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(late) new year updates

2026 feb 1

what's new with the site?

• wrote a 2025 art recap;
• added 4 new drawings;
• added new game review: time & eternity;
• slightly updated game reviews design;
• purged "diary" section for new year;
• updated icons on OC pages;
• made a beginner's guide to elden ring;
• made a webring for artists.

current main projects:

1. set up ocs profiles
2. digital sketchbook
3. weekly game journal entries

lots of stuff to talk about in this post, it seems! that's what happens when i get too lazy to write one of these for a month, lol. let's begin:

first, some minor changes around the site. swapped some colors in the vg review section of the site -- the whole thing's design needs an overhaul, i feel like, but for now, i've hopefully made entries a little more legible. also changed icons signifying stories / universes for OCs to be actual icons instead of emojis -- i got the win11 emoji update & realized i needed to make their aesthetics universal, rather than relying on people's operating systems hahaha. also updated some other little things here & there ... blah blah ...

moving on to the new stuff. i made an art recap for the first time in my life, which was indulgent but nice! as my relationship to my art becomes more casual, i feel like i can look at it & discuss it more openly, so i took the end of the year to do just that.

i also wrote up a beginner's guide to making characters in elden ring. i was inspired because some friends agreed to run a co-op campaign with me ( my dream come true!!! though we still haven't started yet ... ) and i thought it would be helpful to give them something to chew on prior to us actually starting the game. all of them love TTRPGs, so i used that as my angle to draw them in -- it's not a guide on how to Get Good or minmax or whatever, it's a guide for making a character & letting the events of the game further inspire that character.
i had an amazing time writing it, because i don't really get to info dump like that about interests ... so even if it's not saying anything new, i'm proud of it & happy lol ... check it out if you're curious.

and now the ACTUAL most important part of this update ... i made a webring for artists! specifically, it's a webring for people who have galleries on their websites of art they make. any kinda art, not just drawing. i kept looking around for something like this, as i really wanted to browse around & find new artists here on The Indie Web, but it seems nothing like it existed ... so i made it ...
i hate putting myself out there lmao, so PLEASE!!! if you or someone you know has a gallery of stuff they've made on their personal site, take a look & consider joining! more than anything i've made, i'd like to see this take off & be successful. i adore stumbling onto someone's gallery & poking around it, so i hope this webring helps other people do the same!

and that's kinda it. arm's hurting, so let's wrap this up!

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what's new with me?

eh, same ol' same old. pain's been exceptional lately ( i've not really been able to take an extended break long enough to heal ) and we had multiple extremely expensive house dilemmas happen all at once, but things are alright.

it's a continued privilege to run this site & live as comfortably as i do. i'm sure you've heard about the kidnappings happening in the USA right now, which i won't lecture about -- if you live here, you already know what to do; if you don't live here, it's not your problem but please don't let these things happen where you live either. it's a wicked time all around the globe, so if you have the safety to do so, continue to try & make change in your communities ( or try to get started, if you haven't ) and lend support where you can ... i'm an anxious coward, but i'll still do what i can when i can.

take it easy & be safe, everyone!