Best reviewed album of 2016 Highest metacritic score of 2016 (92) Biggest female debut of 2016 2nd most acclaimed album in history Rolling Stone’s Best Album of the Year Formations is Rolling Stone’s Best Song of the Year Formation is Time Magazine’s Best song of the Year First artist to reach No.1 position with her first six studio album First female artist to chart 12 or more songs on the Hot 100 at the same time Every single from Lemonade has been in the top 30 of iTunes worldwide at least once Formation has become the most awarded song in history, surpassing Michael Jackson’s thriller Formation is Beyoncé’s most awarded song Formation is the most awarded song of 2016 Lemonade is the most awarded album of 2016 8 Video Music Awards (11 nominations) 4 Emmy nominations 5 BET Awards 4 Soul Train Awards including Album of the Year 1 AICE Award 1 American Music Award 1 Clio Awards 1 Video Music Awards Japan 1 Teens Choice Award 1 UK Video Music Award 1 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2 Kinsale Shark Awards 5 NAACP Image Awards 1 Peabody award 2 Grammy Awards, 9 Nominations Lemonade sold more than 1 million copies in 2 weeks Beyoncé is the first female artist to receive a 5 star review by Rolling Stones Lemonade is the first album by a female artist to garner 100 million streams in the US in one week Lemonade sold 663,000 copies in the first week The Formation World Tour is the highest grossing tour of 2016 100% sold out stadium tour Formation was the most-mentioned song on Instagram Sorry was the 14th most-mentioned song on Instagram Lemonade was the most talked about album on Tumblr
I love you so much Dean. I will never begin to be able to repay my debt to you. I love you so. I’m so fortunate. I’m trying to type in tears. I’m so in love with you. Forever For serious
One year ago I started sharing my fan fiction online. I was terrified, but I did it, and now I’m so supremely glad. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the response I received. I’ve made friends, where before I only had one. I receive beautiful praise from lovely folks all around the world. And miracle of miracles, I’ve found the love of my life in @martymcdie88mph
Now, 252 stories later, I’ve reached a major goal. Last week I crossed 1.5 million words. And I have to say, I’m pretty damn proud of myself. Before returning to fan fiction last year I did nothing. I sat around and watched Conan and Bill content to slog through my days because I was so fucking miserable all the time.
But writing has transformed my life. I now have people. Real, actual people who care about me and ask how I’m doing every day. And I feel like, for the first time, I might even have a purpose. It may seem silly to some, writing explicit stories about tall, blue-eyed, assless comedy men to pass the time. But I have used fic writing to process my own trauma, to work through various heartaches. And I’m amazed at the responses from my readers. I feel privileged that people trust me with their own private struggles and ask me to write difficult things for them as well. I don’t know how to express my gratitude to everyone who has read my work, left kudos, commented, or made a request. All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you!
Now, as Bill says…
Here are 25 (or more) fuckin’ hard ass, well run blogs I would like to thank for supporting me along the way this past year. I’m sure I’m leaving some folks out, and for that I apologize. Know that I love all of you more than I can say
It’s been a year since the surgery to place this feeding tube. To the day. Originally there were promises of it alleviating symptoms but it quickly became clear, that in reality, this thing is just saving my life.
I’ve had no end of troubles with it since the very day it went in. Many of my problems with it have been atypical or rare; my experienced GI team having never even heard of them. Too numerous to list, and too complicated to explain with words alone.
At first this tube frustrated me so much it triggered some of the worst meltdowns of my life. Then there was the depression because of the lingering pain that should have disappeared when it healed. The anxiety of how this thing made my body look and how uncomfortable it was. Now it’s just there. It still causes pain, it still gets in the way. I still catch people staring. My body is still not a ‘normal’ one but then it never has been, so what is a tube and what is a stoma to such reality?
The things I live with every day with this thing 99% of people couldn’t comprehend. But now, it’s just me. A year isn’t a very long time in a life time and a year is even less time in the great big picture that is humanity. Still, in such a short time, it became part of me. 40 years ago I would have died from starvation. Now I can not only survive, I don’t even have to do it in a hospital.
At first, having a tube coming from a hole in my actual organs seemed barbaric (as does much of modern medicine). ‘Surely, we are more advanced than this?’, I thought. But, no, no we are not. Medicine is barbaric; it may always be that way. 40 years ago I would have died from starvation and now this is mynormal.
This comic started off as a bunch of ideas I wanted to draw and a LOT of stress I needed to get out somehow. It wasn’t planned out well. It’s still a little shaky. But seriously, all of your support makes me feel like I’m on my way to something great. Thank you so much. I hope to deliver you more funky fresh depression comics (and I hope you’ll keep liking them!)
SHAMELESS PLUG TIME: Are you around NYC this weekend? I’ll be tabling about MoCCA Arts Fest this Saturday and Sunday April 1st & 2nd. I’ll be selling prints, some other comics I’ve been working on, and a couple of generic lottery zines! I hope you come visit me at table I-273 with the fab artist @annelisecapossela! Or don’t! that’s cool!
(It’s been a year since this blog was started! I’ve only been mod for about half of that time, but I hope you’ve all enjoyed it! As always, asks are welcomed. Thank you all so much for tagging me in stuff, sending me asks, and being awesome followers!)
For real though, everyone: They’re deleting this channel in less than a year (and they’re updating it every single day until then), so PLEASE watch and subscribe to this hilarious channel while you still can!!!
