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[lifesizehysteria]

So I'm pretty much a casual Tumblr lurker (I used to be more into it yearrrrrs ago and now just...keep it around for idle-ness and pretty gifs) but I did want to reach out and say that I found your fics about a year ago (during a pretty low point depression-wise) and I still reread them as like....comfort fics all the time. One I continuously go back to is "She is Home". I'm an author (I write LGBTQ middle grade books) so I know how much hearing these things can mean, and I wanted to like actually reach out and say like, seriously. Your fics meant (mean) a lot to me and got me through some tough days.

Oh gosh! Thank you! This is so sweet, it honestly makes my whole day! 💖💖 It does mean so much to hear anything positive but especially something as touching as this. Entertaining is really all I ever aim to do. To know something I wrote made an actual difference to someone or got someone through something hard is just mind blowing to me. Thank you for sharing with me! 💛 I hope you’re in a better place right now. And congrats on your writing! That’s amazing!

[lifesizehysteria]

Oh I'll 100% ask. Tell me more tell me more tell me anything you want to share about the new fic

Aaaah! Okay! Thank you!! So the fic I’m writing is called To Where You Are and it’s Lena’s perspective of Journey to You. When I first started JTY I really saw it as Stef’s story but as I went along, I realized there were times I wished I could give Lena’s perspective, too. Then, when I came back to it after my hiatus, my beta (who was not my beta for the first half) kept saying how she wished she could know how Lena was feeling/thinking/etc. as she would edit. It kept making me regret not including her POV and as we got close to the end, I decided I wanted to write it from Lena’s, too. So that’s where we are.

I am also using it as an opportunity to make some minor adjustments to some moments in JTY that I would have liked to change slightly. Nothing major, but there will be some small differences in the details of things. It isn’t going to be only the scenes from JTY - it’s Lena’s full side so there will be everything going on in her life at the time that is relevant. There will be new scenes between her and Stef because one thing I regret about JTY is that I didn’t give enough of their relationship evolving. And maybe for Stef we saw what was most important. But for Lena, I think it’s necessary to see more of the moments that lead to her falling in love because she was more aware of herself than Stef was. Basically, JTY gave us the moments that most significantly led Stef to Lena and TWYA will be the ones that are most important to Lena’s journey to Stef.

Oh! And Lena has friends! Good, healthy, unproblematic friends!! Because she deserves them!