#btb support

[okamirayne]

hello i just want to tell you i love btb so much like A lot… i kept rereading it whenever i remember it exists 🥺🤍 it’s probably the most memorable ff i’ve ever read…

Hi there, @yolgart 💜!

Aww! 🥰 Wow!

Thank you so much for this lovely message, luv 🥹. I’m super chuffed that you feel that way about the series. So, so happy to have you as a reader. I really appreciate you reaching out with this sweet and supportive message — you’re awesome.

Thank you! 😘💜🥰

[okamirayne]

i never usually send asks, but i just read the 4th part of the btb series and i have to say, never in my life have i ever read something as mind-blowing and clever as this series; your mind is insanely powerful, to be able to write out a character like shikamaru so well and the plot? just HOW did you even come up with that? this isn’t, by no means, an exaggeration - you surpassed kishimoto is every aspect and i really dont think i’ll ever read something as cleverly written as this series

....I’ve tried...and yet I don’t have the words to respond to this because they don’t capture the emotions I feel or their physical manifestations both inside and out...❤️....If love and gratitude are two of our universal languages, then consider me speaking them in spiritual tongues right now...

Thank You, Anon. 🙏🏼💕

I’m deeply humbled and deeply moved to receive this incredibly touching and heartfelt feedback. I am so happy the work resonated with you this way. Readers like you are not only precious to me, but also give my writing and my madness purpose.

Bless you and Thank you. ❤️

[okamirayne]

Hiii!

How are you doing? (hope you are having a great day.)

I’m sorry my reply took so long: my body viciously betrayed me and inflamed my salivary gland. Sounds ridiculous, I know, but hurt like a bitch.

Back to business though.

Words cannot describe how moved I was by your reply. I kid you not, it took me maybe half an hour to read it cause after each couple of sentences I stopped to screech (internally, since I was at work). It is so so incredibly thoughtful that I literally do not know what to say to convey my feelings properly.

Let’s start simple: thank you so so much! You almost made me tear up a little and it's not an easy fit, let me tell you. Your words mean a lot to me.

I, of course, showed your reply to my amazing teammates and they are also overjoyed and all kinds of bashful about it. We continue to work on translation now, since I'm fine already, so I hope that we'll publish 11th chapter next week, if everything goes according to plan.

Our mental health is... well, better than could be expected, I suppose. Almost all of us are from Kharkiv, which is... errr... rather close to russia, so we feel the war rather strongly. I know how it sounds, but we kinda got used to it after all this time. But even though it is nothing more than our new reality right now, it still affects us. Of course it is. And we weren't the mentally healthiest people to begin with, to be honest. But we do what we can: therapy and meds and such.

Still, I appreciate your well-wishes a lot, thank you. Hope you, too, are doing good and if for some reason not, then I wish you all the incredible things there are. And most of all, the mental reprieve and calm if it is needed.

Allow me to extend wishes of muse visitations to you also. I take it you experience burnout (based on one of your recent replies)? If so, I'm very sorry and can only wish for it to be over as soon as possible. Burnout is a bitch of colossal proportions.

I will try to update you on our progress more frequently than I have before. Maybe share with you some funny Ukrainian language trivia, if you would be interested.

Send you all the love~

PS

I also have a question, if you don't mind me asking. What are your favourite books? I was always curious.

Hi again, my dear @demonofkarma!💜

I hope my response finds you in better health! Ouch! An inflamed salivary gland? Yeah, that sounds most unpleasant. Really hope you’re healing up fast.

Aww, I’m so chuffed to learn that my message reduced you to the same floundering state I was in when I attempted to respond to you.  All’s fair now, my dear!

Seriously though, I have so much gratitude for you and your precious team. Thank you again, from the boundless depths of my happy writer’s heart.🫶🏼

God…that same heart goes out to you and yours during this awful time.  There’s nothing I could possibly say that wouldn’t sound pig ignorant or insipid given what you’re all going through.  Just know that my prayers and very best wishes are with you all as you navigate, survive, and endure this horrible and deeply scary and unsettling time.

Allow me to extend wishes of muse visitations to you also. I take it you experience burnout (based on one of your recent replies)? If so, I'm very sorry and can only wish for it to be over as soon as possible. Burnout is a bitch of colossal proportions.

Thank you, sweetie.  Oh yes indeed, burnout is a Cerberus-shaped helldog with no leash to speak of. I will bring the bastard hell-pup to heel at some point. In the meantime, I really appreciate your kind wishes.

I will try to update you on our progress more frequently than I have before. Maybe share with you some funny Ukrainian language trivia, if you would be interested.

