2025 Year-in-Review

This has been…a weird year. Most of what I could talk about is all personal life stuff. Couple’s stuff, friendships, community work, personal growth, therapy, trauma work. Some of it is stuff I don’t want to get into quite so publicly. Some of it I have already, like the trauma therapy story I shared over the summer on Patreon. I guess the best thing I can say is that this year has been very…human. It’s been messy and exciting and sad and happy and difficult. I turned 40 this year. I was given a very meaningful gift by friends. My partner and I have been working on our relationship. Yadda yadda yadda.

And yeah, I’ve made progress on The Secrets of Bloodhenge, good progress, but I’ve also had to push some plans back. I was hoping I’d be into the second draft by now and planning a spring Kickstarter campaign. I was hoping to have a little extra artwork done but that will have to wait as some expenses showed up just before I was planning on getting that going. I still need to try and figure out how to do small runs of special edition hardcovers for all my Kickstarters going forward. Exclusive editions to make backing just a little more worth it. I think this book is going to be my first 100K book, too. Maybe not. Maybe I’ll end up cutting enough after I get the second draft finished to pull it back down but I’m nearing 70K and I’m still not quite done on a VERY messy first draft. We shall see.

Book sales have been way, way less this year. Which isn’t entirely surprising given the state of the world and my lack of anything new since 2021. That’s the other problem, too, everything is completely fucked in the world. Sociopolitically, we’ve got a massive rise in fascism that I’ve screamed about, you’ve probably screamed about, we’re all still screaming about. The economy is shit. They released the Epstein Files, in the most maliciously compliant way possible (and still fucked it up).

It’s so hard to just…keep living life like all of this isn’t happening. But, that’s what we gotta do. And keep taking care of each other. Keep building ourselves and our communities. I feel like I should be saying more about this year but if I’m honest, 2025 has been a blur and all I’ve got is a few big moments that stand out. Receiving that special gift from my people, my 40th birthday, putting together my Monster Fucker party, and celebrating 13 years with my partner, Nici, recently. There are a couple of smaller bits too but those are the big ones and all of that happened after May. The early year was kind of miserable.

But that’s probably normal. Happiness is in moments. And joy is especially precious right now. I wish I had more to say about 2025. It feels like I should. I turned 40 for fuck’s sake. I’m still here. I’m still pushing. I’m still growing. I’m still making art. I’m still loving. I think right now, that’s probably enough.

I’ll see y’all in 2026. I hope your 2025 was filled with good. I hope you grew. I hope you loved. I hope 2026 sees you keep growing and loving and finding your happy moments. Stay weird, be excellent to each other, and party on.