So… Here it is, the start of a new decade. I won’t try and do much of a recap of the previous one, since frankly… One of the things I am working on for this new decade is not looking so much at the past. Will I still remember it’s lessons? Of course, and I will do my best to learn from them and do everything that I can to move on from them, rather than dwelling. I’ve spent pretty much the latter half of my 20’s just focused on the past and not moving forward. I am done with that, and a bit part of 2019 for me was getting over that roadblock for myself. I stuck with therapy, I took time away from cons, and I just spent a lot of the year focusing on my own mental health to move past all that baggage, or at the very least put it in it’s own little box where I could get over it. So, if you are looking for a recap… You’re not going to get one here. No, this is going to be all about moving forward and getting myself to both be in an even better place, as well as what I have planned for the coming years ahead; I do means years too, as these projects I have been working on are all going to take a long, long time to finish.
So a big goal for me, first and foremost, is to work on my mental health. I have too many plates in the air with staffing cons, work, writing, the Discords I run, life, and everything else I will get to later. There’s a lot in there honestly… And I need to start paring things down. That started last year when I got mods for the big Discord I run, 2 Patreons, and I’ve been stepping away from staffing duties somewhat so that I can focus more on me and getting myself better. I am writing a lot more, which is helping in a big way, and things are slowly but surely evening out for me. Granted, they do get crazy and time is a thing that I will always need more of, but a big part of my mental health is leveling things out and getting into a routine. I am working on that, in a big way, and that work will continue on that moving forward. I want to get to a place where I am happy and can be productive without getting overwhelmed, and that will take time… But it is time I am actually spending, and not time that I am wasting. I will take my breaks, I will disappear at times, but I will keep on working on it.
So, the projects I have been hinting at. There are five, well six really. I have a YouTube channel, AkalaLive, that I have posted a few things to and will start actually posting to in the new year more regularly. I am working on a text adventure game that I have written about an office worker that slowly blimps out thanks to discovering gaining, and has to deal with the side effects and consequences of just letting himself eat. I have a website, furrywriters.com, that I am going to be building as a place for all writers to come together and both share their work, as well as make money off of it. I have my KoFi, which will be gainer focused and will be a way for everyone to help make me into a true lardass IRL. I have my 2 Patreon accounts, 1 for writing and 1 that I have just parked and will be using for something else… Dunno what yet. And, lastly, I have my Discords, which are a project in and of themselves honestly to keep running. So… I have a lot going on, and here is what I have planned for each of them:
- AkalaLive will upload as I have time to film. It is going to be primarily a gaming channel, but I will post fursuit videos on there from time to time as well. I am not planning on making money from it till I can secure a schedule, but… I want it to be something, and I want to share my life with all of you.
- The text adventure game is written in my head, and I just need to get it down to have a working prototype. I still need to find an artist for it as well, so it is a long way off… But, it is something that I am working on.
- Furrywriters.com is still in its infancy, it came more of a late-night search and an impulse buy more than anything else. I want it to be a thing though, and I have been asking writers for ideas for a couple months now so that I have a good base for when I get to laying down code.
- KoFi has been around, but I haven’t done much with it. That is going to be changing here quickly, as I will be posting a lot more on there and getting people to buy me all the food I need, or at the very least look on as I grow out horizontally from binging.
- Patreon will be getting an overhaul here shortly, both of them. I have an idea what I am going to do with the writing one, and the other… That may be for either the game, or for FurryWriters once that gets going. They are both still very much works in progress, but I am starting to figure out where they need to go.
- Discords… They run themselves for the most part, but they do need an admin for icon changes and contests and whatnot to keep people engaged, and I will be doing that a lot more going forward on the 3 that I run (Furry Horizon, one for my writing and RPing, and one for AkalaLive)
So there you have it, that is everything that I have been working on and what I have planned going forward. No resolutions or plans to change this, that, or the other thing. Just a lot of nose to the grindstone to keep working on what I have, and to start re-engaging with a fandom I have been in for nearly 20 years. So yeah… Just a lot of plans and things changing for me for the better. I want to be better these next few years, and all this is how I am going to get there. Well… This and a lot of hard work. A LOT of hard work… But I am in a place that I can put in that work finally. I have people behind me finally to prop me up when I falter, friends to help me stay focused, and a new plan that isn’t one that puts pressure on me. I have no deadlines, no forced goals, nothing. I’ve gotten to a place where I’ve stopped doing that to myself. I want things done, sure, but I haven’t put time limits on them… And that is an enormous help. But anyways! Just a quick little thing about the new decade and what you can expect from me going forward. Ciao!