The Last Timeline

by EllaWhyteTales

After doing everything the right way in the first timeline, Frisk was compelled to do the genocide route for what they felt were "good" reasons. In doing so, they have broken utterly and become something new. Something absolutely devoted to Sans, and not remotely sane. Now they are striving to fix everything and find their path forward. What the hell is Sans supposed to do now?

47. Update - Not a Chapter

Hello everyone! This is an update, not a chapter, as is probably already obvious! ?

So, I made a few misjudgments on timing.

One, I managed to not think about the obvious consequence of having a several week trip of visiting with my mom. The obvious consequence, of course, of doing absolutely no writing whatsoever during that time.

Two, I failed to realize how much fun I would have writing Sans' backstory chunks in ways that are totally disconnected from the current plot. This freeform writing thing has resulted in writing stuff for The Last Timeline, but while I have thousands more words to share, they're not actually ready for sharing yet. (Which is a shame, because I really want to share certain things - I'm super happy with how the scene came out where Sans first started working for Gaster, but noooo, I can't share that for a while. I'm gonna make him tell Frisk soon if I have to smack him upside the head *grumble grumble at uncooperative characters*.)

Three, with my kid being off school, a huge chunk of my free time has been spent with my kid, as opposed to holed up with my laptop.

All of these things really ought to have been predicted in advance. The end result is that I'm nowhere near being actually at the point of posting stuff again. I'm also realizing that I'm not sure I'll be able to resume regular posting until my kid goes back to school because I don't wanna be the kind of mom who abandons her kid to write something that's halfway smut. That seems… questionable.

So I'll make another update in a month (I'll keep closer track of the timing, because I missed it this time), but my current prediction is that I'll be ready to post stuff come sometime in September. Maybe October. Again, I do really want to have an actual, solid buffer of like 5+ chapters. And I maybe have… uh… none currently. *coughs* Though I have several chunks that will be integrated into chapters, so a week or so per chapter might work. If I finish one chapter per week, I'll have a big enough buffer by early September. We'll see.

Also thank you for everyone who's commented! I've not been replying due to spending time with my mom (she's here for several more days), but I really, hugely appreciate it! Thank you all for reading and for the kind words.

TLDR: I misjudged my life's schedule stuff horribly, I'll definitely post an update in a month, and will probably be up to resuming posting the chapters by sometime in September.

(Date of this update is July 22nd, 2024)