Draggian Universe

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06/07/2024 - The new song from yesterday has led the Falling In Reverse fanbase to start considering that perhaps its use of rainbows and unicorns in the video has implications. Which is hilarious to me, because I've been noting how the entire concept of Falling In Reverse is steeped in homoeroticism since the first time I listened to TDIMIY in full, and especially since reading the book. So, here's a meticulously researched and text-backed essay on the Music Scene Hub about how gay FIR is, through the lens of Ronnie's favorite person Max Green.

06/06/2024 - The "new" "Falling In Reverse" "album" Popular Monster (2024) has dropped a new song, which has been reviewed on the Music Scene Hub. Surprisingly, it's actually not that bad.

06/05/2024 - I had some new thoughts about Pokemon biochemistry and how their growth and development works separately from evolution, which have been added to the fanfic worldbuilding page.

06/03/2024 - I've gotten back into joining webrings, so you might notice some new affiliations on my sidebar. With that in mind, the sidebar got some coding updates so I have room to put more stuff in there. In terms of general housekeeping, old changelog updates got moved to an archive page. In terms of things you actually might care about, I'm probably doing Art Fight again this year so have updated + uploaded some new character profiles there. Elixsha and Fanfic!Ronnie have new art from AF that's been uploaded to their pages. Elixsha also got their OCtober 2023 pics added.

05/21/2024 - I have a new fanfic, in celebration of Arlo's headcanonical birthday on the 15th (a little late but that's how these things go) and...begrudging acknowledgment of recent Falling In Reverse announcements. Anyway, here's The Ransom, in which Jet and Ted contemplate what to get him for his birthday. And if you want to know what that song title has to do with birthday gifts, you'll have to read it.

05/07/2024 - Unfortunately, there's a new Falling In Reverse album and a corresponding flagship song released today. I would have preferred if they'd broken up, which I thought they'd been bound for since December. A review page has been set up for it on the Music Scene Hub in preparation for its official release in July, and the flagship song has been reviewed. (It's bad.) Read the new review and my predictions for the rest of the album here.

05/02/2024 - Added some more clarification on terms and stuff and how Augmentation circuits work to my WHATverse worldbuilding page.

04/24/2024 - I have a new full-length story, which has nothing to do with any of my OC or fanfic verses. It's general Falling In Reverse hateperfixation mythology, so it got thrown onto the Music Scene Hub. It's a parable of the problem with Falling In Reverse, that also isn't not a slash fic. And there's demons in it. So if that's the sort of thing you like, check out No Escape.

04/19/2024 - Escape the Fate just dropped an expanded version of Out Of The Shadows featuring 10 new tracks, so I reviewed them on the Music Scene Hub.

04/15/2024 - I decided I needed a personal, meta-level creation myth for myself and this website, so I made one. It's got 3 of my favorite things: mythology, slime creatures, and meta navel gazing. I also added some more sub-links to the sitemap on the homepage for important subdivision pages.

04/01/2024 - I have a new fanfic, which despite its slightly absurd premise, is not an April Fool's joke. Anyway, I couldn't come up with a title for it, so I'm gonna describe its concept: "Mulan meets Turning Red meets The Shadow Over Innsmouth meets Pokemon Legends: Arceus (the religious schism part, which is the only thing that's actually good about that game) meets my hyperfixation on Fangpyre venom" and leave you to discover the Untitled Rayquaza Story.

03/27/2024 - Realized I hadn't updated the digital art section of my art portfolio with anything since last summer, so relevant pieces since then are now up there.

03/07/2024 - I found some new information re: Escape the Fate lore, so the chapter 7 summary of I Can Explain has some new annotations and phrasing updates for maximum available accuracy.

03/05/2024 - Since it's been 3 months with no meaningful updates to the Falling In Reverse merch store, I think we can safely deem I Can Explain abandonware for the foreseeable future. So, in the interest of historiography, I've put up a digital version of it so you, too, can see how much Ronnie waxes poetic about his beloved Max Green. And the filler stuff about a band and violence, I guess.

