Small comic thingy in reference to one of the rambles that wonderful anon wrote about

hi maca :) do u already know when you can post chapter 20? im so sad about hiuh ending but also so excited for some happiness :( also, will it really only be 20 chapters or will you add one or two more? in any case, thanks so much for all the time and effort you put into this! I loved every second I spent reading this fic <3

hello!!! well, i was supposed to post ch20 on feb 1st . . . but that obviously did not happen. this month is the month though!!!! I'll try to make it happen before march.

about the chapter: yes, it's the last chapter ever. there will be no more. ever. honestly, I don't think you'll want another chapter after this considering the rough draft I'm working with is 250 PAGES

am imagining steve and eddie sort of reuniting in college for a smoke session with the other older kids; out at a campfire/picnic except its just beer and a couple bags of burgers and fries from the diner across the road, with eddie having noticeabley put on some weight. steve is pretty normal about it, eddie's a handsome guy nothing new there, but then the night proceeds and he's in for a surprise. they all pass around a joint and while they're all giggling and talking just high off their asses and sort of picking at their food, eddie has been pounding back burger after burger, fry after fry, and each foamy lukewarm beer after beer. and steve seems to be the only one noticing.

steve sees the outlined stretch of eddie's belly from underneath his shirt, can see the subtle shifts he does to get comfortable, the swallowed down hiccups and burps, and the droplets of beer on his front. steve for the life of him can't not notice and he doesn't know why. it's around 4am when they all decide it might be time to get back, and eddie (sweating slightly) says he's gonna take a leak and heads to the closed diner. steve follows him to tell him it's closed only to see eddie leaning against an alley wall, chugging down the beer he'd taken with him, gut now fully extended and bloated past his belt, and that's when it clicks. the whole night eddie had been sucking in, and even then his stomach had seemed pretty doughy but this? this was way more than the freshman 15 and steve couldn't deny how flustered it made him.

hiding so he wouldn't get caught, steve watched eddie chug down that last can like his life depended on it, belch wetly into his fist, and fiddle with his belt before rubbing the top of his bloated belly.

after awhile steve headed back and not long after eddie followed, stomach sucked back into his pants and a flush on his cheeks not even aware of how he'd just been caught. steve drives home that night unable to forget the curl of arousal in his own belly at what he had seen, and how badly he wants to see it again

anonnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

EATS THIS EATS THIS EATS THIS EATS THIS

ughhhhh just eddie getting full and bloated over the course of the night, and steve can’t take his eyes off him!!! he’s in awe!!!!!

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steve couldn’t take his eyes off him.

sure everyone had changed somewhat over the years, a haircut here, new glasses there (steve). they all thankfully, blessedly, seemed happier, healthier now. now that it was all over.

but eddie. eddie was something else.

steve hadn’t seen him in a while, just talking on the phone, indianapolis and chicago weren’t that far apart but. he hadn’t seen him in a while.

and he hadn’t picked up on it to begin with, eddie was wearing a oversized flannel over his t-shirt, still wearing his usual black jeans. but as the beer started to flow and eddie’s smile got that loose syrupy quality that steve adored. then he noticed.

eddie’s cheeks were rounder, flush with alcohol, his jeans fit different, thighs filling in the leg. and, no belt.

no belt because steve could see the swell and slight jiggle of eddie’s belly where it pushed against his band tee, easily conceived by the flannel. but, it was there, new and round and steve wanted to sink his teeth into it.

someone got out the weed. and someone went overboard on the food from the diner, munchies hitting everyone a little so they got a little of everything and a lot of burgers.

steve didn’t like being high outside his apartment (one panic attack too many), so he only had a couple puffs, cracked another beer instead, and watched eddie.

eddie was pretty wasted by this point. still chugging a beer and finishing up the joint he kept for just him and argyle (stronger stuff, or whatever) and he was hungry. apparently. steve would guess. based on the amount he was putting away. steve felt full just looking at him.

he got swept up in a conversation and when he looked back eddie was shifting around in his seat, putting another empty container down next to him and then he moved his hands to his stomach. steve watched, enraptured, as he knuckle one side, shifted forward so he was slouch in the chair more. other hand pulling his shirt down and tucking up firmly under the swell of his gut, then lifting the whole thing up to settle it more comfortably on his thighs. finally he wrapped the flannel around himself and crossed his arms. smile comfy and sleepy and satiated.

steve was half hard. he didn’t even know why.

he came over with a freshly cracked beer, handed it to eddie and pretended his hands weren’t shaking.

