why does catsite matter to you

hooooh boy
i'm gonna get emotional af so someone pls hold me
also it is 6 in the morning and i just woke up, so this is probably gonna end up looking like a foreign language
i came here a little over 3 years ago as a sprouting teenage timber, and in that time i was (tbh) a shitty roleplayer.
being with you guys helped me with that and helped me make friends who i love so much and would probably marry if i had the chance.

and in my time here, i've found my sexuality, gender, and whatnot (hell, a while back i let the other staffies choose my masculine name)

and not to mention how catsute helped me feel happy when my entire world kinda crushed me into a ball and threw me straight into a tornado of depression and shit

so, in closing, i'd like to thank the university, our good deans, my friends, family, and all of the other perfect people who helped me graduate into this life of animal roleplay.

(ooh, i also forgot to say that you guys helped me come of age (as in i spent my 18th birthday on here doing absolutely nothing with a party hat on)

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this is gonna be rly rly rly long but,

aaaaaaaaaa catsite matters to me bc catsite is my home: i've only been here for maybe 2 or 3 or almost 3 years now, which is nothing compared to the 8 or 9 or 10 yrs a bunch of you have spent, but i feel rly connected to the site - every time i try to leave and find someplace else to rp or chat or share my codes i can't, tbh, because i can't find anywhere like catsite. nothing can supplement it, i think, bc its so wholly and completely and uniquely feralfront; the community is so big and immersive and fun, and the main game gives me the freedom to do things right off the bat i wouldn't be able to do on traditional sites at all or not without a ton of forum points. catsite matters to me because it's catsite and there's nowhere else like it.

besides that, i grew up here, sort of. i joined when i was younger and much less mature, and as i spent more and more time here and branched out from the fanclans into the main game and the rest of the ooc community, i noticed myself growing. i did a lot of that, here, growing and maturing: i'm completely different from the person i was two, three years ago, and i think part of that comes from my time here (and, by extension, the rest of the internet). without this site and others, i'd have never thought that somebody could identify as something other than male or female, or that love and sexuality transcended the boundaries of straight, gay, and bisexual, or that the people who identified as all these things were real and valid and good. without feralfront, i wouldn't know any of this - and more.

i was young here, when i first joined. i joined a few days after my birthday one year, i think, all giddy and excited and i joined lots of fanclans with the same character (a pretty dark tabby named creekfeather) and had a jolly good time doing that for what i think was around half a year, or maybe a whole year. it wasn't long after that that i first joined the maingame. the first character i ever adopted was a kitten of permafrost and navyseal named woodencarving, and i was so unabashedly excited about the whole ordeal that when i won i probably screamed or cried (or both.) i was shocked that roleplayers as talented as that could have picked me, a little newbie, to play a kitten in their litter, and i think this first experience was what gave me the courage to continue into the game. this moment, i believe, was the first in a long string of good times (and, admittedly, bad times) i spent on this game.

overall: catsite is my home. i've been here for a while, from being a newbie in the fanclan boards, to playing a frontboard leader, and becoming a community assistant in april, to now. much of the time i spent here were among the greatest moments in my young life, and while it all hasn't been good and i've made more than my fair share of mistakes here, i enjoyed and continue to enjoy every moment i spend here. from my friends to my characters to the writing skills i've cultivated here to every detail that makes catsite catsite... i wouldn't change a thing.

Yo I wanna join this drunk party lmao
But all I can do is have Coke so I'll go with that XD

Wow, where do I even start omg

> The site has helped me through everything. Everyone is so nice here, so understanding, and they feel like the friends I wished I had in real life. The site has helped me through stress, coping with death in the family, and everything. I'm so thankful I came here.

> It's improved my writing! In school, I could have never wrote a 1,000+ word essay without having to force and repeat myself. I've done so much oneshots on here, it's insane, and it's helped me with essays. Now I have trouble thinking up with a two-sentence story XD

> The staff are so, so nice and understanding. I love them to death. Especially Pen, Grimm/Pax, and Nuka. I actually really look up to you guys <3

> I've roleplayed with many, many different people on the site and it shows me how they write, and I enjoy looking into that!

> The site doesn't make fun of you for whatever you like (i.e., Warriors, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, ect.) It welcomes fandoms from all types of shows!