Aw! That’s so sweet, but please know there’s no rush or pressure. I'd hate for you to feel obliged. I’m just amazed you guys have the capacity for it given your situation. And oh ho! Yes! I would love for you to share some funny Ukrainian language trivia! Feel free to shoot that my way whenever you like, luv.

I also have a question, if you don't mind me asking. What are your favourite books? I was always curious.

Oh wow, do you mean fiction? Fiction-wise, I haven’t read much recently because work has got me inundated with soooo much non-fiction that my brain is going to start melting out of my ears. That said, reflecting on books I’ve enjoyed....off the top of my head there’s Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, The Client by John Grisham, His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, the Troy series by David Gemmel, most things by Shakespeare, Memoirs of Geisha by Arthur Golden…and argghhh there are so many more but my brain is hot and noisy static right now! 🫠

Thank you very, very muchly for all the love and support. Sending hearts, hugs, and best wishes to you and your team! 💗🤗💗

[okamirayne]

Hey Rayne! Just wanted to drop by for a quick session of praise and glory to your awesome self and the rollercoaster that Chapter 10 of HHU is. Seriously, your writing and your beautiful mind never fail to amaze me! It was such an amazing read that had my heart racing throughout. Damn do I feel bad for both Shikamaru and Naruto. And don't even get me started on those little bits of our beloved ShikaNeji interactions. MY POOR FUCKING HEART RAYNE, I SWEAR. I miss Neji so much and his appearance in this chapter was so bitter-sweet!

Anyways, enough of my rambling (because it could go indefinitely when it comes to you and BtB universe), I fear I have a question for your lovely self.

Alas, I have noticed that you use dream and/or dreamlike sequences quite a bit in your writing (I remember there being some throughout the series) and they are always so vividly and marvelously done! That made me wonder (and here comes the question) have you ever had a lucid dream, sleep paralysis, astral projection or some similar experience? I ask this because some of the ways in which you are portraying your dream sequences seem very familiar to some of the sensations which occur during those strange (and a bit scary) moments. I have had my fair share of lucid dreams and sleep paralysis moments, so it's very interesting to notice parallels in your writing regarding my own experience.

Okay, enough of me. As always, I wish you all the best and I hope you continue to kick ass of this burnout because *in Kris Jenner voice* YOU'RE DOING GREAT SWEETY! 🫶✨❤️

Anonymous asked:

Heya Sweet Pop Reference Anon! 💕🫶💕

Thank you, so much, for the delivery of this beautiful message, wrapped up in support and love. I was absolutely chuffed to receive it, read it, and be reduced to a puddle of feels by it. THANK YOU. 🥰 I've hit a big-arse wall recently and this was a sweet and soft place to fall. Thank you!

[...] And don't even get me started on those little bits of our beloved ShikaNeji interactions. MY POOR FUCKING HEART RAYNE, I SWEAR. I miss Neji so much and his appearance in this chapter was so bitter-sweet!

I feel you, Anon. My heart is a haunted house at this point.

Alas, I have noticed that you use dream and/or dreamlike sequences quite a bit in your writing (I remember there being some throughout the series) and they are always so vividly and marvelously done!

Thank you! They are always a little bit risky/tricky, but I try!

That made me wonder (and here comes the question) have you ever had a lucid dream, sleep paralysis, astral projection or some similar experience?

Yes, yes, yes, and yes. These intense experiences have undoubtedly helped me write such scenes - to which I am both profoundly grateful and mildly unhinged.

I ask this because some of the ways in which you are portraying your dream sequences seem very familiar to some of the sensations which occur during those strange (and a bit scary) moments. I have had my fair share of lucid dreams and sleep paralysis moments, so it's very interesting to notice parallels in your writing regarding my own experience.

Wow! I'm glad to know that the portrayals resonated with you regarding their relatability (again, can be tricky when writing altered consciousness experiences) though I'm sorry to learn you've been alotted a fair (or unfair!) share of sleep paralysis moments. 😵‍💫Ugh! Those are shit. And scary. And I hope you're spared them in the future!

Okay, enough of me. As always, I wish you all the best and I hope you continue to kick ass of this burnout because *in Kris Jenner voice* YOU'RE DOING GREAT SWEETY! 🫶✨❤️

Gods bless, but you're going to laugh at me, because I had to Google that. 🤣 The pop reference flew riiiiight over my head. I have zero knowledge (bar the most generic trivia) regarding the Kardashians, but I'm now educated in this catchphrase! 🤣 Thank you, Anon! I appreciate the support, and hearing Kris Jenner saying it in several reels now means I have her voice playing like an earworm every time I read it.😆🥰 Ha! Brilliant!

Big thanks coming at you, my lovely!

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