…

by the time steve was sober enough to drive and people were filtering home, eddie waved people off and said he was going to use the diner bathroom and then sleep some of his indulgences off in his van, drive back in a few hours. it made sense, but steve still wanted to make sure he was okay. he left robin in the car and followed eddie.

the diner was long closed but, eddie was a dude so steve could guess what his plan was. he rounded the corner and eddie was just finishing up, tucking his boxers back up.

but then steve stepped back, so he wouldn’t be seen, his breath catching in his throat.

eddie was groaning slightly, shoulders against the brick and eyes closed. his pants were still undone and his flannel was handing off his shoulders as if he was sweltering.

and his belly. his belly looked huge.

he must’ve been sucking on or that flannel was magic because steve was watching and it never looked like this. the top curve was bloated and round and sat out from the softness of his pecks. the pale fleshy part below his bellybutton sat between the flaps on his jeans. eddie groaned again and rubbed his hand over it, rucking his tight t-shirt even higher, exposing his bellybutton.

eddie lifted the half finished can of beer to his lips and this time steve groaned. eddie chugged and it was like steve could see the fizzy liquid rounding him out further, bloating him out bigger.

steve watched him belch a few time into his fist, poke and prod across his stomach and push out a few more. then he stumbled over to where his van was parked on the lot, clambering inside and closing the door.

steve didn’t realise he had been holding his breath.

he tucked his hard dick up into waistband of his boxers and went back to robin.

..

the next morning steve couldn’t stop thinking about it. eddie. the blinding orgasm he’d had the moment he got home. any of it.

he got in his car and drove back to the diner.

feeling too hot for the cool morning air he ordered a few different breakfast items, coffee with cream on the side and like, six bottles of water. he didn’t know why it was making his heart race a little. why he was so exited to see eddie again.

when he knocked lightly on the vans back door he heard a rustle and a groan and a ‘who’s’it?’ which made steve laugh.

eddie opened the door, one eye scrunched closed and a smile on his face. he opened the door because he recognised steve’s laugh. steve smile so hard to cheeks hurt. ‘breakfast?’ he asks.

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feel like i barely added anything to this whoops. and left u on a cliff hanger whoop whoops. but what u send just!!!’ ugh!!!! so good!!! i didnt know what to say!!!!!

EDIT! : now with more. with what happens at breakfast

I saw that you said you don’t read much VNC fanfiction, but of what you have read, do you have any recs?

In general, anything by fl4nel is probably an absolute banger imo. I have three (3) user subscriptions on Ao3, and they're one of them. Blood and Thunder is a fandom classic if you want a starting point, but their less popular fics are just as good. Their writing style is absolutely gorgeous, and they nail the sort of tension that good canonverse vanoé fic requires.

I'm also fond of fortuna, choosing sides by leovenus and you're the one (i think i'll regret this) by coffeebiscuits.

It's probably becoming clear by now that my favorite genre of vnc fic is more or less canon compliant oneshots in which vanoé pine and yearn and want each other without ever fully acting on that tension. Unfulfilled yearning that you can't voice would be Vanitas's middle name if he had one. And anyway, both of the above fics do that specific thing very well. There's a certain similar mood that they both capture.

To be entirely honest, beyond that, the vnc fic I read/reread most often is my own An Act of Trust. Might be mildly tacky to self-promo on a rec list, but I unabashedly love that fic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I think it's pretty solid, and if you want a taste of what I like in vnc fic, it's incredibly self indulgent in that regard.

For the rest of y'all, feel free to drop your own recs in the replies. Esp if y'all have recommendations for any good Domi and/or Jeanne centric stuff.

oof as much as I'd love to start drama by asking what IFs you have beef with..... I have to go with the less targeted question of 'what are some IF tropes you think are overdone'. personally if I have to see the same four ROs recycled into another game one more time I'll scream

LOL probably a safer question for me to answer too...

ROs are a big sticking point for me as well. Seeing the same archetypes over and over, feeling like someone came up with ROs first and is now desperately trying to finesse a story that can justify all of them being date-able*, someone having an actually interesting and compelling story to tell but bending themself into pretzels to fit in six romance arcs that may not even serve the plot just because that's an expected convention... Also in general I never lose interest in a new project faster than when I see artbreeder RO portraits. Not even because it's """AI art""" but because it's always the same empty eyed model-perfect 20something in different colors.

