Everything he ever did was weak to all they ever were.
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I've been thinking about this scene between Enver and Velkyn since I wrote this post, and I'm about to get really, really emo about friendship under the cut.
But, before I do: @infernaldaydreams made this for my birthday, and it made me cry multiple times over. She captured Velkyn perfectly, and I've never loved my durge more than I do now. 🖤I could not express my gratitude, nor how soft this makes me in general.
But by god, I'm gonna try.
Lots of people who've had mutuals for a long time before trying to become friends probably have a similar story as mine. I'm not gonna claim that I'm some special, supernatural being or anything—only that human friendship in general is unfathomably beautiful just on its own.
Anyway, while we've been friends for a fair bit over a year by this point, one of my favourite parts of our friendship comes before that: when we were durgetash moots. So much of my theorycrafting was inspired by her art—and, later, I'd find out that so much of her art was inspired by my theorycrafting.
This gorgeous piece feels like a callback to that: friends from across a vast distance, ships in the night that'd eventually come back around and properly meet in a different fandom.
And I know I've already said it a billion times in dm's and over voice, but just... I am so, so glad to have had a friend from across the way that, one day, would turn out to want to make stories with me. When I think about being your friend, I think all the way back to 2023, nodding at each other while being too shy to say a singular goddamned word.
Now look at us: spinning new words, new tales, every damn day. Now, one of those is Velkyn's: the first story you ever helped inspire, given a fresh coat of paint in the cave where we do all our headcanoning and scheming.
Anyway, I had 3 hours of sleep last night and I'm exhausted down to my bones, but... @infernaldaydreams, I like you or something. 🖤Thanks for letting me yap at you on tumblr dot com in June 2024, and everything that came after that, too. 🖤
