#icyh

[fablecore]

I still reread I Carry Your Heart every so often. You first started it during a very difficult time in my life, and it saved me a little (a lot, actually) to see such a yearning story about legacies and what it means to save people and the hidden cost of it all. I liked being wrapped up in Kizuna's wit and charm. I liked seeing the broken bits shine through in her and Yuuka, and I liked the way she admitted to wanting to be a little disgusting so people would stop looking at her like that, and I liked the way her shame is always at war with her need to be good enough.

I have enjoyed all your works through the years. You write such charming, evocative pieces. I've read all your One Piece fics, and I was here for Aika, and I started reading jjk when Seri dropped because I wanted to know the source material to better appreciate her journey. I think I keep coming back because there is something so human and compassionate in the characters you create. They are all so, so flawed, but they are never treated as any less deserving of kindness or growth or agency, and I think that is maybe why your works continue to resonate with me, even when I have left their original fandoms behind.

Somehow, I Carry Your Heart is even more special to me than that. I don't really have the words to describe it, but it is always there, in the back of my mind: the way Kizuna tries to push Shinsou away, initially, and the way he uses his quirk on her; every explosive interaction she's ever had with Bakugo, every box of pocky she's ever stolen... (I could go on, but somehow this has gotten very long without my noticing.)

Mostly, I am sending this ask because I just wanted to let you know how deeply your writing has touched me. Thank you for all the stories you have shared with us so far, and I am eagerly looking forward to many more to come.

wow... what an incredibly precious message 🤍 you've treasured kizuna for all this time. and you read jjk for seri. ah 😭🥺

some people—readers and writers alike—have the urge to punish characters as if being young and stupid is a moral failure. thank you for seeing so many admirable qualities in how i write. i think it shows what a kind person you are.

i hope you have a wonderful day :''-D please look forward to new chapters… soon! i’m a slow writer but i do my best (i think this is becoming my new sign off)

[hellsbellschime]

Omg wtf. If to many of y’all Parrish they’ll send me down there and I need to go to this wedding. Lmao talk about brutal honesty lmao

https://twitter.com/suckviper/status/1575127371874713603?s=46&t=ICyh-pxVXNgIKdxOZK_tuQ

OH MY GOD Shep Smith was really ready for the apocalypse.

[rommahh]

Blanket Forts and Promises

{This is apart of the fratrry universe I wrote two parts of. It can be read without the prior two works but like...wheres the fun in that. I just wanted to write something short and sweet. There will be more of these two. Love, R.}

Word count: 1.2 k

Read I Carry Your Heart here

Spring break. Literally the best time for any college student. At least thats what its supposed to be. Harry and Y/N were supposed to be on their flight to the nice and sunny Florida until a huge tropical storm hit. It was so bad that hundreds of flights going into Florida were cancelled. Y/N was devastated by the news of her flight cancellation. She was so excited to be on a beach with her bubs. She couldn't wait for swimming with him, yummy tropical dinners with him, she couldn't wait to do...things with him…in their beautiful hotel room. In all she just couldn't wait to spend a beautiful non-school related trip with her boyfriend.

Y/N sighed as she hung up the phone with an airline representative who helped her receive her refund on the plane tickets. She laid on her bed back at the farm watching as the rain poured outside. Her school did not allow for students to stay on campus during breaks unless they had special circumstances- leaving Y/N to come home. Harry was back on campus in the frat house. Y/N would have stayed with him, but the frat house was the worst place to be right now. It was gross there, having been completely run down by boys.

“Y/N! Can you get me one of the brooms from the guest house? Take the truck so you don't get wet!” Y/N heard her mom yell at her. ‘Get the broom?’ Y/N thought confused. Why would her mom need the broom from the guest house. Deciding not to question her mom, Y/N threw on her thick rain jacket and mud boots before grabbing the truck keys and driving over to the guest house.

The guest house was a mile out from the main house and barn. Between the house was a field containing whatever crop her dad was growing. The animals on the farm roamed on that piece of land as well. Parking the truck on the gravel outside of the house, Y/N rushed inside to grab the broom her mother ‘drastically needed.’

Y/N’s mouth dropped in shock as she walked into the open concept house seeing a large blanket fort covering the entirety of the living room. Hearing the door slam, Harry crawled out from the mass of blankets, a smile on his face seeing his girl's shock.

