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    • I am swamped at work at the moment so unfortunately I won't be able to get this week's chapter finished on time. I'm going to have to take a week's delay to get everything squared away, both at work and for the next chapter. My apologies for the recent delays. I am hoping to be able to hold to my schedule better going forward, but invariably some things will be out of my control.

    Regards,
    Roust
     
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    • @LordRoustabout : "Sorry I won't have the week's chapter ready on time guys."

    My guy, I have binged the entirety of the main threadmarked story in like the last four days, to extreme detriment for my sleep time and free time. I have basically done nothing but read your story in whatever time I can spare for the last four days. Maybe a week, hard to tell cause of the lack of sleep and mono focus. I've seen the memes about the next weekend in story being an irl year away or whatever, but as far as I am concerned this is a merciful break where I can pass out freely without the burning desire to read 'just one more chapter' at 3am (I leave for work at 5 and get home around 430pm).

    Take your time, enjoy your accolades and knowing you have made a die hard fan. I'm going to go see if you have written anything else cause I am absolutely hooked on your writing, and if not I'm just going to catch up on rest… or maybe hunt for another celestial forge story.

    Right, shameless complimenting done. Hope you have a good night.

    Edit: changed a word cause it doesn't mean what I thought it meant. Will be a fun conversation with my friends.
     
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    LordRoustabout said:
    I am swamped at work at the moment so unfortunately I won't be able to get this week's chapter finished on time. I'm going to have to take a week's delay to get everything squared away, both at work and for the next chapter. My apologies for the recent delays. I am hoping to be able to hold to my schedule better going forward, but invariably some things will be out of my control.

    Regards,
    Roust
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    I have said it before, but if you're feeling stressed trying to keep up with a schedule of every other week, feel free to go to every third week.
    If you finish early, give us an early release surprise, or start on the next chapter so you have a head start, or just relax. Whatever works best for you.
     
    Thorold said:
    My guy, I have binged the entirety of the main threadmarked story in like the last four days.
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    I was unwell and not very mobile last month and it still took me over a week to binge it, that's some good reading, buddy!

    Ahh, that feeling when I was like, 'There's 170 chapters so I've still got like like another 60 to go...' when I suddenly found myself current because threadmarks are not chapters.
     
    LordRoustabout said:
    I am swamped at work at the moment so unfortunately I won't be able to get this week's chapter finished on time. I'm going to have to take a week's delay to get everything squared away, both at work and for the next chapter. My apologies for the recent delays. I am hoping to be able to hold to my schedule better going forward, but invariably some things will be out of my control.

    Regards,
    Roust
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    Rats. Oh well, needs must; I'm sure that you wouldn't delay if you didn't need the time for other things. Take care. Don't take too much time away from yourself as well.
     
    LordRoustabout said:
    I am swamped at work at the moment so unfortunately I won't be able to get this week's chapter finished on time. I'm going to have to take a week's delay to get everything squared away, both at work and for the next chapter. My apologies for the recent delays. I am hoping to be able to hold to my schedule better going forward, but invariably some things will be out of my control.

    Regards,
    Roust
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    Dude, you have to stop apologizing like this. It will be done when is done, you don't owe anything to anyone here
     
    LordRoustabout said:
    I am swamped at work at the moment so unfortunately I won't be able to get this week's chapter finished on time. I'm going to have to take a week's delay to get everything squared away, both at work and for the next chapter. My apologies for the recent delays. I am hoping to be able to hold to my schedule better going forward, but invariably some things will be out of my control.
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    Maybe, increase the schedule to three weeks instead of every two?
    It'll give you more time: not just for the story, but for other things. And the decreased frequency of missing your own deadlines will probably be better for your state of mind.
     
    Would it be better for your mental/muse to just make the schedule longer?

    The delays happen pretty consistently lately and it has to have be causing some amount of stress for you. Until things get better(or just indefinitely), maybe make the releases every 3 weeks or every month?

    It's better you don't burn yourself out.
     
    In any constant endeavour it is inevitable that once a person set themselves a standard, they will fail to meet it on occasion. It is impossible to do your best all the time, and sometimes it is not feasible to do even your normal. As such, failure is a given, ordinary thing, nothing but a part of a process to take note of, to learn from, to try to lessen the possibility of, but still to know that it will happen again. It is not something to stress over, to overfocus on and to bend under, more so if it caused by things beyond one's control.

    Now, I believe Lord Roustabout knows all of the above already, so to him, I want to say something else: Your apologies are appreciated. They are unneeded and in a way even unwarranted, but so the more your care for and understanding of investments readers put into your story shines through them, as does your ability to commit to self-imposed responsibility, a quality quite admirable, and quite self-destructive if left unchecked, so take care for yourself too.
     
    I had a funny idea that in Percy Jackson universe Joe's analogue is considered embodiment and harbinger of unabashed chaos, not because he is an impossible mishmahs of every monster that somehow managed to get the blessings of many gods, but because he keeps getting said gods blackout drunk. Like, there are a bunch of myths that just starts with "Aperigraptos made some alcohol" and ends with sea on fire, triple solar eclipse and a war over the shape of a cloud. Just accidentally usurping Zeus' place as main troublemaker simply because he wanted to minmax those blessings. Or ending up as scapegoat for gods' unreasonable decision-making.

