For those who aren't following me on any socials, I want to first apologize if my absence over the last few weeks worried anyone. I'm sorry I haven't been able to upload the story since July, and I'm sorry for leaving everyone waiting. The situation surrounding the Dandy's World community hit me harder than I expected.<br />
I found myself questioning whether I should continue writing about characters connected to someone whose actions I don't support. Even so, I still genuinely love these characters and the stories I've built around them.
I spent a long time trying to figure out if I could redesign everything to be "my own", but nothing I came up with felt right to me. In the end I let my emotions get the better of me and deleted everything I had written. Depression hit me hard and I regret it every second.
Thankfully, the chapters I've already posted are still here, and I still have the chapter I was working on saved on my phone. I'm slowly rewriting what I lost, even though I know some future chapters might not be what they were before, since its been a bit.<br />
I don't want to let Night Shift end here. This au means a lot to me, and I'm not ready to walk away from it. Because I have to rewrite so much, I can no longer promise weekly uploads.
My current plan is to post the next chapter on Wednesday like usual. After that I'll need some time to recover and write from the ground up. Thank you to everyone who's been patient with me. I truly appreciate everyone who's stuck around, and I hope you'll continue enjoying the story with me till the end.
BUT TLDR; the next chapter of TSIAT is here and it will probably be the only one for a while. I'll try to get some art and other things out in the meantime while I try to recover what I deleted like a dummy! Thank you for sticking around!