#five hundred

I could mark five years of Yours Trudy in March, but anyone can mark five years of something. If I did one comic a year, it'd still be five years of doing comics, but five comics isn't much of an achievement.

I didn't expect to have 500 comics under my belt. I didn't think I would reach five hundred, frankly. Along with its humble readership count, Yours Trudy is already tens more than my previous endeavour with an original work.

The series is still all made up up to three weeks in advance while I pitch ideas to friends and check for cultural consistencies and overall sense-make. Having anyone reading this series at all, and having people commission artwork of my characters still astounds me, and I deeply appreciate you all for hanging around.

I don't know what else is in store for Trudy and the gang, but I plan to keep this going for as much as I can because I really enjoy doing it.

thank you so much for all of the love that Julian and I have gotten, the HHN advice for when I got overstimulated by big noise (lol), the love for my pets, and for creating so many lovely stories with me over these past 500 days, that I will cherish for a long time to come.

I have met so many great people on here, including but not limited to, @oughtabeinpxctures @spoop-doll @jack-the-clown @thecarnivalofcarey @resurrextion @runchainsaw @deadxtalks @distorted-rp @hhnforeversblog @captainkelsohub @violetxsilverxstark @monsters-and-mayhem

And a special thank you to @clownqueenofcarnage for inspiring me to create this blog. I don’t think you’re up and running any of your HHN blogs rn, but thank you so much for inspiring me, and taking me under your wing when I first joined this wonderful community.

Maybe as a little special things, I might give a Halloween Horror Nights first timer’s tip list, from someone who just went for the first time, with a ranking of HHN 31’s houses!!! If there’s something else that you’d rather see, or want to see along with it, please let me know!!!!

I love you all, thank you for a wonderful 500 days,

Shamanic Cheerleaders

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"It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it’s true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It’s not even coincidence. It’s just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety."

Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman

You are the nicest! Thank you so much and right back at you!