“Harry? What are you doing here? Oh my gosh what is this?” She was amazed by the large fort, shoving her wet jacket and shoes off her body. Harry grabbed her arm pulling her into the fort. The fort was being held up by the two couches and a few stools from the kitchen. Sheets were used as the ceiling and plush quilts and comforters were used to pad the hardwood floors. In the middle of the spacious fort was a collection of pillows, snacks, fuzzy blankets, and Harry’s macbook and charger. Twinkle lights encompassed the tops of the fort, wrapping around from stool to stool. Y/N sat on the pillows in the middle of the fort looking around shocked.

“I know you are really upset about our trip to Florida so I wanted to do this for you. Also our anniversary is coming up so...yeah.” Harry sat beside her rubbing her thigh as the girl took in her surroundings. Suddenly she leaped out of her seat tackling Harry down onto the blanketed floor.

“Harry, you are so sweet. I love it but how’d you even do this?” She layed on top of his chest chin resting on her hands as his hands rested on her lower back.

“I called your grandmother and asked her if there was anywhere in town to stay because I knew Florida would get cancelled and she told me to just set up here. She actually bought all of the snacks and found extra blankets and pillows. She knew how special I wanted this to be for you.” He softly spoke looking at her eyes filled with admiration.

“This is perfect bubs.” She kissed him, their lips moving together perfectly. She pulled herself further up his body. Leaning on her elbow beside his head, he turned his head to reach her for more kisses. She smiled into the kiss at his eagerness. He reluctantly pulled himself away from her.

“I actually bought you some new pajamas and fuzzy socks to wear tonight- they match mine.” He grinned cheekily. Pushing her off, he nudged her towards the small gift bag containing the clothes. She plucked the bag off of the floor crawling out of the fort to change.

She came back moments later in her matching pjs and socks as harry. The pjs had cute little puppies on it making Y/N giggle at the sight. She sat next to Harry as he scrolled through disney plus in search of the right movie.

“I think you're looking for Black Panther.” Y/N jokingly whispered in his ear. His laugh filled the fort.

“Oh am I, I could've sworn I was looking for tangled?” His eyebrow rose as he continued the banter. He clicked on Black Panther, setting the laptop on top of a stack of flat pillows. He started pulling the snacks over ready to chow down. “Your mom made us sandwiches to eat. I swear I would live with your mom and grandmother for the rest of my life if I could.” He moaned at the sight of the thick sandwiches.

They ate so much food from sandwiches, chips, and sweet tea, to pieces of cake and assortments of fruit. Harry laid back full of all of the junk he ate. Y/N rubbed his full stomach chuckling at his extraness. They laid together watching her favorite movie on top of those fluffy blankets and digesting their food. Eventually, as two horny adults do, they both started to get handsy. Harrys hands drifted down to hold her bum and her hands brushed the muscle that stretches into his goodies.

He turned his head to look down at her only to find her already staring at him. He closed the space making their lips touch. This kiss was sloppy and rushed. Tongues pushed and prodded each other as hands touched intimate places. And just like Y/N wanted...things happened.

The next morning, Harry woke up wrapped in the arms of his girl. Her bare chest warmed the side of his face as her arms cradled  his head- fingers interlocked with his hair. Their legs intertwined with each other. Harry never felt happier in his life being wrapped in his lover's arms having shared a night full of laughter and genuine love. He detached himself from the girl and reached into his backpack. He pulled out a small box- smaller than a bracelet box- and just stared at it. Opening the box, he pulled out the promise ring he had been saving up for since christmas. He used all of his Christmas money and did some extra paid tutoring on campus to buy the simple jewelry. Its band was a pretty gold color, two strands twisted with each other to come together making a knot. Sliding back over to Y/N he slowly lifted her left hand and slipped the ring on her finger watching it as ifit on her finger perfectly.

He wouldn't propose just yet but he could promise her a lifetime of love and a commitment to carrying her heart with him everywhere he goes.

[randykorn]

2019 Writing Roundup

Under the cut because I have never been succinct in my life and this is no exception

JANUARY: Welcome to Aglionby

“Okay, okay,” Maura said, holding up her hands for peace, swinging her gaze between Blue and Gansey.  “We don’t know everything-“

“We hardly know anything, really-“ Persephone interjected.

“But I will tell you what we do know.  This boy is on a quest for a lost king.  This boy is touched by death.  This boy will either save this town, or doom it.  And you, Blue, are going to help him do it.”

“What does that mean?” she asked.

“It means that there’s a prophecy,” Maura said, “that we’ve been monitoring for quite some time now.  It means that the cards say that you’re both at the heart of it.  It means that you’re both going to face danger and decisions that will change you forever.”

