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Thanks for 100k, guys!

I've been aware of the counter slowly creeping up there for quite a while now. And, really, it's been making me think about how things have changed in the years since I've been here.

The second or third year I was averaging about 300 pageviews a day, if you can believe it (I know I have trouble at this point). Now it's more like 30. The comments have gone way down... my posting has gone way down... but when I really think about it, I don't know that 300 was any better for me than 30. I didn't feel any more a part of a community. It's nice, really, to know that the people who stuck around, or who come around for the first time now, aren't doing so under any misconceptions. You can't possibly think I'm going to try to force myself to be that bubbly open personality I'm not really comfortable with. You can't really expect me to try to churn out art the way I could when there was nothing else really in my life. Many people then really did. Yet you're here and I can only think it's actually because you like my characters or my art or if I'm really lucky, both. I appreciate that more than the people who wanted to be tied to some kind of pseudo-popular or in the hopes that I would draw something for them randomly, like I haven't done in years. I don't really mind that I didn't hold their intention, I hope they found something that made them happy elsewhere.

So, yeah. Thanks for everything, guys. Thanks for the 100k. The next 100k will probably be 10 or 20 years from now at this rate, but that's fine too. I'll probably be here, eh? And I hope you are too

Have a good Christmas!



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