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samcybercat) wrote2026-04-30 06:08 pm
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I wanted to properly start off by talking about some of my creative aims for this year, starting with New Year's Resolutions and moving on to other stuff that's cropped up as the months have gone on. We're now decently far away from the new year, but I've only made this account on the last day of April, so what can you do?
Generally, I'm very casual about New Year's Resolutions. If I'm ever not feeling it, then I don't make them that year. Some years I only make online ones and other years I only make offline ones. I always aim low to avoid disappointment and generally, by keeping them in the realms of what I know I can achieve, I've had a decent success rate with them.
This year, I started off with two goals:
1. Finishing live-blogging myself rereading Sonic the Comic
As a child of eight years old, this comic was my introduction to the Sonic the Hedgehog series. I was mesmerised by issue 80 and left wondering how the tough-seeming heroine, Amy Rose, could defeat a crazed version of her friend who was powered up by something called chaos energy. I had to know how that story was going to end and I owe it to that cliffhanger that I became a life-long fan of the series. I'd read the comic every second week from then until it ended several years later.
All of that was obviously a long time ago and other than a few stand-out stories that I'd go back to, I hadn't read the comic since I was a kid. Because of that, in November 2023, I did something I'd been wanting to do for a long time and started to live-blog myself rereading it from the start. You can check out my journey in doing this over here on this blog:
https://samobservessonic.tumblr.com/tagged/sam%20observes%20sonic/chrono
I didn't know starting out if this would be anything that anyone else would be interested in, but I was pleasantly surprised when the blog picked up a small following of interested people who'd ask me questions from time to time. What more can someone ask for?
At the start of this year, I was very close to finishing the series and I'm pleased to say that at the time of writing, I actually have now finished! Because I stagger posting updates on that blog, I'm not finished on there yet, but it's all been written out now and could be all posted as early as next week. I'll feel accomplished to tick such a long-lasting project off my list.
2. Read 10-15 more Animorphs books
As a kid, I enjoyed this series, but never finished reading it. Not for any particular reason, I just ended up not keeping up with it. But it always felt like a failure on my part. Then sometime last year, I remembered that I'm an adult who can do what I want. So I decided to read the series through from the beginning and finally be able to say that I finished it.
According to my media list on Bluesky, I've read nine books in the series this year, bringing me up to Book 30 in the series. So literally one book shy of my minimum goal. But I'd like to do better than this. My hope is that once my StC live-blogging has wrapped up, I'll be able to focus on this more. I don't plan to finish the whole series this year, but it'd be nice to get within a stone's throw of that, perhaps.
That's my two goals that I set for myself. But as the year's gone on, I've added something else to it that has spawned into another thing in itself:
Bonus: Watch longplays of video games I never finished as a kid
This is a bucket list one. I've loved video games my whole life, but for the most-part, I'm not very good at actually playing them. As a kid, there were so many times when I was left wondering how a game that was beyond my skills ended. But we're on the Internet now and there are whole communities of people who are good at playing video games who record videos of them doing so to 100% completion without commentary for the likes of me to watch. So once again, I've decided there's no point in leaving myself wondering how many of these games end when the answers are out there. I made a list in my head of games that I wanted to see all the way through and started on that. Which leads me to the next one...
Bonus: Watch longplays of all the mainline Resident Evil games
I picked Resident Evil 2 almost randomly off the list because I felt like watching it at the time. I had seen the first Resident Evil game from start to finish multiple times as a kid, but not any of the others. So, I watched through RE2 and enjoyed it - I swear I'm not trying to sound edgy by saying this, but there's something almost cosy about PS1 horror games, probably the nostalgia. After that, I also had Resident Evil: Code Veronica X on the list. Bwtween those games was Resident Evil 3, which I didn't have as a kid, but I was on a roll and thought that I might as well watch that one before moving onto Code Veronica X, since it had the same PS1 vibes I wanted at the time.
Anyway, after getting through both RE3 and Code Veronica X, I figured that I might as well be in this for the long haul and watch the other games as well. But only the mainline ones. This is a huge series and I'm sure the spin-off games have their merits, I'm not ruling out that I might watch those someday, but the later games are so long that it takes a lot of time for something I accidentally stumbled into doing and am so far just yelling my feelings about into space.
Right now, I'm halfway through watching RE8. Which means that I only have that and one more game to go with this and then it'll be back to my overall list of games to watch. Or probably back to Animorphs. I really should focus on that.
Which just about covers all of the various media I'm working through right now. I do also have the aforementioned Bluesky thread covering everything I end up reading/watching/playing/etc this year that I update when I remember:
https://bsky.app/profile/samcybercat.bsky.social/post/3m4ql3sir7s2k
It was partly that list that made me get myself into gear to make a Dreamwidth account. Because I generally do have more I want to say about stuff I check out than the character space that micro-blogging provides. As you can probably tell from how wordy this got. But! This was catching up with this year so far. Now that's done, hopefully my other posts will be a more regular length. Whatever that turns out to be.
