Seriously Belated CCSF 2024 Releases

 It's almost time for the CCSF 2025, and I don't think I've mentioned the things I've released for the CCSF 2024 here at all. 

 Part of that wasn't just me struggling with getting things up in a timely fashion. As I mentioned in the past, my hosting site's been basically offline for the past couple years; at last report you could still download the things that were already uploaded, but checking the site itself just says it's being moved with no way for me to login or do much of anything.

After a while spent mulling over that, I've opted to just start uploading things to my Google Drive for now. It's not a perfect solution by any means. I mean...it is Google. As well, despite the comparatively small size of any given Creatures mod the sheer amount I've downloaded over the years almost completely fills up my remaining space despite the fact it's barely been filled up prior to now, and I have no clue how much space my current body work would take. But for the time being until I can work out a better solution for my circumstances, it'll do. 

 So anyway...I did manage to get out a couple small things for the CCSF 2024.

The first thing was the Warrior Cats namelist for Advanced Protective Tub. I'm not actually much of a fan of that series; my experience with it has mostly been researching the fandom to answer the question of "Why the f-argh- are there so many Warrior Cat RPs on Discord?" However, the naming scheme for the characters in that series is a nice large nature-themed list that definitely pairs well with Advanced Protective Tub's , and I was looking for something less silly and actually pronounceable, so I looked up a Wiki article and threw together this list.

 Of course, I then learned SpaceSR threw together a Warrior Cats list of her own as part of a bigger series of lists well before I got the idea. Oh well. Two Warrior Cats namelists!

The second was the first genetic breed I publicly released since the Lavender Grendels all the way back for the CCSF 2015, not counting the various RAS test releases (I'm old!): the Rainbow Grendels.

They were inspired by Amanora's Rainbow Norns, multicolored norns who had different colors for each gender that changed throughout their lifetimes. I just applied that concept to a CFF-inspired CFE grendel genome, and gave them gender-linked appearance genes on top of that (...not that it really matters for anyone who isn't editing their genome; both genders just use the standard C3 grendel sprites). Because of that, I don't think they'll be the most compatible with the Nornbinary update or similar updates; I don't use such updates and wasn't really thinking about such things at the time.

Their genome actually did have a lot of other changes from the normal CFE grendel, but that's a can of worms for another post entirely. Just know that behaviorally they'll still act mostly like the typical grendel and as such can be hazardous for your norns' health regardless of how pretty they are.

Updating my download pages with this new stuff and prepping them for future new stuff is a project for whenever I can muster up the spoons. But hey, at least these are available somewhere else than the CCSF 2024 site now.

As for my thoughts on the CCSF 2024 itself...it definitely felt a little rushed; never mind the fact I imagine a lot of us were reeling from Certain RL Events (TM), the coordinators were also really busy IRL if memory serves. I do feel like the fact it's been twenty years of the CCSF should have gotten SOME form of acknowledgement, though I guess that was acknowledged for 2023's. All the same, what we got was still enjoyable enough; Freyla in particular did a wonderful job with the wolfling run as always. 

Here's hoping for a successful CCSF 2025!