hello love!! again, thank you so much for appreciating my fics; it never fails to gladden me in knowing that someone out there feels a connection of some sort with them. thank YOU for the love, genuinely. i wouldn't be a writer without any reader.

it's also been more than two months since i've written anything that's creative in capacity, which i am feeling extremely guilty about lol. i'll be turning 19 this year and starting uni in a couple months; my teen years are zooming by and i've been overwhelmed with the profound reality of what that means for me. mostly in terms of what i want from myself, the trepidation-cum-anticipation i'm feeling towards law school, and the career i'll be building in the years to come. in fact, i'd say if the muted agony in 'time slows in your embrace' drawing from the threads of anxiety i've been weaving since graduating from high school is palpable, then what's happening in my current stage of life is tenfold worse LOL. so. much. anxiety. but!! i'll be fine. life charts its own path and sometimes external factors seem so insurmountable but i'll be fine -- this is what it means to live. we're capable of so much if we put ourselves to it and i think that's the beauty of humanity.

digression aside, i'm curious to know which fic consoles you the most! i personally hold argonautica close to my heart because it embodies the crux of what i believe in -- the simplicity of life and love and the fact that in the grand scheme of things and the universe, we barely matter. of course, it's easy to run with that and devolve into pure nihilism but imo it ought to compel us instead to cherish our existence, which is utterly perfect in its imperfections. i think quite a fair bit about how absolutely wonderful it would be to be out there in space, left with nothing much to confront but my humanity.

so we'll be fine, anon. no matter what. you and i both. ily!