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Hey everyone, how you doing... First I feel like shit, everything has been like one thing after another in my real life, recently got sick or fever, when I felt better and went to write chaps delayed by two days in you know in what-shall-not-be-named. Then this fanfic got bombed, first I am not saying anything to the rules and terms and moderators. Though I may be bitter it is not going about to them(Unless I want this fanfic bombed again, I really cannot say anything).
Now, I don't know why I should continue fanfic... on this website. I admit it, maybe i was being a smartass or just dumb to forget to read the updated terms, but I upload in seven websites(Again and again I have to say), so I mix up rules or sometimes forget them. Now I will say Scribble hub is good due to their moderators(Like how this fanfic returned in a day though I had to spent hours editing chap 1-56 and then write an appeal), but Moderators didn't cause any problems and returned my fanfic.
On the other hand, even if someone is like spamming hate reviews or hating you across the chapters, in NovelPhoenix. Their team will just say 'Block them', which doesn't even blocks them, only hides them from you. Which is kinda useless since they can spam reviews and antagonize your readers across the chapters. Since that what WN has said, I will take it as I am responsible for my own moderation. So i have been forced to delete reviews and comments(Yeah you can do that in WN).
Now new readers often come and see my comments on people hating, just see one or two guy remaining after I have like deleted dozens of comments and reviews which were pure hate like 'Ai slop' 'Retarded Author' 'Author is shit' and I see one calling out to me as being shitty because complaining of one reader(Bro I deleted dozens of comments, and yeah I also deleted yours whoever tf was that).Yeah rarely any one-star has been because about the story. If they dislike story, instead of calling out those points they will insult me, as if I had stolen their money which is kinda funny since everything has been free.
I am alright with criticism, but I am tired of it involving me. (Don't worry this is not about NovelPhoenix, here moderation is best).
I kinda get it, my mistake it was to interact readers chap to chap. Since I interact, haters get an easy outlet to get their frustration on a person who has nothing to do with them. Like let's be honest, despite some plot points my story isn't a shitty mtl with china numbaone stuff. But if they dislike anything, they will target me first.
Like if this character is getting beaten or not getting enough attention(Looking at Re: Zero readers who simp for Emilia), then it becomes 'I hate this character', or that.
That is why I tried to be professional and left the chat of website for good. Nowadays I have book mods either just delete the reviews and comments or do it myself, without ever engaging with anyone(If they don't have access to my time, they don't have access to insult me).
There have been a few reviews like that here, but NovelPhoenix moderators take care of that, so again thanks to them.
And if you don't know you can see a one-star review in this fanfic. Apparently someone really was like 'Oh Author you are so bad for putting your comments to interact in middle of the story'
which is like what you see sometimes. (A/N: No my word counts!!!)
It was like I was stabbing him with how he reacted blaming me, then he wrote a comment how Ember has no personality(Maturity nowadays equals to no personality). I get it Ember is not perfect, even naive sometimes. Or maybe just has very strong opinion in something that he cannot see whole truth. But he was an average human back in his life, he is being as good as he can be without sounding like 14 year old teenager every chap.
Secondly he has to make hard decisions whether it is fair for others or not, in the end he is just selfish like everyone. He is not some saviour or villain, but responsibility will eventually find him(Oops, gave spoiler I think?)
Then there was like there is no romantic interest and smut despite being 25 chaps in(Okay, bro until now I was understanding everything. But now I understand what kind of reader you might have been, and why you gave one-star.)
Seriously if you want danmachi harem smut, please go to other fanfics. If tags says it includes harem or incest, it doesn't means it will happen within 50 chaps of the fanfic. It just means this stuff will be included in the story.
If it is heavy smut, then it will mentioned separately as many don't like it or are not here to jerk every chap. Now I am not the kind to call other genres slop, because I don't like them or want to make my preferences look superior by looking down on others. I have written op harem mc, op system mc, villain mc, genderbent mc or maybe better to say genderless mc, no romance, no harem, hedonistic bastard, yeah I try it all. And yes, I like OP MC, but I am free to try out new things.
This fanfic, when you have ever seen MC reincarnate decades before in Danmachi world and using the time properly to get as OP as fuck despite being not a monstrous genius like Zald, Alfia or Bell? It was a new idea, and I saw only problems if I were to include System or other cheats. I thought about like a NP or something related to his reincarnation giving him access to other worlds.
Oh, if you don't know... Ember's dream is not to make a harem, live as a hero, or live as happily he can be. It is to 'See what lies beyond furthest horizon', so that's the biggest hint. I don't want to end the story at danmachi though it would be a good ending. But I didn't wanted to ruin it either by giving him an easy access(So while it will happen, it won't be an favourable outcome here).
