Well, I don't know if I can truly say there'll never be a continuation to DBSNTM, but it's not something I'm interested in. As I said on twt, the 3rd part would've been based around the 12 Rods song, 'Revolute' and would've been around their first Christmas as college students (probably around finals, not actually Christmas, because my idea was to show them doing well in a bigger, more diverse college town).

Inspired by the lyrics of the song, I was going to focus on them being publicly out as a couple and their hopes and dreams for the future as they start the first 'adult' chapter of their lives. The issue there, though, is that it really sends some conflict to make a compelling story, and from that perspective, the temptation of putting their relationship through some sort of test or trial to solidify it is too great... but emotionally, I don't want to do that lol. I thought about it more and realized that if I wanted it to be a 3-part series, then that needed to happen to get to the ultimate resolution, but if I left it as it is today, then it could just be a full stand-alone story that got a happy little epilogue, and that's honestly what I prefer for it.

Right now, my intentions and hopes for 2026 are too re-focus on dead dove and dark romance multi-chapter fics. Things like 'Little Prae' (Chanlix), 'I Can’t Hear You Over the Cicadas' (Minsung), 'I Saw This Really Cute Guy at the Grocery Store the Other Day' (also Chanlix), and even darker, more fucked up themes and ideas that I've never touched before. When I wrote ISTRCG, which was my first dark long fic, I really was just like 'Fuck it, I'm gonna write whatever I want, regardless of anything,' and it went completely off the rails, batshit insane, and I loved it. It was fun to write something like that, and I'm satisfied with the overall result. Readers loved it, and I think that's still my fic with the most comments despite being a year and a half old. When I started writing, one of my go-to tricks whenever I got stuck was to ask myself 'Ok, what's the most insane thing that could happen right now at this point in the story?' and that's basically what I would write. That's what I want my readers to expect from me again.

What I mean by saying all of that is just that currently, my interests lie in a totally different league than DBSNTM. While I don't intend to completely stop writing those nicer things, I'm shifting my focus right now. Like, I've been working on an extreme DDDNE Minsung fic for a while now, and I plan to start posting that sometime in early January.

Sorry for rambling, but thanks for your question! Happy new year to you too!! ♡