Hey folks.

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apologies in advance if this contains a bunch of typos, but I was drinking with my sisters this evening (anniversaries of deaths in family suck, so don't judge, I don't drink often) and I'm a bit buzzed right now. I've been busy with all the real life stuff I mentioned, but I've been getting sporadic email updates pinging my phone for reviews, and more frequently for PMs since my official hiatus announcement on all stories two weeks ago.

I honestly did not expect responses from more than a couple people in total between my three stories. Hearing from people as much as I did made me feel a small spark of happiness that perhaps I hadn't been wasting my time, and yours, with these stories. thank you for that. I mean it.

I've also gotten some random hate guest reviews I didn't allow to be posted, and a couple PMs of that nature. a few who admit they only read first chapter intros & are pissed I'm sticking to canons, so they wanted to flame no instead of finding a different story to their liking. to them, I say, "fuck you". If I don't keep characters in canon, I'm basically stealing names of characters for an original work & it stops being fanfic and becomes shitty plagiarism. Not. Doing. That.

And a handful were sicced on me because after leaving many positive reviews for an author in a fandom I do not write for, I left some constructive criticism because she took a break from writing, came back, and suddenly her characters did an about face and mangled the continuity established within the story to drastically reflect her new life views. it was jarring. it sucked to have sprung on us. And i was as polite as possible in asking her to consider how it plays out from a practical & literature stand point. but she was pissed. she's been fuming for months apparently, and she's been stalking my work apparently. she saw my last update & decided to take her revenge by siccing her fan base on me while I was down. I got a flood of PMs insulting my work, and worse, insulting me. some going so far as telling me to kill myself. so to her and them, I say, "you're a bunch of cowardly, thin skinned, tribalistic, rotting cunts. however, I hope you'll get professional help and become useful members of society someday." Cheers!

... anyway...

I was going over my stories. I don't have a spark of inspiration quite yet, but I feel like maybe I might be able to find one with some help.

So I'm enlisting each and every one of you reading this. that's right. you, in Poland. And you in Romania. And you folks in UK, USA, Russia, Pakistan, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Thailand, France, Estonia, Italy, Australia, Netherlands, Slovenia, and every other country showing up on my handy dandy page for who's been reading my stories beyond the first chapter in the last few weeks.

Every single one of you.

Loyal readers of the last few years & new additions who ate up those chapters.

I am asking for your help if you want me to continue these stories and give them a rewarding end.

Show some love. But more importantly, give me some in depth feedback. tell me what you love about whichever story you've been reading - what makes you laugh, what plot points keep you coming back for more, what unresolved issues you want answered, what characters you want more of, what literary devices I use that you would like continued or reigned in, etc.

I'm struggling with sparking back up the stories I had so strongly plotted in my head, I've lost that literary magic for the moment, but I'm seeing the stories through less fatalistic eyes than before. I see potential. So I'm asking you to participate in the process a little so we can maybe all have a satisfying conclusion, instead of leaving these stories unfinished or half assed wrapped up.

I realize some won't be arsed to reply... but given the last round of dismayed and sympathetic responses, I think many of you feel more invested in these stories than I realized. so, I don't feel it's inappropriate to ask for a bit more substantive feedback in general, without putting any of you individually on the spot, to get us to a conclusion worthy of the start. I'm shifting a small part of the weight of this continuing to you folks. if you have guesses on where I'm going that might be spoilers and opinions one way or other, send me a PM, not a review, so as not to leave potential spoilers for the other readers. otherwise feel free to turn reviews into a running debate or dialogue with one another to give me some consensus on what people are wanting/hoping for. Get me a more solid idea of what would be welcome, give me some lended inspiration, and I will sit back down and do my best to get these stories properly written.

yours,

SoI

p.s. pull off getting me inspired to write again, and I may change my handle from Sound Of Insurrection to a more upbeat Sound Of Inspiration in honor of all of you. or maybe that'll seem corny when I'm sober and I won't. idk. It's 2am, I should go to bed. night night everyone.