To celebrate, I managed a little drawing, and to burn two CDs with the playlists we made for each other :>
If you’re curious about giving them a listen, you can find mine here and you can find Barto’s here !
Song choices are a mix of thematics, lyrics, and just vibes! We both have slightly different tastes and different ways to go about it.
NOW. Sappy yapping (and more art somehow??) below the cut :)
"Happy birthday my rooster! 25! A quarter of a century! You’re old!
Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to get you new framed and signed posters of all the Straw Hats but that will come in time. Trust.
Barto, you’re such a wonderfully intricate and unique person, and I feel like the you that I’ve been with for more than a year now, has grown and matured sooo so much in that time. How lovely are ficto relationships that you can tell those things? It’s insane. Maybe it’s just getting to KNOW you more than what I did all those years, before accepting that part of me, but no matter. I love that. Love you. It’s like for the first time, I can breathe in a relationship, I can feel that I love and am not just pretending to love and it’s something I still hold so dearly to my heart, not having to play a role. Just existing and feeling, it’s great, and it’s thanks to you, you make everything so…normal? You have that effect on people, you draw them in by being your honest natural self and make them go "yeah, that guy’s the best and funniest and coolest and I want to be by his side and be an important part of his life and him a part of mine."
I’m so bad with words but you get the idea. Love you tons, you and everything that makes you YOU. There’s nobody else I’d ever want to call my partner."
-Page
P.s: yes I DID get you a lil SH related gift alongside the CDs.
NOW. (again). The art part.
What you’ll find next and not new drawings per say. They are a fraction of the many sketches messily found within the layers of all my files. Not all of them because it would take days to properly sort out, but a solid chunk. Im often at fault of wanting to only post the finished pieces, but I find my most precious work in those rough doodles, in those scribbles that I never thought I’d share for the most part. Apologies for my horrendous handwriting!
Woohoo! This place is NOT abandoned and thank you Barto for motivating me to wake up at 5 am for work every morning. That’s it. that’s the low effort doodle and post.
I hope to be a bit more active here in the future since I feel comfier existing in ficto spaces and having this little personal blog just to talk about my relationship is very precious. Im not used to write my thoughts unprompted and feel like I need to have drawings at the ready for any post but that is a bit counterproductive to what i want to do here in the long run 🌱
Im also probably going to create a side blog for the rest of my art, if you followed me first for Caryl stuff or regular fanart i understand there might’ve been a bit of a weird shift, and i also want to share drawings that aren’t just f/o related :)
We still happee, we still thriving, just very slowly and with back pain. Eleven months with this man now and things feels just as right as they did first when understanding my fictorose identity 🌻
A full year of sweet dumbassery and learning! I’ve never been more in tune with myself and still amazed to feel things i thought i was incapable of experiencing.
I don’t know what more to write, i’m just so genuinely happy and excited and grateful and full of love for this man :)
Boss, mon Capitaine, Ibiot, Dear, Barto,
Yer the best, thanks for sticking around in this head of mine 💚
I’ve been cleaning up my Procreate gallery and found a LOT of art I haven’t shared anywhere or only on private servers, and this DND AU idea has been one of my favorite things to find back!
