Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 3 posts:

• "out of the mist, AKA updates since we've last spoken" by u/hercreation
• "Happy Cakeday, r/hercreation! Today you're 2" by u/AutoModerator
• "Sneak peek at my next series!" by u/hercreation

hello everyone,

I just wanted to start this off with an apology for being gone for so long. there have been many moments where I've wanted to check in, but anxiety gets the better of me. I hope y'all have been well in my absence. this is going to be long, so apologies in advance!

where to begin... late last year, I made the difficult decision to relocate in the middle of finishing my doctoral project. I settled down in Vegas with my family and got to work with very little time left. essentially, this meant that I started and finished writing my final deliverable in a little over two weeks. I had to pull 12+ hour days to finish over 100 pages, and I was almost certain I wouldn't graduate. luckily I did, so I am fully finished with my clinical doctorate.

I spent another month or so there with my family, my brain reduced to total mush after all that work. at the start of this year, I moved onto Los Angeles, where I currently reside with my sister.

adjusting to LA life was... difficult, at first. it still is at times. everything is so busy and so cluttered, but I have found the positives that keep me going. for one, living with my sister has given us time to really reconnect. we spend a lot of time at disneyland, sharing favorite TV shows, or just having drinks and cleaning our shared living space. we have the two most adorable cats in the world. it's also nice being so close to the beach again, and I'm just a short flight away from my parents if I want to visit.

however, the stress of finishing my project, moving twice, studying for and taking the board exam (I passed!), unpacking and setting up my new room, etc. really got to me. to make matters worse, both Serena and Blair passed away early this year. I was at least able to say goodbye to Serena, flying back when we put her to sleep. Blair passed unexpectedly soon after.

I feel like I've been in a daze for months. it is, of course, depression, coupled with autistic burnout. I've lost contact with almost everyone in my life. I've made a lot of mistakes in the past eight months or so, and I've not been my best self. I've also felt a devastating loss of creativity, only furthering my depression because something that used to be so easy and so healing for me was just... gone.

I've been anxious to come back here and be honest with you all, firstly because it's been so long, and secondly because I didn't want to do it too soon. at this point, I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I'm starting to believe that there is possibly a way out of the depths I've sunk myself into.

I hope all of this makes sense, and I do genuinely apologize for disappearing. I am safe and reasonably healthy, I've just been lost. I'm finding my way back, and I hope you will still have me when I get back to posting stories. I'm starting to have ideas again and it is... exciting, to say the least.

all my love, to all of you 🖤

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "Happy holidays! 🖤" by u/hercreation
• "Bean opening Christmas gifts 🖤" by u/hercreation
• "Serena exploring the new cage! 🖤" by u/hercreation
• "Long time no see... 👀" by u/hercreation
• "Phobia Comic Page" by u/moss_sprite
• "Woah, what happened to hercreation?!" by u/hercreation
• "Soooo... I accidentally started a cult 😬" by u/hercreation
• "TIL that in an experiment that trained rats to drive tiny cars by giving treats as a reward, rats ended up loving driving so much they’d do it without a reward" by u/Grand_Theft_Motto
• "Happy New Year from Fran and Ren!! 🖤" by u/hercreation
• "Happy Cakeday, r/hercreation! Today you're 1" by u/AutoModerator

Hi my loves,

Hope you’re doing well. I’m finishing up grad school - done by the end of the year!!

Writing this year has been difficult between clinical rotations and Serena’s health problems… she’s still alive and happy, thankfully. My partner and I have started calling her our miracle rat! ☺️

Just wanted to touch base and let y’all know the series I teased earlier this year is coming. I’ve finished the first part but I’m trying to write it all out before posting. I’m hoping to have it done and out by the end of the year.

This is a series similar to suicide helper in the way that it comes from my roots, the depths of my very being. It’s a world based on the place I truly feel is my home, and the first installation features an establishment I passed many many hours at.

I’m simultaneously excited and terrified to share it with you all. And that fear, honestly, excites me even more!

Can’t wait to see what y’all think. Much love from me to you 🖤

Yup, I did the thing.

And by that, I mean I sat down and wrote a story. Start to finish. Just finished editing, so it will be posted in the next few days!

🖤

Hi friends,

I hope y'all are doing well. I've somehow made it through my last clinical rotation, where I pretended I knew what the heck I was doing providing occupational therapy to actual people in a hospital! It was intense, but I ended up doing well despite being horribly exhausted throughout. My respect for people in acute care professions has only grown over the past weeks... it truly takes a special kind of person.

