I started this account in 2017 when I was 12 years old. A few months into my first year of secondary school, and now I'm 16 about to graduate. I am so thankful to everyone I met on this app. I've made some amazing friends, even though many I drifted apart from, read so many storys from the good, the bad and the written by a 9 year old in 2014. And I've also been apart of some amazing communities and a few strange ones ( Sherlock reply chain I'm looking at you). The wider community of this app, for better or for worse, has had a huge impact on my formative years and I wouldn't be who I am today without it.
I want to thank the friends I met irl who where in fandom for making me feel like my interests where normal, the friends I met through fandoms who helped me along the way and especially to the ones I lost who will never be forgotten. I want to thank the 'fandom family' I had who for a time made me feel like I was apart of a group who cared about me and the cool adults who gave me solid advise and weren't creepy. To my favorite authors on this app who I always spamed with votes, but most of all to the people I had those tiny interactions with in the comments of story's who blend into one another but made me feel like I was apart of something bigger then myself.
After this school year I'm hoping to be able to do a PLC course for Pre 3rd Level Arts and after that study something phycology related but after that who knows? The world is my oyster and I'm ready to explore it!