thank you for all the nice messages everyone. it really does mean a lot. you know what they say; when one door closes, another opens.
a reminder that i'm going to be posting most of my stuff on ao3 now, but might update here. i'm going to be starting another byler multi-chap titled 'touch like velvet' in a week or so. keep an eye out on ao3 under the user ciders if you dig :-) - v