The sequel to everyone's least anticipated series of annual reviews on Newgrounds.com!

This is

MONTH-TO-MONTH MIDGETSAUSAGE 2022.

JANUARY

I began the year with not one but two frontpages! The first one is actually my entry for Tankmas 2021, which was pushed all the way back to January 1st because of a lot of constraints.

FEBRUARY

February is mostly just downtime for me. At this month I published probably one of my proudest art pieces yet because of the amount of time and quality I put into it, a dramatic drawing of @Kilomatter's Milo.

It was also around this time that I released MIDGETSAUSAGE 64 on my Spotify, which is a compilation of tracks that I had wanted to also feature on my Spotify page.

MARCH

Lots of things happened in March!!! Before my birthday, which fell on the 15th, I showed off some busts I made for @beenibroh's game Time Can Tell.

I also released this cover of the Lupin III theme, which went through so many changes as I kept on tweaking and tweaking it, even months after its release.

March was also the time people started uploading fanart of @Stepford's 360 Degrees, which was a really fun game! I had made two decals for the game itself, but I also earned another frontpage for this piece I spent tons of hours on.

As for my actual birthday, well, among other things, I celebrated by having this thing as my banner all month, which was an extension of the banner I made for my 15th birthday.

This month was also when I started posting the music I made for @zachs234's (canned?) game Adam's Taxi Service! Of the 5 tracks I posted on NG, three of them got frontpaged.

APRIL

I went as a furry for April Fools', which meant I was now stuck with the absolutely egregious username @furrysausage and now had a FurAffinity account to my name.

April is also the time I first used this profile picture, which has become my standard profile picture for just about every account I still actually actively manage (Twitter, Newgrounds, etc) because of its versatility.

To top it all off, I released my first animation of 2022, an entry to a failed collab @Joe-Mega had planned to make.

To date, this is the only animation I've made that has actual genuine hate comments because of the joke in the video.

MAY

Shit REALLY starts ramping up in May.

I mentioned the Lupin III theme cover I made in March because I eventually got around to releasing a full length version, which went on to be frontpaged and even get a Weekly User's Choice award.

I also started to make more animated stuff, beginning with I've got 50p, an animated version of a video by kmlkmljkl and was one of the videos where I demonstrated being able to shit out an animation in only 4-5 days from conception.

May is also when I released the first 8 pages of my comic Cooper Bullet! Finally, Jennifer Austere and Arthur Brooks are now real! Though I sort of cringe when looking back at these pages, I still think it's one of the best things I've done that month.

Check out the Cooper Bullet archive!

May was also when @smallphroge's birthday was, so I made this short animation of two frogs fighting under the rain, which both made her really happy AND won me my first solo Daily Feature, 237 days after I tried getting daily first with that A Waste o' Time trailer!

MAY

FulpWare.

I didn't forget.

@RGPAnims' shining gem of a Pico Day entry. It's still the 4th in the list of best of all time submissions in NG! I'm glad I was with it from the beginning up until the end, from coming up with the name FulpWare to making a frontpage banner for it with @pommisc's art after it released.

That Sublo & Tangy Mustard part I made for the collab is pretty cool, sure, it's pixel art in Flash. but that Wii menu in the start (which nobody asked me to make by the way) is still hands down one of the coolest (and also most insane!) things I've ever done with Flash CS6 and in general.

And here's how I made it!

This video has been on my backburner of shit I really needed to upload, so here it is. I'm not sure if people can even understand what I wrote in the video, but I think I've shown what I needed to show in it.

I had also done animation for @BigTexasTony's Pico Day cartoon.

@Graeme also released The Life and Death of Boe (Kill Boe 3) and I'm proud that he chose my part as the game's thumbnail!

I really liked making my part and how weird it turned out to be, and I'm just glad I was part of that project.

It was also around this time that I had gotten 900 fans, and so I celebrated by releasing a sort of sequel to two frogs, the aptly titled five frogs.

It was not as successful as the first frog video and is one of two times I ever actually celebrated NG follower milestones.

June is also when I released Jackstone Jam Zone, which is a Sonic 2 and Michael Jackson-inspired track that uses the Sonic 2 soundfont! It performed pretty well, getting a frontpage when I least expected it!

I need to also mention Watch This Number Go Up, which is a really stupid game I made very quickly with Scratch 3 to test medals, and somehow it managed to get an Underdog of the Week award, so there's that.

Lastly (and also the least) I released yet another album on Spotify, the weirdly named Does This Album Even Have A Name...?, containing a bunch of tracks.

JULY

July was when classes started, so I had noticeably slowed down a bit. But that really didn't stop me from making two more art pieces, which I think still hold up pretty well, and Newgrounds thought so too, which is why they frontpaged my JSR-inspired birthday gift to @NatnatGaming101.

In this month I also began my "...revisited" series, which are a series of recreations of some of my old tracks, and were done because I felt like I had improved so much that the original versions just didn't represent my new skills well. The title of the series is taken from the Queen song In The Lap of the Gods ...revisited.

The first track to be given the revisited treatment was Wibbie Shrine, a track I still really love because of its mood and simplicity, and I guess Newgrounds loved it too, which is probably why they frontpaged it and gave it a Weekly 5th.

