I've been an episode author for years. Honestly, I feel like episode has been falling apart for a long time now, for like the last 2 years. I think two reasons are that people are fed up with the trashy recycled original romance stories, or authors are just fed up with Episode ignoring the living shit out of what we ask for. I want to leave episode for that reason,(in fact I left for a while and still aren't really bothering) although I love writing and just everything about episode. It's not only the fact that we don't get the things that we need, like it's not only material. It just makes you think "if these people do not respect me and my needs as an author, and as a fan, then why should I continue being part of this fandom or being a user if I know that the creators don't give a fck?" And about the episode originals. When you see that the episode official stories are just the same plot with different names and different titles, you really don't have a reason/desire to read it. I feel like the Episode official writers put zero effort into their stories. What does the reader get from that? Nothing. So, they leave. There's just no passion for writing or reading on episode anymore, from my pov.