HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIN!!!!! i don't even know what to say rn i am actually delirious and it is very late and i've been working on the concept of this website for i don't even know how long, actually, and i know seeing it come to fruition will be a sweet sweet thing. i really hope you love it. by the time you see this i will likely have had this website tested by siblings and friends and stared at it like a million times and probably thought i was going to trash it and do something else my fifth iteration in. there is probably going to be miles of search history of just me trying to debug my own code lmao, but it will have been well worth it because it's for you and you deserve things that take hard work and time and lots and lots of debugging.

like. i love you, you know?

i can't believe you're eighteen. i have had the grandest kind of luck, to have known you since you were thirteen, and holy fuck how down in the dumps were we back then? i can't say you don't still have some of the worst days of your life occasionally, but also, dude, christ, am i glad you're not thirteen and alone anymore. you have such a good circle of friends that have your back and a really wonderful boyfriend and hearing about your life right now/over these past few months, even with all the shitty ups and downs that come with being alive and in the world, i'm just. i'm so happy for you, dude, that you are who you are and this is who you have with you while you are this person. i'm so proud of you and so happy for you. you've survived the whole of high school and now you have sooo much more fun ahead of you and so many cool professors and weird college schedules and impromptu adventures to be had and more friends to be made and all these simple joys that are part of being alive.

i am so glad that i got to know you. you're this persistent burning star in my life and i would have known you across universes and i would have missed you even if you weren't even there to miss and i don't know star metaphors right now but i do know you are one of the best things that's ever happened to me and i love you more than words can ever ever describe.

anyway. this seems so so serious next to this colorful blast of a website so i'll leave you to explore it. breaking time and space, always, just to spend more time with you.

- ink !!