DLV SKETCHBOOK

These two years were really intense for me. I already started 2020 with my mental health a disaster (to keep it simple haha) the beginning of high school... a global pandemic.... well you definitely can see where i am going. In 2020, I ended up driving some friends away. And by the fact i stayed all the time at home bc of the quarantine, I lost contact with a lot of people. Dealing with school, dealing with my family, dealing with the end of my friendships and all those changes together, made me become more and more isolated. In resume, I lived these two years with some depressive episodes and anxiety crisis (wow haha this got heavy quick huh!!)

And then in July of 2020, I saw this silly frog show in my timeline. In 2019, I was already interested in the story but unfortunately, couldn't catch up bc it didn't aired in my country and finding links for it was HARD! But then I discovered s2 was airing and thats when it my love for this show began. I started to see myself more and more in the characters, SPECIALLY THE CALAMITY TRIO, and all their personal journeys were so much like mine that I couldn't help but imagine them going through the same things as me. It helped me feel less lonely and cope with everything. It was my safe space when things where too overwhelming.

Now, in 2022, with life going back to normal, while I was watching the last few episodes of s3, I noticed something.

Things changed. It's my final year in high school, it's the year I begin to do uni applications. A cycle in my life is ending at the same time the show is ending and God, I can't be more grateful for having had this amazing cartoon to help me overcome a little of all this, because while things are not good.... or.. TOTALLY good yet.... things are becoming better!!

Seeing these characters that I related so hard to the point I was anxious about their endings, changing and growning up, made me realized I changed and grew up too!

These characters are moving on with their lives and so am i!!

It's hard to accept when a good thing ends, but I am glad for everything it done for me. I met a lot of amazing people in this fandom that kept me company, my art style developed SUPER fast by how much fanart I made and I gained a lot of followers too!