Hi everyone! Happy new year and happy TVXQ 18^th anniversary! I hope you all are doing well and staying healthy. We’re living through strange times these days.

I’m here to make a sad announcement: I’m going to stop posting fanfiction. 

I still love YunJae and DBSK, and I absolutely Keep The Faith, but I have no time to write anymore. And not just that, the fandom has also grown very quiet. Understandably, considering there hasn’t been new YunJae material in ages. It’s tough to keep recycling old memories for inspiration. I’d keep writing just for the pleasure of it if I had time, but I simply don’t. I work full time and now I’m writing a (non-fiction) book, so there’s not a minute to spare for fanfic. 

My life is so different now from when I posted that first chapter of Fireflies back in 2015. Almost 7 years ago now, can you believe it? Back then, I was stuck in a job I hated and having a personal crisis about what I wanted to do with my life. As many of you know, I was applying to studios for screenwriting jobs and getting rejected over and over. It was a painful time. But I kept trying out new stuff with my fics here, and you wonderful readers helped me figure out what was good and what wasn’t. I was able to grow as a writer with your feedback. Things finally clicked for me with The Water God. My writing got much stronger and, miracle of miracles, a studio offered me a job! Remember how excited and happy I was? My whole life changed with that one opportunity. Now here I am, 5 years and 4 countries later, getting paid to write. It’s a dream come true. And I owe so much of it to fanfiction.

Walking away from these stories is hard. Every time I look at the notes and outlines for any of them, I feel that pull. That need to sit down and keep writing it. I want to see your comments when I explode some of those carefully planted bombshells in Fireflies! I want to see your reaction at the ATOY finale! But I simply have no time. If I tried, it would take another 7 years to finish all my fics. That’s just not going to happen. I doubt any of us will even be on this site then. But I promised you all that I wouldn’t leave you hanging. And I won’t. So here’s my plan.

First, I’m going to finish Arc of Time because it’s pretty much done anyway. There’s only one major cycle left, then we’re at the moment of truth. So that will be my swan song.

For my other fics, I’m going to write up a short story version of the endings. So it won’t be detailed, but you’ll at least know what happens and how it turns out for everyone. This is good news for several reasons.

• It lets me finish Mad Love, but it also means I can write part 3 of Fireflies and finish the whole trilogy. I didn’t think part 3 would happen, but now it can. Yay!
• I’ll finish A Taste of You now too. I’d abandoned that fic, but it won’t take much to wrap up the ending for that in short story form. Isn’t that great?
• I’ll talk to Lillee and see how she feels, but maybe we can wrap up The Body Guard this way too? It’s possible!

So it seems like leaving my fics behind is the best way to finish them and give us all closure!

Anyway, that’s my announcement. It’s been a pleasure to write for you all these past 7 years. I wouldn’t have the life I have now without your support and encouragement. You’ve been amazing readers. I’ll miss writing for you. Thanks for everything! This has been Mirabella ❤️