Happy eighteenth birthday, Altered Origin! Just a wee handful of updates today, as per usual (though I did at least update again earlier this year, for once!).

First off, there's a new piece of fanart in the gallery. I participated in a TCG redraw event on Tumblr, and got to try my hand at expanding/putting my own spin on the artwork on a Mega Gyarados card!

The PokéPod Project hosted their Gen Two anthology this year, and just like last year I was able to contribute a few pieces. One of them was the usual pokédex mini-style drabble, in this case Pupitar, while the other was actually a longer piece for Raikou. They were both a lot of fun to write, and as always it was lovely to hear the podfic versions of them as well (by Kitsune_Heart and quandrix_quizard, many thanks to the both of them!). Be sure to give the podfic versions a listen as well—Pupitar's is linked under its drabble, and you can find Raikou's here. As usual, do check out the rest of the anthology as well if you can! Several of my friends and a ton of other talented pokéfic community members contributed to this, and there's a lot of great stuff to enjoy.

That's all for now! I do want to make some small additions to the Trainer Generator to account for Legends Z-A, but I was a bit too busy to have that done by today, and at this point I might as well wait and see if the DLC is going to add anything relevant so I can get all that done at once.

Wishing you all the best for the rest of 2025 and beyond!