May 03, 2025
To:Orionless
Eh.......... it's free until it's not.
I feel like if we actually end up treating this comment section like a chatroom, someone from HoneyFeed is genuinely just going to make a limit on how much someone can comment on a particular chapter 
like how YouTube prevents replies after ~500 replies. Or better yet, limit the amount of characters that you can use in a comment (that'd be a crazy way to limit me from writing an essay each time I enter a new novel hahaha but I would kinda understand if they did)
And I do think it might be different if you were commenting somewhere else, haha. I kinda treat my novel's comment section as a place I can just sit and discuss the things in the novel, but not everyone wants that, you know? Which is fine. But I'm okay with it here (but again, I feel like HoneyFeed will eventually try to stop comment sections from turning into whatever we have accidentally created on here Or maybe in reverse, they will like it, I don't know).
I mean to be fair, when I go to manga sites like Viz, the comment sections are full of short comments but also occasional essays, and sometimes even a full on debate (people talking about Beast Gohan vs UI Goku hahahaha)
So I think this is kinda fine...? I don't know.
Still, I feel honored that you miss this novel, haha. It helps me to remember that this novel was supposed to be my thesis on death, morality, and etc. That it meant something.
I'm still unsure how other people would react to the story if they managed to read it from beginning to end, so I don't know how effective my writing actually is, but I should be glad that I got to finish it haha. If ANYTHING, I now understand the power of a single butterfly.
It's still crazy to me that this all began because you managed to read not one but two chapters of my story, haha. And then you came back after I told you I've revised the story.
It's really interesting because that was supposed to be one of the cores of this novel: a single person and a single action could change everything.
Julian Everhart was supposed to personify that. I still think he does, but it takes a little bit of awareness to realize that a great amount of the story hinges on his choices. And he doesn't even know who Atlas really is!
I think that message slightly got weakened due to the reversal near part 2 (which changed the direction of the story), but still, without Julian, Atlas would not have bought enough time for Victor to get his happy ending.
Obviously Julian doesn't hold the story together (I honestly think that role goes to a certain swordswoman if you REALLY think about it), but every small choice he made inadvertently led to the three endings at the tenth part of the story.
But yeah, you kinda did the same thing for my story. You waltzed in and left two short comments that started everything.
So nowadays, I'm a believer in the butterfly effect. I guess, to me as a "writer", that was an important takeaway.
Would you look at that, another essay caused by you mentioning "free will" and that you miss "Mr. Atlas"...
I mean, at least my essays generally deal with the story at hand
