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Thanks so much to trueila for sending me a lovely vgift and bringing it to my attention that today-- aye, today-- is the one-year anniversary of my very first post here on my LJ, which was also the very first story ever posted in the Slave Breaker's 'verse!

This seems like an apropos time to express my total and utter adoration of all my readers, without whose gracious, generous and gentle encouragement I would never have gotten past that first chapter without tucking my tail between my legs and running back to my nice safe notebooks, let alone continued to post like a maniac for a solid year (and counting). Don't get me wrong, I'd write without any encouragement at all; I've been writing These Kinds of Stories since I was about four, and a year ago was the first time I ever let anyone else read one of them (aside from attempting to hand one in as a school assignment-- NB. that hurt/comfort femdom slave stories do not go over well in sixth grade language arts), but it continues to awe me how many people not only enjoy my work, but take the time and interest to comment, discuss finer points of worldbuilding and characterization, make suggestions, and even volunteer for cameos-- not to mention the number of people who have been nudged to start posting their own (awesome) stuff because they saw mine, which is the best encomium of all. Thank you, thank you, thank you to every single last one of you.

A year! Good Lord! However shall we celebrate?