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Onwards to 2019

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:22 am

Another year is about to end, with a new one coming soon.

So, to people here, how was 2018 for you. Any highlights, lowlights?

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Re: Onwards to 2019

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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:29 am

The biggest highlight of my year was moving to Seattle.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:31 am

Juju&Lulu wrote:
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The biggest highlight of my year was moving to Seattle.
Serious question: How do you like it?

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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by Madeline (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:39 am

This week has been good, but otherwise 2018 was the worst year of my life. I’m afraid to get my hopes up for 2019 or any other year at this point. Not going to doom myself by assuming the worst, but I would just rather not think about it at all any more.
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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:52 am

I've had some good things going. Got a lot of work done in terms of comics and storyboarding (including a new cartoon debuting in 2019 I'm pretty excited about), and I went to a cartooning awards ceremony that I really enjoyed, where I made a lot of new friends and allies.

On the downside, my biggest client went out of business, and worst of all, lost Biscuit to cancer (no joke, I cried for a week straight :fluttersmith: ).

As for 2019, I have plans made, but otherwise, all I can say is "bring it on".

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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by The Ghost of Ember (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 2:27 am

2018 actually is never going to end, see you folks december 32nd
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Post by Dong Strongly (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 3:03 am

2019 is the year I get rich and successful and assassinated by the shadow government for not pledging my cooperation in keeping their machinations a secret from the public. I also plan to get into a fight with some children but I’m gonna lose. Overall I would rate next year a solid 6/10
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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by CorvusCaw (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 3:48 am

2018, eh?

I gained about 30 pounds and burned a couple friendships at work. Other than that, it's the best year I've had in a few ways... I got my master's degree and a 40% pay increase. I had a vagina installed... I mention that a lot but it was a big deal to me. It was also the year I interacted with MLP-related stuff the least since 2010. I mean, other than my partner and ixnay(+his wife), I don't think I've seen another person from these here forums in over three years. Amazing how detached I've become from this thing that used to dominate my free time to the extent that I traveled across the country for it on three separate occasions.

I got to start two fires this week so we're ending on a high note.
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Post by Adiwan (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 4:17 am

2018: :pinkieshrug:

2019: :iiam: :squintyjack:
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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by Madeline (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 5:05 am

I don’t know how I misspelled “get” as “feet” but I assume autocorrect was involved

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Time is weird and so was 2018
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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:38 am

Mr. Big wrote:
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Serious question: How do you like it?
Pretty good so far. Now it helped that when we first got here my dad let us live in his basement for free. Luckily by the end of our first month here I already had a job and apartment secured, but having a place to crash during that time helped a lot.

Now looking for an apartment in Seattle was a challenge because everything is pretty pricey. Eventually I was able to find a lease for us to take over in federal way, which is a suburb between Seattle and Tacoma.

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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by W.T. Fits (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 11:17 am

Outside of nearly dying and being hospitalized for a few days in August, can't really complain too much about how this year's been.

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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by picklepaige (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 2:07 pm

This was so far my worst year. Broke up with my boyfriend of 6 years (and best friends longer than that) and I haven’t been happy since.

I’m moving in with a friend in St. Louis in a few months, I desperately hope getting out of here will help my heart heal.

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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 7:25 pm

2018 was pretty meh. Nothing extraordinarily good or bad happened in my life. :pinkieshrug:

Goals for 2019:
  • Build a new gaming PC
  • Get halfway decent at backwards crossovers in hockey
  • Take a trip to Hawaii
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Post by Jill (?) » Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:05 pm

i didn't really appreciate my lungs breaking near the beginning of the year, especially when the hospital was already vastly overworked because of flu season

i did really appreciate getting to finally start HRT, after ~6 years of being given the runaround from aloof insurers and providers alike

it's otherwise been alright. i got a new PC. some good games came out. my bunny still loves me

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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by Aramek (?) » Fri Dec 28, 2018 9:00 am

2018 owned and everything has only gotten better.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Dec 28, 2018 9:18 am

2018 really wasn't easy for me. I had to be there a whole lot for my family, especially with my grandfather's health massively declining and then him dying the first day I started back to school in August. Even though he was in assisted living, I was still involved a lot with his doctors and with keeping him in touch and "all there" mentally. And when he died, since I was his only family member who lived in town, I had to help my mom and uncles with his funeral, settling his estate, and so on (thankfully, he did a lot of this planning years before he died, but there's still always additional stuff to fill in). Juggling that along with moving out of and selling his old house, as well as keeping up with school, was very difficult at times. It even ended up with me turning in my worst semester yet since I started back to school, getting a semester GPA of only 3.68 this past fall.

