It's been a drawn-out and complicated decision, but I've decided it's best to stop writing "Immune to the Stuff". It's finally been brought to my attention too many times that it appeals to too specific a readership in this particular fandom, and very, very few are reading it. If it were a less complex tale, I could bring it to a quick (if not particularly satisfying) close, but since it *is* rife with different considerations, all of which I would need to balance and fulfill--I already had ideas in that direction, but they were spawning more ideas--it would take a very long time further to conclude it, and while I'm certainly not too proud to write for a small readership, I am too tired to deal with the knowledge of the few readers left who fall away, every time there is a delay due to my hands or my brain (neurochemical imbalance I won't go into, usually not that big a deal, but it is for something like this) not working well enough, to aggravate their condition by forcing it. Not only that, it's been pointed out more than once that when a very long episodic fic starts out, it has a large readership because things are fairly simple; when the story gets long and complex, people do fall away. As things stand, I have no way to tell that anyone but BflyW and stylistixs are reading it at all, and must assume it's gone out of the mainstream that this fandom prefers. (I've been in many fandoms, and they all had mainstreams, some of them several.)
So I'd like to thank BflyW one more time for the absolutely lovely banner she created, and also stykistixs aka several other aliases (she'll be posting this if all my technical screwups are still alive and kicking, so she can pick the one she likes best :-) for posting the segments for me when my lj cutter died; also to the two sympathetic notes I got when that happened, letting me know I wasn't the only one suffering that particular malfunction.
Good luck in your future endeavors, everyone. Long live N&G!
With thanks,
Meisaal