The second track to be given the revisited treatment was the track I made for @Kraikein and @Tacopug's Monster March Collab last year, called Godzilla's March. Unfortunately, despite having the wickedly talented @Jumbs on board, it didn't really do well, and is one of two revisited tracks that were not frontpaged.

For this month I made an entry for @BrandyBuizel's Summer Lovin' Jam. It did not get into the final collab, which I was honestly kind of okay with because besides, at that point in time, all I really wanted was to just see myself in a beach with my beloved.

... I also drew this thing. I like it. It's one of a few Sonic art pieces I uploaded in Newgrounds and I'm including it here.

AUGUST

it's big hoss time.

thank u lots @heyopc

What was he cooking?

I didn't win anything for that jam but I sure am hell glad I was in the honorable mentions!!!! I'm happy Chris loved my entry as much as I did lmao

August is also the month I released An Ordinary Adventure+, at least, what remains of it. It was intended to be a remake/update of the original game, but because of a lot of technical issues and the fact that I had a falling out with the game's creator and his friend group, this is all that remains.

I also released its soundtrack here as well.

@migmoog also commissioned a banner from me for 50 Steam dollars!!!! which meant I finally got to play Sonic Mania lmao

If anyone wants to commission me for profile pictures and banners and is willing to pay in the form of Steam gift cards (I am dead serious) then feel free to chat me up!!!

August also saw the release of a new addition in the revisited series, Jackstone Jam Zone (yes, just months after its release). It like Godzilla's March didn't perform as well as I hoped it would, and honestly I kind of dislike this version.

But I quickly made up for it with the scrapped AnotherGuy boss music intended for AOA+, which is the only AOA+ track that got frontpaged!

SEPTEMBER

September went as quickly as it arrived.

There's only two things of note, one is that I made a quick entry for @Taka's Cute Cat Collab, which received some flak because it was essentially just a slideshow with no animation, but that was a long time ago.

Another entry in the revisited series (though it isn't explicitly named one) is NON DESISTAS NON EXIERIS...?, a remake of the music used in the AWoT trailer and, consequently, the game's actual boss music.

Sketch Collab 2022 signups! This time, it was hosted by @Ozone, myself and Ryan. It was finally open and we had initially wanted to cap it to around 100 members, but at the incessant deman- uh, request of Brandy, we lowered the bar of entry significantly and allowed more people in.

OCTOBER

October is like the calm before the storm. Because of schoolwork, there was lots of downtime around this month.

I made this quick shitpost mocking Chris Pratt's part in the Nintendo Direct showing the first Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer using the same techniques as my actual part in FulpWare.

October was also when we announced that Sketch Collab 2022 is now closed for signups. We had accepted more than 140 people.

I also started playing TF2. Oh no.

NOVEMBER

And this is when shit starts ramping back up, but it's still the calm before the storm.

At this point everyone had finished their Sketch Collab entries after we had extended the deadline by a week, so it was up to Ozone to compile it all up.

I released a full version of a cover of Sublo & Tangy Mustard's main theme, which did pretty well!

Pages 9 to 14 of Cooper Bullet was finally released after being long overdue! It was also at this point I was starting to reconsider how to actually approach this comic, so I once again put it on hold.

Also at this point I was practically buried under a mountain of schoolwork, which thankfully I was able to burn... wait, no, keep up. I was able to keep up.

DECEMBER

*clears throat* alright

Now I wasn't able to join Tankmas this year for one reason or another, but I was able to make up for it by basically having the most shit happen this month. I'll start with the little things, which just so happens to be this Christmas Charlie profile picture I made. It's a recreation of an old drawing of mine from 2020 and I'm proud of it honestly.

December saw the release of another entry in the revisited series, this time of Peasant-Mocking Pleasantries (or In Clubberpub, There Is A Bouncer) which is now my second most viewed song as of writing.

Sketch Collab 2022 finally released on the 21st!!!!! I'm glad it's many people's first exposure to lots of wonderful new artists, who hopefully would all be as successful as I have become for the past 2 years ever since I had my big break with Tankmas 2020. It was the biggest Sketch Collab ever hosted, 15 years after the original.

For SC 2022 I had made two teaser trailers for it, and the first one (which had so many views on Twitter) featured a cover of This Horizon that I had made but never released. I decided to actually release the damned thing and ended up with my fifth consecutive frontpage in a row, breaking my previous streak of 4!!!

That's not all for December, because there's still one more project waiting to be released: @ayofern's film, Girls Night!, which is gonna be released on the 26th. So stay tuned for that.

wahashashahsah im on the fuckin credits!!!!!!

nyeheheheheheheheh

So, weirdly, despite not being part of the main cast of artists drawing gifts for every day of Tankmas, I still appear in the game in one way or another. Funny how life works.

... OKAY, NOW WHAT?

We may never know.

I'll stick around hopefully, but I'm not sure. After March next year I'll be attending senior high school classes, and I have no idea how batshit insane those are gonna be (probably even more hellish than what some of my friends are experiencing) and the future does not look bright for me.

But I'll try to be around. I can't guarantee I'll be, but I'll try.

It's weird I end a year review post like that, not being sure if I'll even be around next year, because to be honest with you I don't know if I really will be.