Hey, everyone. Ha, uh... Firstly, Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Hope everyone's Monday is going well.

Secondly, um... Look, I'm just gonna come out and say it. It's been a month since I opened the doc. It's been four weeks since I promised to post. I have half a second chapter sitting and collecting dust on a story that was, admittedly, a good idea at the time, but isn't so much anymore. I have no clue what to even do with it, cause I wrote it in the transitioning phase where I was just figuring out what I wanted my chosen facet locking me into this fandom - the Batfam - look like in my version of canon.

I'd have thought I'd have learned this lesson by now, that when I promise the writer-reader community that I'm going to write something, I'm actually not. And it's not like I didn't WANT to! It's just that it came around the holidays, and the one-shot was a smash hit. But multi-chaptered fics are NOT my strong suit. I can't jump into a story and say "Okay, this is gonna be x amount of chapters, so I'll write so many in this period of time," and actually expect it to go anywhere. But here we are, in 2019, and I'm still learning that I cannot post any unfinished work on here because it's not fair to the readers to promise them something and never deliver. Plus, I've only written with my friend recently, so it's not like I'm neglecting just this story; I'm neglecting the majority of my writing overall.

As if that makes it better.

And like I said, the idea was a good one. Selina and Alfred sabotage the Manor so that the Batfam has to stay at the Watchtower, and Bruce's family destroys his reputation as a scary loner. But I've no idea how to reconcile the various pieces of canon and continuities to make it so that Dick and Tim and Babs (and, to a degree, Jason) still have the friendships that they do without the superhero community at large knowing that Bruce has a somewhat arguably unhealthy habit of adopting kids and training them to be ace crime fighters and detectives.

I mean, I even have a DIFFERENT DOC ENTIRELY dedicated to what was supposed to be a much more polished version of this story arc, where the Batfam meets the supers one member at a time, and I haven't touched that in almost as long as the one I've promised to the lot of you.

TL;DR: I don't see this getting any kind of a resolution for a LONG time. Maybe forever. So I wanna apologize for raising your hopes and then crushing them, kinda like how Tom King and DC did with the BatCat wedding.

If anyone wants to pick up this story, I'd love to see what you'd do with it! Just because I can't finish it doens't mean that nobody else can't take a stab at it. I'd even be okay with posting various chapters sent to me, or giving the first chapter out to anyone who wants to pick up where I left off.

(And before anyone wants to cite me the rules and guidelines about not posting A/Ns as standalone chapters, lemme say that I feel a duty to inform y'all that I'm not writing for this and that there's not anything coming for a long time (if not forever), and if wants to sue me for it, then they can go straight ahead.)

On the OTHER hand (still not learning my lesson), the stories that my friend, PhoenixIzzy, and I have been working on have been been designed (partially) in a format that's a bit more posting-friendly than our usual style, mostly because the amount of effort I'm putting into is equal to the amount of effort that I put into Nikki (most of whose stories haven't been posted, sadly), and there's a lot of work toward a series that I will eventually get around to writing. I'm not saying that we for sure are going to post it, I'm just saying we've left the door open to post it.