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Very fun LoYD chapter tonight, feels nice to be writing for it again! Hope yall enjoy!

Just wanted you all to know that the next chapter for LoYD is coming later today :)

Just wanted to write a quick message of condolence to any fellow Catholics out there today. Francis was, in my eyes, truly the greatest Pope of all time. His leadership helped to reignite my love for the Church in so many ways, and regardless of what happens now, he’s set it on a path of progress and revitalized universal love. Thank you, Francis, for everything.

Home from vacation now, no longer in Hell (Florida)! I’m aiming to put out the first new chapter for book 4 of LoYD later this week, for those of you who’ve been waiting on that! 

So a nice little question for you all. As far as I’m aware, we’ve never gotten an *exact* canon location for Camp Half-Blood. The address on Grover’s card in TLT is fake and doesn’t really correspond to any real world location particularly well, so all we have to go on is that it’s relatively close to Montauk in a less developed area. I’m from Long Island myself, so I have a pretty firm guess myself (somewhere along the coast of Gardiner’s Bay near Cedar Point Park and the Grace Estate), but I’m curious as to what you guys think the most likely location is. Slightly relevant for something I have planned, so if any of you guys make a particularly compelling argument, I’ll be sure to credit you for changing my mind when it comes up!

Posting one of my favorite songs for no particular reason definitely not related to current political developments https://youtu.be/qAHZV9VgxHc?si=d3rctsUR2nrDAxzx

Quick little thing I thought some of you would find interesting: my process for finding Greek names for things. I don’t speak a word of Greek, let alone Ancient Greek, so I use this site: https://artflsrv03.uchicago.edu/philologic4/LSJ/ to first find the word I want to use in the Greek alphabet. Normally I can transliterate that into the Latin alphabet with a quick google, wiktionary often has a page for the more common words, especially those with a direct counterpart in modern Greek, but for those that don’t, I just transliterate it myself. A bit more of a hassle, but not too difficult once you know what you’re doing. If any of you happen to be writing a fic of your own, I’d definitely recommend this process! Ancient Greek is quite different from modern Greek, so just using google translate or something doesn’t really work!

Ok so a brief update on the current state of my stories: ALL stories besides Life of a Young Demigod and Énausma (the new story) are currently on indefinite hiatus. This does NOT mean they are cancelled (like my original HP story is at this point), just that I’m consolidating my workload for now to make things easier on me. I am VERY much interested in returning to all of them at some point, but I just don’t know when that point is at this time. For the next month or so, I aim to update Énausma at least twice a week or so to get back into the swing of writing since I really like the ideas I have for that story. Once I’m back into things fully, LoYD will start getting updates once a week alongside once a week updates for Énausma. This whole setup is hopefully going to result in a more regular, predictable, and (hopefully) engaging update cycle for you folks, compared to my previous “eh whenever” cycle that was, quite frankly, awful, so I do hope that even if this is a bit disappointing for you folks who particularly enjoy one of the stories I’m putting on hold, you come to appreciate it in the long run. More than anything, I’m aiming for more transparency with you folks, because I know that goes a long way towards keeping you engaged with my work and interested in whats coming next! Hope you’re enjoying Énausma so far, I know for sure I’m having fun writing it!

Something is coming. Possibly tomorrow. Big changes around here…
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          (For those who prefer less ambiguity I’m cutting off all but my main PJO story (sorry to those who liked my other ones, they might come back at some point), BUT I’m also starting a new PJO story that will hopefully help me get back into writing!)

ok hi op I have no clue how Wattpad works bc I'm an ao3 and Tumblr girlie but I just want to say THANK GOD FOR YOU. THANK YOU FOR WRITING MALE READER INSERTS IN THIS WASTELAND OF FEM ONES. NOTHING AGAINST PEOPLE WHO LIKE THAT BUT. THANK YOU AHHHH