Nextly this story will definitely have an happy ending. One thing as a reader myself I have realized, if I am going to read something for years, i can take slow pace, slow arcs, maybe arcs that I don't like. But one thing I cannot take is... trashy ending.
If it is bittersweet or bad, I feel like cheated. I know some may want bad ending or bittersweet to connect more with traumatic past, or how the world is not butterflies. But it is not like happy endings are absent from this world, so sometimes I don't get it with the endings... IT could have been so easy just to give an happy ending.
I am trying a bittersweet ending or a bad ending for a fanfic, but I have given warning already. Though many people are chill because it is a prequel to my main Re: Zero fanfic, and basically sets the setting for why this waifu became Yandere the moment she saw the MC, or why MC is OP as fuck without even having system or ROB sponsoring him.
It is basically to prevent plot holes, though in world of anime or rather fiction anything can happen.
Now back to this story... I haven't paywalled anything. It is basically You support me---> Get advance chaps as a gift--->Gives me monetary help to take out my time to continue writing this fanfic.
If any story gets dropped, or I am not going to continue it. I tell it in advance and just upload all advance chaps until nothing remains in what-shall-not-be-named.
This happened with my versatile mage fanfic, there are no longer any advance chaps. The fanfic was doing good, but I gave WN readers too much access to my time or wasted it arguing with them why I cannot upload a chap daily without getting any support for it. They were like upload chaps daily for a month and then I will think about giving you powerstones(It is a free stuff that you cannot buy in WN, and it decides ranking depending on how many readers give you PS daily, making the book more visible and it is a very strict system, meaning a popular story doesn't appears unless contracted to them, only stories that have more powerstones even appear in top 200, otherwise it is left among dust).
Yeah so I wasn't asking for money or anything. Then there were insults on me, I had enough so I discarded all my plans, look like 30-40 s but I put out all advance chaps and uploaded it on public, and then put it into hiatus(Here you may get some chaps if I remember , as fanfic here is like 10 chaps behind what is publically finished on WN).
Even rn there are no advance chaps for it in my what-shall-not-be-named.
Tbh, I can see why translations or Marrysue characters are like in top 20 of their rankings. Because they are like Either gives us 20 chaps weekly(For translations), or I hate translations and AI, I don't care how marrysue the MC is or how shitty the story is as long as it is written by human without even touching AI for even grammar AND HAS DAILY UPDATES(The other fanfics ranking basically).
Will admit I saw rare good fanfics, like one that use AI just for grammar or maybe assistance, doing good and had actual good stories, but they were minorities. There are so many hidden gems in WN that you cannot even tell. My Re: Zero fanfic had once achieved 1st ranking with 4000PS(Weekly). But after updates slowed down, it got even hard to get in top 30(Fate of every fanfic that cannot deliver 1-2 chaps daily).
So it tells you they want to consume stuff, regardless of quality as long as there is enough of it.
But I do like 10 fanfics(Not joking, this is how many I write because I love writing different fanfics, I don't even earn anything from them. My majority comes from Re: Zero: The Great Sage, Sloth if or Wives reboot, and this Danmachi fanfic donators, while I have two times of fanfics that I write because just i love them).
Even if I do 3 chaps daily, I cannot do daily chaps for everything. Which I realized is the problem so I have shifted to monthly focused fanfic plans(For more details go in discord. I have given the announcement there). But basically it means I will do 5 chaps weekly, while doing 2-3 chaps of other fanfics that I like or feel mood for, to do it on weekends. And to barely meet the quota I did 3 chaps daily last week, got sick in the end(Everything is connected like a web damn it).
And do you think I can put 7-8 hours while like have no monetary support? I will say I felt bad when my income dropped when I left VM category, I know maybe I should have just put a blind eye to the hate and keep on squeezing out of what-shall-not-be-named. But if my mental health is not good, or I just get called out for everything others don't like. Is it even worth continue writing for?
Again majority of criticism was on 'Me', than story itself. Because that is apparently how you criticize right?(Looking at WN reviewers).
WN is not the only website, I also got like targeted in Re: Zero fandom of AO3, for different reasons. But I had enabled comment moderation and block that actually blocks them, alongside banning people who came to raid in discord(So for AO3, I was mostly safe even though it took a lot of effort to not let haters ruin my stories. Well they cannot be even called haters, they are some sort of mafia, because I am not in their club where Ai is hated everyday, where what-shall-not-be-named is hated everyday, where you grief about Re: Zero characters or actual authors everyday blaming them for what happened on your life.)
The toxicity is off the charts, they raided one of the author's server because she used AI for writing(Funny enough, she was an Actual artist who drew pretty well, but because she tried Ai, she got punished for it), they raided her server, bombed her fanfics, made a hate video on youtube calling her AI slop(This new trend had blurred the lines between actual low effort content or slop, and what is actually just hate).
