The last thing from the backlog I had at the beginning of this year. And a thing I’ve been meaning to talk about before then anyways. :u

First and foremost, this is a reference to this old drawing!

Second, basically I was original planning to do a big story thing as a sequel to my Maddy and Match fic. But after a lot of planning and attempts at rewrites, I think I’m going to have to scale things back on that potential sequel.

I’ve come to realize I bit off more than I could chew and was planning to make it like… basically like a whole season of the anime in terms of scale. A main plot! Subplots! Tons of characters! Plot twists! Surprise villains! etc.

Some people are able to handle that all on their own, but… yeah, I’m definitely not one of those people. Also after breaking things up during the outlining, it could potentially end up a good 50+ chapters, and committing to something that big for one fic is just… really intimidating tbh. ^^;

So yeah, Lan being pulled away from the “conspiracy board” is basically symbolic of me taking a step back and trim things down a bit.

That is not to say there won’t ever be a sequel to my Maddy and Match fic! There’s at least one loose thread of sorts involving Match’s family. That was going to be resolved in the original sequel, and I’ve decided to basically rip that out of the original plan and make it the focus of a smaller fic. Hopefully it will be satisfying and tie everything up! Hopefully.

In the meantime I still have my BRC fixation, so who knows when I’d ever get to that anyways. It’d be nice to make this a collaborative thing with another BN/EXE writer, but I’m not gonna try and force that to be a guarantee.

For now, we’ll see what the future holds! \o/