Nexusversary! Dun dun DUN!
Way, WAY back in the fuzzily remembered past, somebody on fanficrants linked to Sages, and I thought it looked pretty darn cool.
Fifteen months later, I worked up the nerve to join. And boy am I glad I did.
Anyway, there’s something I’ve been meaning to say forever, but putting off until I’d weathered a full year here. And here it is.
To blue_fuzzy_elf, for playing an adorable young Kurt and to bettern_errol, for playing a fantastic older one,
To spinsaweb and webstunner, because Spiderman is love and our little Nexus does a great job of proving it,
To alexa_parker For being Terry’s first snark partner and for the amusement it created,
To octopushubris, for the awesomeness that is Doc Ock brought to life~
To shard_bishop, Since Shard’s always a cool character just to throw people off of,
To sweet2morrow, because getting Batman drunk is ALWAYS a good idea, and because Asuka is her own special level of awesome.
To h_hollister and 8th_castellan, who have been one of the definitive Odd Nexus Pairs since I started playing,
To man_of_means, for being the Nexus’s Pimping Player and all his amusing antics,
To cordy_btvs, dimension_bitch and reaps_bunnies, for mastering the lost art of Valley Girl Slang,
To azulapwnssouls, for being the first person to thread with me on Sages an for all of our crack crossover plottings,
To hyuugafireworks, because Hanabi is cool and chibi!Azula is hilarious. And because we kept one thread up for like five months >>
To blindbandit, for bringing together the Avatar fandom on our little site and for holding us together for a while, and for Toph’s awesome grumpiness,
To venominherveins, for working with a randomly assigned thread and running with it amazingly,
To reclusiveorphan, waterbender_k, boomerang_lover, To boredfireninja, and to neverredhanded, though he technically wasn’t an Avatar character, for making a nice little community that lasted long enough to get me hooked~
To leavemea_lone, who plays the coolest asshole EVER,
To clever__fool, who is both a toaster and the catalyst for endless Phoenix Wright bodyswapping fun,
To hypnosnake, for amazing Kaa goodness and cracky AU partially DC worlds.
To gadgetqueen, for providing the definitive Mad Scientist,
To chozo_ofbalance and to onemorebounty, because you can never have enough Metroid in any form,
To danceswithgoths, derek_bliss, diamondknuckle, violet_arrows, he11_bound, To spacediplomacy, the_grifter, col_slayton
and quitechild, for playing with Terry the Prankster or Terry the Batman and being really cool about it,
To victormakesart, because Victor is indeed an amazing little artist~
To sarah_branigan, who has a pup who brings that little bit of earthy goodness to the Nexus right when the pups most need it,
To thedeath_ofyou, because Botan’s cheery attitude seems to come right out of the show`
To mynameiscs, who made a cool Planeteer,
To in_jubilation, for being an awesome Jubilee,
To alec_holland, Because Swamp Thing vs. Captain Planet was one of the coolest scenes I’ve ever played,
To twilightbreath, for inflicting upon the Nexus the awesome which is Midna,
To handle_gently, for being the adorable Hana goodness which we all know and love,
To halfostian, for breaking Serra’s brain but in a cute way,
To simply_ellie and master_simon, because Ellie is all kinds of awesome and like a major component of the Nexus, and Simon is cool too
To wright_idea, for roping me and a whole bunch of other people into the PW fandom and leading the charge so well,
To cutslikeasword, because EdgeyPearly was awesomecute,
To turnabout_fey and pearlypearl, because I always love Maya getting to meet her sisters,
To papa_to_asobou, superman_dead, iwiwal and al_notfullmetal, who got me hooked on a great series and really brought it to life in the Nexus
To marcovincognita and canon_is_god, who I wished I played with more because both of them have such interesting takes on their characters.
To trenchcoatdeath, for encouraging Bakura and giving me gigglefits whenever the two of them go head to head.
To holybizow, whose crazy crack Tim is very amusing when he’s not being serious, and very entertaining when he’s being Grave.
To bishie_beastboy Who makes me laugh every time we play, and who made a fully believable character off of a random crack idea,
To icklebats For making Batman adorably, undeniably Batman,
To titan_nightwing and to notthedamnedbat, whose Nightwings rock my world and Terry’s
To red-stain-robin, because Fangs is a cool concept,
To mia_adept and mindreaderivan, who helped bring the whole Golden Sun world to life for the time they were around.
To pretty_feather, thingsexplode, stray_note, sashadlaine, To that_somebody, piercing_lun, professor_tak, redyarn_scri, thefamilybiz and melkors_son, and especially to full_metal_ed, for helping me get started with my first character and get adjusted to the Nexus as a whole.
To apocalypse_mind, for bringing out an awesome character and doing an awesome job of making a giant telepathic kitty a serious character.
To etrurian_mage, who got me to pick up one of my favorite characters and gave me a heck of a lot of fun times with them. Serra and Erk’s bickering still rank among some of the favorite scenes I’ve done.
