nautical climb

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diff --git a/album/alterniabound.yaml b/album/alterniabound.yaml
index d790dec6..a2f89f74 100644
--- a/album/alterniabound.yaml
+++ b/album/alterniabound.yaml
@@ -709,12 +709,14 @@ Cover Artists:
 Art Tags:
 - Sollux
 - Eridan
+Referenced Tracks:
+- Nautical Climb
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
 
     (Eridan Boss Battle)
 
-    Originally Nautical Nightmare was an orchestral piece for Rose's Denizen.* I wasn't completely satisfied with the end result so it was ultimately scrapped, but the melody and chords kept dancing in my head. MANY months later I discovered the Ultimate Megadrive soundfont by The_Eighth_Bit and I decided to remake it as a boss theme for Eridan. Basically everything about the song changed - the only thing that remains is the main melody and chords.
+    Originally Nautical Nightmare was [[track:nautical-climb|an orchestral piece]] for Rose's Denizen.* I wasn't completely satisfied with the end result so it was ultimately scrapped, but the melody and chords kept dancing in my head. MANY months later I discovered the Ultimate Megadrive soundfont by The_Eighth_Bit and I decided to remake it as a boss theme for Eridan. Basically everything about the song changed - the only thing that remains is the main melody and chords.
 
     It's not a really overwhelming track because Eridan is a bit of a joke, but I'm pretty happy with it. The bassline and solo section are some of the sassiest I've ever written, the melody is still really catchy, and the action is persistent. Just listen to that thing a couple times and I'll be damned if it doesn't get stuck in your head.
 
diff --git a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml
index 2922a200..af652ed3 100644
--- a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml
+++ b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml
@@ -964,6 +964,41 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 Sampled Tracks:
 - Flare
 ---
+Track: Nautical Climb
+Artists:
+- Toby Fox
+Duration: 2:13
+URLs:
+- https://media.hsmusic.wiki/misc/archive/Nautical%20Climb.mp3
+Referenced Tracks:
+- Endless Climb
+- Chorale for Jaspers
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor, 2/8/2025)
+
+    Included on the Homestuck Sound Test starting with its 4/13/2017 edition. We understand this track to precede [[Nautical Nightmare]] based on Toby's booklet commentary there:
+
+    > Originally Nautical Nightmare was an orchestral piece for Rose's Denizen. I wasn't completely satisfied with the end result so it was ultimately scrapped, but the melody and chords kept dancing in my head.
+
+    We don't have a precise date for this track, but in the same commentary, Toby wrote that he decided to remake it "MANY months later". (AlterniaBound released in March of 2011. Rose's denizen was introduced [in March of 2010](https://homestuck.com/story/1626).)
+
+    Wiki editor Lilith compared the ways this track and [[track:descend]] ([[album:homestuck-vol-5]], June 2010) both include Endless Climb.
+
+    <i>Lilithtreasure:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/749067042250031214/1282186638545649676), excerpt, 9/8/2024)
+
+    so [[track:descend|descend]] references [[track:endless-climb|endless climb]], but I've noticed that the way it sounds there, here in this one (Nautical Climb) (around 1:13), it's like, less buried and rawer
+
+    <audio src="/media/misc/nautical-climb-endless-climb.mp3" controls></audio><br>
+    <audio src="/media/misc/descend-endless-climb.mp3" controls></audio>
+
+    <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor, 2/8/2025)
+
+    Also, this track's name is probably unofficial. "Nautical Nightmare" *could* be derived from "Nautical Climb", but the latter just makes sense as a combination of the two main two themes apparently referenced. [NSND](https://homestuck.net/music/references.html), for comparison, lists Nautical Climb as referencing Nautical Nightmare, rather than the other way around. Anyone aware of this track probably didn't notice Toby actually talked about it in commentary. (But Lilith did!)
+
+    This track is spiritually succeeded by [[Earthsea Borealis]], as Toby noted in his booklet commentary.
+
+    > I have since done something better called "Earthsea Borealis." Maybe you will hear it someday.
+---
 Track: Non Compos Mentis
 Artists:
 - Bill Bolin
diff --git a/static-page/changelog.yaml b/static-page/changelog.yaml
index 6e47e3cc..684eeb4c 100644
--- a/static-page/changelog.yaml
+++ b/static-page/changelog.yaml
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ Content: |-
     - added dates to all wiki editor commentary, showing when the entries were actually written or heavily revised, mostly based off the data repository's git commit history (thanks, Amberlina, Whisper!)
     <h3>data fixes</h3>
     <!-- reference fixes -->
+    - fixed [[track:nautical-nightmare]] not referencing [[track:nautical-climb]] (thanks, Lilith, Lan!)
     - fixed [[track:teal-seer]] not referencing [[track:somethings-different]], and added various commentary related to this (thanks, Makin!)
     - fixed [[track:stride]] not sampling [[track:bionic-booger-breaks-side-a]] (thanks, anticore2k!)
     - fixed [[track:carolmanthetime]] referencing [[track:doctor]] instead of [[track:crystalanthemums]] (thanks, Makin!)