Dearest readers,
First of all, Happy April Fool’s Day, Happy Birthday to our dearest Kinomoto Sakura and a bunch of other CLAMP characters! Also, happy several other key events I’ve failed to be online for, including International New Trials Day. I can’t believe the last time I updated the blog was one year ago this day! I do update a bit more through Instagram these days, though I think it’s difficult to give a substantial update over there.
I apologize for going off the grid in past several months, more so than usual, regardless of any New Trials updates. I’ve been dealing with some serious work-related issues, which have actually not been resolved with yet, but hopefully will be.
I assure you all, I haven’t given up on New Trials, but I think I’ve come to accept that the final chapters will probably have to be written in a block, rather than the piecemeal, chapter by chapter releases that I’ve been doing until now (but I may change my mind about this). Nonetheless, the Hong Kong chapter will be released in full before that. I’m really grateful the continued support all this time. When I began writing New Trials, writing itself was my joy and healing process. But here, in 2024, I’ve realized that the community that CCS and NT has brought me is the true joy and rare support system in my life. I’m not CLAMP, but CLAMP never finished X… Will Ai Yazawa ever finish Nana? Will Suzue Miuchi ever finish Glass Mask. Will Detective Conan ever go back to his original age? Such questions I dwell upon to fuel myself to continue on.
On a positive note, who would have thought but my Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Saga AMV “This is My Road” has surpassed 1 million views. I never really ever planned on getting a million view video on YouTube. Then again, never really meant to write a nearly 2 million word fanfiction either. Actually, probably including unpublished chapters and side stories, New Trials is probably over 2 million words as well. If I had the Time Card in my hands, one thing I would probably do is go back and write out more chapters when I had a bit more leisure. But I think I don’t mind tackling the later chapters with the emotional maturity that I hopefully have gained now.
