#Thank you note

[ruburee]

I'm super stoked to be posting my 'Two Sides Zine' Vo.2 submission after my thank you note piece! If you love cooking and Kingdom hearts then you are in LUCK! Because this zine is just THAT. I was in charge or illustrating 100 acres Woods character x Sokai. If you are still interested in grabbing your own last minute goods or cookbook zine :

[eluxurex]

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Let me be honest. I never actually thought I would reach past 50 followers much less a freaking 100. I guess this is somewhat early Christmas gift that has been bestowed unto me by you guys. Thank you, seriously.

Man, I thought I was freaking dreaming when I say the number today. It felt like a fever dream, me, an idiot that started properly posting during the summer holiday this year getting 100 followers like what, 3 months later?

I don't even have much to say about this. I thought that Tumblr would just be one of the many sites I have stumbled across on, get excited about, then leave. Apparently, this is not the case, as I'm still here and my account birthday is somewhere in December/January.

You all the best. All of you. My mutuals, the people that always passed by to drop likes,the guys that I have followed(regardless of whether we're mutuals),literally everyone that I have liked a good number of their posts. I literally wouldn't have bothered to try this hard if not for all of you.

Thank you ;)

(Damn, my exams are coming on like 2-3 weeks. I'm fucked)

[sanzosin]

Just wanted to say Thank You to all my commissioners! Thanks to your generousity, Louis got his special foods and a vet visit today. (we had a little stomack episode last night) Vet cleared him to be "as good as 16+ year old granpapi can be"

Battle called life continues!

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

In 2021, when I heard of President Biden's dog, Champ, passing, I drew and foiled a portrait and mailed it to him.

A month or so later, I got a thank you note from the White House!

I wonder sometimes if it's hung up somewhere...

[wisteria-lodge]

Just wanted to say I absolutely love your HP analyses and your stance on it as a whole. I used to be way more active on here, but the past couple of years were kind hard and I phased out of SHC and the like, but I kept on following your work and it makes me feel *less bad* for still having some leftover love for HP and what it means for me, even though I myself am trans lol. Keep it up! It’s greatly appreciated!

Thank you. This note just means so much to me. I try to keep my blog a good fun chill place, both for me and for other people, so I'm glad it did help.

So many of the takes I hear about HP are either 'It sucks and it always sucked' or 'death of the author! just focus on your favorite bits and play around with those,' and honestly I don't find either of those stances especially interesting or useful.

I guess if I have guiding principals behind the HP meta I write, the first one would be - fan love and common fan interpretations didn't come out of nowhere. Millions of people are not hallucinating the same thing, they are seeing something in the books/movies. (Even if it wasn't intentionally put there by JKR). I want to see if I can drag it out.

The second one is I don't want to be counterfactual. In my fanfiction I can veer off in any direction, but when I write *meta* - JKR makes some very odd creative choices, and my challenge is always going to be trying figure out why she wrote it *that way,* more than 'wouldn't it be better if she did xyz?' Recently, it's felt really good to try to make sense of JKR as a person. It makes her easier to process, and deal with.

[petit-papillion]

Thank you, Charles, for sharing your grandiose surfing skills with us. For allowing us to witness your wide variety of facial expressions. For not being embarrassed to show the whole world your ability to surf sideways and upside down. Grazie mille, Charles. What a joy to have you in my life.

[yes-i-am-happyaspie]

I’m officially logged out of the @sicktember blog and no longer serving as an admin.

It feels-- nice, relieving, and admittedly a bit sad.

Working with @obsessionoftheday to create and co-run this event was a true pleasure. Narrowing down the prompt lists together was my favorite part. I loved ensuring we had prompts that catered to all kinds of fandoms. Answering prompt clarification questions and suggesting creative ways to interpret the prompts was a huge highlight for me. Watching the collection numbers grow and reading all the tags on the various Sicktember posts will be things I miss deeply.

What I won't miss is the hectic scramble that follows the prompt selection process—the mad dash to double-check our choices to ensure none of the prompts are too similar to one another, comparing the new list with past ones to avoid repeats, and quickly updating the graphic for posting by the promised date. We may have stumbled a bit with the text prompts matching the graphic this year, but we made it work despite our busy lives. I consider that a win!

I also won’t miss the guilt that came from not checking the inbox often enough, not responding to asks quickly enough, or failing to meet everyone’s expectations.

And I certainly will not miss, the occasional negative, passive-aggressive, and downright angry interactions we've been subjected to over the years. Those were especially hard because my General Anxiety Disorder makes confrontations like those, particularly distressing. But if running this event has taught me anything, it's how to prioritize my mental health by minimizing conversations with difficult individuals. Even if there is so much I want to say! Knowing when to back off is a skill I can admit took me longer to learn than I’d like.

