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2022 notes。
so a few notes in advance of this year’s notes:
first - i lost the first draft of this year’s notes and had to start over this morning. pours one out. the progress wasn’t very far but it’s still an L, but it’s ok!! hopefully all the bad luck will be left behind in 2022!
second - i made the boo boo the fool move of getting my nails done with gel x (so like fake nails) right before the new year. for the record my nails look amazing but it has hampered my typing speed…. so idk if this year’s notes will end up any shorter than last year’s, but if they do please know that i tried as much as my tippy tappy fingers would allow!!
without further ado, let’s get this show on the road!!
EVERYONE!!: i tend to write this entry last, but i’m going to write a little about it in the middle because i’m going through all the things i’ve written, all the entries i still have to write and i guess i was just kinda… overcome? I get to write these notes, i get to have all these people who mean the world to me and it just makes me a little teary-eyed. i feel like such a fortunate person, and i look forward to all the friends i’ll still get to make in years to come.
mm i guess if i can just talk briefly about looking back on this tradition of notes - i’ve been doing this since 2011! i was 16 at the time, and hilariously this list had about half as many names. each year, names are added or leave, bc that’s the coming and going of friendships especially on the internet. one of my greatest joys is actually when a name comes back, bc that’s so exciting to know reconnection is always possible. but over the past few years, i think more and more of these names are constant. more and more are you of people i feel lucky to be with every year, going through life together. and i guess even if we may lose touch or grow apart, i just hope that you know that with all my heart, i want you to know how much you mean to me in this moment. you’ve made a difference in my life, and i want you to know that. thank you for being with me, whether for now or forever.
even if i didn’t have all the time in the world to write every name, please know that i don’t keep people in my life if i’m not happy to see them. i curate my spaces so intensely, and i am intentional about the people that i treasure. so regardless of anything else, please know that i’m so happy that you made it through this year and i hope that the next one is soft, and beautiful for you. happy new year!!
Aki: guess what name i chose for you so your name isn’t at the top and therefore the first note. go on. guess.
Al: al….. i’m so happy for you, LMAO. i dunno, i was just thinking about it!! every time i see one of your plurks where you’re having a great time with dearest and kia i’m just like. (touches heart) soft. al made it. congratulations on your graduation and the success of your job hunt!! holds your hand i’m glad that we were both able to get through it together, you know? and that this path has brought you so much happiness. i know you mentioned that this time of year might be a trial for you and your family and genuinely, i hope that you take as much time as you can to be gentle with yourself and know that you’ve really come so far. may 2023 truly only be kinder and more generous with you, you’ve truly more than earned it with all your hard work. gives you a big hug.
Alli: each day i think about how someone’s wonderful and totally deserved graduation (i think that’s what it was) stole away my chance to hang out with you at fanime and while i hope that it was wonderful, it has only confirmed to me that i must try harder to hang out with you in the coming years!! regardless of that, i’ve just been so fond watching you fall deeper and more intensely into your mollymauk tealeaf hell. it’s funny bc i think molly is such a whimsical and endearing character, and it takes a very thoughtful person to be able to write him–especially his dialogue! oh alli, what i would do to just try to figure out how you write dialogue so i can try to capture some of your secrets, whether it be in poignant moments or side-splittingly funny ones. overall though, i’m just so happy and grateful that we remain friends and i’m excited to spend more time with you in 2023!! i hope that it’s kind to you, because it’s what a person as wonderful as you deserves
Andie: the funniest thing about fanime is truly that i saw you and then mentally prepared for it to be like 2019(???) when for the next few months i would just see you multiple times after LMFAO. that said!! it was so good to see you, and even though months have passed i will still say that it was so kind of you to drive folks around, and to basically make sure that everyone had a way to get in from the airport (and also out…. our canadians,,). your generosity and your big heart are really something else, andie. and then you still manage to be a total shitpost of a human being at the same time? i think that’s what true power looks like. i still want to meet up with you for dinner (soon!!) so that we can celebrate new jobs together, so stay tuned on that. until then, thank you for being my favorite internet filipino cousin and i hope your 2023 is so bright and warm
Anna: 2023 was the year that anna absolutely destroyed dana with the knowledge that 86 exists, write that down. SDKLKLJSF it’s also the year that we got to meet in person, and francy and i totally fucking failed at trying to hide in your room and scare you when we met up sdklff it truly was peak stupidity as soon as we were in the same building as each other!!! even still, thank you so much for just enduring yet another year with me. thank you for your endless patience, your absurd fucking curses, and the unbelievable love and support that comes from knowing you. you are an incredible friend, so loyal and encouraging, while also constantly giving me a kick in the ass when i need one. i can say for a fact that i’m a better person because of you, and i am so grateful that you haven’t gotten tired of me yet. love you a whole lot annapi, and i hope that 2023 is just yet another year where you kick so much ass. also scroll down to the bottom for me, thanks.
Ara: ara we’re gonna go to disneyland… literally just tell me when you want to come to california and i’ll fly down for a weekend to hang out with you and nat, it’d be so funny. but!! it was also just generally wonderful to get to see you again this year! ara is truly the keeper of our bearcells all the damn time, so capable, so smart. thank you again for literally another year of writing incredibly good cr with me that manages to be so complicated and also so simple, my dream of playing a sword that chooses their master really came true. and i’m so glad that i got to do so while also enjoying your beautiful writing, always so sharp and cutting to the truth without losing its elegance. i hope that your 2023 is good and kind to you, and expenses are low so that we can find a way to hang out again!! but regardless i am grateful always that you are my friend, and i’m so happy to know you
Ari: there she is!! the master seamstress for the ages!!! haha in all honesty ari, i truly admire every single time you share one of your progress photos on plurk bc i always just admire it like it’s black magic. can’t wait until i get my own sewing machine and just cry at you constantly trying to understand sewing. but i just think that your dedication to your craft is so, so amazing and i love watching you work. i know that this year has had its ups and downs for you, holds your hand gently, and i’m so glad that fortune came to you in the form of your sweet kitty cat. maybe that was just the year’s gift to you to make up for everything else. thank you always for your friendship, and i hope you know i’m here for you through rain and shine, because you’re a true, wonderful friend.
Becks: (you voice) holds your hands and swing you around!!! honestly one of the cutest things of today for me, becks, is opening everyone’s year in review plurks and without fail, three you are, hyping people up. it truly makes me so absurdly soft and i think it’s so cute of you. thank you for literally always being there to encourage people, and make them feel appreciated and seen. now it’s my turn for you!! you’re such a sweet, friendly, and engaging person - i always love how you invite people into sharing your canons, and even though you say you’re running the other direction, you’re so good about getting cr with all sorts of folks. i feel like games and circles just don’t feel the same without you, and that’s why i’m genuinely so appreciative that i get to have you in my life. you’re already in 2023, but i hope it only gets better and better from here!!
Bella: waddles over here and gives you a big hug. bella, sweet bella, you’ve done so much more than “just” survive this year. i know you mentioned that there’s more that you want from life, and i also want you to know that i support you whole-heartedly and i hope that you get it, but also i think you’re wonderful. i think your writing is incredible, the fact that you submit it is so inspirational, and i truly admire your dedication to your craft. you’re a wonderful friend who goes with all of my wild whims, and truly offers nothing but whole-hearted support to the people around you and i think that’s amazing. please always come talk to me about your original stuff, i genuinely and sincerely want to be along with you for the ride of your creative journey, just as i appreciate so much what you’ve offered and done to help with mine. you’re lovely, and you make such a positive impact on people’s lives, and i will continue to repeat this until i keel over. thank you for letting me enjoy the continued honor of being your friend, and i’m so excited for your new year.
Biscuit: this is truly the best idea i’ve ever had, it made me laugh last year and it’s still making me laugh this year i’m shaking
do you think about how the last time we met more than once in the same year, we then had to deal with a global pandemic? and then do you think about how we’re scheduled to hang out at least twice next year? idk just food for thought, really makes you think LMFAOIEWHEGWHEG in all seriousness, it’s time for the once a year occurrence where i’m nice to you instead of plotting your demise. i think when i was browsing old entries i found the year when i first met you, and it was honestly mostly nonsense. it’s funny how constant it is, that when we’re together it’s just a lot of obnoxious screaming, terrible nonsense jokes, and people looking at us strangely because we’ve spiraled out of control in about 5 seconds. thank you for making sure that life is never dull, and everything just feels like the world’s funniest whirlwind. i think it’s impossible to be bored whenever you’re involved, and i’m the type of person who chases after that kind of feeling the most. again i want to emphasize that you are one of the most talented people i know, whether that come from writing, art, cosplay, or just otherwise being a creatively inclined person - and i also know how hard you work at all of it. i was gonna say something like hope we cross paths again in the new year or some such but the funnier idea is that at this point it’s possible for us to grow apart. who the fuck else am i going to complain about jock things with??? unbelievable. anyway happy new year you nerdass, and once again the only feeling i have stronger than my hatred for you is how much i love you. kicks your ass
Blair: so i didn’t comment on a lot of people’s wrap up plurks bc i was working on notes, but the first thing i wanted to say is just that i’m so happy that you’re more comfortable typing and communicating in tagalog, blair. i think i mentioned this ages ago, but i actually used to be fluent and then lost it when i came to the states (cry), but seeing you write in it truly just manages to make me feel something warm. it’s like seeing a little piece of home. so i hope that you continue to live your full, authentic self, and only flourish from here. i know that it’s been a wild year, but i’m so happy for the new sense of freedom you’ve found. i’m glad you’re stuck in the enstars pit forever with me, because i genuinely associate this little corner of the internet with you and it just doesn’t feel right without you. you’re already way ahead and having a party in 2023, but i can only hope that the future will just get brighter and brighter from here!! thank you for being my friend! comes back to this briefly to say that after your enstars plurk today i proceeded to write rest of these listening to ryuseitai i’m losing my mind
Boba: do you know how badly i confused the years. i thought we went to porter robinson this year, but we actually went LAST year in october. ain’t that crazy?? it truly feels like yesterday, and i am already sitting here daydreaming of the next show we’re gonna get to go see together. honestly thank you boba for always being a wonderful, encouraging friend, but also just being able to pick up where we left off in any situation, whether that be talking about porter or madeon (WHEN IS HE DOING A SHOW IN LA!!) or my ever confusing descent into fate/. you truly always have the best insights and also are so easy to talk to, it really feels like a breath of fresh air each and every time. i can’t wait until we get to meet again and just stunt in our matching madeon jackets, but until then i hope your 2023 is fantastic!!
