Hi fairies!

I hope your March was an amazing start to the spring season! 🌸

I have to admit that my March was absolutely wonderful, and that is in big part thanks to you all!

First, the launch of the new ETI discord server was an absolute success, aah 🥹 I have been wanting to create a Discord for the longest time so we can all chat a bit more freely, but I never had the time to really get into it! Thanks to Mea, who has been working tirelessly on the server, it finally happened. 🥰 I hope you all feel comfortable there and please don't be shy to chat with everyone! :3

Something exciting for ETI's future also happened—we finally have an official proof reader! Up until now many of you know I've been working all on my own on ETI, but thanks to the consistent support of my dear Patrons, I now have the funds to get some additional help 🥹

There are two people helping me colour, and now someone to help me write! For those of you who worry, rest assured nothing much will change! Everything is still written and drawn by me, and the style of neither the art or the writing will change at all! It's just really nice to have second pair of hands and eyes to count on 🥹

Your continued support is keeping this story (and me lol) alive and I can't be more grateful!! 😭 Thank you for believing in me! 🌸🤍👉🏻👈🏻

Another change that might be happening very soon, is that I may be moving 👀

I'm currently still living with my mom and work from my room, the same room I've been in since I was born 😆 I love being at home, but I have to admit it's been getting a little depressing being stuck in the same small room all day and night. So I've been looking for my own place and I might have found something! Nothing is certain yet, but if all goes well I should be moving out in a couple of months! 27 really is a good age to finally move out so please pray for me! 😂 I'd finally have my own little office to work on ETI, aaahh! Truly a dream come true!!

I'll of course keep you all updated when the time comes 🤍

🦋 Embers to Inferno novel 🦋

Another exciting new development, is that I have slowly started brainstorming about turning ETI into a published novel! This does mean that it can't be Winx sadly 🥹 Not to worry though, the original ETI webtoon is going nowhere and is far from over!! :))

What this means is that I believe in the story of ETI to be able to stand on its own without needing Winx Club! Just like how many fanfictions are being turned into published works these days. Of course, due to copyright reasons a lot will have to be changed and rewritten, but I'm very excited about this challenge!

I've just been thinking about my future a lot these days, and while I will always love Winx and continue creating for it (like my own reboot webtoon) I also want to try new things! I want to try and get my name out there a bit more, further than just the Winx community. I think writing my own book inspired by ETI will be a good starting point for this. I've already started coming up with new names for the characters and started brainstorming on what the first chapter would be like. It will be totally different from how ETI started since I can't just start a book without any context 😂

My question to you all is: what do you think are some good new names for Valtor and Bloom? I've already decided on some things, but I'd still really like your opinions on this! 👀I struggle the most with Bloom's name, her original name is just too perfect for her 😭 So let me know your ideas! I'd love to have my supporters feedback during this journey🤍

When the first chapter is written I'll upload it for you all to read and share your feedback and opinions, so I can take you all along on this new adventure 🥹

Now, I did not want to end this post without addressing what's been going on the past week. You probably have seen my post on Discord and Instagram, and I wanted to quickly go over what happened with you all since some of you may have seen my message in the Sparxshipping server as well.

I joined that server a long time ago, in the hopes of finding some friends within the community. Over the time that I was there I noticed that I was often not treated the same as other people, because of ETI's success. I would get told that I need to be careful with my words since 'my fans look up to me' I was a bit taken aback by this, because I don't see you as fans. I think that word is often used more derogatory than anything, like we're not the same. I see you all as my readers and generous supporters, many of you even as friends. In my eyes we're all people, I just happen to be a person who posted something online.

Ever since then I've been slowly removing myself from conversations in the server. I wasn't allowed to share opinions in the same way as the others it seemed. For example, I got a strike for sharing a Tiktok video made about me, hating on ETI. I got a strike because my actions could lead to people attacking them. The fact that I was attacked first didn't matter. To some degree I understand, but I just wanted to share something that happened to me with some friends. I never asked anyone to go leave a hateful comment.

Last week, it was brought to my attention that someone was talking about me on Tumblr. They didn't mention my name, but it was very clear the post was about me. This led to me making a statement on Discord and Instagram, clearing my name. Because a lot of things were said about me that simply were not true.

The person who posted this about me was a mod for the Sparxshipping server. The other mod also made a post agreeing with her on Tumblr. At that point I knew I was not welcome there, and that all my feelings and suspicions of being held to a different standard were true.

I wrote my last message and left the group.

Later I was contacted by Rist, the owner of the server, who apologized to me for what happened. There is absolutely no bad blood between me and Rist, and I wanted to make this clear since some of you may have read what we both wrote in the server and it was not clear that we are still on good terms from those messages alone.

What really bothers me the most about all of this is that the person knew where to find me, we could have talked about this and left it at that. There was no need for a public post, there was no need for her to say untrue and hurtful things about me. I know ETI has gotten a big following over the years, but that does not mean I'm not just a normal creator like any other fanfic writer. I'm not famous, I don't have a PR team, I read everything being said about me.

I don't know why she felt the need to attack me like she did, and I will probably never know. Even now she still chooses to ignore my messages while actively answering people on Tumblr. I had to ask Rist herself to make her stop, because I was not speaking about her at all except for my one post. Luckily this did seem to help, and I'm very grateful to Rist for helping!

I am okay! This does not discourage me or has me doubting myself, I just think it's sad that behaviour like this is so normalized on the internet. Especially since we're both adults.

Thank you for reading! I just didn't want to leave you all in the dark and I wanted to reassure you I am in fact doing more than okay :)) My March was truly great and one person's unnecessary opinion about me does not drown out you guys' voices! I know my intentions, and so do you, and that's all I need 🤍

Love you!