Happy Holidays, and an Update!

Firstly, happy holidays! It's been a long, stressful year for me, as I'm sure it has been for many of you. I'm proud of all of your for persevering and making it through as well as you did. Here's to an even better 2023!

Secondly, the dreaded update. I want to get back into the fandom, I really do. I'm writing more fan fiction, I've reintroduced myself into the Quills and Sofas speedwrites, and I'm just interacting more in general. I think I'm going to write more if I admit that I should write more short-form stuff. The fact of the matter is, if I'm sitting down to write something long, I'm going to be drawn to writing the original fiction I'm intending to publish. Which, on the one hand, yay following my dreams, but on the other hand, I'm finally admitting defeat with Leader of House Starswirl. This makes me immensely sad. I want to finish it. It was an amazing idea (albeit written by a me with less writing experience). Most importantly, it was the first fan fiction I ever started on, and I promised myself I'd finish it. I'm breaking that promise to myself, and that hurts. But I'm not going to be investing as much time into this fandom as that would need, and I feel as though I'm betraying it. I'm finally marking it as "cancelled", but maybe a chapter or two will show up at some point. You never know.