Anxious Phantom

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First off, SO many insane things happened what the hell

Depends if I’d have to draw my own work, I think. I’m not familiar with art fight beyond having heard of it in passing so you’ll have to forgive my ignorance ehe

Drawing people is one of the art things I’m terrible at (I can do backgrounds fine though for some reason lol) and I don’t think I’m comfortable enough with the idea of putting up any drawings online for now

However, if I wouldn’t have to draw anything then I’d be more than happy to do it!

I saw that your currently most recent Author's Note said that you should be back from your vacation today, so I was just wondering how that went and maybe what you did n stuff.

I was also curious if you had a general estimate on if you think you might be able to post the next chapter soon or if you have to work on it more. No pressure, I'm just curious about upcoming updates :)

Yep, came back last night (long flight from Budapest T-T)

We did a river cruise on the Danube so it was a lot of historical/cultural activities starting in Germany and ending in Hungary, although my favourites were by far a lesson on the Viennese waltz and a hike to a medieval ruined castle in Visegrád which included the tower where Vlad the Impaler (the real life Dracula) was imprisoned! It was my first time in the more eastern parts of Europe and it was incredibly interesting, if a bit depressing at times

As for the next chapter, it's entirely unwritten because our cruise's schedule was busy from start to finish (I'm talking waking up at 7:00 and being busy for almost every hour of the day until 22:00), so it won't be up until next Saturday as usual, and since I have an annotated bibliography/essay proposal for a field school I'm doing in just over a month, I don't know exactly when the edited Whirling of Leaves of Petals will be up since the proposal is unfortunately a higher priority for me

She was from Vancouver, Canada!

Since I envisioned her as having almost zero specific knowledge of her past (so, she could remember Earth itself or Genshin/other pieces of media, but nothing about her life, family, etc), I didn't flesh out a lot about her identity pre-Teyvat, but what there was included that her name was Iris Leung, she had an older sister, and she'd been studying history and political science in order to go to law school.

(You’d really think I’d plan ahead for this but noooooooooo)

I'm sooooo curious how you're gonna tackle the collei and goddess of flowers fragment part

All I can say is that it’s good news that it’s entirely within Sharzad’s character to keep that information a secret because Collei’s not in active danger from the fragment, so the previous plot isn’t changing (regarding that) besides an extra paragraph or two where Sharzad thinks about that info.

Since we're going back to Sumeru (and there's a ton of characters coming back), I'm concerned Hoyo is about to wreck all of my plans. As a result, I don't want to post the edited fic until AFTER I play the quests (Archon and Story), just in case they throw a massive wrench in some of my plans and I have to rewrite stuff. Hoyo has a track record of doing that and I don't trust them.

Consequently, the fic's rewrite won't be posted for at least two weeks, but that gives me time to make sure it's as in line with my projections for canon as possible (preventing any retcons, rewrites, or even drastic deviations from canon in the future)

BUT more time means I can get ahead on the main fic, and that could mean I'll still be able to post chapters when I'm on vacation in the start of June (otherwise I'd need a 2 week hiatus)