And still on my original account which is a feat on its own.
I was here before Stars, designs, fast-games and 20-player Castings.
I have watched the website and the community develop, grow and change over the years. No matter what, I am still impressed with how great this site is.
Could it be better? Of course! With Randomize being so much more active and attentive than he has been for a while, I am excited for the future.
I am a tiny speck on this website. In terms of achievements, this is all I have done:
- Played in the first 20-player Castings game
- Played in the first Big Stars Giveaway
- Led the Brits frat for a little while after the Biodork-Apocalypse removed our awesome leader Bibbles.
- Hosted the 2nd Tengaged Rainbow event ( Imxrated93 did the first)
- Got 3rd in Race to Black 3 with JamesM as my awesome partner and Utsumi & PrincessTeePee as allies. LookOutBehindYou & Groot 4eva 馃榿
- Almost hosted a Halloween event (poor SpiritOfHalloween) but it got ruined by a bunch of thimgs, like the moderators being removed. 馃檴
- Merged once in Survivor
- Attained each ranking in Rookies (1st-13th) and Castings (1st-20th)
- Won a Stars somehow
In real life, this has been a particularly insane year! To summarise, I'm going to say the bad, then good, then bad, then good things that happened:
- I was half blind because I had a cataract
- I got my first full-time job
- I broke my leg in multiple places by slipping on a step
- I became an aunt to an adorable nephew
- It's been a year since I last spoke to my sister
- I had a 10 year reunion with old friends
This past year really has been mad irl. Mellow on Tengaged.
There are a lot of people over the years who have made an impact on my time here, including the people mentioned above who I adore. I'm only going to mention people who I can think of on the top of my head. I'm on my phone and I only keep one tab open so it's literally on the top of my head and I will get names wrong:
- Retsdir was the main reason I joined this site in the first place. He played Jubbzy's Digital Brother and asked me to help make a support thread for him as part of his challenge. Then I played Jubbzy's "The Cage" then he told me about Tengaged.
- Catch_a_falling_star, my other irl friend who joined this site. He pegged this community before even joining and he's way cooler than I am here.
- Anas who is an incredibly poignant badass.
- Bengalboy who keeps making me laugh after all these years.
- GoodKaren who is 10 years younger but so much wiser.
- TolisKalkas, Insanity, RickTwoRick1 and everyone in the Tengaged Song Contest.
- Bibbles, Knixuk, Gilby and everyone in the #Brits frat (past and present).
- G1ng4 who was meant to be my recipe trading buddy (we should definitely get that going). 馃榿
- @75956245648 (actually 75937563748, almost) for being a wonderful dude.
- Answerable for being an incredible ally and he has the best ideas to improve the site. 馃榾
- The people who dislike me. Too many to tag but you know who you are so here's your mention.
- Many more awesome people but I am blanking and I'm sorry! 馃檲
All in all, thank you for not kicking me out. This site has it's ups and downs but the ups are always worthwhile, even when they're small things. Like a comment from Rando or a wonderful, silly, interesting or deep blog someone has written.
Bring on my 10th year next year! 馃槰
I'll make a vlog next week sometime, wanna ask a question?
Congratulations on your 9 years here! I don't think you realise how much you have contributed to the culture of this site. You've always been indifferent, spoke your mind but always in a dignified way.
I'm so happy to have known and grown up with you as a mentor in life xD (particularly on my early days here), I cannot wait for the vlog!!
Does your muff start and your belly button, and migrate like ivy on a boston college wall, all the way past your gaping axe wound of a vagina down to your mid thighs?
