Here is an artist well deserving of a watch who is doing an art raffle right now!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62257613/

FA is back!

I just saw that the owner of FurAffinity passed away. That is very sad news and, being a user and enjoyer of the website, I thought I should make an acknowledgement of it. I think this is a great website for a great community. I don’t know much else about him or what he did, but I appreciate the upkeep of this website. I hope for the best for his friends and family. He and they will be in my prayers.

Happy Easter!!

I’m planning on opening commissions with real money for the first time, but first I wanted to see how my watchers who see this post would react. They will be around $6.

Have a great year!

The Nintendo eShop for the 3DS and WiiU will be closing in the very near future, and many games exclusive to those eShops will be lost. One such game that I highly recommend is Mighty Milky Way. It is made by WayForward, which you likely know as the company behind the Shantae series. Mighty Milky Way has excellent music, fun gameplay, fun and cute character design, and fun and cute illustrations. Please get it before it's too late!

I need to acknowledge that today was my favorite Animal Crossing character's birthday. No art today because I was feeling a little sick (and lazy. Most because I’m lazy). I had a sketch of Agnes, but it was not very good, so I won’t be posting it. I will only post the digital version, because it will hopefully be an improvement. I don’t know when I’ll finish that, but it will come, hopefully soon. Anyway, happy birthday, Agnes!!

Happy Easter, everyone! Probably no new art today, although I’m not sure. Since the whole week is Easter Week, I might post some Easter art later this week. No guarantees, though. Anyway, happy Easter again!

A final category for thanks has to be my toys. There are two teddy bears that I have had since I was a baby. One of them was made by a family friend. And also all of the many other toys I have had. The IKEA dragon, the Build-a-Bear, and the other teddy bears I mentioned are very special ones that I have had for a very long time. There is also the plush rattlesnake I got from the zoo, the plush Kirby, the Lego sets, bricks, and minifigures… there are so many great toys that I have had.
I really have had a great life. I can’t believe I have reached eighteen years. I know I have lots of great memories to make in the future, but it is really sad for my. It is incredible to think of all the memories that are not long past. But, hey, just because in many ways I am considered an adult now, it’s not like my teen years are over. And even when they are over, I’ll still be the same me. I just will have been around for a little longer.

Part two to my last post: special thanks to movies, TV shows, and YouTube channels.

YouTube
DanTDM: The YouTube channel that I watched the most of.

TV
Qubo: I grew up without cable and internet. I mostly watched YouTube at the library. At home, I watched a lot of the TV channel Qubo. Recently, they ended the channel, which is tragic to me. Below are some specific shows I would like to thank.

My Friend Rabbit: I used to watch a lot of this. It’s so weird to think of how distant the memory is now.

Jacob Two-Two: An excellent great show that I was able to enjoy for a very long time.

Rupert: Another excellent show with great adventures. When a was very little, it scared me sometimes.

Gofrette: It’s been a while since I saw this last. I want to see it again. I have so many fond memories of this show.

Those were a few of my favorite Qubo shows, but there were many more. Honestly, I could probably still thoroughly enjoy them all still today.

When I wasn’t watching Qubo, I was probably watching PBS Kids. Here are some shows I loved from there:

Arthur: Good old Arthur!

Wild Kratts: I can remember when this was new!

Odd Squad: This show honestly still feels new to me. I recently found out that the actress of one of the original two main characters, who was a kid at the time, is now in her twenties. Wow. Also, this show had great special effects, characters, plots, etc. Also, somewhat recently, I realized that it’s basically like a less scary version of SCP.

Here are some shows I have great memories of that were on neither Qubo nor PBS Kids:

Adventure Time: I didn’t have cable, but I watched this on DVD. What an great show. My very first exposure to this show was when I was very small, and it really scared me. Eventually, I saw how great it was, and I love it to this day.

Spectacular Spider-Man: I used to get up every Saturday morning for this, among other shows. Then they canceled my Saturday morning cartoons! Booo!

Digimon Fusion: Another Saturday morning show I loved.

And the many other shows I watched on any channel.

Movies

Cars: The memory is simple and vague, but this is the first movie I have any memory of seeing in a theater.

My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away: The first Studio Ghibli movies I can remember seeing. I have loved this movies for as long as I can remember.

