#goodbye and good riddance 2023

[sparkle-fiend]

My year in (brief) review

I feel like I started 2023 strong- full of inspiration and creative fire. The Stranger Things fandom has been incredible, full of absolutely awesome people that motivated me to create some pieces that I’m really proud of. I even participated in my first ever fandom Big Bang!

Unfortunately, there were also a lot of struggles this year. A bad accident in my family, a lot of stress at work, existential dread caused by the rise of genAI, and an overuse injury of my wrist that’s prevented me from drawing much the past couple months… I’ve spent the last part of this year in a pretty low place.

My number one goal for 2024 is to get back to drawing and find my joy again. (Maybe also to put less pressure on myself- pushing too hard just leads to burnout and wrist injuries!)

If you’ve stuck around with me I just want to say thank you so, so much and I wish you all a very happy New Year!!!

#personal #happy new year #goodbye and good riddance 2023

[jey-draws]

Goodbye to the worst year of my life!

#digital art #goodbye Spaceguy #new year #tw bright colors #i lost! so much! #good riddance to 2023 i guess

[il-predestinato]

Charles Leclerc after the Pirelli test in Bahrain. 🎥: Scuderia Ferrari (March 7, 2023)

#charles leclerc #f1 #* #my edit #march 7 2023 #goodbye bahrain (and good riddance this time) #f1edit #what is with his hair lol

[noxturnalpascal]

Obligatory Sappy End-of-Year Post

As 2023 comes to an end I can say that it has been a year of incredible fucking personal loss. Probably one of the worst I've ever experienced. But I can't talk about all the things I've had to let go of without acknowleding all of the things (and people) that came rushing into my life to fill in those empty spaces.

I'm grateful for the people in my life (both old and new) who have helped me keep my head above water. I have needed it more than I can even express.

I won't name each person individually, but you know who you are. The only person I will name is that scamp - Pedro Pascal. We didn't meet this year and yet - you changed my life. Thanks, dude. 💜

#noxturnalpascal #sappy post #goodbye 2023 #good riddance #2024 has to be better #it literally can't be worse #pedro pascal fanfic #pedro pascal

[ifimayhaveaword]

HAPPY NEW YEARS SWEET SWEET ALI YOU BEAUTY AND JOY!!!

AHHHHH THANK YOU THANK YOU AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AS WELL YOU BUNDLE OF LIGHT AND LOVE 🎉🎉🎉🎉💛💛💛🎉🎉🎉🎉

#HUZZAH goodbye and good riddance to 2023

[psychologistmimi]

Farewell, 2023: A Heartfelt Adieu to the Year That Tested Many of Us

Well, that day has finally come. The last day of 2023. Here we are, standing at the crossroads bidding farewell to 2023. In some ways, it feels like I’ve been waiting for this day with bated breath, exhaling after a tumultuous ride. To say it’s been a challenging year is an understatement; 2023 took the baton from 2020 and ran a marathon of chaos. It’s like the universe said, “You thought that…

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#2024 #commentary #declutter #good riddance #goodbye 2023 #Greenday #life #New year

[kricketbee]

This year was pretty rough, ngl. I think I jinxed myself when I was all "2023 gonna be my year whether it wants to be not!!"

The car wreck this summer and right after that both my grandfathers died, a month apart. I never mentioned it because it sounds like such a wild lie. I had to travel out of state and for the first funeral and then I couldn't go to the other one because I ran out of PTO. I've also had lot of dental pain this year. And then all of my mom's health issues. I keep having to run over to her house after work to help her with chores and errands because my stepfamily and half-sister are such useless selfish assholes...it's just been rough. Nothing too bad to recover from but just...uhg.

I think I only finished like, five drawings the entire year and only posted 14k words of fic.

Anyways uh, 2024 is sooooo totally going to be terrible! awful! I shall get no writing or art done!