02/26/2024 - Sinnoh Tour Team GO Rocket texts have been added to the TGR leaders' page of the Pokemon Go archives. This is coming from datamines, so the exact numbers of research stages and exact positioning of battle texts is not certain. If you were at Sinnoh Tour LA or remember Global better than I did and have input to make my reporting more accurate, please contact me.

02/25/2024 - The Dudesverse and RRverse hub pages have gotten some trivial CSS updates so they look nicer and are more standardized with other pages on mobile or small screens.

02/23/2024 - I have a new fanfic, in which Spark and Arlo go on a road trip to see some of Arlo's favorite bands on tour, and also the in-universe basis for Arlo's writing Ronnie Redux. The matter that the specific tour I'm parodizing happened last year, and that the fanfic's been in draft since it was current, is irrelevant. Read it here.

02/18/2024 - I finished reading I Can Explain, so my review of it is now up on the Music Scene Hub, and was also crossposted to Goodreads so perhaps the mainstream Internet can see the only actually honest and critical review of this book anywhere. The chapter summaries of the stupid book are also finished, although they get shorter and snarkier as time passes and there's less of worth in the text.

02/17/2024 - Hey, look, the WHATverse is still alive. Xyra's character page has been updated to the modern expository bio format for "here's who she is and how she works", with the former intro story from her page having been moved to the "Files" section.

02/04/2024 - There's a new miscellaneous feature on the Music Scene Hub: Philosophically Zombified, A Parody Diss Track. It's kind of what it says on the tin.

02/01/2024 - Chapters 7 through 9 of I Can Explain are now summarized on the Music Scene Hub.

01/24/2024 - The Neopets background edits on the graphics page now have a fully updated list of all the ones I've made.

01/14/2024 - The first 6 chapters of I Can Explain are now summarized on the Music Scene Hub.

12/31/2023 - Happy New Year, everybody. If you care to start your 2024 off right...or, well, with an interesting story about fate, redemption, morally reckoning with your past / future actions, time travel, headpats, and, uh, 55,000 words of Escape the Fate / Pokemon Go crossover crackfic, behold my new RRverse fanfic, Ronnie Redux, which is about all those things and also the longest thing I've ever written. Read it here.

12/22/2023 - A friend bought me the official Falling In Reverse "Canceled Buddy" plush for [insert winter solstice holiday here], so I wrote a Music Scene Musings post about it. Read it if you want to see how truly awful the Canceled Buddy is and a history of Ronnie plushies in my lore overall.

12/17/2023 - The fanfic art page has been updated with a new setup that should be easier to read and some new pieces never before seen on this website, including a miniature representation of Arlo's room by my actual mother. There are also now pages for RRverse art, unflattering music scene art, and also by my actual mother, Falling In Reverse parody Plausible Deniability, in case a Calico Critters metalcore concert is something you wanted to see.

12/16/2023 - I have a new fanfic, in which the Team GO Rocket gang (minus Sierra because she didn't want to go) celebrate the holidays and also make fun of Falling In Reverse's ridiculous winter merch collection. Enjoy the Obligatory Holiday Special.

12/14/2023 - My about has been split off from my sona's page and expanded, so it now covers more about me and my website, as well as a general housekeeping FAQ ported from FR.

12/09/2023 - I have a new RRverse fanfic, in which Ronnie!06 is...just a little birthday guy. It's pure fluff, or about as light and fluffy as anything with Ronnie in it can be.

12/04/2023 - I have a new fanfic, in which we see what Candela and Blanche have been up to since Spark and Arlo started dating. Read it here. Also, there's some more worldbuilding about how Pokemon and Pokeballs function on the fanfic info page.

11/14/2023 - Finally ported my OCtober 2023 page here from Neopets. Also did some back-end font stuff which should hopefully fix some issues I've noticed on Firefox.

11/10/2023 - My sona has, like, a bunch of new art pieces on their page because I finally got around to uploading them.

11/02/2023 - I bought Ronald of Falling In Reverse's stupid memoir for myself as a birthday present, not because I think it's gonna be any good, but because it's new information about the special interest (look, I don't control the hyperfixation) and I realized while trying to avoid buying it that there's no useful information about it online. So, I'm working on an honest review, list of fan takeaways, exploration of authorial biases, and full plot summary of it that'll go on the music scene hub. In short, I'm reading Ronnie's book so nobody else has to since they can just use my Sparknotes. The people deserve the truth, so if conveying it and critical analysis are sins, then strike me down.

