A young man walks into the room, sits down, and starts typing. He's one of those average people—not too short, brown hair that is either untamable or simply ignored in favor of a growing anime obsession—basically, the kind of person that that no one would notice until he up and pulled a stunt like going to a restaurant and yelling at the top of his lungs that "PEPPERS ARE THE ENEMGOENSOCA83T/[;

Sorry about that, everyone. Resisting the Borg here. Whoa, it's been almost a year since Cosmic Repairs was updated. I suppose that it makes what I'm about to do completely redundant, but I felt that I had to post this anyway:

I am officially discontinuing Cosmic Repairs.

There are a number of reasons, of course. Nothing like family problems, or difficult spots in my life, just… reasons.

Number one, I'm in college now. I've had plans for a new chapter, yes, but I've finally decided that I'm never going to finish it, what with my workload picking up and having less time to spare.

Number two, my interests have wandered. I've wandered into the wonderful world of manga and anime, and while I love Avatar now as much as ever, there are now so many other series that I've gotten my hands on and just can't stop with.

Number three, probably my most important reason, and what I call 'the author's dilemma':

This just isn't very good.

Seriously. I come back, months after having written anything, and think what did I think I was doing? Some dialogue is clunky, there's little to no characterization, it's just… Man. More than that, there are multiple plot details that I never really thought out, or thought would be fun and interesting. Looking back, they turn out needless, and take away from the story. It wasn't well thought out, and the end product paid the price.

Moreover, I've always done my best to get my stories to mesh with canon. This isn't too difficult with Phineas and Ferb, due to the nature of the show, and I was planning to end the Kim Possibles duology (if that's a word) with "Nim" leaving and the villain receiving a visit from someone sharing his name (at the time of the writing, I had not yet discovered Doctor Who). I've been interested in doing AUs or so-called "crack fics" before, but never finished the first chapter on any of them. Before Korra and the interquel (if that's also a word) comics, Cosmic Repairs worked okay. But with the revelation of what happened to Zuko's mom, and the introduction of a canonical chaos spirit in the form of Vaatu (who, by the way, is far cooler than anything I could ever have dreamed of), my little story has been stripped apart and hung out to dry.

To summarize the remaining events of my story, after Team Avatar is once again gathered, it is revealed that Ursa is behind the change of reality, having sought out the chaos spirit and made a deal with it to gain a new chance for her family to be together. A huge battle is fought between Team Avatar and the chaos-powered Ursa, and everyone's plans are useless until they figure out that against a chaos spirit, you just have to wing it. They finally defeat Ursa, and Zuko swears to find her in the status quo world. Things snap back without explanation, and Aang—as the Avatar—is the only one who remembers anything.

This is both to summarize what remains of the plot, and to ensure that there's something in here that isn't just 'author's note' for technical purposes.

Going over this, there is no place for the mysterious presence in the engine room, or for some of the supporting characters. Also, the Avatar would be capable of defeating the chaos spirit without too much trouble, now that I think about it. There are multiple other plotholes—some of them small enough that you wouldn't notice, others large enough for Appa to fly through.

That's not to say that it's out and out horrible—the basic idea was sound, my grammar is not the worst out there, thank goodness, and it was FUN as all get out writing Lu Ten (who actually took some inspiration from me and my utterly random ADHD-and-Aspergers mind), and later Hama Jr, (who's clumsy and awkward tendencies made her a lot of fun for me). But I look at this work, and see so much that could have been better. I could have employed a beta, but while I thought about it many times, it never ended up seeming to matter to me.

I'm sorry, guys. You deserve better than this.

I'm not going to pull this down. And maybe someday, when I have the time, and the inspiration, I'll come back and try this again. But until then, I will turn my mind to other projects, both original and fanworks. I will try to improve. So that the second attempt at this will be better, and work with the canon better, and people will be able to enjoy it better.

I'd like to thank everyone who favorited, followed, reviewed, or even took the time to stop and read Cosmic Repairs. Really, you're awesome for putting up with my eccentricities and horrible update times. And I apologize for doing this to you. But like I say—you guys deserve better.

I'll be taking questions with regards to any questions you want answered in the reviews.

Thank you. And I'm sorry.

Resisting the Borg

P.S.: For the record, peppers really are the enemy.

P.P.S.: The next most concrete idea I have is a Lyrical Nanoha fic that I think could float. If I ever get any work done on it.

P.P.P.S.: I really want to do something with Lu Ten and Hama Jr again, so don't think that they're gone forever.

P.P.P.P.S.: Is anyone else feeling hungry? Because I'm feeling hungry. I think I'm gonna post this and go get something to eat.