May the muffins be forever in your favour.The aftermath of a successful April Foals joke and it can be like a hangover. · 1:48am Apr 3rd, 2019
I..... maybe overdid it a little? 
After the April Foals joke I did yesterday, I feel horrible.
No, I'm not worrying that some may have taken the joke a little too serious and are now mad that I made them think I quit. I know the procedures here on FIMFiction.net and if I had seriously upset someone, I already would have lost some followers after revealing that it was a joke. But the realistic way I put everything has left me with a very bitter feeling now.
Originally, I hadn't planned to make an April Foals joke this year, just like it was the case for previous years. But I changed my mind in the last minute yesterday. I don't know if the fact that Season 9 will be the last one had anything to do with it, if I wanted to at least make one April Foals joke while the show runs, but yesterday I thought about it that I never wrote any special April Foals story and how I won't have the time to write one this year either and then, I thought "Buck it!" and I just decided to make one for the heck of it.
I had no idea what to do, because I hadn't planned anything, so I reached for the most obvious, generic and uncreative joke I could think of: Pretending that I'm done with writing ponyfics.
And like I do everything I have set my mind on, I did it thorough. Too thorough, it turned out, because announcing that I will stop writing MLP: FiM fics in such a serious and believable way gave me the feeling that I'm actually doing this, that I actually give up what I love so much.
As someone who gets easily swamped with emotions based on what I read, this was probably not the smartest idea. Writing down this joke and reading it afterwards gave me a good feeling of how horrible it would be if I would actually stop.
It made me feel a little desperate yesterday and still does right now. So I'm sitting here and need to wait it out until that feeling is gone.
But a thing that made me happy about it were the reactions I got. When I made that joke, I was reckoning with it that not many would say something about it. Even though I have 230 followers, my blog entries rarely see any responses and if they did, it were always the same of my readers so far.
But the announcement of plans to stop as pony author changed that and I had five of you respond and thanking me for what I wrote, expressing that they will miss me, saying that they understand the decision or at least generally commenting on these fake plans of mine. Only one of these commenters was someone who comments on my stuff nearly every time. It showed me that there are people here who really care for it that I'm a long-term pony writer and, even with the horrible way my own joke makes me feel right now, seeing this was very nice.
And for all those who care, let me just officially say that I'm not stopping as a pony author at all. The fics I marked as "Cancelled" yesterday to make it more legit have been set back to either "Incomplete" or "On Hiatus" and I'm all ready to write fics for Season 9 and can't wait to do that.
It was all just a dumb prank that maybe worked a little too well, at least for me, so no one has to worry that I could call it quits here.
The part where I talked about drama that happened to me over the last two years, how my writing skill suffered from it and how I had to work myself back up was true, but I would never allow any kind of drama or any toxic people to stop me from doing what I love.
I honestly would rather lose a leg than stopping to write ponyfics.
Oh, well played! You definitely had me!
Looking forward to reading and catching up with your older stories!
You know I would be furious at you but I knew it was an April Fools joke since 4 people I saw did that yesterday.
I knew it was an April Fools joke! Well played!
On the side note, I'm glad you're not leaving!
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Here's a commenter I haven't seen for a long time. I thought you have stopped checking out my stuff.
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Yeah, the joke was anything but original. There are probably always a couple of authors each year who do that. Last-minute ideas don't leave room for anything witty and creative.
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You're not the only one. I'm glad that I'm not actually leaving, too.
Good on you it didn't backfire on You. Sometimes, i feel like i am the only one commenting on Blogs
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It kind of did. But writing that new blog entry now and officially revealing the joke made me feel better again.
And, yeah, under most blog entries you are. But it has gotten a little better lately, with a few more readers writing comments, and I hope that keeps up. Mostly, though, I care for comments under stories and I receive a good amount there, so it's fine if the blog entries don't get many.
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Good for you. I am just Friendly, seeing it as a Good deed to Comment.
In any Case, looking forward to see your Work