To bakaodangoatama, star_general prof_squiggles and senshi_of_venus, for helping bringing the Sailor Moon I remember back to life, and to
notinuniform and bluebookworm, for taking a very different but very interesting spin on the whole thing
To hello_my_been, for being the most adorable tarantula ever,
To random_xtras, deona_zephyr and i_small_one, who helped make my brief forays into Lunatic Café enjoyable ones
To icy_shadow, for bubblegum repair crisis-solving,
To smile_and_steal and to brightpinkninja, to filling RV with the amusing antics of Marino,
To teh_kittykat, for running the entire RV community and keeping things spiffy and awesome and fun to play in for so long, and we’ll miss you dearly,
To radiance_heart, because Kairi is awesome and her as a little kid is adorable~
To blue_rebirth and girlsfightdirty, for having the coolest AU’s~
To woodsy_woman, for being a fun person to bounce ideas off of and also cause Ginta is adorkable,
To umbra_profess and gunslinging, who I play with rarely but who both have really awesome characters~
To _megaman_x, For helping me get into the Megaman fandom in the first place. And for Met Overlord Dekao,
To darkloid_blues, because Dark Blues the Batman fanboy is awesome~
To hikari_netto, for being our Iconic Netto and one of the people who helped rope me into RV
To not_a_shadow, because Enzan’s crazy Angst tendencies will make a Bat of him yet,
To shiny_forehead, because Dekao/Yaito was the best worst idea EVER
To newtovideondvd, for having way too many pups and yet keeping them all so IC and awesome
To playswithrobots, for adorable Codaness~
To pubertypower, for hooking me on YGO Abridged and the RPing thereof. Oh, and all that plot stuff, too.
To megadidit, for being an adorably awesome Rockman~
To everyone I’ve missed, for hopefully putting up with me missing them.
To the good folks over at Arolos Weyr, who got me started on this whole online roleplaying a few years back.
To the folks over at a certain small Naruto RPG on MSN, for getting me hooked on the whole thing,
To everyone in my live tabletop gaming sessions, for being great roleplayers and great friends,
To everyone I’ve ever met at a -con based LARP, for sharing your passions and helping everyone have fun because of it,
To the folks at Spirit of the Earth, for building a huge engrossing world that I still marvel at and letting me help,
To the folks of the Nexus, of Lunatic Café and Transgression, of Gotham Nexus and Reality Vanish, of Sages and DM and heck, even to the folks over at Dear Mun, for being funny and cheerful and amazing and making me laugh and cry and plot and scheme,
I love you all.
Rock out, guys. Those of you who are still here, I hope you’ll stick around for a long time and that I get to see more of all of you, those of you who’ve left, I’ll miss you.
It’s been a hell of a year.
Fifteen months later, I worked up the nerve to join. And boy am I glad I did.
Anyway, there’s something I’ve been meaning to say forever, but putting off until I’d weathered a full year here. And here it is.
To blue_fuzzy_elf, for playing an adorable young Kurt and to bettern_errol, for playing a fantastic older one,
To spinsaweb and webstunner, because Spiderman is love and our little Nexus does a great job of proving it,
To alexa_parker For being Terry’s first snark partner and for the amusement it created,
To octopushubris, for the awesomeness that is Doc Ock brought to life~
To shard_bishop, Since Shard’s always a cool character just to throw people off of,
To sweet2morrow, because getting Batman drunk is ALWAYS a good idea, and because Asuka is her own special level of awesome.
To h_hollister and 8th_castellan, who have been one of the definitive Odd Nexus Pairs since I started playing,
To man_of_means, for being the Nexus’s Pimping Player and all his amusing antics,
To cordy_btvs, dimension_bitch and reaps_bunnies, for mastering the lost art of Valley Girl Slang,
To azulapwnssouls, for being the first person to thread with me on Sages an for all of our crack crossover plottings,
To hyuugafireworks, because Hanabi is cool and chibi!Azula is hilarious. And because we kept one thread up for like five months >>
To blindbandit, for bringing together the Avatar fandom on our little site and for holding us together for a while, and for Toph’s awesome grumpiness,
To venominherveins, for working with a randomly assigned thread and running with it amazingly,
To reclusiveorphan, waterbender_k, boomerang_lover, To boredfireninja, and to neverredhanded, though he technically wasn’t an Avatar character, for making a nice little community that lasted long enough to get me hooked~
To leavemea_lone, who plays the coolest asshole EVER,
To clever__fool, who is both a toaster and the catalyst for endless Phoenix Wright bodyswapping fun,
To hypnosnake, for amazing Kaa goodness and cracky AU partially DC worlds.
