To all my friends and followers, over the past four years, I have managed to crank out at least one chapter of my "Survival of the Fittest" Pokemorph fanfic every week, and tonight we've reached the grand conclusion. Note, this is not the end. This is merely a "season finale", if you will. This has been a lot of time and effort and work, and I appreciate the chance to take a well-deserved break before beginning work on "Sophomore Year". In the meantime, however, I would like to thank each and every one of my readers for reading and commenting, and just generally enjoying my work. Additionally, MASSIVE thank yous to  skidd,  phuufy,  avencri and  upstairstudios for all the hard work they did on art that helped bring this story to life, along with quite a few other artists that contributed as well (albeit on a far less frequent basis, since none of them have been willing to break their hands drawing like poor Skidd has). "Survival of the Fittest" all started when I got my first real job and had some extra income with which to commission some artwork of my favorite Pokemon. But once I had those pictures, I didn't feel satisfied just having pictures of characters. I wanted to develop them and give them depth and personalities. And the end result is the story I hope you've all enjoyed, even though it got dark at times.

Trust me, I'm well aware of the darkness. Not to get political, because I don't really like talking politics in a forum like this (FA shouldn't have to deal with the red vs. blue divide), but about halfway through the writing of SotF, I started to have severe misgivings about some of the situations I put my characters into. This was around the time where we had Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court, and that just dredged up some stuff from my personal life (NOTHING that happened to me. This isn't a cry for help or anything like that.) Long story short, I started to feel uncomfortable, having created a world for these characters where they existed solely to suffer, often times in a sexual manner. So my solution to these feelings was to add an extra level of disconnect between myself and the story. This doesn't change anything about the story itself. That's the same regardless. But, in my headcanon, rather than "Survival of the Fittest" just being a story in our world, it instead takes place within a fictional world of my creation, where it is a television show on the Pokeverse equivalent of HBO or something. Basically, instead of Lavender Evans being captured and humiliated for human gain, an Espeon ACTRESS is playing the CHARACTER of Lavender Evans in that situation. The story is still the same, but it just helps me sleep a little better at night is all.

That's all I really have to say. I might, at some point during the downtime, post pictures of the individual characters and allow for a little Q&A with the actors/actresses, just to provide a little extra content. But yeah, for now, this is Mirasuke, signing off. Thank each and every one of you once more.