> I've met so many friends on here, including Jabber, Riding Crop, Mutt, Ace, Moria, Niss, and of course, my boyfriend Mar... I can't even count them all wow XD

> I love looking at all the different characters! Like, literally, when I'm bored at night, I will legit stalk a Clan and watch the other characters lmao

But back to where people are so understanding, I had gotten my first frontboard leader a while back, and in The Exiles out of all Clans! I was so, so nervous in playing a leader because I've never done it before. Nuka had to deal with me asking a lot of questions omg XD
Everyone was so understanding and was patient until I was comfortable in roleplaying a leader by myself because I kept asking them 'Do I do this, do I do that' XD Thank you everyone in The Exiles and everywhere, and Nuka for even giving me that chance <3

I joined here back in 2012 and I was a bit immature and did almost everything wrong whoops. I'm glad to have stayed, though, as it's helped me with improving my writing <3

and OMG Nuka's characters are fun to roleplay with. I loved Vargulf to death

But Chu, Nuka, and Moony basically summed it up lmao

This is absolutly adorable. Drunk people are awesome XD

Uh, I'm still a newbie and joined around a year ago on this account (made another account because I forgot my account password) in that short period of time I've gained so many friends and people that I care about. As many times as I tried to leave for school or I just generally freaked out happens more than you think actually lmao I keep coming back and shit. I'm just so happy whenever I get on and either chat, write, rp, or work on codes because everyone is so nice.
The staff work so hard to make this place a great place and I'm so thankful for that. It'd be chaos without them.

The hangover poor chu and emery are gonna have in the morning cx
The feels in this thread. IT's TOO MUCH.

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a lot of people here summed up what i had to say, but i'm gonna write a few things anyway

i've been around since 2012 (i think??? i had an old account though) but even though i joined because i liked a book about cats, i feel like its really evolved from that and not only have i learned more about myself but i have developed past what i was when i came here, even though it wasn't too long ago. back when i joined and even now i was going through some life things, and i think this place served as a really good distraction from real life that i could seriously put some time in and actually see results from. i had previously tried websites like moshi monsters but that wasn't very fun for me, but seeing things like me actually maturing in writing and in personality really speaks to me. where i always wanted to see myself mature to a point where i could be trusted with getting things done, i didn't think that i would actually get this far with this place, so i'm really happy about that.

and not only is that the truth, but i have made some connections here that i would previously have cringed at. friends? on the internet? i'm glad that not everyone here is scary like i had thought to believe. there are people here just like me. crimmy, pony, amai, ita, tams, the entire crew- i love you guys, even i we don't talk that much anymore, and i wish we would but i'm too terribly awkward to start conversations. i can't keep my chat thread going that far because i forget to reply or it dies off, and a few of you are gone from leaving the site, but i still remember how much you all have helped me in the past. you guys really mean the world to me, even if that kind of sounds strange of me to say.

thanks for being there for me, catsite.

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Idk why.

It just does also Chuman it's really obvious that you were drunk when you typed that out lmao

Yes, very obvious, but it's cute, drunk people just get all feelsy and stuff ^.^
I went and found a hangover cure website becuase I felt that they would need it....
here

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⭐️♥️Alpha Kratt♥️⭐️
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⭐️Ooc⭐️ Wait let me add in my 2 cents! *proceeds to chug a 2-liter bottle of Pepsi b/c is underage and cannot have alcohol*

GET READY EVERYONE BECAUSE THIS IS LOOOOONG

I joined catsite in 2011 because I did a random Google search. I think. Not really sure. Anyway, over the years I've met a lot of great friends, and a lot of helpful people too. Another thing I like on this site is that there's almost no hate. I mean, I came out with my PDD-NOS diagnosis recently, and people were so supportive, telling me I was awesome and brave for coming out (Felix and Ronfaure, I'm lookin' at ya c:). And on catsite, it's where I can express myself freely.

For another, I've actually earned the title of being an (un)official (un)licensed therapist. I've been happily helping my friend, Woybff (Wander over Yonder's Biggest Fan Forever and catsite's official Wander over Yonder fan, never forget that!), for about a year now, with life issues and whatnot.

And speaking of, I have had about two fanclubs on this site so far. One has been run by my (former) friend China, and another...well, it's a mystery! (For now...staff get to work pls i'm dying) When I first heard about there being another fanclub besides the one China created, I didn't believe it. No, no way. Sure, I'm around the Help Den a lot and I've visited nearly every front and backboard (and have had characters in nearly all of them too) and my characters are somewhat legendary in a sense, but a fanclub? For me? No way. Since I was told that by a user who went by the name of Blazewing I have not been able to find it.

But as the others have said, everyone here is so kind and friendly. Much more kind and friendly than what I've had to endure these past 17 years. Hell, if this site existed when I was born, sign me up at the age of 3.

I also think that somehow, this site also connects to my fame on other social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, because I go under the name Alpha Kratt everywhere.

I've also made a lot of friends who actually get into Odd Squad, and surprisingly the majority of them got into the show because of my character, Ms. O, and her quirks (even though she's the wolf embodiment of the character of the show, I tweak her to make her more appealing because I'm like that X3). Even though I don't force it on others, I'm happy that I'm able to share my interests with others and get accepted, maybe even get other people to like the same things.

And the staff. Twila, I saw you became a Mod, same to you Flying Cookies, congrats to you and all the other staff members who got promotions recently. :3 That's number one. Number two, they're so helpful. A lot of people think that staff are just grumpy lil' 80-somethings who just run the site. I see them a different way. Staff work hard to keep this site running, and if it weren't for them we wouldn't have FeralFront as such a big part of our lives.

Catsite also serves as my escape from the real world, I'll admit it straight out. When I was going through things with my annoying-as-all-hell cousins, I would roleplay on catsite to de-stress. Same with my mother. This, however, all changed when one of my cousins asked me what I do in my spare time, and I blurted out that I've been roleplaying on this site. That's one of the struggles I've had. One of my cousins, when I told her, even thought this site was bad, and when I told her there were staff that keeps the site running and monitors (nearly) everything, she specifically said, "How do you know they're not murderers? Or r*pists? Or bad people?" Needless to say, I refused to speak to her again after that day.

Overall? Catsite is like a secondary home. I'm 17 now, and I'm not entirely sure if I'll use this site when I reach my 20s, but there's a good chance I likely will. It's just that awesome.

NOW EVERYONE GETS CONFETTI! *throws confetti into the air*

this post will likely be edited later
just warning you :P
ℹ️nfo on chars (a wip)

[font=verdana][color=black][size=11px]I've been around since early 2011 and was active up until 2013 when I entered high school and that's when my activity took a steep decline and into the depths of hell. While I may not frequent the site as much, it's so important to me because they site has brought people together. I've met great people on here (Nuka, Chu, Frosty, Morphy, Minty, Ako, Natasha, etc..) who I still talk to when I can. Whenever I get sad I usually come on here and it makes me happy for some reason and calms me down. This used to help out a lot with my anxiety, but as I am not as active, I don't RP, but whenever I get anxious I come on here and make a subaccount and get my mind off things by developing a character, even if I won't ever play it. Idk, this site is just really great and I've been on here for so long and have met so many great people.

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♞ Dawny ♘ wrote:

'eeeeey old enough to drink club i may or may not be enjoying a couple glasses of wine myself tonight

Hey Dawny, what's the legal drinking age in Australia? I'm assuming it's 18 like Canada. I've still got like nine months to go before I can legally drink here :c

Anyway, time for my catsite feels:

I was 12 when I joined this site. Now I'm 20, and the oldest active member on this site (not by age lmao). Hard to believe it's been so long—I've been on here longer than I've been on Facebook—but this site has been a major part of my life. Hell, even when I posted my "leaving" thread back in...what, June or July? I didn't stay away for long. I couldn't. I think I'm at that point where I'll still be a member when the site dies. :P

I've met so many new people, been exposed to so many new ideas, learned so much. This is one of the most accepting, progressive-minded places I've been on. I've met friends like Nuka and Chu, both of whom I've met in real life! Hopefully within the next few months, I'll be able to meet Moony, too. :3c Then there's people like Grimm, Frosty, the other 80+ people on Chef Chat, people I talk to and play CAH and BGO with all the time. And they've helped me through a lot of things.

Of course, like it's been for a lot of people, this site has helped me with my writing as well. It's also introduced me to graphic design and coding, even if it's just something small like making fancyposts or messing around with profile codes. My staff experience has given me the opportunity to work on a team, to practice managerial skills, and allow me to have a voice, something that, in real life, is hard for me to use.

And, well, it's just given me something to do all these years, something I've really enjoyed. I'll always have fond memories of this place.

emerycutieface wrote:

Piney! So wise andk nowledgeable, I know if i ever have a quesiton i cna come to you, you neve3r made me feel stupid or unwanted because i didn't understand, you're so patient with me, and have been a consistant voiceo f reason in my life and always there to help me out, for so many years. THank you.

Thank you! <33
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Pineclaw wrote:

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Hey Dawny, what's the legal drinking age in Australia? I'm assuming it's 18 like Canada. I've still got like nine months to go before I can legally drink here :c
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Yup, 18 is legal drinking and voting age in Australia, though there's talks of dropping voting age to 16 and upping drinking age to 21 for some odd reason.

Either way I am legally old enough to drink and vote world wide yup.

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That's some pretty deep stuff to be thinking about when tipsy.
When I'm drunk I just go on about how the sun obviously goes around the earth and which my little ponies need to go straight to hell.

I completely agree, though cx

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★ i like catsite because of zuka and ella and swift and ali and claire and all my wonderful friends that i probably wouldn't have met like we honestly live a 10 hour plane ride away from each other (apart from swift i could drive to you in 50 minutes)

I like catsite because, believe it or not, it helped me though one of the toughest moments of my life. I've made many good friends on here, who have been very supportive. I also have improve my art and writing skills by been here. Haha! I have an excuse to use the internet 24/7!