thank you for everything <3 big december photo dump + tier updates (Patreon)

Hey y'all!! Happy New Year!! Well, almost, Seattle is still several hours out from 2025 as I'm writing this.

Here is a belated photo dump for December! I'm really sorry that so much of my content fell off this month -- I know I usually have a printable calendar made up for y'all, but my energy and spoons have been completely spent ;; I hope you won't mind if I just share last year's printable again. It's still really cute I think heheh, it's attached to this post xx

When I was setting up for the scrolling credits with all of y'all's names at the end of my most recent video, I got really overwhelmed -- my brain is very very good at getting dragged down by the Stress and the Bad and the Burden that I seem to always place on myself by the various myriad things I have going on at any given moment (I also think my seasonal depression is especially bad this year) -- but trying to figure out how to fit over 1000 names into the "thank you" credits of my video made me feel newly awash with gratitude and, to a degree, bewilderment. I can't believe this is my life!! And yet, still, my brain is so good at making me miss the forest for the trees!!

I'm going to make 2025 be the year I finally learn to bury my perfectionism once and for all -- it has stolen too much joy and time from me, and I'm sick of it!! It only serves to keep me miserable and tired, and I feel like I've spent so much of 2024 being weighed down by it, and I am kickin' it to the curb >:( There is so much more I want to do with my life other than agonize needlessly over every detail of every single thing that I make, and then languish in my home playing video games because I'm too mentally exhausted to do anything else. I'm actually going back to therapy this week (I've been out of therapy for about a year and a half), and I'm really really looking forward to it. <3

TIER UPDATES ✪

Okay, housekeeping!!! Here's a breakdown of the tier changes for next year:

• I will be getting rid of the $15 tangerine and $10 postcard poppy tiers

• the $10 sticker tier is going to change to a "stream sweeties" tier, and it'll be an exclusive livestream tier! it'll be at least twice a month, but potentially more. Still figuring out details. :o)

• I will not be making any physical Patreon exclusive rewards in 2025.

• the tangerine, postcard and sticker tiers will be unpublished for the next month, so you can maintain access to all current content, but I'll be deleting those three tiers at the end of January so please change tiers before the last day of January if you wanna hang around :o)

Changing tiers around on Patreon is a pain in the butt for everyone involved, so I'll be around to answer questions and concerns as this transition happens!! I'm sorry it's so messy!!!

I'm sending you all my love, and I hope January welcomes you gently and lovingly tomorrow morning, with a warm cup of tea waiting on the counter.