ART BY:
 Lucca
Original Art - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35327399/

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(Plops down on his padding upon his ‘thinking rock’ in his family’s yard)

“Time to look back on another year of being a little quacker,” the green colored dino-duck says while pulling a pen from between his red head spikes.

(He allows his tongue to slip out as he reads and thinks back on all the notes he has taken over the past year while thinking about other years that have gone by.)

“Hmm,” he ponders. “You would think I would have gotten out of diapers by now?”

(He takes a moment to look down on his diaper while giving a light rub upon its surface. He then bounces himself a bit on the rock as lavender-scented powder puffs out from the diaper’s leg holes.)

“Oh,” he giggles while breathing in the soothing scent of the powder and feeling his bubbly backside remain unharmed from the firm rock. “Why would anyone want out of these?”

(Yosh giggles as he thinks on how there was a time he was afraid to be out in the open in just his shirt and diapers. If it weren’t for Nishi and Oxnard ‘pantsing’ him so much, he may never have allowed himself to freely roam about without his shorts. Now it was almost second nature to him and quite liberating.)

“Where to begin…?,” he ponders while looking to the sky and seeing a beautiful butterfly go by. “Oh, how wonderful it was to see. Though there is a certain vision that only blindness can give that is as pure as the heart of a little ducky.”

(Yosh writes the notes down while soothing himself through rocking back-and-forth on his pillow-like Little Ones size 7 diaper.)

“Being blind in real life is lousy,” he pouts. “However I can see here just fine.”

(He looks about to take in the family home, his little sister with his mother rocking on the porch swing, his father gathering peat moss from the pond in their yard, and then the yellow-colored paper he is writing upon.)

“It’s weird having no sight while still being able to see so clearly here with all of you,” he smiles. “Everything is just so brilliantly colored and full of life.”

(Feels a cool breeze that makes his shirt flip about and the loose flagging of his diaper rustle.)

“The winds of change have blown for me quite a bit since my first Star Day on here,” he says thoughtfully. “However everything here has either gotten better, or remained the same.”

(He makes note of this as another gentle breeze blows past.)

“Stability and acceptance is such a wonderful feeling,” the white-feathered dino-duckling remarks. “Outside of FA, I can’t say I have ever felt more able to be the real me with the exception of at BronyCon.”

(Feels a tear form in his eye at how BronyCon is no more and how he will miss those few days of finding peace in his human-self in which allowed him to make friends, feel a genuine part of something, and genuinely valued for what all he and his pals managed to make happen through Coping With Limitations Through Pony.)

“There are other opportunities…,” he thinks while squeezing his legs together to soothe himself in his diaper’s cloud-like texture while making small puffs of lavender scent waft up to his nose. “Though they are not through traditional methods….”

He resumes rocking himself while taking in how happy his baby sister rests upon his mother Yoshi’s lap and his daddy Duck keeps on merrily quacking as he collects the night’s dinner in a wooden bucket.)

“Even after I lose this job, I know the Yosh part of me will be able to pick myself up by the flagging of my diapers to march on to wonderful new horizons!” he quacks triumphantly while standing himself up from the rock and raising his hands to the air. The display showing his mid-drift of pudgy feathery tummy between his shirt and notably loose diaper.

“And I can’t forget about Equestrian Yosh,” he adds while moving to bring the tablet back down to add to his entry. “Equestria Yosh is how I became able to work out my fear and trauma from having lost all of my eyesight!”

(He starts teetering himself from side-to-side as his charisma builds.)

“Then there are my great friends here that will always give me a reason to not allow me to fall into a dark abyss so long as I never stop believing in myself!” he exclaims.

(Excitement consumes him as he starts jogging in place while flapping his hands at his sides. When he is done, his diaper has fallen down to his shoes)

“Whoops!” he blushes while trying to pull the overworked diaper back up. “Good thing this is a ‘General Audiences’ post.”

(Yosh winks in a ‘4th wall break’ while deciding to just let the diaper go, kick off his shoes, drop his pen and pad, wiggle out of his shirt, and run to join is father in the pond.)

“Thank you everyone for always being there for me!” he quacks while very notably breaking the ‘4th wall’. “There is no need to list names as, honestly, I know more of you are out there than I may ever hear from. It is from all of you who read, view, favorite, and/or comment while allowing me to do the same in which keeps me young at heart while knowing my real self will find a way to go beyond its perceived limits.”

(Turns enough so his wet, feathery rump and stubby tail can be seen poking up out of the water. He then wiggles it with a giggle prior to plopping back and swimming towards his father.)

“Forty is the new four, right?” he blushes. I look forward to sharing stories, life adventures, and all things friendly and fun with everyone over the next year. Lots of tough stuff has happened, and is still happening, but I’ll borrow the concept of how others can take my ability to work, health can take my sight, but nothing will ever take the most important thing to me…. Friendship."