I just reread all of @ahollowyear‘s “Tales from the House of the Moon” for the first time in 10 years. By chapter 33, I wondered why I was doing this to myself, setting up my own heartbreak like that, because I do not like pain at all. Yet I kept going. Now, at the end of this story, having cried some serious tears for the last three chapters despite knowing already what will happen, my heart is broken clean in two yet again. Yes, I read that fanfiction once and have never again forgotten it, so thoroughly was it burned into my memory and into my heart.
Thank you for this amazing work and your amazing writing. As a secret fanfiction writer myself, I will never be in the same league as you, who is one of THE legends of the IY-fandom, but I can damn well aspire to it and hold my story to the same standard you clearly did.
Again, thank you.
Now I need some serious self-care, because FUCK. I need a sandwich and a hug and some Nutella straight out of the jar.