So long 2025

and here's to new beginnings

Hey reader!

Here’s a little note from me to say thank you to everyone who read this blog this year.
Although I haven’t been able to do a lot of writing lately, this substack has become such a special and important place for me. I hope I’ll be able to nurture it a lot more in the coming year.

It’s not so easy for me to write something coherent about 2025. 2025 was very foggy. And I have a tendency to mainly think a lot about all the things I wish I’d done, but didn’t do. All the things that got lost in the fog, so to speak.

The last few months I didn’t draw in my sketchbook. I stopped doing observational drawings in July. I haven’t posted a substack since september. I didn’t send out my graphic novel to publishers (yet again). I stopped running and working out for over three months. I didn’t manage to go to many protests to speak up for the things I care about. I didn’t send out Christmas cards. I probably forgot a lot of birthdays.

I’ve been feeling a lot of guilt (or maybe disappointment?) about all of the above. About not being able to put my time towards the things I care about most. About not meeting my own goals. About letting go of some important routines that I had worked so hard to build.

As a result I’ve created this narrative in my head of 2025 being a shitty year. And to be fair, in some ways it really was. But that’s also a pretty lame and limiting way of looking at things. Like there was nothing to be proud of/thankful for/inspired by. That is, fortunately, not true in the least. I just haven’t had the time to process all of it.

So, Instead of saying that I’m thankful for this year to end I want to say: I’m thankful that I get to try again next year. I’m thankful that, now that the fog finally seems to have cleared, the view is looking pretty good. Grateful that so many things work themselves out in the end.

I’m so excited for the upcoming year and all of the things I plan on doing- but if everything turns out differently, I’m going to try and not beat myself up over it.

Thanks for being here. I hope 2026 will treat you well.

xx femme