#from anybody else but the suckers I've trapped in my DMs

[yellowocaballero]

How's it going?

Going well! I hope my relative absence hasn't made anybody think I'm doing badly. If anybody's off Tumblr for longer periods of time it means they're doing great, tbh.

I got covid, went to Hawai'i, and started a new job that is asking me to commute for the first time in 4 years, caught up on all of the social interaction I missed, and downloaded the Sim 2. So. Busy.

I also just finished up a literal 80k story which, which isn't good but which I'm ridiculously happy with. Does something have to be good when it's fucking funny, very intense, and the prose is surprisingly good? No. Who said you needed a real plot or anything but dialogue. Who told you that.

I've also been stress writing something else which is very long and very bad and will never see the light of day. So my writing energy has been going to those things.

The latest Weekenders chapter needs some edits that I just haven't had time for, so that's why it hasn't gone up yet. The readership base is relatively small for that story so I don't feel overly pressured. I work on what I feel like working on.

I'll assume you were thinking along the lines of, 'Wow, Meg's been gone, hope nothing bad's happening'. These asks can also mean 'When's the next update, but politely?'. But I have gotten a comment on Weekenders that was nothing but saying 'hope the next chapter comes soon'. Addressing anybody reading this in general - please don't leave comments like that! Especially when it's the only sentence in the comment. It wasn't phrased rudely but I think, for me especially, it feels a little ridiculous - I am a worryingly prolific author, who regularly posts new writing on my AO3 or my tumblr, and who updates once a week extremely regularly. Taking a break for a few weeks is incredibly normal to everybody else, and I don't want to be held to a different standard. People wouldn't ask anybody else, 'why aren't you posting new stories and updating constantly'. I'm not one of those people who needs feedback and validation from anybody but my abused Discord friends, not that there's anything wrong with having ordinary human emotions, and those comments don't make me want to stop writing or hurt my feelings - but they really don't do anything. My mind wanders, I find new things, and I write what I want to write. It's literally fanfic. I'll never pressure myself. If I wanted to do that I'd write stories I will admit to writing irl lol.