    Oh, and in modern times, it becomes one of those things that get confused with other mythos, so Dionysus constantly has to say to new people at camp Half-Blood that no, he is only partly responsible for all that insane shit.
     
    Slentoru said:
    I had a funny idea that in Percy Jackson universe Joe's analogue is considered embodiment and harbinger of unabashed chaos, not because he is an impossible mishmahs of every monster that somehow managed to get the blessings of many gods, but because he keeps getting said gods blackout drunk. Like, there are a bunch of myths that just starts with "Aperigraptos made some alcohol" and ends with sea on fire, triple solar eclipse and a war over the shape of a cloud. Just accidentally usurping Zeus' place as main troublemaker simply because he wanted to minmax those blessings. Or ending up as scapegoat for gods' unreasonable decision-making.

    Oh, and in modern times, it becomes one of those things that get confused with other mythos, so Dionysus constantly has to say to new people at camp Half-Blood that no, he is only partly responsible for all that insane shit.
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    Big plot twist, the gods calmed down. The drinks were all of such quality they couldn't do anything but savor the libation, and gods that might have otherwise felt unappreciated were soothed by the constant extreme offerings of a wayward and lost nephew / son / son in law / cousin(?).
     
    Slentoru said:
    I had a funny idea that in Percy Jackson universe Joe's analogue is considered embodiment and harbinger of unabashed chaos, not because he is an impossible mishmahs of every monster that somehow managed to get the blessings of many gods, but because he keeps getting said gods blackout drunk. Like, there are a bunch of myths that just starts with "Aperigraptos made some alcohol" and ends with sea on fire, triple solar eclipse and a war over the shape of a cloud. Just accidentally usurping Zeus' place as main troublemaker simply because he wanted to minmax those blessings. Or ending up as scapegoat for gods' unreasonable decision-making.

    Oh, and in modern times, it becomes one of those things that get confused with other mythos, so Dionysus constantly has to say to new people at camp Half-Blood that no, he is only partly responsible for all that insane shit.
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    Aperigraptos, someone believed to be the nondescript spirit of libation that is mentioned from time to time when the gods do a bit of an oopsie woopsie.

    Schoolars believe that, with the way they are mentioned, it may have originated as a catch all term to represents those on power becoming metaphorically drunk on a healthy and productive nation and doing something that would later bring them harm like the gods tend to do.

    There is text evidence that the phrase "beware lest you become drunk on Aperigraptos' libation" saw some use between people in high position as well as a joke between friends whenever they celebrated with wines and liquors.

    Regardless, Aperigraptos themselves remain an enigmatic figure in Greek mythology, leading many to believe they may have been a common enough element in people's lives that writing down who they are wasn't necesary, and they are often used as a segway to another mythological being's shenanigans rather than staring on their own.

    There IS an story that may have been about them, talking about someone favored by the gods that brought about wonderous artifacts and weapons, one of them being described as "the everspring plant that would bring great gifts and problems to their patrons" as well as a "flask from which Aperigraptos' libations flowed eternal", but it isn't made clear if the mentioned inventor IS Aperigraptos in person, someone who made the plants and flasks for them, or just an allegory to Minoan Greeks discovering selecting breeding and how to make fermentation casks for winemaking.
     
    Thorold said:
    Big plot twist, the gods calmed down. The drinks were all of such quality they couldn't do anything but savor the libation, and gods that might have otherwise felt unappreciated were soothed by the constant extreme offerings of a wayward and lost nephew / son / son in law / cousin(?).
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    Well, that's half of it.

    The other half being "That one time Ares went too far, and got cut off by Aperigraptos for six months…" — tales of which are spread in furtive and nervous whispers.
     
    did all the dust crystals and other ungodly hour stuff disappear yet? and when in the next predicted endbringer fight again?
     
    tri2 said:
    did all the dust crystals and other ungodly hour stuff disappear yet? and when in the next predicted endbringer fight again?
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    Dust hasn't been cleaned last we knew it's being collected by others as it seems to proliferate a bit? For other stuff I think most of bakuda bombs effects have ended and I-field is slowly dismantling itself.

    The next endbringers there isn't a prediction perse this is pre-program that did that in canon, so they roughly know they attack around 3-4 months between each attack next one is around the range for when it should attack, or soon seeing as last one was February 29th.
     
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    Luckyplucky21 said:
    Dust hasn't been cleaned last we knew it's being collected by others as it seems to proliferate a bit? For other stuff I think most of bakuda bombs effects have ended and I-field is slowly dismantling itself.

    The next endbringers there isn't a prediction perse this is pre-program that did that in canon, so they roughly know they attack around 3-4 months between each attack next one is around the range for when it should attack, or soon.
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    what was the stuff that Joe said would disappear by itself agian?
     
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