PSA: Activity Update & Future of This Blog
{out of exile} *folds hands on desk and looks at camera* Alright. Let’s talk frankly about my rather long-term inactivity on this blog. I am still alive, heh, and I want to just explain a few things so everyone knows where I’m at with this blog.
I hope I still have some followers on here still and I apologize for the complete lack of activity on here in the past several months. I know you have heard this all before, and the truth is that I did not want to let go of Nuada as a muse despite not having much inspiration to write him lately. I still am not shutting down this blog (I can’t, it’s my main on this account and all other rp blogs of mine are sides of this one, heh), but I will need to do things differently going forward. I should have put this blog on hiatus but I honestly didn’t think I would be this inactive and for this long, so I dropped the ball on that. I am very sorry.
First of all, my inactivity has been largely due to these three reasons:
I have a lack of muse for Nuada. It has been a while since I had have muse for him, but I think I might know a big reason why. I will explain more in my plans for this blog once I explain the other two reasons for my inactivity.
I have overwhelming Marvel muse instead. I have three Marvel rp blogs now after getting caught up on a lot of the movies, and I am really enjoying a lot of muse, creativity, and just general love of writing them. I am active daily on @thiscrimsonsoul (Wanda Maximoff) and @fasterthanmydemons (Pietro Maximoff), and am active semi-daily on @notbigondoors (Vision). If you want to rp with me, interact via asks, send in memes, ask about headcanons, and all that fun stuff I used to do on this blog, heh, I am very responsive over on those blogs. That’s where the bulk of my roleplaying on Tumblr has been since around May. So feel free to interact with me and my muses over on those blogs if you like Marvel or have a Marvel muse!
Work being unexpectedly challenging this past summer and right now. For those who don’t know, I teach online environmental science classes for a university. Usually my summer classes are low key, easy, quiet, a breeze. This summer... was horrible. The students really did nothing they were supposed to do, there were so many technical issues, it was a mess. Then, as of the beginning of September, we switched online platforms for the class, so I have had to completely re-learn a lot of things that were second nature to me and that I used to be able to do very quickly. The result is that this has seriously eaten into my free time in an unanticipated way. So I am sorry that I promised more activity over the summer, but it just didn’t happen. And right now, work is kindof kicking my ass, heh.
Alright, so that’s why this blog has been pretty dead lately. Now let’s talk about where we go from here. If I do still have anyone following me that loves Nuada, still wants to interact, and is not totally furious with me for my low activity and poor time management with this blog, I do still want to keep this blog going. However, one of the reasons I think my muse for him is suffering is because this blog is kindof a mess. Specifically, my threads and drafts. I have 96 drafts for Nuada, and most of them are not pictures and memes, they’re threads. So many of these threads are with people who have deactivate, changed their blogs, no longer want to rp, or maybe some who do, but the threads are so old that at this point going back to them is such a daunting task. It’s a mental block for me that is really holding me back.
I cannot scrape this blog and make another because, as I said up there, this is my main on this account. But I think giving it an aesthetic overhaul will help... and the other thing that I know will help is starting from scratch with threads. I have hesitated to do this for so long because I thought it would really upset people, but I think I need to do it to clear my head, and at this point my inactivity has probably infuriated so many of you that I am not sure how many rp partners I even still have on here. So I think it’s time to do it. Therefore, I am officially announcing that I will be clearing out Nuada’s drafts with intent to start new ones with everyone. If there are any threads that anyone is absolutely in love with or threads that have been started more recently that didn’t get beyond an introduction stage, message me and maybe we can keep a couple of those, but for the most part, everything is getting nixed. I want a fresh start. =) I will be revamping the blog right after I finish a little project I’m now going to talk more about, because I’m sure some of you are reading to hear about that...
Okay... almost done with this long post, heh. The other thing you are all probably wonder about: The “Nuada in Silent Hill” fanfic I was writing... Is that still a thing? Is it still going to happen? Yes, and yes. I will be honest, I did not have much time to work on it over the entire summer. I did here and there, but I just didn’t have the time. However, having said that, it is almost finished. I am up to the ending and I want to have it done soon. After that I will just need some time to read for typos, continuity, all that good stuff, and then I can start posting it in various places. So yes, it is still happening, and we’re getting close, people, I promise. XD I really like the way it’s turning out, and I hope you will like it too when you read it. I still have that post where I asked everyone to like it if they wanted to be notified when the fanfic was posted, but since it’s been a while, if you want to go ahead and like this post as well if you are interested in a notification, feel free to do so. I am compiling a master list of people to notify when I get it posted.
If you have any questions about anything, you want to contact me about any of our threads to save, or you have any other comments, concerns, or suggestions, I am here. =) Hit my Marvel blogs up in the meantime, though, because like I said, I am active daily on most of those.
Love you guys! Happy rping! =D
