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I'm still recuperating from the shutdown of Budgiland, my AOL site, so a lot of what shows up here is a rewrite or reposting of something I'm still rebuilding from there. But new content appears all the time too! Keep checking back and you will find that it is growing all the time!

8/27/10
• Negative One has a new issue: #0276: ivy #53: more than i want her.

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  8/20/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0275: meri lin #98: expectation.
• The Negative One promo gallery and color gallery now contain the color poster that SHO! won in the 200th Issue Contest.

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  8/13/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0274: ivy #52: except us.

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  8/6/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0273: weaver #31: for the world.

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  7/31/10

• The Drawings of Me Page has a new addition: Look for a cute bitmap drawing of me walking a tightrope, by Reeny.

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  7/30/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0272: ivy #51: it's called lost.

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  7/23/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0271: adele #60: theory and practice.

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  7/16/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0270: ivy #50: they fly too.

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  7/9/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0269: dax #34: what's your story?

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  7/2/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0268: ivy #49: the way it is.

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  6/28/10

• New stuff for the Listen Page: On the pop page, I added Tori Amos's "Crucify," Cyndi Lauper's "All Through the Night," Alanis Morissette's "You Learn," Madonna's "This Used To Be My Playground," a full version of Hilary Duff's "Come Clean," and John Lennon's "Imagine."

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  6/25/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0267: weaver #30: a bold question.

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  6/24/10

• New stuff for the Listen Page:
  • On the pop page, I added Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights."
  • On the musicals page, I added "Candle On the Water" from Pete's Dragon, "I Know Him So Well" from Chess, and "I'm Not That Girl" from Wicked.
  • On the duets page, I added "I Know Him So Well" from Chess.
  • On the sing with me page, I added separate parts for Florence and Svetlana on "I Know Him So Well."

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  6/23/10

• Added a couple of new avatars to my swankivy avatars page. Look for avatars from Stardoll, Toy Story 3, and the Scott Pilgrim movie.

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  6/18/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0266: ivy #48: can't.

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  6/11/10

• The Sing With Me Page has been added to the Listen Page; this is where you can download me singing one part of a duet and you can sing the other part, to be featured on the duets page if you want!
• Negative One has a new issue: #0265: meri lin #97: my heart.

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  6/10/10

• The Listen Page has received a complete overhaul and now features swanky graphics and better organization. There is also a new duets page (featuring some old content and two previously unheard duets with Jessie), and a new video performances page.
• The Michigan Trip Photo Album is up, featuring my visit to see Jessie in Ann Arbor!

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  6/8/10

• New Bad Fairy fanart from Jessie went up today; it was a funny drawing of what Jessie thought would happen if Delia had to take a job as a Tooth Fairy because of worsening economic conditions. Look for her drawing on the Bad Fairy fanart page.

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  6/4/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0264: ivy #47: what do you call it?

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  5/28/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0263: dax #33: by the rules.

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  5/26/10

• The Listen Page has two new songs on it: look for "Mad World" by Gary Jules (in the pop karaoke section) and "My Eyes" from Dr. Horrible (in the musicals section).

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  5/21/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0262: ivy #46: do something.

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  5/20/10

• Negative One had its fifth anniversary as a webcomic, so a five-year anniversary celebration was posted, including new fanart.

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  5/14/10

• I joined AVEN and removed my membership from Florida Pagan, so that's reflected in my memberships and on the front page "belong" list.
• Negative One has a new issue: #0261: meri lin #96: old news.

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  5/7/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0260: ivy #45: bigger than anything.

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  4/30/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0259: weaver #29: a little big talk.

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  4/23/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0258: ivy #44: gimme.

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  4/16/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0257: dax #32: surprise attack.

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  4/12/10

• A new review from Sheri came in for my short story "Clouds." (Four stars!)

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  4/9/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0256: ivy #43: we should match.

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  4/4/10

• A new review from Austin came in for my short story "The Curse." (Four stars!)

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  4/2/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0255: weaver #28: a hard time.

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  3/31/10

• A new review from justanillusion came in for my short story "Protector Cat." (Five stars!)

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  3/26/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0254: ivy #42: my favorite time.

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  3/21/10

• Ren Faire Pictures again: This is my last set of Renaissance Faire pictures from last weekend.

