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Introduction/My Monstercat & Wattpad Story

     Ok, so I want to tell you guys just how and why I came to be on Wattpad, but first I need to tell you how I became a Monstercat fan!

     It basically started because my dad wanted me to take karate. I met my best friend there, and I would text her and her brother (who drove us crazy...and still does) a lot. On March 23rd, 2014, when I was 11 years old, the brother texted me and told me to go on YouTube and search for Episode 11 of the Hexxit series by CaptainSparklez. I'm not a gamer, but I thought, "Ah, what the heck, I'll do it because he's my friend." Two days later, during my lunch break, I watched it. (I actually loved it, and I'm still a Sparklez fan.) I thought the song at the end was pretty cool (I thought of it as dubstep), and I wanted to know so badly what it was. Eventually it occurred to me that I should check the description and see if it was there. It was Top of the World by Stephen Walking. When it started out with the main melody, it wasn't the part I recognized, but I fell in love with that part too. And then, exactly one minute through, it came to the part I recognized. I loved that song so much that I would listen to it ten times a day...preferably at night, when I could close my eyes and imagine myself on a big dance floor dancing to it with my favorite singer, TobyMac (I literally met him 3 days after finding the song). My huge obsession for it extended well into April...and maybe even May, I'm not sure. At the time I found it I didn't know Monstercat was a label, but as time went on I figured that out. However, at that point I was still listening to TobyMac 24/7, and I didn't listen to Monstercat a whole lot, neither was I involved at all with the current events of the label, but every time I would listen to one of the songs on YouTube, I remember seeing the 2-second ad for Ascension at the front and thinking it was a pretty picture. (Later it would go on to be Frontier.) Every once in a while I would just randomly cruise through a few Monstercat songs. After Top of the World I figured I would check out some more Monstercat electro, but back then I didn't like it so much. I do remember finally deciding to venture outside of electro, listening to Here It Comes a lot after it was released in June, then listening to Disconnected and loving it so much. And one of the best times I remember from my whole Monstercat history before I became a full-fledged fan was listening to the Solace Mix. When it started right off with Disconnected, I was so happy. At that time I didn't even know Disconnected enough to tell when it was transitioning into House. I loved House too. I loved the visuals. (JUST now found out the mix is by Going Quantum lol.) The next song was Bloodlip. I thought it was a bit out there but I loved it. After that was Reasons. I adored it. (Bloodlip -> Reasons is my all-time favorite Monstercat transition! It's so beautiful!) I remember loving the title "Time Bomb". I Remember first hearing the lyrics "that melody that they would play every single day to remind us it was over" and loving them. (That was actually the first time I'd ever heard of/listened to Tristam, and I'm a hardcore fan of him today, so that's amazing to look back on.) It was just like I loved every single song that came on and it never stopped being awesome. I was mindblown. It was then I realized how amazing Monstercat's music is. And, if you take Altitude out of the equation, Solace is still my favorite album. These days I kinda look back on how crazy it was that the first album I just randomly decided to listen to is the one that's still considered the best album by so many fans today. I remember listening to the beginning of the Embrace mix in August while I was on a roadtrip, the Outlook mixes some time later (that's when I fell in love with Rogue), and I slowly gained more and more admiration for Monstercat's music. During this time the Pegboard Nerds became my favorite Monstercat artists. (They and Tristam are fighting over the top slot nowadays...it's switched around a few times...I think Tristam has it right now...) I found the Didrick 3-Year Anniversary Mix a few days after it went up, and I already recognized a few things (like New Style, which I'd just found the same day). Also, I found Jonah Wei-Haas' piano cover of Disconnected, then listened to his To the Stars one and decided to look up the original. A few days after Snowblind released, I found that too. I still remember thinking it was so fast the first time I listened to it, and I loved it so much. (It's STILL my favorite Monstercat song.) On September 25th, I was telling my Aunt Margie about the label when I realized it was my half-year anniversary. I kinda freaked out. It was 11:00 at night, so I decided to stay up and do nothing for the next hour except celebrate by listening to Monstercat. To the Stars and The Other Day were my obsessions then (listening to The Other Day at night felt SO INTENSE), so I listened to them a lot, and I listened to Top of the World just as it turned midnight, then I went to sleep. My obsession with Monstercat's music had taken off at that point, but I still wasn't involved with the family. One day in October, I was reading a comment chain of Pegboard Nerds song titles on the subreddit when I looked over to the side and saw the bottom of the 019 album cover. I knew enough about the albums now, so I freaked out. I went to their Facebook, and sure enough, Endeavour had just been announced. (I also still remember the evening I sat down and went through every album with its number and got so happy because I remembered them all...fan achievements.) It was on Endeavour Week, for the first time, that I became involved with the Monstercat community. (I still don't have social media, so I can't chat with the family, but I still consider myself part of it. Wattpad is the first time I've been able to connect with other Monstercat fans online!) I became absolutely mindblown during that week, and I learned many things about Monstercat, but what stuck out was: They care about their fans. They really care. They do SO many awesome things one after another just to make the fans happy. On Throwback Thursday, during the 24-hour album mix marathon on Twitch, I got to read many inspirational stories by the fans of how they got to connect with other fans and with the artists. I realized that the fans care about the label, the artists care about the fans, everybody cares about everybody, and it all goes around. I realized that Monstercat isn't a label. It's a tight-knit community with members that truly care about each other. And I was overjoyed to become a part of it. I continued to follow Monstercat, and I'm still learning things about it, like the fact that they can surprise you no matter how hard you try to expect the unexpected. During Altitude week, for example. It was around Christmastime, and the winter vibe was all over, even at Monstercat FM, which I got to see the reveal of. I had thought they would be doing a lot for such a big album, so when I saw the schedule for the week, I was kind of surprised that there was nothing really big on it. But then, lo and behold, at the end of the special edition two-hour podcast was this 2-minute thing where every artist said their name. I don't know what it was that I loved so much about that, but it got me so good. I was so surprised and so shaken up afterwards because it had been so beautiful. And then right after that Monstercat FM was revealed, and the first song that played was Disconnected. After that was Snowblind. All my doubt was erased and I was left astounded. I tried to tell my mom about how beautiful it was when every artist said their name, and I cried. It was a weird feeling, crying for joy for the first time in my life. And I don't cry very often at all. Monstercat had gotten me so good there. I also didn't mention that the second the 020 tracklist was unveiled and I saw that there would be a sequel to Top of the World, I felt like Altitude was meant for me. Over the next few months I would come to learn a lot about the artists and memes of the label and become a pretty deep Tristam insider, and that leads up to today. I know I've had a passion for EDM my whole life, but it's Monstercat that helped me find it, and I will always be grateful to them for that. I don't regret a second.

