Good day to you all.
Does that greeting sound familiar? I hope it did for those who are old here, because that's how I was in the past on Fakku.
Been lurking on 2008, and finally joined at the start of 2009, been here since then. I used to be a huge fan of Kujikawa Rise from Persona 4, but eventually my tastes awoke to the ojou-samas and shit, and I grew fond of other characters as I watched more animes. I was someone who used to role-play as a maid and subsequently shifted to being an 'ojou-sama' and some angel crap too. Pretty terrible past. I was considered one of the 'semaritans' of CTFG (whatever that meant), and was pretty much a huge chatfag lord, and had a so-called
home thread that eventually reached over 2000 pages. While I don't like those times when I look back at it now, I did had fun, and that's a fact. I suppose I remember Gambler coming in to visit occasionally as well. We also had good times in MSN. Either way, being a chatfag lord didn't mean that I ignored IB. I made friends on both places and those days were nice.
I hosted a Summer writing contest before in 2012 and ran Winter Writing contests alongside Xenon, and got to make front page posts twice before. As a result the Writing forum was made to be quite active, but not for long. Aside from that, I remember hosting Elemental Wars games in CTFG, some of them didn't go as expected but it was still quite fun. I planned to do some crazy Fate game with Holy Grail wars but that was a crazy idea that I stopped working on at some point. I used to write and publish some pieces in the Writing forum, which are just embarrassing to look at now. In the end, I shifted my attention to just RPing in said Writing forum, and went on to experience some of the best times of my life. Things were tough in the past, but with Google docs things changed, and now it's really fun with a lot of real time writing. The RP'ers and I probably write so much that no one else probably can ever keep up other than ourselves, lol.
While I still RP in the Writing forum, I got tired of a lot of things outside that section. New and obnoxious users in IB and CTFG both, cool people I knew vanishing, and then some people were just hungry for drama. It was annoying to say the least. Seeing neg bombs didn't make me want to go back either. I was hated by the underage chatfag lords. Things added up and I started posting less and less. I still post on IB and do things around Fakku sometimes (like the contest running now), but not as much as before.
If anyone remembers about my rants and life situations; I was cut with a knife and ever since then I simply had to stick around with the family regardless of what I wanted to do. Being in a third world country you can't really leave just because someone went and injured you in a blind fit of rage, taking away your peace of mind and security. So, I had to suck it up, but I'm still shitty at studying, and 'A' levels were just hard. Terribly hard. Eventually, a friend of mine said that SAT was easier in comparison (still fairly tricky in its own right) and that I could get into foreign universities outside my country with it. I took a huge step after that and decided that I'll finally do what I want, and even convinced my parents (they accepted my resolve, more or less) that I'll be getting myself some SAT scores, take a Japanese course or two, get myself a TOEFL score, and then get myself accepted into a Japanese university. It was the most weebest decision ever but if I am successful then I definitely won't have any regrets.
So, yeah, right now I'm trying to get myself the SAT scores, if my scores for this month's exam is fucked then I can only wait for the next year. In between that period of time I intend to at least get on with TOEFL and learning the Japanese language. Although, I think a lot of my time will be stolen by FFXIV and RPing lol.
All in all, Fakku is one of the best places I've found in my life. I'm glad I found it while looking for h-animes in Megaporn (surprisingly an uploader of Stringendo was called FAKKU.NET), and I never thought at that time that Fakku would help me get into h-mangas, let me meet a lot of different people, allow me to make some close life-long friends, get to grow up as a person, and even lead to me meeting my first and current lover. I am thus really thankful to Jacob for creating this site.
And that's where I am today. Thank you for inviting me to your thread, Gambler, I am very thankful. You will always be one of the best moderators I knew.
EDIT: Why the fuck is Drifter using an avi I used before? Moreover, putting my waifu up as his avi? This is atrocious.