Hi guys, I've been on AFF for almost 4 years now. An indicator of how long I've been here, my profile number is 3507. 

Let's see. I heard about AFF from a comment on a reposted story on winglin. Winglin was the second website I had ever read fanfiction on and the simplicity of it was kind of nice. But the website was really glitchy and right after I finished my first fanfic and started my second fic, the site kind of crashed and no one could update their ongoing stories. Someone suggested moving to AFF because this place doesn't crash and lose stories. So I quickly headed over here, created an account with the name DeviLaugh, one capital L, and reposted my first fanfic.

The majority of the fanfics on AFF were about Jaejoong, Aaron Yan, Donghae, and the rest of DBSK and Super Junior. That was good for me because Jaejoong is my bias. I enjoyed reading different stories and got to meet a lot of new people. I'm usually really bad at socializing but I did manage to make some friends and converse with people. I made maybe 60 karma by writing on people's wall (which, omg, used to be a way to get karma!).

Being rather shy, I usually stayed away from the tag box, but I can remember there was some pretty funny things going on. It was boring to see people spam the link to their stories, but hilarious to read chats between friends. The tag box is actually how I first discovered B2ST when someone linked the just released MV for Breath or Breathe or whatever it is. Thank you to that person!

Oh, and there was this karma ranking thing, where people were ranked by how much karma they had. I would go onto the list and read people's profiles and that was how I discovered SHINee. I saw some gifs of their hello baby and learned about the popular ships, and basically thank you for making that karma list. I did manage to get into the top 100 at one point. One of my crowning achievements. 

I was the type of reader that would enjoy stories and joke about inconsistencies in comments. I never openly dissed a story, but I would bring light to funny things in humorous ways. I was genuinely just joking around. Every story and every update I read I would comment on. I wasn't doing it for the karma because karma didn't have any purpose at the time. I stayed away from the featured stories simply because they were bad. They were often about Jaejoong or Jonghyun, and often rated [H] (the old [M]) but the stories were all the same. There wasn't any of this upvote and random feature business either!

Maybe I was just growing up, or maybe I was reading really bad stories, but I wasn't enjoying what I was reading as much. So in my profile, I made my first little rant. I used highlights and changed the colors and ranted and ranted. Despite the poor quality of my rant, it still felt liberating. Eventually I started doing more rants and somehow started making friends that actually agreed with me. When I reread those rants I cringe because they are absolutely awful. I was 14 when I wrote them and oh my god sun, the structure of those rants were worse than the stories I was ranting about!

I finished my second fanfic and my Mariaboo eventually joined AFF. I have to thank kpop and fanfics for my friendship with her. Maria is an IRL friend, but even though we had known of each other and had mutual friends for three years already, it wasn't until kpop and fanfics that we became so close. It was really thanks to her that I started doing way more rants. She didn't help me write them, but sometimes we would discuss different things that were annoying. It was together with her that I made my most popular rants Cliche and Illogical Parts 1-5.

It was a long list, like 60 things, of cliche and illogical things in fanfics we had found. It was probably the most fun I had ever had ranting. Man, I really liked the kpop fandom back then. People seemed to really like my blog rants, but they were still bad quality. After I finished up my 21st rant (Rants 0-14, rants 15 parts 1-5, and rants 16-21) I stopped blogging and just made it a fanfic. I guess I started that trend of "THIS IS WRONG WITH STORIES IN AFF" fics. Even if I didn't, I take all the credit.That rant fic is now 2 1/2 years old and my most successful thing on AFF to date. 

I feel like I've gained a lot of support through my rants and not a lot of backlash, so thank you to everyone who has read my rants and given your input. I'm glad I was able to give out reviews for that short time, and sorry to the people who asked for them and I totally just forgot about. There once was a time that all of this made me consider being an editor or a market analyst. 

But because I was becoming so critical of the fanfics I read, I was also critical of what I wrote, so I kind of stopped writing fanfics. At least the fanfics that would get popular on AFF. So now i just lurk around of AFF, sometimes going through different tags, sometimes getting lost in tags, and other times trying to force myself through something I know is terrible. Since I no longer care about featured stories, advertised stories, or karma, I really find nothing wrong with AFF except the tags, haha. 

Thanks to overlord nichi, the mods, other people I've talked too, and all the interesting crazy people that I hate! Let's keep this great AFF farm going for five more years and counting!