I am making a zine website but I need more than just my zines to showcase cus I only have so many, so uh yea!
Here is a google form where you can upload your zine : link
It was my Birth day on May 8th, to say the least, it was kinda shitty. I spent my time at a school competition in Florida, I ended up sleeping through the competition at the hotel and no one had woken me up in time for it, it was mostly my fault and it was directly on my birthday which sucked. None of my family was there either because it was a school event. I just wished I had spent my birthday with my family or something close to that.
In other news I have officially graduated early due to skipping a grade. I don't know really what I am going to do now that I am out of high school other than work more shifts at my job. I plan to enroll in a near by community college next year.
Strange it's 2025 yet it's the first year I've ever felt... different. It's definitely for the better, or thats what I am choosing it to be. I hope to start my YouTube channel this year I have yet to post since 2023. I am striving for a lot of things this year and here are a few I will be working towards when referencing my art/ skills.
Art Goals for 2025
- Learn sewing this year
- Finish 1 crochet project a month
- Try to do an art 31 day challenge this year
- Start selling stickers
- Get into clay sculpting
- Hone on my animation skills
- Finish 1 sketch book this year
- Make a "Meet the artist" once every month this year
- Make my own crochet pattern (Don't have to release it to the public this year but extra points if I do)
- Don't startany new huge art projects (Ex: full comic books, New youtube channel or brans, etc.)
So when I did yearly goals in the past I usually focused on one singular thing the whole year, this year I'd like it to be way different. So this year I am going to be playing it like a game, I'll be putting all my goals onto a tiered list, each goal will be 10 points and I have 10 main goals which equal to 100 points (if I achieve them all), I will be recording everything once a month on here. So I will be back on here at the end of January to tell you all my progress.
I also would like to put out a list of "to-do's" that will help achieve each goal. So I can keep myself on track and have not only the end goal in mind but the steps it will take to get there.
You may be wondering "Why a point system?" Well each point will add up to prizes! (For me lol) since I have a job, I get to reward myself. So here is what I am thinking:
Certain point marks allow me to buy something off my Etsy/ a small artist every month. So here is what I get to buy if I get to each point quota
10 points = a sticker sheet from the Trytryagain Etsy shop
20 points = a patch from the Milky Tomato shop
30 points = an enamel pin from the Rainylune shop
40 point = a tote bag from the GenaRawsonArt Etsy shop
50 points = A knitted collar from the SoLazoIllustrator Etsy Shop
60 points = a snail bag aka snurse from the MarDeLunaArtsCo Etsy Shop
70 points = a screen printed shirt from the DearTigerCo Etsy Shop
80 points = Cardigan from the KokoKumaShop Etsy
90 points = Ita bag from LunarLapine Esty shop
100 points = This jacket from shopmyviolet
So yes, hopefully I can get to 100 points! but if not... who cares? I'm happy with myself none the less and meeting these goals is not a necessity. Have a happy 2025 everyone!
The game starts off with Vani on a train, looking outside of the train, it’s the early morning. Close up to the outside train window where Vani is sitting, inside the train we see Vani, close up to him holding up a letter “Hey it’s me your travel agent, Altan. I’m glad you had a great vacation but now it’s time to go back to your hometown. I know day by day life can be boring. But it’s good to have good , bad and even boring days. But if it seems that everyday is boring for months on end please talk to your support group such as trusted friends, psychiatrists, therapists, or even me. I know you’ve struggled in the past couple of years but I hope this vacation has set you on a new track of life, not a restart but think of it as a new save file of a game you've already played.There are no restarts in life and no new beginnings after already living. I’m rambling but I’d just like to ask you a question before I sign off. What’s your next step? Sincerely, Altan.”
Vani looks up, it’s brighter now. The train whistle blows and it comes to a stop. Vani gets off the train.There is now word to the corner of the screen that says “Objective: go home”
The player now has control of Vani, you can walk left and right and look back and front, he is at the train station, it's bright so there are no lights on. If you stay long enough in the area where the train will eventually blow its whistle and leave.
If you move to the left you will find an end and a snack and drink machine, you can open it up but you don’t have enough money to get it, the snacks and drinks are 3 batteries (mothian currency) you have 2.
So if you go right there is the inside of the train station, you were originally in a outside area with a tall industrial cover, to get inside the train station there is a gate where you need to get through with an id card, you can click on it and it will close up to the gate asking for an id card, with your id card on you, you can go through.
You are now inside the train station, it is barren. No moth in sight, (since moths are nocturnal) there's nothing to do at the train station, you can sit on the benches but that’s it. You can go outside and next to the station is a trading post but it has just closed. You can walk towards town to a forest, you're in the forest for 30 sec in irl time and there are nooks and crannies to explore that are barcaded off right now. The trees begin to subtract (?) you keep walking, the more you walk the more the land becomes barren. You reach a path that leads in two directions. If you go to the right vani will say “that's not the way to my house” and keep you from going right. If you turn left you will pass by a farm, then a crop field, then a school campus and finally where Vani lives, which is bed bug blvd. You can go into the pathway of the street and eventually reach Vani’s house.the objective to the corner of the screen gets crossed out and disappears You go into the house and there is a cut scene to how messy the house is, Vani will then say “I forgot to ask a friend to house keep while I was away, I left it in a pretty bad state, ill clean it tomorrow” New objective “Go to bed”
When you step into the house there is a kitchen then as you go to the left there is a couch and staircase, you cannot interact with anything yet, you cannot go back outside to