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Dec 2020

Hello, everyone!

Although 2020 has been quite a hectic year, let’s focus on some of the positive aspects of the year together! It is important that we seek out the positive aspects of our lives to remind ourselves that even in challenging circumstances, we can find small victories and reasons to be grateful. Come join us as we share moments when we felt proud and happy in our [Tapas Insider] Reflections on 2020!

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We can’t wait to hear about your reflections on 2020! Happy posting~

Thank you so much!

Isabell & Victoria
Creator Happiness Team

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2020 has been a year of healing for me. I know that sounds contradictory during a pandemic. I was in an incredibly negative environment that was damaging to me both physically and mentally. In what could be perceived as an unfortunate incident at the time, put me in a situation where I am valued and cherished. I have been able to unlearn these toxic behaviors that I adopted to protect myself and heal. The progress I've made in the last six months has been extraordinary. I am proud of what I've been able to accomplish since being allowed to heal.

Honestly 2020 has been good to me. I've gotten better at my art and storytelling. Dragon Sparking hit 100 subs, 1000 Likes, and 8000 views.

I entered the Tezuka Manga Contest, started a collaboration with @jensrichard77 on a comic that will be amazing.
Celebrated the 10th anniversary of my marriage, and got a promotion at work.

2020 has hit a lot of people hard, but I've been really blessed this year, even through the hardship. 2021 will be even better.

My biggest milestone of the year is definitely that I finally finished the first chapter of my comic! I feel like it has solidified my desire to complete this story.

I also made some changes to the art style starting in chapter 2, and it has made me very proud of how my work looks now. I liked the previous painted look, but the new style almost looks more polished.

I've just made a lot of progress with my artwork in general, despite some IRL issues.

My comic has kind of been the bright spot in an otherwise stressful year where I had to cancel my wedding for safety and lost my grandmother and one of my in-laws. It's honestly really helped me keep my spirits up in spite of everything!

I managed to finish up my prologue, got all the way through chapter 1 and started chapter 2, got a community pick, a staff pick and another front page feature and I'm just coming up to 750 subs, so three quarters of the way to a thousand. I'm pretty happy with that, given that Action is a smaller genre on the platform.
I'm feeling accomplished and looking forward to pushing on next year and trying to hit that big 1k!

Not going to lie, this year has been super awful and so many stressful and bad things happened that I almost quit at Tapas alltogether. But a roleplaying thread here on the forums of all things introduced me to a bunch of people who I became friends with. Some of them helped me and I regained my motivation and confidence again.

I'm super thankful for that rp thread honestly, even if it is closed now, because without the people in it that I rp'ed with I would have left Tapas half a year ago

In my real life
Even that many people have lost their jobs, and I’m so sorry for you, I am however grateful of having a day job as security that is needed in this crazy time.

At Tapas
I have never felt so creative and popular in my webcomic writing and have managed to create some good stuff with my good friends here at Tapas.
Encluding @ratique @nathanKmcwilliams @arpeggiomax87 @Starlexic @KingCrazy
I have never felt more like home and even take the role of helping my fellow creators with other serious personal matter and have resolved and sorted out unnecessary drama where everyone came out happy in the end.

I even have my own Discord community that I’m very proud of.

But most of all. It is the way that Tapas staff is handling everything. You have made my year incredible.

Thank you.

And for 2021? All I can say is

Its been both good and bad, stressful but also some time for myself.
This year I came back from a year long artblock and was stumbling around a bit early on but soon found my inspiration and motivation for drawing again and I started doodling on the comic after a very long break from it.

And its the year I started my comic, finally! Its been an amazing year and I'm so happy I started to post here on tapas, my comic received a Staff pick early on, and Community pick and another future on the front page during inksgiving and it all gave me such a great boost (both comic wise and confidence wise) and found myself getting a bunch of amazing and kind readers <3

I haven't regretted a thing about this comic and I thought it would be a lot more struggle to keep up the motivation for it than it has been so far but already got 2 chapters finished that's given me a great buffer and the 3rd chapter is fully roughed out and a bit into coloring and I cant wait to get it all out there :sparkles:

I'm gonna be honest, 2020's been a hard year for me and a lot of people in general. I've had to wrestle with a lot of deep seated issues regarding me and my relationship with my own creative works that I had been struggling with unknowingly for a long while this year. I've learned a lot about myself and finally got to the bottom of a lot of those problems this year and have been working on getting a healthier relationship with my art and self esteem in general and have been making huge strides in that and growing as a person as a result this year. So that's been a good thing even if it has been rough getting there over the year....

