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I do not know what to say except thank you. This has been a beautiful ride, I have made so many incredible memories with you all. I have laughed at countless comments, made my best friend here... Solar Flare was something I never ever expected to bloom. I wrote it to combat writers block, explore new themes, and most of all share fragments about myself with strangers. Never in a million years would I imagine the support I received. I adored every minute of it. But the time has come to say goodbye to this chapter.
I am truly grateful for all the love over the years with my battles and weaknesses.
It is no surprise that throughout these years I have disappeared on and off. I struggled with addictions and depression. I feel apart, unable to overcome, it came to a point where it was just relapses after relapses. I will not get into too many details but I will say this, I am over one year sober and clean and I am ready to truly live. I have never been truly transparent, mostly out of fear and shame. Here was a 14/15 year old fanfic writer, trying to create something whilst falling apart everyday.
Even in my absence I have never forgotten Solar Flare and the hope it gave me. It gave me a reason to live, that there is people who know nothing about me yet care? I never experienced anything like that before.
I have made peace with myself as a whole, whether that be my past, my sexuality, these past years in general. And much like Solar Flare I died too, only to be born again into the role I was meant to be.