“It means that it’s starting,” Persephone said with a laugh that struck Gansey like lightning.  “It’s finally starting.”

FEBRUARY: Welcome to Aglionby

Slowly, he unfolded the letter, already dreading what he’d find.

Henry Cheng called.  Went to Hirshhorn.  Be back soon.  Safe dreams.  -Gansey

The crumpled letter was hitting the opposite wall before Ronan even realized what he’d read.

This close to the full moon, Hirshhorn would be an endless maze, easy to enter but impossible to leave.  And that wasn’t even accounting for the line’s gathering energy.  Gansey would be in there alone, without Ronan to guide him and keep him safe by navigating the fluctuating magic.  But Gansey wasn’t alone, was he?  No, he had-

“Henry Cheng,” he hissed.

Henry Cheng, who modeled for Ronan’s art classes and gently kissed him in empty hallways, never forcing Ronan to speak, instead trusting him to act. Henry Cheng, earning Ronan’s voice and truths and fears when he was drunk enough to give them.  Henry Cheng, who promised something softer than Kavinsky, but just as exciting, and likely more real.

Henry Cheng, who seemed to be involved in this fucking prophecy.

MARCH: Welcome to Aglionby

“What in the nine heavens is that?” Henry asked, pressing against Ronan’s seat to get a better view.

Something moved in Gansey’s peripheral vision, in front of the car.  Something large and white and glowing.

“That,” Adam said quietly, sounding just as shaken as Gansey felt, “is The Beast.”

Gansey whipped back around so fast he felt the Camaro shake.  Standing directly in front of the Pig was the largest deer he had ever seen.  Easily twenty feet tall, the sight of it made his stomach drop out, equal parts fear and awe.  It was just as Adam said - glowing white fur woven from moonlight, with a subtle sheen of blue.  Small, silver butterflies fluttered around it, dancing in its glow. Moss and vines draped elegantly between its antlers, forming a natural crown of delicate, pale blooming flowers.

The Beast suddenly struck him as a wholly inaccurate name.  It was far too crude, too rough, too lacking for such a magnificent creature.  What stood in front of them contained all the delicacy of the moon and all the strength of the sun.  The Beast simply didn’t come close to capturing it.

It looked at him, stark white eyes meeting his through the windshield, and Gansey found that he couldn’t breathe.  Its gaze bored into him, looking far past his physical appearance.  Gansey felt a shiver run through his mind, his soul, through everything he was and everything he would ever be.  He felt himself pulled into that all-encompassing white expanse as it read him, judged him, measured him against what he needed to accomplish.  For the moment he felt blank, peaceful, and if he hadn’t known better, he would have thought that this soft, floating space within himself was akin to death.

APRIL: Welcome to Aglionby

“I’ll do it,” Adam said, standing up and turning toward The Beast.  “I’ll do it, if you’ll have me.  If you’ll keep him alive.”

He couldn’t change the past, couldn’t help his younger self when no one else would, but maybe, just maybe, he could help this boy here, now, right in front of him.  Maybe he could manage to be what his younger self had always needed, by being what this boy needed now.

Adam climbed up onto the stump, standing tall as the wind whipped and swirled around him.  He still had to look up to meet The Beast’s eyes, but at least they were on more even ground, now.  The boy shook beneath him, beside him, within him, and Adam hoped he was making the right choice.

“Well?” he asked, staring upward with a confidence he didn’t really feel, spreading his arms to the sides.  Open.  Vulnerable.  “Will I do?”

Yes.

MAY: TRC Rewrite (unpublished)

Adam was quiet for a while, slowly unwinding his anger as his eyes searched Gansey for some unknowable quality.  Gansey, for his part, let himself be studied in silence.  

This was the moment he had told Ronan about Glendower - about the truth and the pain and the magic - but reversed.  Inverted, a mirror reflected out.  He had watched Ronan like Adam was watching him now, carefully cataloguing everything he knew of his friend and weighing him against a lifelong desire to be believed.  To be known.

He could feel a secret rising up in the air, and he hardly dared to breathe lest he scare it away.

Trust me, his mind whispered.  Trust me like I trust you.

JUNE: TRC Rewrite (unpublished)

For an instant, Ronan imagined the scene.  Gansey waking to find Ronan missing, sighing to himself as he pulled on days-old clothing and grabbed the keys to the dreadful Suburban.  Gansey wandering the streets, worry squirming in his gut, holding off on calling the others - but only just.  Gansey finally making his way to the church as the dawn inched across the sky.  Gansey seeing the blood spattered across the steps, already turning brown, before noticing Ronan’s broken body crumpled on the ground.

