bryankonietzko: Janet Varney, the talented voice of Korra and…
Wednesday, July 8th, 2015Janet Varney, the talented voice of Korra and all-around amazing human, forwarded Mike and me copies of this absolutely incredible book a few weeks ago. It is a collection of letters written to Mike, Janet, Seychelle Gabriel (the talented voice of Asami and similarly all-around amazing human), me, and often the extended crews of Korra and Avatar, from a community of people on the sub-reddit /r/Korrasami (my apologies if I didn’t use the correct lingo there, as I am reddit illiterate). I gather this community existed and grew throughout the run of the series, but all of these letters (peppered with charming fan art) were written in the wake of the series finale with the intention of binding them together in a book as a gift for us. The project was spearheaded by Dispari, featuring cover art by DrakyX.
Mike and I had lunch about a week ago and discussed the book. We both said the same things: how we were completely overwhelmed and touched, and how we were taking our time going through this dense document, reading just a few of the letters each day. There really is no other way to process them. They are all so packed with such personal, powerful, touching messages, predominantly from people in the LGBTQ community, from all over the world. In fact, it is so raw and overwhelming that I don’t know if I will ever be able to fully process the impact our series has had on the many people who have reached out to us.
I was planning on waiting until I had gotten through the entire book before posting about it, but there is a strong likelihood I will be meeting some of the contributors to this beautiful project this coming weekend at San Diego Comic Con. In that event, I want all of you to know beforehand just how moved I am by this collective gesture. I struggle to put it into words… at least ones that will come close to matching the power of what I have read so far. Some of you who wrote letters expressed a similar loss for words and difficulty distilling your feelings down to a simple letter, so I will just say what those of you said: THANK YOU.
I wish you all love, acceptance, perseverance, and peace.
–Bryan
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