Resolutions for New Year 2026

I mentioned in my last post, one of my New Years Resolutions was to write more. I guess I'll elaborate more on those resolutions.

For 2026, I want to:

• Write more! I already mentioned this, but it bears repeating. I only released one short story in 2025! Unacceptable! I want to make serialized stories! I want to post more short stories! Hell, I want to write more about my thoughts on things! Even blog posts about local restaraunts will do. I'm already doing better, this makes two posts this year, and the month's barely started! I also want to look into posting on other sites, like Royal Road or Honeyfeed. I think there's a couple others, but those were ones I thought of off the top of my head. In this way, I might actually get together, you know, an audience.
• Watch more (older) anime! My PTW list on MAL is super fucking long! To this end, I've been watching Bunny Drop, which has been great so far. I told someone else that this year, I definitely want to watch Bunny Drop (check!), Kyousou Giga, Mawaru Penguindrum, and season two of K-On! this year. I might be able to squeeze in a couple other short shows before the year is out. Out of the four I mentioned, Bunny Drop and Kyousou Giga are 11 and ten episodes, respectively, while Mawaru Penguindrum is 24 episodes, while K-On! S2 is 26, so half the shows on my docket are shorter, anyway. I started watching Turn A Gundam late 2025 week to week to follow along with a YouTube series, but that series may have already broken down after only eight episodes. If so, I don't know if I'll keep doing week to week or try to speed it up. I still want to put some time between episodes, I was watching one episode of Bunny Drop a day for the first two episodes and then watched the third today (unintentional, been a bit rough). I think I might watch another after I post this. I'm really liking it so far. I'm going to keep watching seasonals, I've got four on the docket for this season, but I'm trying to be more mindful of what I spend my time on. In 2024, I felt like I didn't get to watch a lot of shows I really wanted to, and I started to get better about that. I should write another post about my anime watching habits, or this one will be way too long.
• Watch more (not anime) shows! I haven't watched a whole lot of Western shows and movies for a long time. At one point, all I watched outside of what I saw with my friends was Star Trek and anime, then I finished Enterprise and all I was watching was anime. I haven't even finished TOS! I think I'm only eight episodes in! Eight, 12, somewhere in that ballpark. I also haven't seen anything past Enterprise, and I really wanna watch Lower Decks. I should also finish The Good Wife, really liked that show. Oh, and more movies, of course! I used to watch a lot of movies, what happened?
• Read more books! I bought a Kobo for myself Christmas 2023 to do this, and it actually worked pretty well for the first year. Second year, not so much. I think I only read They Walked Like Men by Clifford Simak and started reading Don't Talk About Politics by Sarah Stein Lubrano. Still on that one. Interestingly, They Walked Like Men was the first book I pirated for my Kobo, and Don't Talk About Politics was the first book I bought for it. Everything else was either a freebie or a library book. By the way, if you do want to use digital library books, I can highly recommend Kobo! I can't recommend Kindle at all because fuck Amazon.
• Play more video games! I got a PS5 for myself last year for Christmas. I played Miles Morales, and am currently playing Ghost of Tsushima. I'm not really playing much on my Steam Deck, though, and I definitely want to use that more. I have been playing more since the end of last year, I played through Far Cry 3 in November for instance, and I tried to get into Death Stranding and back into Baldur's Gate 3. They haven't stuck, partly because I spent a lot of the time where I just have the Steam Deck working on this website! Still, I hope to continue the video game trend and even make it move upwards in 2026!
• Spend less time on YouTube Shorts! Kinda failing this one, sadly. There are some genuinely great shorts creators, like Sellsword Arts and Luke Humphris, and I do see genuinely interesting stuff on there all the time, which makes quitting/managing my time harder. This is why I don't fuck with TikTok, I wouldn't stand a fucking chance with that app. I don't say YouTube in general because, well, YouTube is just what I watch the most of and I don't think it's necessarily a problem. I should make a separate post about that, too.

Resolutions one and two seem to be going okay! Three, four, and five, I still need to work on. I don't know if maybe I'm just not vibing with Don't Talk About Politics or what, but I really don't wanna drop it because I spent money on it. Actually, that reminds me, I also need to write (rant) about the Jujutsu Kaisen "movie" I paid good money for to see in the theater that was literally just a recap of the Shibuya Arc that I already saw and the first two episodes of the new season. So many story ideas! So many blog post ideas! The new year will be a good year for writing things down! Look forard to it!

EDIT: I forgot to put the video game section in and had to edit the post like an hour or two after I put it up lolololololololololol