it's 2026 already!
Jan. 8th, 2026 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naushikaI've decided 2026 will be the Year of Crafting (and Other Creative Endeavors).
And in typical crafting fashion, I started multiple projects and haven't finished any of them yet! Yay! But the day I decided this I did manage to finish one small thing, which is I drew this pixel art of a food item from Stardew Valley:
Nothing particularly fancy, it just felt cathartic to ignore my phone for an hour and draw colored boxes. A lot of this thought came about because I know I just spend Way Too Much Time on my damn phone. Usually tiktok or reddit or tumblr or whatever. Too much doomscrolling. I know everything is terrible and I do what I can in life to help combat that. But scrolling on tiktok isn't activism and all it does is cause me psychic damage. So, here's to a little less of that in 2026.
I also need to get back onto doing my pottery regularly. I really let it slack off in the last half of the year. I have a whole batch of stoneware items I just need to glaze and fire. Must get off my butt and do that.
I did really well in terms of writing fic in 2025, publishing 8 fics (for over 50k words total)! So proud of myself for that. Would really like to keep it up. (Thank you Criminal Minds for the creative juices.) Also I got really into gifmaking over on tumblr, and I just love making gifs, and I've been learning new techniques and methodologies and expanding my skills.
I've also made the conscious choice when I find myself doom scrolling but not in a situation where I can do anything else (eg, I'm lying in bed) then I close the app and play a game instead. I have several logic puzzles and daily word games, and they have the added bonus of helping me use my brain instead of letting it rot, haha. And usually if I'm in bed trying to sleep, I might scroll tiktok for 2 hours if I let myself, but if I switch to a word game I get sleepy shortly and can go to sleep. I know the better thing would just be to uninstall tiktok, but I also know I won't stick to that. Just gonna try the whole moderation schtick first.
Wishing everybody's 2026 to be a little brighter. <3
And in typical crafting fashion, I started multiple projects and haven't finished any of them yet! Yay! But the day I decided this I did manage to finish one small thing, which is I drew this pixel art of a food item from Stardew Valley:
Nothing particularly fancy, it just felt cathartic to ignore my phone for an hour and draw colored boxes. A lot of this thought came about because I know I just spend Way Too Much Time on my damn phone. Usually tiktok or reddit or tumblr or whatever. Too much doomscrolling. I know everything is terrible and I do what I can in life to help combat that. But scrolling on tiktok isn't activism and all it does is cause me psychic damage. So, here's to a little less of that in 2026.
I also need to get back onto doing my pottery regularly. I really let it slack off in the last half of the year. I have a whole batch of stoneware items I just need to glaze and fire. Must get off my butt and do that.
I did really well in terms of writing fic in 2025, publishing 8 fics (for over 50k words total)! So proud of myself for that. Would really like to keep it up. (Thank you Criminal Minds for the creative juices.) Also I got really into gifmaking over on tumblr, and I just love making gifs, and I've been learning new techniques and methodologies and expanding my skills.
I've also made the conscious choice when I find myself doom scrolling but not in a situation where I can do anything else (eg, I'm lying in bed) then I close the app and play a game instead. I have several logic puzzles and daily word games, and they have the added bonus of helping me use my brain instead of letting it rot, haha. And usually if I'm in bed trying to sleep, I might scroll tiktok for 2 hours if I let myself, but if I switch to a word game I get sleepy shortly and can go to sleep. I know the better thing would just be to uninstall tiktok, but I also know I won't stick to that. Just gonna try the whole moderation schtick first.
Wishing everybody's 2026 to be a little brighter. <3
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Date: 2026-01-09 08:59 pm (UTC)I've been replaying the monument valley games when scrolling/bluesky becomes too much, lately! I feel very much like it'd be better for me if I'd just delete it, too. It's the worst at night. But if I deleted it I'd probably have no idea what's going on. Still tempting, though!
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Date: 2026-01-09 09:58 pm (UTC)Congrats on your fic writing!