Still, at least there were some bright spots. In May I traveled overseas for the first time, going with a school group to Germany for a few weeks. Even though the program's administration was overprotective and restrictive bordering on paranoid in regards to what we could do, I still found it fun and informative, and even managed to meet Perry and Fontra for one day towards the end of it. BronyCon is always an absolute thrill for me as well, and this time I was honored to get to make the trip up there along with Mr. Big and Blarghalt.

At least things have finally settled back down for me after all that family business. At this time next year I expect I'll have graduated, so I will need to be ready to either start my career or (if I'm crazy enough) go to grad school. I'll hopefully also have the energy again for things like art and gaming; I barely drew anything this past year, and games I'd previously had fun with (especially competitive ones like Splatoon and more recently Hearthstone) I dropped when the past semester started.

Most of all I hope I can be better about having confidence and a sense of worth for myself. I still have a lot of trouble thinking anyone would ever genuinely like what I can produce or like me for who I am, despite what all my friends have said. If only I can start believing that on my own, surely I can get through anything.
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Re: Onwards to 2019

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Can't complain

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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Fri Dec 28, 2018 9:37 pm

2017 was a rotten year overall but then things started to turn around at the very end, so for me 2018 has been sort of a transition year where those changes have had a chance to entrench and make everything a little better. The biggest improvement has been the company I work for hiring two new employees, who have proven really great and have taken a ton of workload off my shoulders; I've been working late evenings and weekends much less often and that's been wonderful.

I also bought my very first laptop this year as a portable complement to my big old beloved desktop.

I don't have any goals for 2019, or really in general.

E: Oh, and I managed to go the whole year without any creative projects, which is actually a positive thing because creative projects make me miserable. :party:
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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by Princess Flufflebutt (?) » Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:24 pm

2018 swooshed by and still took millenia to pass.
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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by Madeline (?) » Sat Dec 29, 2018 7:14 am

I’ve already had another setback for having to leave the only other platform where I had friends because I stupidly boosted a hurting poster’s post trying to help. Instead they were super pissed and hurt. So since that erased all the progress I felt I was making in an instant, I ‘m just going to call 2019 as being as bad as 2018 because I never learn. Especially because I have the gall to feel bad for myself.

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Post by Aramek (?) » Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:44 am

Me, going into 2019

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 5:15 pm

2019 is tomorrow! :flail: (depending on the time Zone).

Some goals:

1. Launch the Kickstarter in the middle of January, and this time make sure it will go right.
2. Try to travel more often, although I likely won't fly until May.
3. Self-reflect more and try to become a better person overall.
4. Get more projects done and try to branch out more.

Hopefully these goals are realistic and manageable. I guess these are better than "Keep the Status Quo" :-I

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Post by Adiwan (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 5:34 pm

The only thing I want is to find time to play all (at least some) the video games I collected throughout the last decade.
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Post by Smoke (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 5:56 pm

Well, 2019's here in Bulgaria. 2018 has been more of a preparation year for some big changes than anything else: We found a house we're buying (even if the paperwork took forever) and our first kid is on their way. Hopefully all will go well.
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Post by Angel Beat (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:27 pm

2018 sure was a year. :v:
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:42 pm

Happy New Year from Germany. May it treat you all as best as it possibly can, you deserve it. Yes, even you, when you feel like you don't deserve it. :flutterunsmith:

In 2019, I'll aim to dare being more of myself and being less of my fears. It's a tough procress, but one I'm ready to follow. Here's to disappointing myself and others less, and to appreciate myself more.
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Re: Onwards to 2019

Post by Princess Flufflebutt (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:25 pm

This is the year Jóhann dies

and Jóhanna takes his place. Permanently. No matter who I have to kill to get there.
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I don't mean to actually kill anybody. It's a metaphor of not giving a fuck
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 11:09 pm

:yay:
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Jan 01, 2019 12:26 am

Go for it, Jóhanna. Godspeed :jingo:

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