Kiku

@Udys038 It already has 4 seasons, so I suppose you are far from the only one who enjoys the anime. I have to admit that I'm a little jealous. Though, without season 1 I would have never read the light novel so it had its perks. 
            
            I tried season 2 but the animation was so atrocious that I couldn't. That fact + knowing how much season 1 skipped or glossed over already, it was a pretty easy decision to just leave it at that.
            
            As for Fuuka's voice, I think I get what you mean. The voice in my head and the one from the anime don't really align, but it definitely has a certain charm to it. It certainly sounds a little higher than expected.
            
            I hope you are doing better soon! Sometimes life just sucks a little, but we've all been there. It's definitely going to get better again.

@Kiku_6037 I get why people don’t like the adaptation, but I never really felt that way. I’ve rewatched it a lot, and honestly the characters still feel right to me, even if the visuals aren’t perfect.
            Though, I think the smaller, everyday moments still land, but that’s just me.
            
            Maybe because the version I built up from rereading over and over is already locked in my head. I just really love CotE in general, not even for the schemes, but for that oddly grounded, cozy atmosphere where there’s always something quietly unfolding, so the anime doesn’t overwrite it, it just adds a sense of space to those scenes, like seeing how things in my head actually play out.
            
            sounds like you’ve been doing decent, that's good to know
            can’t really say the same for myself lately
            but I appreciate that, genuinely

@Udys038 Haven't watched anything past the first season. The anime was so bad that I didn't want to waste my time with it. I'll check out a scene with her once I'm home. Your description made me curious about Fuuka's voice at least.
            
            I've been doing quite decent. Hope you are doing well yourself!

@Primordial_Entity I think the top comment was "That motherfucker..." lmao
            
            I definitely agree though, it was a blast reading through the comments. Wished the inline comments were a feature on other fic sites as well.

@Kiku_6037 Speaking of which, I'm finishing reading one of the fanfics. Can you believe that the fanfic I'm reading predicted Shiro's existence? LOL I didn't believe it while reading it. Shiro is a girl Kiyotaka runs away with from the White Room.

@DiogoSilva977 I think as a teen you just have way more time, so you try things without really considering if they are worth the investment. As you get older and start working, you begin to value your time more and weigh it against whatever you consider doing. 
            
            I've noticed myself how I stopped reading some manga, manwha or novels because I realized that they gave me nothing I really cared about. I just started them when I was bored and had nothing better to do and kept reading out of habit.
            
            Nice to hear that you started writing. 
            
            It's a really fulfilling hobby, but also one of the most time consuming ones. But it wouldn't be so satisfactory if it were easy. Practice won't let you down, especially in a creative hobby like this. People have different starting points, but nothing beats consistency and love for what you are writing. It causes you to put more effort into it, which in turn motivates you to keep improving. I'm sure if you want to get there, you certainly will sooner or later.

@Primordial_Entity I'm in IT. It is pretty intense, but it pays well, so I'm hoping to reduce the time I spend working someday and take it easier. As for hobbies, I hang out with friends, read a lot and play some games.
            
            Since it's getting warmer again, I'll be playing volleyball more often probably. Just helps relax to smack a ball around with a couple of friends lmao.

@cpt_zenith never

@kiyorisu_ayanon I'm still committed, yes. Just have a lot on my plate, so I had to put it on the back burner. The story is already outlined, I just have to find the time to write it.

@kiyorisu_ayanon bumpad couldn’t handle this peak

@kiyorisu_ayanon I didn't delete it, wattpad did. 
            
            You can still find the story on AO3 here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55313149, or on ff.net here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14345517/1/Classroom-of-the-Elite-Checkmate

@Primordial_Entity It's sadly just the way life works out. Only a handful of lucky people can really do whatever they want to and be happy without having to make sacrifices (work). I'd love to have enough money so I could just do what I want every day without having to waste 9-10 hours of my life working and another 8 or so sleeping. But you gotta earn money somehow.
            
            And yes, it's crazy how time flies. At one point it just starts and gets worse by the year.

@omeglesucksbaby Isn't that normal though?
            
            For fanfics, you can probably argue one way or the other, but original stories are always personal. They are shaped by your thoughts, feelings and the ideas you want to express, so of course they feel like a part of you. Much more so than any fanfic could, since you are mixing someone else's ideas with your own.
            
            I once read somewhere that writing a story and publishing it, feels like nurturing a child and sending it out into the world. I'm not sure how good the comparison is at face value, but I think I understand what that person tried to express.

@Kiku_6037 You're much better than putting such thoughts to words than I am, perhaps it's because I've often turned to writing my thoughts out through other characters rather than my own words. 
            
            On the subject of writing, I've written and finished aroudn 3 novels, but that's an exxageration because one novel turned out to be soooooooo long, I'm talking 250+k words that I had to divide it to 4 parts, and even then it was horribly slow to write. 
            
            Which brings me to my next question, do you ever feel that your works often feel too personal to you? LIke I felt with this novel, it felt, and really was so personal to me that I almost don't ever want to publish it. As happens with most works, it deterioated my mental health, and I jokingly like to call it, the longets su-c-de note I'll ever write... Idk, weird.

@omeglesucksbaby 
            
            Most beginnings are rough, writing is the same. What you wrote before shaped the how you write now, so it's normal to look back on it fondly. The nostalgia glasses are always pink, even if the writing was cringe, or unrefined.
            
            I'm happy to hear that you found something that works better for you than fanfics. Screenplays sound nice, but I'd probably struggle with that kind of writing myself. As for writing actual novels, I also tried a bit, though nothing I published. I wrote close to 600 pages while actively writing Checkmate. I kinda want to pick it back up, but I'm struggling to find the time for even my fanfic, much less an entire novel.
            
            As for your question, I don't think it's scary. 
            
            I mean, a bunch of strangers finding a common interest in a novel, writing fan stories, talking about them and how unhappy or happy  we were with some of the decisions in canon. That's just a nice way to spend time. And it is definitely worth remembering how much easier life was back then.

@Kiku_6037 no problem 

@Pika_pika_pichu If I could have left it on wattpad, I would have, but that was not my decision to make. Publishing the story again would just end in it being deleted down the road. I wouldn't mind that, because re-uploading doesn't take that long, but they will ban my account after the third 'offense'.
            
            As for writing a new fic, I'm sorry that's not how I do things.

@Kiku_6037 ik but I say for Wattpad audience , which site you uploaded your checkmate fanfic is really troublesome  Sometime.
            Sometimes writers make another story even when 1st one didn't complete.
            
            

@ttawesomes There should always be hope!

@ttawesomes With life there's hope of another chapter

@ttawesomes Barely. 
            
            Jokes aside, yes.