About Part III
A quick honest note about Part III.
I’m not sure yet when, or if, Part III of Mara & Leo will continue. This project takes a lot of work. Not just writing, but sorting timelines, checking context, separating public facts from projection, finding a structure, finding the right tone, and trying to keep the discussion from turning into yet another fandom mud fight.
And right now, I’m feeling a little tired. Because it sometimes feels as if many people want to read the story, react to the story, discuss the story, wait for the next part of the story, but when relevant older context, screenshots or background material exist, they seem to go everywhere except here. That may not be intentional. But it does create a strange imbalance.
I can analyse patterns, I can write, I can connect dots. But I can’t work properly with missing pieces while everyone else quietly watches from the gallery.
So I may pause this for a bit. Not because I’m angry. More because I’m disappointed, and because I don’t want this to become something that drains me while everyone else simply consumes it.
If this project continues, it has to continue with a little more shared context and a little less one-way consumption.
I know some people will be disappointed, some will roll their eyes, and some will probably enjoy this a little too much. That’s fine. It doesn’t really change the point.
That’s all for now.
@kittyse Thank you and yes, this is exactly the point. It’s not even that I can say, “this specific piece is missing”, because often I don’t know what exists unless someone mentions it somewhere else. That’s part of the problem. Sometimes older material only becomes important once a later pattern appears. A clip, a screenshot, a small behaviour, a moment that looked irrelevant at the time can suddenly change how later things read. Not because it proves everything, but because it adds context.
And to be fair, there are people who have offered to answer questions, and I do appreciate that. But the difficulty is that I don’t always know which question I need to ask. If I don’t know a certain piece of material exists, I also don’t know that I should be asking about it.
And just to be clear: this is not really aimed at the bloggers who eventually publish or discuss that material. If someone sends them something, of course they can work with it. This is more about the anons who choose where certain context goes. And yes, one could say that trust has to be earned. That is a fair point, and I accept it.
But then I also have to accept the consequence on my side: I can’t keep delivering serious, careful analysis if the material needed to do that properly is treated as something I’m not meant to see until after everyone else has already used it. And clean analysis only works when context is not treated like private currency.
That’s really what I meant. A community can only work if people participate in both directions. Otherwise it becomes performer and audience: one side gathers, writes, structures, takes the risk, and the other side simply watches.
I understand that this fandom has always had strong egos, private archives and little information kingdoms. Fair enough. But then people also have to understand that serious analysis cannot run forever on applause alone.
And I really appreciate your comment, because you understood the point without turning it into drama. ❤️
