I know you've been inactive for quite a while. I hope that things are/get better for you. I wanted you to know that "Love Comes At A Cost" brings me so much personal joy that I decided to fanbind it for my own collection (taking your blanket permission on Ao3 as permission). If you happen to see this and would like a copy, I would be thrilled to make a copy and ship it to you on my own dime (it's a very small book, so it would be a very small dime).
Either way, here: have as much gratitude as I can fit into an ask.
Hello! Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm so honoured that you enjoyed my work enough to make it into a book! I've been smiling about this all day since I read your ask this morning. Also, thank you for offering to send it to me - I would love you to, but I'm between addresses at the moment since I'm moving back to my university city. Also, I'm British, and I wouldn't want you to have to pay exorbitant international fees or anything!
To everyone else who has left me lovely messages of support over the past few months and years, I truly treasure each one and they never fail to cheer me up during difficult times.
You know when people talk about the AO3 author's curse? When someone takes three years to update a fic and comes back with the most insane explanation ever in the author's notes? Yeah. The curse got me. Lmao.
In summary, I am ill. I thought I was being weak, and needed to eat better or something, and then I became too ill to ignore. After two diagnoses and a third on the way (after all the testing is done), it's simultaneously a relief to know I wasn't being stupid over nothing, and a bit of a shock to find out at 23 that I'm going to be sick for the rest of my life. I'm fortunate enough that with careful monitoring, medication, and maybe some surgery in the future, I'll be doing pretty well.
I'm well enough to try and complete my degree, and hopefully over the next few months I'll be well enough to make time to spend time with all of the wonderful people on this website who still cheer me up when I think of them. And I will finish my incomplete works on AO3! I still get comments on Monolith and I read all of them!
Thank you very much to everyone, and I hope you're having a good day.
Love you all <3
Ellie
