16 October 2017 I'm back. I've deleted a few weak chapters of Gred and Forge Must Not. Amended one chapter Two Years because I had the timeline wrong.

Am taking R recommendations for PLL alphabet story 26. There's a handful of very old stories which I'm marking as complete and abandoned. Cross-posting to AO3. Still have dozens of ideas that I'm working on but the lead four right now are Two Years (PLL), Flight (PLL), XXIV (Revenge) and 26 (PLL). Everything else will go from there.

There's a few other WIPs on here that I like enough to continue, and I may be deleting a couple of the older, not-so-good stories.

14 November I'll be back. This is just to let you know that once I have five minutes free I'll resume work on fanfic.

14 March I've stopped watching The Vampire Diaries. It stopped holding my interest mid Season 5, and never really regained it. This is a blanket note for all the TVD stories I have done, am doing or will do. I follow recaps online, but that's it. Basically anything I write for that 'verse will be AU, unless I make a deliberate effort to be in-universe.

About 'The Sculptor' (PLL TV series, oneshot) I got this idea when I saw the episode where Hanna flashed back to Mona helping her with the makeover. I've long had an obsession with interest in the nature of the double, the doppelganger. Doppelganger lore suggests that if a person were to see their physical double, that is an omen of bad things to come - for instance, death. Often the notion is linked to the question of which one is good and which is bad, though these are often subjective. It isn't black and white; you cannot say X is good and Y is bad. Doing so is to me, fallacious, because you have to take into account their actions and then try to contextualize them. I like to try to get into the head of a doppelganger or a double, because in the case of this fic, which girl is good and which is bad?

Hanna at first glance might be the good twin, Alison the bad. Only, what made Alison bad? Hanna somewhat cheated to get pretty and popular, which isn't good in itself, but then look at how she cheated, which maybe makes it worse. Is Alison bad because she liked to push boundaries and got in over her head? How much does family contribute? For those of you who've seen more recent episodes (Think S4's finale onwards) how much might the events seen in these episodes ruin her? Hanna's labelled as a liar; something which is at best morally wrong and at worst illegal.

As I said, obsessed, and possibly I haven't addressed it all.

31 Jan I'm finding myself more and more disappointed with The Vampire Diaries. Or maybe disenchanted. I won't go into details lest I spoil anything, but the storyline in general is reminding me of a fanfic I've read on here. The fanfic was good.

I won't be writing things that are in canon. Let's say that I'm going to use canon things and details up until the end of the cure storyline, but probably no further.

So here's what you can expect if I write TVD: Elejah. Elejah ALL the way.
-Maybe explorations into the love-to-hate characters.
-AU oneshots, or if I'm so inclined, AU multi-chapters.
-OOC-ness, maybe. I don't know. I liked trying to get into Katherine's head with a matter of choice. And it's not as though OOC ever happens in fanfic. I think I'm just going to disregard anything from 5x11 onwards.