One year on the blog: looking back and looking forward!

Man, I can't believe its been over a year since the blog started. It's been interesting, I must say. I never dreamed of reaching so many people in such a relatively short time-span, and the response to this has been overwhelmingly positive. I just want to say thank you to you all again, it really means a ton that you guys support me the way you do.

Now to some statistics. Last year we had approximate 10,402 views on the blog. For a small start-up blog, that's incredible! Our least viewed month was August 2017 with only 252 views, and our most viewed is November 2017 with a whopping 2,792! That's pretty great. My goal for 2018 is 15,000 views, let's see if we can do it (and if not I'll just refresh the page 15,000 times)!

The next item on the agenda is projects. In 2017 I experimented with some streaming, though due to my dorm's poor internet connection and reliability issues, I'm going to have to put those on hold unfortunately. Until I return home for the summer, there will likely not be any streams. 

The biggest ongoing project with the blog is, of course as you all know, 9 years a Pokemon. Part three has proven to be quite the undertaking, and for as much as I've gotten done of it, there's still so much more. Writing it also has the added difficulty of emotional baggage: as much as I get into a groove with getting stuff done I have to take a break from it just to save my own sanity. Rest assured, it is coming, slowly and surely.

Now on to some even more exciting stuff: Voice acting! Recently, Y Ddraig and I have been working on a warhammer lore video he's going to put up on his channel soon. I hope to do much more voice acting in the future, and am actively looking for projects to audition for. So, if you like that video (which I'll link here when it's up) and know someone who needs a voice actor, don't forget to mention me to 'em! I'd really appreciate it!

Last, but certainly not least, is my YouTube channel. Recently, I decided to gut it of all my old stuff I put on there from middle school and am currently working on several history themed videos for your guys' amusement. My first video will be called "Memes of World War 2" and will be coming out (hopfully) within the next month. Stay tuned for updates on that! Also, when 9 years part 3 is done, I'll re-release those old cringey videos of yesteryear just for fun and talk a little about how they fit into the story of my middle school life as a whole.

Ninja edit: I also wanted to assure everyone that the podcast is still going to go on, but due to issues with microphones and recording I don't know when. As far as I know, Pika still wants to do it, and I'll probably bring up a couple other people who might be interested (like sandshrew, Jolteon, Flareon, etc.) but I still want the initial one to be just Pika. 

All in all, I love you guys so much, I hope you had a happy new year and are ready to hit the ground running in 2018!