All of that being said, creating and co-managing Sicktember has been an incredible learning experience that connected me with a amazing community of writers. It has inspired my own writing and sparked so many creative ideas.

If my life weren't so chaotic, stressful, and overwhelmingly busy, I would have loved to continue moderating the event. However, I have complete faith that @itsmechara426 will guide Sicktember in a positive direction.

Thanks to all of my followers and mutuals for your abundant support! I can't wait for next years event. Participating solely as a creator and not a curator will be a brand-new experience!

[iloveyou-writers]

I just wanted to hop in and say thank you.

I found this blog when I was at the lowest of my low, creativity wise. Hadn't written in years, thought that maybe I never would again. Your posts kept that little spark alive.

I went to therapy. I became more patient with myself. More forgiving.

I revived an imagines blog with a friend. Started writing little prompts.

And today, after many years of barely writing anything, definitely nothing original, I wrote the prologue to a story I've had brainstorming for years. It's a small step, but it's also a gigantic step. I've been afraid to write, because I've been afraid I won't be as good as I used to be, because I've been afraid of the commitment and my "track record" for the last handful of years, because I'm a perfectionist and I suck at planning and because I've been afraid of "wasting my time."

I had fun, today, writing those 2k words. It felt like coming back home.

And you are the anchor that kept me from giving up. Your posts always fanned that ember, your posts always kicked that stubborn part of myself awake. Your posts reminded me of how I'm not alone, and that everyone goes through slumps, and that they - I - am still worth it. My work is still worth it.

I feel like this project is doable now. Like any project I want to start CAN happen.

I swore that when I finally wrote something again, and felt that motivation and want to KEEP writing, when I felt that spring come back alive, that I'd let you know that you were a major floatie that kept my head above the water.

So thank you. Thank you thank you thank you.

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

I can't express how much I needed to hear this and how much I appreciate you taking the time to write not only such a detailed but heartfelt message about this.

Sometimes it can be difficult for me, being someone who is also experiencing a slump in my creativity for a long time. The ideas a flowing but words are not. Hearing that I helped someone else get out of theirs is... god, I feel more relief and joy receiving this than I ever have being the one brought back into writing. :)

I'm so glad I could inspire you and keep your fire alive. That's the entire ENTIRE dream for this blog... so I'm so glad it worked for you. Please never give up, and thank you again for sending this.

You made my entire last year <3

Keep up the amazing work.

Please update me as you go. :)

[moontikore]

Forgot to post it here BUT:

✨Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart!✨

We will be posting all the rewards within the next weeks! And we also have 3 special streams to plan for the near future! Can't wait to see you all there! 🎉

[bindupthesebrokenbones]

Today's Thankful Thursday exercise is to write a letter of gratitude. You don't have to send it if you don't want to - you don't even have to address it to a single person, or a real person.

For example, I regularly write letters to an angel, who I tell about all the things that are going on in my life. It's not quite prayer, and there's no structure to it, but having a solid entity that I address helps a lot with getting out the thoughts.

So, let's get started!

Step 1: Identify your target

As you may know, all letters start with a salutation. If you're writing your gratitude letter to a specific person, you would write "Dear Aunt Sally," for example, or "Dear mom". If you would prefer to write your letter to an entity, you can try "Dear God," or "Dear Frodo Baggins," or any other being of religious, cultural, or fandom/hobby significance to you.

You can also go with "Dear Diary," or "Dear Journal," if you'd like to keep this letter in your private journal. The idea here is to have a target that you're addressing, whether you intend to pass this letter along or not.

Step 2: Determine your format

If you're writing this letter to a specific person, then the format of your letter is going to center on what you're grateful to that person for.

"Dear mom,

Thank you for always being there for me. I'm so grateful for the way that you have my back in difficult situations, and how you stand up for me when I struggle to hold my own."

If you're writing in more of a diary/journal format, the letter will look a little different. It will be more general and broad, rather than focusing on a single person.

"Dear Diary,

I'm thankful for the bright sun today. The good weather made it easy for me to go out and spend some time with my friends at the park. I had a lot of fun that I might have skipped if it had been cloudy or raining."

And if you're addressing your letter to an entity, a higher being that you don't necessarily interact with one on one, or even a fictional character, you could pick either of these formats, or combine them.

