I feel like every year, things get so chaotic at the end for the membership department that my plans for the 13 Days of A+ always go a little off the rails. This year, you might have noticed that we had to abandon the idea that we'd be able to do 13 consecutive days of A+ (now AF+) content. Chalk it up to Mercury Retrograde, working with a newly merged team to launch an app reader, all of us being burnt out by the end of whatever the heck 2023 was — but whatever it is, I don't want to dwell on it, because we did in fact have some lovely things happen.

First of all, to those who came out to the pop-up Discord server — including all the wonderful people who joined Drew Burnett Gregory for the Carol watch-a-long that opened the server — it ...