Well... I made a few more acquaintances...

Fun fact: because of my weird high school IEP at the time, which let me go home early or get excused absences from school, COVID-19 did not affect me as much as the average person! At least physically. It definitely did mentally degrade me as much as the average person because of the world being "shut down".

But 2020 was the thing that made my 2021 and 2022 so great! So I'm happy to announce that 2024 is the WORST FUCKING YEAR OF THE DECADE

Just because I was the lucky one and didn't get something huge taken away from me doesn't mean I left unscathed. Or anyone really.

Worldwide

• What was happening all over the world with wars and more importantly genocide, especially in Gaza - Even if the genocide increased in October 7, 2023 it is still going on in 2024 with absolutely no sign of stopping. They have recently targeted 2 schools, for example.
  
• Trump won. That's all I need to say.
• Laws are getting worse and worse. I swore we only had one good law instated in the US.
  

Pop culture

• I already mentioned it in posts below. There's a mix of good (like Wild Robot nominations and Kimi to Idol) and bad news (ex. theaters are dying, only one movie at a time is succeeding (except Wicked, Moana, and Gladiator are doing pretty good actually)).
• TikTok ban obviously stemming from Sinophobia (and somewhat Zionism).
• The BlueSky migration should've gone sooner lol - we tried in February but it didn't really work until November!
   

Online personal things

• I have lost the drive for my YouTube channel as well as Fandom of Pretty Cure.
• The YouTube channel one hurts the hardest because all I submitted is a single, currently unlisted video.
• The Pretty Cure one had a few more drawings to do, and some pages were made, but my drive to finish the pages I have made or continue creating new ones has almost completely halted. My last four original (not seiyuu) page creations were Hibari Town (the town in VWPC), Infinite Smile Precure episode 1, and the pages for Haruhi and Blythe, all made in early October. Which doesn't seem like much but it's a lot to me.
  
•  My recommendations skewered to self help and YouTube detox in August and September for some reason and I did not take those lessons to heart.
  

Personal things 

• House fires. Three separate ones, including my house.
• No, my house did not actually burn down. The kitchen was slightly damaged, we got rid of a rug, and no major injuries. And that fire was my fault because I was like "oh that person'll get it, I'm too busy watching TikTok" but that person was in the bathroom. Luckily, this sparked me into deleting TikTok on my phone and put major limits on my iPad TikTok use to the point of partial quitting (I couldn't delete it off my iPad because of drafts).
• The other was a house fire (that was stopped by neighbors before the house could actually burn down) while the tenants were not in the building. This was because a gas fireplace the tenants were explicitly told not to touch was turned on before the tenants left. At the very least, plants and uncased candles were damaged.
  
• The last one... was recent. That's all I'll say.
• Two car crashes, one of a neighbor, none fatal.
• My sibling's school suspension.
• My dad got laid off.

The things I'm most happy about this year are secret. Though my Bluesky has hints about what those things are.