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Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2021. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review".


January 2021

I'm tired of how people are "joking" about 2021 being 2020 part 2 or something like that.

(I still am, by the way.)

February 2021

It's becoming harder and harder to motivate myself to do ANYTHING anymore.

(Even though I'd still qualify this as overall a good year, my motivation didn't get any better over the next ten months.)

March 2021

I was REALLY out of line in my last entry... I've been trying my best to keep myself from saying things I don't really mean when I'm anxious, but clearly I'm not any good at that. I've already been unfriended for that entry. And for a few other entries.

April 2021

About three years ago, I decided to try and fix EVERYTHING that I'd been meaning to fix in my old entries for quite some time now - broken images, broken links, adding more useful tags and removing useless ones, and so on, not to mention that things didn't get copied over correctly from LJ to DW. It took some time, but I got all the way to early 2018 before starting to put it off for a while.

May 2021

Yeah, I haven't posted in a while. But at least that's better than posting really stupid entries like I usually do, right?

June 2021

So... Remember all those times when I panicked because LJ or DW or some other site I like (or sometimes not even one I like!) went down for a few minutes or hours and I thought it might turn out to be a permanent outage? Remember when sometimes I even thought it might be an indication that the entire Internet might go down?

July 2021

I've made a couple of posts about rejection sensitive dysphoria already but since I came across another video about it, and it sounded A LOT like me, I figured I should post it as well. Just to give you all a bit more perspective on why I said certain things, thought people were mad at me when they might not be, and turned into such a terrible person during the pandemic no matter how much I tried to be a good person.

August 2021

Tomorrow will mark the 14th anniversary of my LiveJournal.

September 2021

I came across a couple of videos where this guy tries to play multiple Mario Party games at the same time, with the same inputs going to all the games at once. It gets crazy sometimes!

October 2021

It's been a while since I last posted. And it'll probably be a while before my next post too.

November 2021

Welp, it's November 2021.

December 2021

Yesterday was another one of those days when I could barely stay focused at work because I kept thinking about ideas for possible future LJ posts.

(This is the first time in a while when the calendar year in review entry does NOT include its own first line as the December line, because it's the first year in a while in which I posted something in December before this year in review. :) )
matt1993: (plaused)

Domain LiveJournal.com was registered on April 15, 1999. The same year, the cult movie "The Matrix" was released, the 6 billionth inhabitant of the Earth was born in the city of Sarajevo, and Britney Spears' debut single Baby One More Time topped the world charts.
On April 15, 2021 LiveJournal turns 22 years old! LiveJournal celebrates its birthday and gives you a card with a bright event that happened the year you started your blog!

What happened in your life the year you started your blog?






To answer that question, 2007 was when I started high school, and I probably got the Wii that year and was looking forward to Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. And I first joined the IRL autism social skills group that I was a part of for a while. 2006-2008 was of course when I was also way too obsessed with a certain "funny"-screenshot-gallery-turned-crossover-comic that I used to write, and 2007 was when I put it online for the first time. And while I had already been a fan of Enya's music, 2007 was the first time I saw photos of her, which makes that when I first started to develop a crush on her. :) Also, am I lame for having never seen Lost?

Interesting how LJ came up with a meme involving years like this just now - recently I figured out that creating a Spotify account was easier than I expected it to be, so I did, and I decided to listen to all of the "Top Hits of <year>" playlists from the year I was born to the present in order. In fact, by doing so I learned that Baby One More Time was released in 1999 just before LJ mentioned it in this meme. :) (I do remember Britney Spears being popular during my childhood; I just didn't know the exact year any of her songs were released)


Those of you who created your account in 2016, 2020, or 2021: What did you get? Hopefully something good. I really hope this meme sticks to its word and lists a bright event for EVERY year, instead of doing the already overdone jokes about those years. I hate that people STILL get judged for enjoying 2016/2020 or enjoying anything about them or having looked forward to them. :(

My 2020 in LJ

Tue, Dec. 29th, 2020 03:53
matt1993: (tree + b = mailbox)
LJ year in review feature for 2020

It's hard to see how I touch my readers' hearts if I made several people angry at me throughout the year and am afraid to post some things because I'm afraid of making people even more angry. :(

And of course LJ had to work in what looks like a 2020-blaming joke in the picture this year. *rolls eyes*

Here, let me fix this...

LJ year in review feature for what 2020 *should* look like

That's more like it. ;)
matt1993: (homestar essence of gullibility)
Something was announced that I'm really excited about! Probably involving at least one of my celebrity crushes or fictional crushes! And at least one fandom I like that is unrelated to said crush - probably Vegas Stakes, seeing as it's 2020 after all.


But now I'm upset because some things happened that wouldn't really be that a big deal for most people but I'm catastrophizing about them anyway and at least one of them involves the thing I would have been excited about. Like, maybe there's a lot of drama going on or at least one of my favorite characters has been replaced.


