Author's idiotisms: Hang on, let me copy and paste one former author's note. You'll have to get used to bits from my other fics being copied and pasted over. Erm... here's the one.

"Anyway, at this point, I would like to thank the reviewer Turrislucidus for making me look at my own story from an entirely different perspective." Surprising how nothing had to be altered here, huh? Anyway, so I suppose this is... let's say "a really strange spinoff of Violet and the Horrible Fanfic Writer that has nothing to do with the original story except some of the main twists."

Insane Guy of DOOM wasn't one easily amused.

This aspect of his personality was easy to figure out. The guy had two alternate selves, Sue Mary and MarrissaTheWriter, which were used to write stories that threw reality out of Earth's orbit into outer space, and wasn't a single bit amused when Superman's genitals were exposed or when Marrissa Roberts was impregnated by a robot and gave birth to a cyborg child.

Therefore, it is very interesting that the following news completely shocked him from head to toes.

For a context, these were the events which led up to him discovering the news.

It was August 31st, 2013. Insane Guy of DOOM was in his residence in Florida, gathering ideas for his current ongoing trollfic, Real Beauty. These ideas had numerous sources, mainly from acquaintances he had made when the MarrissaTheWriter stories were the hit of the time. ...Was it really two years ago? Time sure flashes by when you don't care about it, the Floridan presumed and went on.

The first place where he stopped was The Half-World, a blog run by a man nicknamed Skepkitty. Skepkitty was no ordinary man - in fact, he didn't originally consider himself a man - and the blog was no ordinary blog. When Skepkitty found Marrissa, he had sided against her, giving the foundation for the group in the Marrissa stories known as the Falmer Trollz. However, as time went on, Skepkitty and Marrissa became more distant and ultimately Skepkitty had begun talking to Insane Guy of DOOM as if he was himself, not Marrissa.

Unfortunately, it turned out The Half-World wasn't the right place for inspiration. Skepkitty had begun taking on a story unrelated to anything Marrissa, and therefore nothing from the blog could be implemented into Real Beauty.

Thus, Insane Guy of DOOM moved onto the various profiles held by his other friend and result of the Marrissa escapades, ASBusinessMagnet. When he had found the stories, he sided with Marrissa, eventually beginning to produce Marrissa-like stories himself, starting with the OC that Marrissa had created for him, Principal Business Man. And as it would happen, the fifth and current story he was writing for his own version of Marrissa, Post-SCrash Session 3: Spectators of the Host, had updated. He began to read the new chapter, appropriately for Marrissa and her forged epicness labeled "A Timeless Account", but before he got too far in he was caught by the ending author's note.

Seriously Written Note: While I am nowhere near done, the thing is that I have been feeling worse, and I don't think I will ever be done. It's such a pity, because I had really big plans for Marrissa, but since Gloria Deschanel said it is time for me, it is time for me. For what it's worth, I'll say one final word: goodbye, and see you on the other side, assuming there is even a "you" reading this right now.

Could it be...? The trollfic writer quickly checked his email inbox, and it turned out that indeed, ASBusinessMagnet had passed on the FanFiction. Net email announcing the upload of the new chapter and attaching his own note and a Word document.

Isn't it funny? That I joked about the Warweary Serket being killed in early 2015, and then will die before that date. That I joked about Homestuck being finished, and will never see it done. That I was planning on making this huge and awesome collection that was going to be called the MarrissaTheWriter Complete Anthology.

The point I am writing to you is because of that last one. I want you to take this, and do whatever you please. I kind of had more time to write all the exclusives and stuff, since these past weeks I had to spend more time bed-ridden and could write more, but alas, it seems my time has run out.

Please do not completely destroy the Marrissa legacy for me. Okay?

With one final goodbye,
the Aperture Science Business Magnet (whatever that means)

Now that you have all the required context, hopefully you can understand why Insane Guy of DOOM was in such a shock, and why will he be acting in similarly unprecedented-for-him ways in the following story.

- iamnotAmarysue [IA] began pestering deadpanSnarker [DS] -

IA: Skep, this is very urgent
DS: yes?
IA: Business Man is dying
IA: He posted a last note on Spectators of the Host and is saying goodbye to everyone
DS: can we not tall about business mans fanfics?
DS: im still trying to make it through the stupidest sequel
IA: Goddammit, Skep
IA: How do you not realize
DS: listen we dont know the guy very well
DS: like are you going to his funeral
DS: didnt think so
IA: Oh, whatever

- iamnotAmarysue [IA] ceased pestering deadpanSnarker [DS] -

Like Insane Guy of DOOM, Skepkitty was also not moved by most things, including apparently that the lesser half of Marrissa had one leg in the grave, but just for the kicks, he decided to check the ending of Spectators of the Host. Sure, the note was there, but, after all, this was the Internet. Maybe Business Man was lying to get attention. No one could know for sure.

Skepkitty thus went to the fanfic he wanted to go to, Dibra, copy-pasted the entire story onto his new blog post and began typing the MST.

After posting the note, ASBusinessMagnet very slowly pressed the off button for his computer and climbed out of the office chair next to the computer and back to his bed. For the past few weeks, the pains - starting from his lungs and heart and progressively overwhelming his whole body - had gotten significantly worse, and he was glad he could take the two major things that he owned - his side of the Marrissaverse and the Lithuanian translation of Homestuck - off of him as he was entering the otherworld.

He had a vivid vision of the otherworld. Burning flames, robots screaming as they were tortured - after all, he didn't imagine he could be going to heaven. Though, perhaps God could troll him and put him in heaven anyway, since he had realized he was a sinful person et cetera.

But this thinking thing had gotten on really hard on him, and instead, while on his bed, he decided to pick up the book nearest to him, Čarlis šokolado rojuje. The name literally translated to Charlie in the Chocolate Heaven, but it was basically the Lithuanian version of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book, which he had endlessly parodied in Spectators of the Host.

Therefore, he opened the first page and started to read it, but couldn't make it past the first page before he dropped the book and passed out.

Author's idiotisms (August 21, 2014): As you may have noticed, I changed the title of this story from Violet and the Horrible Fanfic Writer v2 to Just Before the Anthology. That's because while the premise was based on that of Violet and the Horrible Fanfic Writer, this is going to be an entirely different story with different main characters and different themes. I just had no way of knowing it beforehand. (By the way, the Anthology in question was a complete blast, and I'm finally glad this whole MarrissaTheWriter thing is off my shoulders.) Anyways, cheers, and keep reading.