Generally, I'm very casual about New Year's Resolutions. If I'm ever not feeling it, then I don't make them that year. Some years I only make online ones and other years I only make offline ones. I always aim low to avoid disappointment and generally, by keeping them in the realms of what I know I can achieve, I've had a decent success rate with them.
This year, I started off with two goals:
1. Finishing live-blogging myself rereading Sonic the Comic
As a child of eight years old, this comic was my introduction to the Sonic the Hedgehog series. I was mesmerised by issue 80 and left wondering how the tough-seeming heroine, Amy Rose, could defeat a crazed version of her friend who was powered up by something called chaos energy. I had to know how that story was going to end and I owe it to that cliffhanger that I became a life-long fan of the series. I'd read the comic every second week from then until it ended several years later.
All of that was obviously a long time ago and other than a few stand-out stories that I'd go back to, I hadn't read the comic since I was a kid. Because of that, in November 2023, I did something I'd been wanting to do for a long time and started to live-blog myself rereading it from the start. You can check out my journey in doing this over here on this blog:
https://samobservessonic.tumblr.com/tagged/sam%20observes%20sonic/chrono
I didn't know starting out if this would be anything that anyone else would be interested in, but I was pleasantly surprised when the blog picked up a small following of interested people who'd ask me questions from time to time. What more can someone ask for?
At the start of this year, I was very close to finishing the series and I'm pleased to say that at the time of writing, I actually have now finished! Because I stagger posting updates on that blog, I'm not finished on there yet, but it's all been written out now and could be all posted as early as next week. I'll feel accomplished to tick such a long-lasting project off my list.
2. Read 10-15 more Animorphs books
As a kid, I enjoyed this series, but never finished reading it. Not for any particular reason, I just ended up not keeping up with it. But it always felt like a failure on my part. Then sometime last year, I remembered that I'm an adult who can do what I want. So I decided to read the series through from the beginning and finally be able to say that I finished it.
According to my media list on Bluesky, I've read nine books in the series this year, bringing me up to Book 30 in the series. So literally one book shy of my minimum goal. But I'd like to do better than this. My hope is that once my StC live-blogging has wrapped up, I'll be able to focus on this more. I don't plan to finish the whole series this year, but it'd be nice to get within a stone's throw of that, perhaps.
That's my two goals that I set for myself. But as the year's gone on, I've added something else to it that has spawned into another thing in itself:
Bonus: Watch longplays of video games I never finished as a kid
This is a bucket list one. I've loved video games my whole life, but for the most-part, I'm not very good at actually playing them. As a kid, there were so many times when I was left wondering how a game that was beyond my skills ended. But we're on the Internet now and there are whole communities of people who are good at playing video games who record videos of them doing so to 100% completion without commentary for the likes of me to watch. So once again, I've decided there's no point in leaving myself wondering how many of these games end when the answers are out there. I made a list in my head of games that I wanted to see all the way through and started on that. Which leads me to the next one...
Bonus: Watch longplays of all the mainline Resident Evil games
I picked Resident Evil 2 almost randomly off the list because I felt like watching it at the time. I had seen the first Resident Evil game from start to finish multiple times as a kid, but not any of the others. So, I watched through RE2 and enjoyed it - I swear I'm not trying to sound edgy by saying this, but there's something almost cosy about PS1 horror games, probably the nostalgia. After that, I also had Resident Evil: Code Veronica X on the list. Bwtween those games was Resident Evil 3, which I didn't have as a kid, but I was on a roll and thought that I might as well watch that one before moving onto Code Veronica X, since it had the same PS1 vibes I wanted at the time.
Anyway, after getting through both RE3 and Code Veronica X, I figured that I might as well be in this for the long haul and watch the other games as well. But only the mainline ones. This is a huge series and I'm sure the spin-off games have their merits, I'm not ruling out that I might watch those someday, but the later games are so long that it takes a lot of time for something I accidentally stumbled into doing and am so far just yelling my feelings about into space.
Right now, I'm halfway through watching RE8. Which means that I only have that and one more game to go with this and then it'll be back to my overall list of games to watch. Or probably back to Animorphs. I really should focus on that.
Which just about covers all of the various media I'm working through right now. I do also have the aforementioned Bluesky thread covering everything I end up reading/watching/playing/etc this year that I update when I remember:
https://bsky.app/profile/samcybercat.bsky.social/post/3m4ql3sir7s2k
It was partly that list that made me get myself into gear to make a Dreamwidth account. Because I generally do have more I want to say about stuff I check out than the character space that micro-blogging provides. As you can probably tell from how wordy this got. But! This was catching up with this year so far. Now that's done, hopefully my other posts will be a more regular length. Whatever that turns out to be.