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This is the year of 2024 for Sage "staggernight" full names SPARES

Read along with this banger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG6DQz1FKp4

This year really flew, Im not really sure why exactly. I was severerly depresssed for like the first 6 months of it so im sure thats most of it but thats gay and im feeling pretty good now. Lots of nice steps Ive gone through to make living better for myself and constantly attempting to improve my situation and myself. To be honest I need to chill as I stress myself out the most with this endless chase. Im not gonna mention this type of stuff really here but know im doing pretty dang good right now. But lets start on some big notes.

MOVING AGAIN

I moved out from my old fart slums fuck aids and crack cocaine riddled appartment complex. I now live at 123 GOOD apartments with cool Duplexs and normal neighbors that arent throwing up in the elevators. This place fucks and its awesome I love my new home while still being a good cheap price. I mean check my cool ass desk setup. Bad ass. I now live with my gay wife as well instead of being all alone and its very nice. A welcome change of pace for both of us.

TAKING HEROIN

about 6 months ago now I started taking the covveted HRT and started my physical transition into the GMO woman of my dreams. While socially ive been transitioned for almost 3 years at this point, maybe not as a trans woman but at least as a very fem person so nothing really changed in that aspect lol. With this final step, instead of feeling like im coping all the time I just feel more like myself and has made me feel alot better. the HRT hasnt done too much physically to me in just 6 months but the change in hormones has made me and my emotions come back from years of supression and weirdly just an imbalance. Im no longer just anger and fear. now I have the full range again. Thank god. Last recap I mentioned how much I love fashion and this new house also has an awesome walkin closset that I love, heres a gay ass closset Halloween selfie.

STICKERS

I did a sticker sale in May and it was a success! I think I sold a total of 300ish stickers total and exactly 100 orders. It was awesome and very cool to see some folks loving the stickers. I ran into a couple very small hiccups but it all went well! It took a while to actually send them out as each one came with a uniuqe drawing from me. It was hard work but it was very fun. It wasnt lucrative really but I did make a net positive in cash so theres no reason I shouldnt do it again in the future.

THE TRUCK

My beloved "spares" truck is now dead and gone forever. This is it stuck in the middle of the street waiting to be towed lol. I sold it right before I moved. And while my new car is way objectlivy better in almost everything. I wont lie that I miss my cool lil truck. I did sell him to some mechanics so hopefully they refurbish him back to health and more.

PROJECTS OF 2024

I thought I slacked alot in in but ln restrospect I weirdly did really good! Also just more than 2023. Even with the sad arc I went on it actually looks really good! Especially in the music area. While my songs havent really banged anywhere, I know I can make some real decent stuff and im very proud of what im capable with now. UncannyLandings tho extreemly rough, im very proud that I was able to make something like that at all. Even though the mixing is wack and the singing is OKAY. Im beyond impressed I was able to compose a song like Floor and You or Romantic Oddesey at all. And now ive done a couple songs now for video games and some of my other animations like Root Rug which im so happy people really liked that one.

Earthbound Tribute is fucking everywhere and is unironically has landed me some work in the near future which is rad. I think Im gonna focus more cartoons on that rough style as I find it both pleasing and funny looking, whilst also taking alot less unneeded work out of my hands. I still want to make polished animations but ill leave it for animations like Root Rug and music videos in the future and not dumb shit cartoons I love. House MD cartoon is coming next. and after that, a music video and maybe a game? We will see.

Illustrations side I very much love what ive changed in my art, mixing more line weights and gaining the abilty to use lighter colors and diffrent values more and more. Even tried some painting stuff both digital and physical. You see the physical ones soon hopefully. And a final note on NSFW. Early 2023 I think I tried doing gooner type nsfw as I really needed the money at the time. and whilst I did make good money I HATED doing it and wish I never did and resulting in me realizing im extremely ACE and hate gooners even more than I thought. Im sure youve noticed though I really like nudity figures and drawings and been drawing that type of thing alot more. I think its very pretty stuff even if it is silly dumb ugly cartoon characters and I hope yall enjoy that type of thing. #nevergoon

I also made a playist of all my fave drawings, it mixes all my drawings from other years too but I think its neat.