Britt: can i just express to you how excited i am for our little book club moment coming in the new year, britt? i can’t wait to really get into talking to you about something that you love - literature and all the creative ways that stories can manifest. i went back to the ramen place where we came up with the idea for grimm once upon a time recently, and i just remember the feeling of excitement and levity that comes with creating something with you. you bring that same light into all the spaces you occupy, and that’s why i’m not surprised that your coworkers want to hang out with you more and more. the world just seems more fun when time is spent hanging out with you.
Cola: is this the part where i admit that i was just reading along with your state of the year plurk while i was working on other entries. apparently it is sdklj. but in all honesty cola, i love when you talk about yourself. i love when you share bits of your life with us. i’m honestly more and more guilty of lurking these days, but even if your days pass by in easy-going contentment, it genuinely warms my heart to know that. i know that there have been dark clouds (i’m going to fistfight your doctor), but i hope that 2023 genuinely just brings you more easy bliss and warmth. maybe next year we’ll get to meet irl! idk i’m manifesting! but regardless, thank you for sharing any piece of your life with us and i hope that it only grows better from here
Crystal: the way that i looked at your entry and my brain went ‘reigning monarch of eldritch abominations that i want to smother in a blanket’. the association was immediate. there’s nothing that i can do about it? in all seriousness crystal, thank you for being a steadfast friend this year!! i appreciate you so much, and am glad that despite my on and off rp experiences, we were still able to get some really sweet threads and soft cr, touches my heart. i am always endlessly fond of your art and your ability to make me love literally anyone you play–it takes a real talent!! so i hope that you have such a kind and soft new year, and everything comes up crystal!!
Dearest: one more year in our belts, huh dearest?? it’s wild how long we’ve known each other at this point, and i guess what really stands out to me is the fact that it doesn’t really matter how many days pass that we don’t chat as much, but whenever we do it feels like no time has passed. it feels like we’re just coming home. i feel really grateful to have a friend like you, ever-present and always just so, so important. that said, i’m gonna share some of my hopes for the coming year. i’m going to hope that we finish up pripri, and the rest of 86 if you’re up for it. i hope that we find another pair to play and just go ballistic with it like we used to, because nothing really can ever replace playing with you. i hope that just as the ocean comes and goes in waves, we get brought back together again soon. i love you endlessly and miss you dearly, but i’m also comfortable in knowing that you’ll always, always be in my life and i hope you know that i hope to always, always be in yours. even so, thank you for another year of being together, and i look forward to what the new one will bring. may your hard work pay off in the thousand different ways it should, and you get to have a nice vacay like you deserve. happy new year, love you!!
Eli: the way i’m just waiting for house in the cerulean sea to kick me in the teeth come the new year when i have time to read it, and my favorite part is that this wash of excitement over it really all stems from you. your infectious excitement for it has really gotten so many other people to read it, and i think that’s just a really special thing. i know that this year has been wild with the SHEER NUMBER OF HOURS YOU’VE WORKED and the ups and downs of hopes and disappointments, but i just want to say i’m so happy that you’ve remained a kind, empathetic, sincere person. you are one the kindest people that i know, eli, and i consider it a joy and an honor to be your friend. let’s try to meet up in 2023! i just want to give you the biggest hug known to man.
Flurry: aaaa flurry it was so good to see you again this year–this time up in NorCal!!! honestly it was just really fun to see you in your element, surrounded by friends you got to meet for the first time and thinking about you and anna finally getting to meet truly makes me so soft :( ♥ i know that this year hasn’t been easy for you, and if your brother doesn’t get out i will literally drive my fucking car over and kick his ass myself, but i will also fistfight god to make sure that 2023 is better for you!! fluffs you up, you’re a hard-working, diligent, and unbelievably kind person and so i hope that you find yourself on the up and up. it’s the least you’re owed!! so may the new year bring nothing but joy to you and your cute lil cat girl hehe
Francy: well, in the end, you’re still stuck with me. again, i feel a little inclined to say sorry, but more than that, i want to say thank you. thanks for all the trips for the past few years, including the two that we went on this year. celebrating your birthday in a different state every year, with a new batch of friends, is genuinely so absurdly fun and i like that tradition a lot. you’re a person who deserves to be celebrated. you’ve worked so absurdly hard, and i’m so happy that things are really turning up francy. you switched jobs, you got into a new program, and you’re just killing it all around. i’m so glad that your kindness, thoughtfulness, and dedication are really paying off. i still think now, and i’ll always think, that you’re really just the nicest out of all of us, you know? all the beeguns and threats of violence aside. i’m so excited for everything that we have planned next year, and i’m also so grateful that we do this where every year we plan our next big adventure. i’m very lucky to have you at my side and i know it. happy new year francy, and i love you a lot. scroll down to the end of me please!!
Hei: the jock to rule us all…. you know hei i think about how i literally met you for like 2?? hours?? this year and i’m truly like WE MUST FIX THAT but luckily those plans are already in place for us, clenches fist. still!! it was so good to meet you–i will say that your chaos is much more potent online. or perhaps it was simply dormant. time will tell. all jokes aside, i’m so glad that we’ve gotten to be in each other’s spaces more and more this year. you’re an easy person to talk to, and someone that just feels very genuine in every space that you show up, whether that’s as someone who will reach out for the sake of your friends, or a goblin that makes us all scream in rp. i’m so excited to spend more time with you in the coming year, and my hope for you in 2023 is that someone murders your chara and it fucking sticks!!!! i’ll try again if i have to!! that’s my parting note but know that i love you, thank you for being my friend, mwah
Jae: jae jae my jaaaaeeeee. you know i actually think of you fairly often? i use the cord wrap that you gave me so regularly, and every time i look at the cute pattern, my heart just goes soft and i think ‘jae is so talented and crafty and she shares that with all of us?? for free????’ i’ve known you for so much of my life at this point, and i just want to say that i still feel like my day gets brighter every time we get to talk. i love that you’re playing genshin with us again, and i love your enthusiasm for always engaging with us. hopefully i’ll get to see you again sometime soon, i’ll make the drive!! also would let your character midtrial (or attempt to, but next time let’s make it for real) mine anyday, 10/10 no notes
Jan: it’s the way that i’ve gotten to see jan twice this year for me!!! that already means that it’s an absolutely incredible year, especially considering that we’ve known each other for well over a decade now. and i can’t say how happy i am that we’ve already planned to meet again in the new year!! wraps you up in a big hug. thank you for sticking with me all these years, jan - i know that i’m a handful, and you have more than your share of stories really proving that i’m a wild friend to have, but it just makes me all the more grateful that in these tides of time passing on the internet, i still get to be with you. you’ve really grown into your own, and i’m so happy that we’re in so many spaces where you can just share what’s going on in your day, whether it be the food that you’re cooking (step by step…..) or the cosplay you’re working on. you really do have so much talent and skill, jan, and i’m impressed by you everyday. thank you for constantly crossing the border to spend time with us, and i look forward to it happening yet again next year!!
Kami: ugh kami i’m just so happy for all the strides that you’ve made this year, and that your recovery has ultimately been going well! i truly miss you when i’m up in NorCal, but i hope that soon we’ll be able to find ways to stay in touch and chat with each other more often :’(((( regardless, i’m so happy with what time we do find to be able to hang out and see each other, and i can’t wait to witness your continued descent into danmei hehe. what a beautiful set of canons, fitting for a beautiful person!! may we get to have a wonderful and warm 2023 together, including our little book club moment i’m so excited
Kia: the way that you posted it just a few hours ago and i have already rereading the ichika and okazaki drabble you wrote about 3 times. when are we writing this kia (taps watch) sdlkfsf but no in all seriousness, i am reminded each and every year that you are just such a wonderful friend, a dedicated and skill writer, and just such an amazing human being. thank you for being such a constant in my life, and a creative inspiration. 2023 is coming and original fiction is coming for us both, but i genuinely, truly appreciate just being able to sit down and talk craft with you because speaking from one bipoc writer to another, it just feels so good to chat with someone who gets it, you know? so i hope that you’re able to reach every single one of your goals in the new year, and i hope that i get the pleasure and honor to be cheering you on all along the way
Kes: the way i missed you so much at fanime this year, kes… whenever aki and i were hanging out, i would just think fondly of you being stuck with us and our insanity, ever patient and sweet. we needed that balance… hopefully next year we’ll find time together!! until then, i am truly in awe of you - whether it be the sheer amount of danmei you read or even what you translate to share with the rest of us! your joy and love for it is always so cute to behold, and i wish i could love literally anything as much as you love your passions. i hope that 2023 only brings you more joy and more time for what you love, and may our paths cross all the more!
