I know I'm on a sleep deficit, so I'm a bit more emotional than usual. And for context, yesterday I finished working late, took my dog out for a walk and then pretty much immediately sat back down at my desk and wrote for just under 6 hours straight to get CITS 33 finished.
This isn't me looking for the sympathy vote, CITS is a labour of love and I genuinely enjoy writing it so so much. But I did that fully braced for few people to be truly interested in an update, because boy do I make my readers wait and then some.
To be met with so many beautiful reactions, messages and just general love has floored me in the best possible way, and my British, stiff upper lip/unable to take a compliment self is at a loss for how to really express that.
Never once doubt that your supporter of a writer means the world to them. Fanfiction writers literally sit for hours and crank out content for the sheer love of it, but the support of the fantastic, loving and caring people in a fandom is what makes all the difference. I don't write for your praise alone, but is absolutely means the world to me to feel a part of something, and to be able to share something with you.
I need to get my arse back to work. But thank you. That's basically all this ramble is trying to say in a really not eloquent, round about type of way. ❤😭