     The second part of all this is how I got on Wattpad. One day, while I was on my way to karate, I thought about how cool it would be if Monstercat had a sweetheart. That turned into a scene, the scene turned into a plot, and the plot turned into my first Monstercat fanfiction, Break Them Down. (It's on hold right now; I have some ideas written down but I'm waiting until I'm older to write it. It just might be up in a couple years if I ever come back to it.) I believe it was in December that I decided to search Google and see if anyone else was writing a Monstercat fanfiction. That's when I found Monstercat Media Academy by KellyMB, and with that I found Wattpad. I read that story and fell in love. I even shared it on Pinterest, which led to me getting a shoutout by Kelly on Twitter. It was a heartbreaking day for me when I found out Monstercat Media Academy had been taken down, but I continued to read other Monstercat stuff on Wattpad, like The Boy They Called Rogue by SuperLunaHoneymoon. I can't remember exactly when Monstercat High got started. I believe I found it around the time Pointlesscensor started writing her own version. I loved reading it, especially Pointlesscensor's and the original version by TheTrueAmericanGamer. Sometime through this I decided to start writing my own, and Monstercat University was born. That was a few months ago. One book of that turned into multiple books, and I finally finished the first about a week ago. I had dreamed during these months of getting a Wattpad account and sharing MCU with the family. And yesterday, July 26th, 2015, my awesome mom let me get an account. So here I am. After all this time of looking up to the Monstercat family on Wattpad, it's an incredible feeling to finally be among them. (It's a good chance that if you posted your Monstercat stuff on here before this, I already read it back when it was posted, even if I just voted/commented now.) Yesterday I got in contact with TheTrueAmericanGamer and asked her if I could post Monstercat University, and she said yes. It's very heartwarming to see how you guys are welcoming me to the family, and every message, comment, and follow means the world to me, so I appreciate that SO much as I finally start to live out this dream. Monstercat University will be premiering soon!

     I'm so excited to share MCU with you fellow Monstercat fans. It's my first book written completely out of order, and I love that so much that I think I'm going to do it with every book from now on. It's also my first written in first person from different points of view AND my first book written in present tense! I've gotten a lot of practice through this, so I hope you guys love it. Thanks for being so patient and reading all this. I do have one question. Would you like me to have a specific schedule for releasing chapters of MCU, or should I just surprise you? I vote for surprising you...let me know what your preference would be!!!

     Thanks so much! Love you guys!

~Dilumi