Oh my god. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm laughing so hard right now.
First of all. Hey everyone! It's been months! Almost a year since my last real update! I feel the need to reintroduce myself for some reason. I haven't talked to you guys all summer and honestly I have no idea what to say. I thought this fanfic would be, like, not findable anymore by now? Like, I didn't know people were still finding it and reading it. But I just got a lot of favs and follows this week and I'm like, whoa. Where did you all come from?
Basically, all you need to know is that I'm a junior in high school this year. (Do the math. I started this fic at the end of 8th grade. Almost 3 years now. W o w.) I'm super busy with AP class homework, trying to find a job, writing original novels, and to a lesser extent, reading and drawing and keeping my sanity.
ANYWAY. The reason I'm laughing and I'm here writing this for you today is because I'd like to share a story with you all! (Something I haven't done in a long time, ba-dum-crash.) I'm gonna tell you about a certain person that has been reviewing my stories for a while now, who always reviewed as a guest with the same name. He always reviewed with short, stupid stuff like "you're an idiot" and "no one cares," ESPECIALLY when I talked about rewriting, which I did often. I ignored the reviews because honestly who cares, but I got to thinking, since he always reviewed RIGHT after I posted the new chapter, that meant he must've followed my story with an account and logged out to make shitty reviews for some reason. Pretty pathetic, right? This meant he was actually invested in the story and was just writing bad things to see if I would comment on them (which I hadn't until now). Also I heard a rumor he likes to tell people to kill themselves? Not cool, dude. Anyway. The funny part comes now: yesterday morning, he reviewed randomly out of the blue and told me "please make the new version of this story soon." So, I don't know if anyone is reading this little blurb, or if anyone actually thinks its funny, but its funny to me that THIS PARTICULAR person actually cares about this story when I don't even care about this story anymore. It's really ironic that my least favorite reviewer got me to come out of hiatus to update you all on what's going on in my life. Hi, Matt! -waves-
Real update stuff that matters: I haven't written anything for this story in a year. I literally have no idea if I ever will again. I love this story and I'll never forget it as my first big story that I had my heart set on completing, but I honestly have better things to spend my time on between real novels I'm writing and getting a real paying job. Would I keep writing this story if I had the time? Absolutely. I really wish I could give you the beginning, middle, and end of this story that I never could before, but I'm barely the same person I was in 8th grade when I started this, and my priorities have since changed drastically.
Basically what I'm saying is that if you were waiting for a sign to get out of this hellhole of rewriting purgatory where I never make it to the halfway mark in this story, this is your official chance to be rid of it. This is like me giving you permission to pack your bags and find better PJO OC fanfic elsewhere. Check back in with me whenever, I'd be happy to talk to you and answer questions about characters and spoil the story plot for those of you who actually still care, but I doubt you do.
If you're leaving right now, farewell! It was so nice to have you! If you're staying, you must be insane. But I like that. I still answer all PMs and might post other stuff on this account in the future, so it's not like I'm dropping off the face of the earth or anything. But, if you want to see more of my recent stuff, I'm mostly on AO3 now.
I cannot thank you all enough for indirectly, unknowingly inspiring me to become an author. Hopefully you'll recognize my writing style in a published book someday.
See you around,
-AH