long overdue announcements
well, folks, as you may have recently noticed, i am not in fact dead, despite being absent from here and ao3 for like.... 2 years? oops. long story short, i took a break to deal with a crisis way back in like january '23, then got invested in non-sprite writings, and in general lost most of my steam/energy/motivation for the account for a long while. if you're worried this message is a formal goodbye, don't, it's not. yet.
i currently have about a dozen posted WIPS up on ao3, not counting a few others which i went in this week and quietly edited to show them complete as-is, just because i really do not have more thoughts on them and they also hadn't received much traffic, so i didn't think i'd be disappointing many people. i do plan to finish everything on my account that's a WIP, though it's going to take A WHILE, because most of them are many, many chapters which I have barely begun to continue. i'll be working on them as inspiration/motivation comes and updating as soon as something's finished, so you can expect a gradual trickle over the coming months and years before i'll hang up my sprite wings "for good."
as some may have noticed, however, based on the ask game like, two posts beneath this, where I listed all my wip folders/docs, i have MANY more things in some state of existence than are posted on ao3. i'm still sorting through all of these and determining what i want to do with it all, because these range from one-line premises to thousands of words of a story. i definitely think some of these concepts that i've done a lot of work on i'll either finish at some point and post, or get a friend to help me finish (drop an ask if you might be interested), or post as-is with a short summary of what the ending was supposed to be or could be, with an open invite for others to continue it if inspired.
as for other things i have noted down which I haven't much worked on, i will be dropping those steadily on tumblr under the tag "sprite's vault" and these will be completely free to use, borrow, enjoy as thoughts, or anything. if you do create something, i'd love a tag so i can see that someone else enjoyed the concept too.
thanks to everyone who's supported my stories with comments, kudos, memes, asks, and everything else, and everyone who's still here for the finite stories to come. love you all