This year has brought about so much change in all of us and, mostly, to us—some of it is good and some of it is bad. But, I’ve gained so much in the past year and a vast majority of it is because of some Belgium television show that dragged me into a multiverse of love and adoration and acceptance. So I wanted to thank you all, truly, for all the love and help that you’ve given me over the past twelve months because fuck this world—and this year and fandom—would not be the same to all of you.
also: i love all of you.
@peaceoutofthepieces: nat, you’ve been one of my greatest friends. our conversations about our fics is something that i’ve cherished. watching you write Sink or Swim—then turn around and write all your Christmas fics—has been absolutely amazing and I’m so proud of all that you’ve accomplished. thank you so much for being my friend.
@everyone-has-their-story: thank you so much for being my friend. our friendship started over some obscure question i had for how i wanted to end Jij Verliest and it morphed into some so near and dear to me. i love our conversations about what’s going on in our lives and i hope it never stops.
@tsjernobyl: thank you for listening to me in my random spurts of drabble and one-shot ideas that i might not ever write that i spontaneously ask you about late at night to get your opinion and listening to me talk about harry potter aus (though, i still think you should write all shackles and bows). you are such an amazing and wonderful friend and i hope you know that i’m sending you lots of virtual hugs.
@sonderthroughthestreets: thank you so much for all of your love and support on everything. our conversations of robbe in skinny jeans and our own writing slumps at 3am are near and dear to my heart. i love our “my place or yours/please say yours” rights.
@cindylouwhos: you’ve helped me so much and there’s no way i will ever be able to repay you. you helped me get into giffing, listening to all my dumb questions about it, and helped me so much when i was writing jij verliest. thank you so much for all your help and thank you so much for bringing me into the alt er love server.
@womenstan: thank you so much for all of the support you’ve given me in the server—both in study-group and overall. you’re such an amazing and beautiful person who is so unapologetically yourself that it’s inspiring. you’re an amazing friend and i love all of our conversations.
@norangensft: jenna, thank you so much for all of our talks about wtfock and robbe! your paint me in trust story gave me the distraction i needed during a tough time and i will be forever grateful to you. we might not talk as much anymore but i hope that you are doing well.
to the alt er love server: i’m sorry i can’t tag everyone. i don’t have everyone on tumblr and i don’t remember all of your urls—i’m looking at you maxences—but thank you so much for all of you. you guys are so welcoming and supportive of anyone and everyone who walks in. i love you all and love seeing all your weird and crazy chats that you talk about. i missed emo hours earlier but please know that i will love and cherish all of you for the rest of my life. like jess said, it’s like walking into a living room with all of your friends. this crackpot of a year would be NOTHING without this server.
@robbesdriesen: bianca, thank you so much for all of your support. being able to talk with you about a sobbe enemies-to-lovers has been so enlightening as we both struggle to figure out a possibility that makes sense for them. all of our random talks are so fun and i can’t wait to see what we both come with next.
@luludemauryyy: thank you so much for all of our conversations that we’ve had over the past year. all of our chats mean the world to me from our talks about our stories to those about wtfock and skams to those that are more personal. being able to talk with you about it is so amazing and i love being able to talk with you.
@driesenrobbe: becca, I know you’re not on tumblr right now (and that’s perfectly okay), but I couldn’t make this list without talking about you. thank you so much for all of our long conversations about random things. they mean so much to me, being able to just sit down and type responses out to all of your messages. i love looking on my phone and seeing a notification from you makes my day.
@sander-klaas: fahmeen, i love you so much. you’ve supported me so much over the past year through my stories that i don’t think i will ever be able to repay you. i hope you’re being given as much love as you give because you absolutely deserve all the love in the entire world. i can’t wait to see what you create.
@birthdaysentiment: cille, i love seeing all your tags on things. seriously. as soon as you like something, i can’t wait to see what you’ve written. all of your support and love means so much to me and i’m forever grateful for it.
even more amazing people who deserve ALL the love and i’m eternally grateful for:
if i forgot a name or didn’t tag you, you deserve all of the love in this world and i hope your day (or evening) is beautiful and amazing and bright. i love you all so much. thank you for making this year so so special to me.
Popping on to say that it's officially been an entire year since I became a wtfock fanfiction writer (and little did I know how much I would write in the span of a year).
One year (and two days) ago, I officially published my first fic (it was VDS) because the idea had stuck with me randomly and I decided "what the heck, why not" so I just wrote it down and published it without editing it because I felt like I didn't have anything to lose and I was pretty proud of it. While I didn't officially write Sobbe until a week or two later before the official start of what will likely be my most popular fic in existence, it was my first step into this world and this fandom and back into falling in love with writing again.
And, here I am now, a year later, and I'm still amazed at all that I've created—both writing and not—and I'm forever grateful to anyone and everyone that has ever read my stories, left a kudos, commented, reblogged a post, sent me an anonymous message, or even lurked. Every interaction and support means so much to me and I will never, ever be able to properly tell you how much it truly does.
To all the friends that I've met through it, to all the friends that I will meet, thank you. I love you all so much.
Every time I start working on this fic, I just feel a little sad inside because I know not everyone is going to read it because it’s not sobbe and I’m putting my whole ass chest and a half into this project and it’s just so fucking sad—
the thought of accidentally hurting people—especially those i care about—scares the absolute crap out of me because i know i’ve done it before. if i’ve hurt you before, i’m so so sorry and i hope you can forgive me but please, please do not feel obligated to. i just needed to get this out, i’m so sorry.
