Hi! And thank you for checking out this fanfic :) This is just a brief introduction of me, this fanfic, and how it's progressed. Also some updates to correct anything I say about updates in the other author notes until I get to editing those
The Kink Life started back in April 2020 on Wattpad and very quickly grew in popularity. Within a week or two there were thousands of amazing readers like you reading, commenting, supporting, and engaging with this fanfic. The Kink Life was updated once a week on Saturdays with two chapters being released each time. They weren't always very long, but I always put my best into them and made sure to give my readers consistent updates.
I'd been a huge fan of Yarichin Bitch Club since it first came out, and during the months leading up to when I started publishing this fanfic, I was exploring a lot of ideas I had (mostly erotica) for the series. Plus I'm a major sex nerd, and I was able to use the fanfic with nonfiction bits informing y'all after, and I was so excited to see everyone loving them as well. It was so great to see that we can use storytelling (possibly even film, art, and more) to teach others while providing engaging content. But also the importance of showcasing healthy relationships, conversation around different identities (such as homosexuality, gender identity and expression, a-spec identities, non-monogamy, and more). Many readers expressed how much they enjoyed the story, were learning from it, and it was exciting to see my work impacting people. That I was teaching others something new and even inspiring them to write themselves.
In September of 2020, The Kink Life was banned on Wattpad. At the time, I didn't keep backup copies of any of my writing outside of Wattpad. Luckily, a few of my readers could still see it and were a great help. One of them typed up chapters word for word by hand and messaged them to me (there were over 60 chapters published at the time). Another sent me screenshots of chapters that I typed out later. Without their help I'm not sure I'd ever have been able to continue this work. I republished The Kink Life and made backup copies of all my other writing as well. Just in time too, as a week or so later my whole account was banned. I remade an account and reached out to everyone I could and quickly got back into my groove. That's when I decided to start to post some of my writing on Webnovel, Quotev, and Archive of Our Own.
During the summer of 2021 my writing was starting to become bland, empty, and brief. I really struggled to write and found it consuming a lot of my time. I was never really open with my readers about what was going on, but I'd entered into a fairly abusive friendship, though I didn't know it at the time. Once I managed to get out of the friendship (when I moved to my current place of residence), I began full time college, was working three and later nine jobs, and thrown into a plethora of busyness.
I am the writer some of you may know as Melancholy Sage (aka Melan). I thought it was time I introduce myself a little bit more. In real life, I go by Yash and X. I use it/he/fae pronouns and am a nonbinary transmasc. I've tried to update pronouns in the fanfic to be more gender neutral, but there's too much gendered dialogue I didn't want to cut. I got a lil critique for having some Akemi stuff with the reader when he's gay, but also PSA as a transmasc even before coming out I dated some straight women and gay men so I think it's fine. Our reader character could turn out to be not cis later in life and regardless gender is a social construct.
Other about me, I'm a sex favorable aroace (meaning I'm aromantic and asexual but still have and enjoy sex). I'm non-monogamous as well, mostly preferring solo polyamory and relationship anarchy though. I'm involved a lot in kink and the BDSM community as well as the polyamorous and LGBTQIA+ community. I've been doing sex work since 2017 and now work in adult content creation, escorting, porn performing, BDSM work, and professional cuddling and I love it. Though I wouldn't recommend anyone getting into it w/o weighing all the risks and doing as much research as possible first. I'm neurodivergent (ADHD and autism). I was raised in a cult which I escaped in 2022. I'm a polytheist/atheist, pagan. My hobbies include writing, activism, sketching, embroidery, sewing, and more. Always feel free to message me! I would love to get to know and chat with any and all of you! My door is always open, whether you have a question, request, want to chat about the fanfic or anything else.
I am making some changes and improving the fanfic as I reupload it. Reader is AFAB and might make them androgynous presenting and use they/them pronouns (considering our gay boys and for inclusivity sake) so that's one change you will be seeing, their sexual orientation is unknown since this is an all-male school so we do know they at least like men to some degree be that romantically and/or sexually. Reader-chan starts out as a transfer student in their second year of highschool, their grandfather is the chairman and due to some unfortunate circumstances they have to change to his school. Even though it's an all boys school he lets them through mainly since his word is law there.
I have plans for three volumes, though I took a hiatus into the first volume. I still have so many plans for this series though. Feel free to make requests. Warning there will be limes and lemons, trigger warning for some sexual assault content (bc your author-kun has a CNC kink) Go right ahead and suggest anything you want to see. I don't judge, I've got some interesting things myself. If you don't feel comfortable commenting it, you can message me directly and again: I don't judge, it can literally be anything. I'm pretty "open minded" if you get what I mean.
I will not have a set update date with my crazy schedule, but will be working on this series as I can.
I do not own Yarichin Bitch Club or any of the characters in it, this is purely fan made. If you haven't already, make sure to check out the manga, anime, or both. I love both very much :) I'm grateful to the author of this wonderful series!
Also I can't add photos on here, so if you need a reminder of which character is which and want to see photos of OC's I've added check out the Intro on Wattpad under my username MelancholySageIsBack
I am not updating this series on there, but that is available for reference :)