16 Oct 2023

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Today is the 6th anniversary of my shipping Yuzubara~ 🥳💘

The first time I mentioned shipping Yuzuru and Ibara was on 16 October 2017 at 0:05 UTC and the first Yuzubara I have ever drawn was uploaded later that day (which also happens to be the first Yuzubara ever uploaded on Pixiv). Years ago, when Twitter used to work properly, I made several searches and I was unable to find any tweet older than mine that mentioned the word "Yuzubara", which is why I'm almost certain this date is also when the word itself was coined (besides it's the wrong ship name for them anyway).

Here's the first drawing I made of them, captioned "yuzubara has so much potential":

This phrase will always be special to me because, at time of writing, it went on to define the following 6 years of my life. As of today, I have 393 Yuzubara drawings on this site. Here's to another 6 years of shipping Yuzubara and one day, hopefully, 1000 Yuzubara drawings 🥂💘

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~ Yuzubara Emissary

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