Author's Note

Hey, everybody! I'm fully aware that this is against the rules but at this moment I find myself unable to care. As I'm sure everybody's aware, Fanfiction(dot)net has been going through a story purge for the past few days and sadly one of my stories has been deleted a mere few days before the purge really got going. Petitions have been flying all over the place, whether they be in stories of their own, PMs, Facebook or any other social networking site, or merely through emails. I have signed three of them to date.

Because I don't feel comfortable posting any more chapters for my stories or new stories at this time, I'm going to put my stories and myself on hiatus until further notice. If the site were to put a yuri or yaoi filter in, I assure everybody that I would support that because I know that people don't always want yaoi or yuri and I can respect that. What I can't respect, however, is receiving no warning whatsoever that one of my stories was going to be deleted unless I changed it. I also cannot respect those that would choose to go to the M-rated section of the site and repeatedly report stories for violence or lemons.

For now, however, I have all of my stories backed up and a new penname in the event that this account is deleted. I'm also in the process of locating a secondary fanfiction site despite the fact that I really and truly do not want to leave this one. I have been here for seven years this summer going by the same penname so for me to actually sit down and consider a new name has been beyond excruciating. This is my identity as a writer. This is who I am as a reader.

I don't know if the administrators are actually paying attention but if they are, I hope they understand that within three days it has upset a majority of its fanbase. From my understanding, other authors are making plans as well to locate a new site and some of their readers may follow. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if someone were making up a new fanfiction site right now that has ratings from K all the way up to NC-17.

If my account isn't deleted by the time this has all calmed down, I'll delete the note and post the chapters. If my account is deleted, I have a new email address for fanfiction related things and I also have a new penname. I'll even be sure that some of my friends here know both my email addresses (the new and current ones) and what my penname will be in the event that this is deleted. I'll even have "In Darkness" back up and entirely rewritten since I didn't have it saved when they destroyed it.

So ja ne for now and I hope to be back with this same account shortly. If not… well, I have everybody's names and I'll let you all know individually that I'm back with a new account if you all accept PMs. If not, I'll drop you a line via review.