#not that it isn't obvious that Helios is James right off the gate

[calamitoustide]

My memory is pretty bad and causes me some anxiety iver what did and didn't actually happen, and I remember when you first started talking about Dear Reader on here and how Helios was James, so when people started thinking it was Remus or Peter or what have you in the comments I fucking spiraled over whether those old posts I was sure of having seen had axually existed or not

I am wracking my brain trying to think of what post you might've been talking about. I know as soon as I started posting Dear Reaader in Jan 2023 I didn't say a single word about who Helios was because I wanted to fuck with people it was fun :/ but I think maybe I might've made a post back in Nov 2022 when I first came up with the idea. It would've been just me saying James runs an advice blog. So I'm not saying it's impossible my memory is just also hazy from that time. If I didn't have a TikTok from back in November about Dear Reader I wouldn't have thought I came up with it then 😭

But I'm gonna say you're right about me posting about it because I remember like early Dear Reader days not knowing how to describe what it is without spoiling it. Actually... while typing this right now I feel like I remember answering an ask game about Dear Reader and fully saying Helios was James

So yeah you're right lmao. I did do that! When I started posting it though I was having much too fun gaslighting people into thinking it was someone else so I stopped after that.