#vent post #KricketChirps #2023 goodbye and good riddance

[dweeeeeb]

Motivational Music in the Morning ... #JuiceWorld, #AllGirlsAreTheSame ... From the Album #GoodByeAndGoodRiddance [Official Lyric Video] (2023) #MMitM1

#MMitM1 #Juice World #All Girls Are The Same #Goodbye & Good Riddance #Official #Lyric Video #2023 #Youtube

[dontfightyourwaralone]

#june 2023 #2023 #articles #reuters #Andrew Macaskill #Andy Bruce #boris johnson #covid 19 #partygate #goodbye and good riddance

[mama-alpha]

#new year #new years #2023 #goodbye 2022 #good riddance #positive #negitivity

[yudamori-art]

goodbye 2023 : ) good RIDDANCE. art summary for the year. had lots of fun made lots of funky stuff. really fell into loving digital art and actually enjoying the art i make. big year for looking at my own art and going YIPPEE!!! characters in the middle belong to https://commander-goo.tumblr.com/ : ) huge piece i did for art fight teehee

#art vs artist #2023 summary of art #my art #illustration #art #dannyphantom #persona 4 #soul eater

[windsource]

i have cried more this year than i ever have before 🫡 goodbye 2023 & good fucking riddance.

#may this next year be... not Like That

[i--antimony]

2023 year in review roundup

wow!! what a fucking year!!! goodbye and good riddance! happy first day of 2024!

this year i did 37 tuesdayposts! there were 53 tuesdays so that's about 70%! some of them were on fri/sat instead as shabbosposts but i think posting on tuesday or even monday does just work better for some fucking reason. maybe because friday and saturday are days that i am most likely to do New Activities for making/playing/watching/reading??? and so on monday or tuesday i can recap the just-finished weekend. shrug! we love tuesday so it's fine.

listening listened to all of twilight mirage and a little over half of partizan! shrieking shack podcast, just king things, well there's your problem, miscellaneous music (maneskin probably a notable winner in there)

reading a lot of little articles. a little tgcf. SO much fanfic. 'every heart a doorway' (bad). 'birthday of the world' le guin (good).

playing a little disco elysium. a little minecraft. a little nier automata. a little hadesgame. a LOT of pokemon go. and i got into magic the gathering this year!

watching a lot of youtube videos. so many gd youtube videos. evangelion, history of the world part ii, cunk on earth, vox machina animated series, cowboy bebop, first season of peaky blinders, the new tgcf donghua season!

making i did very little drawing/painting/illustration beyond life drawing a few times...however i was very prolific in crafting! i also theoretically made valentines gifts. i do not remember what they were tho lol.

fiber arts: i completed a big embroidery project (fermenting dregs album art hoodie), quantum shawl, mesh market bag, case for my knew laptop, finished that blue tank top even though i hate it, fixed the lining on my yellow knitted cowl, made a little knitted headphone top cover that i will probably redo differently, headband ear warmer for my roommate's mom, and FINALLY i just barely finished the scarf for my SO before the end of 2023!

print block carving: wristwatch print, gavelbocken holiday card print

misc/writing: some songxuexiao fencing au. some harrowhark abhorsen au. neocities website!

and so much pottery! this is all of it, barring the things i already gave away as presents before this photo (two pots and a little box and the little raven guy), but wow! that's so many fuckin object!

misc what a fucking year. some bad! had to file a big car insurance claim! got really sick while abroad and that persisted for a long fucking time! mini summer breakdown! some good stuff too - passed quantum mechanics FOREVER good fucking bye, did my first successful academic conference, finally started feeling better around the end of the year! learned my lesson: it's not fuckin worth stressing yourself to death over, and also i can't just Be At Home Aimlessly for months any more. it's bad for my mental health.

reviewing 2023 resolutions and goals --> I’d love to start writing again and play more horn but we’ll see i basically didn't do any creative writing at all this year barring a few lines of fanfic ideas (the abhorsen/tlt crossover one) HOWEVER i READ a lot of fanfic to marinate in and i played a LOT more french horn!! i joined the little youth orchestra which is like, uber goofy, but it means ive been playing on a regular basis again!

--> I also wanna listen to more weird music, and invest in actually owning some files, especially for some of the lesser-known bands and through bandcamp and stuff i spent all year meaning to do this and kept pushing it off so it rolls over into next year.

--> I really want to kind of dial those [unhealthy coping mechanisms] back again, focus more on existing in Reality and more in each moment, which hopefully will also help with some of the skin picking and other anxious habits that resurfaced. maybe more yoga, maybe re-establishing a meditation process lol lmao. nah. but definitely rolling it over into 2024.