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  3/19/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0253: ivy #41: to save us all.

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  3/15/10

• Vegan Chocolate Strawberry Cookies has been added to the regular recipes page.

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  3/12/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0252: ivy #40: it made her stay.

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  3/8/10

• Ren Faire Pictures again: I went with Meg and her son and her mom. Many of these photos are duplicated on Ben's Toddler Album.

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  3/5/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0251: ivy #39: no one to show.

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  2/26/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0250: dax #31: describing the moments.

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  2/22/10

• The Books I've Read List now has a page for 2010.

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  2/21/10

• Renaissance Faire 2010 photo album now contains my first Tampa Ren Faire photos from this year. Scroll past Gainesville photos to see the new ones.

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  2/19/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0249: ivy #38: a bigger mystery.

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  2/17/10

• Added a bunch of new avatars to my swankivy avatars page. Look for avatars from Osoq, Avatar movie, Avatara, Moove, Ugo, Free Head, Twitter, Anime Costume Party, Otaku, Car Insurance Style, Portrait, Mii, Meego, Menewsha, Subeta, Zantarni, Kinsaki, Sims, Onverse, GoAnimate, Funmaza, Hero factory, and Daily Games.

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  2/16/10

• Added the webcomic Blank It to my favorite webcomics page.

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  2/12/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0248: weaver #27: what i must have had.

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  2/7/10

• Renaissance Faire 2010 photo album is now up over at the Photo Page.
• EPCOT 2010 photo album is now up over at the Photo Page.

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  2/5/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0247: ivy #37: they're not mean.

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  1/29/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0246: adele #59: supposed to.

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  1/28/10

• New favorite quotations added to the favorite quotes page in the God, Religion, Skepticism, and Spirtuality section.

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  1/22/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0245: ivy #36: in good hands.

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  1/21/10

• New avatars from Doll Divine--thirteen of them!--are featured on my digital swankivys avatar page.

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  1/17/10

• New pictures for Katelyn's middle school album and Benjamin's toddler album, and I got to start a 2010 photo album.

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  1/15/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0244: dax #30: why do we?.

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  1/8/10

• Negative One has its usual new issue: #0243: ivy #35: something to say, but there is also a new feature: The Negative One forum! Check it out to discuss the comic with others.

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  1/1/10

• Negative One has a new issue: #0242: weaver #26: nature's nature.

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  12/30/09

• Derek recolored one of my drawings and put his own spin on the thing. Look for his drawing at the drawings of swankivy page.

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  12/30/09

• Added a bunch of new avatars to my digital swankivys page.

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  12/28/09

• The photos page has a few more additions to the 2009 album, plus some more to the friends page, the friends-and-me page, and the family page. I also added more photos to Meghan's kids' pages, including a middle school photo album for Katelyn and lots of new pics for Benjamin's toddler album.

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  12/27/09

• The listening page now has a new section for harmony performances and a bunch of new additions for art songs/classical songs, and I also added a bunch of new songs in the pop, musical, and from-animation sections.

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  12/25/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0241: ivy #34: look at me.

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  12/24/09

• My short story "Derika and Emily" received a (very bad, one-star) review today.

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  12/21/09

• The anime/manga doodles page has three new drawings on it: Me holding a pen, Jessie holding a pencil, and my friend Mike's characters Azure, Seedlyn, and Gaia.

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  12/18/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0240: dax #29: perfect balance.

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  12/11/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0239: ivy #33: a little bit something else.

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  12/4/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0238: meri lin #95: so close but so far away.

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  11/27/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0237: ivy #32: if i let go.

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  11/23/09

• Revamped and updated my Weird Religion Links Page, so now it's no longer the out of date old one.

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  11/20/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0236: weaver #25: too much faith.

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  11/19/09

• Revamped and updated my Weird Links Page, so now it's no longer the out of date old one.
• Did the same to my Offensive Links Page.

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  11/14/09

• Added a couple new webcomics to my favorite webcomics list; look for Multiplex and Creased Comics.

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  11/13/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0235: ivy #31: far away.

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  11/6/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0234: adele #58: trusting my feet.

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  11/1/09

• Halloween 2009 photos are up!

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  10/30/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0233: ivy #30: if they yell.

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  10/24/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0232: dax #28: dedication.