Kosy: my bae, my love, my constant object of adoration!! each year that you’re still part of my life is a reason to celebrate. my favorite thing is that even all these years later, you love leo tsukinaga, and that’s so valid of you. whenever i look at his bloomed next door card that i killed myself for, i think fondly of you–similarly bright, radiant, and amazing. we haven’t gotten to play with each other much this past year (sad!!!!) but i can only hope that’ll improve in the months to come! i love you so very much, and regardless of what rp is doing, i hope that you just never forget that. thank you for your good humor, the beautiful art you bless my timeline with, and generally just your reassuring presence. i hope 2023 is good to you, and just know that i love you a whole lot.
Lowe: lowe…. i am so fond of you. i wish i knew how to explain this in a reasonable manner, but i actually don’t. it’s just kind of the way that i think you’re genuinely such a cool person whose friendship i treasure, and i will fistfight pretty much anyone that makes you feel upset or disrupts that sense of comfort for you. i think that you’re wildly funny and great to talk to, immensely talented with the art and codes you create, and i just want 2023 to give you literally everything you could possibly ask for. i’m keeping my fingers crossed constantly that your job situation improves, because i think that it’s way past due. so i guess in my simplest sentiments, i hope that 2023 makes you happy the same way that you bolster the rest of us. i hope you have every reason to be happy. (also if francy and i end up there next year please hang out with us or i’ll cry? :( )
Maple: all i have to say is that if 2023 isn’t the best fucking year for you, i will personally fistfight any and every omnipotent figure of choice to turn back the clock and make sure that you get treated right, maple. you have kicked so much ass, been nothing but the sweetest person to everybody, and i can’t wait to see what the future has in store for someone as absolutely incredible as you. we’re all lucky to know you, every single one of us, and i love you dearly. i treasure the threads that we got to have this past year, and am looking forward to just spending more time with you in the future!! if i don’t thread with your ryuji i’ll cry?? but in all seriousness, thank you so much for being my friend and always being up for shooting the shit and chatting–see you in the new year!!! whenever you feel up to looking at more travels, just give me a call and i’ll meet you there!
Nat: hugs you so hard that your bones crack. i love you so much. i’m so proud of you. i will always talk about this past year with you, actually this past year and all the years we’ve known each other, but i’m going to talk about some highlights. i’m so excited for our imminent return to seattle, where we’re going to eat a lot of food and laugh a shitton with the people that we love, and also perhaps get you more chicken wings just for the joke. i’m looking forward to spending more time with you and your friends, whether i’ve met them or not, and seeing you flourish in your own freedom and delight. i’m soooo excited for the unbridled resurgence of your creativity and your love for art and writing and everything you hold passion for, because the world is more colorful when you talk about what you love. tell me everything you love about csm and mp100, and i will happily listen. you’re going to have a great 2023, nat. you’re going to have so much fun you’ll feel dizzy with it, and the world will feel right again. i can’t wait.
Niji (& Iki): the way that i was so close to writing fake dating with niji and now i feel so far… unbelievable. regardless of that, i am excited to only spend more time with you next year!! the funny thing is genuinely that i think both you and i took a step back this year bc of career changes and whatnot, but i’m so happy that your transition to private sector has been so satisfying and good for you, niji!! you’re truly such a hard-working, reliable, and earnest person and i am excited to see how this will only continue to reap more rewards for you. hopefully in the new year, some of that work-life balance will come a little easier and if it doesn’t then i will personally come over and sit on you until you’re able to take it easy. please remember to be gentle with yourself too!! you’re already way ahead in 2023, but i hope it’s treating you right, and have faith it’ll only get better from here!! please also extend my warmest wishes and pompom waving encouragement to iki too–i miss him dearly, but i’m so happy that the two of you are enjoying life together
Nu: NUUUUUU IT’S US FOR ANOTHER YEAR NUUUUUUUU!!!!! this is so funny…. i’m impressed everyday that not only do you still keep me as a friend, but also that i’m still somehow alive despite how much attention and affection i throw at you. it’s wild to me that not only did i get to meet you this year, i got to see you three times???? kinda funny. even though you were suffering for so much of it. but in all honesty, i think my life has only gotten better since i’ve met you. thank you for being a trusted friend, an amazing confidant, and someone who always manages to bring me back to earth. i appreciate your honesty, your willingness to go along with wild ideas, and that you are truly just a wonderful person. i’m so lucky to know you, and call you a friend. who knows what the fuck the next year is going to throw at us, but i hope it’s only good things and that you don’t actually fucking lose it from having to deal with all of us. may your 2023 bring you absolutely nothing less than the best.
Omo: i can’t believe that i only met you this year, omo…. it truly feels like we’ve been together for so long, and i’m actually a little sad thinking of all the time that i’ve had not knowing you, you know? like i can say pretty much without hesitation that you are just one of the sweetest, kindest people that i’ve had the honor of meeting in my life. it feels like you just have something nice to say about everyone, while also knowing when to put your foot down. how do i get that kind of balance and loveliness in my life, omo! how!! but i’m so glad that we’ve already gotten to meet this year, and i hope with all my heart that we’ll continue to cross paths more in the future! thank you for always being willing to jump onto wild ideas, and also giving me the most absolutely insane whiplash of my life in the singular game that we’ve played in together i’m shaking. you’re a one of a kind person, omo, and you deserve the world and more. happy new year!!
Para: honestly when i think about how kind you’ve been to me this past year, my heart gets all soft, para. thank you for being someone who reached out to me when i moved up to NorCal, living alone for the first time, and inviting me to hang out (watch the ILUNA debut!!!) and even letting me spend your birthday with you and your sweet friends. i’m soooo excited to see you soon, and honestly just really looking forward to getting to spend more of 2023 with you? we’re gonna have so much fun, (luca voice) POG!!! in general, i’m so grateful to have you in my life and i can only hope that things get better and better for you. CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN ON YOUR SURGERY AAAAA and i think that the future is looking bright!!! thank you for being friend, bc i can say for sure that it definitely brings a lot more joy to my life
Pazu: i have witnessed the power of NA timezone pazu and truly it is a sight to behold. i actually don’t know if i’ve ever told you this but i think you were in and out during the suite trial where i was a murderer, but francy and i were like ‘imagine if pazu was here all trial. mikazuki would’ve been so fucked.’ that’s how big your brain is, i’m shaking. anyway!! funny little story aside, it’s always been a joy to write with you and congratulations on all your life updates!! i’m crying i’m really more of a lurker than anything but please know i’m constantly in the background waving my pompoms and cheering you on. hopefully your 2023 is only brighter from here and we get a chance to be in the same spaces more often! ♥
Pearl: pearly my pearly!! i keep thinking about how twitter is always teetering on the edge of destruction and i’m always (makes a vague gesture) about how i feel that, but i think always about how happy i am that being on twitter managed to bring me to you. whether it be suffering through genshin hell or our age old nemesis enstars, i truly feel grateful to have you in my life. even though we don’t always get a chance to chat, i’m always so happy to see what life brings you – and also your cosplays are always truly so life changing to witness. forever gorgeous and beautiful pearly!! i just hope you know you won’t be rid of me even if twitter goes down, i’ll find my way back to you–how else will i survive link click season 2?? also i’ve been trying to get my parents to go back to the philippines as a family trip soon so (poses) whenever that happens just know you’ll be hearing from me!!
Pixi: what a year it’s been for you, pixi!!! you’ve wholeass transitioned into an entirely different field of work, one that you have a real passion for, and i cannot express my admiration enough for that. despite what you say, i think you genuinely have such an incredible skill for self-discipline and really applying yourself to everything that you want to chase after. thank you so much for spending another year with me and all the while rides that we go on, and i truly can’t wait to run and tackle you in a big hug again next year. whenever i don’t get to see you, i really feel like i’m missing something, you know? still, i look forward to what the new year has to bring for you, hopefully only more incredible buzen content (and yams, who you actually play,) as well as (god hoping) rf kuang actually publishing that fucking jiang collection please god. you’ve been an incredible support to me and the people around you this year, and i can only hope that you’ll get to experience the same in return!! see you in 2023, and also literally any other day bc we talk all the time and i wouldn’t trade it for the world ♥
Ray: ray every single time you bake something, i experience two visceral feelings: the first is ‘let me have one’, and the second is ‘oh my god i want to bake too’. so i think that means we need to hang out again sometime soon so that we can trade baked goods? i think that’d be so cute okay. but also i just want to hang out with you again!! i know it’s been such a busy year for you, phew, but i hope that overall it’s evened out to a positive one!! you work so gosh darn hard every single day, i’m truly glancing at the calendar and wondering when you’ll give yourself a treat and go on a nice little vacation! please know that you’re a truly formidable person, and i hope that in the coming year you’re able to breathe just a little easier. may 2023 be good to you!
Ryza: holds your hand tenderly. i love you so much. one of my greatest joys this year has genuinely just been getting to hang out with you again, and talk to you more! i was happy when we could just remain friends on the plurk periphery, but you are so fun (and also absolutely fucking buckwild) to talk to. i’m glad we were able to share a game again, and provide the roasts that come with just having a friend for so long. thank you for always being a bundle of energy that manages to electrify a room to attention, even though you always make me hungry with your food pics or want to die with some of your date stories–but even those moments are ones that make me look back and laugh. let’s just have even more!!
Sib: busy busy sibbu!! ah, this is one of those moments where i’m sad it’s hard for us to get a game together these days, but i just want you to know that i still hold you so dear as a friend. every time you make a plurk about jojo’s, or resident evil, or sonic i will be the first to say i’m not super familiar (well except with sonic), but i hope you’re winning!! i always hope you’re winning at life in general! haha this feels silly since i know we haven’t talked as much 1:1 this year, but i still love you a lot. may 2023 bring us more chances to come together, i miss your tags and just miss you!
