A Resignation Notice and a "Thank You" Post
It's 1:24am. I am beat and I really should be in dreamland long before now. But I have been mulling over something the last couple of days and it keeps bugging me and I hate feeling like this, so I thought I'd better just give in and get it over with.
I hereby serve notice to everyone concerned that I am resigning from writing for the Prince of Tennis fandom. It's not like I fell out of love with the fandom (or heaven forbid, my OTP), because I still love my tennis boys beyond imagining-- it's just that I have totally lost my grasp on how to translate them properly into fics. To put it bluntly, I just absolutely suck at writing for the fandom. T_T And I'd rather that it does without my contributions, than to force the issue and come out with a piece that seem related to Tara's My Immortal.
I will still be closely following the goings-on in the fandom, though. Besides, I can't just leave it when it gave me the opportunity to meet and befriend some of the most awesome people in the world! Speaking of which, I would like to take this opportunity to thank these wonderful people:
First off, pinksnow1986. Nushy-chan, you got me started writing for the PoT fandom. Your stories inspired me to take up writing fanfiction again and the magic of your words in your early PoT works just added to the depth of character I already saw in three of my most favorite characters: Tezuka, Fuji, and Eiji. Your later works showed me the true awesomeness of his Royal Narcissisticness, Atobe-sama. ^_^ When you agreed to be my beta, I was beside myself with excitement. Thank you so much for all your help. Thank you for helping me find confidence in my own works. And thank you so much for putting up with me and my weird fics that I had you read. Oh sweety, words will never be enough to express to you my gratitude. Thank you for the inspiration and the influence. You rock!!! And I love you!
sugarcakey, I got to know you soon after I started writing for the fandom, ne? I remember being absolutely impressed by your breathtaking Dream Pair linearts. And I also distinctly remember that you left some of the sweetest, most encouraging comments to my stories! *glomps and clings* You have no idea just how much drive I derived from those comments. It brought me the greatest joy just knowing that there is at least one Sugar-chan who thoroughly enjoyed the stuff I wrote. And now, I am so grateful that from just a common fandom that we shared, we've somehow managed to develop a real friendship. Thank you so much for the concern and the love for me that you always express. I may not be so good at letting you know, but I do hope you realize that I care for you just as much. Thank you for everything... and here's to hoping to many more years of random bursts of fangirling together!
thallein, I miss you. I rarely ever hear from you anymore, but thank you (for everything, but most especially for those two art requests that you did for me. ^_^)
I also can't leave out tsumetaitsubasa. Aaaaahhh~! Winter-chan and her adorable Ryoma cosplay! For some reason, I'm inclined to declare that your Ryoma's more adorable than the actual Ryoma! LOLZ! Thank you for contributing to my PoT fangirling.
To my two Fuji's,
vierblith_tefu and
a1y_puff : I love you, girls! Thank you for playing Fuji to my Tezuka. Both of you are amazing beyond words and your works are just... Wow~! I always thought of both of you as the Mistresses of TeFu... I always will. I don't think anybody could ever wrestle that title away from you. Thank you for the countless fangirling chat conferences. Thank you for sharing you insights about life, love, and TeFu with me. Perhaps you'd still talk to me...?
demonessryu, my adopted daughter who demands that I read Kama Sutra to her as a bedtime story... *sweatdrop*. I still think it's uber unfair that you know more about the technicalities of having sex than I ever would in this lifetime, but thank you for trying to share some of that knowledge with me. You've certainly made the fandom more interesting for me... and you certainly know how to turn up the heat for it. LOLZ! You are made of a thousand different kinds of win. I wuff you, daughter!
chilibreath and
hakkai_sensei, I know that I've known you girls long before I ever got into the PoT fandom, but you both deserve a mention here. Thank you for agreeing to be my "pinch-hitter betas" whenever Snow-chan couldn't beta for me. Zellie, you totally win at life for beta-ing my stories so well despite the fact that you only have about 0.3% knowledge of the PoT fandom. Itoshii, honto ni daisuki da. Itsumo. Zutto. Eien ni. Yakusoku. ^_~
To all the others who've befriended me and encouraged me and left me wonderful comments: cleverlilwill, crypticmadness, dark_kana, dreaminxforxeve, fayeiii, hvid_noire, iff_u_loved_me, milkyxduckie, moehoshi, paranoid_fridge, peachy_milktea, ranningu, sasuke_fuji, syuzuka_nhowy, tacuma811, THANK YOU!!!
Before I leave off, I do realize that I have left one fic hanging... the vampire fic. Because I am a hopeful idiot, I haven't totally closed off the idea of finishing that fic. I do have the whole plot worked out already, it's just that the execution of said plot is proving to be a challenge. I won't be actively working on the fic, but IF inspiration strikes (and that's a pretty big IF), then you just might see the subsequent chapters. Otherwise... well... *bows in apology*.