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  10/19/09

• Added a couple new quotes to the "Perspective and Philosophy of Life" and "God, Religion, Skepticism, and Spirituality" sections of my quotes page.

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  10/18/09

• 2009 Photo Album now has a new picture of me at Avi's house.

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  10/16/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0231: ivy #29: what's supposed to happen.

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  10/13/09

• New addition to the swankivy drawings page by Reeny! Stargazer Ivy is cute.
• The anime doodles page has two new additions: The drawing of Jessie's character Azilie that I did for her birthday, and Victor and Ivy with Awesome Anime Hair is up for Victor's birthday.

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  10/10/09

• Joined SingSnap today for online karaoke. The profile is now linked on my main page and my memberships collection.

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  10/9/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0230: weaver #24: deep.

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  10/8/09

• I put the galleries of my previous apartments up on the Apartments Page. See Curiosity Creek and the Woods.

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  10/7/09

• A page about My memberships, groups, and organizations I belong to is up.

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  10/5/09

• I went ahead and threw a page about my career onto the "about me" page.
• My Handwriting Page is now up, too.

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  10/2/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0229: ivy #28: up here.

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  9/27/09

• The Digital SwankiVYs page is finished, now featuring drawings of me by others and avatars of me from various online utilities.

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  9/25/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0228: dax #27: the same voice.

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  9/18/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0227: ivy #27: can't make me.

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  9/11/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0226: adele #57: a step.

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  9/12/09

• I added new photos to the 2009 Gallery, and repeated some in the friends gallery and the me-with-friends album.

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  9/8/09

• SwankiVY's Shenanigans is finally up! I've just had my old pranks site up for a long time, and now it's been updated, made prettier, and includes a couple new resources. 9/4/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0225: ivy #26: home sweet home.

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  8/30/09

• The THTIB fan art page has a new contribution: Fred's drawing of Ivy with Jessie's character, Azilie.

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  8/28/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0224: weaver #23: endless day.

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  8/21/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0223: ivy #25: being held.

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  8/14/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0222: dax #26: expressions of honor.

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  8/9/09

• Yep, music video is up, y'all.

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  8/7/09

• The Listen Page has a new pop karaoke track: "Daniel" by Bat for Lashes. I sang the main vocal as well as all the backup vocals because the karaoke track I had did not have any supporting vocals. Soon, there will be a music video for this on YouTube, hopefully.

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  8/7/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0221: ivy #24: i'll let her.

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  8/2/09

• My sister just got married, and the pictures are up! Check out Patricia and Yusuke's Wedding Photo Album.

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  7/31/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0220: meri lin #94: grieving differently.

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  7/24/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0219: ivy #23: for big girls.

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  7/21/09

• Added my Finding Mulligan YouTube teaser video to my long fiction page about the story, and added a bunch of the drawings from the slideshow onto my Finding Mulligan character sketches page.

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  7/20/09

• Revised the Top 30 Fictional Characters I Would Have Sex With List because I wanted to add Dr. Horrible and rearrange some of the members. Jay and Silent Bob came off the list to make room.

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  7/17/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0218: weaver #22: two's enough.

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  7/10/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0217: ivy #22: anything i want.

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  7/3/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0216: dax #25: the context of time.

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  6/26/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0215: ivy #21: in charge.

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  6/19/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0214: adele #56: my current self.

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  6/18/09

• The doodles page got some additions to its Animaniacs page today--old doodles I scanned from high school. The last fifteen are newly added.

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  6/12/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0213: ivy #20: big store.

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  6/5/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0212: weaver #21: a brand new word.

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  5/29/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0211: ivy #19: no more crying.

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  5/27/09

• The Fanfiction Page has a new fanfiction by SHO!, based on my short story "Problem Recipe."
• My Negative One Fanart Page has a new addition: Reeny's drawing of Meri Lin.
• My anime doodles page now features a Copic marker doodle I did for Mike in honor of his birthday.

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  5/22/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0210: dax #24: colors of language.

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  5/17/09

• I finally gave a new layout to my webcomic's front page, to better organize all the information and make it a little less, er, busy. This is in honor of the comic's fourth anniversary!

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  5/15/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0209: ivy #18: water sounds.

