LadyYomi

OMG! Speaking of Wattpad, I just found out that its official "Social Themes" account posted an autism-related article that I wrote over July Disability Pride Month! 🥺💖 It's titled "Schrödinger's Autistic Person", and I submitted it to "The Unsaid Tales", a magazine that invited disabled writers to share their experiences (in 500 words or fewer) in order to raise awareness, but I wasn't sure it was written well enough for them to accept it, so having it published made my day! I wrote about how my autism, which is highly visible in real life (this being one of the reasons I was diagnosed in childhood), is met with a completely opposite reaction online. 😅 When I'm here, I can tell how much people invalidate autistic folks who, as opposed to me, are able to mask their autism enough for others to accuse them of faking it for attention. 💔 People only see the best of us online; the skills we've honed through blood, sweat, and tears, the messages we've proofread ten times before hitting send,

🌟I want to share this achievement with you guys, because it's only been a week since I posted "A Friend Like You" (my historical fantasy/OC-centric samurai fanfic) on Royal Road, and it's already received its first review! 🙌 I'm glad I dared to give it a try (after hearing good things about RR in the Wattpad community 💛), since character development, slow building, and researching the historical period are the aspects I work hardest on, so I'm unspeakably happy that they were praised. The "You do not need to know Hakuouki to feel it" part also brought me a lot of relief, haha, since I worked hard on the introductory indexes (currently available on Wattpad and RR 📚✨) so that fandom-blind readers who don't know the anime that inspired my fic can follow the plot without issues, so hearing that it can be understood, whether or not the indexes are consulted, is super comforting. 🙏 (English isn't my native language either, so that 4.5/5 grammar score makes me feel like doing a happy

Hi! I hope you're having a nice weekend! 👋😄 Today I'm gonna show you a couple of awesome fanarts of my Dragon Ball Xenoverse OC, Rice Ritz, that I received from @ArtisanComics, because I think my girl Rice turned out super cool and looks like a true badass in their style, hehe. 🙌🔥 Getting fanart of my OCs never fails to make my day, so thanks to you all for continuing to shower my dear fictional children with love; you guys are the reason why hanging out on DeviantArt still feels worth it!

🌈Happy #PrideMonth everyone! 🏳️‍🌈 To celebrate, I'm reposting these works featuring some of my LGBT+ OCs with their canon love interests! Sadie Darcy is a lesbian and I ship her with Aerith from Final Fantasy 7, while Tani Sanjuro is bisexual and I ship him with Sanosuke from Hakuouki. It is my most sincere wish that all non-straight forms of love are just as respected, represented, and embraced as the former, since there's nothing more important in this world than loving and being loved. 🤝💖 Love heals the soul, provides comfort, and fosters personal growth, so loving according to one's sexuality should be considered an inalienable human right. Here's one of my favorite quotes (by Harvey Milk) on the subject: "If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities, the expression of love, then life itself loses its meaning." [GIF]