December 2024 Doings!

Hello, all! Yes, we are doing two posts in one week, but I didn't want to drag out 2024 wrapup too long. So, next week will have my reading roundups for 2024, and this week, let's take a look at December's Doings!

Writing!

• Writing in December did not go as planned, by which I mean that it hardly went at all. The first half of the month, all my energy was consumed by my grad school class; the second half of the month, all my energy was consumed by work and Christmas.
• I did get a little writing done, but most of it was snippets of either Project Kingfisher character backstory or just-for-fun stuff. I managed a little bit more worldbuilding planning for Project Kingfisher, but not enough to start the book. I also started my DOSA Files story, but not in time to finish it before the deadline. (I do want to keep working on it, though, in hopes that Heidi does another anthology.)
• D&D writing has basically not happened at all; however, D&D sessions also haven't happened, so that's not a problem. Yet.
• I really should not plan on writing during the holidays, and I don't know why I deluded myself into thinking it would happen.

Reading!

• Reading, unlike writing, continued to go well in December and featured the usual mix of holiday-specific and non-holiday-specific reads. On the holiday side, we have three delightful rereads: A Superhero for Christmas, Christmas in Talesend, and my Christmas Eve treat, Twelve Days of Faerie Christmas. All of these were delightful, but Twelve Days was especially so.
• In non-holidays reads, I finished the Time Echoes trilogy by reading Fatal Convergence, which surprised me by having some substantial differences from the original version. To be honest, I'm not sure I love the changes — I can see why the Davis made those choices, and they still make for a good story, but I liked the way things originally happened too.
• On the other hand, two books I liked with no qualifications were What Comes of Attending the Commoners' Ball and Rescuing a Supervillain, both of which were absolutely delightful. Commoners' Ball was already on my to-read list, but it got bumped up in priority after multiple authors and the entirety of the W.R. Gingell Discord fan server raved about it. I'm so glad I read it; it's such a fun romp with two excellent, practical protagonists whose lives get upended by others' promises. Rescuing a Supervillain, on the other hand, is the latest of H.L. Burke's Superhero Romance Project series, featuring a cat-shifter thief on the run and a hero who's working through some trauma, and it's just such a sweet story of love and healing. I absolutely recommend it.
• My one other new read was Dogsbody, a Diana Wynne Jones book that had been on my to-read list for some time. That one was ok — it's a cool concept, and I liked the worldbuilding, but it's not my favorite DWJ by a long shot. I'm glad I finally read it, but I don't think I'll reread it particularly soon.

Watching & Playing!

• Amazingly, my friends and I managed to actually finish watching Yona of the Dawn before the end of 2024! I think that's the fastest I've gotten through any show since freshman year of college, honestly. (We haven't watched the untranslated extra episodes, but we're through the main show.)
• Overall, I really enjoyed watching Yona — the characters are excellent in terms of how they're portrayed, how they grow over the course of the story, and how their dynamics with one another play out. I'm particularly impressed with Yona's arc specifically and with the villain, who could so easily be a hero who I'd root for and even fangirl over were the story told from a different perspective.
• I do have to correct my prediction of last month, however, because Jaeha is absolutely, positively, without a doubt, my favorite of the dragons (and possibly also my favorite character in general). He appeared onscreen, and my immediate, out-loud reaction was "Oh, I like him." I don't think anyone should be surprised by that, though; he's very similar to some of my other favorite characters, and he's just fun in terms of personality. (And a little scandalous, yes. But that also describes some of my favorite characters.) Shin-Ah, the blue dragon, remains my second-favorite dragon, and I also still love Yun, Hak, and Yona herself . . . there's a lot of good characters; I'm going to have to read the manga so I don't have to say goodbye to them!
• I also watched some Christmas movies, but not as many as usual. Rewatches were A Christmas Carol, the original Grinch, and Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown; the one new Christmas movie I watched was We're No Angels, which was funny, but not a new favorite.
• Other than that, I have been playing some Star Rail and quite a bit of Genshin! That said, most of my Genshin time has been in service of building characters, as I finally got to pull on the limited banners (after saving for one in particular since I started the game), got some very good new characters (including the one I was specifically hoping for and several others I really wanted!), and then realized that I had virtually nothing with which to get them up to the level of the characters I already had (whoops). That's still been fun — I've done a lot of exploring, which has been nice — but I'm looking forward to getting back to story soon.

