hi my lovelies,
i’ve been staring at my screen for a long while that my words feel clumsy right now, but i didn’t want to disappear without leaving u something honest.
i mentioned on my alt acc, through the awards, that i’ve been going through a terrible tragedy in my personal life. i have been dealing with it the best way i know how trying to put one foot in front of the other each day.
for a while now i’ve felt like i’m standing at the bottom of the sea. everything is quiet down here, heavy and blue. sound moves slowly and light barely reaches. i keep looking up and i can see the surface somewhere far above me, wavering and bright, but for the moment i don’t have the breath to swim toward it.
this space has meant more to me than i can say. every comment, every reader who stayed up late turning my pages, every person who felt something in the quiet spaces between the words — u made this little corner of the world feel warm.
but right now i need to be somewhere quieter than the internet, somewhere i can listen for my own voice again. i think sometimes the only way back to the surface is to stop fighting the water for a little while and simply float, even if it feels like sinking.
pls don’t worry about me too much. tides change. light moves, and the sea is deep but it is not endless.
life is long, and i need to take my time figuring that out.
thank u all for reading my stories, for caring about the characters as if they were real, for leaving pieces of urselves in the margins. it has meant everything to me.
take care of urselves, keep writing, keep imagining!