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  5/9/09

• The Listen Page now includes three sound samples of me speaking. I have one poetry recitation, one anecdote retelling, and one sample of my little kid voice.
• The OKCupid Tampa Meetup Photo Gallery is now graced by some nature shots of the park submitted by Kaite.

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  5/8/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0208: meri lin #93: behind the mask.

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  5/4/09

• I finally got my page featuring Oatanese, my code language, up on the About Me page.

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  5/3/09

• OKCupid Tampa/St. Pete Meetup now has a photo page on my site!

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  5/1/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0207: ivy #17: learn by watching.

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  4/24/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0206: weaver #20: nameless.

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  4/22/09

• Found an old doodle Mia did of my character Ivy, so I put it on the THTIB Fanart Page.

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  4/10/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0205: ivy #16: basic stuff.

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  4/15/09

• The House That Ivy Built fanart page has a new contribution by Hiho/Anna. Look for her name on the page and find a cute new doll of Ivy (picture 3).

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  4/12/09

• There is now a Renaissance Faire Album. Before, I had them all in the vacation section, but now, like Halloween, there are too many. So Ren Faire 2009 is now up, and there are some cute new pics added to Katelyn's and Benjamin's albums too.

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  4/10/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0204: dax #23: honor the mother.

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  4/6/09

• Just finished writing a multiple-choice test that gauges your knowledge of language. Read about it here.

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  4/4/09

• The THTIB fanart page got new fanart from Brianne, and I just got around to putting it up.

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  4/3/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0203: adele #55: one of them.

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  3/29/09

• We now have an RSS Feeds Page, where you can choose four different feeds to subscribe to as per your taste.

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  3/28/09

• New photos added to 2009 Photo Gallery, with duplicates added as appropriate to other photo albums.

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  3/27/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0202: ivy #15: the happiest feeling.

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  3/20/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0201: weaver #19: different and the same. The 200th episode contest is over, and the character interviews are live.

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  3/14/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0200: ivy #14: the hands. The 200th episode contest has gone live.

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  3/8/09

• There is now a Color Gallery collecting the rare color drawings of Negative One, and a sub-page of it features the 2009 calendar.

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  3/6/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0199: meri lin #92: breaking the cycle. A 200th episode contest has been announced to start next week.

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  3/5/09

• Negative One now has an RSS feed. I know, I know, I'm slow. Maybe I should start one for swankivy.com too?
• I got new fanart from Jessie called "The Wonderful World of SwankiVY," and it contains many of my long fiction characters, so I tweaked my fanart pages. I now have a Joint Custody fanart page for the first time, as well as new additions to these fanart pages: THTIB, Bad Fairy, Finding Mulligan, and Negative One.
• My anime doodles page got another new addition: the poster I drew for Jessie.

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  2/27/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0198: ivy #13: happy and sad.

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  2/20/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0197: dax #22: home base.

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  2/16/09

• Finally got my Craft subdomain, Ivy's Pentacles, back to where it needs to be. I added altar photos and craft project pictures and decorating idea illustrations, and killed all the dead links. The design is also more boring now, but much more readable.

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  2/13/09

• New fanart for Finding Mulligan: See Cara's drawing.
• Negative One has a new issue: #0196: ivy #12: not fair.

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  2/6/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0195: weaver #18: brother.

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  2/5/09

• I got a few new short story reviews. Check out what Dave had to say about "The Curse" and "Modern Goddess."

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  1/30/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0194: adele #54: playing god.

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  1/29/09

• New Negative One fan art from Fred.

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  1/25/09

• I decided to fill in the education page over at About Me.

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  1/23/09

• For my birthday I asked creative folks to draw me fanart and write me fanfiction. Some did so! I got one Finding Mulligan fanart from Reeny (so now that story has its own fanart page), and I got two fanfictions: "Road Trip" by Reeny (fanfiction of my short story "Problem Recipe"), and one untitled piece by Amethyst that was written for my webcomic, so Negative One has its own fanfiction page now.
• Negative One has a new issue: #0193: meri lin #91: someday.

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  1/22/09

• I've been adding to pictures pages. There's a new 2009 page, and 2008 and 2007 have been archived in a previous years gallery, and I've also added a photo of me as a thirty-one-year-old to the Yearly SwankiVY. Plus I added new Benny and Katie pictures.

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  1/21/09

• I just added SwankiVY Answers Her E-mail to the nonsense writing page.