But ill put a couple from ealier this year I think bang.

With all the skills I have now I feel like I can make kinda whatever I want now besides some more complex videogames. I also wanna learn more Godot in the future, currently I can make something akinned to Timmy Christmas and walk and talk games. But hopefully I can eventually get to my nut buster games with the Merchant characters eventually.

PLANS?? I guess

Small recap on what I want to do with my characters and ill keep it short freom sounding like an autistic ideas guy. Im gonna downsize my cast and make the few good ones more dense. Sydney and Emma are cool characters I think but im not gonna give them proper spotlight like I wanted to before. Same with Khalil and Brice. Spares will now be about just Stag, Rrunka, Kafa and Root. Root herself will be more focused on solo adventures. Everyone else and thing will just be world building citizens I guess lol. Not gone persay. Not sure when I get back to making a mainline real animation of them but when I do its GONNA HAVE A FUCKING AWESOME FIGHT SCENE.

My sona Pluma is just that, a self insert and youll probably only see her in the context of music videos or direct messages from me.

Merchants / The Tungsten Threads like I said eariler are made for video games in mind. I might do some short music video stuff with them but their meat is gonna be in game stuff if I can ever get to that.

Root and the Rats / RATR is just Root again but I want that to be its own lil sub section of SPARES of just Root and her elderitch Rat encounters. Specifially I also have a game in mind for that in the same vain like a FNAF game. One day.

Music wise, I dont think ill do an album ever again for a long ass time at least. Singles are the way baby. But ill probably help out with more game OSTs like BUGBALL and SCUFFLE FUCKS . Also made a playlist for my fave lyric songs here.

Thanks for reading, sorry if this was a shit show.I did not proofread or speelcheck this. Its not as nice as my last recap but just as important. Have a good year.

LASTLY CHECK OUT MY 2024 BURGER I MADE

I made a song here

But I made a visualizer to go with it! I dont really want to post a visualizer to newgrounds despite it being a bit animated but check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5zaAaB5p10

THE STORE

3 INCH STICKERS UP FOR SALE ON MY STORE

Availble for about a week!

This is my first merch type sale and I hope it goes well!

funny twitter ad here

2023 RECAP

This year has been a busy handful, and not in a bad way by any means. 2022 had some of my worst of lows and alright highs ; but at least for me, lows tend to bounce me back better and I learned more about myself than I ever had in my whole life. By the start of this year, I was just about done wrapping most of that for good with a tad scary but a very exciting step in my life on the horizon. Despite some of 2022 just straight up sucking, i'm extremely glad how I came out of it. This recap is a lot of ramblings on my life as a whole. Apologies for my poor writing skills. Lets start with some art stats tho.

I haven't made much in terms of viewable art this year. Especially compared to last year. Using Newgrounds as a simple metric I made only 2 cartoons this year as for last year I made around 7 ish. And about 3 times more submissions to the art portal last year as well. There are some great reasons for that and some lame reasons but nothing too crazy. Its also worth noting I did lots of COMMS this year and I dont share those really. I have improved tho quite a bit and i'm proud of what I did make. Here are some of my favorites.

To start with my biggest change this year, I moved states again! Not as far as my last move, that being about 24 hours of driving. This one was only 6 hours and I had some help from my partner and a cool friend of theirs ( Thank you Full name Chad Ginger Will ). Ive been living at my new place on my own for about 6 months now and its been pretty good. The area is admittedly kinda ass and the building has issues with bugs but its cheap and ive made it plenty comfy for myself. I don't see myself staying in this building for no longer than my year lease expects me to but it'll get the job done for now. Ive had some GARBAGE this year that I just want put out into the the blog void. But after that I got some COOL SHIT to mention.

