#i always feel so happy when others express their joy with finding my blog 🥺🥺🥺

[trashlie]

I swear finding your blog has been a heaven sent. My friends stopped reading ILY bc, 1) long hiatus made them loose momentum; 2) they read a lot so slowburns are not exactly up their valley; 3) they like romance more than drama so they lost interest in continuing since the goal isn’t as clear as a romance’s usually are.

BUT BOI DO I ABSOLUTELY BASK IN THIS WEBCOMIC

Imma see if you’re coughs up to FP 238 bc i need someone to vent all my feels this WEBTOON makes me go through. please keep the rants. really can’t get enough of ILY but felt like I’m alone in the hype. Glad to see I’m not the only one.

Haha aaawww!!!!! I know the feeling!!!! I'm trying to get my friend back into it - I know she'll get there but!!!!! Sometimes you just need to SCREAM with someone - which is how I wound up screaming here into the void on tumblr lmao watching the famdom grow over here and become more connected has been really fun, because ILY is clearly not the kind of webtoon you can just read and move on from. We need to dwell on it we need to mull in it and then howl about it! Watching a lot of my theories and hunches come true?! Watching the romance that people tried to downplay come forth? Watching all of this character development?! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

I have every intention of trying to catch up and dump my 238 thoughts later today! It's PRETTY safe to always assume I will be up to date, but I still appreciate you checking! ILY is the one thing I FP without fail whether or not I'm on a trip lmaoooooooo but feel free to come back with your thoughts!!!! I love seeing what everyone is thinking! To me, ILY is such a collaborative fandom once you find the people who obsess over it as much as you do lmao. It's gotten such a bad rep as a webtoon for the past and for not being the simple romcom people wanted it to be, which is a shame, because the layers and layers and nuance of ILY is what makes me love it as much as I do. I can't think of any other webtoon that comes close to it in complexity and theorizing, yknow?!

[ofmermaidstories]

hi merms, i hope you’re doing great. i’m sorry if this is different from your usual asks but i wanted to ask you, since you are literally blog goals, but how can i be more like you and enjoy my own blog? i love how you’re so free in your own space and express yourself, and you’re just full of happiness and all the bright, good things. going to your blog always makes me smile. its like you spread joy and warmth so easily. is it weird i feel more at home with your blog 😭 i wish i could enjoy my blog too, but sometimes drama makes the experience un-fun, like mean anons, or worse, your own readers constantly putting you in weird competition with your own writer friends over things you and your friends never even noticed before. i know the easy answer is to just ignore the haters and enjoy writing, and i really love writing, but its hard sometimes. i wish i could make my blog feel as homey as yours. visiting your page is like comin home to fresh hot chocolate after a long day of work 💐 thats all luv, sending you lots of love always 🌸

oh anon. i’m sorry. 🥺 i am sitting with you and we will piece this out together though, okay? 🧩 it’s hard! i’ve actually been feeling kind of dejected, lately, like with tumblr in general and my usage of it—because i haven’t been using it like i used to! so i guess that’s the first thing: to figure out what you want out of it, and then figure out what it takes to make it happen. for me i enjoy this place most when i’m treating it like a scrapbook: quotes or pictures that inspire me, asks, things i doodle. the pros of that: you fill your space with stuff you love, or that means something to you! the cons: it can be a little isolating if the stuff you love, or the things that mean something to you, aren’t like… current writing or posting trends, lmao. but it all just depends on what you value! 🥺 i’m not a fast writer, and tend to favour long-term projects, so while it sometimes makes me sad when i fall out of the loop of things, ultimately i just accept (or try to) that that’s how i work in this space. 🥹 as mama cass said, sometimes you just gotta make your own kinda music.

drama makes everything boring! and tbh i think my biggest cheat with that is that i only follow a relatively small amount of x reader blogs. 🥹 that’s not intentional; i curate a pretty strict feed based on my other interests, though, so there ends up being a lot of competition for my attention. 🥺 the pros of this is that i tend to miss most discourse that happens (lmao). the con is that i tend to miss everything else, too, though. 🥹 you basically have to choose whichever bothers you less lmfaooo. and even then—drama or meanness or plain old weirdness will still find it’s way to you. 🥺 i think that’s just the unforch reality of being on social media. especially in a niche that’s so… driven by something as personal as literally self-inserting, and dependant on the validation of others. 🥺 i’m sorry people have made you feel like you’re in competition with your friends! it sucks, because i think we as writers like… live in our own heads, lmao. we know so much about the worlds and characters we’re trying to write. but people outside of our heads don’t—think the same way! 🥺 they will draw comparisons where maybe we don’t want them to. 🥺 i think that’s a natural response, tbh; especially if they love something, and see work with like, a similar theme or tropes, but despite it being a compliment it doesn’t always feel great. 🥹 i guess the only advice (and reminder, for myself) i can offer is that you and your friends aren’t in competition—but rather thrown into the same maze together. 🥺 the only way out is to hold hands to make sure none of you get lost, and walk through. 🥹

anon!!! 🥺 i hope you find a way to make your blog feel more homely. you’re always welcome here—the door’s always open for the sunlight and the bees—but i want you to feel like the important part of the neighbourhood you are! 🥺 and safe enough that you can leave your door open, too. 🪟🎐🌾