but also very much translucent, a green aura radiating from his body and the Wisp flying right out of his grasp through his arm with plenty of cheeky coos. “Jade Ghost,” the hedgehog easily determines. Not as complete as he’s used to, but pushing a hand through his stomach is easy as can be.

“That’s creepy,” Espio’s teasing judgement comes.

Laughing at the Jade Wisp fluttering around his head with scolding chirps Silver shakes out his glowing quills. “Aw, come on. Can’t handle a bit of see-through-ness?” 

“Excuse me? I am the expert at see-through-ness,” the chameleon retorts; and quite suddenly it looks as if the Red Wisp is floating into nothingness, the creature squeaking in alarm as Espio disappears with a gale and some leaves fluttering around him. “I am still here, my friend. You would not be held up if I was not,” the ninja’s disembodied voice assures it, Silver’s ears twitching in amusement. Yes, Espio does not become intangible when invisible…

“That’s true! He’s right here,” he smirks, and Espio’s noise of warning does not deter him from pushing his translucent hand right into where the other’s body must be.

A full yell and a startle follow, Espio’s purple colours rushing right back from where he jumps away. “Silver!” the chameleon huffs at him. “That’s cold!”

“Heh. Sorry,” Silver retorts, not at all apologetic.

“Incorrigible,” he gets scolded... though Espio’s attempt to grab twitching grey ears and give them a tug promptly finds itself foiled as his hand goes through Silver’s head instead. It leaves the two of them laughing, as does the Jade Wisp prodding away at Silver’s body. “Alas, I have been defeated by the power of the Wisps. I guess I’ll just have to get used to my beloved always being half there,” the chameleon bemoans playfully. “I would give you a kiss… but it cannot be achieved. You are intangible.”

:"...Oh. Heck." With his quills shooting right up in horror Silver blinks, staring at himself and his see-through body: that is quite a good point, actually. But not one that is irreversible! After all, Wisp powers always run out right when he doesn't want them to; surely this half-formed Jade Ghost has only been kept active because its responsible Wisp has been battering at Silver relentlessly this whole time. “Hey,” he pipes up to their Jade companion, who has crossed two of its tentacles to pout at him. “Sorry for painting you as a Wisp-bonking menace. It was a compliment.”

Jabbering something back the Jade Wisp rubs its little face, or at least Silver figures; but with a final bonk and mad cackles it flies off, the hedgehog chuckling as well. Before he knows it the usual grey of his pelt as returned, his hand pushing into his stomach instead of through. “Well! Now you can kiss me,” he grins at Espio, eager as can be-

Before squealing in disdain as the other shoots over and tugs at his ears after all.

“There. My revenge has been had,” the chameleon smirks, Silver wriggling in his grasp and laughing at the flailing of the Red Wisp finding itself rather stuck between their two bodies. Eventually it breaks free with similar peeved jabbers, though Silver is a bit too preoccupied to really pay attention to that: Espio's hands run over his back and his quills, their faces so tantalisingly close a kiss is mere seconds away after all.

Huffing a breath into Espio neck first, just to make a statement, Silver snuggles even closer. “Rude,” his protest comes; but so does his coveted kiss, his arms wrapping around Espio’s body and purrs rumbling in his chest from where he gets petted so lavishly.

That is, until he gets rammed in the back by a madly-cackling Wisp and the zap of energy makes him stumble; through Espio, who altogether shrieks at the sensation, and after that they spend a lot of the afternoon chasing after their mischievous Jade friend and trading pecks once Silver has become tangible again.

Next time they’re getting a Crimson Wisp to play with because at least those don’t make Espio become translucent, Silver determines, but for now he’s perfectly happy to snuggle with his beloved into the grass from Windy Hills, content as can be.

@espilver-week 🍀

[thechthonicherbalist]

My most meaningful Posts this Year:

~ Art ~

This is almost all my art of this year. Or well. All that isn't private.

🎻Curves & Melodies (Pictures 1 & 3) 🎻

🎸🎶 Monsieur Lestat le Rockstar 🎶

🍒 🍑 Mon Cher's Assassmint 🍑 🍒

~ Experiences ~

Just some posts about some positive experiences this year. 🥰 I hope to share lots more in 2025.

