)Well, that was a ride, wasn't it? December 2015 all the way to January 2021, and 42 chapters, ending at over 100k words with 500 likes.
Fuck man, those are some great stats.
I wanted to use this space to talk about the story, where it went and where it should have gone, but those paths have been tread and the signs are about if you'd like to walk them. Instead, I'm going to thank a couple of people, and then tilt myself towards other projects (I'm already a chapter into a Spike-Pie story in the same vein as this one, as well as my other projects )
Now, I can't thank every single person that's read this individually, that's just ludicrous. So instead I'm going to cherry-pick the names I know, recognize, and love (platonically [mostly 
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The first person is a salty, rowdy boy named B_25, without whom the later parts of this story would not exist. When I was at the lowest point in my writing and wavering on whether to even continue this story or not, he came across my dash and gave me the philosophical kick in the nads that got me writing with any sort of frequency and quality. Thanks to the boi and his entire Discord, which has supplied me with laughs and support just by existing.
The second person is one of my longtime serial commenter s, DarkDMan. This is one of those Bilbo Baggins bits, where I don't know you half as well as you deserve. But I do know that you've been here for at least four years, and you've always had something to say, always good as far as I remember. You're appreciated, and you helped me go on before B got to me like he did. Love to you, boi 
Thanks to lazyreader19, in the same vein as Dark. You may not have been around for the same length of time, but I saw your comments at the same level as I did Dark's for the time you were here, and I appreciate you in the same way boi.
Love to Vinyl_Scratch-14 and chip43 and everyone else who PM'd me and drove me on to continue, you kept the momentum going when it needed going.
And love to everyone else here, still reading this, still getting this thing featured in the box every time I updated it. Thanks to all 8000 separate views I'm pretty sure this has gotten if I read the analytics right.
That's a lot of bois.
See you in the future, and love to you and those all around you. Thank you for the years of reading, and I hope that the next project brings you some of the same joy this one did.
