#wow!!!!!

hi! i’ve been wanting to say this for a really long time but never knew how since it might come off as me venting just because it mentions bad things. but i promise it’s a positive thing 😭 you really helped me. this will probably be a mile long and i’m really taking a gamble posting about this kind of thing not on anon but !!! here we go

if i’m being honest, in 2024 your art was genuinely a big part of what saved my life.

i didn’t know i was a csa survivor until last year because of amnesia + no one else having a clue it happened. suddenly remembering bits and pieces of it was a very disorienting and confusing experience, and i didn’t really know how to cope at all. realizing it really changes your perspective on everything for a long time (atleast in my case) and with how stigmatized it is it can be really lonely and discouraging to talk about. i didn’t know where to start and i was super depressed for a while. i felt like i had nowhere to turn but inward and had a difficult time trusting anyone no matter how close i was to them or how much i cared about them

but i had the owl house as a special interest at the time. i loved it more than anything and it was a massive comfort. i already related to a lot of the characters, mainly hunter, before i even knew what happened to me. (honestly, i was kinda more hyperfixated on hunter than the show itself 😭 he was just. The Character™️) and i submerged myself in anything related to the show for a really long time because i knew it was the main thing that made me euphoric and could distract me in a safer way

and then i found your art while looking through toh fanart!!

i think i first saw the post about hunter telling willow what belos did to him and her reassuring him?? and that just about made me sob (/pos) because in my mind i was like “!!! HEY!! he’s like me!! he’s my favorite and he’s just like me fr!! he was brave enough to tell someone and it ended well!!!”

that’s a shortened much more silly version of it but that’s the easiest way to explain it HDHFJF

seriously though, it had a huge impact on me. because telling people about that kind of thing is so tough and scary but that specific post really helped me register in my brain that there are gonna be people who will listen to you no matter what and you’ll be okay in the end no matter how much has happened. hunter has people that love him and i have people that love me!! you have people that love you!! we will all have someone who cares about us and will listen, even if it takes a while to find the right people and heal

i do not have a special interest in the owl house anymore (i don’t think) but i still adore the show and your art for it as well. your art in general makes me happy, no matter what it is! seeing you work on stuff like lupus automata and other ocs is really awesome because you put so much care into it and it’s all just really cool

anyways, i can’t really thank you enough. your art is a major chunk of what changed my mindset in trusting people enough to tell them what happened to me and being able to set actual boundaries so i feel safe. your hunter and raine posts regarding sa honestly saved my life and made me feel less alone as well as helped bring me out of that suicidal self-isolating mindset i had. i always look forward to seeing more of that with your other characters :,] things are tough but i am still so so happy and grateful for everything and nothing is going to change that

Ohhhh my god wow I don’t even know what to say,,,, I’m so so happy that my work was so comforting for you ans helped you heal and!!!!!!!! auauauaaa!!!!!! ;_;;;; this is why I do what I do!!!!! Thank you so much my heart is so full!!!!! I’m so glad you’re doing better now and !!!!!!!!! ah!!!!!

Arisa during the height of her "this is fine, I am exactly where I want to be, manipulating someone I sincerely love into helping me destroy her mom by pretending to be a perfect girlfriend is NOT self-harm" pre-reveal era wakes up in an alternate universe where she and Lalin are not married because they're still sneaking around, because their mothers successfully ran away together with both of them in tow when they were kids, and now they've grown up as pseudosisters and don't know how to tell their moms that pseudocest is best.

I feel sorry for Tim (⁠´⁠；⁠ω⁠；⁠｀⁠) I understand that Luthor puts his children's needs first, but repeatedly telling the kidnapped child he has abandonment and attention issues is insane! And then Lex wonders why Tim doesn't trust him—it's simply hilarious.