--> I would love to think more about my fashion and how I present myself too, and work on making and tailoring more of my clothing in general actually not bad! basically zero tailoring but i did a pretty good job wearing some cute outfits.

--> I’ve been pretty good about being active so I’d like to keep that up, I still can’t do a pull-up but maybe this is the year! (lol) I should also start doing some minor exercises for my shitty arthritis toes to keep those okay once again: lol lmao. health issues had me really regress in some of my gains goals. plus side is toes are doin pretty normal.

--> a lot of last year was kind of a wash regarding research so I’m really looking forward to refocusing on that and really getting things moving. oh it moved! in a good way! i'm making good progress and hopefully i will keep that momentum going!

--> finally! I want to get back to tabletop! I miss doing it so much! it fell by the wayside for me because of how busy and overwhelmed I was, especially this past fall semester, but I want to start running and playing games with my pals again a little! i should have been putting these in playing as i went oops. the tabletop group i've run was a little fallow this year due to at least half of our group, including myself, not being in Tabletop Mood but we've played a lot of res arcana and other such games instead.

i had a few other resolutions in my digital planner on my ipad that didn't go in the writeup last year: namely, practice languages more (i did practice my mandarin a little but did not really learn any hebrew or korean unfortunately) and establish a non-software component of my research (nope, not in the cards, but i'm hoping to do something else this summer to let me get better with physical data/setups), and finishing the masters degree requirements (that will be the end of this upcoming spring semester), but overall i really did hit most of my resolutions and goals! even with being ill for a while! (except the finances. i am simply not looking at them <3)

2024 resolutions and goals

definitely some rollover! i will format this to hopefully be a little easier to respond to next year:

- get back on a regular workout schedule: swimming 1x a week, weights once or twice a week. would like to try and work towards my One Pullup goal again. would also be cool to try and work towards a hand/headstand. - try and be more mindful. i'm going to continue the grief therapy but also think about meditating more, doing more yoga, and so on. - there's a gallery on main street that solicits work from local artists for bimonthy themed exhibitions and i really want to submit at least one thing to it this year! the one due by end of january is themed 'florals', and the one two months after that is 'layers', so i'd really like to submit something to one of those. - more weird art! use that big canvas i bought in literally 2022! paint!!! - finally put together that travel journal from korea & japan (and also scrapbook-ify the papers i have leftover in a pile from that) - also, maybe do current scrapbook a little different? might need a new binder at the very least. - hang up that expensive quilt i bought in august - speaking of quilt: do some hand quilting, english paper piercing! i have so much fucking fabric! - find a new apartment to move into that hopefully won't suck! - try to secure some sort of summer internship or project that will let me develop some new skillsets that i might not be getting with my current research - finish the masters degree - write...a paper? for the work i just presented??? - keep tweaking neocities and make some more pages - keep track of recipes this year as well in my making section

i might start a little spreadsheet this year to keep better track of all my stuff because i really did Not want to go through all my separate listening and reading sections and extract what i liked the most, etc. this post required me to first back up a few extra early tuesdayposts from this year to dreamwidth, and then skim all of them to accumulate the above, and that was kinda a pain. and i love an excuse to start a new spreadsheet.

we did it! happy 2024! i don't think i have anything else to add to this wrapup but if i think of something i'll tack it into the upcoming Normal Tuesdaypost tomorrow! good job good night and good luck everyone!

#tuesdayposting

[jayteacups]

goodbye (+ good riddance) 2023...

(we're getting a little personal and sort of vent-y in the first half, sorry in advance. for that reason, reblogs are turned off)

2023 has been, to put it lightly, one of the worst years of my life when it comes to personal stuff. Things at uni took a nosedive real fast, basically. I'm now working on a transfer application to another one, and it looks like I'm gonna be a student for way longer than I expected, which really isn't helping with my FOMO, because my uni experience made me deeply unhappy compared to everyone else I knew, who seemed to be thriving. This also isn't helping with the feeling that I was lagging behind everyone else in the race when I was once in the far lead. Right now I don't want to go too into detail about why I was unhappy, why I'm transferring, so I'll leave this at that.

