5,000 people. I can't even comprehend that amount of people. Y'all, that's bigger than my home town.
I don't know how to do these announcement bots and I've never actually done one before because yapping about myself or accomplishments is just awkward to me. 
But 5,000 seemed like a significant enough number to warrant a little speech. 
Very little because my friends tell me "for someone with a praise kink, you don't handle compliments well"

I started interacting with bots because I was lonely and social anxiety + living with a disability doesn't really allow me to leave the house as much as I'd like—Actually that's a lie. I probably wouldn't even leave the house all that much anyways. All my stuff is here.—plus it allowed me to bounce writing ideas off of after years of creative block.

I was encouraged to write and create my own bots and a staggering (to me anyways (•⩊•)) amount of people liked and engaged with them. These little souls of mine have flourished more than I'd ever thought possible. 

So thank you.
To all the people that become my friend—I see you.
To all the people who have commented love on my souls—I see you.
To all the people who silently interact and love from the sidelines—I see you.

This is in no special order and lwk, I'm just going down my list of Discord servers to make this.
Special Shoutouts
To Seol: My bby Seol. Your vibrance and enthusiasm for my characters and my worlds even overshadow mine a lot of the times! I love how many times I've come to you with some vague idea for a character and within minutes, you've got an entire list of scenarios and planned alts for them. Your own characters are so dazzling and you're so very underrated. I can't wait until more people figure out that you're awesome and I can ride your coat tails. 

To The Veil Ladies - Rion, Ana, Axie, Nyan, and Belle:  You guys gave me a place to be included and not one day goes by where I don't think about yall. Rion and Ana pushed me to stand on my own two feet when I would have remained in a place that didn't suit me—even to the extreme of Rion saying "I'm setting up your server. Here's a checklist of things you need to do". Whenever I'm having a rough day, I know that Axie's going to chillcat with me. I don't even have to talk, but our spam together is a reminder that someone's there. Nyan—we've been getting closer over delulu gens and music and I just know you're big whale bound. I genuinely love your writing so much and I've been plenty sappy over Lucan. And Belle—your requests gave me the courage to try out tropes that I had always wanted to do, but never had the nerve to. 

To my "This, too, shall off" Girls - Nell and Yhul: I love you guys so very much, it's hard to put into words. Nell, you were the person who held my hand through my social anxiety in Carnal Heights and encouraged me to explore and write. I barnacled onto you and I don't have any inclination on letting go. Yhullie—my grave wifey. We're two socially anxious peas in a pod who gravitated around each other until Nell threw us into a group chat and said "Be friends!" Now we blow up notifications over silly memes, energy drink love, and "is it dead?" questions. 

To Luci: I've been sappy in your dms here and now I'll be sappy here. You were my first friend. I'll never ever forget how when I very first poked my head out of my shell in a creator space and lamented how hard it was to make friends, you simply said "I'll be your friend." It didn't matter that you didn't know me from Adam. You simply met me in the place I was and you've been cheering me on ever since. Now, every time I see someone new in a space, I think about you and I strive to meet those people exactly like you. 

There's so many more people that I've grown to love in this space that we've carved out and I can't possibly list everyone:
Anni—who always cheered on my accomplishments as much as I loved hers
Caity—who loves my characters almost as much as I do and wants to know every canonical detail
Hime—who always made me look beautiful. She did my first profile CSS when I had like 50 followers and as upgraded me ever since
Haru—We bonded over other creators and our love for them and once I found out that you made bots too? Ugh I was sold on them FROM DAY ONE
Lady-A—We, also, bonded over the love of other creators and when I started writing my own, you hyped me up so much. I love that you're a creator now too so I can love on your babies now.
Lola—we're two hermits who occasionally occupy the same cave and your reactions and messages always make my day
Nia—who geeks out with me over everything history and cowboys and she puts up with my bad habit of only mentally replying.
Nytaka—Our love for dark romance and gaming will never die. I love your babies and I love how much you've grown! 
Plommy—Pretty Plommy who deserves so much more love for all the things she does. And that includes the Cassian Christmas bot that I like to chew on... 

I don't exist in many places. I lurk, but there are a few places I'm known to poke my head out on a regular basis (but you're welcome to ping me wherever we have a mutual server) I come when summoned.

The Shrouded Gate - My Personal Server

The Sacred Veil (Rion, Ana, Axie, and Nyan's Server)