December Update

Happy Holidays! It's time to warm up warm as the year wraps itself up.

Eek!! I'm late!! November's been and gone in a flash, and now the holidays are getting closer. It's 17 days till Christmas!! But I am one of those freaks who gets everything done in November...

First things first...

Thank you from the bottom of my little black heart. All the support and love I get means the world to me. I'm not very good at showing it, I know. I've made so many friends, talked to so many artists and creators I've admire from afar for a very long time... Sometimes I do sit back and think about how lucky I am, all things considered. I know how hard people work, and I'm honored to be given anyone's time, especially these days. I hope your 2026 is full of laughter and happiness, more then you thought was possible.

No matter how you celebrate this time of year, if you celebrate at all; I hope it's with people you love.

Comics + DCAF

Thank you to everyone who came by on the 30th! I had an amazing day. I got to have lots of chats and bants with friends old and new. It was a great day for it, sure.

I've two new pieces for it, The Wooing and a lil Eitaku (hndr line) fanbook! (More info soon; I'll do the usual promo on my socials and rss); but here's a sneak peek!

And in some more good news; you can get The Wooing and Second Shift at Little Deer! Heeheehee >:) It was such a lovely surprise ;w;

Back to DCAF itself, Second Shift and The Wooing completely sold out. Thank you to everyone who read and purchased them! I have to thank DCAF for allowing to sell more adult work in these trying times. Thank you from the bottom of my bad-end heart...

Someone asked if Keep in Box would get a sequel... and that they showed it to their whole family?!

The best part about doing these shows is when queer women come over and go WAIT... ARE THESE ALL GAY?! and I get to say :> why yes :> Jokes aside, it means a lot to me when people see what I'm doing and respond to it. Thank you to the other queer women who were delighted to see more original lesbian work! I hope we get more, there's SO MANY talented lesbian artists in Ireland!! We can be the change!! More lesbos now!!!

AND I GOT FANART?! Of Second Shift's Vanessa, by the lovely BeetleHeadDesigns!

I managed to get quite a few bits done, didn't I?

I'd never seriously made comics before this year; I already did animation and vn dev, do I really have to try the other medium people act is the hardest thing ever? Yeah, sure, why not. Why not me? I've got good ideas. I really see no point in limiting yourself. It's art, not rocket science. If you can do one thing, you can do em all.

Shop Announcement

I'm (slowly) setting up a shop! She who dares, wins. I have my physical comics up, and I'll probably launch it in the New Year. I left it a bit too long and if I took orders now, they'd be lost in the Christmas rush.

I'm very excited ;w; Please look forward to it in 2026!

Making a 32 page comic in less then a month (and also a fanbook)

Don't do this. Or do. But it's hard, especially if you've also got another job.

I'm very proud of The Wooing, I think it's my best work and I can't wait to print another batch to sell online!

I'll do a proper post-mortem when I set up shop. I guess I assumed for a long time I just didn't have it in me to do longer projects, or tell my own stories successfully. I wasn't giving myself the credit or opportunity... I seriously have to thank all the vndevs and artists who inspire me. It's not so hard; but it does take time and a little confidence.

Webdev

Very happy with my progress with gg8473.com! I never thought I'd fully wrap my head around it, but I'm proud of how much I've learnt this year. Webdev does get addicting...

The yuri english vn ring/directory (honestly it's a mismash of lots of things...) was created this year! Thanks so much to everyone who's joined.

I also made a few text cliques as a low-effort way to have a bit of fun and flair for my site. Join them if you'd like.

I feel it's kind of telling... I like to be the person who holds the party and you all have to come to ME lol. I still tend to think of myself as quiet shy and reserved, but I've grown out of it.

I've said it a few times on my bsky, but I think a lot of people should just make the webring/site/doujin circle/discord server and stop making annoying posts about it. You see the same complaint a lot, why am I the one who has to plan everything... if you don't, it never happens. Simple as. You might even surprise yourself...

I blogged a lot. I'd have the desire for ages to start expressing myself again, but the pressure of having hundreds of eyes on a half-thought out 200-character post... I'm not for it anymore. Also... I don't like the gossipy nature of socmedia. I hate vague posts, just @ me. I'm at the point where if someone's rude, I mute. I do like a bitta goss now and again, but it's clearer to me now when it's just lolcowing.

I did create another online project, I'll speak of it below...

Subdomains

Finally got around to making my portfolio website! I've been meaning to make this since May-ish, but kept putting it off for one reason or another (and I didn't understand how subdomains worked on nfs...)

It ended up taking me 5 minutes to set it up. It was fine. Of course it was that easy! I followed tinyapps and keithrozario's blogs about it.

I might do this for my shop? (thinking) just for ease of access and if I want to switch providers in future it's sooo much simplier to have the one domain instead of people having to remember if its bigcartel shopify or whatever. It's so hard nowadays!

And I've switched my hndr shrine as well. It's now hndrline.gg8473.com! All old links will redirect, so no worries about updating linkbacks.

Personal

A lot more mystery bodytroubles than I would ever like this year. This year's been hard, mentally and physically. But now's the time to start planning my 2026 goals... I think I'd like to keep it up ^w^

The future...

I've a few wishes and wants:

• Keep being me! For ages I thought no one would get what I had to share but it's not true.. I have my voice ^w^
• Do more cons! My friends keep encouraging me but I've been too shy...! Not this year!
• Slow down... 3 comics in one year is okay... there's one comic and a game I've already got on my plate.
• TROPHIES...!! I miss gamedeving soo much. I think I needed a big long break from it because it was driving me insane.
• Get out more! I've made so many cool friends that I need to see more frequently.
• TRAVEL!
• UK
• France. I'm going to Y/CON come hell or high water.
• Start saving again for another Japan trip.
• Get better at saying no...

Fandom + Hobbies
• Host a pictsquare event
• Sew more
• Play NEW vns
• Start watching movies/tv again! I really fell off the horse...
• Read/watch/play everything people have rec'd me. SORRY!!!
• I might try doing 25/25/25 of books/films/games etc... We'll see!

Web
• Keep muting and blocking people freely. There is nothing better then this. Anywhere, everywhere... if you don't like 'em, give 'em the mute!
• Reduce screentime ;w;
• Reach out more!
• Have a set amount of time when I post/surf the web/watch endless youtube
• In relation to the last point, I think I'm gonna start using RSS/feed readers more often. It'll take a bit to get all the artists/devs/people I want but I MUCH prefer my little feed reader.

People are nice to me

Looks like when you go outside and do things... When you be your real self... people respond to that well... This is something I'm not used to, even after all this time on planet Earth.

I spent a long time thinking of the best ways to get people to leave me alone. I guess you'd call it people pleasing, but I'm not doing it for other people. I'm doing it so they go away. It's still a core desire, but I'm working on it.

I've talked to more people; online and irl in 2025 then I have in a very long time. I'm a recovering shut-in! Doing freelance/WFH throughout lockdown really killed my desire to make the effort. I was focused on making it work and saving as much as I could, and where did it get me?

I guess what I'm saying is people aren't so bad, even if I don't really get them most of that time.

I'm taking December-Jan off, project wise. I think I've done well enough. All the best until then! <3

listening to...

--xoxo becky