2017 Comes To An End..... Dare I Say "Good Riddance!"? · 9:11pm Dec 31st, 2017
No, not everything was bad. In fact, this year started great, with lots of hopes for the future, more writing projects in mind, being at my dream position as dev team member of "Legends of Equestria", as a quest writer, the wish I always had, but thought would never get fulfilled.
2017 also began with one of the most beautiful and original pieces of fan-made pony animation that I have ever seen, from a promising, new pony artist with tons of potential and extraordinary creative ideas who gives attention to those barely anyone else gives attention to:
And I wrote my most successful one-shot fic so far right at the beginning of 2017, during its first days. So the start of 2017 was a fantastic one.
There was also the Open Beta Start of "Legends of Equestria" and the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Movie.
And some smaller good moments this year, like that I finished "The Strange Case of Dinky Hooves' Cutie Mark Curiosity" or contributed to the first ever Cutie Mark Crusaders Day.
And I finished "Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds" and "Aunt Millie", which includes the first time I finished a multi-chapter fic with "Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds".
But except for those few, awesome moments..... For the most part..... 2017 has been hell for me. My own personal hell, much like I died and got sent to my own personal hell dimension, tailored to me and my former life, to make me suffer for sins committed during my time of living.
That's how it felt, at least.
I don't want to go into detail about what all happened..... It all pains too much to list it here.
But the start of all, was a very horrible event in the LoE dev team, a particularly horrible fight and conflict of interests that still affects me to this day, even though it happened almost a full year ago now (January 28th). It leaves me at a questionable position, but I still try to turn certain things around, to turn the nightmare it has become back into my dream.
The conflict caused me to tumble into a downwards spiral and it caused a chain reaction of events to happen that still hasn't ended.
Depressions, that I missed out on pretty much all of "Legends of Equestria"'s Closed Beta and missed many iconic moments of the game's history there that will never, ever come back, my drastic decrease in writing output from the massive activity I had in 2016, a lot of stress, misery and heartache for my friend that came to be due to the event in January when she dealt with the fallout together with me, the start of LoE's Open Beta that got almost ruined for me due to yet another consequence of the aforementioned conflict of interests and that a circumstance arose that leads to it that I have to move out of the apartment I currently live in and put up with all the moving stress and anxiety once again, after living for not even two years here, those are the most influential, bad things that happened to me this year.
The reveal of Season 9 being the last one was the icing on the cake. If 2017 wouldn't have been the worst year of my life in this world, then this reveal would have added the last thing missing that was necessary for 2017 to officially become this year for me.
For the most part, 2017 has been yakshit for me. A big pile of horseapples.
Right now, things look up a bit..... I have mostly recovered, I feel better, I look forward to 2017 ending, hopefully for a much better and more active new year.
But not everything is rosy so far. I still have to move out here. Partially, I look forward to this, cause my renter here is an annoying, disrespectful and snooty b
h. But partially, I also dread it, because I hate moving for very personal reasons.
And that all is, only if I find a new place in time..... Finding a room in a shared flat is a nightmare here in Vienna and often fails at one thing; future roommates who want you to be extremely social even though you aren't that kind of pony who drinks the nights away with them or engages in hour-long discussions about politics with a glass of wine in front of you or rooms that are too small for all my stuff.
It is much harder to get a spot in a shared flat, rather than an own apartment, if you are a quiet pony outside of the Internet..... Sufficed to say, I cannot afford an own apartment, the amount of money you have to pay before you even can move in is horrendous.
So, the end of the year is a mixture of peacefulness and anxiety for me.
Though, I do have hopes left. Searching for a new place to live at the end of 2015 was a nightmare, too, but I made it. I made it. I have hopes I will make it this year too, cause it is not the first time that it's very tight (I have to leave here on January 19th at the latest) and that I run out of time.
I used to be more anxious only yesterday and almost broke apart..... But a very kind mare taught me an important lesson yesterday:
Believe that everything will turn out good in the end and your belief makes you trusting fate, so that fate becomes your friend and won't do any harm to you.
This is something that helped me feel better and my sincerest gratitude goes out to Moon Flower for this! 
I feel more at ease now, still on the fence, but more ready to fight a development that would make 2018 even more awful than 2017 was if it would happen.
So, I have hopes that 2018 will look better for me and that things will go up again now.
2017, though? Except for the few good moments that happened, I am happy to see it end. The time shortly before a year passes away and a new one gets born are magical moments, so I believe that everything will turn out fine and be better again for me from now on.
Farewell, 2017! May angels sing thee and the misery that came with thee to thy rest!
Welcome, 2018! You are greeted with open hooves and a hug, may you bring more happiness and success back into my life and a secure living situation as well!
This is all. Happy New Year, everypony! 
2017 was really a good year for you. And that animation of Dinkyuniverse is just as beautiful as her art.
Happy New Years. I hope everything clears up for you.
4763465
I do so as well. Things will turn out alright, somehow. My hope is burning brightly.
4763463
It sucked, as detailed. But 2018 will be better. I know it.
4763474
I had meant in terms of your stories but I'm sure 2018 wil be better.
4763478
It sucked there, too. Although, I did finish "Princess Flurry Heart, Destroyer of Worlds" and "Aunt Millie" as well, I forgot to add this, I'll edit it in.
But 2018 will be better, yes.
4763538
Agreed.
4763474
I have faith. Remember that I'm here I consider us friends.
Hello... Vienna calling!
4763573
Thank you.^-^ I might come back to that offer, if things take a complete turn for the worse.
4763918
One of my followers is from Vienna?
Didn't expect that to happen!
Have you been to any brony meet-ups in Vienna?^^
4764812
No, the Vienna reference reminded me of that song.
4764869
Oh..... And I thought you live in Vienna, too.