 Life!

• The dominant themes for December were, unsurprisingly, Christmas and my grad school class.
• Advent and Christmas materials — and the need to work ahead because I was taking time off around Christmas — kept me very busy at work. We had a few unexpected hiccups (including some communication problems and issues with deadlines, neither of which were my fault), but everything got done on time, and pretty much everything turned out quite well. I'm very pleased with the promo piece I made to hand out at the Christmas Eve services, and I also really like the overall Advent/Christmas visual theme I had this year!
• Wrapping up my grad school class also went fairly well; I was a bit stressed about whether or not my final project would actually fit what the professor was expecting, but thankfully, he liked my analysis. The final exam also went reasonably well . . . especially considering that some of the questions had to do with parts of the book that we were never assigned in class. (Thankfully, the exam was open-book, and I knew the rest of the material well enough that I had time to hastily find the info on the unfamiliar topics.)
• In the middle of all that, my D&D group started our new campaign! We've only had two sessions so far, but it's been fun. I think the new characters have some interesting dynamics, and I look forward to seeing where the storyline goes. I am happy with my character, Breena, a gnome warlock, so far — while I haven't gotten to test out many of her abilities, as a character I think she's fun.
  
• The payoff for all my stress earlier in the month was that I took the week of Christmas and most of the week of New Year's off from work, which was lovely, albeit busier than I intended it to be. I did quite a bit of baking and made two new recipes: pecan dainties, which are basically candied pecans in cookie form, and potato candy, which is a rolled candy made with peanut butter, a little bit of mashed potato, and quite a lot of powdered sugar. It is delicious, and I want to make it again (and try to do it better next time; I think I used too much peanut butter). I also tried a new sourdough roll recipe for Christmas day, one that allows for an overnight rise (which meant I could make the rolls Christmas Eve and bake them Christmas day).
• My sister came home for Christmas week, and getting to see her was lovely. We got to hang out, chat, and play plenty of board games, both on our own and with various friends (either over the internet or in person). We also visited my grandpa briefly the weekend after Christmas, which was nice — I haven't been up to see him in several months.
• As for Christmas itself, we had a very nice holiday. Our church had its Christmas Eve service on both Sunday and Christmas Eve proper, so we actually went to the church where I work on Christmas Eve. It was quite lovely to experience that service for myself and for my family to see where I work and some of what I've done and meet several of the people I work with. Then we had a fairly chill Christmas day in which we didn't get around to actually opening gifts until almost noon . . . which, to be honest, is pretty in character for us. People seemed to like what I gave them, which was good, and I got some gifts I'm pretty happy about. We ended up with an accidental theme of everyone but my dad receiving kitchen stuff in their stocking, which was funny.
• And, of course, we finished up the year by celebrating New Year's Eve with our Bible study. As always, that was a fun time; I loved getting to see some people who've left the area but are back for the holidays, and there was plenty of good food and conversation.
• Then we took the Christmas tree down on January 1, and the holidays are officially over. After all that, going back to work on January 2 was . . . rough. Hopefully next week will be better.

January Plans

• January should return us to the usual routine — work, grad school, and writing. I'm hoping that work will quiet down in the next couple months after the hecticness of Stewardship and holidays, but there have also been rumors of trying to change things with the livestream, so we'll see what happens.
• I have accidentally left grad school registration for this semester until the very last minute (in my defense, I thought I had another week), so I don't know for sure which class I'll be taking next — I have a required class that will probably be difficult and frustrating, though it may also be occasionally interesting, and I have an elective that should be pretty chill but I'm not especially excited about, and I'm not sure (as of writing this post) which one I'm doing first and which I'm doing second.
• As for writing: I plan to use most of January for continued planning on Project Kingfisher, additional work on my unfinished DOSA Files story (in hopes that I can have it ready and waiting if there's another opportunity), and D&D writing (since we will hopefully be getting back to regular sessions soon). If the timing works out, I'll also start drafting Project Kingfisher this month — though it might be the very end of the month. Additionally, as I mentioned in my last post, I will be wrapping things up on Dreams and Dragons so I can retire that blog.
• I talked about my reading goals in my 2024 recap/2025 goals post, and I hope to get a good start on those in January. I have a stack of Peter Wimsey library books that need to be read, so that might be a good place to start . . . Plus I intend to start reading the Yona manga where the anime left off.
• And, of course, I am very excited for the start of a new storyline in Star Rail! This one sounds like it's going to be absolutely epic. (It also sounds like it will potentially tear my heart out and rip it into pieces with feels, but y'know. Isn't that what a lot of great stories do?)

