HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARI!! you’re so awesome and lovely and I’m very glad to finally have been able to meet and interact with you. it’s a bit silly but I really felt very welcomed and understood in your dms and that was very special to me, you have such a warm air. not to mention you’re so talented too! I always enjoy seeing your messages in the servers :] let’s talk more soon! I hope you have such a good one!!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARI!!!! i hope you have a fantastic day :> it was so nice to meet you and to experience how funny you are and have a peek at what an amazing writer you are, too! to more kari writing and laughs :>

KARI MY LONG LOST BROTHER.. HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! meeting you and getting to talk to you and hang out with you has been so very special!! let’s keep watching stuff and throwing up in dms together ok..? <3 i hope your day is as awesome and kudos-ful as you!!!!!

woke up with the update notif and ran as fast as i could !! as per usual your command over characterz is superb & itz a blast to read. you really are gonna spoil me from other ficz wahaha... that being said - i read the end note ... take your time, hope you have fun, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

happy birthday kari!!! reconnecting with you again has been such a highlight of my year, im seriously so happy whenever you pop into chat to say hi and when i see you on my timeline. lets talk more this year!!! have an awesome birthday!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARI!!!!!!! my dear oomf from just a border away, i hope you have a birthday as awesome as you are!

but seriously, happy birthday kari!!! as a third of the 2002 crazy froggers, you mean the absolute world to me... :snf: i cant believe ive known you for so many years... we were 16 when we met! what the fuck!!! and now were all gonna be turning 23 this year? thats so crazy!!!!! just having you by my side makes my day to day so much easier, so much lighter, and im so happy to have ended up in the same world as you :snf: i hope you have an incredible day filled with all the people you love and in incredible year to follow it up :']

absolutely my fav ffxv fic writer of all time, i always end up coming back to your fics... <3 i cant leave enough kudos!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARI!! i hope your birthday is as beautiful and bright as your personality. thank you for lighting up every room, and have lots of fun today!

i've been following this fic for the past 8 years now and OMG!!!!! THIS LATEST CHAPTER IS THE BESSSTTT WAIITTTTT TToTT I CANT TAKE ITTTTT its like every time u update ur writing gets better and better!!! please keep updating, i cant imagine my life without this fic in it.... <3 im gonna reread now and leave a longer comment. thank you so much for sharing!

i can't believe i took so long to finally read this fic but now that i have i just can't stop thinking about it.... icb joshriku has seriously done it again and surpassed herself once more, this was just the best.... the way you understand the characters and depict their evolving relationship, i swear to god your way with words is so unparalleled and just seeing how you pay attention to every single little detail is so extreme...... seriously freaking out thinking about this at work because all the emotional beats you hit are just. CHEFS KISS. you are freaking crazy and i am going to break into your home and toast your bread and cook you pancakes and scramble your eggs and prepare coffee for you because i seriously cannot thank you enough for your incredible contributions to this world. WE ARE ALL BETTER OFF THANKS TO YOU! ^ that being said. all of your traits that make your writing so delightful -- the constant pursuit of self-improvement, your ability to understand others, your openness to change and adaptability to how relationships evolve over time, the thoughtfulness and care and consideration you put into you words, your attentiveness, your emotional maturity, and so much more -- also make you such a wonderful friend. i know i say a lot of good things about the people i love, that they're wonderful and amazing and brave and strong and all that, but i hope you can know that you, kari, are genuinely, sincerely, by all objective metrics, the actual best person that i know. i'm so happy and so grateful to be able to take part in this experience of loving kari, and to have my message be only one of many from all of your wonderful friends who are so grateful to have you in their lives. i know it is not always easy for you to be so present in the way that you are -- god knows that I struggle with it myself -- and i just hope you know that the effort you make to just. Be around. and just Be yourself. is so, so appreciated. we all love you for you, kari, and i'm so damn happy that you've become so unapologetic about who you are. you have such a beautiful mind, heart, and soul. kari in all of her authenticity is truly the best kari, and i hope you can remember this, especially when times are hard. MORE FROM ME LATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hope you can take a moment for rest, peace, friendship, joy, and love today. i am so damn proud of you. i am so grateful to have a forever friend 4 life in you. love you to the moon and back forever and ever. - DRI!!!!!!

HAPPY FREAKING BIRTHDAY KARI..!!! there's so much to say and so little at the same time — how could i ever describe how special you and your friendship is to me, and to everyone who loves you? you light up every space you step in, and i'm really lucky to have been able to stay in that radius of light for as long as we've been friends. i'm so happy that you've begun to join us more on writing together and oc stuff, and i can't wait to actually write with you and your insane beautiful mind. i hope this year brings brighter, easier times for you, full of all the things and people you love, who love you back just as hard! more creating and writing, more talking about the most correct opinions you have on things, more spending time with my dear friend kari. we are one exol karinya... saranghaemahal kitate amo <3 i want to keep laughing and smiling with you despite everything and anything that happens, because despite all the awfulness of the world, you deserve everything to be happy

KARIII!!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! i cannot even begin to word how much i adore you and how happy i am to be your friend... you are such an exceptional person: an exceptional writer, an exceptional reader, and an exceptional friend where even if we don't talk that often, i know we're still wishing the best for each other anyway. every time i see you on my feed, you always manage to make me laugh. one of the things about you i adore the most is how you show your love - the way you pay attention to character details, even the most minute ones, is truly such a showcase of how dear they are to you, you bring them to life in the realest way possible. and i'm sure this attention to detail and love extends to the people in your life too. AGAIN, HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARI!!! LETS KEEP BEING FRIENDS AND LETS WRITE TOGETHER SOON

if only i could give more kudos seriously. joshriku you are the best writer that has ever graced this earth. i've been a fan of yours since the xv days and every fic since keeps getting better and better!! keep up the good work <33333 ^^^ which is my very true and real opinion, followed by a more sincere note: i'm very happy for all the (seven? eight? many, many) years of friendship, through times good and bad. after such a long time, i just can't imagine my life without you in it. how embarrassing to have met someone as a teenager and with all the faults and fumbles along to way, now being an adult who realizes they've stumbled across a miracle. that miracle being that i know you. happy birthday kari, you deserve everything in the world and i love you so much. - jay.

Happy Birthday, Kari!!! I hope you have an amazing birthday, and that you spend it with people you love preferably eating some good food. You’re such a talented writer, and it’s always fun seeing you in the RP servers. Here to you, man! Keep being awesome!