At least I realized quite early on that I needed to make a new journal this time! It would've been here sooner but work and stuff happened, at least it's not in March.

I really do quite like to make a check each year to see what has happened. It's a decent way of remembering that stuff did indeed happen even though it felt like the year just flew by.
Comms this year was a rather staggering 59. So indeed a new record. 69 if you count my own pics. (NICE.)
Number of new characters, err... 21. With one being a redesign so 20. And one is the same character with different forms so 18. I don't THINK there's an overlap where I might have counted an upload for this year of a character I got last year but it's not impossible. So 18 is likely quite right. It's pretty much the same thing as last year, getting good adopts has been a lot easier than ychs or comms.
I dunno about others but to me an adopt usually feels just as nice as a comm or ych. Gives me an opportunity to play with lore and expand on things, I really do like it.
I also didn't expect my plans for the poke/digi verse I'm playing with to grow like it did. I think 90% of the new characters are going there and the other 10% yet another thing far down the back burner.
I've sorta found a format for the Poke/Digi world that I really like the prospect of but it'll be a lot of trial and error before I have any idea if it'll work or not. It's fun tho so there's that.

I've written quite a bit more on Lux's story. I did the same thing I did with the main Stitched Tails story where I sorta wrote myself into a corner with a scene and setting I felt didn't quite make sense the way I wanted. It was a lot easier to re-write the story for Lux tho as it's not as grand and slow moving so there's less to change. I actually managed to get to a point where my planning was quite vague. That's a good thing imo, I rarely get that far. I wouldn't say I'm in the middle of it, but like 2/5:ths the way. Unfortunately both the summer and winter this year has been shite so I haven't been out walking as much as I usually do or I would've had a better idea of exactly I want to happen in the story at this point. It's at least the only thing that I'm "properly" writing atm so if I do feel like writing again it'll be Lux's story. Stitched Tails is more like, a project car sitting in the corner, whispering about how much potential it has. What, everyone doesn't have a project car waiting for funds? Oh well-

The new design is for Raleigh, the Caribou. Very few liked her powered up form and I sorta grew to not like it as much. Just like the design she had before that, which was two wolves. BUT now she's back to being a wolf, sorta, a large Fox. I really do like that design, it looks awesome, she got a bit of character development at the same time which is good.

Florence got two new pics, poor thing hadn't gotten a pic in three years! Fireball needs something new. Solitude got an adorable crimbus pic. Robyn REALLY needs something as she has no pic at all. Why? I got the impression nobody really liked her, and her physique is really specific so I can't ask anyone. Iris needs a new pic but I think that'll be quite easy. Sigrid and her new "friend" Freya will probably get a duo pic...I just don't want to kill someone with that many spots... Kitsu needs art too but that'll also be easy. Reine DEF needs art this year, it's SNEK year! So maybe Hebi will come along on that too, who knows.

I got another pic with a Chakutori too \o/
Or more specifically, the a continuation of the first pic! It's a shame I'm a bit of a coward about my own creations. I would've gotten more Digsune pics if their ref wasn't meh and it feels weird asking for Chakutori from people I don't know. I still don't get how people can be so casual about asking for the lewdest of lewds from people they barely know lol.

Other than that I don't think there's been a lot of fun stuff going on on the art front. Lots of comms, lots of characters, but they all have their own page for questions and whatnot so I don't feel like that belongs here. Overall it's been a decent year, work is still eh, I've almost paid off my new car so no major events *knock on wood*.