Featured Favorites: A 2025 Year in Review

[TheSillyPuppy]

Spoiler: Description

2025 was a year of learning to find joy amidst the chaos. From top to bottom and left to right:

• Game of the year: One of my favourite content creators did a playthrough of Blue Prince, which inspired me to try the game out for myself. It's the first time that I found myself taking notes while playing through a game!
• Musical of the year: I saw Wicked live. The cast was amazing. Definitely many years overdue seeing this show, despite self-identifying as a thespian.
• Completed game of the year: I finally toughed it out and went back to finish playing Pokemon: Legends Arceus, which I had started in 2023. Finishing the pokedex was less tedious than I expected it to be, and I was so relieved when I defeated Arceus.
• Hobby of the year: I took a tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) class, and I loved it so much. Once I wrapped my head (and fingers) around the motions, I found it to be a therapeutic and relaxing activity. I'm already planning a month-long project to work on throughout Ramadan.
• Physical activity of the year: Happy that I went indoor bouldering throughout 2025, though I would have loved to go more often and more regularly.
• Artist of the year: I saw the band, Survive Said The Prophet, live after discovering their music through the anime Vinland Saga. This was the first time I experienced losing my voice for reasons unrelated to getting sick. XD Needless to say, the concert was a blast.

 

[DaCoSim]

This is a lot, lol. So I have a lot of favorite little instances and things that helped make 2025 not one of the worst years ever. I teach wreath making classes and ended up getting quite a few paid commissions this year, which was pretty awesome. The two wicked wreaths I did were definitely my favorite to create.

I was super stoked to finally finish my TBT scrapbook which has kind of been in the making for a bazillion years it seems.

This April Fools’ Day, I got to play a really good joke on my oldest, and everybody around was all and on it, including his girlfriend who is in the picture with him and my youngest, who was the one recording the whole thing while my oldest thought he was just watching a video on his phone and all of my managers were in on it as well. When he went to take off the bowl to eat crawfish, they were all still alive and crawling around, which was pretty damn funny.

So when we all went to go see, the live action how to train your Dragon in theaters we found out that Shrek two was gonna be playing at like 9:30 in the morning on a Tuesday or something like that and the tickets were only like $1.75 so we jumped on that one and immediately grabbed tickets. Shrek 2 was in fact the very first movie I took my oldest in theaters when he was two years old.

Interacting with my silly crazy, super sweet doggos, Ellie and Eevee, always make my day better. We got to bring Ellie with us to my mom‘s on Thanksgiving so that’s her with her head on the table while we’re all playing cards.

And finally, the anticipation going in to watching the final season of Stranger Things, which inspired the first elf on the shelf prank of the year at my job and also going to decorate for Christmas, which is always super fun because I have a Grinch themed tree and grinch themed decorated living room.

 

[Cirice]

Here are my highlights of 2025:
1. Person of the year! This is the year my QPP and I got together, so to represent them without sharing a picture of them I chose themes that suits them: Lavender & galaxies
2. Discovery of the year: Taro boba tea! I love taro now! This is my drink of the year I think!
3. Game of the year? That hasn't been released yet? I got really excited for the announcement of the new Tomodachi Life game and I thought about it a lot and talked about it with my friends a lot as well.
4. Hobby of the year: In 2025 I started working out, so to represent that I chose my favourite fitness influencer that I've been following all year long, fitness_unicorn
5. Location of the year: I visited London for the second time this year and saw Big Ben, it was so exciting!