ITS BEEN ONE WHOLE YEAR SINCE WE STARTED OUR JOURNEY AND WE'RE STILL JUST ON CHAPTER 2!!
All jokes aside, this is a love letter to all of you from your good ol' pal Nortsauce. We couldn't have made it this far without your support and love and creativity.
I'd be honored if you read it :]
When we first started this project, fly had to cajole me into getting into the story a little bit, as I was a little intimidated by the premise. They burst into my room at around 2-3am holding Hailey Senpai's voice dub right to my still-waking face, and made a bet with me saying "I bet you could rewrite this." I was hesitant. But after seeing so many awesome rewrites, I say down and decided "Ah what the heck. Lets have fun with it."
And WE rewrote it :]
We spent nights upon nights throwing ideas at each other, sitting in our bedrooms at 9pm for the last few weeks of June, hammering down what we wanted and using our giant whiteboard to write out a timeline.
By the time we had come up with a pretty good premise, fly said that it was too fun not to do an ask blog, just like the good ol' days, but they were scared to do it. This was another point of my hesitancy, as my previous ask blogs were kind of stressful. I told them to do whatever they wanted, but they never did it.
Finally, i got the stick out of my ass, and I made it for them. I made the hyperlink, I made the hashtag system, I set up the profile and i spent an HOUR figuring out the stupid "Read from the beginning" link (that was later) I made a pfp and fly made a banner.
And it was done!
It never would have happened if fly and i didn't just say "Screw it." And forced each other to start the project.
Now we are here, we have a wonderful community, we have so many ideas, and best of all (my personal favorite)
We have so many new stories being told!!!
It feels like i'm a kid again. I'm always excited to talk about ideas with fly, discuss with friends, answer silly questions, see all the comic dubs, the art, the fan fictions the poetry the songs.
That people are loving creating art again.
I hope to see so much more. So many more stories, so many more characters, so many ideas, so many new friends.
Uh hi I got something to say about this shipping cult stuff and I don’t think you and Fly should be encouraging it.
NOW I ain’t talking about the shipping part, that’s all fine and dandy and great fun! But the “cult” aspect is something that should be nipped in the bud. I know people think that calling their group chats “cults” is funny but it’s not. People in fandom spaces really do take this seriously with a strong enough echo chamber. I just worry that it’ll lead to folks either hurting themselves or others. It may seem harmless now but look on Tik Tok with the “Children of the Waning Star”. It started out as a joke but overtime folks took it seriously and became unhealthly attached.
I’m not saying that this shipping war made for fun should be dismantled, but the cult and reliougous themes should not be encouraged (especially if you're telling them to do their "cult rituals"). At best, it's weird, at worse, it could be dangerous.
no no yeah i definitely see it.
I would know I grew up in a cult. it was terrible. I'm in therapy now!
usually i'd make a joke about my trauma but this is something i'm still actively working through.
i'd tell y'all the story but i'm not comfortable doing that i'm sorry.
but yes be careful throwing that term or being "Culty" or any religious themes oresent in a sense. please. its not something i want to encourage. you're absolutely right
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