centaur daaaay

Helloo!
This is gonna be kinda sappy, and I hope it doesn't seem too random - I'd meant to leave this comment on another specific drawing of this character, but I cannot seem to find the one I'm remembering in your gallery atm so perhaps it's one that was taken down or moved to storage (she'd been with a few of the other monster girls who are all friends in the one I'm remembering, it was a group pic i think, with little snippets with their names and a few tidbits of information about them). Anyway,
I wanted to thank you bc Augustine was the first character I recall where I was really? introduced to the concept of transness as a legitimate thing and not just a gross joke or plot twist in something on TV. it was actually years back, long before we had started interacting in any way - I remember browsing for all the cool monster people I could find, found your stuff, and at the time, being like "huh? that doesn't make sense... does it?" but then scrolled down, and read other comments where you were explaining things, with varying levels of success, to other people posing the same, oblivious questions I was having.

I was not entirely grasping it then, but it sorta clicked, that realization of "i straight up don't understand this, but i want to, so instead of arguing i will try and process what this person has said and not pretend i know more than i actually do," and let that epiphany stick.
About that point, I started listening, and taking in information, sought new information out, learning things about gender that I'd never thought to look up or examine on my own yet, despite having felt confused about myself plenty for years - I just assumed that was a curious deal on my end, since, obviously, nobody had told me questioning it was even an option before, or that I wasn't the only person who felt that way.
It was a slow process, but it led to a lot of things and personal growth and being more comfortable with me and my perception of myself n aaahhm rambling and don't know how to conclude something like this...

I just wanted to let you know that your art and openness with these things were a catalyst for me in a really positive way, and I really wanted to thank you for that, and have been wanting to do so for awhile but wasn't sure how or where to go about it or if it'd be weird to say n asdfgblah