nope; junhao [ discontinued ]

so basically...

lol hi

this is so overdue i am so sorry

(also this is going up on this fic since it is the most read fic on this account and probably will stay that way.)

so basically, i've pretty much abandoned wattpad.

this site was where i started out as a writer, an author. i joined this community on christmas 2012, when i was just 10 years old, about to turn 11 the next month.

i loved being on the site in the beginning. the stories i wrote, although shitty and about mindless behavior (give me a break, i was young at the time), made me happy. the stories i read made me happy. i enjoyed it so much. that book i wrote, though now deleted at this point, was my first book ever, and it hit 1,000 reads. i felt so much pride in that.

as time went on, i branched into other fandoms. wrote more fanfictions. i wrote for one direction, i wrote for 5sos, and then i ended up where i am now, writing for bts, and eventually, seventeen.

through this time, i grew as a writer. i learned proper paragraph breaks. i learned correct punctuation and capitalization before it all went to hell with how i currently write. i discovered what applyfics were and tried my hand at them (and failed). i wrote entertaining stories that i grew to hate over time.

this being one of them.

with some of my fics, i found validation in the read counts going up. hell, this one has over 200 thousand reads. yet, this story has taken one of the deepest declines in quality i have ever done, at least in my eyes, and for that, i am ashamed.

now for my main message behind this post, and not an actual update after keeping you waiting all this time.

i won't be updating this, or any of my fics on wattpad, anymore. i assume you may have figured that.

along with the consistent decline of quality of what i have posted on here, i don't agree with the direction of the site. i came to this website when it was six years old, and i loved the way it was: a free site where people could curate stories or read stories that others have curated, or both. i didn't have to worry about any free trials or memberships to enjoy it. now, you can't get through an update or two without watching a video ad, there's premium memberships to avoid ads, there's microtransactions, and with the new 'paid stories' feature, there are many deserving authors who don't get that opportunity, and many on the app who still don't understand the concept.

while i do understand companies change over time, none has been more drastic than the makeover wattpad has gone through.

now, while i may be 'leaving' the app, that doesn't mean i'll actually be leaving. i enjoy reading your comments. i enjoy knowing that there are people who enjoy my writing, even if i may not. it makes me immensely happy if i can make you laugh or smile, or even cause sadness, because it tells me that i am capable as an author to properly invoke emotion.

i do write on archive of our own, though. i will continue to post there as i write, hopefully putting out better content that you will enjoy more. who knows, maybe if time goes by, i'll cross-post some fics from here to my archive, only better written and edited.

just to clarify before i sign off this post:

- i'm not deleting this account.
- i'm not deleting any fics from this account that i haven't already. if any do disappear, it's because i unpublished them.
- if i unpublish a fic, it's likely to be rewritten/reedited and published on ao3.
- please, please, PLEASE do not republish/rewrite any of my works. while i am not 'active' here anymore, these are still works that i have created, no matter how much i dislike how they have turned out. if you see anyone doing this other than my ao3 (666minghao) or either of my pseuds on ao3 (chandetat/boyosbe), then please message me here or my twitter and let me know. my twitter is @kwananti.

thank you,
angelle x