I've learned over the past two weeks that I'm awful at using this site for what its meant for, but I wanted to thank you somewhere my nerves wouldn't immediately combust, so... here we are?

After being hit with inspiration I'm honestly still trying to process, I decided to finally change how I present myself online, in part as a way of proving that I want to change and be more open with others in spite of how shy and nervous I normally am. But I was still worried about how it would make me look to the people who already knew me under the old handle. That me dredging up hidden feelings, thoughts or preferences I'm not even sure my current friends would've expected would put them off, or if it would make me look like I was just jumping on a bandwagon for the sake of it.

But the thought of how brave you've been in coming out and doing what makes you happiest after following you via Gigaboots for so long helped push me past my own head and take another step forward, small as it may be.

It's led to me meeting a frankly dizzying number of incredible people that have uplifted many of my recent evenings and nights and I can only hope to get to know better over time. And even getting to interact with some of them to varying degrees of success! But if it weren't for you and a small, precious handful of others in that crowd, I'm not sure I would've been willing to pull the trigger on all of this to the degree I really needed to.

So, thank you, Noel~! You're so goddamn cool and sweet, and I hope all your days are filled with even more and more happiness~