This is a doodle I committed to (cw: mildly suggestive). While I was drawing, I didn’t intend to reference the experience I mentioned. And yet here are the colors. I’m delighted they found their way on the page after all

First off, a disclaimer. This is not about the praise. I am deeply satisfied with and positively impacted by the quality of support I received and keep receiving. I feel no need for this to be scaled up.

I wrote the story for myself in the first place but there’s this yearning to experience it through the eyes of others. The story is a magic circle I created to invite others to play. It takes certain skill to make a believable magic circle. And it takes players’ generosity to choose to suspend disbelief. And the rest is straight up miracles.

I wonder if in my excitement to write I ended up not leaving enough space for the reader. Or if my inexperience introduces too much friction to the story.