I've also made some of my closest friends here on Tapastic this year that have really helped me with my struggles and have always been there for me as well. So that is something good that happened this year that I am always thankful for as well.

2020 started for me with seeing an incredible real life sports story unfold when an underdog athlete won junior worlds title—and it came with movie-like hype around his opponents and a team-mate who was hailed as the new dawn for his sport nationally. And two silver medals in huge events, losing by a sliver. And—I kid you not—climbing from 13th position to the 3rd in junior nationals almost missing his chance to go to junior worlds... but in the end, the kid won his hard-earned gold...

After that, the things went haywire—I lost my long awaited trip to the world championship (senior), and COVID locked down the world.

On personal note, I kept writing, finishing my Magnum Opus, She Kills Elephants And Men in 2020

Writing the cutest How to Marry Your Dragon, and the novel that was warmly received here, on Tapas, Trapped by the Mafia.

I also wrote an experimental YA novel, Lone Werewolf (that I will be posting into 2021).

By the very end of the year, I received a writing award on a book written in 2019, the book I almost didn’t enter in the contest, that I thought was pointless to even upload on the Internet.

It was a soft story with an overweight, failed PhD candidate, a librarian male love interest. And a burned-out figure skater...

On the Internet, where the romances are all about Abusive Mr. Abs Billionaires...

I didn’t expect it from 2020, but somehow it happened to me.

And I am still pinching myself.

This was defintly the big silver linning in the 2020 dark cloud.

2020 was the year I signed up for Tapas and Launched Gamers Guff and Online Hassle,

This was back in June and I'm already close to reaching 100 subscribers,

I plan on keeping up the momentum, reach for the stars on Tapas and pitch my ideas for a Tapas Original Series.

In the mean time, I'm very proud of what I've accomplished so far,

The best is yet to come,




https://tapas.io/episode/1775200



https://tapas.io/episode/1847819

What a year. And honestly, I kind of mean that in a good way. COVID has been a beast to deal with, yes, but...it's been a surprisingly good year for me. It started with me in an apartment I didn't like with roommates I was very distant from, working a job that didn't appreciate the work I put in, and paid very poorly. Then COVID hit. In order to keep my sanity, I moved back in with my parents so I'd at least have room to go outside and walk. I'd been looking for a new job since last October, and suddenly in June, I had an interview for a job I'd applied for in December. Shortly thereafter, I went on a socially-distanced vacation to the beach with my immediate family, and it was lovely. In fact, it was the best time I've had at the beach in a very long time! While on vacation, I got a call that I'd gotten the job! Just a little while after that, I hit my 2 year anniversary for my comic. I've stuck with it for 2 years, and it feel so amazing to me!! That's longer than I've lasted on almost any project ever! After I started my new job, I found an apartment that I like a lot more, in a much safer area, with a new roommate who I get along with much better than I ever did the others! To top it all off, at beginning of the COVID lockdowns, I found my way to a really great Discord server where I've made a lot of really great creator friends. They've helped me get through all this, and I can't thank them enough for their friendship and all their help with my comic! So despite COVID, it's been a good year for me. I know it's been horrible in a lot of aspects for a lot of people, but I have been so lucky and blessed.

2020 has allowed me to reflect on myself and focus on my physical health, which has always been a tad askew, and I have been seeing some improvements already. During the pandemic and BLM, I have grown to discover who my real friends are and know who makes me feel safe and respected as a person. This year has given me time to take risks and even win some awards in music and given me time to expand on more creative outlets like writing. This year has been one of reflecting and healing for sure.