The Lego Movie: I saw this movie many times. It is hard for me to believe how long ago it was when it came out!

And to the many other movies I have loved!

I am starting writing this a few minutes before midnight. Tomorrow, January 8th, is my 18th birthday. While I write this, I am listening to the soundtrack of Kirby's Dream Land 3, a game a have a lot of very fond memories of. Here are some video game special thanks in honor of my life up to now:

Super Mario Bros. 3: My introduction to the Mario series, as well as my introduction to video games as a whole.

Kirby's Epic Yarn and Kirby's 20th Anniversary: My introduction to my favorite video game series. It was so long ago, I do not remember which one I played first.

Kirby's Dream Land 3: The game included in Kirby's 20th Anniversary that I played the most of. I have so much nostalgia for this game.

Minecraft: I am not even going to try to write about how many memories and how much nostalgia I have for this game.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness: This game really helped make me who I am today. It is also by far the most nostalgic thing of all time for me.

Undertale: Although I never played it myself, I did watch videos of it on YouTube. It had a major impact on my life in an unexpected way.

Wii Play Motion and Wii Fit Plus: I have fond memories with my whole family of playing these games.

New Super Mario Bros. 2: My first 3DS game.

Plants Vs. Zombies: I have memories of playing this at my grandparents' house on the iPad they had there. Other games I played on that iPad were Minecraft Pocket Edition (which was very different back then) and Doodle Jump.

Super Mario Flash 1 & 2: My cousin introduced me to these games, and I loved them.

Paper Minecraft: Before I could play real Minecraft, I used to play a 2D recreation of it on Scratch. It was made by a user called Griffpatch, who also made lots of other great games on Scratch. Special thanks go to him and all of his Scratch projects.

The Bloons games, especially BTD5: I mostly played 3, 5, and Monkey City.

Pretty much anything from CoolMathGames: So many memories!

A little handheld soccer game I used to have: I don’t know where it is now. I just have a somewhat vague memory of it, but I know it existed.

And to all of the other games I didn’t mention!

Sorry, no art.

I just noticed that there has been a change to the species menu. I like how there is a new "Games/Media" category and a "Fandom" category, but I really hate how all real animals are now in an "Animal Kingdom" category. Why aren’t they sorted into their own categories anymore?!

I need to acknowledge that today is Halloween (happy Halloween!), but, unfortunately, I do not have any art ready.

Happy 9/10/21, everyone! I’m so sorry I don’t have any art to celebrate with. This day only comes once every 100 years. I may not have art, but I do plan on posting something besides this journal.

Lately I’ve been thinking about how great the music in Plants vs. Zombies is. It has such an amazing soundtrack with a recognizable style.

I just got three new watchers, and it just made me think about how thankful I am to all of you. I just want to thank everyone who watches me. I appreciate you all so much! I’ve had a great experience on this website, people are so nice here! So thank you, everyone. You make me feel appreciated and I want you to feel appreciated, too!

In real life, people always say "aww" when they think something is cute. So, when people are writing it, why do they put a "d" at the beginning so often? I have never heard people actually say "daww" in real life.

I really want to put a favorite quote on my profile, but there are too many great quotes to choose from!

It was Tom Nook's birthday, sorry I didn’t draw him!

I haven’t been posting as much art is I would like recently. I have been super busy with school lately, but things are wrapping up. My school art class is almost done, so then I will have more time for personal art. Finals are also coming up pretty soon. There is some art I have owed to someone for a month or two now, and that's coming up. I also have ideas for stuff I want to draw.

On a very different note from my previous journal, at school I have noticed a girl in the halls who has a plush Kirby on her backpack, among other plushies, which has always caught my eye. Today I looked closer (not in a creepy way, I just consciously payed more attention to her backpack when I saw it) and I swear I saw a plush of sylveon, my absolute favorite pokemon, and I was just so amazed. I’m a shy person, but I need to compliment her the next time I see her.

There was an explosion in my neighborhood today. It happened while I was at school, but it was in the news when I got home and there are helicopters and police and all that. Luckily it seems no one was to seriously injured, but half a building was destroyed. It happened near the train tracks, but the trains are going as normal. It was also near the hospital, so hopefully everything is ok in there. The buildings directly next the the one that blew up were evacuated, one of which was a small grocery store I had just been to yesterday.

I just want to hug a sylveon