SHIT SHIT

I had a really awful barista job for about a month and I just quit one day, that was a VERY cathartic day. TLDR on that is the building was a health hazard, extremely gross, stinky, bad boss, bad co-workers. That job was making me just straight up sick just by being there.

FUCK SCOOTERS COFFEE

My internet didn't get setup for an actual 2 months of time due to ISP incompetence, but eventually fixed it by just switching to a 5G home plan with verizon, that took 1 evening to set up. Extremely recommend that service btw if you have access to it. Its been extremely reliable. #notanad

Ive been struggling with wrist and hand pain due to me not having a good desk setup. Which btw! I finally bit the bullet and got an expensive but good chair TODAY. I can already tell its making a big difference, money worth spent I think. 

Honestly my motivation just hasn't been the best recently and a lot of that I think is just due to mental exhaustion from all the other stuff. But those are my LAME reasons for lacking G. But ive had some awesome reasons too. 

COOL SHIT

I've been working on music! I started messing with FL Studios a ton for @droid 's JAMuary in 2022. The stuff I made for that is just BAD on many many levels but it really sparked something for me. Since then ive been quietly crafting away at making some actual more *professional* sounding songs. I haven't really showed any of it at all except to a couple friends. Id love to ramble about that more but I know i'll REALLY ramble about it on the actual album drop hopefully soon, the actual songs have been done for a long time and the only reason I havent dropped it is cause ive been working on a short music video for it. Admittedly im just doing a horrible job at actually sitting down and working on it. Ive been really nervous about the songs as I personally dont think they are very good especially as more time moves on but im still excited to show my yield. Between my odd taste in songs and my not so great singing voice, I at least hope it makes for an interesting but fun listen. As for music ive made recently. I did post an instrumental here not too long ago and I think this one sounds really nice. Have a listen as you read!

Im no longer in a long distance relationship! A big reason for the move was to be closer to my partner and its been great. Spending time with them has been a huge chunk of this year and I love it. I Wont lie it has made me slower to work on things just due to the fact im not at the computer as often. But I love them very much and its been very worth it to me. I don't live with them just yet but once I do, im 100% sure im gonna be doing much much more again and its the thing I look forward to accomplish the most in 2024 ~

I visited family for thanksgiving! And I got to bring my partner with me which made it a very grand visit. Normally I just kinda space out in the corner whilst my family rambles but this time around I had a great time showing my partner some cool shit from Oregon. A very cool time with that. Heres a cool ass photo from the trip. My dad is on the right saying hello to one of his goats. My sis is on the 4Wheeler on the left.

This one is actually very recent, but im in school again! So far its been nice, as for my major, I have no real idea what im going for at the moment, mostly just doing some base eds. Im taking advantage of some time sensitive grants essentially that I would be SUPER stupid not to use. I also just think school is really cool! And I hope to make some friends here in town. 

This one is cringe cool ok but theres a bit more to it than that. I made a big cardboard box Pluma helm for Halloween this year! This crosses over into definitely gay ass furry territory but it was cool to finally participate in Halloween for once. Ive always disliked Halloween as I have a phobia of people in costumes and that includes myself being in one as well. I always thought the craft of costume making was cool but I still have trouble enjoying it on its own, but that fear I have has gotten much better. The Pluma costume was also in the works last year and I just never got around to it. So it was nice to get a project off my list.

Ive gotten much more into fashion and clothes. I used to look homeless and grey all the time but in 2022 and I got rid of my whole ass wardrobe and started from scratch. Now in 2023 ive learned how to hem and sow, taking cool thrift store cloths that frankly just dont fit me usually and making it work! I dress very feminine now especially compared to my old nothing style of just hoodies and cargo shorts ; currently I really like the woman business casual look. Might seem like a weird thing to add to this recap but I find clothing to be a new big part of my life and ive never really mentioned it online at least. And its easy to see the correlation to how I dress my characters and myself. And I think thats neat! Also check out the big gator, I named him Galuf.

