The year: 2008. After having been stuck home with inflammation from Crohn’s Disease I discovered blogging. People actually thinking about storytelling the same way I did, even if we had different views about it. I had only found that with newsgroups and Transformers previously. There were Transformers but also nostalgia, comics, cartoons, and other things nobody in my friend group or my family really discussed very often. After my second hospital stay I found myself replying in the comments and realizing I was almost writing articles. So in November of that year I started my own website. You’re reading it right now unless someone stole or reblogged this article.
Every year around this time I do a “best of” for the year. The anniversary officially was Sunday, but that’s when I do the comic and then the chapter by chapter book review on Monday. So for once I’m late due to scheduling instead of forgetting I should do one of these.
Somehow I managed to miss very few posts this year. I did have to keep an eye on my dad as he went through a milder version of the diverticulitis that ruined my 2016 and attempts at a week off coincided with me being unwell or otherwise distracted, but I managed to stick to the schedule this year. I even started a couple new article series and added a “BW Prose” section to link all my various storytelling attempts not in comic book form, to join the comic archives I already had. I also just finished a book I ended up spending the whole year plus going over, not usually a curse of reviewing a book a chapter a week, but there you go.
Now it’s time to look back at the articles that I still remember, ones I plan to reference a lot, or just ones that I felt necessary or just fun to make. What makes this year’s list of article links? I decided to break them down into categories after writing the whole list, so they may not all be in proper chronological order. Kind of like my comic collection.
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I don’t follow a lot of V-Tubers because I don’t have time with all the stuff I’m working on and my existing media backlog. I’ve heard them put down for this or that reason, but this is a side I hadn’t heard. The one with UC really interested me because Crohn’s is often linked to it not medically but because some medications target both. It has to be tough not being able to leave the house. I have days when I’m tired, but that’s more not getting enough sleep or being sedentary for so long watching a monitor as I work on projects and having nowhere to go. To be that way due to illness has to be far rougher. I’ve never put down a V-Tuber because I just figure they’re having fun without revealing their faces to the world, but I never questioned they were revealing their personalities. I just thought this was worth sharing.
Go to the video and do something rarely considered a good idea: read the comments of the people who benefited in front of the camera rig and those watching at home. There is a benefit to this community beyond being entertained and I’m all in favor of that.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 20, 2025 in Internet Spotlight and tagged commentary, V-Tuber.
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