Last time I heard... she was having surgery from what-shall-not-be-named earned her.
It felt like so... bad, because I have a sis who needs surgery itself so I cannot stop what-shall-not-be-named.
And after all this, I feel further and further killing my willingness to understand other reader's point. Like should I even care about them? And just do what-shall-not-be-named. It is like losing all enthusiasm... this shit put me in depression for few months and ruined my entire sleep cycle(I stay awake at night and sleep at day, but I have been trying to combat it for months using pills), I also got insomnia repeatedly or then reverse of what is insomnia(Sleeping 16 hrs a day, being unable to wake up).
Then when this fanfic stuff happened, like for second time... I felt cheated, again thanks to mod who acted so quickly that I couldn't believe in my eyes. If you reading this, you are CHAD.
But yeah I cannot mention what-shall-not-be-named. Which Kinda sucks... But guess if people really love it that much, they will realized I have what-shall-not-be-named. But I think best will be to just join my discord.
You will get announcements and free illustrations there(Again AI but not made from chatgpt or any other bot, but from custom workflow that I run locally on my PC, and sometimes from Pixai since I have a mid-range laptop in the end).
I also promise if we hit three thousand per month(After fees), for consecutive three months in what-shall-not-be-named. Then I will commission some arts for my major fanfics. My own discord mod is a damn artist, knows coding, lives in Japan and isn't bitch about AI ruining his life everyday. (Mega corpos are actually doing that, squeezing you out. Even ram issue was fixed pricing by companies. They used AI as an outlet to evade blame and lawsuits. Like they are Ram company, if they squeeze out money they will. They don't care whether hate towards AI will get them losses or not, because it is nearly impossible to them get losses due to the make freaking ram for everything that we use.)
In the end even if AI bubble fails, then they will have made hundreds of billions, got no hate(As AI took that), and then just get back to consumer selling at inflated prices(By make it norm). That's their entire plan.
And with how easily they used hate to direct people's attention, is mind blogging, ngl. When Jensen said AI hate will hurt society, I will calling it bullshit since their company were the ones profiting, but I just realized it is kinda true since hatred lets you to be manipulated.
I know it is not what he meant, but ironically his words had some truth behind it.
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Now as for this fanfic, I am continuing. There will be a short break of two days, as I fell sick and need to write chaps for other fanfics. And also not pushing myself to 3 chaps daily again. Tbh I was gonna release chap today, but having it listed out took my precious time.
Secondly, I am also doing a soft reboot of this fanfic on WN, so I can get both traffic for WN, and you will get an alternative option if this fanfic temporarily disappears from here.
Since it already had a rewrite which was like a month behind NovelPhoenix(Since I planned to schedule all chaps in one day to be free of hassle). But I am doing the third version.
And again it is not just copy-paste.
There are a few points I will make:
I will proofread it again, mainly to take out the Ai touch that Ai grammar edits gave to my earlier chaps. I had been editing older Re: Zero chaps with public releases while newer ones are heavily proofreaded already to make sure AI doesn't changes paraphrasing, though this problem was only majorly in my Re: Zero fanfics due to heavy plot. For danmachi everything except hyphens that AI added remained the same.
So this version will have proofreaded chaps from day one. But I will need to take two or three days out to just edit 5o or whatever chap that had no secondary proofreading done till then. So wait for sometime.
Again this problem is no longer present in newer chaps you have read, or will be in future chaps(Unless I get too sick to even write or proofread chaps)
There won't be any plot changes. We are already in rewrite version with different plot(Expanded stuff), so I won't be changing anything other than paraphrasing or writing style back to mine.
Also there won't be any replies from me on WN anymore, so don't ask anything there(I am no longer replying there, I only do silent moderation nowadays).
And join my discord: Xb47VnFUpQ
That is the only thing holding me back from dropping fanfics if website issue occurs.
Now, don't worry about me. If fanfic stuff fails, I can just change my identity and write Novels. I also need to go college and can try getting a job to live. I can try coding and making games or maybe even other stuff, for those who don't know I am 19... I am not someone who has no opportunities.
If push comes to shove, I can abandon fanfic anytime to focus on other things.
It is just this year is being difficult due to my sis' surgery(We need a lot of money for that, pops gathering rn) and mom's illness, reason I was unable to go college this year.
But, on bright side... I actually still have a future without fanfics, anime or whatever.
So, yeah I had enough of taking stress from readers, will do what I enjoy... after this year lmao....
Bye for now, I think I have sounded bitter a lot. If you have issues with this chap you can tell me, I will separate my professional life with my all-available state. meaning I will reply your queries only in Discord or in what-shall-not-be-named. See you after two days,(I will try uploading chaps on weekends, but no promises, I have other stuff to write).