While I don't want to hype anything just yet, as I fear I might end up disappointing people, I can confirm that I am writing up several documents fleshing out and detailing heh) a possible reboot of the story, along with researching stuff online. While I am still not too into stuff related to certain mediums like anime and sports, I have discovered alot since the last update I posted, and have a whole bunch of new ideas and plans for any continuation in the future.
(I just discovered that display feature today.)
Alongside the uncertainty, if I will ever manage to get this back on track, I will also confirm that there will be some retcons on the very early chapters, as I wish to redo, rewrite, and add onto them. While I won't change
everything about the first couple of chapters (1998-1999), I will say that there will be significant differences. I have also found myself checking out and reading some of the other pop culture related timelines, mostly in order to find inspiration and to enjoy experiencing other authors' creativity in writing alternate pieces of fiction. These include RySenkari's SNES-CD Trilogy and CountDVB's A Gore Prosperous Tomorrow, both of which I recommend.
I have found myself being quite inspired and excited by some of what these writers have come up with, and while I don't like saying this in fear of coming off the wrong way, I have usually found myself thinking that I might include something similar in my story. I say this because I feel like the more I find stuff from other TLs and other AH works, the more I feel like I may come off as unoriginal and relying more on ideas executed by other people, which may also come with accusations of copycating or (more seriously) plargarism. Don't get me wrong, I do have plenty of my own ideas, which I won't spoil or hint here, for the story that I don't think have been done anywhere elsewhere, but I just wish to get this out there, as I find myself thinking abput this while scrolling through my favourite pop culture TLs, and genuinely hope the timeline will produce its own uniqueness and ideas without being seen as a mishmash of several other (better) timelines into one. I think this is why I put this in the OP.
So basically, if there are elements ITTL that may be based on/feel similar to something from another TL, I will credit them. No plagiarism allowed here.
But yeah, that's pretty much it, for now. I hope to see this project come back to life sometime in the future, and I hope y'all can come join me again when that time comes, and give this 'alternate popular culture timeline' thing another shot.
- TheDetailer