(*NOT the same as a story primarily designed to be a dating sim. I generally think that's fine as a genre, and some of these people would have an easier time if they were willing to admit that's what they were writing and not some sweeping grand narrative.)

My other biggest issue with a lot of amateur IF is like... excessive and overly ambitious customization? I think a lot of authors don't know where the line is on what they can just allow the reader to imagine without there being a variable for it, as well as what they should frankly just... be willing to decide for the reader when it best serves the story. As far as MC customization, I think this really stems from a lot of people in the community getting their first introduction to IF through CoG and then drawing the conclusion that if some character customization is good, more customization must be better! But if it's not going to come up in-text and be directly relevant to the plot or how the MC is characterized*... it doesn't need to be canonized.

(*by which I mean, like... making your character a specific religion, or disabled, or something like that. Things that actually impact how they engage with the world.)

Branching off of that, I think maybe my most potentially controversial take is... not every IF needs to have a customizable MC at all. It's entirely possible to write a story with a set, static protagonist, and still allow the player to make decisions that allow them to shape that character and the broader plot in a way that still feels personal and like they're an active participant. VNs tend to go this way, or else they have a faceless MC who still tends to have a more set personality, and I think sometimes I read IF demos and I really get the feeling they wish they could be writing someone specific, and they're getting hamstrung by the idea that they need to sand off enough defining features to let the MC be anyone.

i have this head canon for kh4 and have 0 ppl to talk to abt it ( maybe ill make a blog or write a fic ) but like riku saves sora from quadratum and since we all love angst, a part of riku saving him and bringing him back is sacrificing the memories sora has of him - so sora would come out with no memory or no relationship with Riku, but Rikus willing to do it to save sora. To do said saving Riku will have to sacrifice his body in some way ( not like lose a limb sacrifice but his body would be shattered in some way - idk i really like the idea of riku with mega scars and those scars representing his undying love for sora ) and they come out of quadratum passed tf out, everyone rushes to barely save rikus life and sora wakes up with 0 memory of him. Kairi's pissed, the king is pissed - EVERYONE is pissed like Riku cmon how could you do that to yourself and to sora but whatev , time passes on and the MoM shows up to fuck some shit up and Sora goes on another adventure ( basically what kh4 would be - travelling to worlds collecting soras lost memories ) while Riku and Mr Michael Mouse try to find a way to beat MoM. At the end of this process Sora meets up with the Radiant Garden group and Aerith - through her super magic powers - is somehow able to give Sora his memories of riku back bc Soras heart will never be complete without Riku ( def with the help of kairi - like having your past love find your true love kind of deal? ) and Soras like "Where is he, where is Riku?" and in their adventures trying to find Riku they figure out through his lineage that hes either the King of Light or the King of Kingdom Hearts. Anyway, Riku and Mickey are facing off against MoM and Riku is , stupidly, abt to sacrifice his life again for like.....everyone.....and Sora shows up like NO SIR MISTER MAN basically stops him yelling "HES THE KING, HES THE KING PROTECT HIM" and basically saves Riku like a knight in shining armor protecting his king. they realize their love for each other, destroy MOM ( through the power of true love ) and live together happily ever after. thoughts?

I definitely have some thoughts and I do love a good angst and this has it, Riku saving Sora requires him to lose all his memories of him

It's not like they already were missing in this case before he had them but by saving Sora he loses all the ones of him

And Riku would because that's how he is, he is selfishly selfless for Sora and would do anything to save him even if it means dying or risking his own happiness like in kh3 sacrifice and kh2 becoming Ansem's form to awaken Sora

Him being on the verge of death is so great to me and the others are clearly upset since he's not thinking about his own worth again and would do anything for Sora. All his scars being all the times he sacrificed for him like even perhaps in previous games such as when he took a blow during that Xemnas fight.

Sora traveling around collecting his memories of Riku sounds interesting and there's so many possibilities. There could be more parallels of what happened between them through Disney worlds as well.

Also I like the idea of Kairi and Sora past relationship mention and that she can help Sora remember Riku. Kairi probably knows what's up with them and Sora probably has no idea at this point and maybe help him realize through gaining some memories.

