#Thank you note

[grinnames]

HOW THE HECK DID THIS HAPPEN AND WHY ARE YOU ALL HERE

200+ followers.

We are over 200 followers strong already folks.

What do I even say?! Well I gotta say something, because it's been over a month since I hit this milestone, and I finally got all other ideas finished.

SO! Let's start with saying that I am incredibly and forever grateful and lucky that this has happened to me and that I get to do this online and that so many people enjoy my work. I've always been an outsider looking in, always the spectator, and never the performer. For so long, I have dreamed of finally being the person on the other side of the screen, making countless people smile and maybe even brighten up their day just a little bit. It feels like I've only just started making content on Tumblr SINCE LAST AUGUST, and I'm already having to write grandiose thank-you letters!

On a more serious note, I had been going through a rough time for the past few months, just a little after I started Tumblr. I had just transferred to a new school, and have had to leave all my friends behind for a second time. The transition period was hard, and I had never felt so lonely in a long while, but coming back online to see you interacting with my blog always brightened up my day. I've come to learn and accept that sometimes, online communities can be just as good as in-person communities, though it did take some getting used to!

Speaking of grandiose thank-you letters, let's get on to acknowledging some VIPs!

First, thank you everyone that has decided to hit the follow button, and for giving me a chance! It really feels validating, and motivated to continue working on and posting my story!

Also, I would like to thank God for gifting me with artistic talent and the drive to hone it at the tender age of five. He's given me so many opportunities to practice my craft, and He continues to give me more chances to use my gift for the happiness of others, and for myself. Without Him, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

@novajuniper! You know who you are to me. So I'm just here to remind everyone what you did. YOU ARE MY BEST FRIEND IRL AND YOU ENCOURAGED ME TO START TUMBLR IN THE FIRST PLACE! You were also one of my first and only fans of my art for a very very long time. Everyone, let's give it up for the OG!!

@oppsiedoo! YOU. You were one of my first fans that gave me FANART! The first Godbox AU fanart came from you, and the first Grinnames fanart came from you! And then you kept giving me more! I'm honestly sometimes a little concerned with the amount of fanart you do for me and my work. Surely you have other creators you look up to?! But thanks for giving me that much support since the beginning when I was small! I felt so validated and seen!

@bow-and-aro-child and @smgx-pez! I always remember you because you were some of the first people to notice Godbox AU! Though we don't interact much, I very much appreciate that you stuck around! You two often appear as my top-fans on my Activities page!

Also @smgx-pez you were also one of my first reblogs. It was the one where you compared Rewrite Sonic to Godbox SMG4, and my stomach kinda dropped in a nervous but excited way! That thread where you found out I actually was inspired by Rewrite is something I will never forget because that's how I discovered that Tumblr was chill like that! Thanks for representing Tumblr!

@hexsie! You were also one of my first reblogs! I was so young and inexperienced on this platform and some stranger (you) sends me some OOC drawing of your OC hugging my boys... I have to admit I was very flattered but so stunned that I didn't know how to respond. Well, now here's the response! I now think that this interaction was hilarious! Thank you for being my introduction into the SMG4 community! Looking forward to that Hexsie lore!

(It's always been the Hug Saga, hasn't it...? From the very beginning...)

@smg6-the-memer! My first asker! You probably submitted the most asks to my ask box as well! That's how I remember you! I had actually not intended to start asks at the time, but the askbox was open by default, so I just went along with it because I HAD ALWAYS WANTED AN ASKBLOG. So thank you for being the push!

@supern0vashii! The infamous Starter of the Hug Saga! Also currently the Ender of the Hug Saga! (for now) We've come full circle! Honestly, Hug Saga was fun, and it's all thanks to you reaching out to me! You also started the Godboxified OC trend with SMG6... you really be out there trailblazing! I've always enjoyed redesigning my OCs to fit AUs... so to have people doing the same for MY AU?! IT FEELS SO AMAZING! Thank you!

@bear-boi-5! My first mutual that isn't @novajuniper! (she doesn't count because I met her IRL before tumblr) When you followed me back you have no idea how shocked and excited I was. I'm not really interested in the fandoms you draw for now, I mostly followed you for your amazing SMG4 au art (Monster Containment AU is my favorite! It's what got me to follow you!) but I'm sticking around because of the sentiment and I also like your vibes!

