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December 3rd

If you've kept an eye on my past few news posts, or perhaps taken a casual stroll over to the to-do list, you might have noticed that the date "December 3rd" has been popping up a lot; no further explanation has been given, however. So what exactly is so special about December 3rd? Why did I make that a deadline for all these site updates, and why was I rushing to get it all done at the last minute thanks to NaNoWriMo and school eating up the entirety of my November?

Why, it's dcNET's third birthday, that's why! Hooray, confetti, song and dance, et cetera!

"What's that?" you ask? "Since when? What ever happened to birthdays one and two?" Well, actually, it's a funny story...

...okay, no it isn't. The truth is, I completely forgot when the site's birthday was. (I'm sorry, baby, I'm a terrible person... you know I love you, though, right? D: ) I only checked this stuff on a whim a few months ago; at first I actually thought that it was October 4th, which is when I purchased the webspace and a domain name. Turns out that that domain name was actually a different one, though, one I eventually plan to use for non-fandom, original stuff. dcNET's domain name was purchased in late November/early December—not quite clear on the exact date—and as far as searching through my old website files can tell me, dcNET itself went live on the internet for the first time on December 3rd, 2007. I felt bad for completely forgetting about it for two years, so I decided that I'd start celebrating it this year. And there you go! Birthdaytiem.

The following updates would have appeared sooner in the day, by the way, but I was still rushing to finish some of them and then my mom took the family out to see Cirque du Soleil in the middle of the afternoon. It was a great show and all, and I really enjoyed it, but way to cut into my website's birthdaytiem, Mom. >|

BUT it is not yet 12:00AM where I am, so there is still time! Let the updates begin!

Happy 21st birthday to me, etc.. Yes, the comic thing is weird and crappy. It was hilarious when I started doodling it while half-asleep in class a few nights ago. Shut up.

Anyway, as for updates: neither the fakedex subsite nor the EV training page is quite ready to go live yet, but I swear to god they're coming along, and nicely at that.

However! For those of you who have also caught the fakemon bug and would like to try something interesting, I'd like to direct your attention right here. That link (which has also been up on the sidebar for a few days) leads to my new forum, DexGenesis. DG is an "experiment", if you will, that aims to see what the members of the Pokémon fanwork community can accomplish if they put their heads together in a series of group projects. We've already got what looks like a fun fanregion started, so join us and contribute!

I have at least two more pictures to add to the fanart page, but I'll worry about that later. I'm tired. Maybe maybe maybe also on tap for "later" is something special, but it depends on whether or not I can actually get it done by the deadline I set myself. (I'd better; it's my present to myself, dammit, and I don't want to not get my presents!)

As a heads-up to those of you using my ASB damage/energy calculators: the energy calculator is bothering me, and I'm finding that I have to make up my own logical numbers for some attacks that it should really be able to handle on its own. I'm probably going to tweak the formula at some point. When that is I couldn't tell you, but hopefully as soon as I get some of the stuff I've been procrastinating on out of the way. >>;