Today I finally hit 500 fans. It's really surreal. As someone who has a hard time fitting into most other online communities, I sure am hitting it off pretty well on Newgrounds. How'd this happen? Why me of all people?

Well, thank you!

Thanks to @Looink, @EnzoMoon, @NikoN1nja and @FunnyPlush for being my 500th through 503rd fans. You've given me quite the sense of accomplishment.

As part of the celebration, I wanted to do mini-reruns of all the big community projects I've enjoyed doing that got me to where I am. So we're going to have a series of mini-events running in backwards chronological order, starting with something for Pokémon Mystery Meat and ending with a short version of the "I'll Make You An OC" thread which was my first big break. I loved getting together with the community to make these happen, and though I've got that big game in the works for Mystery Meat, I'm still itching to keep engaging with people!

I'll add these events to the post as they happen! In the meantime, don't forget to take the survey from my last post to have a say in what collabs I do next!

Event 1: Pokémon Mystery Meat - Second Round of Submissions

Since the collab's closing, I've met a few people who had an excellent sense for Pokémon horror but hadn't had the chance to join. I'd like to give them a chance to enter.

All valid entries in the collab totaled to 38, which was quite a few to quiz people on in "Who's That Pokémeat?" But since the original game project is still in the works as promised, I still have the capacity to support more entries from a gameplay standpoint. I'd like to round it out at a nice 50 entries total, so I will offer 12 spots for new artworks to be added.

However, there will be some rules:

• Any artist who added something to the original collab will not be allowed in this second round, to give as many chances as possible to those who didn't get to draw something for it.
• To keep our lore streamlined and disentangled from anyone else's fan content, the focus should be on Pokémon themselves, not human characters or OCs.
• Otherwise the rules of the original collab will apply.

Send the artworks to me by PM and I'll approve them for use in the collab!

Once again, thank you for everything. I love you, people of Newgrounds, so very much.

-Cass (Thetageist)

Update 5/7: New logo just dropped too, I was thinking of updating it and this was a good excuse lol