The artists I spoke with all named Pixiv, Newgrounds, and Twitter as the most serious options, and Pillowfort came up a lot as well. All the alternatives have drawbacks, though. One user said that what’s really needed is like an image based, community run site like Archive of our Own, with a social media feed, and I…
here’s a discovery i made while double checking that you were making the reference i thought you were:
This was definitely similar to my experience. Something about episodes 25 and 26, though they were so reviled by a lot of the fanbase, definitely gave me the strength to begin my own journey to connect with humanity again. Even if Shinji ultimately didn’t like himself much, he decided to live.