Hey everyone! This will be my first post since the New Year, so I'll fill you in on what's happened.

Since January 1st, I've had 2 more rounds of "heavy" chemotherapy. It's been rough.

Being away from everything for a long time has made me feel pretty disconnected from everything. It feels crazy, man. Weight is around the same as it was last post, and it's been my biggest struggle to maintain. Each month I'm worried about where I'll be next month. I think day to day, though I still can't seem to help thinking about the future in a negative way. As bad as things are, I'm really grateful that they aren't worse. But they have to get better, and it feels like it's only getting harder.

Though I also wanna go over some of the creative projects I've been working on in the past 2 months.

I participated in February Album Writing Month this year, where the goal is to write 14 songs in February. I was able to meet the count, and 3 of them were collaborations with @artistunknown. If you're interested in hearing any of it, here's the link: http://fawm.org/fawmers/stickyfingers/ Just don't expect too much out of what are essentially song sketches.

I've been meaning to make another video discussing the struggles of chemo and all but at this point, it's exhausting to talk about and way more exhausting to experience.

I've been sort of disillusioned with my music, in the sense that I don't like how it's mixed and mastered and I honestly don't know what to do to fix it, since I'm on a tight budget. It's really difficult gaining any sort of traction with my music and it's a bit discouraging.

To end on a positive note, at least my treatment will end in July. Until then, it's a struggle.

Gonna be better at replying to comments this time.
 

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Thank you to everybody who supported me in 2017, and may we all have a great 2018! Here is some of the content I posted on NG this month:
 

@Artistunknown and I collaborated on "Flash Library: Christmas," an animation collab where we had to make animations related to Christmas under time constraints.

 

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/780007

I uploaded "Back at the Lighthouse," a demo of a 2015 song that didn't make the cut for my first album. I was really glad to see it got frontpaged, so thanks guys!

Feeling pretty good about 2018 so far - what about you? 
 

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I will be briefly bringing back my series "Flash Library" which was basically a bunch of flash collabs! Here's your chance to get in on Flash Library Christmas!

COLLAB DETAILS:

Theme: Christmas
720x405 or 1280x720
24 fps
Anything goes, but keep it to a T (13+) rating at most 

I must have all entries in by 12/25 3pm EDT! You can submit your entry by PMing me or linking me.
 

My dog Meili in my backyard.
 

Health update: The first 10 days of chemo were pretty awful, but now that I've passed that stage, I've been doing considerably better. I've also been doing alright with my songwriting ambitions. Thanks for everyone who's supported me, I really appreciate it!

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Hey everyone! I hope you're doing well. I've been coming off of my third round of heavy chemotherapy. There are nine rounds of heavy chemo overall. Things haven't been going very smoothly, but I feel like things are slowly getting better. Here's a video chronicling my 3-day stay at the hospital for my heavy chemo treatment.

I've been hoping to get back to making videos and songs like I used to, and I think I'm easing back into that a bit. I'm thinking about making more videos about the songwriting process, but I haven't organized my thoughts and ideas for that yet. My second album is still in the works and definitely won't see a 2017 release like I hoped. I already released a good amount of material, and I don't have enough tracks to make a fresh second album. I've decided to take time to write more songs for it.
 

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Hey everyone! I hope you're all doing well. As you may remember, I announced I was donating all of the proceeds my release "Plastic People EP" earned in October to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. I'm glad to say that in final proceeds (all processing fees taken into consideration), the EP has raised almost $150. Thank you so much to everyone who donated! And to those who didn't donate but listened, I really appreciate you giving my music a chance. If you wanna listen, you can check it out here:

I got back into making videos! It might take a little bit to get back into the groove of things, but I think these are a good start.
 

It's been done before, but I decided to take a stab at watching The Little Panda Fighter. Here's what happened.

I teamed up with my friends and we went ghost hunting!

As for the health things - I've been doing alright lately. I can't help but wish things were back to the way they used to be, but I can live with it. Gotta start a new """chapter""" sometime, I guess. I've been committing myself to writing lots of songs each month. Although there are no gems, it has been interesting to flesh out my songwriting and experiment with more personal and meaningful ideas. Also, my next dose of heavy chemo is coming soon and one of the possible side effects is peeing blood, not too happy about that.

But to end on a positive note, I really appreciate this site and all of the people here who have shown me love and support. October was alright in terms of content. I wish I had more stuff on NG that I could link to here instead of just a bunch of external links, but current conditions make art and animation a little challenging. I'm getting there though! The chemo thing sucks, but let's hope that November turns out well anyway.

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Hey everyone, I recently released Plastic People EP. I will be donating 100% of the proceeds this month to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital until the end of October! 

Now that I'm living it, I understand more about the struggle, the pain, and the challenges that come with having childhood cancer. Because of this, the research and treatment of childhood cancer is an important subject to me personally. I will be donating to the charity myself. 

All of the proceeds go to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital until the end of October.

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Hey guys! It's been a while. I got hospitalized yesterday on September 26 for my second round of hard chemotherapy. However, they discharged me today! I'm also excited to announce that I released a new EP with five songs: https://christophertom.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-people-ep

EDIT 9/29/17: I'm excited to announce that starting today, I will be donating 100% of the proceeds of my new collection of songs "Plastic People EP" to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital until the end of October! 

Now that I'm living it, I understand more about the struggle, the pain, and the challenges that come with having childhood cancer. Because of this, the research and treatment of childhood cancer is an important subject to me personally. I will be donating to the charity myself. 

All of the proceeds go to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital until the end of October.

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Hey guys! It's been a while. I get hospitalized on August 15, Clock Day, for some intense chemo treatments. But before I have to go back to the hospital, I released a new song:

Or if you wanna listen to it here on Newgrounds:

Love ya guys, wish I could contribute more to this community but since my passions have shifted from art and animation to music, I figured the best I could do in that regard is to just keep posting here. How are you doing?

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Hey everyone. First of all, thank you so much for the outpouring of support surrounding the brain cancer video. As far as my health goes, I've been undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. The treatment's been rough but I'll make it through. I'll update anyone who cares about my recent content.

I released my first song in about a year. This one's called "Lightning Bolt" - the mix isn't final so it isn't officially available for purchase anywhere. I mainly uploaded it to gauge interest and get feedback.
 

Here, Dr. Chris PhD himself offers you expert advice on the best texts to get the ladies going - you don't wanna miss out!

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Hey everyone. The title isn't clickbait, I really do have brain cancer. A few months ago I started to get these persistent headaches and became more and more off-balance. I didn't think too much of it, though eventually I had to schedule an appointment with the neurologist who issued an MRI. The MRI showed a mass in my brain and it turned out I have a brain tumor. My family and I then found out that the brain tumor was cancerous once the oncologist showed up and started talking to us.

As much as I don't want to turn this into another "plugging my YouTube videos" post, I made a video about my experience with brain cancer so far that goes more in-depth on the situation.

Thank you to everyone who's shown love and support, and thanks to Newgrounds as a whole for all of the entertainment it's provided me.

Also, @artistunknown drew this fantastic picture about it, so be sure to check it out!

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