Riku is of course always sacrificing himself and just sees his life as not really valuable but with knowledge that he's this king Sora saves him.

Love a good knight in shining armor saving a princess, being tied to them once again. Riku needs saving, Sora is the knight rescuing him from darkness and in this case sacrificing himself.

Riku being king of light perhaps relates to royal bloodline theory?

Their love for each other saving everything would definitely something that could happen in the games since friendship and love seems to play an importance.

Some of my first thought after reading for the first time was this is really good and so terrible at what Riku did to save Sora.

I think this has some fun and interesting potential. I'll be curious if you ever make a blog or even write a fanfic about it.

Ugh okay fine, you win… I’ll watch the casino episode, and that one only (tbh I don’t care for the show… just lmm)

you know, it's only 30min long! & to be quite honest, i only started watching it because of him, like i said before: i've never been a fan of the books, but i'd watch everything for lin, so... 🫠

Hi, I saw your ideal Elias drawing and wanted to let you know that portraying politically and/or socially power people & people in high positions has roots deep in antisemitism. It's derived from the claim that all or most political figures are actually jewish and that Jews thus 'run the media'.

Some further reading: The Atlantic article on why conspiracy theorists always land on the Jews: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/why-conspiracy-theorists-always-land-on-the-jews/671730/

The Guardian article on QAnon and their roots in antisemitic theories: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/25/qanon-conspiracy-theory-explained-trump-what-is

Wikipedia article on the international Jewish conspiracy, which also has a short 'see also' section linking to two more Wikipedia articles on antisemitic conspiracy theories: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy

I'm sure you didn't purposefully portray Elias as an antisemitic stereotype/conspiracy, antisemitism often hides in plain sight, so I wanted to take initiative.

Have a good [insert relevant temporal word here] :) /gen

anon im going to be so straightforward and real with you

my thoughts on this:

it is a... silly little joke. a pun yknow? EELias? we all have a sensible chuckle

i drew him as an eel because i like eels. i love them so much. i would hug and kiss them.

pr sure the most relevant angle for that antisemitic stereotype is lizard people? and he is not a lizard. he is an eel

my elias isn't jewish? so...?

also elias runs a dumb little institute that relies on donors... he has like 5 dollars... i wouldn't exactly describe him as Politically Powerful

i GUESS you could argue that, well he is literally the guy secretly manipulating all events for his evil plans, but like... that isn't why i drew him, specifically, as an eel? review points 1 and 2

...i think when it comes to why folks might feel the urge to send asks like this... i get it can come from a genuinely well-intentioned place, to an extent. but i've talked before about how asks like these come off and how they make me, personally, feel. it's not your job or obligation to write out an essay explaining to me why [your interpretation of my art] means ive drawn something you feel is bad, and thus need to warn me of

like im sorry but ultimately my feeling is that it's just not that deep and kind of a reach, and this ask is frustrating to me because to me it feels like you're taking the worst-faith reading of something innocuous as an excuse to be pedantic in my direction

hi so so sorry if this sounds genuinely deranged but I need to know did you write a fanfiction in like 2014 that was set during ww2 where zoro from one piece was sent to a japanese internment camp and sanji went to conversion therapy I remembered it recently because it blew my mind at age 13 and I had to reread it + need a kind of where are they now with the author so if that's you 1) what's your stance on the fic today 2) how much of the research was done during writing and how much did you just know beforehand and used as inspo 3) did you have any ideas for where the other characters ended up because I did always wonder if like idk chopper overcame the trauma of being in the war and also just what usopp's situation would be in general what with the political climate. once again. if you didn't actually write this fic so sorry this must look like the ravings of a crazy person. godspeed

Hi. Uh, yeah I did write that fic. I would have been like only 17 at the time. I did do A LOT of research, like the fic was basically an excuse for me to research Japanese internment and WWII history in general bc I thought it was super fucked up. I was absolutely hyperfixated on the topic and my parents probably thought i was nuts for my ability to talk at length on this particular area of history. I just finished skim reading back through the fic and woof. What a bleak fucking story. I was very cruel to everyone. It's frustrating bc I think it's an interesting and compelling idea for a story. But to me it feels like: here is all the research I did and also characters talking in what feels like a too modern way. Plus, I was 17 and didnt understand people very well. I wish I had the energy and motivation to rewrite it. Although, I forgot I used to do song lyrics at the start of each chapter and the tonal dissonance of Owl City lyrics at the top of a chapter of harrowing events around the time of WWII is unfathomablly unhinged.

