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Fuck it

My biggest influence as a babby coming over from the TV Tropes forums all those years ago was probably [@Genkai].

Was it just me who looked up to her like a shy exchange student looks up to that one cool English teacher, even though you don't actually go to that class? Because that was pretty much my whole shtick for a long time, just lurking and reading other people's posts. I learned quickly how you can construct each post as it's own short story, rife with inner thoughts and action, complimented with an appropriate amount of prose and flavor. Mimicking that attention to detail and establishing tone came (mostly) from studying Genkai, and people like Genkai's posts and RPs, and emulating them and developing my own preferred method from their examples. That, combined with a FUCK TONNE of trial and error (process still on-going) transformed me into the collaborative writer I am today.

I know it's prolly weird for me to mention you tho-- I think the entire extent of interactions we've had was a potential 1x1 that never went anywhere once? [i]Maybe?[/i] But still, thanks for being you so that I could become me.

This writing stuff's great.