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Everytime I see posts like this I get filled with such profound sadness

Cause you know who has the same brainrot as you? The same unhinged feelings as you after you've read the fic? The person who always wants to scream about the fic with you?

THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT

I never used to leave comments but since I got into the habit of commenting on everything i enjoy it's been incredible. Especially when the author gets back to me about it and we get to have a discussion of what other ideas they had. One writer replied to my comment with a 5 paragraph essay detailing the Floorplan of the building the characters lived in and it was incredible

Anyways this is all to say that if you find a fic that just makes you want to scream from the rooftops, leave a comment saying that to the author and maybe they will join you and you can scream incoherently together

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Hi I love the imposter fic sm I drew shiny bc I got a new rainbow pencil and it fit !! I’ve read through the fic 3 times now and it’s good every time 🙏🏽🙏🏽 here u go !! I hope u feel better soon :D

I literally had to get up for a bit. That's THEM. You drew Shiny so cute and gave them the pigtails, that's the best one! 😭 The vibe of this is how I feel when I think about Shiny. Candy-sweet, quirky and bubbly <3 This is so cute, can I make it my phone screen?! ;A;

I can't believe people are actually rereading it either, that's killing me. 😭 Seriously, it means a lot. I spent a ton of hours rewriting and deleting multiple chapters and reorganizing scenes on top of drafting/drawing just because I wanted it to be special. Thank you for this <3

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I just finished Incompetent for Trial and I gotta say you gave randall such a great arc (great story and you should watch monsters at work the new episodes will have him in it)

Oh NO. You mean the age regression court case fic where Randall was basically held hostage during MI... with 'and they were roommates' vibes with Fungus?! That fic is so fun to write, lmao. It got me into writing again! I wanted to write a sequel to a fic I wrote... over ten years ago?! 😭

I'm glad you liked it. :) I have to watch Monsters at Work now. Boggs is my boy.

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Hey! I'm sorry to hear you are having a rough time of it as of late (via your latest post). I just wanted to let you know that I've just finished reading though, "The Imposter" for the second time, and I love it even more than the first read through! Regardless of how you choose to move forward with your fic, I'm very grateful to have been introduced to your work :)

YOU READ IT TWICE AND STILL LIKED IT ureadittwice?😭🤗

I realized 'this is a fic about a person struggling with DID and Sun/Moon are in it. It's not a Sun/Moon fic' with generic art, it bothers me that I didn't try for more... sexy sun/moon inspired characters? These guys are very... "here, have a meltdown, psyhological stress, terrible coping mechanisms, but make it ~rainbow~" I like crayon sun though. ugh.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*I reread everyone's comments all the time. I appreciate everyone who read it so much. Literally the comments kept me going this far. Seriously, would not have made it past Ch2 without the comments. I love you guys. I just need a big comfy break to stop comparing myself to better fics.✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

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Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

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I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

-Sylvia Plath

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i am ~struggling~. i'm having the roughest time haha.

i feel like i really did mess up. if i made it sun/moon pov, maybe it would have been more likeable? or more energetic plot? a better premise. but i'm not sure what i'm doing. i think i'd have to completely rewrite it to fix it. I shouldn't have done Imp pov either.

I want to work on retrograde, but it's falling into the same pit because it's also a very morose story with psychological/lovecraftian horror. might still do art for it tho

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Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

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Also, if anyone sees this, Shiny is NOT a little. Someone asked about that on Ao3, really worried it was little/adult relationship. No. Little alters CANNOT consent, that's gross. I have DID and I'd never put something out into the world like that.

The story is from Imp's pov; they dislike Shiny and refused to interact with them growing up. The memories in the fic are reliable, the interpretations by Imp are NOT. Imp is saying Shiny is childish, wreckless, and irresponsible, but they barely even know them. Imp is an unreliable narrator and Shiny is very capable and mature when they need to be.

I can't give actual ages since it's important to the plot, but they are way past the age of consent.

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"I'm here to help. Do not resist."

Imposter has DID and is pretending to be 'Shiny', the person originally hired for the daycare and who is kissy-kissy with Sun. Imp's unreliable and Sun's 'bestie best friend' is in there so he has to work with this dumpster fire.

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I shouldn't have left you. I should have stayed inside.

Idea Summary Hades idea based on Proxy Void Monsters

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Retrograde sketches. I gotta inspire myself to start working on this. I drew Moon as a 'constellation', one of the beings that can exist in the void without light.

In retrograde proxy, anything in the light exists and anything outside the light ceases to exist, so if Proxy didn't have that light, she'd literally die in the void. TBH I think I want Moon to be a void-being while Sun is the lightsource in itself - just being around Sun creates a solid world, whereas Moon can't.

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Literally cried over those tags. I'm so glad that people resonate with Imposter so much and that the DID aspects are coming across genuinely. I'm glad that they're not being seen as one to one comparison with Sun and Moon, that was so important to me.

Shiny's still a mystery/nearly one-dimensional, but that's only because Imp never cared to know them out of jealousy. The comments on this fic and in the tags are everything. Thanks again, I feel so vindicated. <3 <3

sun and shiny for 'the imposter' fic on ao3

Glitter Roots & The Imposter

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If I didn't have such a huge fear of showing emotions/enjoying myself in public, I'd go nuts in here. The nostalgia looks so amazing <3 <3 <3

We’re all goin here right

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Born to love cursed to be unlovable

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When you have a permanent smile on your face and it makes everything WORSE. (Ch. 9)

Imposter's meltdown was my favorite. They just keep getting the short end of the stick like Moon.

The Imposter <-