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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Name: Let's Make This a Thing
 Directory: lets-make-this-a-thing
 Date: April 13, 2024
 Content: |-
-    Hi again, and happy 4/13!
+    Hi again, and happy 4/13! We've got a somewhat sizable update for Homestuck's 15th anniversary - we're incredibly excited to newly share some 140 releases spanning all of Homestuck's history and beyond! Plus, almost six months of new features and touch-ups. All the details and much more, as ever, past the split! 🏘️
 
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     - From James Roach, the new event single [[album:funkstuck-24]] joins 2023's [[album:requiem-for-a-homestuck]]! [[album:pesterquest-soundtrack]] and [[album:namco-high-official-soundtrack]], previously sections under [[album:unreleased-tracks]], both graduate to proper albums on the wiki. And the original 2016 version of Bowman's [[album:archive]], with a separate track ordering, alternate album assets, and much commentary collected from Bandcamp and SoundCloud is here, too!
 
+    - And of course, a bunch of new releases from this 4/13, including the album [[album:project-s-ost-vol-1]] scoring [an animatic retelling the very beginning of Homestuck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMmNFa4jE9o), and many singles and other releases: [[album:brobots]] (an FNF crossover), [[album:doctors-descent]] (Crypt of the Necrodancer), [[album:jade-tower]] (Pizza Tower), arrangements [[album:lordmaker]], [[album:the-twilight-reverie]], and [[album:dont-you-lecture-me-with-your-thirty-dollar-homestuck]], and medley [[album:homestuck-15th-anniversary-medley]]!
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     Many more albums are new to this release, too. As ever, these are all listed [[static:changelog#13-apr-2024|in the changelog]]. We hope you'll love to explore and connect with what's new - it's an incredibly diverse selection spanning the full fifteen years of Homestuck's discography, and then some!
 
     We've added a completely new feature applicable to almost any track: additional names! This is a little box that shows when you click a track's name on its own info page, presenting a summary of other names or variations that the track has been known or called by in any official capacity. These show up everywhere and cover [[track:joker-strife|work-in-progress titles]], [[track:2unliight|platform-specific variations]], [[track:bl1nd-just1c3-1nv3st1g4t1on|de-quirked names]], [[track:iiywaswiwtbotsa4aatwuotdtmihcimfh|in-game credits]], [[track:blue-atom|pre-compilation names]], and more! Thanks to Niklink, Rosetta Leijonde, Jebb, Lilith, and others all for sharing entries and offering feedback - you can explore everyone's additions [[static:changelog#additional-names-intro|in the changelog]] and across much of the wiki.
@@ -62,6 +64,8 @@ Content: |-
 
     During the six or so months this update was in progress, we got to work more directly than ever before with such an awesome group of people, and meet and speak with many more. It's been an incredible experience, and we wouldn't come close to capturing it if we had thousands *more* words to spare. Likewise, the additions and changes escape simple summary; you're much encouraged to explore what's new, as ever, [[static:changelog#13-apr-2024|in the changelog]].
 
+    Thanks endlessly to everyone for all the help and support, feedback and energy, care and time! We hope your 4/13 was awesome (working on this update sure was for us), and that you have a lovely time ahead! 🦚
+
     <i>~ Quasar Nebula</i>
 ---
 Name: crystal hung in firmament's descent
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     - Added by Grace (😎 It's Grace Time), [[artist:robert-j-lake|Robert J! Lake's]] heckin' stuffed collection of personal Homestuck tracks, [[album:stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1]]! You'll probably want to check [[album-commentary:stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1|its commentary]] for all the details. This album comprises 413 tracks and is over eleven hours long, which is still somehow only 7% of all the fandom music on the wiki. It's a biggun.
 