"Dear Mr. Baggins,

Thank you for being the sort of character that I can admire and draw inspiration from. Today I went out with some of my friends, and while we didn't go on a long journey across the continent to save the world, we still had a lot of fun, and being so familiar with your story made me appreciate what I get to have and experience even more."

Just remember, a gratitude letter is different from a gratitude log - you don't have to write the letter like a list of things you're grateful for. Just talk about things that went well, that you appreciate, and that you want to call attention to as being positive.

Step 3: Write the Letter

Now that you've decided who you're writing to and how you're addressing them, all that's left is to write the letter. Try to narrow the focus in to a single incident or event if you can. Even if you're writing to someone and you feel that you have a lot to thank them for, or that your thanks are long overdue, you don't want to go on too much of a tangent - that way lies choppy waters. My recommendation is to write 1-2 pages. Less than that and you're not getting the full benefit of the exercise, and more than that and you might get overwhelmed or stress yourself out.

You can do this! And I'll see you all tomorrow for Finance Friday~

[vivsemporium]

One of Chocobos sold today! So as always, it is packed with recycled packaging from previous orders and a cute illustration and thank you letter 🥰

And yes of course i wrote WEH and WOHEEHO on all sides of the box

[the-anxious-artiste]

I have recently realized that with exhaustion comes inexorable rumination. My soul is deeply intertwined in a battle of endurance against the parasitic shadows in my mind. When I run myself thin, it gets nigh impossible to fight the fear, anxiety, and pain of my past as well as an ill-perceived future. The majority of my daily energy is directed into sustaining my sanity against this fleet of inner demons. This leads to many seemingly unending, sleepless nights as my thoughts flush themselves into the deepest depths of its sewage. Leaving me to pray I stay afloat in the rapids... forced to take a single deep breath before inevitably being pulled under... perpetually hoping to resurface before I lose my vision.

So anyway... All this came about when my QP offered to read to me when I could not find rest, and managed to lull me to sleep with her dulcet voice in a matter of minutes. I wanted to express that there is nothing sincere enough for me to stutter from my heart to serve as an accurate reflection my deepest appreciation. How is one supposed to encapsulate that much gratitude into a simple set of wordage?

I suppose the best place for me to start would be a simple "thank you."

I appreciate you, love.

[wisteria-lodge]

I am feeling so physically unwell it is almost making me throw up but your latest response to my question had such tremendous spiritual power behind it that I laughed. Also I turned it into a meme based on how I heard it in my mind:

Also thanks, I will.

This made me laugh. Happy to help :D

[scamanderishredmayniac]

Just a little update, so a few days ago maybe a week or so ago, I asked for clips of an interview with Eddie and Warwick Davis. A friend of mine managed to get a clip of it sent to me, so it’s all good. A very big thanks to EVERYONE who tried sharing links, offered to send documentary via email etc. I really appreciate everyone’s help and offers. It’s ok though, I managed to see it eventually. It’s a shame that the videos on YouTube are not viewable to UK viewers, seems stupid since it was filmed in the bloody UK!! So silly. Anyway, all is well now. I’m happy.

[dreaminmetaphors]

DC Memory

I miss the vibe back in DC: Take the mask off & get seen. Go 'head, get experimental, Trade thoughts? take mine, it's a rental. We know it ain't good yet: new shit, But everybody cheers at wtf you said? Droopy come by reppin' streeet cleaners Dwayne B's pop u nation, getting meaner (Teaism bento box? prevents me getting leaner) Randall shouts us out, bringing down a "slam God" Del be tellin' y'all: love IS the wet spot. Sonya Renee is Thick with it, jumping to the top. Renegade'll hit your heart, with a haiku. Gotta know you ain't special--Chris August tellin' you. Now Twain's got a confession? Yeah, one or two... Any given night you could stumble out catch that open mic or a Slam bout, quality could vary--but trending high. I started out as okay, but not that guy. But they push you; I mean that in a good way, Hear stuff that flips your mind like a pancake. Advice is given free once you clear the cover charge (and buy a little sumthin, show venue love at the bar). We're mostly broke but still leave a good tip. Feel naked on the mic, raw poem: that's a strip. Feedback is honest. Makes you better, not a rip. & leave with a girl I just met? Now that's a trip. Community of poets is a rising tide. Everybody getting better is No Surprise. Feel it deep, some nights. It's okay to cry. Then 1 night: All 10s? Oh shit. I am that guy.

[toulousifer]

I have a teacher that I walk bye everyday, and every time she sees me, she says "Hey (name)!" and I don't think she knows how much that means to me. Taking just that much effort to remember somebody can make that someones day so much better, better than you could ever know. It makes somebody feel special, like someone that deserves love.