For an instant, Ronan wondered if the Grey Man would be smart enough to make it look like a suicide.  

For an instant, Ronan wondered if Gansey would believe that.

Of course he would.  A part of Gansey was always braced for the worst Ronan had to offer, even as he yearned to believe that Ronan was better, now. Ronan was starting to believe that “better” was a myth, that healing was an unattainable platitude forced upon grieving teenagers that no one knew how to handle.

Did he still want to die?  

Sometimes.

Did he want to die under the hands of the same man who had murdered his father?

Fuck.  No.

JULY: TRC Rewrite (unpublished)

A flash of darkness surged out of the trees, landing on top of his car with enough force to dent the roof inward.  Adam cursed as the back wheels buckled and skid sideways, sending the car into a wild tailspin.  He wrestled for control as an inhuman screech scraped against his ears, calling for blood and destruction.  Gleaming claws pressed against the windshield, and Adam screwed his eyes shut as glass exploded inward, several large shards shattering into dust as they hit his skin.  

Cabeswater, protecting him.

But from what?

Adam blinked upward, just long enough to catch a glimpse of an amorphous dark shape against the swirling vortex outside the car, everything in shadow except for the small details.  The teeth glinting in the shuttering light of his dashboard. The claws curling around the space where his windshield had just been, piercing the underside of the roof.  The six eyes glowing like ravenous fire, ready to swallow him whole.

The trees, he thought wildly, abandoning the steering wheel entirely to brace his head with both arms.  I’m going to hit the-

AUGUST: Welcome to Aglionby (unpublished)

There was no ground, no sky, no way to orient himself as he fought his way through the smoke, the darkness, the voices that rolled around him, over him, through him.  His body felt heavy, sluggish, each small movement taking more energy than he was sure he had.

He lifted his hand to his face, knowing it wasn’t the first time he’d done this, either.  The memories fell into place in his mind, identical dominos all collapsing into a single, present moment of uncertain fear.

He was fading.

His skin was transparent; wispy and thin, layered over his bones like an indistinct x-ray.  The bones themselves gave off the faintest glow, making it easier to pick out the tiny veins and arteries that curled through him, rivers that wound their way through the valleys and peaks of his physiology.

This would be great for anatomy class.  The thought startled a desperate, panicked laugh out of him that faded within seconds, and he was left with a terribly hollow feeling.  Something told him he wouldn’t be going back to anatomy class for quite some time.

Noah pulled his hand to his chest, feeling the frantic beat pulsing through him, steadying some wordless fear within him.

Alive.

SEPTEMBER: TRC Rewrite (unpublished)

Adam remembered carefully researching the cheapest way to get to New York, remembered thinking that it would be easy to get lost in the crowd of the city. He remembered slowly filling his backpack with clothes and snacks over several weeks, remembered shoving in his toiletries in the panicked silence of that final night.  He remembered sneaking into his parents’ room and stealing the credit card out of Dad’s wallet.  He remembered biking to the nearest gas station and buying a bag of nuts so he could get enough cash back to fund his trip.

He remembered the terror of the bus ride.  The freedom.  The hope.

He remembered New York, a blurred haze of uncaring crowds and dirty sidewalks.  He’d been one face among millions, impossible to notice, impossible to find.  The sudden release from his life - from what it meant to be Adam - had completely overwhelmed him, and he’d spent most of the first day squatting in a back alley next to a dumpster, struggling to breathe through his decision.  The second day he’d managed to find his way to the library and began the process of figuring out how to live on his own at fourteen without his father finding him.  The third day, someone far more desperate than him had stolen everything he had while he slept in a park, including Dad’s very traceable credit card.  The forth day, the police picked him up and dropped him into Officer Soltero’s sympathetic but useless hands.

OCTOBER: Welcome to Aglionby (unpublished)

Now it was Adam’s turn to look pained.  “I don’t care to hear his tragic backstory.”

“I think it’s related to the ley line,” Gansey said.  “Ley lines.”

Adam paused.  “You didn’t know, did you.  That there were two.”  Gansey shook his head, his perfect lips pulling into a frown.  “Ronan did.”

“I know.  Ronan seems to know quite a bit more than he ever let on.”

“Why didn’t he tell you?  Haven’t you been poking around here for a while with him?”

