Apparently emerald gets like three turns as the gemstone of anniversaries, but in this case it's 20 years as a creative of any stripe.

Which is a self-serious way of "i spent 5 years making fanfic before my own stuff that stood on it's own, ergo it gets a less impressive pic". Still, worth celebrating since it's a rounder, nicer number...but certainly not as important to even me. Love it all the same.

Thank you once again to  TemporaryWizard for bearing with me over all of this. I can't say that enough.