JocelynSamara

It's been... a year. XD Speaking personally, it's been a particularly rough one for me. I'll spare you the details on my personal drama, but it's been a lot this year. But thankfully, it's been great for me in terms of entertainment. I don't get to say this every year, but I think I found some new all-time favorites in terms of pretty much all the media I consume, and that's good 'cause I sure have needed it! You may notice I'm setting this up a bit differently this year. Finding pics for each and every thing I watch, play, and read takes a long time, so I felt it was just a better use of my time and energy to highlight my favorites and list the rest. It still relays all the info I want to share without spending all day on it. XD

As always, if you wanna hear my specific thoughts on anything, feel free to ask. And if you remember (or keep a list of) your own faves and want to share, please do! ^_^ See you soon with a Goals for 2024 pic too!

Y'all know I hate advertising, but if there's ever a day where I have to do this, it's today...

I've added 13 new items today to my RedBubble shop, including one for each of the symbols for magic alignments as seen in MIS (lots of Rain stuff too!). Nearly everything on the site is on sale from now through December 2nd!

https://www.redbubble.com/people/littlelynn84/shop

And Lulu, where you can find Rain, Volumes 1-6, is offering 30% off your order when you use promo code TWINKLE30 at checkout. This is a great deal if you don't already have the books, or you know someone who might appreciate them for the upcoming holiday season!

https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/LittleLynn84 Thank you for your support if you're able to buy anything, but please don't sweat it if you can't. ^_^

Good morning all! I've got a few comic updates for you. In case you missed it, I snuck some new character intros up last week (for Ai, Honoka, and Momokomo). I will add more over time as needed, but this will be all the new intros for now (Chiaki's mom and brother another day).

https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/gallery/85252608/mis-characters Keeping them all as separate images like this means they're much easier to update than Rain's Characters page, so I should be able to update it more frequently. Small details like may be added quietly, but I'll try to keep the bigger additions of whole new characters between chapters (and I'll announce them like I'm doing now).

And since I mentioned it, I got sidetracked, but an update to the Rain's Characters page is still coming. I don't have a specific date for it, but hopefully sooner than later. ^_^ As for MIS itself, I would like to return to posting as soon as next week (or the week after that at the very latest). I'll know for sure one way or the other by Friday, and I'll keep you posted! Also, I've seen a few posts that people are starting to get their Rain Volume 6's. Thank you so much to everyone who got one, and I hope y'all are enjoying it! If you haven't picked up Vol 6 yet (or you want to buy another one as a gift/donation/etc.), Lulu is hosting another sale with the coupon code COOKBOOKS15 to take 15% off your purchase from now through March 10th. Rain may not be a cookbook, but I tried it and can confirm it works. https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/LittleLynn84 And that's it for now! I'll leave you with this new outfit for Chiaki we'll be seeing in the next chapter very soon. ^_^

I can't wrap things up for the year without doing a little reflection. Sure, every individual site/app has their own "year in review" gimmick nowadays, but I still have to do it my way. These are all the games I played, anime I watched (and new this year, manga I read) in 2022.

If you wanna hear my thoughts on anything, feel free to ask. And if you remember and wanna share your own, please do. (I keep a list throughout the year, myself; I'd never remember all this on my own.) XD

Almost a year ago, I posted this image on social media, announcing my next comic ahead of the final chapter of my last one.

Even though it probably looks like I haven't done much in the 7+ months since Rain ended, it's been a wild year of planning, writing, re-writing, scrapping, and re-writing again. And now, in just a couple days (Monday, December 5th), I'm going to start a brand new webcomic adventure. All of the quirky queer/trans characters and dramatic relatable storylines people seemed to like Rain for, plus all the fantasy lore and oddity I've always wanted to write.

Truthfully, I don't know what kind of responses to expect. But I feel like I'm onto something special here, so I hope this'll resonate with y'all as well. And I hope you'll join me on Monday (December 5th), when My Impossible Soulmate launches. ^_^

(I should probably add that for the first week, just to get the ball rolling, drop in every weekday for a new page. On week 2, we'll settle into our regular Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule, but for the first week, new pages daily!)