You don't even understand what you've done to me by writing Mom's Boyfriend on AO3.
I don't even like BillDip, I don't even think it's a good ship but I came across it and gave it a try and holy shit it fundamentally changed me as a human being yknow?
I need to log on more often to tumblr haha.
But thank you, Anon! This was very sweet of you to say and send! I've been seeing a lot more comments on MB recently, and I'm genuinely amazed that it's starting to gain some popularity again even through all these years. It's also really surprising to me how many people have told they've connected to the story and how it's shaped how they view others in their life or changed their perspectives for trials they are going through. And even if they never shipped Billdip, they gave it a shot, and it changed them in some way. Which is always inspiring as an author or an artist when your creations can carry a message and appropriately display it and help others find common ground.
I don't ship Billdip all that much anymore, when I first started that fanfic I had a very traumatizing experience and needed an outlet for the emotions I was experiencing and trying to work through, which was primarily why I even started writing MB in the first place through high school. I had been writing for the Fandom already and this story was a means for me to gain back some of the control I had lost, however small it was. Which is why I think it resonates with a lot of people, even if the ship isn't their cup of tea because the emotions I poured into the characters were my own being intertwined.
I know Dipper is a character from Gravity Falls, but somehow he became a character of my very own when I was writing MB, which doesn't make a lot of sense when put into words, but maybe you can understand it somehow? I don't know.
But I'm so very grateful and thankful to those who have read Mom's Boyfriend, whether you ship Billdip or not.
I hope to be able to one day bring this story home and finish it out so you all can have closure and the proper ending. But I have no idea when that might be. I'm kinda retired in the fanfic world right now, haha. But the future is vast, and life is long. So who knows?
I wish you all the best and all my love and all my heartfelt gratitude ππ
Thank you.









