CNN#12: Cranny Wrapped
New Year's Eve is a portal.
Welcome to my new year
Hear you, hear you! The new year cometh. Perhaps you’ve heard of my famous saying: New Year’s Eve is a portal. Which is true, that it is. You go in one side and come out the other, completely and utterly changed. And there’s no fucking going back, no matter how hard we try. Unless of course you have a time machine like I do but yeah.
As of the times of late, I’ve been thinking back on my 2025 year and what are the amazing accomplishments I made which were aplenty, to be sure. So yeah, my idea was to talk about them here in this month’s newsletter which by all accounts is still going stronger than hell. Many have put it in their Top Newsletters of 2025 end of the year lists and shit, which I wasn’t surprised by but I was still happy to have heard that from some of my contemporaries.
Eh, it’s not like newsletters are really that tight or anything. It’s basically just a dumping ground for whatever crap I did in a month’s time. And by the way time tends to slip away from time to time, and at times as well, too.
Well, without further of do, I’ll go ahead and start listing crap about my year now:
Best website of 2025
Who else remembers when I created my website cranny.world? To be honest, it was just about one of the best things I did this year. The idea behind of it was to put all of my amazing works of art into one fun and easy to use place. It’s quickly become a favorite website to millions of adoring fans, who say they just love clicking around on there! Go ahead and check it out soon! Expect to see it get used even more in 2026 in surprising and exciting new ways!
Look out world wide web, there’s a new website in town!
Some highlights include when my evil doppelganger known as Evil Cran took over the website and created the cranny.world/evil page. Some people were like, what the actual…?
Then, of course there was the time that the website got overrun by viruses but was saved by the good people at geek squad. cranny.world/aprilfools
And who could forget when famous hacker syndicate Anonymous got their own page on the cite? cranny.world/anonymous (Password hint: Anonymous’ favorite beverage).
Best of Cranny TV
Admittedly, this wasn’t a huge year for CrannyTV in terms of output. Yeah, I guess I had other things going on. So sue me… But, we did manage to post some Haunted Harvest content in the fall, and this winter a brand new Cranny Cola Christmas Ad was made with the help of ROBO-ai, from HiROBOT!
Animation by friend of the newsletter Zoey Brooke aka aliengirl100.bsky.social done for the haunted harvest. Zoey is a amazing animator and friend.
Cranny Cola Christmas ad, who could ask for more?
Here’s hoping next year brings more CrannyTV content! Let me know if you have any ideas, I think this wells just about gone dry. Just kidding around, I’m sure I’ll think of something later but first I need to run around a lot and try to find things in the woods and see if I can try to find constellations in the sky that no one else ever noticed before, like one time I came up with one that is a pyramid you can see in August and I always still look up at it and see it. I call it, ummmm cranny pyramid for now, but I’ll probably change the name of it later if I feel like it and so but yeah.
Short Stories
I wrote just a couple little shorty stories this year for whatever reason and decided to post them online for others.
So, this was a story that I started to write for a zine called Damn Chicken Scratches, which is a real publication by the way. And I began writing this story. So far I only have part 1 available to the public. Just go ahead and let me know if you’re itching for more.
The story was inspired by old pulp horror tales, and the like. Basically just a silly little tale of terror and deceit and adolescence and cola?
Ahh Brainss ←click
Ahh Brainss was another little horror story I wrote this year, it’s about a guy who goes and plays games with his friends and everybody dies.
I began to write a story known as The Cranulet last month. Basically, this is intended to be an ongoing tale which I will pepper in the newsletter whenever it feels right. If you want to know more about the exploits of City-Slicker Cran then you’re going to have to keep reading my newsletters, capiche!
The Harvest
Let’s be honest, I basically already summed that up right here:
Aaaaand yup…
So I guess that’s basically everything I did in a year. Pretty fucking pathetic if you ask me. Next year I’m going ten times harder than ever before you better believe it!
So what’s next?
Great question! Hell if I know! I’m just winging this shit basically but you can rest assured I’m going to be having a lot of fun making weird stuff for a handful of people from around the globe to gawk at in their spare time. You know there’s a guy in South Korea who reads my stuff? Crazy shit…
I do actually have a few ideas, and if you’ll recall from my first ever newsletter I even started some things that I’ve yet to finish. So there’s some juice there… I want to do more writing than ever before in the history of the Crannyverse and basically spend so much of my free time jotting shit down. There’s this idea for a novel I’ve been kicking around for years now.
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See you…
Next year I mean this year now,