Sipp: so one of my favorite random memories of fanime is when we were talking about something and randomly came up on talking about how ??? you wanted a hug??? like teasingly SOMETHING LIKE THAT and then i just took it VERY SERIOUSLY and immediately crossed over the room to give you a hug, and then you turned bright red like a tomato. it was sooooo cutee my heart was so soft sdklfjsdf but!! i’m so glad that i got to meet you this year, sipp!! you’re such a sweet person and so fun to talk to, i’m so happy that you were able to escape school and work long enough to spend a weekend with you! i know you just moved recently anD ALSO I HOPE YOU’RE FEELING BETTER, so i hope that the new year brings with it a ton of lovely, well-earned new beginnings for you!! GIVES YOU ANOTHER HUG
Sisi: every time that i remember that we were truly ships in the night and i moved up and away just when you were visiting, i get this lil sad feel in my heart, but it truly reminds me that we’ll simply have to find another way to hang out instead!! i know you’ve had the rollercoaster of a year, sisi, with all the hopes and the disappointments that come with it, but i just want to remind you that none of those hiccups means you’re any less of a sweet, caring, sincere, and hard-working person. you’re gonna get yours (positive) in time, and i’ve never been surer of anything else in my life. i’m still glad that you were able to have peaks of sunshine even through this year, and i hope that 2023 will give you nothing but clear skies. keep your head up, and know that all of your friends love and support you so much - myself included!!
Siz: hehe i got to see siz again this year and i genuinely think that’s just such a fucking win, i’m so happy about it. fanime was such a good time siz, and i’m so glad that we were able to hang out!! this might feel like such a silly little observation, but i don’t think i ever got to expressed how much i appreciated that even in the chaos of - what, 14 people?? - you always seemed like you were making time to hang out with everyone, every little pocket of group, and i think that speaks to how thoughtful you are as a person. long gone are the days of me being intimidated by you!!!! rather, i just want to be able to express my admiration for you. i know you’ve been making a couple of transitions this year, and i just feel like you always have a capacity for grace as a person–while also being so fucking funny!!! thank you so much for being my friend, and i can’t wait to see what the new year holds for you!
Spoon: (thinks about all the empty spaces in which spoon used to be) it’s like i can still hear her voice…… just kidding, i hope that your little break has been rejuvenating and good to you, spoon!! smooches your face. i was teasing, but i also can say with certainty that i feel your absence in our assorted shared spaces, and am looking forward to reuniting with you again. you’re such an amazingly fun person to talk to, and i hope you know that i sincerely love every interaction that we get to have. you make me smile, and laugh, and i can only hope that i and the rest of your friends can return the favor to you! you’re a person who deserves all good things in life, and if 2023 doesn’t give it to you then i get to roundhouse kick it in the face. thank you for being a wonderful friend, and i hope that we get to be connected for a long, long time ♥
Sunny: sunny is out here making moves!! i know this year has had its ups and downs for you, sunny, but i’m still so proud of how far you’ve come and everything that you’re up to. i always appreciate our chats and our opportunities to write together - or, you know, commiserate about writing together. the state of working in education is quite a wild ride right now, but i’m glad we can at least both languish in it together. even still, i hope that next year you’re able to really spread your wings and chase after everything you want. you more than deserve it. 2023 will be your year!
Teej: lifts up teej!! king of emet-selch fuckery!!!! SDKFDFKJ laughs to myself, i’m sorry i couldn’t think of a better way to start. but teej!! i hope that you’ve been having a good year, what with all the transitions that you’ve been making whether it be for work (was that this year? am i getting confused? perhaps,) or for your health things. i always admire how you’re willing to jump into things to crack jokes and make other people laugh, and just how easy it is to talk to you. may 2023 bring you more delights, and i look forward to getting a chance to meet up with you again!!
Ty: it’s so wild to me that i now live 6 hours away instead of just 1, and i won’t lie and say it doesn’t make my heartachey. we’ve been friends for a hot second now ty, somewhere around half a decade? and i’m glad that we’re still so connected to each other. you’re one of the most diligent and committed people that i know, but i was so happy to read that you’re going to try to spend 2023 doing more for yourself. fuck yes.if there’s literally anyone in my life that i think deserves to do more for themselves, i will think of two people: my mother, and you. so please, please treat yourself to more rest, more personal joy, more for yourself every single second of 2023. i promise that you’ve more than earned it, and i am just so excited for you
Yaywon: bundles you up…. for 2023 i’ve decided to grant you…. chart making privileges. LKSDLLKFH no i’m kidding… what a year it’s been, yaywon!!! and by that i mean i’m going to fucking kick 2023 in the dick until it’s nice to you!!!! you’ve endured so much this year, more dimitris than any reasonable person should ever encounter, and i truly believe with my whole heart that means that you are owed a better year in the future. i hope that you get to move and leave that horrific house, and pursue everything that you could possibly want!! what i find most amazing is that through it all, you’ve truly just been such an incredibly light, buoyant person who still manages to find the time to make others feel loved and give them reason to laugh. you are an irreplaceable person who is so dearly loved, and i hope that you never lose sight of that. you are a person who is more than worthy of every good thing in the world, and more. even still, thank you for spending some of that time with me and every time i think about how we’re gonna meet TWICE next year i get delirious with laughter. happy new year, and thank you for everything including the buzetsuki!!! (i felt like i had to mention buzen in here somewhere or it felt incomplete)
Yining: i’ve decided to include you on this giant list because even though you’re an irl friend, you are now officially in enough of my online spaces that i think it’d be weird not to write to you LMFAOSDKLS. anyway, thank you for being such an incredible friend. not just now, but through the years. it’s so wonderful to have a travel and a con buddy, and know that you’re up for meeting up with my friends even though we talk so much about dimitri fire emblem and our fucking roleplay hobby that you have no familiarity with it’s so fucking funny. you’re so, so easy to get along with and it’s warmed my heart to see how easily you slip into every single one of my circles and how excited people are to see you. thank you for being a friend, and uhhhh you really have no chance of getting rid of me at this point sorry rip LMFAO
Yuul: i keep thinking about how we’re really not that far from each other but this keeps happening to us, but iT’S FINE because regardless i’m gonna get two whole chances to see yuul next year and i’m so excited for it!!! thank you so much for sticking around and being my friend for so long, yuul, it’s kind of hilarious and absurd the more i think about it. we truly played together in a game for maybe 3 months and we’ve been friends ever since, meeting up maybe once a year, but i truly still feel so fond and happy to have you in my life. i look forward to more of our chances to hang out next year, MAYBE EVEN IN TORRANCE??? IDK MAYBE THAT’S A LITTLE CRAZY but regardless see you soon!!! (manifests)
Zara: ah, this one is going to take me a second. i know this year has been hard, love. i know that you’ve struggled, and sometimes it feels really painful. even so, i’m glad that you’re here. i’m glad that you’re able to find rays of well-deserved sunshine through everything. i’m glad for every moment that you find a second to rest, because there are just some moments that are too hard to bear. but also please know that more anything else, i believe in the strength of your heart. i believe in your capacity for love, and your courage. you’re stronger than you know, darling zara, and if any moment ever feels too hard please know that i am always, always here for you. i don’t want you to ever feel alone, and just know that i have nothing but love for you. please be gentle with yourself, and i’ll hope that the new year is gentle with you too. whatever comes, i’m here for you, and i’m hopeful for the future. take care, and i love you so much.
Zia: OUR CANADIANS CROSSED THE BORDERRRR it was so good getting to meet you this year, zia!! also you getting to meet ty was also very cute and it makes my heart soft. i’m so happy that we were able to spend that excellent weekend with all of our friends, and hopefully we’ll be able to cross paths again sometime soon! i know that i will be able to find you via your excellent hair,, but also in general i’m happy we got to write together this year too. i always love getting cr with you, and jiji and cloud becoming friends felt so very uncanny but also soft. hopefully we’ll get more of a chance to play together next year too!! until then, i hope that 2023 brings you every happiness
Zetsu: wraps you up in blankets and gives you the world’s biggest hug… zetsu my zetsu!!!! it’s wild to me to think that this time last year, i didn’t know you? and i’m just so happy to have you in my life. we truly went absolutely buckwild with our cr this year, and it makes me insane that in both games that we’ve been in, i’ve one way or another contributed you to crying real tearskldhisd MY ZETSU!! it’s both funny and terrible. but genuinely i’m so happy that we’ve gotten to meet and hang out, even though the memory of that insanely spicy hot pot makes me laugh even now. i just want you to know that i think you are so absurdly sweet, an absolute joy to know, and i’m looking forward to seeing you next year at at least one con if not more places!! thank you for being a part of my life and i hope we’re friends for a very long time ♥
big not3 :manhole: lifts the two of you up. slams you back down with all my love. we’ve been in hell for so long!! LMFAO. and yet i also can’t imagine anywhere else i’d rather be. it was so fun to be able to hang out with you both in person this year, including when we kidnapped anna to suffer in the meat dimension with us. my hopes are truly just that this will be the first time of many. thank you for all the chaos, the nijisanji screaming, the venting and the whining, the watching movies and shows together even if we’re so bad at keeping a real schedule. there are so many things in my life that i’m glad i got to share with you two first, and i truly don’t know where i’d be, or what kind of worse person i’d be, if i didn’t have you in my life. our chat is the safest place i know, and i hope everyone else has a chance to find a friendship like ours, even as cursed as it is, because it truly changed my life. i love you both so much more than i can say, but i hope that i got anywhere close to it. happy new year, and here’s to only getting (checks notes) more questionable from here
first - i lost the first draft of this year’s notes and had to start over this morning. pours one out. the progress wasn’t very far but it’s still an L, but it’s ok!! hopefully all the bad luck will be left behind in 2022!
second - i made the boo boo the fool move of getting my nails done with gel x (so like fake nails) right before the new year. for the record my nails look amazing but it has hampered my typing speed…. so idk if this year’s notes will end up any shorter than last year’s, but if they do please know that i tried as much as my tippy tappy fingers would allow!!
without further ado, let’s get this show on the road!!
