This is really obnoxious seeing as it's not an actual chapter update - I'm sorry for that. I just wanted to say thank you - for all of your reviews, they make such a difference, truly, but someone left one as a guest a couple of weeks ago on this story, right in the midst of me wondering whether I should keep writing and if anyone was really still reading. I was having one of those all too familiar bouts of self-doubt as to whether I had anything to offer here and was missing Rayna and Deacon and everything that comes with them, and wasn't sure if I was just sitting there feeling that way long after everyone else who once loved them had moved on, and if writing them had become just for me. I never want to stop, their story has seeped into my bones, so to speak, and I want to keep contributing to it in my own little way, especially now that the show is done... or to me, a year and a half after it was done. I miss it all so much and it makes me so sad, but to me it's far sadder to think of letting them go. Your review, whoever you may be, got me smack bang at the right moment, and said exactly what I needed to hear - you essentially summed up how I feel too, and gave me the encouragement not to quit. I really, really appreciate that.
I also have a question - there are so many things I still want to write, I have so many ideas for new stories and half-finished chapters for old ones that I've never posted. Queen of not finishing things, but mostly because I don't like endings - the act of something so final has never sat well with me. I wanted to ask, then, if there are old ones anyone might want to keep reading, and which, and maybe I'll pick them back up.
Guest, whoever you are (and I think you may have left reviews on some of my other stories too): thank you. DM me? And everyone else, thank you, because you really can't know how much it means to hear from you.