"diamonds and pearls": prince got me writing pearlshipping

i have never told anyone this but i figured i should share this with you guys.

a while back, i stopped writing fanfiction for no real reason. i was a big pearlshipper back then too but i didn't even think of writing fanfics for it. that changed when my sister came over and played some of her old prince songs while i was on the serebii forums. then she played a song i haven't heard since i was a kid: "diamonds and pearls". this song spoke to me and awake my writer's blood. after that, i penned my first pearlshipping fic on that website and the rest is history.

with prince dying, i wanted to share why he and his music was so important to me, both as a writer and a pearlshipper. so yeah, without prince, "ash and dawn: together" might never have been written. so if you've never heard of prince or his music, take a listen and see what he does for you.