#and to boom and abby who have had to deal with my shit daily in real time

[hella1975]

hello bestie!!! this is a very special good morning ask because as you may or may not know, it is the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of taob!!! to celebrate, hannah thought we should steal abby's idea of getting a cameo from dante so we've been secretly organizing that for almost a whole month!! a very special thank you to abby for the idea and the following people for donating five dollars: hannah (verdanthoney), boom (boomerang109), emi (emi_artblock), espí (drama-queen-supreme), jo (lessons-from-moths), clara (claracaboozle), emi (emi_artblock) mari (sifu-sugarqueen), nikki (im-a-sokka-for-you-ooh), mar (wrong-way-maremi), abby (abby420) someone who donated under the name oatmilkmocha who i can't remember who they are (FEEL FREE TO COMMENT, MYSTERY PERSON. I'M SORRY), and kai donated anonymously but i'm calling her out for a thank you anyway. emi's already been listed twice (yes that was intentional, as was listing abby again since she was both the genius with the idea AND one of the people who helped fund it), but i'm mentioning emi a third time because she donated a lot and we appreciate it very much. so yeah, in the attached video dante is only going to thank me and hannah (which is my fault cause i'm dumb and don't understand forms) BUT it's from way more people than just us, it's from everybody i listed here and (in spirit) it's from the whole cult. we hope you take dante's words about appreciating yourself and your writing to heart. it takes a truly special person to accidentally become a cult leader by drunk posting a fic, but it doesn't surprise me in the least that you did it--you're just that amazing. there are absolutely no words for how grateful i am to have you in my life and how beautiful i think you are (inside and out). this is long enough, so i'm going to let zuko take it away before i get too sappy: https://v.cameo.com/J1aMF8qjsib

It is currently 10:56am. I am hungover and sat on the edge of my friend’s bathtub because the bathroom is the only place I could sneak off to to listen to this (and when I say I ZOOMED off when I realised what the fuck you guys had done). I genuinely don’t know what to say. I guess when I clicked on the link I sort of was still waiting for it to be a joke..... but then it wasn’t..... and Zuko’s voice is just casually saying ‘hella’ and ‘redemption is a human word’. I about near lost my shit.

This is one of the kindest, most thoughtful things anyone has ever done for me, and I wish I could convey how much this means but I am genuinely speechless. I’m shaking and yes I did cry, which we all know isn’t something I do easily. But hearing ‘keep writing, keep writing’ from the voice of a character I have loved and have taken to create a story that so many people found friendship through - that was the part that made me full level sob in this here bathtub. I’m sure I look a sight. Sorry to my friend’s parents.

You guys mean the world to me. It’s taob’s one year anniversary and I genuinely didn’t think anyone had noticed, and I didn’t mind that!! I almost didn’t want it to be a big deal!!! But here you were, planning this behind my back, spending actual hard earned money (how dare you) on me, to create this beautiful gift. I will never forget this. I’ve been having a difficult time at the moment (AND YOU TOLD DANTE BASCO ABOUT IT YOU WANKERS) but this has picked me up so quickly that I might have whiplash.

Again, no words here can actually describe how much this means to me. I love every single person seeing this so fucking much. And for those of you responsible ( @boomerang109 @abby420 @verdanthoney @sifu-sugarqueen @emi-artblock @im-a-sokka-for-you-ooh @drama-queen-supreme @claracaboozle @hi-raethia @lessons-from-moths and I cant seem to tag the other two but this is absolutely aimed at you), you guys have made my day, and possibly my entire year. I need to reiterate that this is one of the kindest things anyone’s ever done for me, which I feel gets thrown around a lot but I genuinely mean it. This is so thoughtful and impossible and it’s from a bunch of people on the internet who owe me nothing. That’s what jars me about this. This isn’t like real life where there’s social standards and if you don’t get someone a gift it’s frowned upon. You all genuinely could have just not done anything and no one would have looked at you any different, but instead you came together and you did this amazing thing and I just. Thank you, thank you, thank you

I love you all so much. Happy one year anniversary to taob. I hope that even when this story finishes (not anytime soon lbh), the cult continues strong xxxx

#literally crying in a bath rn fuck you fuck you fuck you #taob nation/the cult/the community made here has always been what I’m most proud of here #and this gift the way you all came together #it’s a perfect representation of that #it’s just #you guys mean a lot to me ig #and to boom and abby who have had to deal with my shit daily in real time #I adore you. you’re both beautiful and lovely and you deserve the world #I’ll never forget this #even if I stop writing fic or grow up and get an office job #I will always remember this I cannot express that enough #thank you - from the bottom of my heart #and ty dante basco wtaf time to rewatch this until I can quote it word for word #taob #happy 1 year my baby I do love u as much as I joke #dante basco #?????? I’m losing my fucking mind