This was originally uploaded to DeviantART on September 1, 2021.

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A double birthday bash! 🎂🎂

This is a day-early birthday present for LilArrin and a couple-weeks-early birthday present for @SDragon01, two of my closest friends and two of the first people I met on DeviantART. I've known the latter since 2010, the former since around 2011. Alot has happened in the ten and eleven years since we all met each other... I graduated high school, I got my first job, I lost family members, and so have they. Through it all, the two of them have been by my side. We've spent almost every day together since we all met, they offered me advice when I needed it, they've watched me fall away from art and then come back, able to improve and make things like this.

Simon is one of the first people to have found me on DeviantART, he started commenting on my art, and would then introduce me to the world of RPing, where alot of my creativity in both character development and worldbuilding would stem from. It was an interest I never knew I really had until he came in. The Zergling I've known since the days of YoshiArt.com, a website that has long been shut down. It was how I recognized him on DeviantART, where I started commenting on his work, it spawned conversations, and eventually, being able to meet three different times.

To be honest, I was a little nervous about uploading this at all. A few years ago, I had idiotically followed someone else who wrote a journal rating their friends, and did it myself. I was afraid of having that comparison again, because I have met so many others in that time, who all deserve an equal amount of praise; I cannot thank each and every one of you that I've met on this site or somewhere on the Internet because of your kindness and friendship, and if I had the time and ability to regularly make these kinds of gifts for each of you, I would do so in a heartbeat. But if there's anything I could make for anyone, or anytwo in this case, it had to be the ones who no matter what, no matter how I feel, what I think, what crazy idea I might conjure up, I can always come back to these two. They have my back, and I hope they know I have theirs.

Simon, Zergy, I love both of you with all my heart. You both are two of my greatest friends and we may have had our issues here and there, there's been nothing that we couldn't solve and figure out. Your time, kindness, honesty, openness, friendship has meant the world to me and for the last ten years - an amount of time that continues to become harder to fathom as it goes on - and I hope it continues to remain strong for another ten and beyond. If you have not done so, please go to their pages and wish them both a happy birthday, and check out some of their art and ideas. 💕

Thank you for looking and reading, have a good one!