#it really does mean a lot

[shkika]

i can't get over how cool this fuckin bug is i love seeing it on my dash so much

and i know i've already done it, but GOD I JUST wanna keep giving you all my thanks 😭

i love you (platonic) and your stuff and this website so much it's astonishing how i can spit out my most random thought ever after reading "happy wiggles" and be graced with the gift of A GORGEOUS PIECE OF ART

so THANK YOU SO MUCH for your creativity and passion and for simply being yourself on this wonderful site (your bug will make for a nice addition to the collection of fictional characters in my brain)

thabk you,, here is little wee wee enjoying its wretched meal

[holocene-sims]

a sneak peek for an upcoming (timeline tbd) update 😊

[zigadoodle]

I was making something special for today but I'll have to post it tomorrow

Anyway, today is my 1 year anniversary of posting here on Tumblr! I never thought my art would get noticed as much as it has over this year. The progress is slow and steady, but I have come a long way from when I first started posting here.

I never thought I would make it to double digits with followers, so to have 50 means so much to me :)

I appreciate all of my mutuals as well, I love getting to do what I do, and it makes me happy when my mutuals like my art or leave me comments

Posting here has pushed me to continue my art and try to improve. So that maybe someday I want to join other platforms like YouTube and make animations/animatics!

So, to all my followers and my mutuals, thank you so much for all the support you have given me so far, I hope to continue to make more art for you all! <3

[hippiichi]

Skippy Update 3: Skippy is doing a lot better! I was a little worried this morning that she didn't have much of an appetite but she eventually warmed up to having more food and ate about half of an entire can of wet food!! Her appetite isn't what it was like before she got sick but shes been consistently talkative and seems interested in playing even if she has yet to actually play with any of her toys lol Overall I think as long as no major negative changes happen skippy will be back to full health by Friday!! The vet said if she eats properly for the next 4-5 days she'll be fine and won't even need to come in for a check up or anything which is great!

[thelioncourts]

I miss seeing you here and your opinions/posts.

But also I refuse to go on Twitter.

thank you for caring at all about my opinions and posts 🥺 if it means anything, I am trying to get back on here more because it truly is the only type of social media that holds the ability for proper analysis and conversation and, also, if it means anything, I'm not posting my opinions or things on twitter at all anymore, haven't in months. not only does twitter make it almost impossible to do anything in-depth because of its character limit, but the twitter fandom for iwtv is the most toxic little place of fandom I've seen in a while. and the people that are always doing "analysis" at this point are the same 10 accounts who say the exact same thing every single day in threads of 20+ tweets that end with calling you every name and awful word in the book if you disagree with them. it's wild over there and no one actually wants to talk or analyze, not really.

but I really am trying to come back on here more, but I also don't want to be incredibly negative so I'm trying to let my issues with the fandom fizzle out some before coming back. I am getting ready to do a s1-s2 rewatch and I feel like it might be a lifechanging kind of thing.

[manchesterau]

read your new fanfiction !! love it and you have a really wonderful voice with your writing! no pressure at all but i hope you end up writing more🖤

thank you so much this really means a lot to me and i doooo plan on writing more! im so glad you like it 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

[softquietsteadylove]

Thank you for all the amazing fics! I hope you're doing okay, take a break if you need it. Don't overwhelm yourself with the requests, okay?

Oh, this is so sweet! ❤️🦜

Honestly, I don't have that many, and I hope to have more in the future! I'm just having a bit of a rough patch with my anxieties. But thank you for reaching out, sweetheart. This is so encouraging!

