The Annual Star Questionnaire 2024/25

[Star]

Name:

Age:

Rate 2024 out of 10:

Highlight(s) of 2024?

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year?

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024?

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024?

What was missing from 2024 for you?

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025?

Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year?

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year?

 

[Star]

Link to last years thread

 

[Star]

Time to decompress and get it all out

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Name: Ag

Age: 44

Rate 2024 out of 10: 8

Highlight(s) of 2024? Oh God Rome. That's a good one ticked.

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year? I had fewer colds than normal?

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024? Reading.

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc Dan Jones book on the Crusades was a wonderfully insightful. Musically Charli was the one wasn't she?

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024? My husband

What was missing from 2024 for you? Good exercise

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025? Probably just fucking work more.

Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year? We've decided to treat ourselves more. More meals out, more shows etc. We have Titanique booked in March and a night at a spa in Feb.

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year? Increasingly they can't/ don't need to.

 

[K.C.]

Name: Joseph

Age: 36

Rate 2024 out of 10: 8

Highlight(s) of 2024? Buying my first home

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year? Apart from the above, I took on my first leadership position at my work. It's nothing huge, but it's been on my mind for a while.

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024? Trying new restaurants with my friends. Just discovering Chicago in general has been amazing this year.

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc Exploring interior decor ideas and furnishing my home. It's been so much fun curating my home.

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024? Family, friends, faith. Best things in life are free.

What was missing from 2024 for you? Whatever it is, there's always next year.

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025? Return to the gym. My fitness is the one thing I've neglected. I'm still healthy, but I miss my old body. I'd also like to do a little travel, maybe a small first trip to Europe, but I'm not sure I can swing it. Also, keep working on my home. DIY stuff and more furnishings

Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year? Getting a pay raise!

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year? Bring back tags.

 

[RJN]

Name: RJN/Bobby

Age: 29

Rate 2024 out of 10
10 (Ups and down, but I think I had more personal growth this year than the previous 10 combined)

Highlight(s) of 2024?
running a marathon, going to Colombia, making new friends

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year?
the marathon, as well as taking my anxiety seriously and trying to actually figure out the causes and how I can handle it. I also am happier with my body than I ever have been and have gained confidence in my own desirability

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024?
watching movies, lifting weights for the first time

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc
movies. I didn't realize how much I was missing out on

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024?
I made a lot of new friends this year, many of whom were different than people I've had in my life in the past. I think this has seriously helped me overcome social anxiety and made me a more well rounded person

What was missing from 2024 for you?
I didn't spend much time here. I want to more in 2025

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025?
1. Take it easy on myself
2. Take it easy on others
3. Hang out with my best friend more (our social lives don't intersect as naturally as they used to and she has a serious boyfriend. I need to actually make plans with her and not just assume I'll see her)
4. More sex
5. Be intentional with my time


Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year?
Turning 30. This was a transitional year, and I am ready for the next decade.

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year?
Tough question. I want to reengage more, so I guess just continuing to exist and post?

 

[ZZ]

Name:
It's me, ZZ!

Age:
43

Rate 2024 out of 10:
9/10

Highlight(s) of 2024?
My two visits to Europe AND seeing Kylie live

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year?
Thankfully yes!
(that's all I can say)

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024?
Creating a series of YouTube videos on the 35-year career of my beloved Keti Garbi, which actually have had some minor, but extremely unexpected, success!

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc
The British Scandal podcasts have been a highlight, also all the music by lovely Kylie

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024?
My son. A true treasure.

What was missing from 2024 for you?
a partner / friends

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025?
working even less than in 2024 and earning more

Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year?
continuing my artistic endeavours, writing, producing videos and podcasts

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year?
I use Moopy as my go to when I want to forget the world, laugh, enjoy new music, learn about what's happening out there that hasn't caught my eye or ear yet. So, I would say, just continue being what you are, Moopy. That's all I want from you.

 

[octophone]

Name:

Eight Telecommunications Devices

Age:

51

Rate 2024 out of 10:

4

Highlight(s) of 2024?

Advocating for myself at work and this working out for me.

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year?

No. My creativity remains in abeyance but there are flickers of life...

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024?

The usual explorations into the corners of the musical universe.

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc

Plenty of great music, old and new, the What Is Music?, Parallel Universe and Here Comes The Guillotine podcasts were much fun and accompanied many a long walk.

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024?

Particularly grateful for my father this year.

What was missing from 2024 for you?

A sense of purpose. Drive, energy, direction. That kind of thing.

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025?

To see friends more often. I think I'd like a new job too.

Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year?

Don't think so, no.

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year?

Be yrselves.

 

[Marina Salty]

Name: George

Age: 48

Rate 2024 out of 10: 8

Highlight(s) of 2024? Cat randomly going into labour in my hands, parents visiting us in the island/going beach hunting together.

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year? I don't think I ever set any but am glad I persuaded myself to see a doctor for my high blood pressure and get a proper health and cardio checkup.

