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No chapter this Monday unfortunately. I am so so close to finishing Silver Bloodstains…. But my body hasn’t gotten the memo and has shut down all writing related functionality. I’ll do my best to power through and finish BEFORE I take my burnout break, but it might be a bit slow. Sorry about that!
Oh oops, forgot to give y’all advance warning.
Burnout has finally hit.
I tried to delay it as much as possible (as I reeeeeeeally wanted to finish Silver Bloodstains before then) but alas, one cannot put off the inevitable forever. I have to take a break lol
I’m not leaving the submas fandom of course! I’ll still be commenting on fics and posting here occasionally, but my writing needs to go on a bit of a pause for two months or so. I’ll try to finish Silver Bloodstains during that time (I’m soooooooo close) but my update schedule will be completely irrelevant until my break is over.
So yeah, gotta recharge my writing juice lol. Feel free to send any asks about my stories or AUs! I’m still here and happy to engage! (I don’t get them much so they’re always a joy to respond to lol)
Sorry about the delay!
A MALE SPAM BOT?????????
Finally!!
First I'm hearing of a male spam bot 👀
They are an endangered species.
Cocks shotgun
Still evasive though
We bout to make a newly discovered endangered species EXTINCT BOOOOIIIISSS
A tragedy really. 😔
My health is still out of sorts but I’ve started writing again. Not a lot right now, but little bits add up and are certainly much more then absolutely nothing lol. Here’s hoping I can update soon!
*lightly bonks* rest, the writing will be here for you when you're better. It's not healthy to work through being sick
Hahahaha I appreciate the support. Unfortunately, I’ve been sick for the past eight years or so, so things are a mite more complicated because of that.
Around February my writing started slowing down, and about a month ago I hit a wall and decided I needed a break. I was calling it burnout at the time, but considering my complete exhaustion in all other areas of my life as well, there was a decent chance it was more then that.
Annoyingly though, my blood tests came back completely normal and that was the best theory I had (iron infusions is the only thing that’s ever actually helped my health in any way). In light of that, there’s not much I can do except accept this as my life for the moment.
Maybe it’ll magically get better if I waited even longer, maybe it really is just burnout- but I have no real way to know. The best I can do is keep trying and hope the past two years haven’t been just a fluke.
I promise I’m taking it slow though! I’ve been making an active effort to lay down more again (maybe the problem was that I was daring to be upright too much) and I’m only writing in small bursts rn.
Writing submas stuff has been the only success I’ve had for the past eight years, and I’m not letting go of it if I can help it.
Still, I am prone to pushing myself, so the encouragement is appreciated nonetheless. Thank you for the support!
Obviously it’ll be a while until I post an actual writing update, BUT I’ve got an AU post lined up and almost ready to go, so we’ve got that at least. Maybe next Monday? Look forward to it- it’s long
I’ve mentioned a few weeks ago that I’ve got a new AU incoming- and I’m really excited to share it with you! But, as you might have noticed, I currently have way too many projects rn to take on any other fics, so this will have to remain a tumblr only thing for the forceable future.
THAT BEING SAID
I really want this to be an AU people are curious about and want to interact with! Especially if it isn’t leaving tumblr any time soon.
So!
THEY ARE HERE!!!!!!!!
@antidotesprout thank you so much!
I’m curious now- what were the rest of emmets messages? Was he sending them while being cut apart in the Evil Glass Dimension?
Oh I was sooooo gunna write them all out for you... but that would b a fic's worth of words and I'm doing this format to avoid too much extra writing. Regardless...
As soon as Emmet could get his communicator working he started sending messages to Ingo. It was... discouraging when the first few obviously didn't go through, but he kept at it. Not really because he expected a response, but more because he needed to someone to talk to, even if they couldn't talk back.
Unbeknownst to him, Ingo was getting his messages, just not when he was sending them. Instead, Ingo's grand quest is to travel the far reaches of the galaxy to receive each one- each message its own tiny shard of glass.
Each message is a quest to obtain, and each shard leaves Ingo feeling more and more worried.
Sure, it all starts okay, with Emmet absolutely sure that he can find some locals and borrow a ship out of there...
But slowly things start to become... off.
He's forgetting things- his plan, where he's been, where he's going. It starts small at first, Emmet doesn't even notice, but...
But he does eventually.
Eventually he realizes that he's losing himself, piece by piece, and he's scared. He's scared because he doesn't know what's happening, doesn't know how to stop it, doesn't know what he's losing.
Each message gets more and more disjointed, less coherent.
He forgets his name at one point.
...He forget's Ingo's a while later.
He can't remember who he is or who he's talking to, can't remember where he's going or where he's from.
He knows.. he knows he's talking to someone but-
He knows they must be dead. Whoever it was. That's why he's alone now right? That's why... that's why...
He has to keep sending messages.
It's all he has.
Please.
I miss you
Sorry I didn't write this earlier, but we gotta know what Emmet is going through in the Astral Shards au.. especially after the tags under the sentinels post
Awesome Sneasler ship drawing btw!
Thank you for the ask! This is actually what helped me power through and write the second half to that, so look forward to that.
In reference to the tags-
When Ingo get's Emmet out of the Land of Glass he's not... quite.. natural anymore. He's broken, shattered, literally smashed into tiny pieces that don't properly follow the laws of reality. He physically shouldn't have been able to leave the glass dimension... but Ingo found a way.
The autophage helped with that.
They were familiar with being broken, with being rejected by the Atlas. It was the Void Mother who helped them, who showed them how to use atlantideum to build themselves up from nothing.
But Emmet is a biological being, not mechanical, so they cannot fix him. They can only keep him from falling further apart.
For Ingo to save his brother, he'll need help of an... organic being.
The bots have gotten smarter. They spam reblog cat videos now.
Sorry for yet another week without an update. My family left for an out of country trip two weeks ago and just got back yesterday. This had been the longest I’d ever been on my own before and something about the experience made concentrating in any way basically impossible.
But, as I said, the family is back now, and I have three and a half chapters of backlog that are just begging to be edited. Thank you for your patience- hopefully I can become consistent again soon.
In everyone goes feral in Hisui, I think Akari should be able to bite Arceus, as a treat.
She should. It’s her right.
No chapter tomorrow! I’ve been busy with irl stuff all week, which, while objectively good, means I had little time for writing.
Tumblr is increasing its ad free price by $30 a year. That’s almost double. Like, I get they’re having money problems, but why are they taking it out on me? The person paying them?????
I can’t believe AO3 has the audacity to stop working the moment I decide to tackle my inbox. How cruel. How heartless. Why must they do this to me specifically.
No new chapter tomorrow, spent the week drawing instead.
On the plus side, next chapter has a drawing lol