Monthly Post Archive - January 2025

I write these introductions before I actually compile the posts, so, this may be wrong, but I feel like I did a lot of long-form posting this month. While every post was published to both Tumblr and Bluesky, longer posts had to be broken up into several posts on Bluesky with its 300-character limit. So, I'm gonna assume most of these are gonna be Tumblr embeds. (Though, they do exist on Bluesky if you wanted to find them there!)

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This spurred from me seeing a lot of people posting the same "2026 will be my year" memes and, while I admit a lot of them are purely in jest, there's definitely a sentiment of "2025 is gonna undeniably suck" tied to a lot more of them. Since I made this post, there has been a fair amount of bad news from the US, and the notion that "it's only been a month" has been often repeated because, yeah, it's scary, but 2025 is not gonna be 365 days of getting your shit rocked by a fuckawful government. You will prevail through 2025 to 2026, and you will keep prevailing to 2027 onward. There is so much time left in the year, and even now, as I write this, (and whenever you're reading this), there's still time — in whichever year you're reading this during — to make it your year, in spite of everything.

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On a much less political note, I released the new demo build of Traversal! I knew I wanted to get an update out for the new year, and, with the second island being just barely unfinished, I realized if I couldn't release the second island, I might as well release an updated version of the demo with all of the minor to major changes I'd made to the preexisting content.

(I know this is technically not a post from the "Chillin" account, but we make the occassional exception here at the Monthly Post Archive.)

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If you followed me on Cohost, you'll recognize this Minecraft-snapshot-posting. I did this a lot during the 1.21 update cycle, and I don't know why. I just like talking about the game I've been playing since 2013, but my way of posting makes it seem like either I'm a Minecraft update account or that I'm being paid by Mojang to hype up the snapshots when, in reality, unless it's Minecraft Live, I don't really post shit like "WHOAA!! LEAVES AND FLOWERS?! NEW PIGS VARIANTS?? AND LODESTONES USE IRON NOW!?" because I just find the new stuff kinda cool and not, like, all-caps-level exciting.

(Though I did restrain myself from talking about 25w05a since I did want to avoid further becoming a Minecraft update account.)

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Writing this post is how I found out that modern text dumps of the Bee Movie Script correctly have Barry B. Benson's "Coming!" from his first scene written as "Coming!" instead of as "Ooming!"

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Additional fun fact about this dream, my two fellow heisters were Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon and we were breaking into a Separatist base. Now, I didn't mention any of this within the post itself because, while it paints the focus on the font within the dream as even more absurd, I felt like it distracted from the main point of Arimo's similarities to Arial and Helvetica.

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Unfortunately, I have the same ability to "yes, and" as a child who's just been told something obviously false; immediately readying her "no!!" response.

— Chillin (@chillincreative.bsky.social) January 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM

(But, look, okay, I'm really funny when I don't have to "yes, and"! Trust me, I swear! They still call me the Funny One, I promise!)

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My dream movie stars Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Owen Wilson, John Tuturro, Eddie Izzard, Larry the Ca

— Chillin (@chillincreative.bsky.social) January 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM

Yeah, this is a post about Cars 2. They should do it again.

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Even then, it'd still be a huge waste of money, and most of us would still call it the Twitter Truck.

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Oh my God, what the hell? There were even fewer posts this month compared to last month! Uh, I guess I'll see you in February where I annotate and share my one post for that month.

(Also, I was entirely on-the-money about the whole mostly-using-Tumblr-embeds thing. Go me!)