How was your December? Any plans for January? Did you make any resolutions or goals for the new year? If you did Christmas baking/sweet-making, what was your favorite thing you made? Please tell me in the comments!
Thanks for reading!

 

Stay the Course? [2024 Recap//2025 Goals]

 

Hello, everyone! 2024 has officially ended, and 2025 is here. As always, that means it's time to look back at the past year and at my 2024 goals to see what I've done (and what I didn't quite manage to do), and it's also time to look ahead at the new year and think about what I might want to accomplish in 2025. 2024 wasn't a perfect year, but it was a sight better than 2023, and it included a lot of good things — excellent stories, lessons learned, time spent with friends and family, and a few milestones I didn't expect to hit quite so soon. I'm hopeful that 2025 will be more of the same.

One thing that I know will be different in 2025, though, is that I have decided to officially retire my Dreams & Dragons blog once I finish my 2024 close-out posts (those being this post, December 2024 Doings, and my 2024 End of Year Book Celebration). This is not something I'm doing lightly, as this blog has been a part of my life since 2011. It was one of my first opportunities to share my thoughts and stories online, and I've grown a great deal in the process of maintaining it. However, the Blogger platform is getting steadily more frustrating to work with, and the overall look and content of the blog is outdated enough that it either needs to be majorly overhauled or retired . . . and I am choosing the latter. To be clear, the blog and the posts on it will remain online for people to read! However, I will not be posting there anymore, and I will probably turn off comments on that site and put a note on it that it's no longer active. If you currently follow me on Dreams & Dragons, I encourage you to subscribe to my Wordpress blog, Light & Shadows, instead! On the other hand, if you mostly follow me on Light & Shadows, you'll see very little change except that my biannual Best Of reading lists will be replaced with longer Book Celebrations, which are more fun for me to write and allow me to highlight more noteworthy books, and my seasonal releases lists may expand past five more frequently. Hopefully, no one will be too disappointed by those changes — if you are, I apologize, but I do believe this is the best choice.

And now, with that announcement out of the way, let's take a look back at the past year and what happened in it.

2024 Recap // 2025 Goals

2024 Recap

Year of Staying the Course? (Not Quite . . .)

• My theme for 2024 was "staying the course" — in general, my goals were supposed to be about consistency, about continuing with what I was doing even when it was hard, unless I received a clear indication that doing so was the wrong choice.
• I do feel like I did a pretty decent job of sticking with that theme for the first several months of the year. I kept up with the vast majority of my commitments, whether those were writing, work, grad school, or social things.
• Unfortunately, I also was getting so stressed about all those things that I wasn't sleeping well and was making myself physically sick. Those things, plus reminders from multiple sources on the importance of rest and not over-committing or trying to do too much, seemed to be a pretty strong signal that I needed to make some adjustments.
• So, I did not accomplish all of my goals this year, and my theme kind of had a midyear switch to something more like "Rethink" or "Rest" — but I do not regret that as much as I might have otherwise.

Writing

• Once again, my goal for 2024 was to actively and regularly work towards specific writing goals in at least ten of the twelve months in the year. I would say I largely accomplished this — I had specific writing goals every month of 2024 except July — although I only really succeeded in those goals eight months out of twelve. I was writing very consistently! Just not always on the projects I intended to prioritize.
• My total wordcount for the year was 312,374 words, about 30,000 words more than last year. That doesn't include edits on Illusion's Reign, which would put the actual count even higher. All in all, a very satisfactory number — especially since I mostly did a much better job at keeping up with deadlines and not leaving things until the last minute! That allowed me to have a much less stressful release for Illusion's Reign, and it gave me some nice rest periods here and there when I could either take a break from writing or work primarily on just-for-fun projects.
• Of course, my biggest win of 2024 was when Song of the Selkies won Book of the Year at the Realm Awards! That's the kind of accomplishment that wasn't even on my radar as a possibility, and I am still in awe that it actually, y'know, happened.
• I also made it to two other book selling events, specifically a craft fair in spring and Eat Local, Read Local in October. Those both went fairly well. I didn't make it to Doxacon, but given everything else I had going on around that time, that's probably for the best.
• Regarding specific project goals:
  • I wrote, edited, and published Illusion's Reign, the second Daughters of Atirse book, with the 2024 Aristal Challenge Project. I did not finish drafting it by the end of March, but I did wrap it up in June, which isn't bad at all given how long it ended up being and how much mental energy grad school took up.
    
