Post by 【Mᴀᴍᴀ_Sᴀᴛᴀɴ】 on Jul 30, 2016 2:36:26 GMT -5
I know this is insanely long but whatever, this is just my history of being on the WCF. I left out all the fun memories I made with the moderators like getting banned from four/five accounts. I promise I'm a good kid. It's just so hard for me not to break very breakable rules. Also, I guess I'm sorry for a few personal things in there. They aren't that personal and don't bother me in the slightest but yeah.
I guess I'll start when I was in third grade, when I first got obsessed with the Warrior Cats Series. My friend introduced them to me and very quickly I got totally enraptured in the books. It was about a year or two after my parents divorce so reading the fantasy books really helped with everything I faced as a kid.
Skip ahead three years to sixth grade. I absolutely hated it, all the friends I made in elementary school and my popularity went down the toilet. I was alone again. Books only did so much to fill in the emptiness. But then a new girl came, and I bolted at the chance of a friend. Another group of kids were slightly quicker, but I hung around. The second they mentioned 'Warriors' we almost instantly became best friends.
Still in 6th grade, one of my friends mentioned the Warrior Cat Forums. She guided me through the steps of making my first ever account, *~Feathermist~*. Very quickly I learned the ropes to role-playing with my best friend (*Blazetail*) and a few of her friends whom I can't remember. The forums helped me through extremely dark times, especially in late June of 2012 when my summers weren't filled with adventures with my new friends, camp, and laughter. Instead, it was a mixture of IV needles, hospital beds and overall being six hours away from death. Then something miraculous happened, I realised how much I loved writing. As the school year went on, I found myself venturing deep into the Warriors Fanfiction section. I was in love with these one-shots and original stories. That summer suddenly didn't seem so bad, even though I was also moving.
One day, now recovering from my incident, I stumbled upon Fight For Life by Dewstripe. It was a Hunger Games spin-off, and I was immediately in love with it. In the hospital I had read the Hunger Games so with the cats I learned to love it was even better. I dared to comment, these people seemed much older and more mature than me. But my anxiety was swept away once I saw how kind they were to me. Two users in particular I got close with, wildlake and Dawnamber020. These were my first ever internet friends and soon enough all day I would waste my time on the computer chatting with them. In fact, it wasn't even my plan to get so close with them. Wildlake threw me in the middle of this family, but I didn't mind at all. Soon enough we all got immensely close, so many memories that wouldn't make any sense to anyone but us. For a little while, Dawn, Wild and I were inseparable.
Later on I got closer to other users such as Celeste X, Whiskerfeather, and many others but Dawn and Wild were the first two that made the biggest impacts on me.
Shortly later, everything that we built slowly began to fall apart. Fights erupted, words flew from each others fingers, threads upon threads were deleted, backs turned. We were almost never the same. Members either left the thread itself or forums altogether, some vanished into thin air.
Let's fast forward again, now in 2014 and '15. Some users never came back, some made up and were able to resume their daily lives. I was grateful and so incredibly lucky to have remained close friends with a handful of the FFL Family. It's unbelievable to see how far we've come and I'm proud to say that I am apart of the FFL Family because they are some of the best things to have ever happened to me. We talk to each other now and then, and I'm so happy we were able to go through the things we did.
I've never had the biggest family. Half of my real one hates me, and the other half is dead. I've moved and transferred schools, I don't have many friends. But these guys, they're seriously my second family. We may never meet, we may never see each others faces, but we are just as close as any other family out there.
That's where my history ends, really. I disappeared shortly after, and today was the first time back on the forums in a long time. We don't always talk to each other, but thanks to the forums I was able to make memories and friends that will live long in my memories. I could never have made these memories with anyone else, and tbh I wouldn't want to have made them with anyone else.
I guess I'll start when I was in third grade, when I first got obsessed with the Warrior Cats Series. My friend introduced them to me and very quickly I got totally enraptured in the books. It was about a year or two after my parents divorce so reading the fantasy books really helped with everything I faced as a kid.
Skip ahead three years to sixth grade. I absolutely hated it, all the friends I made in elementary school and my popularity went down the toilet. I was alone again. Books only did so much to fill in the emptiness. But then a new girl came, and I bolted at the chance of a friend. Another group of kids were slightly quicker, but I hung around. The second they mentioned 'Warriors' we almost instantly became best friends.
Still in 6th grade, one of my friends mentioned the Warrior Cat Forums. She guided me through the steps of making my first ever account, *~Feathermist~*. Very quickly I learned the ropes to role-playing with my best friend (*Blazetail*) and a few of her friends whom I can't remember. The forums helped me through extremely dark times, especially in late June of 2012 when my summers weren't filled with adventures with my new friends, camp, and laughter. Instead, it was a mixture of IV needles, hospital beds and overall being six hours away from death. Then something miraculous happened, I realised how much I loved writing. As the school year went on, I found myself venturing deep into the Warriors Fanfiction section. I was in love with these one-shots and original stories. That summer suddenly didn't seem so bad, even though I was also moving.
One day, now recovering from my incident, I stumbled upon Fight For Life by Dewstripe. It was a Hunger Games spin-off, and I was immediately in love with it. In the hospital I had read the Hunger Games so with the cats I learned to love it was even better. I dared to comment, these people seemed much older and more mature than me. But my anxiety was swept away once I saw how kind they were to me. Two users in particular I got close with, wildlake and Dawnamber020. These were my first ever internet friends and soon enough all day I would waste my time on the computer chatting with them. In fact, it wasn't even my plan to get so close with them. Wildlake threw me in the middle of this family, but I didn't mind at all. Soon enough we all got immensely close, so many memories that wouldn't make any sense to anyone but us. For a little while, Dawn, Wild and I were inseparable.
Later on I got closer to other users such as Celeste X, Whiskerfeather, and many others but Dawn and Wild were the first two that made the biggest impacts on me.
Shortly later, everything that we built slowly began to fall apart. Fights erupted, words flew from each others fingers, threads upon threads were deleted, backs turned. We were almost never the same. Members either left the thread itself or forums altogether, some vanished into thin air.
Let's fast forward again, now in 2014 and '15. Some users never came back, some made up and were able to resume their daily lives. I was grateful and so incredibly lucky to have remained close friends with a handful of the FFL Family. It's unbelievable to see how far we've come and I'm proud to say that I am apart of the FFL Family because they are some of the best things to have ever happened to me. We talk to each other now and then, and I'm so happy we were able to go through the things we did.
I've never had the biggest family. Half of my real one hates me, and the other half is dead. I've moved and transferred schools, I don't have many friends. But these guys, they're seriously my second family. We may never meet, we may never see each others faces, but we are just as close as any other family out there.
That's where my history ends, really. I disappeared shortly after, and today was the first time back on the forums in a long time. We don't always talk to each other, but thanks to the forums I was able to make memories and friends that will live long in my memories. I could never have made these memories with anyone else, and tbh I wouldn't want to have made them with anyone else.