AN: I'm not dead. Will I ever pick up my previous stories? Honestly – hell yeah I will. One day I will come back, even if I must go shoot a couple of deities to do so. I don't have an excuse for my laziness and inactivity beyond the fact that every time I looked at a blank document in front of my eyes I just gave up and wanted to kill myself. Recently, I've been doing pretty much nothing with my life apart from finally moving from an irrational case of thanatophobia (along with an extra-large slice of depression for dessert) which had me hoarding up on ammunition just in case a zombie apocalypse ever happened in front of me and shutting out everyone and trying to drown myself in a bathtub. The fact that I am still getting reviewers who were giving me feelings of guilt doesn't make it any better – being a sociopath means the guilt only lasts for an instant though, so the motivation was rarely tickled at all.

I'm not apologizing or blaming anyone – but understand that this isn't something I HAVE to do but something that I'm doing because I WANT to. Flame me or hate me, I don't care. I'm pretty tough emotionally, and the depression surfaced because I'm a true nihilist at heart and I was just getting sick of life. But recently due to COVID, I've taken the time to revisit some old classics here on FF . net and I couldn't help but regain a bit of spark that I once had for this whole schtick. I don't know how long it'll take, but rest assured I'm starting to grind my gears again. Hopefully this rusted and useless brain of mine can still clog out a couple half-decent chapters that don't end up killing everyone via boredom that is.

Warning: do expect some major rewrites of most stories that lack the spark of potential.

Lastly, I would like to thank all of you who decided to stick by this lazy and incompetent asshole of a human while he just left you all hanging like that. It means a lot (and hey, coming from a guy who is still brainstorming ways to murder his primary school principal during a coffee break, that's something).