おはよう/こんにちは/こんばんは。
I know it has been nearly a year since I was really active here. However, to the small number of you who will read this announcement, please, hear me out. I've been rather busy with my real life and recently, I've started to distance myself from the Wattpad community for a large variety of reasons. Although, some of them include the fact that unlike four years ago, I find it increasingly harder to relate to those here. Some attribute it to the fact that as I get older and my mind matures, it becomes increasingly difficult for me to connect to those on a platform, where I'm sure a good portion of its users are adolescent girls. Although, I would personally attribute it to the fact that it's kind of hard to find people here who not only want to make original works, but also understand that their work is flawed like everyone else's and actively want to improve it. I am not trying to hate on anyone here, but my point is that I sm increasingly alienated here. I've even started posting all of my newer works, which will likely extend to newer chapters of "Flames of War; Child of the Crimson Lotus" soon, on Archive of Our Own, because while my work may be even more niche there than it is here, the community there is more diverse than it is here in the sense of, at least, having the potential to find a wider variety of perspectives.
I will admit, leaving Wattpad has been on my mind for some time, as well as deleting this account and starting fresh on an alternate account. Because by now, there doesn't seem to be much of a reason for me to stay here, aside from maybe occasionally posting my original works, which almost no one reads. However, I don't know. There's even a chance that I will simply leave Wattpad without deleting this account.
