The Fourth Anniversary of Discover Albia
Happy birthday, Discover Albia! Today marks the fourth year of this blog’s existence! It’s been a thrilling journey, filled with plenty of amazing readers. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read, whether it’s been a sentence or every single post! I intended to fly through the last few Norns and Grendels in Creatures 1, but I only succeeded in jumping ahead a few hours. All the same, the next generation will be along quite quickly! Whydah grew into an old Norn at just around seven hours old and became the master of the cable car. It was hilarious to watch her fly above the garden, apparently under the assumption that she was actually flying. A slight case of senility, though she was in perfect health. In fact, Whydah wasn’t the only one having a good time in Albia!
Xenops sensed that there was something special about today, so he grabbed a honeypot and celebrated! He was still as shy as ever, though he was steadily amassing an army of children. Whydah, Towhee, and even Yuhina had at least one egg from the last male. Their genes were all safe to be carried on: They could simply live out their lives leisurely! On that subject, this seems an appropriate time to say that Discover Albia will have slightly less regular updates as I start working on some projects. Many know of the vague announcement regarding a top secret Creatures project, but I also have some other ideas in mind. Fewer updates doesn’t mean anything less: In fact, it should mean that some releases will be ready sooner!
The birthday party mood traveled across my world, and Arianllyn took it upon herself to drum up a celebratory beat. It wasn’t exactly musical… But she was really having a good time with it! She was adamant about staying in the music room. It seemed like some part of her knew that her partner, Adaon, would make his way back there one day. I took her on a few short excursions up and down the lift, though Arianllyn always returned to the same spot. She was quite talented with the harp, too, although there was no substitute for the loud ramblings of the drum! She knew someone would hear her.
As it happened, the party ended in a rather sad mood. Adaon truly was on his way back to the music room after going from the garden, to the docks, to the temple, and finally on the underground cart. He knew that there was a party, but he didn’t realize an uninvited guest hitched a ride with him: Antigen 2. Adaon put up a valiant effort and tried to eat a few carrots, yet it was all too much. In mid-step, he collapsed at about 20:15. Poor Arianllyn would never have her reunion, though I had a feeling he would still hear her songs. Farewell, Adaon. May you always have music in your soul.
Poor Adaon never gets reunited with Arianllyn no matter what incarnation he takes, eh? Le sigh.
What prompted you to go for your own .com? :)
I was getting a little tired of the whole commenting system error on mobile devices, and I also wanted to try out a new design that would work much better. It’s still an ongoing process to switch everything over, but I’m much happier! I’ve also learned a lot along the way, which is never a bad thing! Plus, now I have a lot more control over the site on its own domain.
You know what they say about “out with the old, in with the new!”, looks like it rings true here. The new design works wonders!
Thanks so much, Chip! I still know of a few things that need updating, but it’s getting there. I was able to keep a lot of the elements of the old site, while sprucing them up. A lot of design elements were simplified to help with load time and navigation, while some new features were added in. Like related posts, which function quite well. You can actually find the point where I haven’t updated beyond, because the related posts will be missing. I hope that helps people find related content on the site! Plus, they typically change with every refresh, so you can find all sorts of other posts. Let’s just hope I decide not to do a layout change again for a long time! I really like this one, though, and it seems like a lot of readers do, too!
Might I be so reluctantly obnoxious as to ask you to see if you can return the “Next” and “Previous” buttons? It’s a bit of a fuss to wrestle with the archive… But if you’d rather not, that’s fine. #BritishPoliteness
Your wish is my command! Those buttons should now be located at the bottom of every individual post for easy chronological navigation. Hopefully that will help you out! There are still features and optimizations I’m adding, albeit very slowly. I’m always happy to make things easier to enjoy, though, and you were hardly obnoxious! That’s actually something I missed from the old layout, and after a few minutes of tinkering, it should now be working. If there’s anything else, please feel free to post suggestions! Worst I can do is politely say “no” with an explanation. Enjoy!
Hurrah! Sempai noticed me! *Anime tears of irrepressible joy, seen in England only once every ten thousand years*
No, but thank you a ton, really. Here’s to four more.