Happy new year! 2025 sure seemed like a faraway, distant future when I started this website, but here we are, still kicking in the final year of the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

On New Year's Day, I like to look back and reflect on the year and the people I'm grateful for, so here's a non-exhaustive list of some of the people I'd like to thank for 2024:

• All of my greatly valued internet friends, for the many conversations we've had and laughs we've shared
• Jackie, Chibi, elyvorg and Dannichu in particular, whom I got to see in person this year, for their lovely company and great times together
• Negrek, for our regular watch-togethers and invaluable writing sprints, and particularly facilitating me finally finishing and publishing Groundhog Dave
• Psychic and Teagan, for continuing to do adorable Pokémon baking streams, newsletters that made me smile, and recommending The Beekeeper, which was a silly, glorious time
• Altissimo, for continuing to loyally send me corrections to the Gen II Locations and creating her own resource
• Darren of Johto Times, for continuing to publish fascinating interviews and stories from the early days of Pokémon in a newsletter that I'm honored to be a part of, and for adding TCoD's Bluesky account to a starter pack that really gave it a head start
• Quiara, for sparking the R/S/E Roulette article
• Damian001, who added an archive link from 2002 to the Bulbapedia article on the Mew glitch in October 2023, which at the beginning of the year led me down a rabbit hole that eventually resulted in me finally uncovering what was going on with my glitched Jolteon back on Yellow, two decades ago
• The staff and players of the Heartache RPG, which I'm continuing to enjoy
• Game Freak, for taking their time with the next Pokémon games
• The Thousand Roads community, still my primary home on the internet
• The participants in the Thousand Roads book clubs in particular, with whom I've enjoyed reading and discussing Homestuck and now the Pokémon Adventures manga
• Likewise, those who followed my own liveblogging of Njáls saga, which gave me a chance to geek about a piece of my culture this summer
• My husband Shadey, whom I've been with for eighteen years now
• My parents, still lovely people I'm thrilled to spend regular time with
• My grandpa and my grandma, whom I love dearly
• My cat Birta, for being so cute that I love her even when she is continually trapping me in awkward positions
• My patrons, for their generosity
• Everyone who actually read Groundhog Dave, my R/S/E roulette article and the glitched Jolteon essay - I may not have published all too much content this year but I'm deeply fond of all of these, in their own completely different ways
• Capcom, for finally officially localizing Ace Attorney Investigations: Prosecutor's Gambit, one of the best games in the Ace Attorney series
• Sergio Leone, for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, my current obsession, and indirectly causing me to get a whole lot better at drawing realistic humans
• Ashley Cope, for making me cry multiple times with Unsounded this year
• Everyone still creating and visiting old-school fansites in this day and age

I hope you all had a decent 2024 and that your 2025 turns out well! Here's to more neat content in 2025.

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