Hey there, I'm not usually one to dig deep into mental health, but May is considered to be Mental Health Awareness Month, so I figured I might as well give a proper update after the Discord promos turn out to be huge busts...especially knowing why cuz Discord is hella inconsistant with child safety crap.

So, what's up with your head then, kirbs?

A bunch of things, working 8-hour job shifts doesn't seem to help but I'm hanging in there alright. For one, I'm mentally disabled, medically diagnosed with ASD (or was it ADHD?) since I was a child, so you can understand my hyperfixation problems which I've happily accepted into my life lol. Buuuut the downside to that is that my emotions can be amplified...and I'm female...and I have monthly mood swings. So if you see me have mental breakdowns on Discord, you know why, as Claptrap puts it: "Please please PLEASE don't take advantage of me while I'm incapacitated, OK?"

(Sorry, I kin Claptrap so damn much thanks to The Pre-Sequel, especially after dealing with a toxic relationship that I can only describe as dealing with a Handsome Jack in my life, I will not elaborate further for the sake of our sanities)

Does this mean this'll affect projects?

Not really, as long as I keep my head and emotions in tact. In fact, I've recently started a new project, something to celebrate Portal 2's 15th anniversary...alright, it's another Jackbox project and I SWEAR THE FIBBAGE 4 EPISODE IS STILL BEING MADE! However, this Portal project is something with an actual deadline, Spring 2026, and it's something made to encourage Portal nerds to just have fun with it, it's a celebration after all.

Anything else to look forward to from you?

Nothing I can spoil, but stay tuned for a couple of VA cameos here on NG that I will not give details towards unless you're in a certain NG Discord server. I'm also turning 20 in less than 3 months from now, so that's exciting!

Again, thanks to reading my ramblings. I know things may get rough, but always remember to hang in there as there's always something worth staying alive for

Totally not payed with a chance to win Nitro for this:

Hey there, you like Jackbox games?

Then come on over to Jackbox University, the best Jackbox fan Discord server imaginable, far better than the official server for sure, take it from me! I'm totally sane there! You might even see some of my projects head on... SO JOIN IT! https://discord.gg/f9TTS9TGsB

And more importantly...

STARFEST DREAMS V. NIGHTMARES IS NOW LIVE! https://discord.gg/mgkWqeBeb5

Happy Pico Day, Newgrounds! Sorry I don't tend to make art for this occassion because I don't have ideas for it and I'm often pretty busy somehow, but ENA's NG related, right?

I dunno, I try :V

Happy birthday Mr. @TomFulp! And soon enough we'll be celebrating 30 years of Newgrounds, look how far we've come...

Hey, there...so that Switch 2 Direct, pretty wild one. ...I can't believe I'm gonna have to spend like $500 on Forgotten Land DLC and Air Ride 2.

Yet another Discord Promo

I know I keep promoting this a lot, but I've been having a bunch of projects planned for the server, like Starfest! The Dreams v. Nightmares fest is set to be live at May of this year! There will (hopefully) be a bunch of games and such planned for it...or else it'll be Claptrap's birthday all over again :(

You can join it here if you wanna chat, support me in any way, or even see some art before they release to Newgrounds! [MUST BE 14 OR OLDER TO JOIN]: https://discord.gg/mgkWqeBeb5

April Fools 2025

So, AF this year was...something. Bombarded with so many review notifs for the Clown Collab and even my small role in a comedy VA project that you can listen to here:

Shake shrunk me down to humilate me, but I'll get back to him once I find the Samson Skewer to uh...get payback to say the least. He wasted the budget on his TV studio stunt too, waste a dummy. I'll be back to normal soon... THE POWER OF THE INVENTORY AND POKER! Other than that, it was pretty good, better than last year. Just disappointed that Newgrounds did nothing this year...

Commissions!

Yes, I do commisions now- well, I've been doing commissions! They have suprisingly been going quite well for me, with about 2-3 requests done since the promotion went live. If you ever wanna support me in some way, consider throwing a Discord Nitro or even Steam money my way and I can get you a drawing done as soon as I can! All the info can be found here on Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/collab/view/24228

What's up with you, kirbs?

Not much, just super duper busy now with chores and I just got promoted to a full-time position at my job. It'll eat my more of my free time, but I swear it'll be worth it for the money in the long run. This sadly means that non-collab uploads will happen a bit less unless I get enough ideas ready in the works. Probably got hired for one or 2 projects to make art and even voice for.

