So contrary to what is surely now popular belief I didn't meet a fiery end defending the earth from humorously-shaped invaders (or something to that effect), and have merely been on what might be implied by the euphemism "extended sabbatical." I hope new and old readers forgive the immense absences that follow me, because that seems to have been a theme in my career here. But one last thing is that my bigger story, White, is down but not out and is still under construction. In fact, a lot of what I've been doing all this time has been rewriting some of it so at the end of this years-long crusade to write a Pokemon-based adventure I have something I can be proud of. So to old visitors I say persevere because lots of new stuff is coming soon, and to new visitors I say be prepared to wait a little for that stuff because I tend to post things at a speed roughly equivalent to the viscosity of pitch.