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  1/19/09

• A new reading list page is up because I have finished my first book of 2009.

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  1/16/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0192: ivy #11: throwed away.

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  1/9/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0191: dax #21: in common.

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  1/4/09

• I added some more pictures to the Ivy Photo Album, the 2008 Photo Album, and the Friends and Me Album.

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  1/2/09

• Negative One has a new issue: #0190: meri lin #90: survival.

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  1/1/09

• Now that it's January, December's calendar page is up on PhotoJournal Calendar. This is the end of that photo experiment.

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  12/28/08

• My nonsense writing page has three new additions that I dug up in my files while writing my new beliefs page: Fever, An Eternal Being, and I Am God, Hear Me Roar. Check out the beliefs page too.

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  12/26/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0189: ivy #10: big girl pants. You can still try out as a voice actor for my new Negative One commercial.

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  12/25/08

• THTIB fanart page has a new contribution from Fred: Ivy saying "Po." Another new contribution from Fred is on the Bad Fairy fanart page: Marker-colored Delia smelling a flower.

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  12/19/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0188: weaver #17: giving thanks. You can still try out as a voice actor for my new Negative One commercial.

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  12/17/08

• THTIB fanart page has a new contribution: Ivy relaxing in a hammock.

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  12/12/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0187: dax #20: home. You can still try out as a voice actor for my new Negative One commercial.

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  12/8/08

• Jessie contributed to my Negative One fan art page by giving me a new picture of baby Ivy.

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  12/5/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0186: meri lin #89: real life. You can still try out as a voice actor for my new Negative One commercial.

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  12/1/08

  Now that it's December, November's calendar page is up on PhotoJournal Calendar.

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  11/28/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0185: ivy #9: big sister. There is also a chance to try out as a voice actor for my new Negative One commercial.

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  11/26/08

• The Meghan and Brendon's Wedding Page got a slew of new pics because they gave me a DVD of some of the other amateur photos. Now you can actually see what my bridesmaid dress looked like, and also I added the applicable pictures of Ben and Katie to their own pages.

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  11/25/08

• I'm working on the links page. Today I completed the useful links page and the favorite video links. I've also got up a friends/acquaintances links page and a webcomics links page. The other ones left to do are the offensive links, weird links, and religious links, though the old versions of those are available for perusal.

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  11/22/08

• Fred contributed to my THTIB fan art page by giving me a new picture of Ivy playing basketball.

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  11/21/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0184: dax #19: loneliness.

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  11/20/08

• Wow, it's been a long time coming, but . . . I HAVE A FRONT PAGE DESIGN and I actually don't hate it.

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  11/14/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0183: meri lin #88: back to work.

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  11/8/08

• Added a new doodle to my anime drawings page: This one is a piece of gift art for one of my friends for his birthday. See it!

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  11/7/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0182: ivy #8: happy yelling.

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  11/2/08

• Got new Halloween 2008 Photo Album up.

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  11/1/08

  Now that it's November, October's calendar page is up on PhotoJournal Calendar.

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  10/31/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0181: adele #53: diving.

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  10/28/08

• Threw up the Alt Codes Page and its sub-pages.

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  10/27/08

• Okay, I think the books page can be considered to be done. It consists of favorite books (and you can re-order the list by title, genre, or author, plus see lots of extra info or the plain list as you desire); Author Fansites (for Joan D. Vinge, Neil Gaiman, Lemony Snicket, and Francesca Lia Block; the Sandman site is the only permanent one, and the other three just have the old site inserted for revamp later); I have my book collection linked, and then three pages about my reading habits: Books I've Read, Books I'm Currently Reading, and my huge To-Read List. I will come back and do the fansites proper when I have more time.

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  10/24/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0180: meri lin #87: my tragedy.

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  10/22/08

• New review up for my short story "Derika & Emily."

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  10/17/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0179: ivy #7: too little.
• There's a new vacation album available on the pictures page: Mikey and my trip to the Dalí museum and Tarpon Springs.

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  10/16/08

• Added a new doodle on the anime doodles page: Anime Seedlyn.
• Added a few new screencaps to the end of my AOL errors page.

