So there is some news about Ravens Claws, some decisions made and some things about to happen. Please read the whole thing before you react.

It's difficult to watch a chapter of your life close, and RC has always been a chapter waiting to be finished properly. Unfortunately, this incarnation will never be.

When I started this fic many, many, many years ago I was writing it with someone else who I'm pretty sure is unnamed now that I removed the preface and shall remain so. There were the expected issues of difference in thought and opinion, and more importantly, ideologies. I'm somewhere between atheist and pagan, with a heavy bent to paganism. She was very, very Christian. I'm not trying to malign religion or faith, just point out that the differences between us led to a schism that has overwhelmed me.

She was Christian, I was not, and had we continued the fic together I think it wouldn't have tainted what was already written, at least in my eyes. As I've gone back to the Word document over the years intending to continue the fic, the lack of concrete faith like that has always made what was written, and some of what she had mentioned wanting to do, grate on my nerves. The idea for the fic was originally mine, and it had never had such a worshipful mien in my head that she gave it through her own perception of faith.

Unfortunately, that was only one thorn in my side regarding this fic. The second came when she decided to move on, with a long self-absorbed spiel about how fic was immature and beneath her, and honestly that is just a blah blah blah to me now. Then, it was a crushing blow, but now I'm very much "ok boomer" to use the current cutting retort. Fic is just as valid as anything else written, so forget that BS.

But those two things have caused me issues for ages. When I tacked on that, like the original preface to the fic explained, the idea of completing it myself was very overwhelming because (in my head at least) it was an epic story, it was all very much TOO much. I had a lot of 'stuff' for the fic, but without the coauthor I had no real direction now, since her ideas were now gone forever.

But…

Things change.

I explained that in 2008, and it's been more than a decade, and I don't really feel the same anymore. I feel much more free to do and say what I need to do. And so with only a bit of regret I'm letting everyone know that I'm discontinuing Ravens Claws. But before you freak out, I'm rebooting it.

I talked to IvyAdrena about it after thinking on it myself for literal ages, and the issues I had with it can be solved. So first step is remastering the fic, revising it, and while I will acknowledge that I had a coauthor for certain chapters at one time, I believe I will be able to safely say that their work is going to be overhauled to the point where after the single acknowledgement, I can forget about them. End of story.

So over the next few months I intend on yanking out everything I ever saved, scribbled, or actually wrote for the fic, and putting them into the program I use to outline things, and then editing the ever-loving crap out of the fic.

And then reposting it.

And then finishing it.

So the fic is being marked discontinued and complete. But it will return, because the idea was good, and fun, and well evil. Which is still how I like to be all these years later.

I'll be getting it out here on , but first updates will always go to my AO3. Don't expect anything for at least a few months, and nothing will ever come fast, adulting takes priority as always, and my responsibilities are legion as I take care of my grandmother as she gets older. But they're all going to come.

In the meantime, you can expect some other updates, too. Just to make sure no one is going to come for me with pitchforks.

Much love,

Chaos Dragon