it's by no means a recent work of yours and i understand if you may have disavowed it somewhat for personal reasons as u have a fair amount of your older artwork but i keep rereading psycho nymph exile and turning it over in my head. i live in a very bad situation right now and i have a long distance boyfriend whom i love dearly but obviously cannot see in person yet. a lot of conventional fluffy romances where two characters just meet by coincidence, happen to fit two common archetypes and experience mundane problems + have relatively little drama and Good Normal Sex with each other feel like transmissions from an alien world to me at best and death pressing against me at worst. it is so very hard for me to hope that a better or at least bare minimum life is possible and isidol and vellus' relationship channeled some extremely raw feelings for me. i hope to god i can walk hand in hand with my boyfriend one day with a bag of kudzu buns, because this isn't the life i want to die in. i'm really glad you wrote it