Hi! I followed some of your azumanaga daioh works ages ago on ff.net... gosh when was that... 2004? 2005? I mostly lurked but I did write god awful azumanaga fanfiction once in a while and always loved your works, and the stuff cartoonlion and anime-rebirth wrote. That was so long ago, idk if you even remember them lmao. Anyway I was feeling nostalgic and hunted you down here like a year ago just to see if you were still kicking and have been quietly following and. I'm so glad to have been turned on to tsukutabe, it's been immensely impactful on me and is now something I hold very close to my heart. I deeply enjoy seeing your posts, thank you for all the ways you've influenced me back since I was like 12 to now.
2006 was when I got into Azu and, therefore, released my fics and art to the masses lol. People have come and gone, I do remember those names, yeah, but I'm still here...being me. Whatever that may mean, based on when folks found me lol
There's a funny Azudai to Tsukutabe pipeline with some of my longest-following fans. I guess it's the slice-of-life-ness and the fact folks who liked my works wanted yuri. Azu was all fandom yuri but Tsukutabe gives us a canon couple! And it has the same vibes as the stuff I put out, I guess? It hits some niiice notes. I saw myself in Nomoto. Even if she had her awakening much later in life, a lot of her backstory and how she fell in love with Kasuga is SO ME. It's nice to have some acespec rep, possibly neurodivergent, too! I hc Nomoto and Kasuga as such, though I feel like Kasuga is supposed to be just not named outright. But I digress
I'm glad you loved my old works and I'm glad you seem to be enjoying what I create now! Let's get hyped for Tsukutabe Vol 6 and the resuming of the story this summer! 🙌🏽