Thank You.
This isn’t really fankid related or anything, it’s just my thoughts and what I sort of want to say to those who followed this blog for fankid content, to friends I’ve made in the pokemon fankid community etc. I’m probably going to ramble on and maybe repeat stuff since I’m just word-vomitting this but I just wanted to put this out there to whoever is reading.
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I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for letting me experience the fun it was in creating pokemon fankids and sharing them with everyone all those years ago when it was starting to pick up. It was amazing just getting to know different people and learning about their own pokemon fankids and just bonding over a similar interest.
The time I spent with the pokemon fankid community has been amazing and I don’t regret any of it. I am so grateful to have met the people that I’ve met, and to have befriended the people within the community.
I know I haven’t been keeping up to date with this blog in like, the last few years. As I believe I’ve mentioned before somewhere on this blog, I had to take a hiatus because the passion and motivation I had for creating and talking about my fankids was just lost to me. Like I started to hate it because it was like I had to force myself to keep talking about them when I actually wanted to discuss other stuff, other projects that I picked up and was excited about. And because of that, I haven’t been posting content as much as I did when I first started this blog. A way to take a break so I don’t end up loathing these characters that I care so deeply about. I don’t want to feel that resentment towards these creations or to others.
This isn’t the end for me, this blog, or my fankids. Their stories are definitely not over. I have so many things I want to tell with these characters that it’s way too soon for it to be over. I just don’t know if I can muster up the energy I once had, to continue their pokemon journey. I’m positive their stories will continue elsewhere in the world, in some of my own personal projects. It’s way too soon for me to give up on my characters and I don’t feel right with just abandoning them and their stories. Since last year when I started my film school program (also ended last year but it was also due to covid so it took longer for it to finish), I’ve started to come up with so many ideas and plans and I keep looking back at these characters and I want to be able to use them again, to re-familiarize myself with them and find that passion I lost. And I hope one day I’ll be able to bring them to life in those projects that I have plans for for everyone to enjoy.
So I’m not even sure if I’ll ever post content again on this blog? Maybe I will, or maybe it’ll just be some musings that I want to share and keep track of since my thoughts are always so jumbled and I tend to forget. But uh, yeah, I think this is honestly, probably, the last post on this blog? But also don’t quote me on that... I’m a hypocrite and may just end up posting something but again, more of a “let me talk myself through my thoughts” kind of way haha.
This is not a good-bye, but more of a see you all soon and please look forward to seeing these kiddos again sometime in the future in a different medium.
Thank you <3 :)
-Rika