As for what I want out of the next year, other than just a good year. I really wanna try putting out some real shit. SPARES cartoons. Maybe a video essay. Music for sure, some stickers or shirts merch. And Finally learn game programming and get to those bloody Merchants I think about way too much! And finally move into a home with my loved one. Obvsouly thats a shit ton of work but id call even just 2 of those a huge win. OH AND STREAM MORE GOD I KEEP FORGETTING.

2023 has tested what I have learned and it hasnt pulled its punches and Ive been having a blast. This year has been awesome and im not done rising. Im very excited for next year, being excited for me always comes with a grain of anxiety and though annoying, I think its great for showing growth and contrast. Before I close this off im gonna be a faggot and say some cool stuff to my friends and send that shit into the void. The order is random.

Justin - you TALENTED FUCK. Thanks for the samples you've given me for my now old songs lol. We gotta game sometime.

Day - Youve seem to just have a cool year in general from what youve shared and i hope you continue to get that shit. AMEN BROTHER

Kaia - much has been said already but I cant wait to work on more projects with you, both here and in life. 

Konner - Thanks for having me throughout my time living with you. I had a great time and lots of fond memories with you. I hope you are doing good with the new place.

Daemon - keep at it soldier, you got cool shit in your horizon. 

Octo - This guy is funny. I loved seeing your cool doodles pop up every once in awhile. Very cool stuff. 

Joe - Im ecstatic to see youre still running your cool as fuck business. As well as that gut.

Tiltro - You are crazy cool and ill be around to see what you make next always. I hope all is grand and enjoy that Guinness.

Spork - You are the coolest of strange. And thats cool.

Ork - Funny man, and I always love to see the stupid drawings you send me.

June - I hope one day I actually Kaioken you a beer. You have had a rough year and im glad to have helped you through it.

Kiki - Im really proud of the progress youve made this year and I mean it. Love you sis.

Ethan n Shell - You are real ones, thanks for all your help and the shitty games of league. 

Jarod - I hope Germany has been treating you well, I miss you bud.

Tyro - Never stop sending me those DUMB memes everyday. But also you have some really artistic talent and await to see what you do.

Ryan - We didnt chat too much this year but know you are always welcome to show. Hope the states have been fun!

Goe n Deaf - I chat with you like twice a year it seems but know I think you cool.

Philly - my boy philly my man, you just cool idk. 

Jig Forest - Theres lots of yuh and id just like to say yall have been really chill and a nice place to share.

Wanda - know that you are a real one. God bless.

Snackers - Weve BARELY interacted but I gotta say your work is truly awesome and cant wait to see more of it.

Will - I hope to see more of you around bud. 

SyrupMasters - You appear randomly with gifts and disappear again and I respect it.

Jack Man - Havent talked in a while! And it was really cool to get a Birthday msg from you. Stay cool.

Big Tony - You keep going dude, you have awesome drive and I cant say that bout many.

Fern - Im sorry for rightfully shitting on Dallas all the time, but seriously I hope its going good.

Gary - You are my fave Book.

Seth - Thanks for the flour and good character.

Nine - I cant say enough how CRAZY your work ethic is. You should be really proud. You also just really chill.

Maf - Yo style slaps! Cant say that enough.

Ronny - We gotta chat sometime, your chill in RPA made that era. 

Logan - I always enjoy our occasional catch ups. Those types of convos mean a lot to me.

Shal - I still dont want you to scare me but please do keep asking.

EPIC STATION - This one just goes to all you guys, yall are fucking cool and im so happy to meet yall. Many of you guys have inspired me to do a lot of things and dont even know it.

Mel - We gotta catch up again but I always love talkin to you, even if its just for a blip in a year.

Marvin - My fave fake employee , for real tho you are a REAL one.

And finally thank you THE Tom Fulp. Full Stop.

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It says it all. Thanks guys!

Thanks for the birthday messages and gifts. They Rock. im 21

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