#like i still remember scenes and snippets of fic i've read just randomly sometimes

[wanderingcas]

Hello!

So I've been quietly following you for years, ever since I read The Cost of A Thing. I think though, that because I associate you with wanderingcas, I'd somehow completely forgotten that your ao3 name was quittewandering. And I don't know if I ever told you, but you wrote my favourite line, ever in any fic I've ever read.

To give you context, I've been reading destiel fic for 5+ years and I read 3 100k+ fics this week. I have read millions and millions of words by this point. And I'm lucky enough to know some truly great writers in this fandom. But I still have a file in my notes app that contains this line because I read it and it just...hit me. Changed something in me. Carved it's way into my brain.

"Dean knows his anger is too violent to be kind, his love too selfish to be good, his actions too sinful to be pure of intent. No—Dean Winchester has never deserved softness. Not according to him.

Yet here Castiel is."

(from Too Much, for those curious)

Anyway since I just finished your lighthouse fic, I was reminded of the username and thought I'd pass this little note on, to spread some joy 💛

oh my god?? hello???? i definitely recognize your username, and i remember you!! i'm happy you're around still reading fic, too <3 i'm so honored that it has a place in your brain like that - i swear i wrote that fic in some sort of muse-addled haze, i wrote it in like an hour and then posted it without even editing it. so i'm glad there's a coherent line in there hahah.

you did indeed pass on some joy, thank you for that <3 your message completely made my day!!