Let's see...

The Awards are the most recent so I start with them: I'm away from work over the holidays so I wasn't able to make some graphics for the award winners, but I have a consolidation price of sorts. While working on the nomination graphics for way too long, I started to get somewhat annoyed with looking at them and that might have been mirrored when adding the name banners at the last step. When finishing work on them the next day with a clearer mind I fixed them up for the actual post, but I kept the originals as a testament to my state of mind at the time. I hope you can get a chuckle out of them.

Volume

Debut

Protagonist

Antagonist

Support

Duo

Worldbuilding

Overall

The next thing that comes to mind looking back on 2024 is that Ascendance of a Bookworm has come to an end. It's been my favorite piece of media for the last 5 years and every time a new volume came out it was like my own personal Christmas. On several occasions I even took a vacation day to read it right away. It's just 5 years but I still feel like something important has come to an end. I'm still not really sure how I feel about this. Am I sad that it's over, happy that it has been brought to a satisfying end instead of fizzling out after it has been beaten to death for too long, or just existed for what might come next from Miya Kazuki... All of the above I guess.

Lastly, I've just checked my bodycount and I've read 129 LN this year.

2024

More than last year (117) but less than 2022 (178), 2021 (203), 2020 (173) and 2019 (177). Let's see if I can get closer to my usual 170 in 2025. (the 203 in 2021 are an lockdown outlier and don't count).

As for the community, it has grown somewhat but that's something I'll be looking back on in February when the community has its birthday.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a great 2025 and few paper cuts ;)