#thelonelyapology is VERY real

[separatist-apologist]

I just assumed you and LB were together 🫡 the-lonely-apology is real in my heart

Our friendship started out as an Internet thing, but just three days ago I ordered us matching coffee mugs

[separatist-apologist]

this is for you and @the-lonelybarricade , but can i ask who slid into whose dms first?

A little thelonelyapology lore I guess. I had to pull all this together, and there are things I don't know or have forgotten. So back in 2021 it's worth mentioning I didn't like any of the bat boys. Kind of Cassian, but I was pretty burned by the baby plot in ACOSF and I never liked Azriel. So that's like, the mood and climate of my blog. I was pro Archeron sisters and I mostly stayed in my Elucien corner. I DID sign up for secret Santa though, and it never occured to me I would be assigned Feysand as a gift.

I had planned a four chapters Elucien Christmas prince fic and had to alter it to fit Feysand. I was HELLA nervous about it because like- how do I write Rhysand? And so, I posted chapter 1, and mentioned I was nervous to write it, and got this feedback:

She reviewed EVERY chapter, both on Tumblr AND AO3 to the point that I was writing that fic for her. I'm pretty sure we became mutuals at that point. The thing about @the-lonelybarricade is that she is REALLY nice. Like she is Like That in real life (thought I didn't know at the time).

I didn't realize at the time but she'd also reviewed the practical magic AU a friend and I collabed on for Halloween, but you can find her here:

It was the Xmas fic that made me notice her though, I think because like, she didn't have to be that supportive. We were strangers, she could have said nothing or just been like, "cool this was fine" like she went out of her way to hype me up. I think if she hadn't done that, I might never have softened my positions.

But then came Exile:

This is so funny in retrospect because it's SO TAME compared to later offerings, many of which she beta'd for me. I stand by what I said. You could make her better? Well I could make her worse. I could make her unhinged actually.

As for who slid into who's DMs first:

This is the response of two people who don't know each other well. It was so weird to read like wow, we were strangers once. I think this about the time we were added to a group chat together and we just really hit it off