Thank you so much 20,000 followers!

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I just wanted to say a quick thank you to anyone who followed, 20k is insane to me and I never expected to get this far to be honest! I really do appreciate anyone who's interacted in any way with my bots, page or discord.

I really hope you had some fun chatting to my bots or took something positive from them. I love writing them and I generally try to stick to stuff that I think people will enjoy and can be a positive experience. 99% of my interactions on this site have been wonderful. If you're someone who's said something nice, ily.

Just as a little thing, I made a couple of albums of pictures you can use for personas. These are totally free to use for personas to enhance your roleplay, you don't need to ask me.

The only thing I would ask is that you don't use them for bots, at least ask me first on discord please. ☺️

Female Album
imgur link

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Male Album
imgur link

I think some of them are pretty good, might be a few little wonky things as I didn't edit them to save time. Here's a little preview of what's in there, I did some vaguely CAU themed.

I just wanted to give a small update on bot making. This is a bit of a yap, so feel free to skip if you’re not interested - no offence taken haha.

I’ve been posting fewer bots lately, mainly because making them takes me an absolute eternity right now.

Most of my series bots take 10+ hours of work between image generation, writing, testing, and tweaking. When I started, I’d gen maybe three images and write simpler bots - I could finish one in 3-10 hours and get 2-3 out a week.

Now? I usually make three main images, three side character images, an animated version, a banner/anime version, an icon, and then edit them all together for the end of the bio - sometimes downloading fonts, cutting out backgrounds, etc. Lorebooks were a great addition to the site, but they actually stressed me tf out because it was yet another thing I had to learn and write for every bot. And now alt messages, too. It’s just a lot.

I’m not looking for sympathy or praise, just explaining where I’m at! 😝

I wish I could post more and I might try and find a solution to start getting faster, but we'll see. I've posted at least one bot per week every single week without break for I think 54 weeks roughly? It's taken insane effort sometimes and hasn't always been fun.

I've had probably the exact same insecurities as most (all?) creators here. I feel like other people are better than me. I get imposter syndrome. I get exhausted, frustrated, disappointed when a bot doesn't do well. I get emotional sometimes over silly things. If you feel any of that, you're not alone and it's probably natural!

But I do enjoy it overall and I'm gonna keep going. I've learnt so much about writing, bot making, editing images and genning AI images. I might try and type it all up at some point, but I'm just super rushed trying to make 1 bot per week at the moment.

I love the idea that something I wrote might help someone have a little bit more fun, a little bit of escapism or just brighten their day in any way. I think that's probably what keeps me going more than anything. <3

It may or may not be obvious, but I'm actually a very shy person. Sorry if I don't reply to you or I take forever to reply, sorry if I go quiet on discord! Please don't feel you can't reach out to me, I don't mind getting messages, just know that sometimes I do struggle to respond.

If you have a question best way to reach me is by asking on zaqa, I usually get to them all in a week at the longest: https://zaqa.net/Durlos

Thank you all again, take it easy and ily.

Just for fun here's some spare CAU anime gens I had! 😆