“Years,” Gansey whispered, his eyes somewhere far away from here, surrounded by memories that Adam couldn’t reach, emotions that he couldn’t fully see.  “But I’m sure he had his reasons.”

Adam couldn’t imagine how it would feel to be searching for something for years, only to find out that your best friend and partner in magic had held the vital clue all along.  Ronan had been by Gansey’s side for every step of the way, as far as Adam could tell, and he’d still chosen not to mention his obvious connection with magic, with the lines.  He’d chosen to keep Gansey searching in the dark while he’d held the light.  Adam couldn’t imagine the anger he would have felt.  Or, he could, which was why Gansey’s utter lack of animosity was both perplexing and alarming.  Adam didn’t trust silence.  Stillness.  Not when there was reason for it to break.

“I’m sure he didn’t,” he said instead.

“No offense, Adam, but you don’t know him very well.”

“No,” he agreed.  “And I don’t care to.”

NOVEMBER: Carry On Rewrite (unpublished)

If I don’t kill Baz, he will kill me.

I’ve always known this.  It’s been the foundational fact of our relationship, the thing that’s driven us to become mortal enemies for the past seven years.  It’s why he and his family have tried to kill me so many times.  It’s why I hate him.

It’s easier to kill someone you hate, especially if that someone is trying to kill you.

I shift my sword into a two-handed grip.

If I don’t kill Baz, he will kill me.

He lunges for me, bloodied hands reaching for my face, fangs reaching for my neck, eyes swirling with a desperate, wild hunger that will only be sated by my blood, my death.

I don’t think I hate Baz.

I don’t think I want to kill him, either.

I don’t think I ever have.

I drop my sword, feeling it vanish - and with it, any real chance of killing the bloodthirsty vampire in front of me.  Feral, ruthless, deadly.  Broken, starving, terrified.

I’d rather save him than hurt him.

I hope I haven’t made a mistake.

DECEMBER: TRC Rewrite (unpublished)

Noah drew close to the girl for the first time in seven years.

It’s starting.

She sat on a crumbling stone wall, tapping her pen against the notebook open in her lap, diligently scribbling names down as the woman called them out. Later, her family would contact their customers if their names appeared, giving them time to get their affairs in order.  It was a macabre job, but Noah didn’t mind.  Death came for them all, and perhaps it was best to be prepared.

He drew even closer, leaning over to read the names scrawled into the book. He wondered if his own name was there, pages and pages back, or if his spirt had failed to walk the line all those years ago.  He was stuck, after all.  The normal rules didn’t seem to apply to him.

Her hand jingled pleasantly as it slid across the page, the multitude of bracelets tinkling like bells in the night.  He looked up into her face as she frowned down at the page, a mixture of frustration and wonder woven into the slant of her lips, begging to be wiped away with a quick joke or a quicker kiss.  Her hair was pulled into a dozen pigtails with a dozen mismatched hair clips, the variety of spikes making her look like a hedgehog.  Noah fondly brushed his fingers against it, smiling at the way the tight, prickly curls tickled his palm.  He had always enjoyed this, even if this was the first time he’d done it.

[overheard-at-yuuei]

Bakugou: Fuck IcyHot!

Kaminari: Yeah, fuck IcyHot!

[later]

Kaminari: Guess who I just hooked up with!

Ashido: Who?!

Kaminari: Todoroki Shouto~

Bakugou: WHAT?!

Kaminari: You said fuck IcyH-

Kaminari: You didn’t mean literally.

Bakugou: NO, I DIDN’T MEAN LITERALLY!

[friedesgreatscythe]

A friend linked me to think because it reminded them of a short story I wrote. ;_;7 The song itself is gorgeous, and it actually reminds me of the novella I’m working on, too (without the obvious burial imagery--although kinda? I might be a one trick writer pony here). I’m posting it to share pretty music and to put it in the tag.

[lunarbuck]

i think i just wrote smut for the first time? its probably shit but it feels good to go out of my comfort zone :) i might post it when i'm done with icyh so we'll see about that lol

[girlcrushau]

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[fablecore]

i carry your heart is so freaking good!! every time i reread it something new sticks out and just makes me fall in love with it more and more. ik it's been a while since it's been updated but i just want to say thanks for writing it <33 i enjoy it very much!!

i really appreciate your sweet message 🤍🤍 it makes me happy to know that icyh is still getting love after all this time. thanks for holding kizuna in your heart and keeping her warm there 💕

[rommahh]

Im so happy to see people reading Icyh. I only imagined like five people to read it but to see 20+ is beyond me. im really grateful.

