📝 December 2025 Blogroll: Share your blog posts!

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I am all tapped out (the holiday season is always tight), but I hope Tico-Tico gets the help she needs! :meow_heart1:

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I really enjoyed those links! Especially that last one. Rats are so amazing; my sister and I had pet rats as kids, so I am now imagining little Mary and Tabitha (yep, that’s what we called ‘em) slaying demons.

Edit: typo

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Another yearly wrap-up, for the pile.

I feel like my “Things I Did in 2025”'ll probably be weird out of context, for those who haven’t followed my Social Media tryhard-ing and subsequent burnout on Bluesky. But, the “Things I’m Leaving Behind, Come 2026” and “Things I’m Pursuing in 2026” are probably still interesting.

Use the Jump-Nav to skip around!

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OOOOF this hits hard. I am moving from running my art business I had for ten years with a lot of investment back to “passionate hobby” world - getting off platforms, not worrying about my audience response (killed my creativity/drive too) and focusing on making art for me with a new full-time job so that I’m not burning out trying to make money on art when nobody has disposable income anymore. I hope a new job comes your way, it is rough out there. Such a great post overall

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A great post! I especially enjoyed your thoughts on the pitfalls of growth-oriented social media. Good for you for deciding to leave it all behind.

I had a similar moment of clarity this year when I closed most of my social media accounts and returned to the personal web (a post on that is forthcoming — I’m at my in-laws’ place right now for the holidays and don’t have access to my desktop computer). Creating “content” for algorithmic, growth-focused social platforms is terrible for mental health if you’re the sort of person who frets over how your work is received (which is most of us, probably). I identify so much with that feeling of “oh, shit, well this thing I did is OBVIOUSLY terrible” when you share it to some feed and it doesn’t get the sort of glowing response you thought it would.

That anxiety and disappointment you feel is so silly and pointless when you take a step back and look at it objectively. What helped me move on was realizing that comments made on social media are seldom genuine in any case; when you’re on an algorithmic social platform inhabited by other artists, writers, etc. who are all also clamouring for views, comments are more often than not just a ploy to drive traffic to the commenter’s profile. It’s all very transactional.

Here’s to a new year spent creating stuff and feeling proud about it irrespective of how much traction it receives on social media. :clinking_beer_mugs:

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Your latest (on consistency) resonates so much! That sense of seeking justice for the most trite shit - "h, hi rage, what was that? - is something people have been talking about in person where I live. We’ve been designed to be so strung out we can be played like a fiddle.

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Questions I leave my latest post asking:

:white_question_mark: What movement fears stepping into their life :white_question_mark: Is power without a captive audience possible :white_question_mark: How might undermining fear of capture serve :white_question_mark: Which terror do you call home :white_question_mark: Is curiosity more than all the fears your home :white_question_mark: What might fear’s curiosity of capture be like :white_question_mark: Where is the end of capture, for your curiosity :white_question_mark: Between your teeth, where might curiosity fall

Post is here: Between Curiosities and Membranes | A Secant Query

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The newest tiara post is up and it features the Beechwood Tiara. Yes! A tiara made of wood! Elven approved, probably.

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First time trying bearblog! Still tinkering around with my theme, particularly dark mode.

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Commenting on this train way after people stopped talking about it, I know, but hey I think I hit an interesting point.

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published the vane awards: a prestigious awards ceremony masquerading as a 2025 wrap-up blog

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Peep tv show has been on my watchlist for sooo long, perhaps I should finally get around to it. Your site is very pleasing to look at!

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this is actually so fun, i think i will have to do that next year…

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Really enjoyed your thoughts on this! The juxtaposition between having fun and playing “as expected” has always interested me, as I’m the type of person who would always try to break her games and explore their limits. Some of my favorite memories are of my brother and I growing up, putting on multiplayer games and spending our time exploring and trying to clip out of bounds on our consoles.

One thing I especially like about the indie game movement that has been flourishing right now is the recognition that there are other ways to play and structure games than just “defeat obstacle, win the game.” A lot of developers even prefer to call their games “experiences” rather than a straight-up “game,” and I welcome all sorts of similar experimentation.

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This might be my favourite (after the goat tiara, of course)

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I wrote about what I am looking forward to in 2026:

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I can understand having mixed feelings about leaving an old home, especially one you’ve lived in for so long, and moving into a new one. But it is also exciting planning and shopping for the new place!

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I ended up starting a new blog at Bearblog to test it out, but I like it so far.

I wrote a short, low-pressure year end round-up! Let me know if you have yours and I’ll comment!

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This inspired me to write mine!

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Reminds me I haven’t shared mine :) tried to focus on my artmaking like last year’s reflection, so it kinda acts as a follow up to that

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