🍄 Mushroom Microcosms ~ Vol 1. 🍄

🎄🎁Cute Artsy Christmas Gift🎁🎄

🍂🌼 New beloved cozy Game 🌼🍂

~ Spiritual ~

Prayers and Posts on Gods! There's more smaller ones and loooots I put on papers on my altar and in the prayer channels of some groups. But for here, these are the most important.

🛡️ 🦉 Who is... Lady Athena? 🦉 🛡️

🎶 ☀️ A Prayer (to Apollo) ☀️ 🎶

⚱️ 💀 A Prayer for Death 💀 ⚱️

~ Other good things this Year ~

🎶 Karaoke and movie nights with friends 🎮 Playing Snap, Pico, Jackbox, Stardew & other games with friends 🔮 Tending to crystals in a 14th century building for work 📚 Reading IWTV again and finding all the overlooked Overlaps to the show with an expert 🥰 🍵 Finally drinking tea and water in big quantities again 🧃 Finally drinking soda in tiny quantities again 🍜 EATING SOUP AGAIN 📺 Cozy Anime time with bestie. 🥰 🏥 Good Healing Spaces and People 🥁 My very own Druid drum!!! 🕊️ Finally enough peace and quiet to take care of life, nervous system, health & do some art & writing without fear of new hurts. 🥲

[vlasdygoth]

2024

[firefly-factory]

2024 Wrap Up <3

Getting to this a little late, but here's my year in art!

Thanks @thequeenofthewinter and @pocket-vvardvark for tagging me for this. It gave me a chance to look back on my art and made me realize how much more art I've been making since I found this community on tumblr (via the skyrim mer-simps pipeline lol). This past year had its ups and downs, but reconnecting with my art and fandoms (and making art for fun and not for classes or big projects) has been one of the highlights.

As part of the reflection, here are five of my favorite things I've made this past year (in no particular order):

"Out of Darkness/Into Light

My first fic on Ao3!!! I'd been lurking for months, but I finally worked up the courage to post a few things, and makes me really happy (and I love young Erandur so much).

The Astorvember "Cult" comic

Honestly I'm thrilled with how basically all of my comics for Astorvember turned out, but this was one where the final product really matched the mental image I had when planning it out.

"A Restless Night in Solitude"

This drawing with Ondolemar and Astra is one I love because it's just so sweet and the aurora in the background is so pretty. Looking back through my art, it makes me smile <3

Astra's intro post (with her library)

It's her! It's my girl <3 <3

A Sleepy Revyn Sadri

The first skyrim fanart I posted here, and still one of my favorites. I was honestly startled with how postive everyone's reaction to it was?? And it's fun looking back at the likes and reblogs and realizing, "Wait, those strangers that liked my art . . . I know them now! And they're all really cool!! I love them!"

(I'm talking about y'all. I love you guys so freaking much)

[bismuthburnsblue]

✨2024 makes wrap up! ✨

this ended up being a big year for me in terms of makes, though it didnt really feel like it at the time! im also realising how many of these projects i never did a proper wrap up post for, so i will try and do some more of those over the coming weeks!

Total sewing projects: 11 Costumes completed: 3 UFOS finished: 1.5 (one was a long-awaited alteration) buttons sewed for coworkers: 13 (ish)

and the full list, with links to posts as i write them!

Anne Pants

Anne Blouse

Anne Corset

Flora Dress

Janet Skirt

Record Bag

Ginny Skirt alteration

Ginny Vest

The Coat

Skirt alteration

Minecraft Guardian plushie

bonus mentions:

(things that werent sewing projects or didnt get completed, but felt important enough not to leave off!)

Anne necklace

Cross stitch progress

design a dress

swallow ita bag

below the cut ive wrote a little about the projects with pictures, if you wanna read more in depth thoughts!

Anne took up most of the start of my year, working from february to may on the parts of the costume. it took me outside my comfort zone in a lot of ways- my first time making pants, and the corset presented a whole bunch of new challenges, being in leather- any seam i made was impossible to fix. i made a whole bunch of mistakes, but im incredibly happy with the overall results anyway.