To gadgetqueen, for providing the definitive Mad Scientist,
To chozo_ofbalance and to onemorebounty, because you can never have enough Metroid in any form,
To danceswithgoths, derek_bliss, diamondknuckle, violet_arrows, he11_bound, To spacediplomacy, the_grifter, col_slayton
and quitechild, for playing with Terry the Prankster or Terry the Batman and being really cool about it,
To victormakesart, because Victor is indeed an amazing little artist~
To sarah_branigan, who has a pup who brings that little bit of earthy goodness to the Nexus right when the pups most need it,
To thedeath_ofyou, because Botan’s cheery attitude seems to come right out of the show`
To mynameiscs, who made a cool Planeteer,
To in_jubilation, for being an awesome Jubilee,
To alec_holland, Because Swamp Thing vs. Captain Planet was one of the coolest scenes I’ve ever played,
To twilightbreath, for inflicting upon the Nexus the awesome which is Midna,
To handle_gently, for being the adorable Hana goodness which we all know and love,
To halfostian, for breaking Serra’s brain but in a cute way,
To simply_ellie and master_simon, because Ellie is all kinds of awesome and like a major component of the Nexus, and Simon is cool too
To wright_idea, for roping me and a whole bunch of other people into the PW fandom and leading the charge so well,
To cutslikeasword, because EdgeyPearly was awesomecute,
To turnabout_fey and pearlypearl, because I always love Maya getting to meet her sisters,
To papa_to_asobou, superman_dead, iwiwal and al_notfullmetal, who got me hooked on a great series and really brought it to life in the Nexus
To marcovincognita and canon_is_god, who I wished I played with more because both of them have such interesting takes on their characters.
To trenchcoatdeath, for encouraging Bakura and giving me gigglefits whenever the two of them go head to head.
To holybizow, whose crazy crack Tim is very amusing when he’s not being serious, and very entertaining when he’s being Grave.
To bishie_beastboy Who makes me laugh every time we play, and who made a fully believable character off of a random crack idea,
To icklebats For making Batman adorably, undeniably Batman,
To titan_nightwing and to notthedamnedbat, whose Nightwings rock my world and Terry’s
To red-stain-robin, because Fangs is a cool concept,
To mia_adept and mindreaderivan, who helped bring the whole Golden Sun world to life for the time they were around.
To pretty_feather, thingsexplode, stray_note, sashadlaine, To that_somebody, piercing_lun, professor_tak, redyarn_scri, thefamilybiz and melkors_son, and especially to full_metal_ed, for helping me get started with my first character and get adjusted to the Nexus as a whole.
To apocalypse_mind, for bringing out an awesome character and doing an awesome job of making a giant telepathic kitty a serious character.
To etrurian_mage, who got me to pick up one of my favorite characters and gave me a heck of a lot of fun times with them. Serra and Erk’s bickering still rank among some of the favorite scenes I’ve done.
To bakaodangoatama, star_general prof_squiggles and senshi_of_venus, for helping bringing the Sailor Moon I remember back to life, and to
notinuniform and bluebookworm, for taking a very different but very interesting spin on the whole thing
To hello_my_been, for being the most adorable tarantula ever,
To random_xtras, deona_zephyr and i_small_one, who helped make my brief forays into Lunatic Café enjoyable ones
To icy_shadow, for bubblegum repair crisis-solving,
To smile_and_steal and to brightpinkninja, to filling RV with the amusing antics of Marino,
To teh_kittykat, for running the entire RV community and keeping things spiffy and awesome and fun to play in for so long, and we’ll miss you dearly,
To radiance_heart, because Kairi is awesome and her as a little kid is adorable~
To blue_rebirth and girlsfightdirty, for having the coolest AU’s~
To woodsy_woman, for being a fun person to bounce ideas off of and also cause Ginta is adorkable,
To umbra_profess and gunslinging, who I play with rarely but who both have really awesome characters~
To _megaman_x, For helping me get into the Megaman fandom in the first place. And for Met Overlord Dekao,
To darkloid_blues, because Dark Blues the Batman fanboy is awesome~
To hikari_netto, for being our Iconic Netto and one of the people who helped rope me into RV
To not_a_shadow, because Enzan’s crazy Angst tendencies will make a Bat of him yet,
To shiny_forehead, because Dekao/Yaito was the best worst idea EVER
To newtovideondvd, for having way too many pups and yet keeping them all so IC and awesome
To playswithrobots, for adorable Codaness~
To pubertypower, for hooking me on YGO Abridged and the RPing thereof. Oh, and all that plot stuff, too.
To megadidit, for being an adorably awesome Rockman~
To everyone I’ve missed, for hopefully putting up with me missing them.
To the good folks over at Arolos Weyr, who got me started on this whole online roleplaying a few years back.
To the folks over at a certain small Naruto RPG on MSN, for getting me hooked on the whole thing,
To everyone in my live tabletop gaming sessions, for being great roleplayers and great friends,
To everyone I’ve ever met at a -con based LARP, for sharing your passions and helping everyone have fun because of it,
To the folks at Spirit of the Earth, for building a huge engrossing world that I still marvel at and letting me help,
To the folks of the Nexus, of Lunatic Café and Transgression, of Gotham Nexus and Reality Vanish, of Sages and DM and heck, even to the folks over at Dear Mun, for being funny and cheerful and amazing and making me laugh and cry and plot and scheme,
I love you all.
Rock out, guys. Those of you who are still here, I hope you’ll stick around for a long time and that I get to see more of all of you, those of you who’ve left, I’ll miss you.
It’s been a hell of a year.