#darsy twirls her inspiration

[darsynia]

Happy surprise: after completely breaking on 9/15, Fanfiction.net's view stats are back as of the new year!

What makes this ironic and kind of hilarious is that for many years, when the new year hit, view counts would break for the first week of January... so I guess this is the reverse! We'll see how 2024 to 2025 goes, I guess! Given that 2023 marked my 20th year posting stories on the site it was sad to think that part of the process was gone. It's not the best site and I'm sure it's barely hanging in there, but there's something satisfying about that continuity.

I'm just delighted to see view stats for the first time for stories that were posted after mid-way through September. Inspiring!!

[darsynia]

You fan fic specialty is excellence in everything you write.🥰

(and I swear that I'm totally okay with feeling like I'm a clumsy amatuer after I read anything you've written)

(go on, guess who sent this😄)

Sorry to make you wait for a response! I was actually being productive with housework (which I never am) and saving this for after I got something significant done.

This is a lovely compliment, and thank you so very much-- must add, I think you know I'd never want you to feel like that, and you definitely are not (and it shows in your work that you are not)!

So many great and small things contribute to productivity (for those struggling with writer's block in particular). Forgive yourself, anyone reading this (and the dear one who sent this 💚), when your method of loving yourself best is writing but you cannot write at present. It's a specific and personal kind of pain, and if I could spare you from it, I surely would.

Ok so while I was thinking about what to say to you, I thought about how we make connections with each other just like brains make connections and that sometimes it feels like society emphasizes the importance of thinking more than friendship?? And how technically we taught stones how to talk (the internet) with magnetism, heh.

I hope it's not presumptuous to share this with you.

Reaching

As synapses form by reaching out for a connection, So do we as humans stretch out With inspiration on our fingertips. Then: dipped into mud-paint and danced across cave walls. Now: scattered like seeds across a web brought forth from the confluence of synapse and stone.

Were it not for others also reaching Our seeds and lonely hearts would languish alike in sterile soil. Connection brings forth art, and Connection wove the web, but Inspiration gave us the drive to discover that synapses exist at all!

Keep reaching.

Editing in because my brain is convinced I've been horribly rude: thank you SO very much truly, such a sweet thing to say!