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So… I had a friend of over three years betray me this week. I’m not in the best mood now. Σ（￣□￣；）I’m going to bed pretty soon here, but it’d be very helpful to wake up to some nice things in the ask… Headcanons, cute things to picture, Munday stuff, whatever. I hate to bug y’all with this kind of thing, but well, you get more writing out of me when I’m not all sad. 

Admin Mawile: I need to write today, but I keep getting distracted… Anyone want to send questions for the Sub Au fic to keep me on track? ( ◞･౪･) I’m working on a chapter for Reiji’s route today~

Admin Mawile: On the same note, now that I know I need to be working on Reiji, Shin, and Subaru’s routes… I have to plan them (●´ω｀●)ゞ

If anyone wants to send in ideas/questions for them, it would be much appreciated!! I’m super looking forward to writing them all, and I can’t wait to get their routes all plotted out~

Admin Mawile: (“⌒∇⌒”) In short, I think I’ve figured out something to try! 

So, when I started this fic, I had a vote to decide whose route to start with. I think that something similar would make sense for the rest of the fic. 

What I had in mind was using my Ko-Fi page (link here) to have a vote. Each Ko-Fi donation would count towards a vote for a chapter for a character of your choice, and at the end of the voting, the top three characters would get a chapter added to their routes! You’d be able to send multiple votes, including votes for multiple characters, if you wanted to, and the voting would go until either a set time had passed or until I hit a minimum amount of votes. I would then write the three winning chapters, then the voting would go again. 

And so on, until the fic is finished. 

This way, everyone would still be able to read the chapters as I publish them, and y’all would have full choice in whose routes are finished first. I also wouldn’t severely undercharge myself just because I got nervous about my work being good enough. 

Since this is still just a working idea for now, I would appreciate feedback! I really want to come up with something that will be doable for everyone!!

Admin Mawile: (*ﾟｰﾟ)ゞSo, in a more coherent explanation of what I posted earlier but deleted, the Sub Au fic is an absolute monstrosity. 

I ran the calculations. If I do a route for every boy, at 10 chapters per route and a minimum of 5,000 words per chapter, this mess is going to be 600,000 words. At the very least. For comparison, every fic I have on Ao3 at the moment adds up to under a third of that. That’s between 6-12 average sized novels worth of content. 

And, if I write at my usual pace of 2000 words a day, every day with no breaks, and only working on this fic, it’ll take me 300 days to finish. Again, that’s a minimum estimate. 

Point is, this isn’t a fanfic anymore, this is a job. I’ll be spending days and weeks and more of my time writing this, and that’s if I don’t work on anything else. I want to do it. I really do. It will be massively fun to write, and I love making nice things for ya’ll, but I think I might have to charge something for this one, if only because of the sheer amount of time and effort it will take. 

I don’t know what I’m going to do yet, but expect something once I figure it out. I want to keep posting and making the fic accessible to anyone, and I’m definitely open to suggestions on what I should do. 

Updates to come as I figure things out. 

Again, thank you all so much for your support thus far ❤