EVERYONE!!: i tend to write this entry last, but i’m going to write a little about it in the middle because i’m going through all the things i’ve written, all the entries i still have to write and i guess i was just kinda… overcome? I get to write these notes, i get to have all these people who mean the world to me and it just makes me a little teary-eyed. i feel like such a fortunate person, and i look forward to all the friends i’ll still get to make in years to come.
mm i guess if i can just talk briefly about looking back on this tradition of notes - i’ve been doing this since 2011! i was 16 at the time, and hilariously this list had about half as many names. each year, names are added or leave, bc that’s the coming and going of friendships especially on the internet. one of my greatest joys is actually when a name comes back, bc that’s so exciting to know reconnection is always possible. but over the past few years, i think more and more of these names are constant. more and more are you of people i feel lucky to be with every year, going through life together. and i guess even if we may lose touch or grow apart, i just hope that you know that with all my heart, i want you to know how much you mean to me in this moment. you’ve made a difference in my life, and i want you to know that. thank you for being with me, whether for now or forever.
even if i didn’t have all the time in the world to write every name, please know that i don’t keep people in my life if i’m not happy to see them. i curate my spaces so intensely, and i am intentional about the people that i treasure. so regardless of anything else, please know that i’m so happy that you made it through this year and i hope that the next one is soft, and beautiful for you. happy new year!!
Aki: guess what name i chose for you so your name isn’t at the top and therefore the first note. go on. guess.
Al: al….. i’m so happy for you, LMAO. i dunno, i was just thinking about it!! every time i see one of your plurks where you’re having a great time with dearest and kia i’m just like. (touches heart) soft. al made it. congratulations on your graduation and the success of your job hunt!! holds your hand i’m glad that we were both able to get through it together, you know? and that this path has brought you so much happiness. i know you mentioned that this time of year might be a trial for you and your family and genuinely, i hope that you take as much time as you can to be gentle with yourself and know that you’ve really come so far. may 2023 truly only be kinder and more generous with you, you’ve truly more than earned it with all your hard work. gives you a big hug.
Alli: each day i think about how someone’s wonderful and totally deserved graduation (i think that’s what it was) stole away my chance to hang out with you at fanime and while i hope that it was wonderful, it has only confirmed to me that i must try harder to hang out with you in the coming years!! regardless of that, i’ve just been so fond watching you fall deeper and more intensely into your mollymauk tealeaf hell. it’s funny bc i think molly is such a whimsical and endearing character, and it takes a very thoughtful person to be able to write him–especially his dialogue! oh alli, what i would do to just try to figure out how you write dialogue so i can try to capture some of your secrets, whether it be in poignant moments or side-splittingly funny ones. overall though, i’m just so happy and grateful that we remain friends and i’m excited to spend more time with you in 2023!! i hope that it’s kind to you, because it’s what a person as wonderful as you deserves
Andie: the funniest thing about fanime is truly that i saw you and then mentally prepared for it to be like 2019(???) when for the next few months i would just see you multiple times after LMFAO. that said!! it was so good to see you, and even though months have passed i will still say that it was so kind of you to drive folks around, and to basically make sure that everyone had a way to get in from the airport (and also out…. our canadians,,). your generosity and your big heart are really something else, andie. and then you still manage to be a total shitpost of a human being at the same time? i think that’s what true power looks like. i still want to meet up with you for dinner (soon!!) so that we can celebrate new jobs together, so stay tuned on that. until then, thank you for being my favorite internet filipino cousin and i hope your 2023 is so bright and warm
Anna: 2023 was the year that anna absolutely destroyed dana with the knowledge that 86 exists, write that down. SDKLKLJSF it’s also the year that we got to meet in person, and francy and i totally fucking failed at trying to hide in your room and scare you when we met up sdklff it truly was peak stupidity as soon as we were in the same building as each other!!! even still, thank you so much for just enduring yet another year with me. thank you for your endless patience, your absurd fucking curses, and the unbelievable love and support that comes from knowing you. you are an incredible friend, so loyal and encouraging, while also constantly giving me a kick in the ass when i need one. i can say for a fact that i’m a better person because of you, and i am so grateful that you haven’t gotten tired of me yet. love you a whole lot annapi, and i hope that 2023 is just yet another year where you kick so much ass. also scroll down to the bottom for me, thanks.
Ara: ara we’re gonna go to disneyland… literally just tell me when you want to come to california and i’ll fly down for a weekend to hang out with you and nat, it’d be so funny. but!! it was also just generally wonderful to get to see you again this year! ara is truly the keeper of our bearcells all the damn time, so capable, so smart. thank you again for literally another year of writing incredibly good cr with me that manages to be so complicated and also so simple, my dream of playing a sword that chooses their master really came true. and i’m so glad that i got to do so while also enjoying your beautiful writing, always so sharp and cutting to the truth without losing its elegance. i hope that your 2023 is good and kind to you, and expenses are low so that we can find a way to hang out again!! but regardless i am grateful always that you are my friend, and i’m so happy to know you
Ari: there she is!! the master seamstress for the ages!!! haha in all honesty ari, i truly admire every single time you share one of your progress photos on plurk bc i always just admire it like it’s black magic. can’t wait until i get my own sewing machine and just cry at you constantly trying to understand sewing. but i just think that your dedication to your craft is so, so amazing and i love watching you work. i know that this year has had its ups and downs for you, holds your hand gently, and i’m so glad that fortune came to you in the form of your sweet kitty cat. maybe that was just the year’s gift to you to make up for everything else. thank you always for your friendship, and i hope you know i’m here for you through rain and shine, because you’re a true, wonderful friend.
Becks: (you voice) holds your hands and swing you around!!! honestly one of the cutest things of today for me, becks, is opening everyone’s year in review plurks and without fail, three you are, hyping people up. it truly makes me so absurdly soft and i think it’s so cute of you. thank you for literally always being there to encourage people, and make them feel appreciated and seen. now it’s my turn for you!! you’re such a sweet, friendly, and engaging person - i always love how you invite people into sharing your canons, and even though you say you’re running the other direction, you’re so good about getting cr with all sorts of folks. i feel like games and circles just don’t feel the same without you, and that’s why i’m genuinely so appreciative that i get to have you in my life. you’re already in 2023, but i hope it only gets better and better from here!!
Bella: waddles over here and gives you a big hug. bella, sweet bella, you’ve done so much more than “just” survive this year. i know you mentioned that there’s more that you want from life, and i also want you to know that i support you whole-heartedly and i hope that you get it, but also i think you’re wonderful. i think your writing is incredible, the fact that you submit it is so inspirational, and i truly admire your dedication to your craft. you’re a wonderful friend who goes with all of my wild whims, and truly offers nothing but whole-hearted support to the people around you and i think that’s amazing. please always come talk to me about your original stuff, i genuinely and sincerely want to be along with you for the ride of your creative journey, just as i appreciate so much what you’ve offered and done to help with mine. you’re lovely, and you make such a positive impact on people’s lives, and i will continue to repeat this until i keel over. thank you for letting me enjoy the continued honor of being your friend, and i’m so excited for your new year.
Biscuit: this is truly the best idea i’ve ever had, it made me laugh last year and it’s still making me laugh this year i’m shaking
do you think about how the last time we met more than once in the same year, we then had to deal with a global pandemic? and then do you think about how we’re scheduled to hang out at least twice next year? idk just food for thought, really makes you think LMFAOIEWHEGWHEG in all seriousness, it’s time for the once a year occurrence where i’m nice to you instead of plotting your demise. i think when i was browsing old entries i found the year when i first met you, and it was honestly mostly nonsense. it’s funny how constant it is, that when we’re together it’s just a lot of obnoxious screaming, terrible nonsense jokes, and people looking at us strangely because we’ve spiraled out of control in about 5 seconds. thank you for making sure that life is never dull, and everything just feels like the world’s funniest whirlwind. i think it’s impossible to be bored whenever you’re involved, and i’m the type of person who chases after that kind of feeling the most. again i want to emphasize that you are one of the most talented people i know, whether that come from writing, art, cosplay, or just otherwise being a creatively inclined person - and i also know how hard you work at all of it. i was gonna say something like hope we cross paths again in the new year or some such but the funnier idea is that at this point it’s possible for us to grow apart. who the fuck else am i going to complain about jock things with??? unbelievable. anyway happy new year you nerdass, and once again the only feeling i have stronger than my hatred for you is how much i love you. kicks your ass
Blair: so i didn’t comment on a lot of people’s wrap up plurks bc i was working on notes, but the first thing i wanted to say is just that i’m so happy that you’re more comfortable typing and communicating in tagalog, blair. i think i mentioned this ages ago, but i actually used to be fluent and then lost it when i came to the states (cry), but seeing you write in it truly just manages to make me feel something warm. it’s like seeing a little piece of home. so i hope that you continue to live your full, authentic self, and only flourish from here. i know that it’s been a wild year, but i’m so happy for the new sense of freedom you’ve found. i’m glad you’re stuck in the enstars pit forever with me, because i genuinely associate this little corner of the internet with you and it just doesn’t feel right without you. you’re already way ahead and having a party in 2023, but i can only hope that the future will just get brighter and brighter from here!! thank you for being my friend! comes back to this briefly to say that after your enstars plurk today i proceeded to write rest of these listening to ryuseitai i’m losing my mind
Boba: do you know how badly i confused the years. i thought we went to porter robinson this year, but we actually went LAST year in october. ain’t that crazy?? it truly feels like yesterday, and i am already sitting here daydreaming of the next show we’re gonna get to go see together. honestly thank you boba for always being a wonderful, encouraging friend, but also just being able to pick up where we left off in any situation, whether that be talking about porter or madeon (WHEN IS HE DOING A SHOW IN LA!!) or my ever confusing descent into fate/. you truly always have the best insights and also are so easy to talk to, it really feels like a breath of fresh air each and every time. i can’t wait until we get to meet again and just stunt in our matching madeon jackets, but until then i hope your 2023 is fantastic!!
