First and foremost I would like to announce the end of the short lived trend of using single characters as themes for puzzles, a moment of silence if you will. Anyways, I've recently taken part in Black-Out Friday 2023, and I want to share the puzzle I made for it here, as well as the entire set! The theme was to make any shading puzzle you wanted, so I decided to mash together a couple of personal favorite genres, Tapa and Aqre⁴.
And here is the link to the full pdf with all of the puzzles! (I recommend checking out non's puzzle, it's pretty good.)
⁴ Both Tapa and Aqre are 4 letters long, and this is footnote number 4... coincidence⁶? That's for you to decide...
⁶ Yes.