I don't know how many are gonna read this, but it needs to be said (and I don't really have any other place to announce it).
So last night I had a dream about FHS. I can't tell you the contents of the dream, 'cause, y'know, spoilers.
But the dream made me realize two important things:
First of all, the love I had for the Flipline characters is still there. I can feel it now, although I haven't been able to feel it for such a long time.
Secondly...I've got to move on.
FHS was an amazing thing. It was my first attempt at sharing my creativity with the world, and it was also my first crack at doing comedic sketches. But it was also created by a 13-year-old girl. ^^'
I've matured as a writer since then. Some things I thought were hilarious before are kinda cringy now. And I also had a lot of just plain bad ideas. Like, a side AU full of demons from hell is a bit...out there. If I want to keep it, I need to handle it differently...
Basically, I've spent years trying to scotch-tape together old and new, good and bad, and I realize now that what I have is, frankly, a mess that just needs to be thrown out. I have to start over.
And as painful as it is for me to say...the high-school aspect needs to go. 13-year-old-anime-fanatic Doki might have thought it was the best idea ever, but current-Doki can see that it's awfully restrictive, and the potential canonicity of it decreases year by year. It started when Greg was revealed to be Cooper's younger brother; now there's a whole host of plot holes.
But that isn't a bad thing. It just means that Flipline is slowly growing its own universe, and instead of fighting it and pretending it doesn't exist, I need to go explore it. So that's what I'm gonna do. New topic, new direction. You'll see~.
