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I hope you do end up picking the fic back up, but if you don't, that's fine too! Your mental health comes before everything else, and if you aren't comfortable continuing the fic, then don't push yourself to.
I love your fics by the way, they were really good! I especially love the part where Indigo tried to bite DSB, that was really funny.
FAIR WARNING: This is very disjointed and rambley, a LOT has happened.
So hello my fellow mongus fans! I'm the author of Gone Are The Days, a fic series based off of Rodamrix's Among Us Animated (Alternate!) GATD has been on hiatus for a long while and I figured I should just explain what's happening. I haven't abandoned the fic, but I'm not sure if I want to keep working on it either. I did put it on hiatus originally for the holidays, but then college dragged me down and I had no time to work.
And then some drama happened.
A while back, I found out an among us fan server I was in, full of primarily Rodamrix fans, was supporting some real nasty stuff (ew- proshippers)
and some of them were also fans of GATD. I left the server for my own mental health, but it's left me really uncomfortable with continuing the fic because of some of the stuff I heard people say regarding me n my fic. I am a Pink IRL, GATD is a retelling of my own memories, with some artistic liberties spliced in bc my memories are fuzzy at best, and I was not omnipotent and knew everything that happened in my canon at all times.
And with the AUA's Alternate timeline progressing in new episodes, the fic is gettign more and more canon-divergent and I've gotten some comments abt how "this isn't how it REALLY happened, do you even watch the show???" and it's just
annoying.
I've also been getting self-conscious about my writing. I don't think it's good, I can't read prior chapters without cringing.
I don't know if I'll end up picking the fic back up tbh. I jst need more time to figure things out. I'm very sorry for my readers who I've kept waiting.
For clarity, when I talk about stims, I talk about anything you do to regulate emotions - pos/neg/otherwise. Stims are not an aesthetic. They are a coping tool.
As someone who is on the autism spectrum, I get overwhelmed very easily by strong emotions. I've genuinely had breakdowns over very positive and very negative emotions in the past. Stimming is an important tool for me to delay the meltdown enough to recognize the incoming emotions and take steps to try and regulate before they get to the point of affecting my functioning.
This post is for my fellow neurodivergents to find and interact with me :)
Any and all are welcome! But yeah, stimming isn't a "quirky lil thing". It needs to be taken with the same level of seriousness as any other coping mechanism <3
Hopes this clears things up on my viewpoints.
Mental health is not a trend!!!
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