Good morning everyone!

Since it is now the 2nd of January I think we're far enough into 2021 for me to reflect about 2020.

For those who don't know, I joined in 2020. It was the year my journey on this site began. When I started finally socializing with people who were weird in similar ways. Previously I had never openly spoken about my kinks with one example. But I would spend my day on e621 never interacting with anyone.

That one example was the subreddit for XCOM, reddit.com/r/xcom. For those who know, Vipers are a bit of a community meme for having boobs. So much so that Viper brothels are actually canon for the newest game. There's also a conversation about vore with the Viper character, Torque. Not to say that Fireaxis actually twittered fanart. They knew since the launch trailer. Even though Jake Solomon claimed to not have known that the world had something for snakes with boobs. Poor summer child.

So there were a lot of memes and fanart posted, especially after XCOM Chimera Squad released. I took that opportunity to socialize with other weird people. Namely fortsnek47 and Kaymazo who became a good friend of mine. Without him and regular comment chains where we didn't only talk about kinks but actually life itself I grew more accustomed to expressing my weirdness freely. So much so to be actually called "Hitler" because I always rushed in to defend "furry shit" against anti-furs. But alas, the stream of fanart died down.

Still, without Kaymazo I probably never would've started to openly talk about what I like. We two are even recognizable on the sub as the people who will always comment underneath anything snek related.

Massive thanks, buddy.

But my FA journey didn't start yet. There was also a secondary subreddit, one I took over and own now. reddit.com/r/sexcom. It was what you expected. A forum dedicated to posting XCOM porn. It was pretty dead and I was the only one really posting.It didn't contribute too much to my decision to create an account on here but it definitely pushed me into the right direction.

In May I created this account but it was still far from active. Originally this was intended to be all about XCOM. Stories, not art. I perceived myself as an artist of words, not images. My writing to this day isn't the best. But it definitely has evolved.

See my first story and my most recent story.

Writing initially was... sporadic and it still is. I found myself often unsatisfied with how I wrote. How infrequent I wrote. This isa problem I still have, I am a huge procrastinator. I don't know when but I took my first three stories offline but reuploaded the first later on into my scraps. From there on out I started writing about whatever I felt like. But whoever checks my gallery will notice; two of my earlier stories (and my most recent one) are for welcomeToTheVoid.

I met him during summer break. We talked a lot via Discord and I think without him I would've never written any stories again. Or even more rarely than it was already. He also made the ref sheet for my first ever character; Tazi.

I never wanted a character. The whole idea of roleplay was pretty out of my mind which, has changed. I now really enjoy roleplay although I rarely have time for it.

Without going into too much detail, I got inspired by gigawolf102 to have a multitude of characters. ScalesInDark realized them.

The plan was and still is to have multiple characters to write stories about. Set characters my watchers know. So they always have expectations for each character. Every character is also meant to fill a niche. Nadja for all the snake-related stuff, Evelyn for seducing virgins et cetera. There are still more coming.

However, the most important thing of 2020 for me was all the disappointment.

I promised free stories to watchers, I ended up making and freezing one, cancelling the others. I opened commissions but ended up closing them again and refunding. I learned a lot through that. Mainly that I'm not ready and I should create a stable work schedule first. I'm sorry. I also wanted to start making sketches. I never even tried to begin. I have many story ideas yet I didn't even try to finish over the course of Christmas break.

I'm sorry.

But hey, that's something to keep in mind for the new year! Not only the friends I made along the way here on FA but also to keep improving. I will work on my schedule. Combat my procrastination. Get this lazy piece of human up and running, working, without suffering a burnout.

I will work to make 2021 a productive year for this account and myself!
Stay safe everyone and thank you for sticking with me. I know at times this account looked dead.