Holy Bananas I hit 500 followers. I can't believe I've got half a grand of people with their eyes on me, and all in a matter of about 8 months. (Fun fact: the average person has less than 2 eyes). Thank all of y'all for your support! The amount of love Newgrounds has given me this year has been absolutely insane. I get so many nice comments and even a little bit of feedback. You guys are wonderful.

I got to do so much cool stuff thanks to the inspiration and community of this site!

I'd like to thank our wonderful Tom Fulp for the grand celebration of Pico Day, and me somehow placing second. This is still one of my favorite images of the year:

I used my $400 moolah to get myself a cool af new drawing tablet as my previous one's cords were going bad, giving me a lot of disconnection issues and flickering and bad colors when it was being finicky. Thank you so much, Mr. Fulp, and everyone who donated.

It's hard to see the rest of it because it's dark at 1pm here, wtf, but that's the screen! Check out my next project >:3c

It should be done in the next couple days, huehuehue.

Piconjo day and leading up to it was a blast too! I actually have a pretty heavy anniversary on the same day, so working on the Piconjo FNF mod leading up to it (which I'm still expanding!!!! mostly by myself!!! aaaa!!!) kept me from moping about and being a total bummer. I met some pretty cool peeps thanks to it (hello to AlgaeGhost, Fe, Emp, Spook, Scum, and every other cool person on the .hax server! 👋). Also the great and talented musicians Teravex and Anjer who you might've seen around are helping out with the music! Heck yeah!

Learning how to dig through someone else's code, and animate, and all the fun mod things, has been a fantastic experience. I learned so much from working on not only the Piconjo mod but also the IvnyRose mod.

A little while later I joined in on the Isometric Room Collab, adding my sona to Newgrounds probably Forever. Hahah.

I had a blast making a fantastic fake comic cover for Madness Day, also a learning experience. I didn't place but I still love how it turned out, and the wonderful comments from Krinkels and his comrades were enough for me. (No, I'm not making a comic, sorry :,D)

Hot Dog.

I did something quick and dirty, which I thought was mostly just for fun, and also got second place for the Podchan Art Contest! I didn't think about how 'community' this image was as I just did what felt natural, but it certainly touched the judges in a way I didn't expect!

Pretty sure I used this cash to buy the new Warioware game, huehuehue.

I worked hard for a while on the IvnyRose mod, making other uploads pretty slow, but my most recent Newgrounds Collab being for the Tankmas Advent calendar, and it's definitely the longest I spent on a single image probably ever. Definitely in recent memory. I wanted this to be the happy community image of heckling and cooperating and celebrating that I feel Newgrounds eminates on a daily basis, or at least what I feel like it does from the 8 little ol' months I've been here.

Especially thanks to the FNF team. Who knows where I'd be if it weren't for a silly little rhythm game, and ninjamuffin's unending praise of this site, both of which inspired me to take a deeper look and finally join this cool site. Wowsers. Thank you, Newgrounds, for being so awesome.

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I feel like I've run out of things to say, so here's my project and personal "improvement" memes for this year. I don't think I've improved at all but I'm quite happy with what I've learned. Here's to a great 2022!! 🎉