thank you so much, it really means a lot to me that you love the fic and want to advocate for it!! but i also wanna be clear that i don't think it's your responsibility, or the responsibility of anyone else who loves the fic, to do more for it just because i feel a certain type of way about it! i of course deeply appreciate any love and support that the fic gets, and i appreciate it extra because of the place that fic holds for me, but i don't want anyone to feel guilty about their response to it just because i've got a feeling 💕 honestly, i've found that any bad or vulnerable feelings i have about my writing don't really correlate very well with how popular it is or how loud people are about it! if my brain wants to feel like a fic is unloved, it's gonna feel like that no matter what (i've even had those feelings about certain takedown chapters, and that's my most popular fic by far lol!) and objectively, how good it felt has a lot of really good engagement! all of my fics are pretty popular by any engagement metric. i just feel very squishy about hgif because it puts me out of my comfort zone and is difficult to write, so it's really easy for me to tell myself stories about it, y'know. i share those feelings sometimes to explain myself better, but the feelings aren't a call to action or something you need to fix for me, i promise! i do secretly love to know that you prefer hgif to takedown though lol! you're going against the grain 🫡 appreciating the deep cuts 🫡🫡