#New Chapter of Life

[sakkaira]

『まぁ、いいか。人生の次の章へ進む時だ。』

Romaji ¬ Maa, iika. Jinsei no tsugi no shou (h)e susumu toki da.

Translation ¬ Well, whatever. It's time to move onto the next chapter in life.

[musicprincess1990]

Hi, everyone. It's me, the author who consistently drops the ball on updating her fics. The last few months have been a challenge, to say the least. I've been struggling with my job, fighting to keep my spirits up while sitting at a desk and hating it, lying to myself and everyone around me by telling them I was fine, that I could make it work, that I was happy.

Well, I got fired yesterday. The reason is legitimate, and my own fault. My manager and HR director were very kind about it, and I'm glad I had the chance to work for and with so many good people. And while I'm deeply sad and angry at myself for squandering it, I'm also choosing to see this as a turning point.

No more offices. No more 9 to 5. No more "fake it 'til you make it."

I'm going to "live by my pen." It's past time I finally write that book I've been dreaming of writing for years. No more excuses. If I fail, then I fail, and find a new way to pick myself up. But I'd rather try and fail than spend one more minute regretting. I'm over it.

Does this mean I'm going to have updates for you? Well... maybe. I will do my very best. And I certainly have the free time now, for a while at least. I greatly appreciate the kind comments and check-ins I've received over the last few months. Even though I don't always reply, they do mean a great deal.

Final note: I'm officially a massive fan of 401ks. While I would prefer not to cash it put, that's money that can pay my bills and keep me solvent in the months to come while I get my life sorted out. I'll miss that, as self-employment doesn't offer that, but I'm glad I have that money to use now. Whether you believe in God or not, this is a miracle, and I am counting my blessings. This doesn't have to be a bad thing.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk. Much love to any and all of you who have stuck around and waited for my flaky ass to get to it. 😂❤️

[officialbraincells]

I just realized that May's gonna end tomorrow. A month later I won't be here at my home anymore. I have to face the world and it's challenges. Rather than being excited about this new chapter of my life, I am actually quite sad. There's sorrow and some fear buried within me that I only feel late at night.

[galaghiel]

Both Jack and Maddie stared at him, speechless. Silence blanketed the lab, everything but Danny’s strangled crying, his hand pressed over the muzzle as if to hide it. No- to hold it still, to still the dozen wicked barbs that were digging into his tongue, probably ripping it with each sob.

a little sketch of @liketolaugh-writes amazing one-shot fanfic that you can read here

[kimtaegis]

Destination: your heart Estimated Time of Arrival: whenever you need him ➤ for @jung-koook ♡

[ruporas]

… and it all came flowing to his brain, three years of his youth. (ID in alt)

[remanence-of-love]

[demaparbat-hp]

He noticed the spears resting not too far away from the women. Zuko squinted his eyes and recoiled at the sight of blood painting the blades, in clear contrast to the whimsical whites and blues of the South. These women were hunters.

The Southern Water Tribe brings shades of white to Zuko's soul in For The Spirits Chapter IX: A Rider Alone.

Sharpened mothers and fatherless children resting on the back of tattered tents. A Ghost-Mother, a shapeless howl, and the blue eyes from his dream—everything comes together in the land of the Midnight Sun.

[webweabings]

TO A NEW CHAPTER

Unknown; Hellen Keller; Art on Megan McGill Pinterest; "The Messiness of Emotional Healing" (2024), by Amy Bartlett; Art by @sunsbleeding; Unknown; Tori Amos; Unknown (probably base on this edit by @khristian-ity-blog).

[wasyago]

the brainrot won

[thoughtsthatstayedwithme]

[ghirahimbo]

evil time loop escape conditions where you can't get out until you've fuucked up your life in the most spectacular way possible, confident that the next night will reset the slate as usual.

instead, the next day comes.

