i needed a place to say what i won't be able to say in the middle of the stream tomorrow, i won't be able to make it for most of the day, and i decided this was the best place to do it.

last year, around christmas time (dec 23 i think it was), i was visiting my sisters and was relatively bored. i was searching through people i had subscribed to, and found dewtroid, whom i had subscribed to after seeing the resonance cascade replication a couple months beforehand. i browsed through her videos and found a twitch.tv link in one of the descriptions. i went there, and she was live.

i was rapidly "obsessed." in that time of my life i was severely depressed, i hardly had anything to look forward to, a long-time friend that became a girlfriend had burned her bridge to me, and i had a hard time finding something to live for. and then i found dew. dewtroid was someone i could relate to; someone who i understood and i felt could understand me, or anyone. over the course of a month or two, i put forward a few derpy attempts at fandom, including a weird cannon and a half-assed "electronic" song.

i restrained my fanboy self enough by the second month to become an active regular, an active member of the community. in a fit of happiness from dew, i was lucky enough to be included in the wave of regulars that were modded/op'd on either the chat or the server.

and from there things took the fuck off, didn't they.

as a community, we've created this subreddit, we've brought over 300 views to dew at once to the RMCT tourney, we've spammed multiple streams, we've connected at a surprisingly sexual level with dew, we've had mass all-nighters together, and we've supported thespawn and dew through pain and strife.

i can't fucking believe i'm part of this group of friends.

family.

i'm misty eyed as i'm writing this at 2.41 in the morning. i've been appreciated and have appreciated here more than anywhere else in my life.

sarah (i feel weird typing that), you've saved my life more than once.

i cannot thank you enough for building this group. thank you so god damn much. i'm re-dying my hair right now from minty green to a darker blue to make up for not being able to be present for most of the celebrations.

<4

-free

p.s.- dewcepticons, comment with your own stories! we want to hear them.