[starrycrim]

Your art is fantastic, how do you make it? What kinda software?

thank you anon!! 🥺 it means a lot to me

i draw on my iPad- mix of procreate and ibis paint. csp’s great though, if you’re looking for recommendations! :>

[stellamancer]

this probably sounds really silly but i love infinite loop sm i bought cherry and cream puff sonny angels and fully consider them to be gojo merch

aw noooo! that doesn't sound silly at all!! i had to look up what sonny angels were but that's just!! so cute!!! to think you love infinite loop verse that much.... T_T it makes me so happy!!

weeps, thank you anon, you've made my whole afternoon with this little ask!!! i hope you have a wonderful rest of the week!! T_T

[ensnapemysenses]

Hiii sorry for bothering, do you still take requests for young!Snape x reader? 👀

I'm literally in love with your writing, I've read some of your fics through google, and then the app just closed 😭 now I've found you here 🥹 going to reread all of your Snape works lmao

Thank you so much for the love on my fics! It truly means so much to me! I still can’t believe people like to read my silly little stories! 💕🥰

I am still taking Snape requests so send them on over if you have anything more specific to add! I have been really busy lately so my inbox is a little backed up but I should have more free time to write soon so I’m going to be working on them!

[theroundbartable]

Hi! I hope you're doing well! I've been wanting to write to you for ages because I've been reading and rereading and rerereading you and I think your writing is brilliant. Sorry, I'm going to be a bit personal because I can't imagine not being personal here, I find it difficult to express how much your writing touched me otherwise. But you can jump into the last paragraph directly if you don't want to interact with that, because awkard. Very randomly, I came across your work in a very strange time in my life earlier this year when my brain decided to echo something I didn't know was there, but that's not what's important here. What I want to say is: everything you wrote resonated that much deeper. I'm thinking especially about Everything I Do and The Regent (experience is experience and everyone is different and I don't want to make it about me, but thanks to those two fics especially I've been able to put into words things I've been feeling for years and I could use that to describe what was happening without feeling as lost, like if it exists in a story, it's not just me anymore, there is a sense to it, it's real too). BUT also, as someone who appreciates good writing, oh my god it's brilliant. Both the Regent and Everything I Do (still the ones I read the most) felt like a maze and everyting still made sense and all the characters were brilliant and fitted together and each time a revelation happened it was like "oh of course!" and everything falls into place. As I reread them I just find new details and puzzle pieces and it's a joy. I feel you make it so easy to understand what your characters are feeling and why they do what they do without overexplaining, excusing or killing the mystery. It's that extremely human mess, people not yet able to know why they do what they do, that is so difficult to write, I find. Like how things just happen but it makes sense if you think about it but also it doesn't have to as long as you trust it makes sense to the character, and I definitely trust your characters. So yeah. Thank you. Danke. I don't really ever post or anything, I'm just here to read but it felt selfish here not to say anything. I hope you have a lovely evening!

Don't be sorry, gosh this warms my heart, you have no idea. :)

Everything I do and Regent are both stories that are deeply personal to me. They both helped me get through some things and explain things to myself. So a part of that mess is literally me, being that mess myself and figuring stuff out. And I wrote them because I hoped to reach some people who struggle with similar things.

I just... Every time I post something, it is my wish that it makes someone laugh, makes someone think or feel. And I hope to help people understand. Either themselves or perhaps some other broader concept. It's rarely the stories I hold dear most that seem to reach that goal. It gives me purpose in a way.

To see that those two, the ones that I may as well have ripped right from my soul, reach you in this way moves me immensely. i really hope you're alright. I know the echo. It can be tough. (The analogy is spot on, not gonna lie.)

You're not selfish, no matter whether or not you had told me this. Thank you that you did. It means so much to me to know this.<3

[dogwise]

I know you put a lot of energy and effort in to your job. That's fucking awful and I hope something amazing, that appreciates you as a worker comes your way soon

Thank you so so much, that really truly means a lot to me right now!!! feels real bad now but so grateful for the good wishes!! hopeful something better will come along ❤️❤️❤️

[linklethehistorian]

💖🎉 Okay, I want to give a real answer as well cause you deserve all the praise in the world.💖It goes without saying that I appreciate you as a person and love your amazing personality. I treasure you more than anything, and love everything you make. You put so much passion, love, dedication, and time into everything I've seen you make and it's something I've always admired about you. You genuinely love and care about BSD and every other fandom you are in more than anyone else I've seen.

