What in tarnation

Oh geez. What am I doing here again?
It's... been a while. Yeah, a while to say the least. I think I may owe an explanation. Perhaps. A little.

So, first question - where did I go, and where have my stories gone? To answer question one, I just sorta... fell off, I guess? No, I did not die, obviously! I am in quite good health, I'm happy to say. Well, mostly. I'm afraid that, at some point, I just lost interest. In MLP, the Brony fandom, and all of that. I can't really say why, couldn't pinpoint a reason if you asked me to. Like a fire, it just... faded. It's a phase of my life that has long passed, and I haven't really looked back since.

So, if I haven't looked back since, what happened to the stories? Well...
About a year ago - god, was it really a year? - a friend of mine in a group chat I'm in decided to dig up some dirt. And I mean, yeah, it's fair - we were roasting him pretty well, after all! - and at some point somebody mentioned; "Remember that time [Sharky] wrote a bunch of My Little Pony fanfictions?"
It was a panic response. Knee-jerk. Recognizing the threat, and not willing to read what must've been quite cringy writing (after all, even by this point it was several years old!) I moved fast. I deleted everything to prevent it being used as ammunition against me, and I didn't look back. I had no desire to do anything with it anymore, after all.

Undoubtedly this might have caused some confusion. The brony fandom being behind me, I didn't really care. And I didn't think about it again. But it wasn't until tonight, at 12:20 in the AM, just past midnight only a day from my birthday, that I happened to listen to the Monster Zero March, and memories returned to me.

So, on a whim, I checked here again. I saw that it was all gone, and even if I didn't really want it there anymore, I felt... dirty. I just left here, and I never looked back. No thought or explanation. And people here had been somewhat kind, as well - I had a fairly loyal readerbase with Astro Monster, and I just left them. Left you all. And I felt guilty about that, because even if I didn't care about this at all really anymore, I had deprived you all of something that, at least in some way at some point, you liked, for no reason but my own fear and vanity.

So now I am here. I'm apologizing, and I'm shutting the book here for real y'all. As I've said, I don't really have much interest in anything here anymore, so I'll be moving on. I'm sorry for the confusion, I'm sorry for the absence, I'm sorry for the theft, and I'm sorry for the silence. I hope, in some way, this makes some amends.

So what's up with Sharky now? If you care to read past this, here's your answer.
I'm in university right now, studying to be a writer. Yes, I never did lose that itch, only now I've tooled it to more personal adventures. If anybody is interested in keeping up with me, I... don't really share any of it online, lol. But I'd be happy to talk. You can find me on Discord, at Sharktopus117#0976 . Shoot me a friend request, and we can chat - about writing, kaiju, games, all that fun stuff.

In the words of Micolash, "Let us sit about, and speak feverishly..."

Cheers y'all. It was a good run.