Britt: can i just express to you how excited i am for our little book club moment coming in the new year, britt? i can’t wait to really get into talking to you about something that you love - literature and all the creative ways that stories can manifest. i went back to the ramen place where we came up with the idea for grimm once upon a time recently, and i just remember the feeling of excitement and levity that comes with creating something with you. you bring that same light into all the spaces you occupy, and that’s why i’m not surprised that your coworkers want to hang out with you more and more. the world just seems more fun when time is spent hanging out with you.
Cola: is this the part where i admit that i was just reading along with your state of the year plurk while i was working on other entries. apparently it is sdklj. but in all honesty cola, i love when you talk about yourself. i love when you share bits of your life with us. i’m honestly more and more guilty of lurking these days, but even if your days pass by in easy-going contentment, it genuinely warms my heart to know that. i know that there have been dark clouds (i’m going to fistfight your doctor), but i hope that 2023 genuinely just brings you more easy bliss and warmth. maybe next year we’ll get to meet irl! idk i’m manifesting! but regardless, thank you for sharing any piece of your life with us and i hope that it only grows better from here
Crystal: the way that i looked at your entry and my brain went ‘reigning monarch of eldritch abominations that i want to smother in a blanket’. the association was immediate. there’s nothing that i can do about it? in all seriousness crystal, thank you for being a steadfast friend this year!! i appreciate you so much, and am glad that despite my on and off rp experiences, we were still able to get some really sweet threads and soft cr, touches my heart. i am always endlessly fond of your art and your ability to make me love literally anyone you play–it takes a real talent!! so i hope that you have such a kind and soft new year, and everything comes up crystal!!
Dearest: one more year in our belts, huh dearest?? it’s wild how long we’ve known each other at this point, and i guess what really stands out to me is the fact that it doesn’t really matter how many days pass that we don’t chat as much, but whenever we do it feels like no time has passed. it feels like we’re just coming home. i feel really grateful to have a friend like you, ever-present and always just so, so important. that said, i’m gonna share some of my hopes for the coming year. i’m going to hope that we finish up pripri, and the rest of 86 if you’re up for it. i hope that we find another pair to play and just go ballistic with it like we used to, because nothing really can ever replace playing with you. i hope that just as the ocean comes and goes in waves, we get brought back together again soon. i love you endlessly and miss you dearly, but i’m also comfortable in knowing that you’ll always, always be in my life and i hope you know that i hope to always, always be in yours. even so, thank you for another year of being together, and i look forward to what the new one will bring. may your hard work pay off in the thousand different ways it should, and you get to have a nice vacay like you deserve. happy new year, love you!!
Eli: the way i’m just waiting for house in the cerulean sea to kick me in the teeth come the new year when i have time to read it, and my favorite part is that this wash of excitement over it really all stems from you. your infectious excitement for it has really gotten so many other people to read it, and i think that’s just a really special thing. i know that this year has been wild with the SHEER NUMBER OF HOURS YOU’VE WORKED and the ups and downs of hopes and disappointments, but i just want to say i’m so happy that you’ve remained a kind, empathetic, sincere person. you are one the kindest people that i know, eli, and i consider it a joy and an honor to be your friend. let’s try to meet up in 2023! i just want to give you the biggest hug known to man.
Flurry: aaaa flurry it was so good to see you again this year–this time up in NorCal!!! honestly it was just really fun to see you in your element, surrounded by friends you got to meet for the first time and thinking about you and anna finally getting to meet truly makes me so soft :( ♥ i know that this year hasn’t been easy for you, and if your brother doesn’t get out i will literally drive my fucking car over and kick his ass myself, but i will also fistfight god to make sure that 2023 is better for you!! fluffs you up, you’re a hard-working, diligent, and unbelievably kind person and so i hope that you find yourself on the up and up. it’s the least you’re owed!! so may the new year bring nothing but joy to you and your cute lil cat girl hehe
Francy: well, in the end, you’re still stuck with me. again, i feel a little inclined to say sorry, but more than that, i want to say thank you. thanks for all the trips for the past few years, including the two that we went on this year. celebrating your birthday in a different state every year, with a new batch of friends, is genuinely so absurdly fun and i like that tradition a lot. you’re a person who deserves to be celebrated. you’ve worked so absurdly hard, and i’m so happy that things are really turning up francy. you switched jobs, you got into a new program, and you’re just killing it all around. i’m so glad that your kindness, thoughtfulness, and dedication are really paying off. i still think now, and i’ll always think, that you’re really just the nicest out of all of us, you know? all the beeguns and threats of violence aside. i’m so excited for everything that we have planned next year, and i’m also so grateful that we do this where every year we plan our next big adventure. i’m very lucky to have you at my side and i know it. happy new year francy, and i love you a lot. scroll down to the end of me please!!
Hei: the jock to rule us all…. you know hei i think about how i literally met you for like 2?? hours?? this year and i’m truly like WE MUST FIX THAT but luckily those plans are already in place for us, clenches fist. still!! it was so good to meet you–i will say that your chaos is much more potent online. or perhaps it was simply dormant. time will tell. all jokes aside, i’m so glad that we’ve gotten to be in each other’s spaces more and more this year. you’re an easy person to talk to, and someone that just feels very genuine in every space that you show up, whether that’s as someone who will reach out for the sake of your friends, or a goblin that makes us all scream in rp. i’m so excited to spend more time with you in the coming year, and my hope for you in 2023 is that someone murders your chara and it fucking sticks!!!! i’ll try again if i have to!! that’s my parting note but know that i love you, thank you for being my friend, mwah
Jae: jae jae my jaaaaeeeee. you know i actually think of you fairly often? i use the cord wrap that you gave me so regularly, and every time i look at the cute pattern, my heart just goes soft and i think ‘jae is so talented and crafty and she shares that with all of us?? for free????’ i’ve known you for so much of my life at this point, and i just want to say that i still feel like my day gets brighter every time we get to talk. i love that you’re playing genshin with us again, and i love your enthusiasm for always engaging with us. hopefully i’ll get to see you again sometime soon, i’ll make the drive!! also would let your character midtrial (or attempt to, but next time let’s make it for real) mine anyday, 10/10 no notes
Jan: it’s the way that i’ve gotten to see jan twice this year for me!!! that already means that it’s an absolutely incredible year, especially considering that we’ve known each other for well over a decade now. and i can’t say how happy i am that we’ve already planned to meet again in the new year!! wraps you up in a big hug. thank you for sticking with me all these years, jan - i know that i’m a handful, and you have more than your share of stories really proving that i’m a wild friend to have, but it just makes me all the more grateful that in these tides of time passing on the internet, i still get to be with you. you’ve really grown into your own, and i’m so happy that we’re in so many spaces where you can just share what’s going on in your day, whether it be the food that you’re cooking (step by step…..) or the cosplay you’re working on. you really do have so much talent and skill, jan, and i’m impressed by you everyday. thank you for constantly crossing the border to spend time with us, and i look forward to it happening yet again next year!!
Kami: ugh kami i’m just so happy for all the strides that you’ve made this year, and that your recovery has ultimately been going well! i truly miss you when i’m up in NorCal, but i hope that soon we’ll be able to find ways to stay in touch and chat with each other more often :’(((( regardless, i’m so happy with what time we do find to be able to hang out and see each other, and i can’t wait to witness your continued descent into danmei hehe. what a beautiful set of canons, fitting for a beautiful person!! may we get to have a wonderful and warm 2023 together, including our little book club moment i’m so excited
Kia: the way that you posted it just a few hours ago and i have already rereading the ichika and okazaki drabble you wrote about 3 times. when are we writing this kia (taps watch) sdlkfsf but no in all seriousness, i am reminded each and every year that you are just such a wonderful friend, a dedicated and skill writer, and just such an amazing human being. thank you for being such a constant in my life, and a creative inspiration. 2023 is coming and original fiction is coming for us both, but i genuinely, truly appreciate just being able to sit down and talk craft with you because speaking from one bipoc writer to another, it just feels so good to chat with someone who gets it, you know? so i hope that you’re able to reach every single one of your goals in the new year, and i hope that i get the pleasure and honor to be cheering you on all along the way
Kes: the way i missed you so much at fanime this year, kes… whenever aki and i were hanging out, i would just think fondly of you being stuck with us and our insanity, ever patient and sweet. we needed that balance… hopefully next year we’ll find time together!! until then, i am truly in awe of you - whether it be the sheer amount of danmei you read or even what you translate to share with the rest of us! your joy and love for it is always so cute to behold, and i wish i could love literally anything as much as you love your passions. i hope that 2023 only brings you more joy and more time for what you love, and may our paths cross all the more!