[randykorn]

a small WIP!

[jay-damon-blog]

I'll Carry You Home - Matt and Jay

There was a light rain coming down on Jay's window as he shuffled around his room, trying to search for his grey beanie and pulling his pants onto his bare legs, readying himself to walk over to the Dio cabin. He hadn't seen Matt in a couple of weeks -- had it really been that long? -- and though he knew he should've felt like he was dying, because he usually was when he went for long periods of time without speaking to Matt, he wasn't this time. And that, strangely, upset him. Jay pulled on his jeans, slipped on his Toms before shoving his head into his grey beanie that peaked out from under his bed, then raced down the stairs and out into the rain, shoving his hands into his pockets and sprinting towards the Dio cabin. Without even knocking, he opened the door and removed his beanie, shaking out his hair, then started towards Matt's room, his footsteps nervous and shaky. Jay simply knocked on the door, biting on his lip, and he glanced towards the empty room that was adjacent to Matt's, feeling sad and a little bit hollow.

[fablecore]

every time i think i've gotten over "I Carry Your Heart" (and it's VERY justifiable hiatus, this is NOT me pressuring at all), my spotify plays "Go Tonight" and i need to lay down and cry about my favorite sisters and all the literary analysis i could do about their love for one another and the life inside one another and Prometheus and how the Ancient Greeks thought the liver was where the proverbial heart&soul lay so vultures were picking out Promethetus' "heart" for his soft-hearted weakness for humans and Frankenstein: The Modern Promethetus and the tragedy of The Creature and Kizuna and and and and aND I JUST NEED TO LAY DOWN AND CRY AGAIN OKAY

ps. which, btw, i HIGHLY recommend this animatic drawn to the song if you have no idea what song/musical im talking about rn

pps. thanks for inspiring me. maybe one day my school-life/health will let me actually start writing everything ive plotted for my own oc fic/s. thanks for helping kill the cringe that lives in me. alas, the universe had to nerf me out of fear. but one day lol

the analysis of this... i'm so sad now. i've never heard this song or musical before! (granted i'm not a musical person, hadestown aside.) it was a lovely song. and thank you for understanding icyh's hiatus. i've found the fandom rather troubling over the years and i also stopped reading the manga quite a while ago.. if i ever go back to kizuna, i want it to be from a place of genuine love and interest and a desire to tell a fully-realized story. and i shall have to gird myself as i research ainu grammar all over again haha.

your post postscript 💓 let me share with you something ocean vuong once said in an interview. “There’s a legend about a Chinese painter who was asked by the emperor to paint a landscape so pristine that the emperor can enter it. He didn’t do a good job, so the emperor was preparing to assassinate him. But because it was his painting, legend goes, he stepped inside and vanished, saving himself. I always loved that little allegory as an artist. Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it.”

[fablecore]

new year's nabemono with the ocs 🥘

[fablecore]

Hi! I won't say anything in case you haven't read it yet, but i just caught up yesterday with BNHA and i was reminded of your fic! especially with the new twist that was introduced this week. Uh hope you're doing well, thank you for all the writing you do (i also read MNP) you're the best and i love your brain 💜💜

i am so terribly behind on bnha and i have no idea what's going on, but i saw it trending so i clicked and saw spoilers... so wild. i'm excited to know what happens next! the art is still really beautiful, i need to pick it up again soon. thank you, i hope you are doing well too! 💐🌙

[fablecore]

May I ask what the status is on “I Carry Your Heart”? Are you on hiatus/lost interest in the fandom? I’m sorry if my phrasing sounds rude/aggressive!

It’s totally valid to take a break from a WIP or if you did abandon it, I just want to know if it was put on hold for a bit or if you are writing a new chapter :)

Anywho! Please take care of yourself and stay safe!

oh you’re not rude at all! icyh is on hiatus because i’m not feeling much inspiration/energy for it, especially since i really want to finish mnp.

as you can probably tell i have quite a few things going on at the moment, but i’m still really happy you’ve enjoyed kizuna’s story! i attempted to learn a tiny bit of ainu grammar in the shizunai dialect (it was the only comprehensive ainu language book i could find online), and researching ainu history in order to write kizuna was... emotionally very moving. i think anyone who’s a fan of manga or japan should take time to learn about kayano shigeru, his book our land was a forest, and the ongoing obstacles of modern day ainu rights.