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  10/5/08

• HUGE update: THE DOODLES PAGE IS DONE. This includes the realistic and serious drawings page, the Flower Fairies gallery, the song drawings, the webcomic gallery, the character sketches, the fanart section, the Animaniacs doodles, the anime and manga gallery, a childhood drawings page, and the boredom drawings page (which in turn contains the HO notebook, Dumbguy, and bored in class drawings). Yes, this is all I did for the weekend.

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  10/3/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0177: meri lin #86: don't worry.

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  10/1/08

• Now that it's October, September's calendar page is up on PhotoJournal Calendar.

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  9/30/08

• Put up a new short story review from Mike K. on "Final Verses"--read the new review at the top by clicking that link.

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  9/27/08

• Put up a couple new short story reviews. Getting some from Mike K. on "Baby Talk" and "No Longer Junior"--read the new reviews at the top by clicking those links.

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  9/26/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0176: ivy #6: hot stuff.

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  9/19/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0175: dax #17: talking back.

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  9/14/08

• Finally got a couple new picture pages up to date: Fred's visit July 2008 and Benjamin's toddler album.

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  9/12/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0174: meri lin #85: should've.

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  9/7/08

• Benjamin's Baby Photo Page has its last additions: Scroll way to the bottom to see his adorable first birthday photos. Everything I get from here on out is going to go on a new "toddler" Ben page when I get photos to make one. I changed to the "toddler" category when his sister Katelyn was one, so I'm gonna do the same with his photos.

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  9/5/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0173: ivy #5: the best place.

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  9/1/08

• August 2008 PhotoJournal Calendar is up!

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  8/29/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0172: weaver #16: this is enough. The poll is still up.

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  8/25/08

• Finally got around to adding Hiho/Anna's new "fanart" doll of Ivy to my THTIB fanart page.

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  8/22/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0171: meri lin #84: just a window. Also, I have put a new poll up on the site to ask people their opinions about various things I'm doing with the comic.

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  8/20/08

• My short story "The Curse" has another new review up. See it at the top of its review page.

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  8/15/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0170: ivy #4: please.

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  8/12/08

• Some parts of the about me page are live now, so I decided to itemize them. I'll add more as they come about:
  • Intro to SwankiVY
  • About my name
  • SwankiVY's stats
  • Hobbies Page
  • Fashion Page
  • Collections Page
    • Books
    • Music
    • Movies
    • Sleeping Beauty books
    • Flower Fairies stuff
    • Essential oils
    • Animaniacs stuff
  • Wish List
  • Favorites Page
    • Favorite Movies (completed today!)
    • Favorite Quotes
  That "Favorites" page is gonna kill me. I still have music, comics, TV, books, and food to finish. Then on to the "life" and "incidentals" sections. Lonnnnng. Oh well! Keep lookin' for 'em!

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  8/3/08

• My asexuality essay now has the YouTube videos I made linked to each topic, so check it out.

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  8/8/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0169: dax #16: second choice.

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  8/1/08

• July 2008 PhotoJournal Calendar is up!
• Negative One has a new issue: #0168: meri lin #83: temporary.

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  7/29/08

• I went ahead and put up my photos for Ronni's Wedding and my trip to Chicago.

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  7/25/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0167: ivy #3: windows.

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  7/18/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0166: adele #52: a step behind.

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  7/13/08

• Major, uh, picture-updating today. I added some newer photos to the 2008 photo album and the Ivy photo album, and then a whole bunch of new ones to Katelyn's page and Benjamin's page (because I just saw those kidlets), and I went ahead and put up a separate photo gallery for the pics that came in from Ben's Baptism.

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  7/11/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0165: meri lin #82: switching roles.

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  7/4/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0164: ivy #2: wet.

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  7/1/08

• June 2008 PhotoJournal Calendar is up!

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• 6/27/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0163: dax #15: ghosts.

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  6/20/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0162: meri lin #81: out there.

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  6/13/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0161: ivy #1: big. Ivy's the new narrator--she was Baby Amanda before, though--and she has her own new character page too.

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  6/8/08

• I put up new fanart. Victor gave me one for the THTIB fanart gallery and three for the Negative One fanart section.

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  6/6/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0160: adele #51: human contact.

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  6/4/08

• The Benjamin's Babyhood Photo Album has the new pictures from our visit up in it.

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  6/1/08

• May 2008 PhotoJournal Calendar is up!

