Give Me A Label (I’ll Make Confetti) - a review(ish) post for IBegToDreamAndDiffer
I just wanted to tell you that you have completely changed my life (for the better).
I have been reading Give Me A Label for about two years and I finished it yesterday (crying - I might add).
I read chapters 1-90 twice while I was waiting for updates (I didn’t mean it as rude as it sounds) and I swear to God it’s better than any book that has ever been published!
When I first started reading GMAL I was in a very dark place of depression and I really had nothing to look forward to besides reading another chapter of your amazing story. I read it at school during boring lessons, I read it in the bus, I read it literally everywhere. I was always looking forward to the evenings, because they meant staying up way past my bedtime and reading about those brilliant punks.
Speaking of punks, you also re-introduced me to the world of Punk Rock and I am sooooo incredibly thankful for that. I always liked that kind of music, but it was only after I started looking up nearly every chapter title and ended up downloading most of the songs, discovering a hell lot of new bands and completely changing my lifestyle for the better that I really fell in love with that kind of music.
Without you and GMAL I would still be my depressed 14 year-old self, listening to whatever crap is currently in the charts and trying to impress everyone around me.
I also introduced a few of my friends to GMAL, one of them got really into it and also joined the Sherlock Fandom, just because of GMAL.
We even have GMAL inside jokes, always compare stuff to GMAL, heck we even text each other as Greg and Mycroft. Whenever we have classes together, we pass each other notes in the name of Gregory and Mickey, even trying to imitate their handwriting.
I know you did not invent Mycroft and Greg or Sherlock and John, that’s why GMAL is still fanfiction, but you created those characters in a new and truly amazing way and I love you so much for that.
I am having a full on fangirl attack right now, but I just wanted to let you know how much impact you have had on my life with your story.
I like to dream of GMAL being published as a proper physical book in the future and me buying a thousand copies of it, just to support you.
The ending made me cry, not because it was sad (’cause it wasn’t), but because it’s over. I always wondered how the ending would be and it’s safe to say that it’s everything I could have ever dreamed of.
I truly hope that you will write and upload Johnlock’s side of the story, but please don’t feel pressured to do so.
This all sounds weird and cringy, but believe me, I’m being 100% honest when I say:
You writing Give Me A Label changed a big part of my life for the absolute better and I am infinitively (does that word even exist) thankful for that. I adore your work, you have a better style of writing stories than many authors I own books of have and I really really really really really love Give Me A Label (I’ll Make Confetti).
I hope this made you smile at least a little bit and I hope you have a great day and an awesome life!!
♥♥ Love you xxxxxxxxxxxxx ♥♥