I make stuff

From Chapter 11: "You've got to be kidding me"- A memoir

From Chapter 14: Annoyance in post-it form

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58928464/chapters/224735066

Lots of student cameos in here, some in didnt even plan! Can you guess which weren't planned?

Pokopia has lessened it's grip on me so I should be able to get some more work done. Hopefully. I know Splatoon Raiders is just around the corner TT^TT

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82364126

Follow up is spicy, specifically chapter 5 of the 6. So if you don't wanna read that you can likely skip chapter 5 entirely.

I spent far longer than I thought I would on this, and as usual, my idea just balloons in size. I stayed up pretty late for several days in a row to try to get it all finished before the 28th of January (and failed. I got the first two chapters done by then tho).

In any case, I hope you enjoy! I'll be returning to my regularly scheduled Kieran suffering now :D

Only a Train Ride Away:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62543782

I want you to look at me:

This year was certainly fun and eventful!

I went to Japan for the first time!

My discord got hacked! 😂

We picked up a stray cat who had kittens!

We raised kittens from newborn to full grown for the first time (normally we get kittens already past the weening age)

I wrote a .hack//GU oneshot! (guess who has a follow up in the works!)

I published 4 chapters of My Most Ardent Wish! (man, I really gotta get those numbers up @___@)

I got back in contact with a high school friend that I missed greatly!

Deadfish spoiled me with fanart! It makes me smile and feel that warm fuzzy feeling everytime I look at them ❤️ (Thank you Deadfish, truly!)

Anndddd I think that's it.

My goals for 2026:

Read more manga so I'm not super far behind (gonna do a 365 in a year challenge)

Write more chapters! (I'd LOVE to finish Ardent)

Do more craft work so they're not just sitting on my desk for months.

Figure out how to work my resin printer so I can print stuff.

Sell stuff from my selling pile online so it doesn't just sit there waiting for me to hopefully bring it to the fun sale at anime weekend atlanta only to be left at home because it's too big or too valuable and won't sell.

Normally at cons I only buy items from the artists and I'm usually expecting to walk around and find prints and stickers of characters I like but never any of my favorites.

This year though!

I saw they had a print of Carmine and asked if they'd done Kieran too and they had! Just didn't put him up, how dare. If I hadn't asked I wouldn't have known! 😨

And of course I ended up buying other prints from him as well. Then I went back the next day and bought EVEN MORE prints from him as well as a second Kieran print! For the shrine, I mean...Office.

Anyways! Here's what I bought at the con this year!

Looking forward to putting these prints in frames and hanging them up :D

Also was surprised to see a full room for my display things panel on a SUNDAY at 2:45 pm.

Drawn by @deadfish24 from Chapter 11 where Kieran (unfortunately) has to watch some club members battle and they absolutely suck at it. (srsly, yall need remedial classes if you this bad)

I can't tell you how happy I am that someone likes my story enough to draw something from it 😭 Iike, what? I seriously have fanart?

Apparently it's been over a year since I started writing again, specifically since I started writing My Most Ardent Wish.

I wish I could say I was further along in the story than just 15 chapters, especially with some being months in between but it still fills me with pride knowing I'm still keeping up with a project I started that long ago even with other stories coming up along the year.

And just like last year, I will be typing away in between kid visits and stealing candy from the bowl.

Also noticing that I initially posted the first chapter on my husband's birthday too back in September. So uh...I'm super late. ( ＞Д＜；)

Cracking up at the profile pictures hubby and I made 🤣

So Saturday morning comes by and I start with rising what I can with the stuff I got on hand. Namely dollar tree dessert glasses and cut up plastic cups.

Does good and is clear so does the job. Here's what they look like now:

But these are the easy ones. Trainer plushies need something else and I certainly didn't want to use 4 cups per box. So time to make a riser with stuff I got at home.

Behold! my hot glued vinyl plank scraps riser!

doesn't have to look super pretty, just has to hold plushies.

Fits in the cases perfectly so my measurements were good!

And now look at these happy trainers no longer in a free-for-all pile of fluff!

I had a hard time with the row Kieran and Juliana are in because Juliana and Florian have big ol hats and take up more space so I had to really squish em together to fit. But they're good and I'm happy with how it came out.

Especially considering I've been holding on to these stupid vinyl plank scraps for the past....3 years hoping I could make something with em. Huzzah!