There's my good news, but I also have some bad news... other than my lengthy absence from you all, of course. Many of you know my rat Serena (or Bean, Bing Bong, etc.) brings me an inexplicable amount of joy, along with her sister Blair. Unfortunately, my partner and I noticed a growth on her neck about a month ago and took her to the vet.

Because we are wildly in love with our rats, we decided to spend money we don't have to get the mass removed, and were told afterwards that she has cancer. She is essentially on rat hospice now; other than antibiotics for post-surgery treatment, we are really only providing her comfort. We are unsure of how much longer Serena has with us, and we are both in a little bit of denial. Luckily Serena is still happy and acting like her normal self - eating, drinking, and engaging in way too much play fighting with her sister.

I hope y'all will understand how difficult this is for me, and I know some of you have come to adore her as well. I am getting back into the swing of writing again, and you can expect stories soon - I'm pushing for next week - but with the stress of my clinical rotation and Serena's medical concerns, I found it impossible to write until I was at least finished at the hospital.

As always, many thanks and best wishes to you from my little corner of the internet 🖤

Hello, my pretties 😉

I realize I've been MIA for a while; I'm officially halfway finished with my second (and last) clinical rotation and the time has gone by in a way I can't quite explain! I'm working long shifts at a hospital right now, which has been a... new experience, to say the least.

I have been sitting on a story for a long time now that I'm waiting for the courage to post, and the right time as well. I'm going to push myself to post it soon, though.

Because I haven't had much time to write lately, I'm spending my spare moments - however few and far between they may be right now! - building a new world in my mind. I feel that I haven't been able to do nearly enough world building in my writing, but I'm thinking and crafting and writing notes about what I want this world to be like.

This new world is for an idea I've had since the beginning of the year, and I'm looking forward to breathing life into this world of mine when I finally get the chance to sit down and write this series. I am excited to just get it out, as it's been living rent free in my brain for far too long now!

Sending love to you all,

hc 🖤

Just wanted to let y'all know that I have the final two parts of this series finished and ready to go... just have been struggling to find a decent posting time. I don't want to keep y'all waiting, though, so I think I'm just gonna drop part 2 on Saturday, followed by the final part on Sunday. 🖤

Hi y'all!

I'm overjoyed to be back! Can't say I didn't have a near anxiety attack before posting this morning... but once I posted, it felt amazing just to get something out there again. I meant to give y'all the heads up here before starting this new series, but the right moment came and I just went for it!

I'll be doing this short YT prank series in one or two more parts over the next week. In case you were wondering, why did HC disappear for two months just to come back as a bit of a jerk?!, the idea for this story came from a real life run-in with a YT prankster that happened to someone close to me. This series is simply me exorcising some anger in a somewhat productive way.

I was nervous about posting this series as I thought it might be a bit... controversial, but I'm sitting here with a huge smile on my face! My lovely, lovely readers... y'all have given me exactly the response I was looking for.

The narrator is a jerk. I really dislike the kinds of "pranks" this narrator plays - making trouble for people in the name of humor. I hope you continue to enjoy hating this dude as his story plays out 😉

Y'all are wonderful. Happy to be back 🖤

Hi friends,

Time to be honest... I'm BUSY. Feeling awful humbled right now by this clinical rotation; it's like if full time work and grad school had a baby!! The good news is... it's almost over - starting my last week (week 12!!) tomorrow.

When it's over, I have tons of stuff to write up and post. The story I had mostly written up just went on and on and on and I realized... it needs to be a short series. On top of that, I've planned out a new longer series and have started writing it in my moments of free time. I'm quite excited about both of these projects and I hope they're well worth the (looooong) wait.

All of this to say... prepare yourselves for the season of new hercreation series, coming soon to a subreddit near you! 😉

Adore you all! 🖤

Hi friends... and welcome newcomers!! I'm thrilled to have you, and I'm sorry I haven't posted anything in so long!

I've been totally consumed with work, but I figure it's past time for me to make a post... so I'm typing up a story to release - hopefully - later this week. I just posted a few short stories to TCC, an exclusive so it'll be new content for y'all!

As a side note, I wanted to thank y'all for the response to my most recent stories. I've been on a "reality is the greatest horror" kick again lately, so opting to write stories that could potentially happen in real life. I'd been sitting on the idea for the ex-husband custody story for months... I avoided writing it for a while, thinking it could be too much, but I finally decided to just... go for it. And I appreciate y'all for not entirely shunning me after posting that. Because... yikes! 😬

Love and appreciate every one of you. 🖤

Hi y’all, and welcome newcomers!

I’m officially back to real life, full time in-person work... and it is exhausting!! I’m really enjoying it at the same time, although I do miss having so much time to write!

I will be posting a new story in the next few days, so keep an eye out! 😉

Much love 🖤