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024? Running off to the island every opportunity we have. Doing a hell lot of DIY repairs. Gardening.

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc. The company of cats.

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024? Mr. Bay. And relatively good health for my parents.

What was missing from 2024 for you? Money and peace of mind.

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025? To not let unpleasant situations and pressure consume me as much. See friends and family more. Win and host an ASFM. Then cause a mayhem mid results when my excel calculations don't add up.

Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year?
Hopefully Kylie in Athens.

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year?
By doing what it best does, being there seeing hearing and discussing all.

 

[Rachey]

Name: Rachel



Age: 45



Rate 2024 out of 10: 6.5



Highlight(s) of 2024? The very start of the year going to South Africa



Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year? I didn't kill myself or anyone around me



What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024? Reading. Cannot believe it's taken me so long to get into, I'm obsessed.



What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc Really liking the He said, she said podcast. And again, reading.



Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024? Mandy, friends and family.



What was missing from 2024 for you? Having My own pets.



What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025? Try to stress less about the shop and things I can't change.



Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year? My current holiday in South America.



How can the Moopy community sup
port you in achieving your goals next year? Moopy already supports me in so many ways, it's somewhere I can come for advice, be judged fairly and critically, and just be myself.

 

[old spice]

Name:
old spice

Age:
TIMELESS.

Rate 2024 out of 10:
5. This may seem low but is actually the best that can be expected from post-Covid spice imo. It was a stable year free of drama and full of travel (in the first nine months at least). That's all one hopes for these days.

Highlight(s) of 2024?
They'll have to be travel highlights, I'm afraid. 1) New Zealand in Jan: first trip outside the 中文-speaking world since 2020, first time backpacking since the same, and just so so fucking beautiful and healing on every imaginable level. Why do I not live there? 2) Europe in Jul: first time returning to my part of the world for 5½ years; I was so worried that I'd become a fish out of water and that I'd hate all the toxicity that I'd been reading about from afar, but it was actually a much-needed reminder that it's 100% where I belong and that I still slot in almost seamlessly. I take huge comfort in that. 3) South Caucasus in Sep: first time 'properly' adventuring since 2019 (i.e. in nations where I cannae speak the language + cultures that I'm unfamiliar with) - all the baby steps of the prior twelve months had been made with the intention of bounding across foreign borders on rickety old public transport once again, and this was proof that I can still roll with the best of 'em.

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year?
Hmm. On my final night in Paris, I had an unplanned encounter with someone who'd wreaked havoc on my person back in 2021/22. It became an opportunity to express my side of a narrative that's been brushed under the carpet in the ensuing years. I wanted them to acknowledge their callousness, and to know that if I were a less humane human I'd wish them as much suffering as they'd so casually inflicted upon me. I needed to look into their eyes and watch them flounder, hurt, and repent. It took six hours of booze-fuelled diatribes (and at one point saw me splayed out as a snoring, decorative adornment to a Guimard metro entrance at 4am which was quite the sight ), but we got there in the end - and the weight on my shoulders has felt a little less hefty thereafter. I assumed that I wouldn't ever get to say my piece so I'll deem that the year's unforeseen turning point, though I still marvel at how people can be so impervious to their own barbarity. My naivete and misplaced faith in mankind will forever be my undoing.

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024?
Am I allowed to say travelling? I know I'm a broken record, but it's the one sphere where I legit excel above all others. Being away from home is where I feel most at home, and it's the version of myself that I like best - the one that doesn't defensively scowl at those that dare approach my orbit, the one that actually seeks out connections and initiates utter bedlam, the one who doesn't foreground his scars and wounds but who temporarily forgets they even exist as he loses himself in his surrounds (no, really, for such a seasoned vet I can't navigate fo' shit). For the longest time, I thought I'd never be able to hit the road on my own terms again, so 2024 was very much restorative in that regard.

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc.
I will pass on the music and books (maybe Giovanni's Room by Baldwin but I think it a notch below his very best). What did I enjoy? Smashing ten hiking trails in eleven days on South Island and learning that I'm still a fucking SPECIMEN. I kinda assumed that physical degradation goes hand-in-hand with mental degradation but this is definitely not so, and I'm grateful my body still facilitates my natural inclination to swing towards ridiculous extremes at short notice. I also enjoyed reconnecting with so. many. people! I love playing the role of feral itinerant who bursts his way out of the memory bank, temporarily upends everyone's lives, and then vanishes into oblivion while leaving them all craving so much more. Seriously tho, my existence may be an endless shitshow but I'm v lucky to be in good nick and to have so many amazing friends around the world who still seem to care (/can't take their eyes off the car crash).

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024?
My continuing - but surely finite - ability to cling onto the fading remnants of my VISAGE, which can still get me outta trouble when required. (Having what felt like the entire population of an Armenian border town take me under their wing when I ended up stranded for a night sans $$ is a case in point.) I won't get away with anywhere near as much shit in years to come, sigh, and I dread the day when I have to stop behaving like an irascible brat.

