#this is about my funnie princess fic ive been spam reblogging about for the last week lmao

[icaroid]

hello! i want to say first off that i have so much RESPECT for the way you redacted the words in your neverafter story (even the names in the title!!!), gods its perfect performance art and fulfillment of princess sweep, its been half an hour since i realized what you did to it and the Awe has not lessened.

but i do have to ask. out of curiousity and as someone who failed to finish reading it all before it ceased to exist, is it indeed forever lost to the void now or would you one day release it someplace else?

(mad respect still though if you fully plan to commit to the bit and it really is just gone now)

Hi! I had a feeling this question would come up post-finale, thanks for giving me the space to answer it and work through my own mixed feelings on what to do.

Short answer is: I have no plans to re-release the unredacted fic.

Long answer: I've been debating this since my plan to redact it with the final chapter. On the one hand, it's a work that I'm really proud of, something I worked on for a while and which is dear to my heart. It meant a lot to me to write it.

But it is also a temporal thing. It had a beginning and now it has ended. The princesses have gotten themselves free, and now I, too, am free of the tale. Of the writing of it. And all readers who came along, they are freed. And new readers may never be trapped.

Somewhere along the way (sooner I think, rather than later) the fic became a sort of literary ritual, and there is a power in it that I don't think I want to disrupt. Snow White's plan worked. They drowned the pages, and now, if they are anywhere, we cannot reach them.

I had been thinking about coding self-destructing web-pages and the like, but I don't think I'll do that, either. I think undoing the magic brings them back, puts them back into the story to be read over and over again. And I didn't help get them out just to put them back in.

I don't want to let them be read over and over again. I don't know if I'll ever even reread the full file on my computer. I think it's just gone. The princesses got out, and so did we. The end.