Everyone, thank you for three absolutely wonderful years of fic writing! ^_^
I hereby serve notice to everyone concerned that I am resigning from writing for the Prince of Tennis fandom. It's not like I fell out of love with the fandom (or heaven forbid, my OTP), because I still love my tennis boys beyond imagining-- it's just that I have totally lost my grasp on how to translate them properly into fics. To put it bluntly, I just absolutely suck at writing for the fandom. T_T And I'd rather that it does without my contributions, than to force the issue and come out with a piece that seem related to Tara's My Immortal.
I will still be closely following the goings-on in the fandom, though. Besides, I can't just leave it when it gave me the opportunity to meet and befriend some of the most awesome people in the world! Speaking of which, I would like to take this opportunity to thank these wonderful people:
First off, pinksnow1986. Nushy-chan, you got me started writing for the PoT fandom. Your stories inspired me to take up writing fanfiction again and the magic of your words in your early PoT works just added to the depth of character I already saw in three of my most favorite characters: Tezuka, Fuji, and Eiji. Your later works showed me the true awesomeness of his Royal Narcissisticness, Atobe-sama. ^_^ When you agreed to be my beta, I was beside myself with excitement. Thank you so much for all your help. Thank you for helping me find confidence in my own works. And thank you so much for putting up with me and my weird fics that I had you read. Oh sweety, words will never be enough to express to you my gratitude. Thank you for the inspiration and the influence. You rock!!! And I love you!
sugarcakey, I got to know you soon after I started writing for the fandom, ne? I remember being absolutely impressed by your breathtaking Dream Pair linearts. And I also distinctly remember that you left some of the sweetest, most encouraging comments to my stories! *glomps and clings* You have no idea just how much drive I derived from those comments. It brought me the greatest joy just knowing that there is at least one Sugar-chan who thoroughly enjoyed the stuff I wrote. And now, I am so grateful that from just a common fandom that we shared, we've somehow managed to develop a real friendship. Thank you so much for the concern and the love for me that you always express. I may not be so good at letting you know, but I do hope you realize that I care for you just as much. Thank you for everything... and here's to hoping to many more years of random bursts of fangirling together!
thallein, I miss you. I rarely ever hear from you anymore, but thank you (for everything, but most especially for those two art requests that you did for me. ^_^)
I also can't leave out tsumetaitsubasa. Aaaaahhh~! Winter-chan and her adorable Ryoma cosplay! For some reason, I'm inclined to declare that your Ryoma's more adorable than the actual Ryoma! LOLZ! Thank you for contributing to my PoT fangirling.
To my two Fuji's,
vierblith_tefu and
a1y_puff : I love you, girls! Thank you for playing Fuji to my Tezuka. Both of you are amazing beyond words and your works are just... Wow~! I always thought of both of you as the Mistresses of TeFu... I always will. I don't think anybody could ever wrestle that title away from you. Thank you for the countless fangirling chat conferences. Thank you for sharing you insights about life, love, and TeFu with me. Perhaps you'd still talk to me...?
demonessryu, my adopted daughter who demands that I read Kama Sutra to her as a bedtime story... *sweatdrop*. I still think it's uber unfair that you know more about the technicalities of having sex than I ever would in this lifetime, but thank you for trying to share some of that knowledge with me. You've certainly made the fandom more interesting for me... and you certainly know how to turn up the heat for it. LOLZ! You are made of a thousand different kinds of win. I wuff you, daughter!
chilibreath and
hakkai_sensei, I know that I've known you girls long before I ever got into the PoT fandom, but you both deserve a mention here. Thank you for agreeing to be my "pinch-hitter betas" whenever Snow-chan couldn't beta for me. Zellie, you totally win at life for beta-ing my stories so well despite the fact that you only have about 0.3% knowledge of the PoT fandom. Itoshii, honto ni daisuki da. Itsumo. Zutto. Eien ni. Yakusoku. ^_~
To all the others who've befriended me and encouraged me and left me wonderful comments: cleverlilwill, crypticmadness, dark_kana, dreaminxforxeve, fayeiii, hvid_noire, iff_u_loved_me, milkyxduckie, moehoshi, paranoid_fridge, peachy_milktea, ranningu, sasuke_fuji, syuzuka_nhowy, tacuma811, THANK YOU!!!
Before I leave off, I do realize that I have left one fic hanging... the vampire fic. Because I am a hopeful idiot, I haven't totally closed off the idea of finishing that fic. I do have the whole plot worked out already, it's just that the execution of said plot is proving to be a challenge. I won't be actively working on the fic, but IF inspiration strikes (and that's a pretty big IF), then you just might see the subsequent chapters. Otherwise... well... *bows in apology*.
Everyone, thank you for three absolutely wonderful years of fic writing! ^_^