S is for Shovel and K is for Knight

by Lkcsi

(on indefinite hiatus) Witness the Order of No Quarter's alphabetically arranged adventures! Well, not everything is about the Order, because sometimes our beloved adventurers may pop in from time to time. Sometimes lighthearted, most of the time dark and dramatic. [Made post-Plague of Shadows and pre-Specter of Torment, and content warnings are inside]

25. Announcement of discontinuation

I last updated this fic around five years ago. A lot has happened in that amount of time. At the time of me taking a break, I thought I would just rest for a little while and sort out my grades in college first as I was on probation. Now, five years down the road, I have already graduated from college with Latin honors and I am also looking at the possibility of entering grad school in the near future.

A few things to confess: firstly, my enthusiasm in writing S is for Shovel and K is for Knight was killed when Specter of Torment was released for reasons I no longer remember and I have not played King of Cards properly at all; secondly, this fic contributed to the depression I felt years ago; and thirdly, embarrassing as it is, I actually already lost my drafts for Y and Z quite some time ago due to hard drive failure. Thus, I will make it definitive that this fic is now discontinued, but I grant full permission for any author to create Y and Z with their own interpretations. I wish I foresaw this happening much earlier, like five years earlier, but to anyone who still likes this fic and wishes to see an ending, by all means do it, and you could even contact me if you want to ask questions about what used to be my plans. I'll do my best to remember.

I might reupload this fic to A/o/3. Even though I have already moved from one fandom to another as you may find on my A/o/3, I still cherish this fic and its attached memories enough to put it out somewhere without the mess of this site. Shovel Knight, even as it has lost its luster in my mind, is still a game that invokes good memories and made me meet good friends, most of which, if not all, I unfortunately no longer speak to for reasons of no longer connecting over the same interests. To those people, if you see this, I still remember you even if my Twitter is full of things you aren't interested in.

I sincerely apologize to everyone who waited for Y and Z. But, as I said above, I'm tired, I'm in a different fandom now, and I'm basically passing the torch.

Perhaps I will even upload the one snippet in Y that survived HDD failure, "Y is for yuki", on A/o/3, not here.

Thank you for reading and for your kind comments. They made my days back when I still wrote this. Even if nothing lasts forever, those had been fun times.