So, hello again, everyone.

I know I haven't updated anything in forever.

The truth is, I've been thinking really hard about all I've done, and what I should do.

I loved writing fanfiction, I really did. Now, though, I find myself opening an unfinished chapter and staring at it, typing a few words, erasing them, and starting again. I planned stuff out, got myself all excited, and launched into a bunch of stories I had imagined up with great characters, plots, and conclusions. I even made some promises that I don't think I'll be able to keep. I haven't updated anything in nearly a year. I don't really have an excuse. Even when I write with my best friend nowadays, our stories aren't so much fanfics as they are planning out the lives of our original characters...I don't know why, maybe we don't know how to keep the real characters in their element? We mostly come up with random little ideas that never get completed, and thus we have a ton of unfinished documents taking up space in Google Drive. Either way, long-term stories about characters that aren't mine have become ridiculously hard to write. Even the stories with mainly OCs are hard, seeing as I can never seem to stay in a single fandom for more than a few months. It's been going on for years, so I feel like this is my only way to deal with this.

I think it's time I said goodbye.

Fanfiction has always been my go-to site for stories based on whatever I'm currently into, and there are so many wonderful works I've seen, followed, and favorited. I know how it feels to be kept waiting on a story, and I'm so sorry to all of you who've been waiting for updates only to be let down like this...but I'd hate myself for just leaving without saying anything.

If it's not too much trouble, and if anyone would really like to, they can adopt the unfinished stories and series. They include: Greyscale Manifest; Glitter Fins; Purity: Earth Priestess; The Misadventures of Ivy and Avery!; Ghostly Glam; Itch, Twitch, Love Knows Not Fear; Such Is Life; The Love of Doctor Brightenstein. You can PM me or something (not really sure how this works) and then you can take it over...again, only if you would like to. You don't have to. (The stories will be deleted from my profile once someone claims them)

I'll keep my account up after all this, but I won't be posting any more stories. It'll be like I'm here, but not here.

I hope everyone will respect my decision, and please forgive me for the time you may have spent waiting. Thank you all so much for being the most amazing readers ever. Please keep on writing your own stories and stay with what you love.

Thank you for everything.

Smiley :)