2020 has definitely been a rough year for me mentally. From lockdowns, to hours cut at work, to ultimately my job going completely bye bye due to both COVID and my bosses health, to being cooped up at home with nowhere to go and no money to go there with, there have admittedly been very few bright spots in this year and the few I've had have been hard to latch on to through all the murk. But I am definitely proud of the fact that as bleak as it's gotten, I've been able to find ways to keep going. That is a simple win in a dark world, but a win all the same. And I'm really happy I was able to be there for my now former boss during this. I kept things running at work to the best of my abilities, becoming essentially a manager with no actual training in some of the things I managed. It was stressful at times and lord knows job hunting in a COVID world isn't what I wanted, but being able to rise to the challenges and be able to make my boss feel like she could just focus on her health and leave the business behind means the world to me. In the end, she made the best decision for her by closing the business but I left knowing that I did everything I could to help her and as conceited as this might sound, I was the glue that kept things together for 9 months. But it was so very hard to watch her break down in tears while she notified all our clients. That broke my heart.

In terms of my writing, I haven't gotten much done. I'm working on posting the remaining chapters of my Draygon sequel and hoping to bring a few more books over from Wattpad. But I was so very happy to unlock the support feature in my books this year. For all my confidence issues when it comes to my writing, just knowing I have a chance to earn actual money has meant the world to me. I went in thinking I wouldn't get a single support, and I wound up getting 9. The warm fuzzies I got knowing people liked my books enough to do that has been incredible. I hope that once things settle in my life and I can resume writing new material again I can use that to empower me through anything. It's another one that in the grand scheme of things is a simple pleasure, but it's still a pleasure.

That being said...get out of here, 2020. And don't let the door hit you on the way out :joy:

2020 has been a WILD year and for me, a lot of it has been all about change.

  • My spouse and I moved across the country
  • I'm working on separating from the military and starting a new chapter in my life
  • Devilish Cupcakes released!

I'm probably most proud of Devilish Cupcakes. I'm thrilled that Tapas wanted to work with me on another novel and I really feel like I've leveled up a bit as a writer, with that, I made the decision to change my major for my Master's degree to English/Creative writing and really start to put myself on the path of making writing my full-time job (eventually)

Lots of big things happened this year and I'm so grateful to my friends and family for their support. And I'm even more grateful to have this platform, which launched me back into writing. :heart_03:

2020 has been one heck of a year. A few bad things happened to me and other people but overall it's been great. I had to adjust a little bit because I had to do online school. At first, it was hard because I had never done online work before this but now I'm doing great, My grades are good and I'm a lot less stressed. I am sad that I haven't seen my friends in months and I can't do any school clubs. I discovered Tapas this year and it was honestly the best thing ever! I love all the stories here and I often lose track of time while I'm on the app! I never thought a year like 2020 would happen, but it did and I wouldn't change a thing!

This year has been... Something different. I can't say that for me has been terrible or amazing, I had to get through a lot of emocional issues but at the same time I have get rid of some bad things in mi life. This year has brought me the opportunity to discover new things, rediscover things that I forgot I loved and has helped me to discover myself. I'm proud of the good changes that I have done to my own self and the opportunity to keep improving myself. I may not be proud of the person I am right now, but of the person that I can become.
Also, this year I got to spend more time with my younger siblings, and that has been really amazing for me. I may not tell them much that I love them, but I do, they are a support for me. And! I got to bought for myself a drawing tablet and a drawing app. So yeah, last but not least, I'm glad for using tapas, it's really a wonderful platform, everything it's just so beautiful in here, thank you tapas, for being a happy part of the happy part of my life.

This year has definitely been rough, when we weren't isolated from the rest of our loved ones we lost them. I hope everything about this year has taught us how to appreciate what we have, love our family and friends while we can, be polite and kind and be the better you you can be. This year we were blessed with new lifes as well as getting ghe chance of moving forward for those that left us early and proceed with our wedding plans, while we have a couple of months left for the actual day, I'm thankful for another day in which I can spend next to my loved ones and look forward to spend the rest of my life with my soon to be husband :heart: God bless everyone!

For me 2020 has been very important because I finally got a long term contract at my work, which is something I had wanted for a long time. This also gives me the chance to start considering buying a house, a dream of mine. It makes me very happy that all my hard work and myparents' support has finally paid of. It also helps that I love my job and the place where I am currently working.:smile: