Thread:YingHe/@comment-36159587-20190908003152/@comment-36159587-20190912034819

Speaking of the forums...

I screenshot and copied a bunch of meaningful stuff from the forums and gosh do I miss them...:/

Like, I'm looking back on my first POVs, forms, posts, etc., and...all of it is cringe :DDDDDD

I definitely outlined good and bad in all my time in the forums, which by today, I'd have been on the forums for 1 & 1/4 of a year now. And a lot of people left the forums when they poofed and was substituted by Home Base.

I saw my post as response to Someone saying mass genocide was natural selection, which really ticked me off, and I saw the speeches I made in attempt to calm conflicts down. Really, I would do the same again,,, maybe in a less cringey way?

The thing is, so many people have left, and that wasn't a reminder I necessarily needed. But, hey, it's part of life. And I marveled at how much my relationships with other forumers changed.

I mean, on the SAMB I started off as a noob who posted way too much, though was apparently with the rare "good" grammar? It took me at least a month to connect with others, and even figure out what RPing and "shipping" meant, and even longer to actually become part of the culture, and feel accepted.

On the WoFMB, I left at least three times, once from just feeling intimidated by how much conflict there was in the small interval at the time (Hurricane's "death"; I felt like joining at the time would be inappropriate and I wanted to give the MBers time to mourn), once from being horrified by the Mass Genocide Post/Certain Incident, and then noting just the diversity of the place in general. But I did join GGaD, and I got to know a lot of people on the WoFMB.

I miss all of the forums, I guess. Even the small conflicts and misunderstandings that annoyed me sometimes (not the larger ones, those were :///), but in general just all the people there, the culture, how everyone tolerated each other despite differences, something I don't see IRL often. The SAMB was really welcoming and in general fitting to my more carefree, casual side, and the WoFMB was very diversified and really helped me try to balance out my social and non-social aspects of my personality, even if it's online.

Being on both forums really changed me as a person for the better, and I think my increased ability to get along with and understand others did come from the forums. No, I didn't forget my skills and abilities now, either, in writing and RPing. :) I'm really glad I met you all.

-Galaxian-