@michaelscorneroftheinternet! Holy hell. You are one of the creators that I really look up to! Your art-style is just so yummy! So I kind of, may have, freaked out when you joined the Godboxified OC trend AND followed me back! ON TOP OF THAT, YOU SAID I'M ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE CREATORS TOO?! I nearly died from all the happiness rushing up to my head! Not to mention, I really love your energy whenever you reblog stuff! It's rather infectious! Keep up the good work!

@libbytwq! I also look up to you! We may not have interacted much, but I am honored that you follow me back! I really enjoy watching SMGL:e's silly little adventures and interactions with other OCs! So much so that I was inspired by you to later publish some lore about my own OC Grinnames herself! I'm looking forward to some more delicious lore-drops in the future!

@purpdrawsthings! You are probably one of the the NICEST most BUBBLY people I have met on this platform! I just like watching you be nice to people and the fanart you make of other creators' AUs! Not to mention your own AUs are mighty interesting... I want to be as nice as you when I interact with other blogs! Also MY SONA BECAME AN ANIMATION IN YOUR CHRISTMAS VIDEO, SHE'S GOING PLACES THANKS TO YOU!

@bstroobery! specifically @bluestrawberrybunny, Apprenticeship AU is actually one of the first SMG4 fanfics I decided to sit down, lock in, and read through. And over time, your OCs SMG5 and SMG6 really grew on me! I also liked that you were open to AU interactions in your askbox, and crossovers have always been my sort of thing, so I decided that your askbox would be the first I would interact with! Thank you for being so chill with me!

@clowntrickery08! My latest mutual! Dude I really like your artstyle, and its super easy to tell that its you! The way you draw characters is really charming! So I can say for certain that I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN YOU DREW MY BOYS IN YOUR STYLE. Also I really like your sona's design! Also, your concept for SMGPuzzles and SMGWren is SO COOL that I am gonna play around with it sometimes!

@itz-miss-kamilyvision! My god, your OC has a whole-ahh saga in Godbox AU. You having your OC have so many interactions with my boys was so much fun to watch! Thank you doing all that, I always love making characters interact and you gave me just that over and over again! I also like seeing your OCs lore, and the other interactions you have with other creators!

@alan-william! The one who turned ME into a gacha character AND animated me! But what I appreciated the most is how you made my sona interact with yours and also Micheal's. That is the closest thing to real human interaction to me on this platform, and something that I've enjoyed the most here is finding community, and I really feel connected with you!

@birdy-four! We haven't interacted that much, but to this day, that giant reblog of Godbox AU Chapter 0 with you word-vomiting everywhere about my fanfic is my favorite reblog of all time! I sometimes go back and read it again because while most people see my art, they don't really get to see my writing, and I've never gotten feedback like this before!

@smg33exe! And last but not least, the one that put my boy Godbox!SMG4 in a gacha video! BECAUSE OF YOU I MADE IT ONTO YOUTUBE! Thank you for throwing my creation out there on the web, and for creating a video that I sometimes come back to just to marvel at what I've become!

As for the rest of you... I have planned something that everyone can partake in! Stay tuned, I just need to finish preparing it...

[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...

[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]

....

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!

[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.

[colinodonoghuebrasil]

#COLINPEDIA | THANK YOU!

We just want to thank everyone who is interacting with #COLINPEDIA's posts and reposting it here, on Twitter, Bluesky and (especially) Instagram!

In particular, we want to thank @killian-whump. Your tags under the posts are an absolute highlight (!) and we really appreciate your support. Truly!

All those hours trying to find new information are worth it when we see this kind of reaction and reception! So, from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU ALL!

EXTRA NOTE: about HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, we've tried to contact RTE and they keep transferring us from one e-mail to another, but no one has yet given us any useful feedback. I'm sorry!

[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! 🎉

[nationaldaysbydigitalhygge]

December 26: 

Boxing Day

National Candy Cane Day

National Homeowners Day

National Thank You Note Day

National Whiners Day

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

What a wonderful, surprise! Thank you, @why-birds !

[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.