Well this is something I wish I didn't had to do.
So yall know how Crossing Starfields was made in collaboration with @keixamie. She owns Nova and Amara and the hotel setting where a lot of the story takes place in. You might have also realized she no longer appeared credited at the beginning of each lore post. Why's that?
She'd been continuously going offline for weeks and it got extremely hard to talk to her. Like she would be completely gone for weeks at the time and I would never be able to get a hold of her. Luckily we had planned all of the au lore previously so it wasn't that big of an issue, but that's why at the beginning of the year CS entered an hiatus; the reason was to not put pressure on her and give her time to try and get her shit together.
Well, during that time, she kept going offline for weeks on end like I said. And, for 3 the months the au was on hiatus, I barely got to see if she was making an effort to actually work on anything, because she wouldn't even make an effort to talk to me. Around the beginning of May, we agreed to take a break from eachother for like 2 weeks (meaning she would be back around June 1st) because we realized things just weren't working out really well and we were starting to get frustrated at eachother. So two weeks came and went, and then she added to most of her socialmedias she'd be leaving the internet for around a month (until July 1st).
I was not informed of this in any capacity and had to find out through my other friends who noticed it. Suffice to say I was pretty disappointed. Clearly we weren't getting anywhere, and no matter how much patience, time and space I gave her to be happy, she only used that to bail on me for some reason. I suppose she's very anxious about being online, but that doesn't excuse it.
I view collaborations the same way movie companies view contracts. They give directors and other studios contracts to use their licensed characters and IPs for a specific amount of content and then the contract is over. So, that's exactly what I did with Crossing Starfields. Even if they were no longer around, I was determined to finish this all on my own if it had to be. All the art and writing you've seen? I did that, all of that. Since day 1, I was the one doing all the hard work.
If this post goes up, it should be July 3rd, and she's not yet reached out to me or responded to my message. I wanted to give keixamie time, to give her the benefit of the doubt one last time. Now that Crossing Starfields (as the main project) is done, I no longer get to post about Nova, Amara, or anything she had "contributed" to this au. The story itself will still exist, but I will no longer mention or reference them in my posts. Of course, White, Neut and White's dimension still belong to me, so I can use those as much as I want.
It's unfortunate how this ended tbh. This used to be such a passion project for the both of us, so I'm sad it turned into such a heavy burden to take on alone.
I'm not sure if she's just outright a bad person and doing this on purpose, or just has major anxiety issues, but when it's shown that despite me telling her about this so many times and her apologies and promises to change, she does no effort of actually trying to change, then I'm sorry but I stopped carrying. If she somehow ends up reading this, then I want to say that she can still message me if she wants. Yes, I'm angry at her, but I'm still willing to talk to her.
None of us are big enough content creators to even have to ask for this, but obviously don't go harass or annoy her. If she is really as anxious as she said, then I don't want anything happening to her because of some shitty """""""drama"""""""" on the internet.
