It was a fun project I obviously won’t forget, but it was fleeting. I liked when I had the proper time and focus to respond accordingly to any and all messages. A short-lived VA, fanart, and even a Discord community. Throughout this journey, FoC brought a lot more surprises than I expected. It’s not news I wished to deliver to those looking forward to more, but there’s no getting around the elephant in the room. But if continuing means forcing content out that’s only a shadow of its former self, I’d rather just let the series come to an end here. I enjoyed writing what I could, and two million words is certainly nothing to blink at. I can’t muster the time or motivation to continue building this universe when the scales are weighed unfavorably. I know to those loyal readers this is disappointing news, but I believe it’s time for me to call an end to this endeavor. It was fun for a time, but it was too much of a pipe dream to keep building. At the end of it all, there’s simply too much potential content to get through and not enough time, especially for a casual hobby. FoC grew like I never imagined, but its greatest boons were doomed to become its downfall: Endless potential and casual design. Recent entries felt more like a chore to write as my focus was given to two larger projects. Though the plans and curiosities for what lay ahead exist, the motivation to write had been steadily dying. I have the feeling many of you were expecting this ever since the slowdowns began, but what I say next may be unfortunately obvious. We all know Fate, and that’s a whole lotta lore. Just be patient when it comes to two years’ worth of servants popping up. TLDR: When motivation strikes or I need a break from my main pursuit, a shard or two will come out of nowhere again! And it’s very accurate to say that endeavor is so large that writing fell under its growing umbrella. No set schedule though – the motivation & inspiration to write returned with my main creative endeavor hitting their own little rough spots. So while I won’t be writing Shards as frequently as Fragments or how I used to, I can say that there will be more. And thankfully, it has 2,000,000 words of world-building backing to provide a solid perspective on how such-and-such scene could’ve possibly come to fruition. Shards, however, was far more what I always wanted to do with its truly random smattering of light scenes. As I believe I stated before – and I say that because I didn’t go back to look lol – Fragments’ linear path was its own undoing. Now before your hopes get too high, no, this does not mean Fragments is back. While the motivation died off, my inspiration usually just needs a hot minute to ‘reboot.’ And SKYS is even around again doing minor editing checks like he used to! Which brings up the last part of the gift: This was not a one off. It’s not much compared to what I used to do, but I thought five shards would be a nice little present! One might be just a reupload of the Tumblr ‘catch-ups’ with some extra bits at the end, but at least the other four were traditional shards.
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