Well, it's been a while, hasn't it?

I feel I owe all of you that still care about this story an explanation.

Back when uploads began to stagnate, five years ago, if I'm not mistaken, I was having a bit if a crisis. I desperately wanted to continue with this story, but due to so many constraints on my time, I was getting overstressed and losing all motivation for anything. So I decided to take a step back from this and get my life back under control.

A year later, I finally had a handle on things, but by then, there was another factor: I simply had fallen out of love with Friendship is Magic. Don't get me wrong—I still do greatly enjoy the show and its community, and recently I've been getting back into it to a much tamer degree, but at the time, I'd lost interest. I stopped watching the show after season 5, and I stopped watching with interest after season 4, and I honestly thought the show should've ended after season 3.

On top of that, I started looking back at this work with shame. Not just for the content, but for the style. I'd improved immensely from when I left off, and I wanted to leave this story far behind. Those problems only compounded as time went on.

But something else compounded as well: guilt. I've felt, for a very long time, guilty that I created such an intriguing narrative that people legitimately followed and cared about, only to cut off right when it was getting interesting. For that, to all those original readers, I'm sorry.

What makes this even worse is that, despite my lack of skill at the time, I did have a plan. I had even entered the stage of narrative collapse that would have brought what was, at the time, the first arc of the series to a close (since at the time, I planned to keep the story going with multiple arcs, at least for as ling as FiM continued to air—this was a pipe dream, of course). I got so close to bringing this work to an end, and then I abandoned it. Once again, I'm sorry.

So where does that leave us now? Well, while I don't want anyone to get their hopes up, I still remember with perfect clarity what my original plan was for what, if it does happen, would be the grand finale of the story. I'm perfectly capable of finally completing it. And, time constraints willing, I'm finally willing to give it my best shot. No promises, though. Don't expect anything.

Once again, I apologize to all my readers who I betrayed like this, and perhaps I'll see you all again in another update.

-Radicool223