That's all I've gotta say at the moment. Life has been getting more chaotic as I slowly reach my way to the big 2-0 milestone of existing, so you can imagine how stressful things could get. But don't worry, I'll still power on through, cuz things will get better after they go rough is what I always say! ^^

Thanks for reading up on this and hope y'all have a good one, see ya!

pictured: me in my current Portal (and Poker Night 2 again) fixation as I've been dabbling in GLaDOS voicing ventures

Sooooo, I somehow got a bunch of new followers recently. Hi, welcome, don't mind the mess (or do mind it, it don't matter). I said I'd make news posts more often, so here we are.

Oh yeah, check out my strawpage: https://m-kirbs.straw.page/

Anyways

Art of 2025 and yet another Discord promo

Next month is mostly reserved for April Fools pl- I mean, nothing's happening on April Fools, nope! May is absolutely reserved for Starfest over on my Discord server, which is everyone is welcome to join, just be sure to be the age Fulp requires for NG users (which I put that restriction my server too as a safety precauction) and don't cause trouble. I didn't ban anyone yet, so don't make me pull the ban hammer before the 1st anniversary of the server, alright? In addition, either during May or November, I REALLY wanna dip into making Vinesauce tribute art since the funni speen man Vinny's turning 40 this year. Speaking of birthdays, I'm turning 20 in August, so I wanna start it with a bang, you'll see soon enough. Oh, and fanart/gifts are always appreciated, so surprise me!

More Audio stuff?

Last year was my debut of my voice acting career with the NG Creepypasta Collab stuff. I wanna expand upon it with The Voice of M-Cipher, a vocal compilation of some of my favorite dubs/memes/etc. as the funny triangle/possessed Billsona (either releasing on March 12 or July 23rd). The problem is that I want music for it that doesn't fall under copyright issues, so I'd want NG-homemade remixes/arrangments of Bill Cipher-related songs (THAT AREN'T JUST THE GRAVITY FALLS THEME, I WANT VARIETY, DAMMIT!) like maybe some of Neil Cicierega's tracks like Moon's Request (the claim as M-Cipher's theme due to Neil being my rediscovery to Gravity Falls) or songs that fit Bill's vibe, y'know. However, this is a big MAYBE depending on if I have the guts to do it.

In addition, I want to try doing music covers a shot. I'm no musician, but LOVE singing songs, so I'd ask musicians here (and potentially the NGAP Collab server) to compose arrangements/remixes to go with my vocals (and perhaps touch up on the mixing since I'm no audio expert). These are essentially my top 3 I wanna do at some point (NO GUARENTEES):

• Party Tonight - Regular Show (which I actually did try over on Discord, I wanna do it for real in honor of Regular Show's 15th premiere debut anniversary)
• Misfits & Mistakes - Superchunk (For Aqua Teen Hunger Force's 25th anniversary)
• From The Stars - Red Vox (as a tribute to Vinny for his 40th birthday :3)

Very 2000's-2010's rock-centric, it's what I grew up with thanks to my dad and his radio. Again, depends if I'm committed enough and so are potential composers who are willing to make new arrangements of these songs to go with my vocals.

2025 Plans

Pretty much just gonna work on expanding my horizons a bit more, especially with me hitting the 2-0 milestone in August. This includes managing my server, working on that lil' project Theta teased that one time, hopefully joining more collabs that catch my eye (Toybox Collab, Crazy Clown Collab, etc.), and doing events on my server. That's pretty much it, hope y'all don't mind me rambling a bunch as I tend to do that a lot. Here's to a fun year for us all!

Happy 2025, Newgrounds! It was a wild Maze of Life 2024 held, so I'm hyped to see what this year holds! As a token of my appreciaton for reaching 350 fans and to celebrate the New Year, I'm officially opening up my Discord server to EVERYONE (starting with the Newgrounds folks) after months of preparation and feedback from friends, have fun:

https://discord.gg/mgkWqeBeb5

WARNING: YOU MUST COMPLY WITH NEWGROUNDS'S AGE REQUIREMENT (currently 14) TO JOIN THIS SERVER, OR ELSE YOU WILL BE BANNED!

This server has...

• Exclusive behind the scenes and sneak peeks of upcoming projects from yours truly
• Roles depending on your hobbies, pronouns, and pings within the server
• Carefree roleplaying and hammer down on killjoys
• Events ranging from watch partys/movie nights to potential collaborative drawing canvases on Magma
• Emotes, stickers, and soundboard sounds spanning across the M-kirbs-verse and some of my hyperfixations
• And a friendly atmosphere to all creative people and friends alike!

