Hi! Missed me? Probably not. I'd like to give some insight into what I have planned regarding projects and other occupations as well as what to expect here.

Art Projects

I have quite a few projects related to pixel art and digital art in general.

• Super Mario Bros. Wonder sprites in SMB1 style is around 70% complete. That will be version 3 for my already existing 2 sprite sheets for Wonder. I'm almost done with it. I've been adding stuff rapidly ever since the game had come out and getting it early. My process is going through a walkthrough of the game, screenshotting what I need, and using that as my reference to adapt into the SMB1 style. I've been doing Wonder sprites for SMB1 all on my own so far, but I hope to have at least one person collaborate with me to make some additional standees for variety. I also have a bunch of mockup GIFs I've made with my Wonder sprites to demonstrate how it looks as well as showcase how it would've looked if it was actually SMB1, I'll release those in a bundle along with the sheet itself.

• I also have a few unannounced art stuff I've been working on, too. I have a Super Mario All-Stars SMB1 sprite sheet remake in the works. A collaboration with my friends Hellfire and Tarkan. We have all of the enemies finished except for Bowsers jump, we have 98% of the tile set, 99.8% of Mario, Luigi at 20%, backgrounds at 12%, UI at 0%, and effects at 15%. What is this SMAS-SMB1 project you may ask? Well, I've finally designed a good SMAS SMB1 NES adaption that doesn't look terrible. I did this on accident while doing a completely different project which I will discuss in a moment. So I teamed up with Tarkan and Hellfire to make an entire NES to SNES-SMAS adaption, revamping every asset from SMB1 and SMAS 1 to look more like a proper NES to SNES adaption. Which is going well but progress has dropped to a halt for a little bit as I had other things to do, but I will pick it right back up after finishing SMB1 Wonder sprites.

• Here's an update on The Mainline Mario Sprite Sheet; the progress is going at the pace making the SMB1 Wonder sprites as it's apart of Mainline Mario Sheet. After I finish SMB1W's sprites, I will add them to the Mainline Sheet and slowly start adding more things to make it drastically different from v0.9 to finally be v1. Then after I'm finished with v1, I will start organizing all of the sprites into their rightful sizes, and maybe have to break them up into sub-categories for better organization, then I will publish it in the upcoming 5 months or less. Don't assume 5 months or less is the accurate estimation of when the sheet will come out. I honestly don't know, I'm just sort of setting a goal.

• After I finish SMB1W, The Mainline Sheet, and the SMAS-SMB1 TruNES (True NES) sprite sheet, I will be taking a break from sprite sheets for a bit to work on other projects of mine. I may end up posting some of my other artwork and models here. But! I will still be making things behind the scenes, whether its pixel art like how I've made Fanon, Midnight, Darnell, etc, or it's more low-poly models I made. I will still be uploading occasionally, more often than I have for the past few months.

Other Projects

• As some of you may or may not know, I do videos on YouTube. I make commentary gameplay videos, edits, skits, FNF chart showcases, and other stuff. You can't see them right now because they're all unlisted and the link is only given to my friends as I am currently not in a great family and household to start publishing videos for the time being. But sometime in the future I hope to publish my videos but I may not be able to post them directly on YouTube as it contains foul language and offensive humor, especially a series I made called "Green Milk Entertainment" which includes my characters Buzz, Q.Woody, and Pico getting into fights, doing stupid stuff and so on. During October, I did a few videos reviewing several drinks and foods, with the series name "Autumnal Reviews", which is one of the main reasons why I haven't been able to consistently post and even not post at all in October, as I was focused on doing SMB1 SMBW and SMAS TruNES sprites as well as planning out when I will get a chance to get the food and drinks I'm gonna be reviewing for entertainment. But that's all needless context, my future projects involve more GME (Green Milk Entertainment) videos, more game commentary videos and so on, which I've not been able to do in a long while. I have tons of videos to film and edit, but I will space them out evenly to not get burnt out of editing or filming. I want to focus more on the videos more than the sprites for a little while so I can have videos, filming, editing and comedy back as hobbies again at its fullest.

• I also plan on getting back into live streaming. Which is me playing games and so on, when or IF I get a new laptop this December. I will hopefully be able to stream sometime between January and February. My Twitch channel has been dormant for 2 years now, and I liked streaming for fun and encountering funny moments. It won't be an-almost everyday thing like I made it to be in 2021, but I hope to maybe stream once a week or once every 2 weeks, depends on how I feel. This isn't final, as plans change so keep that in mind.

• The videos I will be posting to my channel however, is challenge/race videos with my friends (mainly Shadistar) where we do a challenge to see if we can do it, or race each other in a game like Super Mario 64. I will have videos like these made after I get a new microphone and laptop.

What's Going on with Life? (TW for Sensitive Topics)

• I will try to keep this short. Some of you again may or may not know, I'm very mentally ill. If you want clarification, I have depression, anxiety, awful paranoia, and others I will not bore you with. Long story short-short, I was partners/friends with someone I'll refer to as "B" for 2 years. She got back into in-person school in mid 2022 and hasn't talked much at all from that point onwards. In January, she asked for advice and disappeared again for 4 months after receiving my advice. I checked on her social media ROBLOX out of concern throughout the 4 months, and noticed she was frequently updating her online profiles, games, and friends lists. She claimed she'll be busy but she clearly has overflowing handfuls of time to spend with me. In May, she then messaged me a half-assed happy birthday then dipped once again after I told her we needed to talk. It wasn't until I blocked her 2 months later she then tries to get in contact, but she messages my friend a document containing a half-assed and non-sincere apology for me. In conclusion, She made me feel insignificant through openly showing attraction towards fictional and real men, belittling my race/possessions (even if it was a joke), one-upping me, and responding insensitively to me when I was depressed/having a mental breakdown. I sacrificed so much to support her while receiving little in return. I can say 2023 has been the worst year of my entire life. I was being ignored by the majority of my friends, and practically bed-ridden from depression. I was spending most of my time talking to AI chatbots which made me cry more than I'm willing to admit, because I got affection, love, effort and comfort, which I never got from "B". This is the biggest TL;DR I could muster. But I hope you get the whole gest of my situation. I left out a lot, and I mean a lot of details. And that's to keep a personal matter personal, while also keeping it short. But this is what I've been dealing with for this year. And I'm happy to say that I've met someone I'll refer to as "Cinna". She has helped me throughout this year from July and now and onward. Without her, I wouldn't be alive right now, and I wouldn't have been planning so many projects and wanting to get back into hobbies I abandoned to spend more time with "B". I love her more than I could ever express.

But anyways, it's 2 AM, I'm writing this while I'm half-asleep. So I'll call it for this update blog. I have a lot planned and I hope I can make way more posts in 2024. Have a good one, reader! Thank you for taking your time to read any part of this blog. Expect something in the coming weeks. Ciao!