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Dobryi vechir! Jak spravy? (Good evening! How are you?) Quite a hectic year this one has been, especially for both Eastern and Western society. I unfortunately haven't been keeping track of the news as much lately due to starting a new job this year but let me break down the stuff I do remember.

So as for 2019, you got an impeachment happening in America (okay, I guess). Brexit SEEMS to be finally happening at the start of next year (all thanks for the British version of Trump after kicking out Theresa May who failed spectacularly). Also America's pulling out of the Middle East so now Turkey's trying to purge the Kurds out of Syria (reap what you sow). I remember the Amazon on fire being on the news a few months ago (although apparently it burns every year). There was some shocking documentary interviews that came out, including Michael Jackson's "Leaving Neverland" and English Prince Andrew about Epstein (which also failed spectacularly). You got the Chinese tech company Huawei being accused of espionage by the Americans. Pope Francis made waves in Vatican law and visits. In February, NASA said that apparently thanks to China and India, Earth is now greener since 2000? At the same time, the Mars Opportunity rover mission is over and Einstein was right again when they not only successfully observed the motion of stars around our Milky Way's supermassive black hole but also finally got a picture of one from Messier 87. In other areas, we got a new Japanese Emperor taking the throne. Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange finally got booted out of the Ecuadorian embassy and into police custody. Elon Musk's SpaceX program is going well, but his Starlink system is causing grief for astronomers and stargazers. There's climate activist Greta Thunberg speech at that G20 summit (unfortunately, I don't think people got the message behind it, just the meme). And finally, China celebrated its founding anniversary with its grandest military parade yet, all the while Hong Kong is burning due to idiotic rioters and a disgrace of a administration not doing much to stop this farce at all. In conclusion, we're surviving and I have no idea what's going on upstairs.

In the entertainment industry, a colourful selection of new releases including Star Wars, The Mandalorian, HBO Chernobyl, Joker, 1917, Frozen 2, Toy Story 4, The Lion King, Rambo, IT chapter 2 and John Wick 3.

Anime also got its fair share with The Rising of the Shield Hero, Fate Heaven's Feel, Konosuba S2, Boruto, Kimetsu no Yaiba, The Promised Neverland, One Punch Man S2, Attack on Titan S3 and many others.

For games, we got Kojima's Death Stranding , Resident Evil 2, Pokemon Sword and Shield, Untitled Goose Game, Kingdom Hearts 3, Hunt Showdown, COD Modern Warfare, Red Dead Redemption 2 and more.

As for me, well its been a combination of both hectic and monotonous for this year. Finally achieved my 2nd Degree in karate and got a uniform upgrade, neat! I was also lucky enough to get a job as a draftsman at this nice company. May not be a dream job as they make it out to be in university, but I like it so far since the work is mostly drawing and designing so win-win. Unfortunately, that meant I'm now busy all the time with work and teaching karate classes which further killed my energy in drawing and writing fanfics. Between catching up with all the subs everyone been posting and doing some late Spring cleaning, I should get something ready before this New Year holiday ends. Even then, I'm not sure how busy I'm going to be in the coming months. FYI for those not up in international news, Australia's been scorching this 2019 and because of that, we've got ourselves one of the biggest bushfires even since the Black Christmas of 2001.

For an idea on how severe it is, here's some pictures from the national fire map around Sydney:

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sta.sh/0fw46ewxayc

It may not look like much but that's 5 million hectares of land currently on fire. Been burning since the start of December and will burn for another month or two. This is what we get when we live on a desert island filled up with combustible trees. And all this stretches from Canberra all the way up to Brisbane, i.e. the entire east coast of NSW, so pray to all the brave volunteers that the wind doesn't change directions because if that fire starts creeping any further east, we got nowhere to run. We already exhausted our supply of fire retardants (the red stuff they drop out of planes) so we had to start calling on help from the Americans and Canadians as the fire front is now so close to the city that work had to called off a few times earlier this month because the air quality was so low that it was raining ash. Literally looked like the napalm scene from Apocalypse Now, complete with yellow smoke so thick you couldn't see across the street. Thankfully, the Christmas reprieve came around so everyone's now making the most of the situation. Everything west is beyond saving, but hopefully with all the back-burning, the fire will eventually choke itself out.

Oh, and a word of advice to you all and myself; because of the particular lettering for the year 2020, it's been advised by banks and lawyers that for any cheques or contracts you sign next year, write down the full year in the date section, i.e. "2020", not just "20" otherwise some people can exploit a legal loophole in how dates are written in different countries/systems and invalidate your piece of paper because your signature is "out of date." Just a heads up.

Well enough about the world. So for 2019, this RD fanclub has seen a rise of 20 new members, 18 submissions and 1 affiliation. Tammy's been making good work with Bottled Up. Thanks for all the art you and everyone else has been posting. Got a lot to catch up on so I'll tell you more the next time around. In the meantime, here's our pokemons trying to set up for New Years celebration, looks like my dewott wanted to show us how everything's going so far. Eh, I'll leave them to it.

Happy 2020 everyone!

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Random Doom Fanclub Administrators of 2019:

Jake the Sceptile (C)

Aura the Lucario (C)

Veruka the Infernape (C)

Lin the Linoone (C)

Trey the Infernape (C)

Cinder the Infernape (C)

Oscar the Dewott (C)

Description

Dobryi vechir! Jak spravy? (Good evening! How are you?) Quite a hectic year this one has been, especially for both Eastern and Western society. I unfortunately haven't been keeping track of the news as much lately due to starting a new job this year but let me break down the stuff I do remember.

