Thank you for 2025 — a love letter ❤️ (Patreon)

To my dear, wonderful, incredible Patreon supporters 🫶🏻

You were actually supposed to see a small video of me in your feed right now — me looking super nervous, but even more happy, smiling at you and thanking you for all the love and support you gave me throughout 2025.

But well… my immune system apparently decided to take a little vacation too, (Yayy 😂😭) so today you’re getting written words instead — still straight from the heart and filled with nothing but gratitude ☺️🫶🏻

(I’ll try not to ramble too much, but fair warning to all my fellow lazy readers, haha!)

2025 has been one of the most exciting, stressful, beautiful and terrifying years of my life all at once. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever had to make this many decisions in such a short amount of time, or plan, work and learn as much as I did over the past months 🫣

At the beginning of the year I finally decided to fully commit myself to my art. With the launch of the Charming Collector merch tier in January and the setup of my new online shop, I gathered all my courage and thought: Okay. Now you’re doing this. All in!! If it doesn’t work, you can always go back to your old job. And if it does… well, then it’s going to be fucking amazing!

…to quote what I told my partner: I don’t think I’ve ever slept less and have fallen flat on my face as often as I did in 2025 with starting a full-time art business 😂

But you know what? I wouldn’t want to miss a single second of it.

Because it brought me exactly where I am now.

Because I get to sit here and draw straight from my heart. Because I get to share my love for BL, my hyperfixations and love for photography and art with so many wonderful people. And because — and isn’t this kind of insane? — I get to brighten someone’s day with what I draw. Honestly, that’s the greatest gift I could ever ask for ❤️

Right now, I’ve just put aside the first of three new January merch designs.

My printer is quietly running in the background, printing new packaging and envelopes for the shop.

My notes app is overflowing with ideas for comics, merch items and collaborations.

My Kiss Meter post from yesterday keeps lighting up with new sweet comments every few minutes.

And next week, I’ll be photographing all the new shop items.

And do you know who makes all of this possible?

You. Just you ❤️

Whether you’ve been here from the very beginning or joined somewhere along the way, please know that you matter to me more than you probably realize.

Without you — and I mean this with my whole heart! — I wouldn’t be able to draw as much as I do right now. Your support on Patreon alone allows me to put all my time and energy into my art and to actually live from it today!

If I could have told my 14-year-old self about this, she would have looked at me in disbelief and probably not believed a single word 😂

That girl is very, very happy today — and deeply grateful that after so many years of thinking no one cared about her art, she gets to share the thing she loves most in the world with others.

Thank you ❤️

Thank you for all the love, trust, patience and support you’ve given me this year. Thank you to all my friends and colleagues — Saph, Ainu, Sunny, Lida, Nyx, Romana, Athena, the best roomie ever Lisa and so many others — who saved my ass more times than I can count (especially when I forgot to draw Izuku’s scars or freckles again lmao), who motivated me, worked on projects with me and remind me every single day how grateful I am to be able to do this job 🫶🏻

I’m so, so excited for 2026 and for everything I’ll get to share with you next year. Even though some things still have to remain a little secret for now, I’m sure you’ll love every small change and bonus that’s coming! ☺️

I love you all so, so much ❤️

Shi