"You've got this.."
Happy June 19th DHMIS!
(If u dont wanna read a sappy note of how much this series means to me, dont mind the cut lol)
I rejoined the DHMIS fandom back in 2021 from a random throwaway comment from a friend during lunch at school. We ended up gushing hard about the series to each other and i rewatched it all as soon as i got home. After a few days, I ended up drawing the following pictures:
I know, they are so bad lmao. However, after drawing these, i thought to myself "I can make a story off of these designs!" And that is exactly what I did.
"Apologetic AU" didn't have a name at the time, i just called it my DHMIS AU. Now, every day at the lunch table, on the bus, on a phone call, I would talk about my ideas that just kept flowing with my friends. I was, for the first time in a while, truly happy, and felt compelled to create.
You see, I joined originally back in 2016 - 2017, watching people react to the show then chickening out as soon as "Healthy" began, watching meme compilations and comic dubs, listening to remixes and watching speed paints of the teachers. But then I forgot until that fateful day in 2021.
DHMIS has never leaved me since.
No matter the fandom I joined, that silly puppet show would always stay by my side till the very end.
When I joined Tumblr in 2024, I slowly started posting my art to the platform. Noticing that the fandom was still alive and well when I started made me ecstatic. I've met some of my bestest friends of my entire life through this fandom! I wouldn't change a thing.
And hey, if you are one of my many friends I made through this space and you are reading this right now, from the bottom of my heart, I appreciate every single one of you, I wouldn't change a thing.
And to my followers, to my mutuals, again to my closest friends, to the people I've only talked to once, to the people who only interacted through likes,
TO THIS WHOLE FANDOM...
Thank you
Thank you for everything. I'm not leaving any time soon and hopefully never.
To be a lil more sappy, this show has saved my life. I'm not joking. Not gonna get into details but the time I got into DHMIS was really hard for me so this silly lil art project posted on YouTube one day that has grown all the way into a BIG TV series REALLY made a big impact on me.
The day the TV series was announced was the best day of my life, knowing that I get to see these characters again, even just one more time, on a bigger set, helped me keep going. Keep fighting. Keep Moving.
The quote in this piece isnt anything from anywhere(that I'm not aware of), but it was something I told myself all those times in the hardest moments of my life.
Apologetic AU is me and everything it represents.
No matter how many dinosaurs or cookies I draw, this will be ME and ONLY ME. My truest self.
The reason I chose to paint Ap!Tony as my center piece is that we have a lot of similar experiences, but the main thing it comes down to is that we lost ourselves at some point, but no matter what, you will ALWAYS find you again. No matter how long it takes, YOU will be waiting.
YOU WILL MAKE IT! YOU WILL FIND YOU! Sometimes it takes a couple of days, weeks, months, years, decades, you'll find who you are. You may not have everything figured out right now, but you will wait for you when you're ready.
This is me. I may still be missing a couple of pieces, but this is me.
I adore this community, for the Creativity we use every day, the Time we take to make our own stories and theories, the Love we equally share for the show, the community we made Online, the Healthy and sometimes long relationships we make with friends, and the Dreams we share of hopefully seeing more.
(I'm corny but LET ME HAVE THIS PLS-)
Overall, I wouldn't change a thing about this community, and I hope in every single timeline I will be here no matter what.
Once again
Thank you, for everything
Happy Father's Day