[purplebehittindifferent]

I have added a quirky comment here for the last year and a half, however now… I have no words.

jk I have all these words 👇

I know it is very bitter sweet, but this is the end of Reconnecting. Thank you all for coming along on this journey with me. I plan on making a behind the scenes video on my YT sometime soon. Feel free to send any asks you have I want to answer them all!

Please know I am not going to dissapear! I still plan on making content consistently, and my original comic RULE 5 is already underway, and if you’d like I’m certainly not against writing some exposition fics for Reconnecting 💜

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[starry-bi-sky]

mmmmmm read a disciple shen yuan/shizun luo binghe fanfic about two days ago where the first chapter was the Immortal Conference arc, and SQQ was the one who had to be pushed into the abyss (he was still the villain) except Luo Binghe was refusing and was like, lowkey losing his mind about SQQ being so close to the edge. SQQ ended up having to be the one to fall in himself because of the system's punishment system. The rest of the fic is leading up to that moment. But like, MMM i've been obsessively thinking about that first chapter for DAYS ever since.

now i've been in svsss for a grand total of *checks watch* a week. but god obsessed with that. I want to write/read a fic where disciple SQQ goes a little nuts down there. Like keep all of the things that make SQQ, SQQ, but just. Throw in a little bit more trauma in there. A little bit of a mental break. Let him go a little nuts as a treat. Just a tad unhinged. I wanna see him go, just a little, "god fuck it, i've tried so hard to change this shitty story's outcome and it feels like everything i've done has been for nothing. I'm going to die in this world no matter what I do, I've been doomed from the start, so might as well die the way I want to." and he just, breaks a little! Under all the stress.

He still retains the traits that makes shen yuan, shen yuan, like his overwhelming kindness. But he's just! yk. A little less patient. Paranoid. Jumpy. Colder. A little more aloof and closed off. A little more Shen Jiu. He's no asshole child abuser, but he was a Number One Hater in his past life and he's leaning into that old habit a little more now.

(On a totally coincidental not-at-all related note, there's not enough SJ-and-SY-are-the-same-people fics out there that i've found. This is totally unrelated...)

The Endless Abyss turns the mind into an over-sharpened blade, and SQQ is both fascinated and perhaps a little excited to explore a place that doesn't have a lot of info on it in the mortal realm, but still terrified out of his mind. And he's no Luo Binghe, he doesn't have the sheer brute strength and power to just bulldoze his way through, so he has to be a lot more sneaky and cunning if he wants to survive.

The fic itself role-swapped LBH and SQQ so that SQQ was the half-demon (which lowkey fucks) and LBH the human, but I'm equally-if-not-more obsessed with the idea that LBH remains the half-heavenly demon and SQQ the human. If only because I keep thinking about SQQ befriending some demons (particularly and specifically a group of succubi) and they grow very attached to this Human Cultivator so through magic plot stuff they create some kind of seal/illusion/talisman that makes SQQ appear as a demon because a human cultivator in the endless abyss may as well be the equivalent of putting a giant neon target on your back.

And iirc Shen Jiu was taught demonic cultivation by that one guy(?? i've only been here a week so im not caught up in ALL of the lore yet) so that could totally happen here.

(On the other end of the realms, poor Shizun Luo Binghe is just. losing his fucking mind over losing his most precious and beloved disciple. About .5 seconds from burning down the peaks himself. somebody sedate him.)

The Endless Abyss sucks and SQQ is having a really terrible time and can feel himself going lowkey mad, but also holy shit look at all this WORLD-BUILDING. look at all this flora and fauna, and oh if he had the equipment for it he'd be writing all of this down. ALL OF IT. He was kinda-sorta-already planning on never leaving the Abyss as some sort of fucked up self-exile and self-preservation thing, but now he might? actually just?? never leave if he can help it, like he lowkey likes it down here.

anyways the next time anyone ever sees SQQ again he's got hair so long its almost touching the ground and he's either in rags and half-feral or he's been completely dolled up by his adoptive succubi sisters and still about three seconds from biting anyone who tries to touch him. (he's also lowkey trying to book it back down to the abyss even if he has desperately missed all of his friends and shizun)