So as for 2019, you got an impeachment happening in America (okay, I guess). Brexit SEEMS to be finally happening at the start of next year (all thanks for the British version of Trump after kicking out Theresa May who failed spectacularly). Also America's pulling out of the Middle East so now Turkey's trying to purge the Kurds out of Syria (reap what you sow). I remember the Amazon on fire being on the news a few months ago (although apparently it burns every year). There was some shocking documentary interviews that came out, including Michael Jackson's "Leaving Neverland" and English Prince Andrew about Epstein (which also failed spectacularly). You got the Chinese tech company Huawei being accused of espionage by the Americans. Pope Francis made waves in Vatican law and visits. In February, NASA said that apparently thanks to China and India, Earth is now greener since 2000? At the same time, the Mars Opportunity rover mission is over and Einstein was right again when they not only successfully observed the motion of stars around our Milky Way's supermassive black hole but also finally got a picture of one from Messier 87. In other areas, we got a new Japanese Emperor taking the throne. Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange finally got booted out of the Ecuadorian embassy and into police custody. Elon Musk's SpaceX program is going well, but his Starlink system is causing grief for astronomers and stargazers. There's climate activist Greta Thunberg speech at that G20 summit (unfortunately, I don't think people got the message behind it, just the meme). And finally, China celebrated its founding anniversary with its grandest military parade yet, all the while Hong Kong is burning due to idiotic rioters and a disgrace of a administration not doing much to stop this farce at all. In conclusion, we're surviving and I have no idea what's going on upstairs.

In the entertainment industry, a colourful selection of new releases including Star Wars, The Mandalorian, HBO Chernobyl, Joker, 1917, Frozen 2, Toy Story 4, The Lion King, Rambo, IT chapter 2 and John Wick 3.

Anime also got its fair share with The Rising of the Shield Hero, Fate Heaven's Feel, Konosuba S2, Boruto, Kimetsu no Yaiba, The Promised Neverland, One Punch Man S2, Attack on Titan S3 and many others.

For games, we got Kojima's Death Stranding , Resident Evil 2, Pokemon Sword and Shield, Untitled Goose Game, Kingdom Hearts 3, Hunt Showdown, COD Modern Warfare, Red Dead Redemption 2 and more.

As for me, well its been a combination of both hectic and monotonous for this year. Finally achieved my 2nd Degree in karate and got a uniform upgrade, neat! I was also lucky enough to get a job as a draftsman at this nice company. May not be a dream job as they make it out to be in university, but I like it so far since the work is mostly drawing and designing so win-win. Unfortunately, that meant I'm now busy all the time with work and teaching karate classes which further killed my energy in drawing and writing fanfics. Between catching up with all the subs everyone been posting and doing some late Spring cleaning, I should get something ready before this New Year holiday ends. Even then, I'm not sure how busy I'm going to be in the coming months. FYI for those not up in international news, Australia's been scorching this 2019 and because of that, we've got ourselves one of the biggest bushfires even since the Black Christmas of 2001.

For an idea on how severe it is, here's some pictures from the national fire map around Sydney:

sta.sh/014zbfab3rlo

sta.sh/0fw46ewxayc

It may not look like much but that's 5 million hectares of land currently on fire. Been burning since the start of December and will burn for another month or two. This is what we get when we live on a desert island filled up with combustible trees. And all this stretches from Canberra all the way up to Brisbane, i.e. the entire east coast of NSW, so pray to all the brave volunteers that the wind doesn't change directions because if that fire starts creeping any further east, we got nowhere to run. We already exhausted our supply of fire retardants (the red stuff they drop out of planes) so we had to start calling on help from the Americans and Canadians as the fire front is now so close to the city that work had to called off a few times earlier this month because the air quality was so low that it was raining ash. Literally looked like the napalm scene from Apocalypse Now, complete with yellow smoke so thick you couldn't see across the street. Thankfully, the Christmas reprieve came around so everyone's now making the most of the situation. Everything west is beyond saving, but hopefully with all the back-burning, the fire will eventually choke itself out.

Oh, and a word of advice to you all and myself; because of the particular lettering for the year 2020, it's been advised by banks and lawyers that for any cheques or contracts you sign next year, write down the full year in the date section, i.e. "2020", not just "20" otherwise some people can exploit a legal loophole in how dates are written in different countries/systems and invalidate your piece of paper because your signature is "out of date." Just a heads up.

Well enough about the world. So for 2019, this RD fanclub has seen a rise of 20 new members, 18 submissions and 1 affiliation. Tammy's been making good work with Bottled Up. Thanks for all the art you and everyone else has been posting. Got a lot to catch up on so I'll tell you more the next time around. In the meantime, here's our pokemons trying to set up for New Years celebration, looks like my dewott wanted to show us how everything's going so far. Eh, I'll leave them to it.

Happy 2020 everyone!

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Random Doom Fanclub Administrators of 2019:

Jake the Sceptile (C)

Aura the Lucario (C)

Veruka the Infernape (C)

Lin the Linoone (C)

Trey the Infernape (C)

Cinder the Infernape (C)

Oscar the Dewott (C)