ridi dearest as my personal beatles journalist, what're some of your favourite lyrics of theirs? like not necessarily favourite songs as a whole but lyrics that make you buzz?

hii omg fun!! let me think hmm i feel like there will be quite a few..i would paste the entirety of in my life here but to pick a particular bit i'll go for the very end, though i know ill never lose affection, for people and things that went before, i know ill often stop and think about them, in my life, i love you more since its in my bio : ^ ). in taxman its barely a lyric but something about the ah ah mr wilson / ah ah mr heath is always really satisfying to me i forget how much i like that song..she said she said all the lyrics in that are great but particularly the way she said 'you don't understand what i said' / i said 'no no no, you're wrong' is sung itches smthn for me..other ones that stand out purely for being fun are back in the ussr show me round your snow-peaked mountains way down south, take me to your daddy's farm / let me hear your balalaikas ringing out, come and keep your comrade warm and i'm so tired and curse sir walter raleigh / he was such a stupid git...more sincere ones i love are blackbird you were only waiting for this moment to arise, all the john + paul (i think its them?) sections in she's leaving home, we gave her most of our lives, sacrificed most of our lives, we gave her everything money could buy etc...also a day in the life which is one of my favourites...another one where i could probably put all of it in because i unironically think its one of their best songs if not of the greatest songs of the sixties if not of all time and im not kidding..he blew his mind out in a car / he didn't notice that the lights had changed and the whole four thousand holes in blackburn lancashire bit (which on a completely irrelevant note would make an excellent title for anything). it's all too much is one of the beatles most underrated songs ever maybe but i love that one and the with your long blond hair and your eyes of blue bit, although admittedly thats taken from the song sorrow which is by the mccoys originally i think? although david bowie does an excellent cover and im getting off topic. those are the ones that come to mind most immediately!! feel like some of my favourite beatles songs here are underrepresented because while i love them there arent specific lyrics that stick out but alas that is the challenge of the question. and it was super fun thank you anon 4 asking it !! lmk what yours are !!

uhm uhm hello! 🧡

eeeek ive already requested rayman stuff from you sooo,, do u think u could make a stimboard of captain laserhawk (clh:abdr) rayman? with purple, yellow, neon/city lights, and anything show-hosty? i guess? im not sure how to ask for this! just have fun honestly!,,,

if you dont feel like it, perfectly fine! you already have so many request, i hope you’re doing alright! ^^‘ ofcourse, no pressure, and have a great day! heheh!

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Well hey, thank you so much! Always happy to see you, Rayman. You may find your stimboard right over here! I did absolutely have fun with this, so I hope I managed to do you justice!

You have to kidding when you say lokius or whatever is the superior Loki ship? Just because you ship it that doesn't make it superior. On top of that Mobius is the ugliest person to ever ship loki with

man, fuck off. someone asked me my opinion on Loki ships and I responded with my opinion on Loki ships. this is that whole "everyone on tumblr is chronically online and thinks every post must be About Them Specifically" bullshit I was talking about earlier. a girl can't even call her fav ship superior in her own post about her own ships without some asshole getting mad that I didn't account for Every Single Marvel Fan's Opinion Ever. make your own post about your own favorite Loki ship if you're this bitter idfc just go away

not to be gay or anything but when im dysphoric i tbink about ajax calling me his good boy for one (1) second and it magically disappears does mothman lore say anything about how he acquired these powers

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yes according to this book that has all the mothman info right here it says that as a bonus Foul Legacy bestows the power of banishing all and any dysphoric thoughts because he loves you so so much <333 (now he is wrapping you into a warm hug, because one of his great talents is comfort and adoring you and- oh, well you're trapped in his arms now, better get comfy :DDD

you think pierre will be forgotten about next year?

This has been sitting in my inbox for a HOT minute, I think based on some tags I may have made a few weeks ago? And now that i'm done finals I'm finally answering it lol what a treat for me.

I think the thing about Pierre is that in the larger fandom, he's already served his big narrative purpose™. The whole narrative arc of getting beat down and shoved away by Red Bull, and pushing through that? Persevering despite everyone telling him "you're as good as done"? Becoming lost in all of the personal and professional tragedy of 2019 and then finding himself again? Becoming a fantastic teammate and someone trusted to lead and then finally finally breaking out of the mold that has shaped him for so long? He's had his little hero's journey already.

