Hello everyone here with the final journal of 2023 to round off the year. So then what better way to start with some fun stats! This year I uploaded 45 stories to my gallery this year. The first was "Gilda the Amiibo" uploaded on the 1st, and the final upload was "A Late and Very Naughty Present" uploaded today/on the 31st. This means a story was uploaded on average every 8.11111 (a lotta 1s) days. However, I should say that this is just the average as December had 8 uploads, while June and August had just 1 each. This is just a hair more than last year, which had 43 stories and one every 8.48 days. But one factor I didn't realize for a while was the increase in word count for the stories uploaded this year compared to last year. Though I can't (too lazy lol) easily check the word count for most of last year's stories, my thumbnails give me a good estimate to go off of for each story this year. And so with 45 stories, the word count totals up to a staggering 169500 words. To compare this is a few thousand longer than the original story of "Dracula". To commission a story of this length from me, it'd cost $1186.50. To end off these very fun stats each story had an average of 3766.68 words. Weren't these numbers fun?

I don't know what else I need to say lol. This year was better than last year for me in a lot of ways that are both easy and difficult to describe. I have a bunch of new OCs and expanded on Gold and Goldie getting a chance to get more art for them. And although Audrey hasn't been in a story for a bit, and May has kind of been in the background, I love their designs and have plans for them in the future I hope to explore. Then there's Sparce, the weird creature that's colorful and I utterly adore. Sparce, to me, is just something that connects in a way I could never imagine before now. Getting to write stories about my OCs brings me so much joy like never before.

As for next year... well I have a lot of work to do. I'm certainly going to be busy with these holiday stories as I crank them out over the next few weeks. I'll also be working on a revised guide and information sheet for commissioning me as well. It may be a bit before then, I'm thinking February might be the earliest. If you message me tonight on Discord or here then you'll have an extension of four days to order. Otherwise, it closes tomorrow. Here's to another great year, and thank you for being here!