  • I also wrote and submitted a story for the first DOSA Files anthology. I wanted to write a sequel for the second anthology, but I ran out of time (partially because I deluded myself into thinking I'd have time around the holidays). Still, I'm pleased I managed the first one!
    
  • I started the planning process on a new story, Project Kingfisher. This wasn't in my original goal list for 2024, but I realized that it had an actual deadline, and I came up with an idea that I liked, so I decided to start it with the intent of having a longer planning period. Hopefully that'll make the actual book a little easier to write; we'll see if that works.
  • I did not write Bastian Dennel, PI #4. I apologize to those who were looking forward to it; it's still going to happen, but Project Kingfisher knocked it down a slot in the priority list. I also didn't get to another Daughters of Atirse book, though that was a long shot anyway.
    
  • I mostly kept up with my Defenders of Serys D&D campaign. Things got a little iffy in the last couple months, when my players caught up with my plot slightly faster than expected, but otherwise I mostly stayed ahead of what I needed to get done.
• As far as backlog posts and keeping up with my blogging/social media schedule . . . Well, I posted some of my backlog, but not all. And I mostly kept up with blogging, though I did take a few breaks here and there. I did less well with keeping up with social media, but honestly, I am not stressing out about that. I still do my weekly goal posts, and I am not going to fail as an author just because I miss posting Wednesdays several weeks in a row.

Reading (and Other Stories)

• As usual, I'll discuss my 2024 reading goals in my Best of/End-of-Year Book Celebration posts. If you want an early look, you can check out my tracking form results.
• In summary, though: I read 94 books, plus a few that I didn't record because they were beta reads, just making my goal of 93 books. I didn't quite hit most of my other goals (though I did make progress towards them), and I mostly did well with tracking what I was reading . . . until around the end of July, when I apparently forgot that I was supposed to be adding stuff to my Google Form? (And then I had to go back and put everything in this past week to make this post. Good grief, past me.)
• Thankfully, I kept up much better on tracking what I was watching and playing, again using Google forms. I watched far less stuff in 2024 than I did in 2023 — about 41 distinct movies, episodes, or videos. Roughly 66% of those were episodes of a TV or streaming show. And between Christmas movies and watching Yona of the Dawn, about half of what I watched happened in October, November, and December.
• The reason for that drop in what I watched was absolutely because I got into gaming instead — or, more specifically, I got into Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact because a couple of my friends kept talking about certain characters and I was Intrigued. This was, I believe, an excellent decision; I've had a grand time, and it has largely helped me lower my stress level and spend less time procrastinating on YouTube.

