2025 Post-Mortem and 2026 Plans

2025 was a shitshow, let’s just try to survive in 2026.

2025 sure was a year, huh??? 😰

A screenshot of an episode of [The Simpsons] showing Krusty absolutely flabbergasted, leaning forward, cigarette drooping out of his mouth. His next voice line would be [What the HELL was that???]
To quote Krusty the Clown: “What the Hell was that???”

I had such grand plans for last year, and… turns out just trying to taking care of myself, physically and mentally, my cat, and my house was a massive struggle in the face of, well, /motions at the landfill inferno of the fucking world

I kinda wish I was geographically farther from the United States right now… even tho I have so many American friends I already feel powerless to help.

If you’ve been around my little corner of the Internet, you’ve probably already seen that the big revamp project hasn’t really budged. I’ve done so work behind the scene, but nothing concrete or polished enough to publish online. I did post one fanfiction last June, but that’s about it.

I was talking to my therapist at the end of the year and he did point out that I tend to have tons of ideas and start loads of projects, but I don’t tend to finish any. Which. Ow. Accurate, but also, ow, that hurt.

So I’m not making any resolutions for 2026, and I’m not starting any new project either.

The objective for 2026 is to survive.

And if I can do a little more than surviving, then maybe I’ll try to finish a project enough to publish it. As a treat.

A Brand New Fanfic!!!

Guys! This is my first published fic in almost 2 years to the day and I’m super proud so I hope you like it :3 I worked really hard on it!

Final Fantasy 14, M/M, Estinien Wyrmblood/Aymeric de Borel, rated E(explicit), 7,127 words

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The First Step (2025 overhaul)

To hold myself accountable and encourage myself to update and clean up my site collective in 2025, I’ve decided to change all my sites’ layouts to a temporary, default, basic layout by somebody else in the hope that the plain layout full of Little Things That Bother Me™️ will help kick my ass into gear.

You can see the changes on my collective’s main page and on my shrine subdomain (yes I also changed the layout of all the shrines). I didn’t change the layout of this blog because that was too much work, but hey, maybe in 2025 I will finally finish the WordPress theme I’m building for it!

Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025

I almost can’t believe we’re finally at the end of 2024. 2024 lasted 10 years, I swear. And yet somehow time was moving way too fast for me to keep up at the same time! Time is fake, guys.

Anyway, now that I have medication that allows me to function like a human being, I hope that 2025 will be a better, more productive year, at least personally.

Plans for 2025*

*rough draft, non-binding, subject to change at any moment lol

Given The Circumstances™️that I don’t really wanna get into a the moment lest this post becomes a black hole of depression and hopelessness, I feel that 2025 is gonna be a year to focus on myself and my own spaces. What does that mean?

  • Focusing on myself to improve my health, both mental and physical.
  • As part of that, ensure that my cat continues to be well-cared for.
  • And to house both of us safely and comfortably, continue to take care of the house and improve/fix the parts that I wish were different or bother me.
    • In terms of internet presence, I think it’s long past due to scale back my presence on corporate-owned websites. I wish I could just delete everything sometimes, but that’s impossible, because I just can’t create in a vacuum. I need to interact with the source material and fellow fans to create fandom things, and even more generally, I need art to be/stay inspired! But with the rise of AI, the alt-right, the purity cult, and enshittification, I am convinced the best way to fight back is to own your own spaces, not just complain about social media on social media.
    • That means that this space is getting revamped entirely!
    • First of all, I’ll try to post more here and syndicate to the few social media I intend to keep.
    • This means that I will finish my very own theme for this blog! I’m hoping to make the blog more accessible and easier to read.
    • My main collective website is being entirely overhauled as we speak. There will be content on it again; it won’t be just a hub to the other sites anymore (though it will also continue to be one).
    • An archive of my own (heh) writing is definitely coming as well! The planning stage for that one is nearing the end, and building the site will start soon.
    • My shrine subdomain is getting a long overdue update, as will every shrine on it. I might even create new shrines, or bring back ancient fanlistings as shrines!
    • I don’t know what I’ll do with the Megaten fansites directory. On the one hand, does anyone even make fansites anymore? On the other hand, Neocities is gaining in popularity, so maybe we’re gonna see a resurgence of personal and fan web pages?
    • Speaking of Neocities, I’ve signed up for it, because I am fully in favour of that initiative (for now).
    • I have other projects for this space (at least one more blog on a completely different topic, a revival of an old project, and at least one video game guide). Stay tuned!
    • I am working on my very first wiki! I played Terra Nil at the beginning of 2024 and I got seriously hooked by how innovative, fun and relaxing the game is. I haven’t played a lot more of the game since then, and while waiting for ADHD treatment I neglected the wiki, but with my medication and renewed energy, I intend to work hard and finish it!
    • Hopefully I can write more fanfiction to update my AO3 with new works! And yes I am staying on AO3, of course.
    • Soeaking of AO3, I will resume development on my AO3 userstyle if it kills me lol

That’s all I can think of for now. Here’s to a fun and productive 2025, at least in terms of hobbies and websites!