Thank you all for an awesome year and let's hope this year can be more awesome with my 20th anniversary of life on the way!

Since everyone else is doing it, I might as well!

January

My sona finally got a concrete overall design and a name: Marie!

The new year also kicked off with a pretty big collab with the Art Gallery, first time getting NG awards too!

This month also marked the annual Awesome Games Done Quick charity stream event and I made art in honor of that too:

And some uh...stuff on Discord happened that I really don't wanna dig deep into since I'm not a drama person (there's your answer as to why art got deleted and instances of a certain someone scribbled out)

Feburary

Tis the season of love and cute cards as I contributed to the Valentine's Day Collab '24!

With some Poker Night 2 art to go with:

And Pokemon Mystery Dungeon!

March

OH MAN, A LOT HAS HAPPENED:

Including Katamari Damacy's 20th anniversary (please play Katamari, it's so good)

This month also marks the start of my voice acting career thanks to the Studio Bad Egg Cipher Cult Kickstarter and this vid from Charley (which is basically outdated, I've been told they'll make a new one down the line :3c), known to be a curator of Mystery Shack Lookback and on the way to dub THE ENTIRE BOOK OF BILL!

April

I slept through April Fools and my lil' buddies were happy to withstand the order in this chaos day...kinda

Along with Bunny Day:

And the 20th anniversary of my first ever Kirby game, WOOOOOO!

May

The Artists of The Inventory were called to make some funnies for this:

A ghost party was called while we're halfway there to Halloween:

And we went camping once again, happy 25th anniversary SpongeBob!

June

I've experimented with PNGTuber+ (despite NOT being a streamer lol)

And celebrated Pride!

An old pal was brewing up something to celebrate his new book...

July

Eh, you know what? Take it from here, Bill.

WITH PLEASURE, KID! YOU SUCKERS ON NEWGROUNDS AND DISCORD WERE OH-SO DUMB TO TAKE MY DEAL THAT MY BOOK BECAME A BEST-SELLER! EAT IT!

WORLD DOMINATION WAS IN MY HANDS TOO, THANKS FOR MAKING THE SONG TOO!

August

It was my 19th birthday!

And I became a ninja!

And got some time in the sun

September

Not a whole lot other than Gimmick! 2

And it's a groovy time for a movie time~

October

IT'S SPOOKY MONTH!

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/m-kirbs/mengheno-luo-xuan-yume-e-no-rasen-spiraling-into-dreams [BODY HORROR WARNING AND PLEASE WATCH UZUMAKI]

I CAN VOICE ACT WITHOUT SHAME!

I also made a StrawPage :D https://m-kirbs.straw.page/

November

Again, not much

(pls play WEBFISHING)

December

IT'S HAPPY HOUR!!! PLEASE PLAY ANTONBLAST, I'VE BEEN SO HYPED FOR THIS GAME, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW (OR MAYBE YOU DO)

donuts

And finally, Christmas! (I should've made a Tankmas contribution :V)

The collab collection will come on New Year's Eve and THANK YOU FOR 350 FANS AND USER OF THE DAY!

I've got something big planned to kick off the new year for this milestone, my friends over on Discord already know...

Here's to 2025 being a bigger year for me with my 20th anniversary of life! ...maybe I should dabble in singing music covers...

It's about time I got that seat of honor! I'll take it as a late Christmas gift, thank you

Merry Christmas (Eve in my timezone) and happy holidays, NG! Hope you guys are having a great one this year and thanks a bunch for all the lovely messages on my tree in the last new post (every single one of them counts, even the small ones)! Thank you all so much for all the appreciation and love this year with all the new stuff I've been making, including my voice acting debut! Here's to next year being awesome with my 20th birthday, a big milestone in my life!

(Full art tomorrow and 2024 Recap coming on New Year's Eve!)

(PS, listen to this album, AQUA TEEN 25TH ANNIVERSARY NEXT YEAR, WOOOO! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYs2ZBtQ6_2RheAWPLS3_YMZ2AjcQx5sC)

Hey hey, NG, happy holidays! So @MKMaffo found this cute lil' thing and I thought "Hey, this looks adorable, why not give it a try?" So, I did! Just plop your messages here and I'll get some cute messages for Christmas from y'all, hope to see ya on here: https://colormytree.me/2024/01JF63NKPJRCCKYKQ9GXFAJX3G

That's it for now, I'll try and think of SOMETHING for Christmas if I'm not super busy