merry christmas! im 20 now

this year has been a long one but in a good way

at the very start of the year, i uncovered one pretty huge revelation regarding my own identity, and i think that led to me being a lot more outgoing this year

the beginning of this year was really fun, pixel day was a huge highlight

i got to do a bit of work on 3 games this pixel day, making UI art for pixel art, some small assets for parallel panic, and dedicating a majority of my attention to gravity shift

much love to @jack, @nokoi, and @tombdude for letting me help with those

following pixel day, i was commissioned to make a bunch of emotes for needlejuice's discord server, and as small as that is, it feels like a highlight just for how fun it was

i also tried to contribute to more collabs this year, and going into 2023, i hope to contribute to a lot more

august led to the 1 year anniversary of working on LAST SODA, a thing me and some friends have been making (more on that later?)

another huge highlight this year was FLASH BASH!!!! in may, me and a bunch of my ng buddies met up and went to a little art exhibit that was pretty close to my school, that was super fun

(pic includes @hekdiggity @heyopc @domromart @droid @brandybuizel @linethickness @nokoi and @icymire32)

and at the very end of may, my productivity with a lot of stuff began to slow down a bit, but for pretty good reason

i spent 3 months in CANADA this summer!!! i was living with my lovely boyfriend @rumblelurin, and some pretty fun art came out of that

i also spent a lot of summer working on assets for a little game with the people i worked on gravity shift with, and i'm still making stuff for it right now

https://twitter.com/mbjackng/status/1552393668769742848?s=20

and i made sum artwork for zizou's game GIMMIKO, which i am also still making some stuff for

following what might be the best summer i've ever had, i went back to school, where i became roommates with long-time internet buddy and newgrounds artist @gooberthed !!!!!!!!!!!

this has also led to some fun art

(she shaved her head)

living with greta, i finished my first semester of my sophomore year at college, and that brings us to now

throughout the year i also spent a lot of time on random commissions, here are sum of my favorites ive done

and ALSO throughout the year, i've been working on LAST SODA with gooberthed and icymire and rumblelurin, working with the lovely voice talents of @meulinex (and others) for like a year and a half now

i don't want to turn this into a boring progress post, so all i'll show off right now are some incomplete shots i really like

https://streamable.com/fswake

https://streamable.com/z4st36

https://streamable.com/k4ya9b

(that last one is using mostly placeholder assets)

and now im trying to think of what else i might want to talk about. im writing this at like 7 am, i hope i didnt forget anything lol! this year was really cool, i wish the second half of the year was more productive with side projects but overall i think this mightve been the best year out of the twenty i've lived so far. thank you to newgrounds for providing me with all these amazing opportunities and introducing me to a million amazing friends, and for being better than twitter. much love to u guys, and happy holidays.

oh wait 1 more thing. at the beginning of the year i wrote a list of goals to complete for the year. lets see where i got with that

lol