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>QM Question:
So, for reference: the conflict currently taking place in Pokepocalypse was conceptualized around last September. I was working on it all throughout the rest of that year, on-off, and I'd say the full idea of Staters vs Huntington and the increasing pressure against neofauna culminated around December 2024, January 2025ish. I currently have possible plot beats stretching out past the current end goal, past America itself, probably past my entire education if I keep going at this pace. Whether any of them will come to fruition is a mystery, but they are there as options. I try to have at least two or three plot beats lined up in sequence so that I'm not caught unawares.
As for an ending... well, I made this quest on a whim. The length at which I've stuck to it is unprecedented and I'm in completely new territory. I don't really have an ending in mind, nor did I ever, but I do have an ending for this specific arc (which is fucking enormous btw, I forgot how big the USA is and really need to split it up at some point) in mind, but not the quest itself.
>Player Question:
Cancellation makes me feel sad. Flaking makes me feel mad. I am technically continuing a dead quest right now, and I really wish I had more time to devote to it.
>General Question:
I've seen exactly one quest finish properly: Disappearing Hogwarts. I have faith that Digimon Tower will finish, but I can count on nothing else. "This was supposed to be a one-shot" seems to be the only quest format that ever ends, and it's almost never as an actual one-shot.
I really wish more QMs stuck to actual one-shots or at least had endings in mind. Hypocritical, I know, but shorter quests tend to be much more satisfactory than longer ones and you can usually tell when the QM has a plan cough. Even if a quest eventually ends after hundreds of threads, it feels hollow. Maybe it generates some feelings of pride or achievement, but little entertainment. Following a quest for years and years straight eventually tires you out-- it's a miracle that I only began to drop off of DH near the very very end, and I'm quite sure that was due to a combination of life circumstances and the fact that, among QM's breaks lasting months instead of weeks, I jumped in halfway through after a binge reading that I really enjoyed.
>Miscellaneous Question:
How would that even work? If it involved anything even remotely incriminating, I wouldn't bother. If it didn't, I might stay out anyways for fear of disappointing people lol.
Entry tomorrow, hopefully. Pic related. Praying things improve by next month. Not confident they will. I hate the curse. I hate the curse. I hate the curse.