Life

• I did three grad school classes this year, which is one fewer than I originally intended. I decided to take half of the fall semester off so I wouldn't have grad school work when I was busy with publishing Illusion's Reign. I think that was the right choice, especially since two of those three classes were rather frustrating (though for different reasons).
• Work continues to go well. We had some excitement this year in the form of our associate pastor being transferred to a new church and the kids' ministry director stepping into the associate pastor position, but that transition was pretty smooth.
• I kept up with learning German on Duolingo. Irish, not so much — I was getting confused by the grammar, so I kind of just dropped it. However, Duolingo introduced a music course, and I've been doing that! I think that's going well — I definitely feel like I'm learning something.
• I returned to Realm Makers, which was super fun and exciting even outside of the Realm Awards. I loved getting to see friends and spend time with fellow authors, and the speakers were all very helpful. In addition, one of my not-too-far-away friends and I have been a lot more deliberate about planning get-togethers, including visits to Longwood Gardens, the zoo, an escape room, and our annual Ren Faire trip.
• On the flip side, I ended my monthly board game Connect Group. Since about 2021, I've been running a monthly connect group/life group that mostly just meets to play board games. However, in the last year or so, it had become a source of more stress than blessing, especially as I frequently ended up with a lot of uncertainty around whether or not anyone else would show up. So, I made the decision to end it, and that decision was affirmed from several directions (which I appreciated).
• I successfully weeded and reorganized my bookshelves. Well, a lot of the organization remained the same, but some stuff has been moved around. And I did get rid of a whole box and a half of books. A lot of that was just deciding that I could give up my Wheel of Time books because I didn't think I was actually going to read them, but that's still progress, and it substantially decreased the number of books I owned but hadn't read.
• My D&D group completed the campaign we started back in college. It took us until September or so, but the villain has been defeated, and everyone got a good ending. We also had a mini-campaign run by one of the other players (giving our DM a chance to play), and now we've started a new campaign! We've only had two sessions of that so far, but it's been really fun.
• I made approximately one Baking Yesteryear recipe per month. There were a few months in which I didn't make anything, but I also had a few months in which I made multiple things, so I think those evened out. Also in the field of making things, I gave bookbinding and tablet weaving a try. Both are things I'd like to do more in future, though not as regularly as crochet, embroidery, and knitting — they are, unfortunately, somewhat less portable.
• As for my goal of finding a way to exercise once a week . . . that didn't really happen. I tried walking on the treadmill during D&D for a while, but then I needed that time for working on other things, and it just kind of fell apart. Ah well.

All in all, while this year wasn't quite what I planned, it was still a pretty good year, and I'm generally happy with what I accomplished. Now it's time to look forward to 2025 and think about what it might hold . . .

2025 Goals

Year of Adjust and Assess

• In setting my theme for 2025, I mainly want to carry over what I've already started doing in the second half of 2024: looking for things in my life that aren't working well or that could be working better and finding ways to improve them, especially in regards to balancing work and rest. While I think I'm in a healthier place now than I was at the start of 2024, I am aware that I may have swung the pendulum a touch too far in the other direction. So, I want to use this year to try to get back to a good balance between the two.
• To that end, the theme I'm using to set my 2025 goals is Adjust and Assess: make adjustments, see what's working, keep what's going well and fix or drop what isn't. In my head, this looks like a combination of the scientific method and the agile development methods I learned in college, but applied to habits and actions. In practice . . . we'll see how things go.

Writing Goals

• My overall writing goal for the past few years has worked well, so I'm keeping it with some tweaks: I want to actively and regularly work towards specific writing goals in at least nine of the twelve months of 2024. As per usual, these can be wordcount goals or project goals depending on what best serves what I need to get done. I am making one change here, though, and dropping the number of months with specific writing goals from ten to nine. My thought is that I can then take July and December (my two busiest months) as months in which I'm not focusing my energy on a specific writing goal, plus I'll have one extra rest month to use when I need it.
• Additionally, I want to test a few new things in my writing process, namely taking a longer planning period on new projects, allowing myself to write story-related things that aren't in the story, and having two or three active (non-D&D) projects at once, possibly in staggered stages of the writing process. Technically, I'm already testing these with Project Kingfisher and a just-for-fun personal project, but I'm making it official here. I usually have a very short planning period, stay very focused on the actual project while it's active, and try to stick to one project at a time, but I want to see if making some changes helps (by allowing more flexibility, especially when I'm tired) or hinders (by allowing more opportunities for distraction). Now seems like a good time to do it, since I don't have as tight a deadline as I normally do.
• As for specific project goals:
  • I want to plan, draft, and probably do a first edit on Project Kingfisher. This is already partially in progress, and it's supposed to be fairly short, so I'm hoping to have it finished by Easter. (Famous last words, I know.)
  • I want to plan, draft, and maybe publish Bastian Dennel, PI #4. This is a repeat goal from last year that I didn't accomplish, but BDPI is top priority after Project Kingfisher. I may try to work on it concurrently with Project Kingfisher, in accordance with my goal of testing some new things in my writing process.
  • I want to rewrite/edit Once Upon a Dream and prep it for publication. I've been meaning to get around to this for a long while, and I think 2025 might be the year. It's already a pretty strong story, if I recall correctly; I just need to expand and adjust a few things. My hope is that I can publish either BDPI #4 or Once Upon a Dream in October or November of this year.
  • I want to write some short stories for anthologies/writing challenges. If there's another DOSA Files anthology, I'll aim to put something out in that — I still have my story for the second anthology that I didn't quite finish, after all. Additionally, there's a yearly short story challenge in October that I've done the last three years, and I'd like to do it again if it runs in 2025. If other opportunities pop up that seem interesting, I may try those too!
  • I want to allow myself to work on just-for-fun writing projects more. This is something I started doing while I was in a break month in the last half of 2024, and I think it's been helpful to have something to work on that doesn't have a deadline, publication plans, or so on — something that's just for me to have fun with. Of course, writing about Bastian Dennel, Ceana and her family, and the Project Kingfisher cast is also fun, and I love working on those stories . . . but it's also nice to have something that's just for me and a friend or two, something that I know doesn't have to be perfect (and that I can work on at times when I might not feel comfortable working on an Official Project).
  • Finally, I want to keep up with my Defenders of Serys D&D campaign. I also want to do some less-complicated plots . . . the last few have all ended up being far more complex than I intended them or needed to make them, and with one exception, I'm not sure if it was worth it. But in any case, I need to get back to the place where working on D&D is actually fun again — it's my main opportunity to see these friends, and I don't want to burn out on it.
• I am not making specific goals about attending author events this year; while I think it was helpful last year, it's not something I'm going to prioritize in 2025. That's not to say it won't happen — at minimum, I hope to do Eat Local, Read Local again — but I'm not making it a major goal.

