Anonymous Coward · 9mo
hello!! As someone who has been quietly following your work, I wanted to reach out to you after reading your recent update that since Lunar new year just passed, I want to bless and wish you a healthy and peaceful year. While I primarily knew and admired you through your writing, Ive always found the small pieces of your life that you share with us very comforting. You always taking the time to interact with people made me feel that you're also a genuine and very caring person -- more qualities I appreciated about you besides your writing. I hope that me sharing this doesn't make you feel even more of the heavy burden/expectation of what your penname means to you, but rather, I hope to convey that no matter what interests you wish to dabble in, people will always enjoy your work because you pour so much heart into them. Since I discovered you a few years ago, Ive survived one of the hardest phases of my life. Your work has gotten me through some difficult periods of my life -- I fondly remember the nights I would come home excited to read something you had posted in bed before I slept LOL. Since its uncertain if I will come across your writing again, I simply wanted to tell you that someone in another corner of the world is rooting for you always. Please take care, and thank you again. <3
hello! first of all i’m going to say i’m really touched by your message. i never thought that my fics would make such an impact on anyone—it always felt like a hobby, albeit one that i did put effort in… so to hear your heartfelt comment on how it’s tangibly helped you, just reading the silly things i put out—it’s humbling, and i’m glad you derived joy from my writing that way.
i don’t know about being a genuine or caring person. i feel like most of the time even the snippets of information i shared about my life on twitter/x were always very self-absorbed and mostly complaints about my life… haha… idk, i think at one point maybe i did try to talk to a lot of people and be nice but the longer i spent in fandom the meaner i became lol. at a certain point i remember being so exhausted and emotionally burnt out that i couldn’t bring myself to even look at tweets directed at me… or DMs or even ao3 comments, even when people make such a great effort to leave lovely long messages. it’s a bad phase, i don’t think i’m fully out of it yet but hoping things will get better too.
thank you so much for reaching out and for your well-wishes! they are truly appreciated, and i hope that you have a wonderful day! ❤️
