Heck, I guess I should make one of these year-summary things. It'll probably get a bit personal but I hope you'll stick around!

2014 has been a really weird year for me. A lot of good stuff happened and a lot of bad stuff also happened. I'm gonna start with the bad stuff so we get a nice gooey ending on this thing, I don't want it to be a bummer!
It's been the year where my illness has kinda progressed really badly, and rendered me kind of useless. I have chronic fatigue syndrome, and while it's not the worst thing in the whole world it's still really debilitating and as of this year, for whatever reason my health decided to plummet. College was bad, really bad, because I could rarely complete a full week there and I fell really behind on a bunch of stuff. I managed to just barely pass everything in the end thanks to my fantastic tutors, which I guess is all that matters, but I'd planned on getting a job once I left and my health made that pretty much impossible for me. It's a bummer, I don't want to be stuck in the house all day feeling sick and tired but it's just the nature of it. HOWEVER, I'm waiting on a letter that'll refer me to a clinic for people with CFS, so hopefully in the new year shit's gonna change illness-wise and I can get my life back on track and learn to manage it!

And that's pretty much the only bad thing that happened this year! The rest has been fantastic. I guess, since we're on Weasyl, I should start with my introduction to the furry community. I used to be one of those people who was always kind of iffy about furries, probably due to misinformation. I enjoyed a lot of the art, but I had assumed the whole thing just wasn't for me, and to be honest, a bit weird. In late-ish March of this year, I made a friend called Chloé who introduced me to the furry community. They had a really neat OC called Saraba that I drew a few times, and eventually I made my first kind of "sona" who was a zulraptor called Zenshan. They convinced me to make a page and open for commissions for the first time in my life! I never thought my art was good enough to make money off of, but sure enough I got a couple straight away thanks to her pushing me! One of the first people to commission me was Craftaz, who was really sweet to me throughout all of my interactions with them (I was still a newby when it came to commission stuff!) and eventually suggested I enter their competition to become their fursuit ref artist. I ended up winning and becoming the ref artist for StupidGeckoStudios, and as part of that, I was given my own Prandox character, Mint, who's my sona today! From there I guess I just started to gradually interact with the community more, I got up to 100 likes on my page within the first few days of making it (all thanks to Craftaz and Chloé!) and started to slowly develop a style. Through Craftaz and the community I met some of my closest friends today, quite early on I met Jess (Fatcorgionyx) and went to my first furmeet, which was really great! Every misconception I'd had about the community was dispelled, it was just a really cool day of drawing and talking to pals and meeting new ones, I think it was that day I actually became friends with Diesel too!~ (hollehmonstah)
Anyway, the year went on and I made a bunch of new friends (and probably enemies but hey ho) including more recently the lovely Lavenderkhajiit, and produced more art than I'd produced in the last two years combined I'm sure. Thanks to this whole community and it's support, I've grown so much as a person and an artist, and it really made up for all the shit I've been through health-wise this year!

Anyay tl;dr, my health is shit but my pals are great and I couldn't have made it happily through the year without them! I'm ending the year on kind of a crummy note because I have flu and had an argument but heck, I guess it's just a day like any other in the end uvu