Wednesday, November 23, 2022

DCA : The AO3 Release

DCA is on AO3 now.
Click this. There should be two series on there: "Dark Chao Adventures," and "Dark Chao Adventures (Specials)." This way, I can keep the numbers clean (Part 50 of DCA is Episode 50).

Furthermore, the AO3 release is the definitive edition of the show.
"What does that mean?"
It means you have to read DCA again. But it's an all-around better experience, with author's notes for every episode.

Season 1 is fundamentally unchanged, though the format has been cleaned up.
Season 2 is where I start giving good context in the notes.
Season 3 is where I start changing the scripts, just making corrections to blatant errors.
Season 4 is.. I mean okay I don't remember. Maybe just corrected.
Season 5 (and DCAHall) got some bigger changes, nothing substantial but bigger than before. I removed sex jokes, for instance.
Season 6... okay, season 6 was actually freaking awesome and I didn't have to change it much at all. Was an absolute blast to rediscover this.
(DCAHall2 got... a substantial change. as well as minor corrections.)
Season 7, though, this is getting changes. Big changes.

I'm not actually done with this release yet, as I may have gotten carried away with Season 7 and am straight-up rewriting episodes now.
I don't think the ending to the show is going to change that much, but instead the journey up to it will be refined and clarified.
It is not impossible that I may make new episodes when I'm all caught up. But it's also not impossible that the changes leading up to it will be enough.

Come, read DCA! It's still blatantly a kid's fanfic, but now it's something I can stand behind at age 27!!