Bevendre

It might just be depression talking, but I think I’m going to put Papi on indefinite hiatus and move on to other things.

ask-rye-dimar-dragon replied to your post: I often find myself wondering “Why do I still work…

I say keep pushing on, even ignore trying to stay “updated” to the current cannon of the series. Just look at “ask pun pony” and myself. We stuck to our current canons and did not change much just because the cannon on the show changed a bit. Heck, if it helps stick to season 6 and leave it in that time period, regardless where the show goes from here. This way you your written story is not so reliant on what the new season brings. “Ask pun pony” Cannon is set in the season 2 and 3 period…

The changes in the show itself is but a small part of it.  I’ve been rolling with the changes to changelings without issue.  The problem is that there’s not the interaction that I want or hope for, I don’t have a written story despite working myself into having one, and the fun and passion is not there as it used to be.

I don’t know what I’m doing with Papi, and it’s not fun like it should be.

shadow539 replied to your post: I often find myself wondering “Why do I still work…

Don’t give up. you have to think and then relax, and then the idea will just come to you

The idea coming to me isn’t the problem.  It’s translating it into an update and keeping things consistent that’s the problem.  This happens with all of the blogs I start, ideas are prevalent, but the order, execution and cohesion of the ideas never lasts for very long.  

I can’t seem to do an ask blog with just random answers, I always end up shoehorning a story into it.  I can’t seem to do a story ask blog, because I don’t plan anything out and just wing it, which means as soon as something else comes up or I hit a hurdle I lose interest.

The problem isn’t a lack of ideas, or needing to relax.  There’s so little point in continuing an ask blog in Tumblrpon at this point as the community has moved on to other things and interest in ask blogs for MLP has all but died out.  A huge part of the allure and fun of it was the interaction with other blogs, and followers who were interested in what was going to happen, instead of just random people asking for their character to be drawn which is the bulk of what I get in the inbox.  I’m one of the few MLP ask blogs I know of that’s still running, and one of the only ones that updates on a regular basis, but what’s the point?

I often find myself wondering “Why do I still work on Papi?”  Yes I still love the characters, but the blog’s at maybe 1/3rd the followers that it used to have, participation and response is way down, and I never know what to update it with until I start because I’ve never had a full plan for what to do with the blog, especially now that things have changed in the series, which is a large part of why there have been so many retcons.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, Tumblrpon is a shadow of what it once was, and that was always something that I knew was going to happen.  I’m not sure what I’m going to do with Papi at the moment, but the drive to update it every week fades more every week, and I know that if I stop updating regularly then it’ll stop updating all together.