And I still want to do a full story proofread after as well as draw the covers for each chapter. It's a bit frustrating.

Not even joking, the only reason I still have motivation is because this particular chapter is one I've been looking forward to writing for a bit. I WANNA WRITE!! 😭

I wrote the last chapter a month and a half ago. Please life, God, the universe, and everything else, just let me continue. Pllllllleeeeeeeleleleleleleleleleleeeeease

To be clear, if I do these little short stories, they would be akin to The Forgotten Mt. Frigid but with smaller focuses than climbing a mountain to explore a weird, abandoned palace.

I just feel like there's a lot of stuff that happened in between certain chapters, and that was... sorta the point? But, I kinda hate it now. There's so much stuff that I just completely passed up on exploring simply because it wasn't the focus of the story.

Plus, this story has just genuinely been really fun to write. I hope it will be just as fun for all of you to read.

I feel like that was one of Fish Scales's biggest weak points. With so many time jumps, a lot of major character development happened out of story, and a lot of minor characters sorta came and went. I've been wanting to do better this time, so I've given it my all!

Over all, I'm very proud of this story so far. Rather than being a segmented story leading up to an ending that relates to the segments, this one is just a continuous story with characters that stick around.

This is my first art post of 2025.

If it makes anyone feel better, I called the picture "Moth Sketches"

But, I do plan to try to write at least one chapter every week, if not multiple whenever I feel like doing more.