This is just an author's note. Sorry, kids.
So, it's been a while. (Fuck "a while," it's been more than a year since my last update.) I've been thinking about you guys a lot, and about how much of a jerk I am to just leave everyone hanging.
I didn't mean to ditch you guys. Swear to God. It's just . . . college got in the way. I've been so busy writing for my actual classes that I haven't had any time to just sit down and write things for myself. (That's a lie. I've been trying to work on a book. Now it's several books. I am bad at keeping to one thing.)
But I need to come clean with you guys. One of my main reasons that I'm not updating anymore is that . . . I just didn't have the need to like I did before.
Let the record show that when I was writing this story and Electricity, I was in high school and extremely suicidal. (I will not bore you with my lame attempts. As you can see, they didn't work.) For quite a while, you readers and this story were the only things that kept me alive. I worked on this obsessively. It was the one rope that tied me to living.
I'm not saying I'm 100% better now – these days, I'm sort of at the point where if I was crossing the street and a bus was coming, I wouldn't be in any rush to get out of the way. (Partially from my suicidal tendencies, partially because I'm a show-off and I'd want to be like "Yo fucker look at me, I'm walkin and you still can't hit me, whattup.") But the driving need for this story to keep me alive is no longer there.
But I'm not gonna abandon this story.
Let's be honest kids – this story kinda sucks. The writing's weak, there are plot holes, I've reread everything and it's just . . . bleh. I've gotten a lot better over the past few years, and I know that I can do something to give this story the justice it deserves.
I know that I'm not going to have the readership I've had before. I know that all the people that were reading Welcome to the Masquerade all that time ago have probably moved on, and don't care much for this story anymore. But I still care about it. I still care about Jink and Daimio and all of my wonderful BPRD babies.
It's going to be a bit, still. Finals are coming, and I have four different papers to write on top of exams and video projects and other things, but I'm going to continue this story. I promise.
Even if it takes another four years, I will finish this story.
Do no lose faith in me.
If you want to reach me, or see where I'm more active now, my Tumblr URL is badbattersflippedshit, or I can pass along my e-mail to whoever wants it.
Goodspeed, dears.