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  5/30/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0159: meri lin #80: open window. This one's sad as all hell.

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  5/28/08

• I'M SO EXCITED! THE WRITING PAGE IS NOW OPEN! That's right; with the addition of the journals page and the quotes page (which is really part of the favorites section of the about me page, which isn't made yet), the main writing page is open for business. I redesigned it today with a less loud photo, though I'm still unsure of whether I like the design with the arrows and crap. Comment if you want, but definitely read stuff on it! Note: The journals page is the part of the site that contains the work log from my six years of retail hell. Aren't you excited?

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  5/26/08

• The Nonsense Page has been established and filled with nuttiness. Take a peep.

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  5/23/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0158: weaver #15: like the moon.

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  5/19/08

• The Poetry Page is all done, guys! Now the Writing Page is getting close to complete. . . .

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  5/16/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0157: meri lin #79: good news. A contest to celebrate three years of the comic running is also offered here.

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  5/11/08

• The Short Stories Page is done, at long last! Reviewing and everything is functional, and it has a nice new look. Check it out!

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  5/9/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0156: adele #50: my own terms.

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  5/4/08

• I have completed a couple more decorating projects, so I updated the appropriate photos on the Apartment Page. The highlight is the new photo of the "creativity wall" above my desk, featuring doodles of my characters to inspire me in my work area.

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  5/2/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0155: meri lin #78: still here.

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  5/1/08

• The PhotoJournal Calendar has an April Page now.

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  4/29/08

• Renaissance Faire 2008 Photo Page has (FINALLY) got its new photos added from my Tampa trips.
• The Fanfiction Page (featuring other people's fanfiction of MY writing) is complete.

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  4/27/08

• THE LONG FICTION PAGE is pretty much open for consumption. The only things that need tweaking still are the fan section and the received comments for each page. Other than that . . . you can now read snippets of my novels and whatnot, and I redesigned the site so it's prettier!

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  4/25/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0154: dax #14: new attitude.

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  4/18/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0153: meri lin #77: another quirk.

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  4/15/08

• THE HOUSE THAT IVY BUILT CONGLOMERATE PAGE IS COMPLETE! This is a big deal as it includes excerpts from all six books as well as visual aids, fan-submitted material (well, that part's not actually added yet), and the huge and complicated THTIB Encyclopedia (as well as an Inspirational Quotes Book and interviews with the characters).

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  4/11/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0152: adele #49: someone like me.

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  4/4/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0151: meri lin #76: it worked.

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  4/1/08

• The PhotoJournal Calendar has a March Page now.

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  3/28/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0150: weaver #14: the edge of the earth.

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  3/21/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0149: meri lin #75: sentimental.

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  3/19/08

• New Rant: Ben Stein.
• New Essay: 21 Things.
• Recently I found out that someone posted a link to one of my essays ("Parties") on Reddit, and everyone made fun of it with idiotic comments. I wrote a follow-up to address some of those comments.

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  3/17/08

• The What Top 30 Fictional Characters Would YOU Have Sex With List has gotten another contribution from a reader: See Shadow's List.

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  3/14/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0148: adele #48: shatter effect.

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  3/8/08

• Decided to open the long fiction page to public consumption despite its being in transition. "Ancient History" section, containing four long fiction works I wrote as a teen, are available there now. One, "Bruce the Duck," has movie clips.

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  3/7/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0147: meri lin #74: her own way.

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  3/1/08

• The PhotoJournal Calendar has become a multi-page work; now you can choose from January and February.

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  2/29/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0146: dax #13: colored lights.

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  2/22/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0145: meri lin #73: she understands.

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  2/15/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0144: adele #47: from above.

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  2/9/08

• Renaissance Faire 2008 Photo Page is up!

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  2/8/08

• Victor's Visit January 2008 Photo Page is up!
• Negative One has a new issue: #0143: meri lin #72: when she's older.

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  2/6/08

• THE RANTS PAGE IS DONE. Please have a look.

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  2/1/08

• Added new PhotoJournal Calendar to the pictures page. Completed through the month of January.
• Negative One has a new issue: #0142: weaver #13: symbol.

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  1/25/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0141: meri lin #71: no way out.

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  1/23/08

• Got around to adding a photo of me at age thirty to my progressive photo gallery.

