Hi everyone! Hope you all had a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and I wish you all the best for the New Year!

Speaking of wishes... my Newgrounds Christmas wish this year is to FINALLY have a single one of the artworks I pour so many hours of my free time into be FEATURED on the front page of this website!

Hey, I'm not ASKING you to suggest one of my artworks! But... it would be awesome if it happened at some point, if not before the year ends, then some time next year. It would really make my day, and remotivate me after a long period of feeling down after having lost my scoutship with the artportal.

Or heck, have my scoutability restored, I'd be happy with that too! I'll admit, I don't even click on the artworks featured at the bottom of the page anymore... it just makes me feel bitter and depressed about how these people (often already big artists) get free promotion here, whilst people like me who work just as hard have the whole system rigged against us having any of our works reaching the people on this site who may be interested...

And I don't like feeling so angry, these people didn't do anything wrong. I don't want to feel depressed when browsing Newgrounds, I want to feel inspired. I feel like that part of the Newgrounds experience was stolen from me the day I discovered I'd been shadow-banned from the art portal...

Anyway, I'm rambling again... Newgrounds has certainly had an effect on my mental healtth. Many of you probably don't even know what I'm talking about. If you don't know what featured artworks are, or where the front page is, be sure to check out the tutorial I wrote in my last blog post.

Hopefully 2024 will go better, and hopefully I'll FINALLY make it to 100 followers!