It is with a calm acceptance that I have come to acknowledge that I will not have Revival House completed before the new series is released on the first of January. I will come close, yet it is just not possible with Christmas only ten days away and so much to do before the holidays for my mini-Avengers and my own business. As a single mum to two wondrously differently-abled children who is chronically ill herself, a full-time artist and creator who pays all of our bills through art and writing, there are only so many hours in a day where I have time to pour into cups that have already been poured into once. And Revival House was one that was poured into once... Beautifully so.
Revival House and its sister writing, Rome Will Fall, are some of the best writings I have ever created, some of the proudest creations I have produced. Thus far. The first pilots, pitch decks, and series bibles I have created for a work I not only loved but fully believed in. Ones I truly believed I would get to be a part of. Ones that at a point, and for a time, I was a part of.
January first/eleventh, those of you who are fans of the source material will likely watch my bastardized work come to life. You will see a Frankenstein-like creation of Jasper Edwin come to life in Teddy Dos Santos, a bastardized version of a character you have yet to meet (or re-meet in Rome Will Fall for those who remember it before I was asked to pull it from here while I was in talks of turning it into a season) in Roxana Bolaños... My heart breaks that my version of these characters will never get to breathe, that my plot lines will only exist in my fanfiction, where so few will find them. Yet I take solace in the knowledge that those who read them, those who love them, do so now with the knowledge that they were mine first.
Creative theft is criminal. While I may never receive any true justice, I can hold my head high knowing I created something beautiful. And that is enough.
