So, I'm not going to make this post on my birthday because I can already guarantee it will be busy as heck and somehow Skype messed up and thought it was today instead of the twenty-third so I've been getting birthday notifications all day, so it's fitting.

Anyhow, while I know I've been a little bit down lately, I just wanted to say thank you for everyone who's followed me this far. I can't believe I'm going to be sixteen years old in a few days but over the last three (and a bit) years this website has changed my life for the better. I've grown as a person, an artist, and a writer thanks to you guys and I don't think I'd be the same person without everyone I've met thus far on this site. From the days of DragonClan stories to original ones, for everyone who met me through this or that story by word of mouth or the (generally broken) Watty recommendation system, or for all of those who had a free afternoon to spare and made my day with an unrelenting barrage of comments on my Dreamland stories- thank you so much. For everything. 

Sixteen is a pretty big number. I didn't make it alone, and from my IRL friends to my crew friends to my DragonClan buddies to my real life friends, I certainly wasn't alone. I consider myself incredibly lucky to have met all of you and it's been one hell of a ride thus far.

Here's thanks from Iris and Torch, Avery, The Lira City Defenders, Natrina, Lotus, Vivian, Gash, The Hunter, Rose, Ivy, Daisy, Lark, Anassa, Tammory, Indy and Orca, Lunarshine and Ashleap, Icestar, Phoenixstar, Dragonstar, Fennelheart, everyone in between, Bronze and Lilly, Toxis and Dill, Rune, Chrona, Pich, Juliet, Ashley, Reginae, Rose, Minerva, Fang, Evan, Adam, Megan, Will, Canira, Ciphre, Ylva, Emily, Mackerelfang, Cranewing, Ramstrike, Jackaltooth,

and of course, the Princess herself, and all of her incarnations, as well as everyone I couldn't mention here and many, many more characters to come.

Trust me.

No matter who you are, you're part of our story too now. 
Trust me, it's a good one.