Mice are generally cute. Milestones are strange critters though; sometimes they can mean so little, but sometimes quite a bit. For instance, today is my fifth year since registering on FA. Seems like nothing more than a bragging right, something to flaunt in the faces of others, since being here longer obviously marks me superior.

But I’m not going to fill this journal with bitter sarcasm and discuss the negatives of the nature of people. This is actually a cleverly concealed thank you to everyone here. Yes it’s been five bizarre and interesting years since I stumbled upon this site and quite a bit happened in the relatively short span of time. I finished high school, started university, got my first job, and very soon I will be (hopefully) graduating. A lot of irrelevant real-life related events…

Well time for my obligatory old man reminiscing time. I remember my first day on FA and the first submission that caught my attention. A couple days later realizing I can add art to something called ‘favourites’ and manually dug through thirty or so pages before finding the art a viewed days earlier just to ‘favourite’ it. I was impressed by the sheer amount of incoming submissions! For those curious few among you THIS was one of my memorable favourites when I found out what the favourite buttons does. A rather odd piece, perhaps a prediction of the madness that would soon surround me.

But what I think is the most significant of my time spent here is the people I got to meet. Through comments, submissions, journals, word-of-shout and watchers-of-followers, I had the amazing opportunity to meet some truly amazing people! The sub-communities and groups I’ve travelled though almost feel like a journey, an adventure even. The crazy things I did and the even crazier things I didn’t do but should have, it would be difficult to say this half decade didn’t have any impact on my life! Haha this journal is sounding so sappy it’s almost sad: I’m being sentimental over my association with an internet community.

It feels like time is passing by faster, five years was just last week. Is this what it feels like getting old? If I get the chance to talk to my future self, I hope I’m not boring and lose my interest in the fun side of life. I’ll be sure to tell my past self not give it up in the future.

This took longer to write up then I thought, and I thought I would end up writing more too. Thank you everyone for a fantastic five furry years, for your kind comments, and your ability to endure my endless annoying alliterations, occasional unpunfessional pun and countless counts of ill-timed sarcasm. Oh and while on the topic of milestones, I hit over 200 submissions and journals in my inbox due to my laziness. I also managed to clear though almost half of them in one day. That’s like two achievements right there, do I unlock something now?


TL;DR you guys are awesome, don't stop. Unless you get tired of being awesome, in that case take a short break and resume when convenient!