I probably doomed myself with the "near[ing] five hundred notes" bit...

So remember how I said that the Tumblr version of the "baking with arthritis and other chronic hand pain" link was slightly blowing up with notes?

I, er. May have been overstating at the time.

Last night I reblogged it with a happy little note, because it made me so happy that enough people were sharing it that it was at almost five hundred notes. A Tumblr BNF reblogged it from me, and, well. In the twenty-four-ish hours since that reblog, it's now at over eighteen thousand notes. A lot of tags are things like, "I thought I had to give up making bread but maybe not???" or "To share with my mom later!" and stuff like that, and I'm just...

Well, as I said over there:

I'm just... very quietly touched at how many people are sharing it. Whether they need it themselves (or think they will someday), or know someone else who might need it, the fact that all of them are sharing the sentiment of "I want the people who love doing this thing to be able to keep doing the thing that they love" is... yeah. It makes me happy.

(I also included a little haiku in my tags on that reblog that, so far, no one has said anything about. So for competition's sake: you've kneaded my heart, now it rises in my chest, enveloped by warmth.)

I spent a lot of today since I got home from work not quite obsessively reading every tag and reblog note I could find, and should really find a way to stop soon 😅 This isn't good for resting! Time to distract myself with a light novel, I think.