For me it’s:

Finally updating my citizenship status so I could get proof of citizenship against ICE (not that it does much) and open a savings account and start building credit.

Started volunteering.

Took a pottery class that led to me being obsessed with pottery and im going to take another class next semester.

Big or small, please share good things about your year!

  • Angel [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    2 个月前

    Finally got a permanent full-time remote job (starting training on Monday)

    Already started writing material for a 3rd album. I have a lot of music written and look forward to recording it for real in the near future.

    Also been chatting closely with a beautiful Black queer communist, and honestly catching feelings for her. It feels really good…

  • lilypad [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    2 个月前

    Got a job. The amount of relief I have is immeasurable. Trying to figure out how to build a social life that isnt full of people who are either actively shitty or people who activate my stuff from growing up and life in general. Theres a few people who dont already, but I want to actually have social life instead of whatever you’d call this here right now. People are scary.

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        2 个月前

        Yup, since the cartoon takes place in my conworld. I was originally going to do the whole script in my conlang, but that ended up being very tedious and time-consuming, so I ended up only doing the intro.

    • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      I appreciate the flashing lights warning!

      Are you Saami? Theres a person i follow this is and their posts about their culture are always really interesting (and sad, fuck Norway and Sweden)

      I really liked that you did different angels of their journey

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        2 个月前

        I am not Sámi, no. I’m from South Norway, so I learned a fair bit about Sámi people in school, and also in my free time and through activism later in life. The specific inspiration I took from Sámi culture for my cartoon is Narazen’s multitool, and how xe drums on Shield with it:[1] the resemblance isn’t super strong, but this was inspired by a Sámi drum hammer[2] and divination drum[3].

        Photos

        A Sámi divination drum of the “bowl” type built by Olov Thomas Svonni of Badje Sohppar(Övre Soppero), Swedish Sápmi, c. 1970. Notice the attached hammer and “pointer”, known in Northern Sámi as a vuorbi.

        The same drum seen from below and the side.

        1. In episode 1, this is only really seen/heard briefly in the intro and eyecatch, but it will become more prominent in later episodes. ↩︎

        2. Northern Sámi: bállin, Southern Sámi: viehtjere, Norwegian: runebommehammer ↩︎

        3. Northern Sámi: goavddis, Southern Sámi: goabdes, Norwegian: runebomme ↩︎

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    2 个月前

    Going to be moving to Washington in a few weeks, all expenses paid and rent covered for a little bit while my partner and I get our feet underneath us

  • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    2 个月前

    Three and a half years’ worth of effort finally bore fruit with the release of Guardian Cry. It’s a big step up from anything I’ve made before and my first game to break 100 downloads. I learned a lot of valuable lessons from it that I’m already applying to my current game dev project.

  • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    2 个月前

    I’m exercising more thanks to my bike. We got a dog, and he is such a good boy. The kids are reading a lot (we are almost done with the Hobbit). And I am getting better at my art (watercolor and other mediums).

  • unaware [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    2 个月前

    This year I met my amazing fantastic comrade gf who accepts and loves me for who I am, and whom I love so so much!!! heart-sickle We met in China, but I still have one more year there while she went back to her home country :( but I’m absolutely confident that we’ll figure things out

  • NewOldGuard@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    2 个月前

    Been dating somebody new after getting out of an abusive relationship last year, and it’s been wonderful. Got a major promotion at the start of the year, doing well in interviews for a bigger position elsewhere rn. Been more active in organizing. Got my dual citizenship. It’s been a good year so far, lots of fun memories and adventures too