trying on a metaphor

hi ❤️ I don’t really know how to start this but here goes: I have been feeling really sad in the last few months ( since August probably ) and I think I know why. My friends feel pretty toxic I feel left out and when I talk they don’t listen and when I am quiet they ask me why am I so quiet? Everything is cringe: cringe to bring books to school, cringe to read and like fanfics, cringe to watch arcane ( I loved it so much and it made me sad that they acted that way ) basically everything that isn’t boys and makeup is cringe. I have been admiring your art for the last few months and every time I see you posted something new I’m really excited! Your art is comforting and breathtaking and tbh when you answered me a few days ago… that was the highlight of my school year! You were the person I never met that holds me in these hard times

Love, anonymous person ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

ps: do you think I should stop being friends with the people who act like that? I don’t know anymore

hey i just wanna let you know youre one of my fav artists ever and your art is truly such a delight to see, every time you post i get excited and somehow we have multiple fandom overlaps 😭 your art is much appreciated 👏 💐 🥳 💖 live laugh love kidovna

Hi!

So, I was searching for some AAA merch and found what probably looks like an attempt to steal your work. I'm sending you the link but I don't know if there's anything I could do to help put this thing down

https://share.temu.com/pPomcTBk6EA

oh you are so insane for that melvika piece (thank you i love you)

babe have you read the new acswy chapter because dude 😭 YOU’D LOVE IT OH SO MUCH

your one last stop art is absolutely gorgeous! read this book recently and was sooo happy to find that you made fan art for the book 🥹 and your jane is exactly the way I pictured her in my head!!! I'm absolutely obsessed with your art.

byler??!!!! 👀👀

You getting into 9-1-1 might just be the best thing that's ever happened to me, I'm so excited for even the possibility of more of your beautiful art for it 😭😂

ever since you said that you always struggle to paint mike with the same kind of charm as will, because will is your darling, i've not been able to stop thinking about it! i can never seem to decide who is my favourite in fandom because i see lovely takes about them both as individuals and they both inspire such empathy. will was always my little favourite when first watching s1, but mainly because he was so mysterious and i sensed a future icon. but then we also saw mike on screen so much, so he won my heart in a different way!

i actually don't find myself thinking about will's plight too much in fandom because its so sad and i kind of want to bottle that up and let it spill out when we finally see his version of events in s5. i am ready to cry for sure. and now mike has been more of a mystery in many ways for a while now... i think mainly it's the idea of him being this quintessential middle child that really gets me. i especially like the idea of him not being mistreated per se, but rather just sort of accidentally lost amongst the brilliance of nancy, who is associated with their mum, and the sweetness of holly, who is often pictured with her dad. then we have mike. and on the one side he's seen as this leader, lucky to have el, in control and abrasive, but as so often with people like that, he's just... hurting. and adrift, feeling so alone amongst all these wonderful people, wondering what he's good for, even next to will with his wonderful artistry. so that's my way into finding the charm and melancholy unique to mike. i really hope we see his side in s5 too, with that slant of brooding period drama mr rochester sadness that he has ebbing beneath the surface.

BUT i also read recently about wonderful relationships in storytelling and how the couple become almost another character, a third character alongside each individual. and i think this is what happens with byler, and you certainly paint them together in a way that is so full of charm like that. Their own unique couple charm in the show - you really capture it.