crowstina aquafina: rows garden (feat. alex boisvert)

happy new year's eve eve! i said i wasn't going to rush and put out a puzzle for the sake of putting out a puzzle (something i'm really, truly, finally leaving in 2024 is weird notions about my own productivity! comparing yourself to other people is a thief of joy!), and i was true to that! alex came to me a few weeks ago and asked if i wanted to do a puzzle, and the timing worked out! a rows garden puts up a bit of a fight in construction—it's a lot of killing your darlings, and finding new darlings, and having a lot of difficult conversations with yourself about words like ANAEROBIC. but we did it! it's here! just under the wire! we hope you like it.

in alex's words—happy new year everyone!

(brevity is the soul of wit)

and don't worry, we had it test solved. any lingering issues are actually 100% kate's fault.

a while back, i declared that i had discovered the meaning of life, and that it's three relatively simple things: 

1. wearing sunscreen
2. finding/creating/multiplying joy
3. a little bit of mischief  

i stand by that, but want to add one other thing—hell is not other people! i'll be taking that with me into 2025, and hope you are all able to take forward things that serve you and leave behind things that don't. onwards and upwards! 

NOW, WHERE SOLVING THE PUZZLE IS INVOLVED: YOU HAVE SOME OPTIONS!

FULLSCREEN LINK [HERE] or EMBEDDED SOLVER below the jump!