Hello, Total Drama fans. Alexneushoorn here, back at you with an unfortunate message. I know that these type of stories aren't allowed on Fanfiction, but I just needed to get this off my chest and get this message across to those in the SYOC community that aren't in my Discord server.
Anyways, I'll cut straight to the chase and make this official: I quit. I quit submitting to SYOC fics. The reason being is because I'm honestly just tired of going through the effort of submitting to SYOC fics that catch my interest, only for that effort to be completely wasted because 99.9% of all SYOC fics I submit to get abandoned before they even begin, or they get like one or two episodes before the author abandons them. I know that the best approach to SYOC fics like this is to not be discouraged and keep my head high about it, but given that my mental health has been in a terrible state for the past few years, I'm not as confident about my writing and my characters as I used to be when I first joined the SYOC community. That's why I've come to make the difficult decision to quit submitting to SYOC fics. I'll likely still be writing my own SYOC fics and OC-centric Total Drama stories, because at least with my own works, I know that my characters are in safe hands. I'll also likely still try to follow any SYOC fic I've submitted to before I went on a hiatus from the Total Drama fandom, but you likely won't be seeing any of my characters get submitted to other people's SYOC fics anymore.
So yeah, just wanted to put this out there for those that aren't in my Discord server. I really didn't want things to end like this, but given the state of my mental health and the downsides of SYOC fic writing that people have come to expect of the community, I feel like this was for the best. Thanks for the memories, Total Drama fans, and hopefully you'll continue to support my own SYOC fics and OC-centric Total Drama stories. – Alexneushoorn