Another thing I was pondering in Wales is, well, scarier. I was talking to Caby's dad, who's a writer, about stories with bad magical systems and coming up with them for Calelira and Pinede, and in trying to pull up one of my old Chronicles of Calelira entries, I discovered that none of the series is on archives! In fact, very little of my old stories or writing material is on archives. That's on purpose.

I've on-and-off hid my old (2018-2020 or so) stories over the years due to the sheer embarrassment especially early Pennyverse has caused me. It just felt like a bad reflection on me as a writer and as a person. Seb being an asshole for no reason, Colton being this miserable, kicked puppy for no reason, not a lot of fun, not a lot of laughs.

If we're being completely objective, nothing there is particularly bad or off-putting. Caby certainly liked them. It's just they're off-putting to me, and I don't wanna hide from a good two years of my work anymore.

Everything I've ever written that was ever on mari_v2 is now back up on mari_v2 for your use and mine. archives is the best place for them, really; it means they're online somewhere without me having to bring them along to my current sites. And if I do, for whatever reason, get the crazy urge to read through "Mothwing Bite", then I don't have to dig through backups to do so.

Hoping I see charm in that stuff someday. It'll be better once I've rewritten and replaced it all, and besides that, I've never deleted even the original Word 5.1 files because I've done the delete-out-of-embarrassment shuffle before and I always end up regretting it. Not to mention, all that stuff is still on the Wayback Machine, and it's inaccurate at the very least to not include them and hypocritical on my part, given the times I've intentionally kept stuff on archives despite other people trying to delete them.

It was my edgy wolf phase, really. Feel free to read through my edgy wolf phase stories.