Kosy: my bae, my love, my constant object of adoration!! each year that you’re still part of my life is a reason to celebrate. my favorite thing is that even all these years later, you love leo tsukinaga, and that’s so valid of you. whenever i look at his bloomed next door card that i killed myself for, i think fondly of you–similarly bright, radiant, and amazing. we haven’t gotten to play with each other much this past year (sad!!!!) but i can only hope that’ll improve in the months to come! i love you so very much, and regardless of what rp is doing, i hope that you just never forget that. thank you for your good humor, the beautiful art you bless my timeline with, and generally just your reassuring presence. i hope 2023 is good to you, and just know that i love you a whole lot.
Lowe: lowe…. i am so fond of you. i wish i knew how to explain this in a reasonable manner, but i actually don’t. it’s just kind of the way that i think you’re genuinely such a cool person whose friendship i treasure, and i will fistfight pretty much anyone that makes you feel upset or disrupts that sense of comfort for you. i think that you’re wildly funny and great to talk to, immensely talented with the art and codes you create, and i just want 2023 to give you literally everything you could possibly ask for. i’m keeping my fingers crossed constantly that your job situation improves, because i think that it’s way past due. so i guess in my simplest sentiments, i hope that 2023 makes you happy the same way that you bolster the rest of us. i hope you have every reason to be happy. (also if francy and i end up there next year please hang out with us or i’ll cry? :( )
Maple: all i have to say is that if 2023 isn’t the best fucking year for you, i will personally fistfight any and every omnipotent figure of choice to turn back the clock and make sure that you get treated right, maple. you have kicked so much ass, been nothing but the sweetest person to everybody, and i can’t wait to see what the future has in store for someone as absolutely incredible as you. we’re all lucky to know you, every single one of us, and i love you dearly. i treasure the threads that we got to have this past year, and am looking forward to just spending more time with you in the future!! if i don’t thread with your ryuji i’ll cry?? but in all seriousness, thank you so much for being my friend and always being up for shooting the shit and chatting–see you in the new year!!! whenever you feel up to looking at more travels, just give me a call and i’ll meet you there!
Nat: hugs you so hard that your bones crack. i love you so much. i’m so proud of you. i will always talk about this past year with you, actually this past year and all the years we’ve known each other, but i’m going to talk about some highlights. i’m so excited for our imminent return to seattle, where we’re going to eat a lot of food and laugh a shitton with the people that we love, and also perhaps get you more chicken wings just for the joke. i’m looking forward to spending more time with you and your friends, whether i’ve met them or not, and seeing you flourish in your own freedom and delight. i’m soooo excited for the unbridled resurgence of your creativity and your love for art and writing and everything you hold passion for, because the world is more colorful when you talk about what you love. tell me everything you love about csm and mp100, and i will happily listen. you’re going to have a great 2023, nat. you’re going to have so much fun you’ll feel dizzy with it, and the world will feel right again. i can’t wait.
Niji (& Iki): the way that i was so close to writing fake dating with niji and now i feel so far… unbelievable. regardless of that, i am excited to only spend more time with you next year!! the funny thing is genuinely that i think both you and i took a step back this year bc of career changes and whatnot, but i’m so happy that your transition to private sector has been so satisfying and good for you, niji!! you’re truly such a hard-working, reliable, and earnest person and i am excited to see how this will only continue to reap more rewards for you. hopefully in the new year, some of that work-life balance will come a little easier and if it doesn’t then i will personally come over and sit on you until you’re able to take it easy. please remember to be gentle with yourself too!! you’re already way ahead in 2023, but i hope it’s treating you right, and have faith it’ll only get better from here!! please also extend my warmest wishes and pompom waving encouragement to iki too–i miss him dearly, but i’m so happy that the two of you are enjoying life together
Nu: NUUUUUU IT’S US FOR ANOTHER YEAR NUUUUUUUU!!!!! this is so funny…. i’m impressed everyday that not only do you still keep me as a friend, but also that i’m still somehow alive despite how much attention and affection i throw at you. it’s wild to me that not only did i get to meet you this year, i got to see you three times???? kinda funny. even though you were suffering for so much of it. but in all honesty, i think my life has only gotten better since i’ve met you. thank you for being a trusted friend, an amazing confidant, and someone who always manages to bring me back to earth. i appreciate your honesty, your willingness to go along with wild ideas, and that you are truly just a wonderful person. i’m so lucky to know you, and call you a friend. who knows what the fuck the next year is going to throw at us, but i hope it’s only good things and that you don’t actually fucking lose it from having to deal with all of us. may your 2023 bring you absolutely nothing less than the best.
Omo: i can’t believe that i only met you this year, omo…. it truly feels like we’ve been together for so long, and i’m actually a little sad thinking of all the time that i’ve had not knowing you, you know? like i can say pretty much without hesitation that you are just one of the sweetest, kindest people that i’ve had the honor of meeting in my life. it feels like you just have something nice to say about everyone, while also knowing when to put your foot down. how do i get that kind of balance and loveliness in my life, omo! how!! but i’m so glad that we’ve already gotten to meet this year, and i hope with all my heart that we’ll continue to cross paths more in the future! thank you for always being willing to jump onto wild ideas, and also giving me the most absolutely insane whiplash of my life in the singular game that we’ve played in together i’m shaking. you’re a one of a kind person, omo, and you deserve the world and more. happy new year!!
Para: honestly when i think about how kind you’ve been to me this past year, my heart gets all soft, para. thank you for being someone who reached out to me when i moved up to NorCal, living alone for the first time, and inviting me to hang out (watch the ILUNA debut!!!) and even letting me spend your birthday with you and your sweet friends. i’m soooo excited to see you soon, and honestly just really looking forward to getting to spend more of 2023 with you? we’re gonna have so much fun, (luca voice) POG!!! in general, i’m so grateful to have you in my life and i can only hope that things get better and better for you. CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN ON YOUR SURGERY AAAAA and i think that the future is looking bright!!! thank you for being friend, bc i can say for sure that it definitely brings a lot more joy to my life
Pazu: i have witnessed the power of NA timezone pazu and truly it is a sight to behold. i actually don’t know if i’ve ever told you this but i think you were in and out during the suite trial where i was a murderer, but francy and i were like ‘imagine if pazu was here all trial. mikazuki would’ve been so fucked.’ that’s how big your brain is, i’m shaking. anyway!! funny little story aside, it’s always been a joy to write with you and congratulations on all your life updates!! i’m crying i’m really more of a lurker than anything but please know i’m constantly in the background waving my pompoms and cheering you on. hopefully your 2023 is only brighter from here and we get a chance to be in the same spaces more often! ♥
Pearl: pearly my pearly!! i keep thinking about how twitter is always teetering on the edge of destruction and i’m always (makes a vague gesture) about how i feel that, but i think always about how happy i am that being on twitter managed to bring me to you. whether it be suffering through genshin hell or our age old nemesis enstars, i truly feel grateful to have you in my life. even though we don’t always get a chance to chat, i’m always so happy to see what life brings you – and also your cosplays are always truly so life changing to witness. forever gorgeous and beautiful pearly!! i just hope you know you won’t be rid of me even if twitter goes down, i’ll find my way back to you–how else will i survive link click season 2?? also i’ve been trying to get my parents to go back to the philippines as a family trip soon so (poses) whenever that happens just know you’ll be hearing from me!!
Pixi: what a year it’s been for you, pixi!!! you’ve wholeass transitioned into an entirely different field of work, one that you have a real passion for, and i cannot express my admiration enough for that. despite what you say, i think you genuinely have such an incredible skill for self-discipline and really applying yourself to everything that you want to chase after. thank you so much for spending another year with me and all the while rides that we go on, and i truly can’t wait to run and tackle you in a big hug again next year. whenever i don’t get to see you, i really feel like i’m missing something, you know? still, i look forward to what the new year has to bring for you, hopefully only more incredible buzen content (and yams, who you actually play,) as well as (god hoping) rf kuang actually publishing that fucking jiang collection please god. you’ve been an incredible support to me and the people around you this year, and i can only hope that you’ll get to experience the same in return!! see you in 2023, and also literally any other day bc we talk all the time and i wouldn’t trade it for the world ♥
Ray: ray every single time you bake something, i experience two visceral feelings: the first is ‘let me have one’, and the second is ‘oh my god i want to bake too’. so i think that means we need to hang out again sometime soon so that we can trade baked goods? i think that’d be so cute okay. but also i just want to hang out with you again!! i know it’s been such a busy year for you, phew, but i hope that overall it’s evened out to a positive one!! you work so gosh darn hard every single day, i’m truly glancing at the calendar and wondering when you’ll give yourself a treat and go on a nice little vacation! please know that you’re a truly formidable person, and i hope that in the coming year you’re able to breathe just a little easier. may 2023 be good to you!
Ryza: holds your hand tenderly. i love you so much. one of my greatest joys this year has genuinely just been getting to hang out with you again, and talk to you more! i was happy when we could just remain friends on the plurk periphery, but you are so fun (and also absolutely fucking buckwild) to talk to. i’m glad we were able to share a game again, and provide the roasts that come with just having a friend for so long. thank you for always being a bundle of energy that manages to electrify a room to attention, even though you always make me hungry with your food pics or want to die with some of your date stories–but even those moments are ones that make me look back and laugh. let’s just have even more!!
Sib: busy busy sibbu!! ah, this is one of those moments where i’m sad it’s hard for us to get a game together these days, but i just want you to know that i still hold you so dear as a friend. every time you make a plurk about jojo’s, or resident evil, or sonic i will be the first to say i’m not super familiar (well except with sonic), but i hope you’re winning!! i always hope you’re winning at life in general! haha this feels silly since i know we haven’t talked as much 1:1 this year, but i still love you a lot. may 2023 bring us more chances to come together, i miss your tags and just miss you!
