UH. I AM, UH, KIND OF FLABBERGASTED RIGHT NOW.

D8)~~!!!! ← This has basically been my face when I've opened my e-mail for the past couple of days.

gabzillaz's incredibly gorgeous fanart of the Girls and the Boys from that insane thing I'm writing resulted in a deluge of new readers. So, um, hi to anyone who has come across my silly little journal! If you have friended me or are currently lurking, Hi, I'm sbj, I like to write, I am a giant fucking nerd about The Powerpuff Girls, and I also have the mouth of a trucker. TEF!Butch's dialogue? Yeah, that's basically how I talk irl, except I'm less of a misogynistic prick.

I'm really flattered by all the praise and kind of totally blindsided by it; I'm a blushing sputtering mess and at some point soon I hope to get around to replying to the reviews because there have been some really really nice ones and idek what to say I'm that bowled over. In any case, thank you to everyone who has dropped me a line, and thanks especially to the wonderful and lovely gabzillaz for the gorgeous artwork she's done that has resulted in this! (Spoiler alert: she is going to continue to be wonderful and lovely in the future. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.)

This is kind of well-timed, actually, because I've been wanting to do a post that amalgamated all the TEF-related goodies I've received (so... fanart, basically) for posterity's sake (some of it, like jupitrie's rendition of the Girls' shoe ads (♥♥♥) is no longer online) and also to share things that make me all warm and fuzzy and insanely gleeful. JUST INDULGE ME, OKAY. I think I'll eventually try and make the fanart part of the Sticky, but for now, I'll just toss it all up here in a disheveled pile of LOVE and AWESOMENESS.

• jupitrie was the first on the fanart scene with her take on the Girls' shoe ads (admittedly different from their description in TEF but shit, that doesn't make them any less amazing) - Buttercup Blossom Bubbles
• Then along came the multi-talented hermeown with her pic of that most infamous Blossom dancing scene
• Then JKSketchy had her take on the same scene
• AND THEN demon_bird had her own stunning sketches of the same scene to share (we love girls in boys' clothes 'round these parts)
• Somewhere in there jupitrie found the time to exude awesomeness yet again and again
• ... and again
• And finally gabzillaz has more TEF-inspired cool things and hilarious things that I encourage everyone to partake of

But wait! There's more! (Warning: if you are going to hang out, then I am going to take every single opportunity I can to have you indulge me and my whims, of which there are a great many, mind.) Because the thing is there are just so many other talented people who hang out in this little corner of the internet and I would be remiss if I didn't take the time to pimp them like it's Sale Tuesday at Anthropologie and I just won the fucking lottery. I have no shame. I know the best people in this fandom and can't believe they let me hang out with them.

• philosophicwax is the best PpG/RrB writer that nobody knows about; if you want someone who can do smart and funny and haunting and poetic (not to mention a killer Mojo voice) then she is your fucking Ace in the hole, seriously, GO READ EVERYTHING SHE'S EVER WRITTEN NOW
• Aforementioned triple-threat Hermeown, who was playing the epic fic game LIKE A BOSS a millenia before I toddled on the scene
• Alicorn (alicornmoon) is the go-to woman for Hibbles (Him/Bubbles), not to mention she is quite literally THE NICEST PERSON you will meet in this fandom, ever
• The remarkably insightful Somewei (wei_chan), who has to beat off the people begging her to finish her own epic with a stick (you think I'm making a funny, but I am actually major srs!face rn)
• Quillified (quillbender) is doing drabbles that need to go into your eyes right now, and when I say right now I mean get-a-time-machine-and-fly-back-to-last-week RIGHT NOW
• xjabooo, AKA P MY CAPS BUDDY WHO WANTS YOUR INPUT NO SERIOUSLY GIVE HER YOUR INPUT BECAUSE THAT IS HOW MUCH SHE CARES ABOUT IMPROVING, ALSO HER TASTE IN MUSIC, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A PARTY AND OUR DANCING'S GONNA SCARE YOU BUT WDEGAF (Seriously though, read her drabbles, give your input!)
• Juxtaposie (juxtaposie) moonlights as one of my betas (a.k.a. Team Awesome) in between writing phenomenally awesome shit and saving the world with her boobs sorry bb, did I give your secret away
• And FINALLY, last but never ever least, busterella, who is so unbelievably gifted when it comes to art that I have legitimate hand-to-God eyegasms when I peruse her gallery (not to mention that she is THE ONE PERSON who has perfectly adapted Craig's original art style to a teen version of the girls)

All of these lovely people are so talented that it makes my heart hurt. So go forth! Give them love! And if you're thinking you'd like to hang out, then by all means! We don't bite! (Except by special request. Request, and we shall bite freely.)

Thanks so much for all the kind words. Scatter some in their directions! (And if you are not as familiar with the PpG series as, say, other giant fucking nerds that might be hanging out/posting on this lj, feel free to ask for some episode recs. I will do my best to refrain from saying "ALL OF IT.")