okay so ik i kinda disappeared from the face of the earth but recent new followers and votes on my book have really motivated me to show my face and explain a couple of things. firstly, i have been steuggling with my weight, i am 2 st underweight and that has massively affected my health, both physically and mentally; some mornings i wake up and feel so weak that i can't help but burst into tears. i am having CBT sessions and my therapist has noticed symptoms of severe depression and anxiety, low self esteem as well as lack of emotional resilience. secondly, i am in my final year of schooling (year 13 in the uk) and am due to take exams for four a levels and an extra gcse in 3-4 months, so the stress is real. if anybody is interested, i'm looking to study classics at uni, i've had offers from ucl, king's, bristol and royal holloway but have been but on cambridge's version of a waiting list so am most likely to be going to ucl. thirdly, in the summer, my main goal is to write. write anything. i have lost touch with the creative part of myself and want nothing more than the free time to just write and write and write until i can no longer feel my fingers. one of my goals is to write a 1000 line mini epic poem based off of Virgil's Aeneid, basically it'll be all about Dido's sister Anna rebuilding Carthage from nothing and fending off Iarbas and basically being a girlboss. finally, and most importantly, i'm so grateful to the people following me and voting on my creations as it makes me feel like i have a purpose, other than to study and complete my a levels. i have some mocks in the upcoming weeks but following that i will have some free time before my exams, free time in which i wish to begin fulfill the promises i made to my 15 year old self about writing the stories that i either dreamed up or shifted to. if nobody sees this, oh well. but if somebody sees this, i love you <3