10/22/2023 - I realized that my ongoing hyperfixation (against my will) about my/Arlo's time traveling Ronnie concept has produced a lot of writings, and that some of those writings might actually be interesting, so they've gotten their own subdivision of the music scene hub. So, uh, enjoy, I guess? There are 4 pieces there, never before seen on this website.

10/18/2023 - Arlo's Ronnie fanfic has been separated from the fanfic hub into its own page, to make what stories are Dudesverse canon or not clearer and to provide a space for its worldbuilding info. There's also a new RRverse story, a short and sweet ditty by the name of "a ferocious diagnosis", featuring Arlo and OTL!Ronnie hanging out doing morally questionable Werewolf Science.

10/07/2023 - The characters section of the Pokemon Go fanfic worldbuilding info page has been spun off into a separate character hub, complete with never-before-seen bios for a number of relevant characters beyond the team leaders, including other Pokemon canon characters, their families, Pokemon, and more. It's also gotten some minor quality of life updates, like the images on the left of the character stats looking nicer and canon characters now linking to their canon information on either the Pokemon Go archives or Bulbapedia.

9/30/2023 - My art portfolio has a new section for pieces I made with my phone stylus and each section now explains what programs I use for different styles.

9/25/2023 - Elixsha Dayle, the WHAT team's unpaid high school intern, now has a ref and a more fleshed-out page. The introductory bio format, based on my petsite bios, will also replace the intro stories on other WHATverse pages because it's clearer and more concise to get a rundown of who the characters are to contextualize their stories, and they're faster and more fun for me to write. The current intro stories will be moved to their characters' "Files" sections.

9/01/2023 - Escape the Fate has a new album, so I reviewed it on the Music Scene hub. The reviews are a bit less detailed than my Falling In Reverse reviews because there's less to make fun of lyrically speaking and I'm not the same level of invested.

8/28/2023 - Now that Go Fest Global has happened, relevant texts from its research have been added to the Pokemon Go archives.

8/26/2023 - I have a new fanfic, in which the team leaders go to Castelia City for the Go Fest 2023 city tour. It contains Spark and Arlo doing cute tourist stuff, a minor infodump about how Mega Rayquaza works, and a reasonable number of the expected Escape the Fate references.

8/17/2023 - The Pokemon Go archives have been split into separate HTML files for each section for faster loading times and easier navigation, along with the CSS on their headings getting some minor tweaks. Go Fest 2023 in person research texts have been added to the pages for the relevant team leaders.

7/28/2023 - Comprehensive reviews of every Falling In Reverse album (and all of the non-album original singles other than demos) have been added to the music scene hub, as has a link to my personal music spreadsheet.

7/27/2023 - I now have a hub page for my music scene-related ramblings, including my Situations translation and The Drug In Me Is You, Summarized By Calvin and Hobbes, with No Context, having been moved there from the Miscellaneous Ramblings hub.

7/25/2023 - Relevant Catching Some Z's and Axew Community Day texts have been added to the Pokemon Go archives.

7/22/2023 - I have a new fanfic, in which Arlo and Jet get a new coworker. Read it here. Also, to make browsing easier, internal links no longer open in new tabs. External links still will.

7/18/2023 - The Goatlings hub page has been expanded and now includes explanations of why I chose the ADs I did for my Discography Project, complete with snarky takes and opinions on the songs the goats are based on. Speaking of songs, I translated Situations by Escape the Fate into Spanish. You know, for fun, like you do.

7/14/2023 - I have a new fanfic. Well, technically Arlo does. Specifically, he wrote a self-insert fic about himself and Ronnie Radke, except the latter is a time traveler from 2006 and also a werewolf. Read it here.

6/24/2023 - Another fanfic OC, Lane, the bartender from the Sleepless Bakery, now has a design. You can find it on my fanfic art page.

6/23/2023 - There's a new art piece on my fanfic art page, giving a design to Jet, Arlo's research assistant.