Ask continued below the cut, with images and an image ID transcript, followed by a response.

[Image ID: 3 additional asks submitted by OP, truedge, that read the following:

You're an amazing artist and a brilliant writer. You’ve always put so much detail into everything you write, leaving nothing unsaid. You make it so easy to imagine exactly what is happening in your fics and articles. I can just close my eyes and I'm there. Your art is always a joy to look at every time you show it to me and I treasure the drawings you have made for me in the past. It's amazing how fast you can draw things and still have them come out really good.

I check your blog everyday to see if you've got any new posts to share with us and always get excited to see something new. I'm so proud of what you have and are continuing to accomplish and I couldn't be happier for you. I'm sure in the future you'll have many times as many followers as you do now and you deserve every- one one of them. It truly is rare to find someone with your level of passion, and I love and appreciate it so much ❤️ Thank you for everything you do here, for helping more people know just how badly Bones screwed Arthur, for getting me into BSD, for all the amazing posts and most importantly for being such a loving and caring person who means the world to me. I wish you the best, sweetheart, and hope this blog will only continue to grow so more people can appreciate all your hard work ❤️

Okay, so this is an exceedingly late response lmao (as many other asks I will answer here will be, as I finally attempt to empty out my inbox), but seriously, thank you for these asks. 

I’ve been letting these sit in my inbox for a very long time for a couple of reasons, but the major one being largely that I didn’t want to half-ass my reply to it by trying to rush it out quickly. As with all of the asks of this nature, I wanted to make my time with it and show my appreciation back to the person who would send such a lovely and thoughtful message, and given how much longer this one was compared to the average, I thought it deserved equally as great of a reaction.

So…thank you so incredibly much for your words. I’ve read them many times now, over the months that this has been sitting in my inbox, and they still make me smile every time.

As I’m sure you know and thus probably goes without saying, your constant support, in particular, has always been a major joy in my life, and a great source of inspiration that has often served to help keep me going, even when I doubted myself and my ability to reach others with my content heavily. I can very safely say that without you and a very select few other people in my life up until this point, I probably would not have been able to make it as far as I have.

When my now ex-fiancé was making my life particularly difficult or stressful, you would always be there to pick me up when I was down and remind me of how much better I deserved than to deal with all of his gaslighting, neglect, and manipulative bullshit. You made me believe in myself as a person and, in doing so, slowly rebuilt the broken, self-depreciating and skeptical individual that I had become into someone who could actually feel like I had worth and value all my own.

Like you say, you’ve always read all of my posts and watched out for my new content eagerly like it really meant something to you on a personal level, and wasn’t just a thing you were doing to appease me or make me feel better about myself. Maybe it’s just because of my past with my ex where I practically had to beg him and shove things in his face to get him to even have any interest in any aspect of my daily life and even then got clearly disinterested responses, but I’ve never really liked it that much when someone participates in pity-engagement with my works; like, don’t get me wrong — I appreciate all the love and support that people give me equally, but there’s just something that feels so hollow about a person doing surface-level engagement and making empty compliments and comment over something they don’t even really like or care about on any level just to make someone feel like they care and are interested in their daily lives and interests. Even if there are good intentions behind it, it still just feels so performative and fake… That’s why I appreciate you and your engagement with my works so much; I can feel how invested you’ve become in me and the things I write and draw and say, whenever you respond to something, and it makes me so happy. You may not be the only person in my life to do this, but you are one of my very biggest and most passionate supporters and I don’t know what I’d do without that.

Realistically, I don’t know what the future has in store for me at the moment in regards to all of this — if my blog will shrink or grow over time, if I’ll become more or less popular and respected within the BSD fandom, or what all I’ll accomplish within the coming year; right now, in the current state of mind that I’m in, it can be hard to even see past this very moment or have a particularly bright outlook about anything, but what I do know and have faith in is that there is going to be this coming year and that whatever it brings, I’ll be doing my best at every moment to be here and to hold the people I care for as close and as tightly as I humanly can.