-    - Added by Jebb, a great variety of releases from [[group-gallery:toby-fox]] - most notably [[album:earthbound-halloween-hack]] (indeed, the birthplace of [[track:megalovania-halloween]]) but also more game soundtracks like [[album:escaped-chasm]] and [[album:rose-of-winter]], as well as singles such as [[album:skies-forever-blue]] - and the exciting playable tracks that come from Friday Night Funkin' meeting Homestuck: [[album:sunday-night-strifin-act-1-plus-2-ost]], [[album:sburb-funkin-edition-ost]], and [[album:rappets-davekat-collection]]!
+    - Added by Jebb, a great variety of releases from [[group-gallery:toby-fox]] - most notably [[album:earthbound-halloween-hack]] (indeed, the birthplace of [[track:megalovania-ebhh]]) but also more game soundtracks like [[album:escaped-chasm]] and [[album:rose-of-winter]], as well as singles such as [[album:skies-forever-blue]] - and the exciting playable tracks that come from Friday Night Funkin' meeting Homestuck: [[album:sunday-night-strifin-act-1-plus-2-ost]], [[album:sburb-funkin-edition-ost]], and [[album:rappets-davekat-collection]]!
 
     - Also from Makin, with extra help from Jebb, we've got like [[flash-index:-|a million new flashes]] on the site!? You pretty much have to see it to get it, but this includes a bunch of fanventures, fan animations and other fan works - and there's more to come here in the future, that's for sure! These are fully referenced back to and from the music tracks that they each feature, so they do quite a bit to bring both official and fandom tracks alike into more detailed context. There's tons to explore here!
 
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     So, building on the addition of solo musician groups in [[news-entry:retrace-retexture]], we've a lovely set of independent albums and tracks to share from four artists this time. You might recognize a few of their names!
     From [[group:cristata]], the artist behind [[album:perfectly-generic-album]] as well as the [[group:unofficial-mspa-fans|UMSPAF]] track [[track:party-god]], we have the all-new experimental dance album, [[album:are-you-lost]]. It's released under the alias hywell, and features remixes primarily of tracks from Undertale and Deltarune, though there's a trace or two of Homestuck to be found as well, if you're attentive!
     (If a meeting between Homestuck and Undertale strikes your interest, you'd be well off to visit the artist's own crossover fancomic, [DELTASTUCK](https://mspfa.com/?s=33534&p=1)!)
-    From [[group:tempest2k]], the co-author for INHOSPITABLE and artist of [[album:inhospitable-delisted]], we've brought over all their earlier Bandcamp releases! [[album:chilled-processor]] and [[album:ava]] are clearly heartfelt letters to the styles of early video game music; [[album:old-world]] and [[album:losing-heart]] are a lovely pair of more recent singles; and [[album:nuclears-explosion-1]] is a compilation of much of their earlier work. There's a whole host of neat tracks to explore here!
+    From [[group:tempest2k]], the co-author for INHOSPITABLE and artist of [[album:inhospitable-delisted]], we've brought over all their earlier Bandcamp releases! [[album:chilled-processor]] and [[album:ava-original-soundtrack]] are clearly heartfelt letters to the styles of early video game music; [[album:old-world]] and [[album:losing-heart]] are a lovely pair of more recent singles; and [[album:nuclears-explosion-1]] is a compilation of much of their earlier work. There's a whole host of neat tracks to explore here!
     From [[group:what-is-lost-in-the-mines]], artist of [[artist:whatislostinthemines|a whole host]] of tracks in the Homestuck (and surrounding) fandom, we have their own three solo albums [[album:what]], [[album:triassic-slump]], and [[album:bashful-hearts-out]] to share! These are all really impressively produced and textural works, with powerful vocals all throughout the latter two releases to boot.
     (If you love the dark vocals and occasionally noisy electro rock of [[album:bashful-hearts-out]], we certainly have to point you towards [[album:exceptis-excipiendis]] by [[artist:kal-la-kal-la]], another fantastic 2020 solo release we find a lot of thematic overlaps can be felt in!)
     And from [[group:funk-mclovin]], an artist and [video essayist](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIyu12_DBaAkDfFq-UQuHNw) certainly prominent in the current fan community, we've brought three wonderfully eccentric releases! [[album:the-funk-mclovin-homestuck-experience]] is the original, a compilation of fanpieces from their [2020 Song-A-Day](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOVvrdnGToXUGOejNbpy8a3B6Tixkv-kg) challenge; there's also [[album:class-act]], a diverse set of original works, as well as its [[album:class-act-b-side|B-Side]], an album all full of covers; and of course, [[album:the-baby-is-june]], which is exactly what it says on the tin, and is perfect. (Like its namesake, this one is a collaboration with other voice-actor/vocalist friends!)