I took a break after Anne, chilled out, did some cross stitch, only to jump head first into Flora on an impulse (aka my friend said "do you want to?" and i said "say less") In spite of the time crunch, she was quite an easy build, following a pattern, not too much fitting, and most of the problems ended up being of my own making. after coming back to redo her hem in october, im super happy with how things came out!

I floated around for a bit over the summer, messing around with patterning the wing collar for the design-a-dress for a while, working on my Janet skirt, and patterning a couple other miscellaneous things before throwing myself into mcm prep again! as mentioned, i redid my Flora hem, and i also decided to learn a new type of skill! bag making!!!

Looking at my archive, i dont think i ever posted anything about the bag i made for Maggie, which is frankly a crime, because i love this thing!!! it was absolutely a learning curve & i didnt have all the best choice of materials (it was mostly scraps from my job and things from in my stash) but i really did learn so much that i can take forward into the future- which there definitely will be a future! i already have plans for at least three more bag projects, and im gonna figure out how to make ita bags too :D

then it was full steam ahead into november, and i decided i could finish another costume this year, and so it was time for Ginny! She was a mix of refashioning & from scratch work, but every fabric piece was made with recycled materials. I loved making this costume, it was super fun to mess around with techniques with no worry about how professional it looked at the end because she was such an obscure costume!

At the same time i was working on Ginny, i decided it was high time i finally finished the coat i started working on... two years ago ''':) this too was all about learning new techniques and understanding proper construction, and i am so, so happy with the results. theres definitely a couple pieces id like to come back and revisit at some point (looking at you, collar -_-) but i know those are mostly things only im going to see. im so glad i put it down for a while, i think ive done a lot better than i would have done this time last year- and i know when ive given it some time and come back again, ill do better then, too. but its wearable and cute, and i finally have a lovely winter coat :)

I thought i would be finishing the year with a couple of long overdue alterations to my favourite skirts, but i ended up only getting one done when my coworker asked for help making a christmas present for their friends kid. the second she showed me the pattern, i knew i could do better, and so i wrapped up my year with a mad dash to make a plushie guardian in a week before i finished work for the year.

You should know by now i love a challenge, and this sure was something different! i think id do things differently if i had more time, but im super happy with how this guy came out! it was great practice for satin stitching on my machine & working with tricky fabrics, and i think id definitely like to make another one, with a few changes to the design- and the colours of the fabric, as i had nothing to do with those! im telling the kid its a shiny guardian ;) either way, i hope the kid has a great time using him as a mace !!

and thats my year in review!! im hoping next year ill be able to do another one of these and be just as proud of everything ive achieved :)

[kibasniper]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sally Acorn & Bark the Polar Bear, Bark the Polar Bear & Bean the Dynamite & Fang the Sniper | Nack the Weasel Characters: Sally Acorn, Bark the Polar Bear, Bean the Dynamite, Fang the Sniper | Nack the Weasel, Dr. Eggman | Dr. Robotnik, Geoffrey St. John, Rosemary Prower, Hamlin Pig, Dylan Porcupine, Penelope Platypus, Isabella Mongoose, Elias Acorn Additional Tags: Sonic the Hedgehog Big Bang 2024, Canon Era, Redemption, Recovery, Heist, Action, Guilt, Mission Fic, Team Dynamics, Understanding, Personal Growth, Trust, Hopeful Ending Summary:

Out of the blue, and in the dead of night, the Hooligans receive a sudden message from Eggman, demanding their presence. He has a special job for them, and failure promises the end of their free will. While relatively simple in terms of their expertise, Bark can't steel his nerves as the threat looms over his head. Bean and Nack are eager to rob the Acorns blind, but seeing the peaceful people of New Mobotropolis and the solemn princess recuperating after her roboticization, Bark finds himself at a crossroads.

One path leads to stagnancy, the other an uncertain trek toward freedom, which may or may not loop around toward his demise.

my piece for @sthbigbang! thank to you @mqole (x) and @eldritchgriffin (x) for their wonderful accompanying art! i was blown away by their artwork and how perfectly they captured the vibes of the story!!