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Wild Lion*esses Pride from Jay's avatar

Yes, yes, yes—that’s exactly the kind of joy I needed to remember today, too. The kind that starts somewhere deep in the diaphragm and travels all the way up into your limbs until they start moving just because they can. That lavender-on-lavender moment—pure magic. And the line about flowers needing a good stem? I’m still grinning.

There’s something about the way you captured that fluttering thrill of seeing yourself become—not pretend, not perform—just fully express, fully inhabit. That skip down the hallway, the sunglasses, the grin that arrived unannounced… that’s the joy I felt fall a little flat for me yesterday. And now it’s stirred again. You handed it back through story. Thank you.

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Leeron Heywood's avatar

Yes, part 1 was the *start* of that joyful arc but cut off right after the acceleration towards the peak began, so felt anticlimactic. Like a rollercoaster which begins to climb then abruptly stops and you just get off. 😆 Now that there’s a proper emotional climax I’m satisfied. If I’d thought to check the next prompt I would’ve called yesterday’s Part 1 from the start.

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