Also, maybe my likes are now my dislikes and vice versa. Then again, maybe they aren't! Who knows??

----

April Fools! Now laugh.


Yeah, that's all I've got this year. Nothing seems particularly funny anymore. Not even my usual April Fools nonsense. :(
matt1993: (whatever happened to protecting sources)
Welp, the fact that it's actually 2020 - THE 2020, the year my childhood self was always waiting for - felt pretty surreal for about a week or so. But 2020 quickly went from being a "Vegas Stakes Renaissance" to feeling just like any other recent year: full of me worrying about Internet drama and the possibility of Internet stuff I wanted to see going down.



I don't want to know how I'm going to end up feeling if 2020 ends up being a bad year overall for me. I've been waiting for this year for my entire life (well, except for that period when I all but forgot Vegas Stakes was a thing). I'm LITERALLY in the future, according to my childhood. I need this year to be worth the wait!


So here's a list of some things I'm hoping to do this year, in no particular order, in an attempt to make 2020 a good year for me overall:


1) My decision to revisit Vegas Stakes after all these years also gave me the idea to revisit OTHER games that I also haven't thought about or played in a long time. In particular, I really want to play all of these games at least once this year, if I can:

Your faces seem familiar, too )

2 through 6 )
matt1993: (conga of the apocalypse)
One hour to go.

Dear everyone who has told me, or their YouTube followers, or whoever, that the YouTube COPPA thing is nothing to worry about:

There's enough of you by now that I can KIND of take your word for it. But I am going to be SO MAD if you turn out to be wrong and this is the end of YouTube as we know it after all.

IT. IS. TIME.

Tue, Dec. 31st, 2019 04:21
matt1993: (conga of the apocalypse)
Hope everyone had a good holiday season and has a happy new year!



Okay, I know I said I wouldn't post any more entries in my LJ or DW until the cross-posting issue is resolved, and I'm still declaring myself officially on hiatus until that happens. But I'm making one lone exception because:

IT IS TIME.



I know I posted this video earlier this year because I was impatient. But IT IS TIME. I can't believe it.

The future according to my childhood... IS HERE. (In some time zones. Mine is not one of them. YET.)


In other news, I'm still feeling anxious about the YouTube COPPA stuff. I know some of you (and a few articles/videos I found while Googling about it) don't think it's anything to worry about. But unfortunately, enough people are still concerned that it's something to worry about that I can't be too sure.


Approximately what my past self thought I would be asking right about now: "It's almost 2020. By now all text ever written should be in digital fonts and the 2020 music from Vegas Stakes should start playing everywhere! Why hasn't that happened yet???"

What I'm ACTUALLY asking right about now: "Are my favorite YouTube channels going to stay around?? Is COPPA something to worry about, or is not something to worry about, or was it something to worry about originally but then that one YouTuber stepped in and saved the day? Does any of this affect DeviantArt too?? I want to know for sure!!! And I'm about to find out for sure!!! But then it will be too late!!!"
matt1993: (conga of the apocalypse)
It's 2019 now. So according to Vegas Stakes for the SNES (and Game Boy apparently), there's only one more year to go until it is OFFICIALLY the future!



Wow. When I played this game as a kid (it was probably my second-favorite SNES game after Super Mario World... how I've never mentioned it on here until now, I don't know), 2020 felt so far away. Now it's only a year away... Wow.


Unfortunately, the fact that it's 2019 ALSO means that there's only one year left (or MAYBE two?) for me to watch everything that's in Flash that I wanted to watch but haven't watched! O_O


Happy New Year everyone!
matt1993: (2010 nnwm procrastinator)
I can't believe it - I finished the creative vortex poll I mentioned I've been working on!!

cut for LOTS of length )

I hope the poll shows up...

EDIT: It did, but I accidentally put "Finish rereading" as an option when it should've been "Finish rereading therapy notes" and I can't change it now. Oh well.

Have a surprisingly good reason to repost this

It's hard to describe this journal in just a few paragraphs... but I'll try

Just an autistic guy born in 1993 (hence the username) who's had this journal since I was 14. Has trouble phrasing things well especially in earlier entries, so keep that in mind.

My interests have fluctuated in the 17 years since I've had this journal, but the following has remained constant:
- I like Mario games (mainly the platformers, Mario Kart, Mario Party) and Super Smash Bros.
- I like Garfield
- I like Homestar Runner
- I like Enya
- And I've always loved the idea of wacky crossovers between ANY of my interests, whether it's in the form of a short-lived webcomic in 2006-2008, a short-lived backwards lyrics site in 2008, writing down weird dreams in 2009-2011, playing Tomodachi Life a lot in 2014-2016, or what most of my posts are about these days: playing around with Character.AI starting in 2023. I still can't believe I'm actually in a world where an AI of Enya can talk to AIs of Mario or Garfield or even my favorite obscure characters like Mary O. from Super Mario Maker. :O

Go to my sticky entry for more.

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