#jon turner

Ghost Stories Dice Set

2025 was quite a year.

Real life got super busy and didn't stop. I ended up dropping a lot of things I loved, like figure skating, due to the pressures of life. The year ended and 2026 started with my dad in and out of the hospital four times because a two week stay at a care center for rehab resulted in him getting C-diff due to neglect.

As a result I've been his full-time care taker along with mom. The stress has caused me to have issues with my own health. I have an autoimmune disease that's worsened significantly by stress. I spent 90% of the year crying and having panic attacks worsened by the fact I had to hide what I going through.

I haven't had much energy to do anything much less write.

2025 was, I think, my worst year for writing, only publishing 5 chapters.

It's so odd because in February, MrsFizzle nuked her fanfiction accounts because a blog picked up my report of her plagiarizing Autumn in Philadelphia. You would think having her gone would have increased my creativity and sent productivity into overdrive.

But it honestly had the opposite effect.

I spent three years fighting her and in those three years I was at my most creative for AiP. I had all these ideas jotted down for short side stories I couldn't wait to do. Saudade was better than the Return despite her heavy plagiarism being in my face all the time and trying to fight off her harassment.

After she deleted everything the harassment continued until September 2025. It has been very quiet since then.

During that same time there was subreddit drama.

MrsFizzle, Kaylie, whatever you knew her as as, made sure I was miserable and unable to participate in topics I loved there while she still active on Reddit. Then there was ridiculous mod drama in the sub that my name was dragged into because someone who wanted to be a mod claimed we were close friends. I didn't even know who they were until the drama started. They continued to use my name and cozy up to me until the weird vibes were too much and I had to cut them off. They ended up a mod in a BMW-related sub, caused issues there, then brought it to my server. 🙄

It was such ridiculous nonsense caused by people who are way too old to be engaging in these antics.

When the dust settled, all the OG sub mods were gone, the other person was gone and I ended up being offered a mod position in the BMW sub by someone who I really didn't get along with. However, I'm all for letting bygones be bygones if they are so I accepted.

I should be really happy about the way things turned out. I persevered and didn't allow myself to be bullied out of my fandom and those who created drama are gone for good.

Strangely enough I feel nothing. I'm indifferent about being a mod. I have no desire to write or have much to do with the fandom.

And that is so dissapointing.

I have been trying to get the next AiP chapter out since November. The next two are outlined, I've started writing, I'm just getting nowhere.

Reading through the series again, I think I've figured out why. The next two chapters are the "I Never Sang for my Legal Guardian" flashback which have years in the planning. Immediately after that is the Jon-centric chapter "The Darkest Night".

Like Jon in AiP, I think I've been dreading reliving this chapter.

You see, there is already a one-shot in the series called "The Darkest Night" written in October of 2022.

I have always hated this story.

It was never meant have been written before the "I Never Sang" flashback but I allowed MrsFizzle to guilt me into it. October 2022 is when she "tracked me down" to talk privately and I ignored my gut screaming not to engage with her. She made me feel like such a horrible person for my story not turning out the way she wanted while also telling me she was going to copy mine.

I was convinced everything was my fault and I was imagining the worst about her for no reason so I wrote "The Darkest Night". The first comment on the story from Account Deleted is from her.

Lot of lies wrapped up in sweetness here. I didn't understand how many until years later. Meanwhile, bts she was making me feel like crap about my series and dismantling my confidence in Audrey.

Trust me more? I apparently broke her trust when I wrote my story the way I wanted to without considering the feelings of someone I didn't know existed when I began writing AiP. 🙄

She's sorry, though. So sorry.

So sorry that she plagiarized "The Darkest Night" for one of her chapters in Reunification months later.

I hate that I caved into her and I hate this one shot because of it. But I've left it up because it is a good piece of writing and shows I can write different styles well based on the feedback it received.

Even though I'm still standing after everything she tried to do, I still don't want to revisit "The Darkest Night" and that hellish time.

But I'm stubborn.

I'll get there.

I am actively writing again. New update should be before the end of March. Hopefully monthly updates after that.

Love you all,

"Cult Fiction"