Subject: Wow...
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Posted on: 2019-10-19 04:01:00 UTC

I... never really imagined this day would come until a few months ago, and even then, I forgot about it until recently. I guess it's time for a dramatic goodbye.

SkaterTheDJWolf.

Most people don't remember this, but I actually joined the PPC under this name, toward the end of summer before last, when Twistey was still here. The reason I'm not remembered is because... well... I kind of disappeared after a couple weeks. I still have that doc with all the newbie gifts I was given.

When I joined back then, I was pretty toxic. Not intentionally so, but I was quite bad at taking a hint. I won't go into the dirty details, but I was on a specific forum and I spouted a heck of a lot of highly offensive stuff there that would have been the cause of a supermassive dumpster fire here. As a matter of fact, that forum I was on had to ban me from the Debates section for a while because of my conduct.

I rejoined sometime last year after I'd done some soul-searching and outgrown the tendencies that would have gotten me banned before I could say "Mary Sue." By that time, I had evolved into a new person, Neo Skater. This was the name I used, and it's the name I still use now. It signified my evolution, my shedding of that naïve, self-absorbed, toxic, unaware skin that had infected my time before here... or so I thought.

I would still have a long way to go. There'd be mishaps. There'd be miscommunications. There'd be terrible, terrible, terribly Suvian ideas for PPC stories. There'd be panic attacks and being literally unable to read old posts or criticism because they represent my mistakes. Heck, there still is on occasion, especially that last one.

But through it all, you loved and accepted me. No matter what mistakes I made, no matter how I screwed up, no matter how far my sense of humor strayed past the line... you stuck with me. That acceptance was something I really needed to grow and finally move past my past self. And as someone who left his last community on very bad terms, that means a lot to me.

I think this is the only community I've been involved in I'll be able to look back at without regretting everything I'd ever done. And I... I really appreciate that.

And you wanna know what? It all started here. On the PPC Board. All on that one introductory post...

Thanks for the memories, PPC Board. Now let us move on to the future.

So long, SkaterTheDJWolf...

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