I also lost contact with one of my closest friends who I've known since year 10, who actually went to the same uni as I did, and that hurt. I still have complicated feelings about her because on one hand, she and I were really close in uni and we shared a lot of happy memories together, but on the other, she hurt the feelings of two of our other friends on separate occasions, and they no longer talk with her because of it. Though neither her nor the two other friends made me feel this way, I always felt torn between the two 'sides'. So I still don't entirely know how to feel about it all, and am still kind of processing it, to be honest. Not only that but some really exhausting online drama behind the scenes happened in spring/summer of this year as well (iykyk lol) which was upsetting because this little internet bubble is a safe space for me and many others.

All that aside though, some really great things happened on here this year. Although I didn't get to write as much as I thought I would (due to the aforementioned personal stuff affecting my mental health and my ability to create) I've made many friends here this year, and I cherish you all dearly, even if I don't talk with some of you guys as much as I would have wanted. I hope to talk with you guys more in the upcoming year! Being in a fandom space, where I can talk to people with a common interest, and reading/writing fics, is something I always look forward to, and often brightens up my day.

I am going to make my resolutions here: to write more and improve my craft (because I have so many more ideas), do better in answering and reaching out to people, both on here and IRL, to work on my mental health and myself as a person because I have been sorely neglecting that this year, and of course to get my shit together when it comes to time management, procrastination and compulsively scrolling on all my socmeds. That doesn't mean I'll not be around next year, because I most definitely will (Levi brainrot go brrrr), but I'll try to control myself and make my relationship with socmed a little healthier! I think I may try to not be on it first thing in the morning, and only for a set amount of time per day, for example. (sounds simple but I really do need to get organised lol)

If you're still here and reading all of my waffling (sorry for subjecting you to that lol), thank you 😂 I've scheduled this post for right before New Year's, by the time it posts, I'll be out with my friends, so I won't be back on here until some time later in the morning. I'm wishing you all the best for the next year. I love you all and am so proud of you. Here's to 2024, and here's to better things.

–Jay 🫶🏼

#jayteacups rambles

[matryoshkamark]

new icon.

goodbye, 2023. good fucking riddance.

#matryoshkamark's art #art #artwork #digital art #clipstudiopaint #original art #original character #mascot #fairy #faery #fairy oc #sionnach #new icon #new pfp #2024 #new year #GOD i'm so over this year #i'm so tired #i can't wait to get this year over with #i want to feel better again #i want to feel... normal #i don't know anymore #at least my boy's been redux-ed idk

[childofthenight2035]

colours of the shadows

june 12: not the way you want

his back rises and falls as he breathes, gently, evenly, up, down. up, down. there's still the light sheen of sweat on his skin, dotting the curve of his spine all the way down to the swell of his ass, covered by the sheet. his face is turned away from me, pressed against the pillow, deeply asleep.

i wish i could see his face. it doesn't seem right that this is the last time i'll see him, and he isn't looking at me. 

i peel back the blanket, sit up so slowly i can hardly see myself move. it won't do to wake him now. what if he tries to stop me again? the mattress creaks, sharp in the silence, and i still. he doesn't stir. i rise to my feet and gather the clothes strewn on the floor. i hope i'm picking mine out in the dark. 

i find i'll miss the bathroom mirror. i pry the last of my bindis from the side of the silver pane and stick it on my forehead, between my eyebrows. who is this i'm looking at? my eyes are red; the skin beneath them darker than i saw them last. my shirt hangs off my shoulder, careless. strands of hair fall onto my face, making my cheeks itch. 

he says he loves me. he says he wants to marry me one day. 

he wants everything from me; wants to know how to hold me, and how to cherish me, wants to show his friends that i've given him everything, wants to know the secrets i've never confessed to anyone but my mother, wants to undress me on the inside. he's seen me wearing nothing many, many times, but that's not enough for him. 

he wants me to love him. 

a tear slips free. it's less of sorrow and more of frustration. disappointment. anger, even. 

i'm not sorry, i think to myself. i can't love you the way you want me to. 

he'll find her someday. the woman who can. the woman who will hold his hand and kiss his cheeks and stroke his hair. the woman who will let him hug her and fix things for her and show her off to his family. but that's not me. it's not me. 

the door doesn't squeak when i leave this time. 

good riddance, it must be thinking. goodbye.

-

'pride 2023: colours of the shadows' pinned.

#pride #pride month #queer pride #angst #gay pride #aromantic pride #alloaro