my 2025 plans
ɴᴏᴡ ᴘʟᴀʏɪɴɢ: Lifelike by Porter Robinson
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my 2025 plans
cw: medical talk, mentions of weight loss
i know i laid out my plans for 2025 in my last blog post but i wanted to further lay out what my plans are for 2025 and beyond.
i plan to be more active on platforms like bluesky come 2025. i already have cut apps such as tiktok and twitter off of my social media rotation and want to keep it that way. whenever i go on those apps i just waste time, and with bluesky im going to take the opportunity to start to build an audience for my art and creative stuff and leave behind all the bad shit that happened on twitter over my five years of using it. i also plan to use this blog way more, posting at least once a week. if not once a week, then at least twice a month.
i also want to make my art journey more public, showing people what i'm doing with it. my big goal for 2025 is to draw an illustration every month, which at my point in my art seems really hard. but, i think this is one of those things where it gets easier to the more i learn and put effort into it. one thing i also plan to do is make art of my friend's ocs for their birthdays which conveniently is spaced out enough to where i have time to improve in between each. my style is going to change as i learn and try to find what works for me and my process, but im okay with that.
i am going to try and lose some weight. unless the trump administration decides to outlaw it, i have my consultation for my gender affirming surgery (vaginoplasty) in august. i don't need to lose weight for it but i feel like it is in my best interest to. this also means that sometime next month i need to start getting electrolysis done in that area. i have put a lot of thought into whether i plan to continue trying to get electrolysis done on my face at the same time, but the way i see it, one is to allieviate dysphoria and one is for a surgery that will allieviate so much more dysphoria. one is just more important to me than the other.
in the immediate short term, i.e. a few months, i start up college again soon. gonna be taking an art, design and math class. im really hoping ill be able to do well in those classes like i did in my first semester. i highly suggest if you go to college to not do what i did initially and enroll in a university right off the bat. that was honestly my biggest blunder with this whole process. my financial aid stuff isn't figured out, as it is being held up by the DoE, but i got the opportunity grant from my school so i'm not too worried about it right now.
continuing on immediate short term, i need to get a job or income of some kind. i've been technically doing freelance work for the past few months but it just, isn't stable enough for me to continue with it. my ideal would be to be able to do art commissions alongside working a traditional job while doing school, but my art skills aren't where i feel comfortable charging for commission prices (at least for my 2d art :p).
my wife's birthday is soon as well. i dont know what i want to do for it yet; it really depends on if i have money around that time. i want to make it special, cause its the last birthday where we will just be fiancees. we plan to get married sometime in 2025, not entirely sure on when because saving money is hard. but, im also really excited about that as well.
lastly, i want to create as much stuff as i can. art, 3d models, writing, whatever it is. i love expressing myself creatively and i want to really dive into it next year. it is so exciting and addicting to finally express myself after not knowing how to for years now, even if i get frustrated at not being able to put it to paper yet. i'm going to post my art progress on bluesky and as part of my (ideally) weekly posts on here.
thank you so much for reading. im going to do a rewrite of my main page and update my links and stuff now, maybe set up a retrospring cause one of my friends made one and it reminds me of curiouscat but not as bad sounding lol. bye now!