Sipp: so one of my favorite random memories of fanime is when we were talking about something and randomly came up on talking about how ??? you wanted a hug??? like teasingly SOMETHING LIKE THAT and then i just took it VERY SERIOUSLY and immediately crossed over the room to give you a hug, and then you turned bright red like a tomato. it was sooooo cutee my heart was so soft sdklfjsdf but!! i’m so glad that i got to meet you this year, sipp!! you’re such a sweet person and so fun to talk to, i’m so happy that you were able to escape school and work long enough to spend a weekend with you! i know you just moved recently anD ALSO I HOPE YOU’RE FEELING BETTER, so i hope that the new year brings with it a ton of lovely, well-earned new beginnings for you!! GIVES YOU ANOTHER HUG
Sisi: every time that i remember that we were truly ships in the night and i moved up and away just when you were visiting, i get this lil sad feel in my heart, but it truly reminds me that we’ll simply have to find another way to hang out instead!! i know you’ve had the rollercoaster of a year, sisi, with all the hopes and the disappointments that come with it, but i just want to remind you that none of those hiccups means you’re any less of a sweet, caring, sincere, and hard-working person. you’re gonna get yours (positive) in time, and i’ve never been surer of anything else in my life. i’m still glad that you were able to have peaks of sunshine even through this year, and i hope that 2023 will give you nothing but clear skies. keep your head up, and know that all of your friends love and support you so much - myself included!!
Siz: hehe i got to see siz again this year and i genuinely think that’s just such a fucking win, i’m so happy about it. fanime was such a good time siz, and i’m so glad that we were able to hang out!! this might feel like such a silly little observation, but i don’t think i ever got to expressed how much i appreciated that even in the chaos of - what, 14 people?? - you always seemed like you were making time to hang out with everyone, every little pocket of group, and i think that speaks to how thoughtful you are as a person. long gone are the days of me being intimidated by you!!!! rather, i just want to be able to express my admiration for you. i know you’ve been making a couple of transitions this year, and i just feel like you always have a capacity for grace as a person–while also being so fucking funny!!! thank you so much for being my friend, and i can’t wait to see what the new year holds for you!
Spoon: (thinks about all the empty spaces in which spoon used to be) it’s like i can still hear her voice…… just kidding, i hope that your little break has been rejuvenating and good to you, spoon!! smooches your face. i was teasing, but i also can say with certainty that i feel your absence in our assorted shared spaces, and am looking forward to reuniting with you again. you’re such an amazingly fun person to talk to, and i hope you know that i sincerely love every interaction that we get to have. you make me smile, and laugh, and i can only hope that i and the rest of your friends can return the favor to you! you’re a person who deserves all good things in life, and if 2023 doesn’t give it to you then i get to roundhouse kick it in the face. thank you for being a wonderful friend, and i hope that we get to be connected for a long, long time ♥
Sunny: sunny is out here making moves!! i know this year has had its ups and downs for you, sunny, but i’m still so proud of how far you’ve come and everything that you’re up to. i always appreciate our chats and our opportunities to write together - or, you know, commiserate about writing together. the state of working in education is quite a wild ride right now, but i’m glad we can at least both languish in it together. even still, i hope that next year you’re able to really spread your wings and chase after everything you want. you more than deserve it. 2023 will be your year!
Teej: lifts up teej!! king of emet-selch fuckery!!!! SDKFDFKJ laughs to myself, i’m sorry i couldn’t think of a better way to start. but teej!! i hope that you’ve been having a good year, what with all the transitions that you’ve been making whether it be for work (was that this year? am i getting confused? perhaps,) or for your health things. i always admire how you’re willing to jump into things to crack jokes and make other people laugh, and just how easy it is to talk to you. may 2023 bring you more delights, and i look forward to getting a chance to meet up with you again!!
Ty: it’s so wild to me that i now live 6 hours away instead of just 1, and i won’t lie and say it doesn’t make my heartachey. we’ve been friends for a hot second now ty, somewhere around half a decade? and i’m glad that we’re still so connected to each other. you’re one of the most diligent and committed people that i know, but i was so happy to read that you’re going to try to spend 2023 doing more for yourself. fuck yes.if there’s literally anyone in my life that i think deserves to do more for themselves, i will think of two people: my mother, and you. so please, please treat yourself to more rest, more personal joy, more for yourself every single second of 2023. i promise that you’ve more than earned it, and i am just so excited for you
Yaywon: bundles you up…. for 2023 i’ve decided to grant you…. chart making privileges. LKSDLLKFH no i’m kidding… what a year it’s been, yaywon!!! and by that i mean i’m going to fucking kick 2023 in the dick until it’s nice to you!!!! you’ve endured so much this year, more dimitris than any reasonable person should ever encounter, and i truly believe with my whole heart that means that you are owed a better year in the future. i hope that you get to move and leave that horrific house, and pursue everything that you could possibly want!! what i find most amazing is that through it all, you’ve truly just been such an incredibly light, buoyant person who still manages to find the time to make others feel loved and give them reason to laugh. you are an irreplaceable person who is so dearly loved, and i hope that you never lose sight of that. you are a person who is more than worthy of every good thing in the world, and more. even still, thank you for spending some of that time with me and every time i think about how we’re gonna meet TWICE next year i get delirious with laughter. happy new year, and thank you for everything including the buzetsuki!!! (i felt like i had to mention buzen in here somewhere or it felt incomplete)
Yining: i’ve decided to include you on this giant list because even though you’re an irl friend, you are now officially in enough of my online spaces that i think it’d be weird not to write to you LMFAOSDKLS. anyway, thank you for being such an incredible friend. not just now, but through the years. it’s so wonderful to have a travel and a con buddy, and know that you’re up for meeting up with my friends even though we talk so much about dimitri fire emblem and our fucking roleplay hobby that you have no familiarity with it’s so fucking funny. you’re so, so easy to get along with and it’s warmed my heart to see how easily you slip into every single one of my circles and how excited people are to see you. thank you for being a friend, and uhhhh you really have no chance of getting rid of me at this point sorry rip LMFAO
Yuul: i keep thinking about how we’re really not that far from each other but this keeps happening to us, but iT’S FINE because regardless i’m gonna get two whole chances to see yuul next year and i’m so excited for it!!! thank you so much for sticking around and being my friend for so long, yuul, it’s kind of hilarious and absurd the more i think about it. we truly played together in a game for maybe 3 months and we’ve been friends ever since, meeting up maybe once a year, but i truly still feel so fond and happy to have you in my life. i look forward to more of our chances to hang out next year, MAYBE EVEN IN TORRANCE??? IDK MAYBE THAT’S A LITTLE CRAZY but regardless see you soon!!! (manifests)
Zara: ah, this one is going to take me a second. i know this year has been hard, love. i know that you’ve struggled, and sometimes it feels really painful. even so, i’m glad that you’re here. i’m glad that you’re able to find rays of well-deserved sunshine through everything. i’m glad for every moment that you find a second to rest, because there are just some moments that are too hard to bear. but also please know that more anything else, i believe in the strength of your heart. i believe in your capacity for love, and your courage. you’re stronger than you know, darling zara, and if any moment ever feels too hard please know that i am always, always here for you. i don’t want you to ever feel alone, and just know that i have nothing but love for you. please be gentle with yourself, and i’ll hope that the new year is gentle with you too. whatever comes, i’m here for you, and i’m hopeful for the future. take care, and i love you so much.
Zia: OUR CANADIANS CROSSED THE BORDERRRR it was so good getting to meet you this year, zia!! also you getting to meet ty was also very cute and it makes my heart soft. i’m so happy that we were able to spend that excellent weekend with all of our friends, and hopefully we’ll be able to cross paths again sometime soon! i know that i will be able to find you via your excellent hair,, but also in general i’m happy we got to write together this year too. i always love getting cr with you, and jiji and cloud becoming friends felt so very uncanny but also soft. hopefully we’ll get more of a chance to play together next year too!! until then, i hope that 2023 brings you every happiness
Zetsu: wraps you up in blankets and gives you the world’s biggest hug… zetsu my zetsu!!!! it’s wild to me to think that this time last year, i didn’t know you? and i’m just so happy to have you in my life. we truly went absolutely buckwild with our cr this year, and it makes me insane that in both games that we’ve been in, i’ve one way or another contributed you to crying real tearskldhisd MY ZETSU!! it’s both funny and terrible. but genuinely i’m so happy that we’ve gotten to meet and hang out, even though the memory of that insanely spicy hot pot makes me laugh even now. i just want you to know that i think you are so absurdly sweet, an absolute joy to know, and i’m looking forward to seeing you next year at at least one con if not more places!! thank you for being a part of my life and i hope we’re friends for a very long time ♥
big not3 :manhole: lifts the two of you up. slams you back down with all my love. we’ve been in hell for so long!! LMFAO. and yet i also can’t imagine anywhere else i’d rather be. it was so fun to be able to hang out with you both in person this year, including when we kidnapped anna to suffer in the meat dimension with us. my hopes are truly just that this will be the first time of many. thank you for all the chaos, the nijisanji screaming, the venting and the whining, the watching movies and shows together even if we’re so bad at keeping a real schedule. there are so many things in my life that i’m glad i got to share with you two first, and i truly don’t know where i’d be, or what kind of worse person i’d be, if i didn’t have you in my life. our chat is the safest place i know, and i hope everyone else has a chance to find a friendship like ours, even as cursed as it is, because it truly changed my life. i love you both so much more than i can say, but i hope that i got anywhere close to it. happy new year, and here’s to only getting (checks notes) more questionable from here