Hello friends- long time no see!
I know it's probably strange to have this alert popping up in your inboxes but over the last few weeks I've been noticing a strange flux of alerts about this story and it got me thinking about it more than I had in, well, the last few years to be honest. I started this story when I was a freshman in high school and have grown up a lot since putting this together- as I'm sure a lot of you OG readers (shout out to you 2013 readers!) have too- and now I have largely stopped watching the show and faded out of the fandom. However, I look back at this story fondly and have decided that it might be a nice source of stress relief from classes so I'm going to be working a bit with it in the coming weeks.

That being said, I don't know when I'll have the next chapter up. I want to make sure that before I update the story I familiarize myself with the character and plot that I crafted to accompany the usual show story line so that what I add now doesn't feel wrong in the context of the story as a whole. I don't think it would be fair to you guys to just throw out a random chapter where Maddie and the others are completely out of character. Instead, I'm going to be rewriting and editing the chapters already written and posted first. I like to think I'm a much better writer now and I certainly know that I can make improvements to the existing story. Before I do this, however, I have a few questions for you all about how you would best like the story to progress so feel free to answer these via PM, review, or just the poll on my profile (I'll put the most important one up there).

1. Would you want me to post a whole new story with the edited chapters (and make this 'archived' or 'original version' or delete it all together) or would you rather I just replace the chapters that exist here one by one? Keep in mind that I will be altering/rewriting the plot probably significantly in some places

2. Though I will be altering the plot to make it a little more developed and exciting as well as adding in new sub plots, I want to make sure I highlight the things you love most about the story. What are the reasons you kept coming to read when I post? What made this story good from your perspective?

3. Tell me about the plot holes you remember being miffed about or what about my writing style didn't you like? (For instance I know a few of you hated the long authors notes at the beginning and a lot of you probably skipped it- cause I know I would have!)

4. What's something you wish you saw more of? This could be just be something like more of a certain character or flashbacks or something broader like wanting some awesome LGBTQ+ characters or something- let me know!

I want to improve the story while I'm doing this and the reason I wrote this was because of you awesome people so I figured hearing what you have to say about all this would be the best way to go about it! I probably won't end up following every suggestion you make but I promise I'll take the time to read every last response and do my best to respond to you guys and your questions. The goal with this is to give me a chance to reread everything, improve it, and set some groundwork for continuing the story so I hope you guys are willing to help me out! :D

Thanks for reading, reviewing, and PMing,
The SHIELD Academy aka The Original Witches aka Tumble8385