End of the Year 2023

Hi hello!
This year was not the best year, for me and especially wrt Palestine, Congo and Sudan and the atrocities that happened and are still happening. But I did accomplish some things this year and I figured I should celebrate that.

Things I did this year:

Read 152 books.
Played a bunch of games:

a graphic of the steam year in review 2023 from user ketallpot. 143 games played, 131 achievements, 466 sessions and 37 new games. The most played games are Our Life: Beginning and Always, Hades, Dragon Age: Origins, Arcade Spirits and Tabletop Simulator

Not all on steam, of course, but a lot of them. Some standouts include:
I streamed 30 times this year, which surprised me, since it felt like I barely streamed at all this year.
Wrote a lot more: I actually finished Nanowrimo this year, instead of stalling like every other year. I didn’t write a 50k novel, but now I have the confidence to actually try next year.
I also wrote haiku, of course, other short poems, played around with tanka and the 4-1-1 format and made a mini ebook of some of haiku. I also did a black history month challenge, where I wrote about blackness and how it relates to me.
I also did some comic and comic related stuff: not as much as I’d like but more than I thought I would do. I will eventually get back to my playthrough of Gotham Knights.
Since twitter basically shot itself in the foot, I’ve been looking for different social media platforms to still connect with people. There are no real replacements for what twitter did, problems that predated even Musk aside, but here are some places you can find me: bluesky (nothing is private on here, so watch what you say), cohost (very livejournal feels), and my old trusty, tumblr (still no erotica allowed).
Got more into fashion and how the fashion industry came about. One day, I’ll actually sit down and write my essay on fashion, black designers and how my relationship with fashion evolved over the years. Maybe 2024 is the year?
Made some dear friends and actually came out of my shell. Finding a community of people who get me was really eye-opening and I'm grateful for meeting all of them.
Exercised a lot more, with a lot more consistency. That all petered off near the end of the year because of health reasons, but I'm proud of myself for sticking with it for so long.
Learned more about me: about being demiace and demiaro, autism and ADHD and how much of contradiction my brain is, how to say no and stand firm on that (it doesn't always work, but it's a work in progress, like my life usually is), relearned depression is a rachet bitch who never truly goes away and that wishing away health issues don't make them go away. Although I do keep trying; my parents didn't raise a quitter, after all.

So yeah, 2023 has been a year. Some good, a lot of bad, but also a revealing year, about myself, the world around me and the people around me. Hoping the new year will be better, because hope is the biggest source of power we have. Hope for good things to come, for the terrible to end and for rewarding growth and change. While anger is a powerful thing to get things done, it can't be sustained without hope and I hope (see what I did?) I can keep that attitude into the new year and beyond.

See ya,

Ketall