Even this year, I think so much of him got... maybe flattened out is not the right word. But I think there was something genuinely SO interesting about the way Pierre rubbed up against everything this past season that was TOTALLY missed under the media-pushed Yukierre and shit car of it all. IMO it was HARD to dig into the meat of it when so much of it was presented like, candy coated rotten apples lol. Especially if you aren't like... in it like the Pierries are. A lot of it got missed (like that 5-10 minutes before people realized what was actually happening in Japan was a perfect microcosm for this season w Pierre LOL but but let's not get into that). I also just think how Pierre was this year hit less of the broad strokes big dynamic and character interests of the fandom than he did in 2020/2021 maybe!

So I think the popularity of him as a character continues to go down at Alpine too, yeah. Because the new story is about chipping away at a new thing. It's not as sexy for him alone: people who don't care about Pierre's story and only care about the narrative will watch for it to blow up with Esteban and thats about it. So much of I think the actual compelling stuff for him happens behind the scenes now, in these next few months before the season starts. It'll be about someone who is so strict and used to routine and one structure and has pre-existing expectations for a lot of usually goes on around him being thrust into a completely new environment and having to figure out how to swim after so long. It's the "Red Bull is the longest relationship I've ever had", and now what? Have you really learned have you really grown etc etc? But so much of that we wont be able to see!!

He's never really been main character compelling to people, which I get. Cause I think his typecast is harder to get into or even figure than the Maxes Or Charleses or Daniels of it all for example. He's often a useful secondary character to a slash or a gen pairing but a hard primary!! God gives his hardest tests etc etc.

The question is really what is the next big arc? And I dont know if there is one thats super clear. Which is fine for me because unfortunately I like it better when less people talk about the people I like because they dont know the lore! or whatever lol you know what I mean. But anyways I think he's just filled his narrative purpose in wider fandom. I am ok with him being put back on the proverbial doll shelf for now though!

you’re holding 70s Lashton hostage??? name your price.

i mean,,, depends on what ur willing to give me

hiiiii here for a minute to ask 5 and 17 for the new years ask :333 happy new year!!! ily nisiiii <33333

5. What do you wish / hope to happen this year? 

I really hope the war ends with the deserved Ukraine victory. Also wouldnt mind if Elon Musk died suddenly (someone tweeted out assassination coordinates or something)

17. Write a new year's speech to your followers.

Dear friends, followers and onlookers,

I joined the Naruto fandom, or rather, re-joined, in 2021, but 2022 was the year I did most of the work. I did reach my goals of finishing a multi-chapter fic, participating in a fandom week and running my own event. I wrote half a million or more words in fic, I did several themed weeks the full seven days, wrote 24 stories in a month for my birthday and raised 700 USD for charity. Quite something!

For this year, I will probably draw back a lot more, let other people take over and believe me, there are many ready to take over. I have grown weary of the same discussions over and over again, of the general toxicity and mud throwing, of the fear of speaking my mind or being myself. I think Lem is correct in leaving, I think if I don't want to end up like her one day I should better start small.

Still, I have my two long fics going which will be finished eventually and I might still do themed weeks here and there, but largely I might just pull back to the comfort of discord servers in which I don't have to be so careful about what I say or think.

For this place particularily, I wish that we could have a more harmonious 2023, where anniversaries are used as celebrations and not as a grounds to spread more toxicity. I wish for people to respect other opinions more, I wish for less negativity. I would love for people to learn that tags are great to use and improve everyone's quality of life.

The base of things we agree on is that we love the story, at least the sandbox it opens up, and I feel like we should focus on things we have in common and not things we differ from each other on. I believe this fandom could be so cool and such a supportive place, if people could accept this basic notion that we are all playing sandbox and maybe I make a castle and you make a bunch of houses, and thats fine because we are both creative with what is given! No need to destroy my castle because you like houses more! We could build so many great things like that. I really really think so.

I do have quite some followers now, I can't say why, but I am thankful for people who think I am worth following. I wish you all a great and successful 2023, personally and career wise and maybe in fandom. May the fanart the wonderful, may the fanfics be great and to your taste, may that rarepair you love get the attention you think it deserves.

Happy new year, y'all.