Typo King

Thank you!!! I appreciate the good tidings a lot! ^^

I’m very honored to have been an inspiration! Wow!

I’ve mentioned on this blog before that I was working on turning my fic “Giving Up the Ghost” into an original novel...well, I finished! I’m currently querying literary agents to see if any of them are interested in taking me on as a client and submitting my book to publishers. So we’ll see what happens! The story has changed a lot over the course of revision, but if you ever hear about a novel with a premise that sounds awfully similar to my fic...that’s why lol.

I’m also working on some other original novel projects, but I’m a slow writer, so none of the others are ready for querying.

Your best chance to find out about the book getting published (if it does) is to follow my public twitter @/write4soreeyes

Thanks for your interest, and thanks for your kind message. :)

Not sure if I should take this message as overall positive or overall negative, but I hope the reading experience was cathartic for you at least!

I’ve been around, just not here! I’m still active on tumblr over at @/nyanja14 and you can also find my public twitter @/write4soreeyes 

So, I’d just like to say that I foresaw post-canon Levi having missing fingers and a major facial scar way back in 2016!!!!!!!! suck it, yam man

Ayer sighs with far too much gravity for an eleven year-old but finally looks up. With his free hand, he traces a jagged line through his left eyebrow and down to his cheek. “Our dad had a scar kind of like yours,” he says. “You remind Cheney of him.”

“...I see,” Most days, [Levi] doesn’t even think about the scar. It is a memento from his last expedition, along with the messy gap where his pinky and ring finger used to be on his right hand. The missing fingers bother him more since it made some tasks more difficult and his hand hurt terribly at times, but even that isn’t such a big deal-- not when he could dead instead.

Thanks for your well wishes and your kind words! And a big thank you for your reading my stuff all this time!

redbeanfilling : GOSH same re: how things turned out with AoT, but I have to say that the fandom was seriously formative and is a really cool example how fandoms are so transformative. Great to hear you're doing well!! <3

Seriously, it’s super disappointing how the canon turned out. So much potential ruined. But yeah, the fandom has been a great experience for me and I’ve always loved to see different people’s takes on the characters and the story. In all my years of fandom-ing, the AoT fandom is one of two that had a genuine impact on the overall shape of my life and I will always love it for that.

thesabotagedandovershadowed : awwww, this breaks my heart. you've always been one my favorite writers in snk, and your canonverse depictions of ereri were seriously the best. im still following snk, but my interest too has been fading out slowly. this feels almost like the final nail in the coffin for my obsession :( im really genuinely sorry to see you go, but im happy to follow your thoughts on banana fish (also a new obsession of mine lol). here's to new fandoms :')

Yeah, I totally get still following along, I don’t blame people at all who are still invested and are determined to see where the story ends. But for me, this is where I get off the train. Thanks for following my fics for all these years, I always loved seeing your comments!

Banana Fish is actually an old fandom for me! I got obsessed with the manga back in high school and have been trying (unsuccessfully) to get other people to read it ever since, hahaha. I am truly living now with all this Banana Fish buzz!!!!

celestial-lens : I would LOVE to read Giving Up the Ghost as an original work!!!!! That sounds awesome! Are you going to pursue having it published? Also, I def empathize with your issues with the fandom. I've struggled with my fond memories of the early days vs what the manga and fandom have become...

Getting it published is the goal! It’s been one of my most personal stories and even after finishing the fic version, it hasn’t left me alone. I really want to do my best on it (though the editing process is so slow... I’m dying.)

It’s tough to let go of a fandom you’ve been super involved in, even when you’re are disappointed with the canon! I know some people can just carry on happily with their fandom-ing and ignore whatever nonsense is happening in the source material. I can do that with some things, but AoT has just disappointed me far too much.

mysecretfanmoments : Nice to get an update! I had no idea about a lot of the recent snk stuff. Yikes... I agree with you though. It's about the experience we had; we can't help that it turned into a dumpster fire. Followed your new blog and excited for your original exploits!

Yeah, it’d been a while since I checked in on the manga, so I poked around to see what was up and... “yikes” sums it up. I’d already been getting uncomfortable with everything that occur post-basement, but damn, it really just kept getting worse!!!

-I’ve recovered well from top surgery and am enjoying my first summer of No Binding in several years. -I’m doing pretty good in general. Ups and downs, but nothing major. -I’ve been pretty focused on original fiction lately. Slow progress, but progress all the same. In particular, I’ve been editing Giving Up the Ghost into an original novel. Switching it to original isn’t too hard because it really has nothing to do with AoT lol but I’ve also been basically rewriting it from scratch because I want it to be as good as I can make. I’m about eight chapters into the rewrite and it’s already very different.

and now the main update

For a while, I was checking back in on the AoT manga to see what is up, but eventually that petered out. I got uncomfortable with the direction the story was going in and recent developments have only affirmed that discomfort. This is a good explainer, if you aren’t sure what I’m talking about. I still love a lot of the characters, but with the story how it is, I can’t keep reading just for them. In short, I won’t be keeping up with AoT anymore and this account is essentially defunct.

Despite how things turned out with AoT, I don’t regret the time I spent in the fandom. AoT fandom reignited my passion for writing after years of thinking that I was drained dry creatively. I loved writing my fics (and, indeed, I reread them fairly often lol.) Furthermore, I’ve met a lot of great people via the fandom and really enjoyed myself. Seriously, a big thank you to everyone who made this fandom a great place to be.

I’ll be clearing out my inbox as best I can over the next few days, but after that I probably won’t be logging into this account anymore. If you’d like to still keep up me, you’re welcome to follow my main tumblr (currently a lot of Banana Fish but in general a mix of everything I’m interested in). You can also follow my public twitter that is allegedly for writing but is actually for whatever I’m willing to put on public lol.