I know that I am incredibly lucky to know and have someone who is so kind, so gentle, and so sweet as you, who supports me and leaves me such lovely things and messages, who shares in so many of my passions and who always tries his very best to be a source of goodness in my life. 

There are many more things I could potentially say, but I don’t want this to drag on for 500,000 more words and become the longest post on my blog, so for now let me just say, thank you.

You mean the world to me.

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[serpentine-sweetheart]

i promise you make more of a difference than you realize

thanks bun <3

[thesuperduckling24]

is the :3 helping you feel better ducky? you doin ok?

i am doing alright!

[chunghasgirlfriend]

text your friends guys !!

ngl i have this friend that i had a complicated thing with, not directly but through my other friends. long story short, he had a thing with my two friends when we were in high school and in the end, they stopped talking to him and slowly i did too. not that he did anything to me, just that i didn't want my two friends to feel bad and i've learned to NOT do that. he didn't do anything to me, so i'm a little sad about that i pushed him away without saying anything.

we both graduated high school this year, so i had talked to him all throughout that and even learned that he now drives, lives in the area of our uni now, and has a girlfriend now. we exchanged phone numbers and just decided that if we wanted to hang out we could, or at least know someone from our county

but anyways i recconnected with him when he wished me happy birthday and we started talking again. it was actually super cool to talk again. we're both going to the same uni and we were were just talking about it, like schedules and stuff. and it just so nice to have a friend again.

i pushed everyone away because i just didn't feel like talking to any of my friends. even prior to the situation with him and my friends, I just slowly stopped talking to my friends and stopped making new ones at school because i was just tired. I mean the people i was around were people I knew since middle school and I was just tired of seeing them. i didn't want to call my friends nor did i want to text them.

so reconnecting with my friend was really nice. when I went to my orientation, and i met the girl who I now currently have a crush on (see my other posts lol), I told him about her and he even started to cheer me on.

Like imagine me, this is a dude I've been friends with since 7th grade. He's seen all messy sides of me and how I've changed throughout the years, and TRUST ME, how much I say change. From my interests to how I act to my sexuality, he's seen it all. And me to him also. I guess it's just I'm so glad that I have a genuine friend that I can rely on and just talk to. I'm a lesbian and he's a straight taken guy, so it's not like we're interested in each other. Which is kinda new to me bc I've had mostly female friends and most of them I was kinda into or at least willing to date, so it's nice to have a friend that I'm genuinely not into to confide in.

And it was his birthday and since I was still awake at 12 am, I decided to text him happy birthday like he did to me and it was nice. I updated him about me and girl I like (we're getting lunch with our familes together when we move in together !!!) and he updated me on spending time with his gf and buying furniture. Like dude, we're actually becoming adults !!! how crazy is that ????

this was someone I used to just talk about anime and drawing with at 12/13, what the hell do you mean I'm getting to talk to him about moving into college and him buying furniture for a house ????

it's just...I feel really happy now. I have cute girl I like who I also just really enjoy as my friend. She's just as delusional as I am in all the right ways and she's also lgbtq+. And now I also have a dependable friend that I can count on to hang out with. I'm a little scared to leave for college, but I'm also incredibly excited. My life is finally looking up after the pandemic basically decimated my high school experience.

Make sure to text your friends guys. If you're like me, too cynical + too self aware, and think everything you do is cringey, trust me, your real friends won't give a shit. Just talk to them, if nothing else, it's nice to talk with someone else and just catch up. Our lives are always going in different trajectories, but if we have company beside us, it makes life a little less intimidating.

I've definitely been caught up in relationships that make me ignore the importance of friends and I've always been someone to emphasize friendships, but I've never taken my own advice. But now, I feel it more than ever. Relationships are great, but don't just throw away important friendships, especially when you're two friends trying to figure out adult life with.