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  1/22/08

• Negative One got some new fan art from another webcomic artist. Check it out.

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  1/18/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0140: adele #46: past, present and future.

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  1/14/08

• A 2008 Photo Album has been started.

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  1/12/08

• The Benjamin's Babyhood Album and the Katelyn's Elementary School Age Album have a few new pictures from Christmas.

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  1/11/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0139: meri lin #70: copying mommy.

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  1/4/08

• Negative One has a new issue: #0138: dax #12: stolen trust.

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  12/31/07

• I got the Cybersex Losers Rant up, which also includes the giant gallery of recorded cybersex conversation attempts by idiots. Other rants forthcoming.

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  12/29/07

• Finished the new Christmas 2007 photo page.

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  12/28/07

• Negative One has a new issue: #0137: meri lin #69: another wild-child day.

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  12/26/07

• Finished the new Fred's Visit December 2007 photo page.

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  12/20/07

• Posted a couple new pictures of Baby Ben.

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  12/12/07

• Posted some new pictures on the 2007 page and the Me and Friends page. Soon a Fred Visit December 2007 album will follow.

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  11/25/07

• I decided to go ahead and separate Benjamin's Photo Page into a newborn photos page and a babyhood photos page. (There's also new photos from Thanksgiving time on Benjamin's babyhood album.)
• New submission for the Top 30 Fictional Characters List Gallery: CursedFreedom's submission. It's illustrated.

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  11/17/07

• I added some karaoke clips to a few appropriate essays. My writeups on the musicals Avenue Q and Wicked and on the musical piece Dancing Day have clips of me singing samples inserted where they belong.

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  11/15/07

• For the past couple weeks I've been working on the essays page, and now IT IS COMPLETE.

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  11/4/07

• New pictures from Halloween and late October added to Katelyn's Elementary School Album and Ben's Page. Hmm, he's getting enough photos that I'll need to make him a "babyhood page" to separate from the newest pictures of him pretty soon!

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  11/1/07

• New Halloween 2007 Photo Album is up.

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  10/18/07

• I've given swankivy.com a new guestbook with Dreambook.
• I now have a site map showing what the structure of the site will look like.
• The feedback forms for all of Budgiland (except the cliques) are now hosted on swankivy.com .
• This wasn't planned, but the Bad Fairy Tarot is now hosted here because it used to be on Ronni's site and she's suddenly closing down.
• Subdomains pentacle.swankivy.com and recipes.swankivy.com have been created and given holder pages.

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  10/14/07

• swankivy.com's apartment page is now up. It's part of the about me page, but there's nothing there but the apartment page right now. It includes the old Gainesville apartment page and the old Curiosity Creek apartment page (currently holder pages) as well. "About me" will get filled in more later.

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  10/9/07

• swankivy.com's photo gallery move is now complete! It also now includes a progressive photo gallery that used to be hidden under an obscure link on my autobiography on my old site. Check out the new and complete photo gallery.

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  10/7/07

• Brand new photo album: Road Trip with Mikey, Fall 2007.
• Also added some updated pictures to these photo albums: IvyPics, Friends, Friends and Me, and 2007.

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  10/4/07

• Added several new pictures of me to the top of the Ivy Pictures Page. Some of them went into the 2007 Photos Page too.

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  10/3/07

• Added two new pictures to Ben's Page.

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  9/25/07

• Added a ton of new photos to Benjamin's Page, including the first pictures of me holding him.

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  9/16/07

• Added Winter Solstice 1999 Photo Album to the Photos Page.

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  9/12/07

• Added Spring Break 2000 Photo Album to the Photos Page.

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  9/11/07

• Finished adding Christmas 2000 Photo Album to the Photos Page.

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  9/9/07

• Added a Credits Page.
• The Picture Gallery is still in progress, but I'd like to point out that these albums are new (as in, they weren't on Budgiland):
  • Various 2007 Photos
  • Benjamin's Album
  • Halloween Album (was not previously combined)
  • Fred's Visit April 2007
  • Patricia's Visit April 2007
  • Ren Faire 2007
  • New Year's 2007
  • Fred's Visit December 2006
  • Road Trip with Mikey Spring 2006
  • Ren Faire 2006
  • Mom and Butterflies 2005

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  5/20/07

• Negative One, the webcomic, has completed its move entirely to this domain.