31/12/2024
Hello fellow Vikings and Shieldmaiden
Another year has passed, time flies so quickly recently. I would have never thought I would spend Christmas and New Years in Scandinavia. It surprises me how much the step outside of my comfort zone, with the creation of Tarantuhalla, changed my life.
Looking backwards I noticed and appreciate how many passionate people from around the world I have spoken and shared information about our hobby with. The recently introduced regular livestreams became an amazing gathering day for enthusiasts around the globe and that fills me with joy undescribable in words.
I hope 2025 will be as eventful as 2024, I will at least give my best to fulfill my goal of the channel: hobbies should unite, not devide.
So what are the plans for this year: if everything will go according to plan I would like to get a dedicated animal room. For long-form videos the main focus will be on genus guides, room updates, pairing and breeding vlogs and of course additions to the collection, but who knows what more will come. I would also like to record a guide for breeding spiders from A to Z... but we will see.
The introduction of livestreams definitely gave me a lot more breathing room with the channel, since I definitely overworked myself in 2023. It's a tough choice to make, when you want to grow your passion project, but decide to cut down in some places to increase overall quality of the videos... and life. Not only the channel was part of that decision, but also my involvement as a LARP organizer. But overall my body thanks me for that, and I hope this is an acceptable middle-ground.
For all you amazing people, who think about giving your dream a chance, don't wait for it to come, but give it a shot. It is worth it on levels beyond what you might imagine.
Skål och Gott Nytt År from Öland in Sweden, soon back in Poland
Marc
