Announcement Post (Dead End and Future Projects) (Patreon)

Hello, everyone :]

I suppose I should just get this out of the way. This next chapter is going to be the last Dead End chapter for a while. The story ran much, much longer than I thought it would (it'll likely be almost 420k words after this next chapter). While I still enjoy the story and characters very much, I've just about burned myself out on them for the time being.

Like 'The Grind', I'll almost certainly be returning to the Dead End in the future. The way I see it, the Dead End's potential is good for, like, double its current length. There are still stories to tell and more importantly, Didi and Sean going on adventures in his past worlds. That's kind of what I see as the end-game/next grand arc of the story. When I return to it, Sean and Didi will be going on 'dates' to his past lives, more stories will be told, and the Guardians of the Universe will get what's coming to them.

But again, that's not going to be happening immediately. I hesitate to use the word 'hiatus' because I feel like it's a death sentence for fics. Still, it's basically accurate. The Dead End will be going on break for a while as I recharge my motivation to write it.

In the meantime, I already have several projects in the works. For one, I'm going to be returning to my 'Goth Girls Galore' story. I feel it didn't get a fair shake of things so I'm going to be devoting a portion of my time to that. From that story, expect shorter chapters, a Reversed Sexual Morality world, and of course, goth girls.

Secondly, I actually have two Worm (Wildbow) stories that I'm developing. Worm is a superhero deconstruction setting and serial web novel written by Wildbow. It's kind of infamous for its grimdarkness to the point of stupidity and ever-increasing, shit-piling escalation. Neither of my stories are going to be nearly as grimdark as the Worm canon is. In a way, I'm planning on turning the setting on its head (as so many fanfiction authors do).

The first Worm fic is something of a combination of standard Gacha system power and the Celestial Grimoire. My working title so far is: 'A Fae Gamble' (or) 'Fae Luck'. Expect parody of the grimdark/grimderp stuff, plenty of rolls/RNGjesus, and of course, goth girls (practically a given, knowing my work lol). Goth Panpan, anyone?

The second Worm fic is more of an OC thing than a SI. Working title: Wyrm... Which might give you some hint as to what it's about. If you don't follow, it's going to be a Shadowrun Greater Dragon OC/insert into Worm with the goal of building a conspiracy to rival Cauldron. That one promises to be... fun. Hell, both of the new stories do. This second one will probably be kept in my back pocket for a little while though as I focus my attention on 'Goth Girls Galore' and 'A Fae Gamble'.

Anyway, I felt I oughta give everyone a fair warning. There's still one chapter left of the Dead End to come. Then I'm moving on to new things for a while. As always, thank you all for your support. I couldn't do what I do without you all :]