Yes, I've been mostly out of the loop and a bit behind schedule, due to real life and whatnot. Be assured, though, I haven't forgotten or abandoned my stories. I just have to focus on certain ones for now, with limited time and such, with a view toward continuing and completing others...and eventually starting some new stuff.
Concerning the main story that I've been updating somewhat regularly of late, "Start The Revolution Without Me," I've made a point of moving toward a more plausible ending than was consistent with the series/universe that inspired it, New Order by Freddie Clegg. He has written a fascinating, if disturbing universe, but I felt it necessary to explore the more realistic kind of outcome in that unlikely situation. One thing that, while necessary to the plot behind that universe, irked me in terms of my pedantic, autistic nature, was the unrealistic passivity of the menfolk in this kind of world. With nothing to lose, there would just be no reason not to stage uprisings, to refuse to work for their oppressors, to stage general strikes, and most of all, to shut down the kinds of infrastructure without which women will always be at the mercy of men. I cannot fathom a scenario happening in reality where that wouldn't be the most probable outcome....along with embargoes, boycotts, emigration, military intervention, a suddenly red-pilled King/Prince Charles (nothing like being oppressed himself to achieve that outcome, bye-bye, simpy Charles!), secessionism (only bared headed off in this version), strikes, and a global male backlash almost certain to hurt female candidates at the polls.
In any case, any scenario where civilization is either partly or wholly in decline or collapse is almost certain to be a backward step for feminism and feminists, let alone any kind of push for matriarchy. Gynocracy is unsustainable because it is ultimately unenforceable, because in the end, no system or social order can preserve itself without a clear option for organized violence. Government is, by its very nature, coercion, compulsion, in other words, force. Anyone who imagines that any kind of form of government or state or social order can survive without defending itself through deadly force is living in a pipe dream. Also, without men actively maintaining the infrastructure, no such systems can endure for long, and they would have no incentive to preserve one that enslaves or oppresses them. That's the trouble with generalization and collective judgments, with unrealistic fantasies about some kind of reverse injustice or oppression....the so-called oppressor class isn't going to just take it lying down. It has no incentive to do so. Many men already view feminism as a breach of the social contract imposed upon them without their consent. If they balk at changing gender norms and roles within the home, putting them on curfew and making them carry passbooks in some kind of gender apartheid model will almost certainly lead to a revolution.
And not the kind that the feminists intended...not at all.