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Release 159 // [02.05.26]

Reminder that since Batoto has been taken down, our old translated chapters are still available on Cubari! Be sure to check out the translation notes at the end of the chapter, as well.

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Mangadex | Cubari

30 Days of Thanks Day 15

Run Away by @irisinally

Cipher stumbles across a young phainon and mydei before they end up coming to Okhema, and sort of becomes their wrangler!!! It's such an endearing fic, esp her exasperation when she notices the boys getting rly close heehee ;3c

they made some assumptions about what he said to lucia

(og meme: 1 | 2)

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.