Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6021376-20141223142911/@comment-24926636-20141223231441

Ello~ Everyone was been writing such wonderful things here, I felt the need to do something too. But I'm terrible with words and the English language in general, and it's probably mostly rambling, but it's something and um that's okay, right? Here goes.

One night in November this year I read a post on Instagram about an anime apparently called Love Live. It looked really cute and I like cute things so I decided to watch it. I was immediately captivated and didn't sleep very much for a couple of days until I had finished it. Then I went on the wiki to check something about a particular song, and noticed there were actually people in the chat. Pleasantly surprised, because so many Wikia chats are dead, I joined the chat.

There were people welcoming me, there were people who wanted to know who the awkward and confused me kept for favourite LL characters, there were people who didn't think I was stupid when I hadn't even heard of the LL SIF game (or maybe they did, but they didn't show it) and there were people who quickly accepted me as a part of their community. I was overwhelmed.

Since that day about a month and a half has passed, and so far one day hasn't passed on which I didn't talked to any of the people I met. Along the way I have been assigned an infinite number of different nicknames, I have been shipped, I have had arguments lasting for over an hour non stop, I have (hopefully) become at least a little bit less awkward than I was those first few days, I have gotten compliments I've probably been really bad at thanking everyone for, and I have been cheered up on some of my worst days.

These past few days I've even been talking to some of you on Skype, and although I've probably embarrassed myself more times than I can count, it's been really nice.

So, thank you. Thank you for letting me meet all of you, thank you for not laughing at me when you hear me sing, thank you for making this community such a nice place, thank you for making the wiki such a nice wiki, thank you for letting me be a part of all of this even though I almost don't contribute at all myself, thank you for giving me something to waste my days doing (seriously, how did I procrastinate before November 9th?), thank you for all the laughing I've been doing since I joined and thank you for helping me feel better when I'm feeling down.

I warned you this would all be rambling.

I wish the merriest christmas you've ever had so far to all of you, I hope you will enjoy your gifts if you're getting any (and if you're not here's a virtual sparkle from me) and I hope you will eat nice food and generally be happy.

Christmas hugs,

FutureUtopia~