Y'all, I totally jinxed myself.
I had every intention of posting the first chapter of the re-write within a few weeks of marking the original fic "finished" and making my announcement. It was edited, and checked for typos, and even though I knew I could keep tweaking it and that there were probably still typos that I had missed, the chapter was as ready as it was going to get. I even had the next few chapters finished as a buffer. I just wanted to get a little more done.
Then my cat knocked a nearly full thermos of coffee directly onto my keyboard.
At least it was a painless death.
Getting my laptop fixed, however, was far from painless. Suffice it to say, after months of waiting, five visits to the local Apple Store, multiple calls with Apple Care, and various attempts to ship my computer in for repair (because, of course, I live in the middle of effing nowhere) we finally declared that enough was enough and they gave me a brand new computer.
Thankfully, everything was backed up and I was able to get it all back. But by then, I barely had time to breathe, let alone write. Sick family members, long hours at work, onboarding a new branch, the general chaos of the holidays. Writing and posting were just the last things on my mind.
I can't promise that updates will be regular or frequent. I've lost my groove a little between all my notes being held hostage on my dead laptop and the sheer BUSY of the last few months, so updates will be more sporadic than I'd hoped. BUT I promise that they are on their way!
I have decided to post on Archive of Our Own going forward. As doesn't like URLs, I'm not able to up include a link here, but I write under the same author name, luminare91 and the new fic is posted under the same title.
As of now, the prologue and the first chapter have been posted!