What was missing from 2024 for you?
Inner peace, but I've long resigned myself to accepting its absence anyway.

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025?
I should start a(nother) novel. I wrote one in 2023 when I was convinced I was about to DIE, but during 2024 I realised that it can't come out until I actually die, oops. Also it's harrowing, self-indulgent misery porn that's designed to alienate the reader and is therefore unmarketable. I feel I should write a second, more outwardly-coherent + less disturbing one that plays slightly closer to literary convention in order to get a foot through the door, thereby allowing myself a chance at being heralded for what will eventually be seen as a posthumous masterpiece. #stayhumble Can I be arsed tho!

Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year?
More travels, sorry! :/ Perhaps I should work at being more relatable (IRL too) but like, whyyy.

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year?
Prince/Bowie forums plz! Or maybe just a 'ramble incessantly' forum that's hidden out of view. I debuted here at 12 years old (which was def not cool in hindsight) so there's something that feels weirdly right about circulating back as an embittered old crank in decline. I appreciate the present tolerance for my walls of nonsensical text and hope that people continue to look kindly from a safe distance as I descend further into Abe Simpson territory. x

 

[funky]

Name: funky

Age: 29

Rate 2024 out of 10: 7

Highlight(s) of 2024? The birth of my Niece

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year? I got my salary back up to London levels from pre-covid while still being self-employed and with my cheaper Liverpool lifestyle, so I'm very proud of that

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024? I started writing screenplays again in my spare time

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc TV: The Diplomat, discovering Fabiana Palladino, the return to form (IMO) of Beyonce

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024? My niece and nephew. There is no love quite like it

What was missing from 2024 for you? I still miss London but I do go regularly, I just wish I could fully MOVE ON but it won't let me

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025? Travel more. I am so lucky to be able to work anywhere and I need to take advantage of that.

Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year? As above

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year? Actually, we need to boost the travel chat. There is nothing more interesting than talking about the world, and I need more recommendations. I'll make that my moopy resolution, to get more chat going so I can be more inspired about where to go

 

[Rachey]

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year? Actually, we need to boost the travel chat. There is nothing more interesting than talking about the world, and I need more recommendations. I'll make that my moopy resolution, to get more chat going so I can be more inspired about where to go

I completely agree with this!! It always surprises me that there isn't more travel related talk on Moopy.

 

[Generic Account]

Name: Roe-sting

Age: 32

Rate 2024 out of 10: 8

Highlight(s) of 2024? It hasn't been a super exciting year, but it's been solid. I suppose moving in with my partner.

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year? Start to finish in a job that challenges me but that doesn't make me resistant to walking in every day. Granted, I still get anxious about things, but they're always perfectly solvable. And though I wouldn't do the course again and don't know why I chose it in retrospect, I got a distinction in the postgraduate I'd been super anxious about this time last year.

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024? Books, bookclub, audiobooks. And I did some great courses - particularly one on Irish mythology and storytelling, and one on conflict, reconciliation and mediation.

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feenay was special in retrospect.

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024? Partner, family, friends, colleagues.

What was missing from 2024 for you? I've definitely spent a lot more time indoors or driving, particularly in winter. I want to get out on more walks and hikes again.

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025? Less reliant on phone and more time outdoors.

Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year? Travel.

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year? All good.

 

[Indie]

Name: West Indies

Age: 41 and a lot

Rate 2024 out of 10: 3

Highlight(s) of 2024? I like the bit where it ended.

Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year? I did my first 100 mile cycle ride, which was nice. It was torrential rain all day, which was less nice.

What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024? Getting drunk.

What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc. I don't like any music/books/podcasts etc.

Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024? Remaining family.

What was missing from 2024 for you? My mum's health.

What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025? Need to get away on a solo bikepacking tour again. Missed that last year.

Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year? Nigel Farage becoming Prime Minister

How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year? General encouragement. Thanks!

 

[GNL]

Name: Gangsta Nancy Lam


Age: still young


Rate 2024 out of 10: 8


Highlight(s) of 2024? Pompeii at sunset #RIPCaecilius


Did you achieve any personal goals/milestones this year? No!


What activities or hobbies brought you the most joy in 2024? Travelling, as above! I've also started bouldering which I'm TERRIBLE at and might kill me, and I still occasionally go for a run. Also going to gigs, finding cheap seats in the gods at west end theatres, and drinking copious amounts of alcohol.


What did you enjoy in 2024? Could be music/book/podcast etc brat


Who/what are you grateful to have had in your life in 2024? Many lovely friends #blessed


What was missing from 2024 for you? A new job with an extra £10k or two attached.


What are your personal goals or resolutions for 2025? A new job with an extra £10k or two attached.


Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the new year? A few birthdays, house warmings and shows lined up to keep me from going postal during the SAD post Christmas slump.


How can the Moopy community support you in achieving your goals next year? GoFundMe