Reading Goals

• My 2025 reading goal is 93 books. This was a good number for 2024, so I'm going to stick with it.
• I always set a goal about reading a certain number of older books and non-speculative fiction books, and this year is no exception, but I am doing something a little different. For 2025, my goal is to either read 12 books written before 1975, at least nine of which were originally aimed at adults, OR give the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries a fair trial, read at least one Chesterton novel, and read the Brother Cadfael books I currently own and have not previously read. For purposes of being specific, "a fair trial" is here defined as "getting far enough in the series to meet Harriet Vane." While my alternate goal will mean I read a lower number of pre-1975 books than I otherwise would (particularly because Brother Cadfael was written post-1975), I think it will accomplish a similar end result while also clearing some things off my to-read list.
• (I would normally set a goal here about the number of non-speculative-fiction books I want to read; I'm not going to do that this year. I think I am sufficiently in the habit of at least considering non-spec-fic books that I can let it go.)
• Finally, in 2025, I want to either to catch up with Sanderson's Cosmere and Secret Project releases OR try books in three new non-Sanderson epic fantasy series. I intended to catch up on Sanderson in 2024, and it didn't happen, though I did read some. Whichever version of this goal I go for, this would come out to reading either three or four epic-length fantasy books, which I think is reasonable. If I could accomplish both, that would be better still, but we'll see.
• I want to keep tracking what I read, watch, and play. Tracking what I watch has gone fairly well. I may experiment with StoryGraph for tracking what I read in more detail than Goodreads allows, but at least for the first month or two, I'll also be keeping up with a Google form (though I may streamline that form a bit). And I hope to improve my gaming form to provide more useful statistics about what I actually do.

Life Goals

• I need to finish another three grad school classes. I am planning to repeat what I did in 2024 and only doing half a semester in fall, since that's often busy with both book releases and holidays; hopefully that works out well. (I also still need to register for spring classes, oops . . .)
• I want to keep up with learning German and music on Duolingo. This is pretty achievable, and I'll probably do it whether or not I include it on this list, but the same can be said of my goal of reading a certain number of books by the end of the year.
• I want to return to Realm Makers and continue making a point of planning offline get-togethers with friends. These were highlights of 2024 for me, and I want to do more of them. Sometimes the planning part can be frustrating, especially when ideal visit time overlaps with a busy season . . . but getting to see friends in person, not just online, is worth it, and I need to remember that. (Also, I need something that will make me Go Places and Do Things instead of just spending all my time in the same places, doing the same things.)
• I want to try one new recipe, craft/craft technique, or design/photography technique per month. I set a similar goal last year (with my Baking Yesteryear recipes) and in 2022 (when I aimed to learn three new skills in various areas over the course of the year). I think this will give me some good motivation to (once again) try new things while allowing flexibility for months in which I don't have a lot of time to bake but I do have time to craft, or so on.

What were your 2024 highlights? What goals, themes, or resolutions do you have for 2025? Please tell me in the comments!
Thanks for reading!