Hello dudes, dudettes, and beings between and beyond, it's been a while, yeah? Hope everyone's been well, or at least as well as you can be!
I'd love to say this I come bearing good news, but I don't really know if this can actually be considered 'good' in the eyes of many. This won't be a short read, nor an easy one, and I would appreciate it if you took the time to read what I have to say.
I posted a while back that I was halting any further work here on FF and moving onto AO3. I have since moved to AO3 and have begun to rewrite my stories from scratch, though I've only posted two thus far. I've changed as a writer and as a person since the time when I posted stories on here and I just felt like the updates and changes needed to happen and my faith in this site was quite low at that point. The new versions of my stories on AO3 are extremely slow to coming out, I won't deny that. I am a working adult and thus have responsibilities that come first. And honestly, it's gotten to be so much that I actually managed to get burnt out. I've been doing a bit better, getting myself back on track, bit by bit, but also putting aside time to just focus on myself.
But I digress.
There have been individuals here on FF that have been...bothering me, to put it kindly. I have been receiving messages ranging from collab proposals that sound suspect to outright demands. In addition, I've also received messages with content that makes me highly uncomfortable. To the collab 'proposals', I've denied them, but I'm still receiving at least three every other day and it is bothersome, to say the least. To the demands and messages containing worrisome content, I've reported them to the FF admins, but as seems to be the norm with this site, I don't know what came out of that action.
To be honest, this entire...thing, has brought my stress levels to a hilarious high. My occasional migraines have become more of a constant thing; something I'm not very happy about as decreasing stress was my goal, not increasing it. As a result, I've decided to go against my original decision when I announced my move to AO3.
Effective immediately, over the course of the next few months, I will be deleting my stories off of FF.
These stories I wrote so long ago seem to be the basis of why I am receiving these constant messages. If I can remove the reason, hopefully that will send out a better message than my outright refusals have.
I understand this decision won't be received well by many a reader, and frankly, as sorry as I am to disappoint, I need to put myself first. To those who have been supportive of my writing and have enjoyed my stories: Thank You. To those who would be rude just to get a word in because they have nothing better to do with their time or lives: Bite your tongue.
If anyone is interested in reading my stories as they come back out, slow as they may be, please don't hesitate to look me up on AO3. My penname there is the same name I have here, TsukiyoTenshi. I don't have strict privacy settings placed onto the stories I publish, so you do not have to make an account to be able to read them. I would like to reiterate and emphasize this point: You DO NOT need to make an account on AO3 to read my writing. No one should be forced to make accounts for every little thing if they do not have the wish to do so. My stories here will not disappear immediately, but they will gradually, and regrettably, leave this site permanently and the new versions will only be posted on AO3.
Thank you,
TsukiyoTenshi