Annual Review 2024 and Looking Forward to 2025

Sometimes we come last, but we did our best.

• Shakira, Try Everything

That was the year that was, and this is the year that might be.

It's been a year, hasn't it?

This year's theme was Generally Unfucking Shit - and it's fair to say that while we unfucked some things, there's still a lot to do that falls under our sphere of influence. But that's fine - we've made progress, and we always carry the previous year's theme forward in some way.

• 2022's theme was Overcoming Social Anxiety - and I feel like we've been a more active participant in calls and streams this year, as one example, and made more of an effort to reach out 1:1 even if some level of "speak when you're spoken to" persists.
• 2023's theme was Creativity - and we significantly reduced the amount of time it takes for us to retexture an avatar base for VRChat, allowing for some surprises in just how quickly things could go to "good enough"

The entire year has seen a lot of ups and downs, with Confuzzled in May being a particular low point and a wake-up call that for as much as we try to be an anchor for people and critters that need it, sometimes we really, really do need to ask for help.

We've also ended up fairly