I was a Winglin writer when I first started publically posting my stories. If you guys knew me from there...I was 'usagichan' to you. I don't know why I went to Winglin and not other fanfic sites like soompi, LJ, etc. I guess the appeal of Asian celebrities was the main factor, including the anonymity of it all. It was REALLY basic and I was okay with that. You could be a n00b and no one would know, for the most part. I was also a reader on Winglin, read some really good stories. Met some really good friends. 

But then the great blackout of Winglin happened and a lot of people lost stories or access to them. I was one of them and I hated it because I wanted to write and post and keep track of my readers and friends but I couldn't. Then one day I recieved an advertisment comment from one of the real founding members of AFF who invited me to give AFF a spin. I normally ignored such comments but I figured why the heck not?

I came, I saw, and it would take me a few days into Winglin's blackout before I decided, I needed a new place to store my stories and a better way to keep in contact with readers and friends, enter AFF and with AFF I have stayed. I made friends with a few of the real pioneers of AFF and I'm sad that a lot of them are no longer active on here, including the user who brought me to AFF. 

My very first user on AFF was heroslilbit. Hero for my love of Jae Joong Lil Bit because I'm short, er excuse me 'fun sized'. I stayed with that user for THE longest time and boy do I miss it some times. Then I had karma points and I didn't know what to do with them--the only thing worth using my karma points for was a user name changed and for just a short amount of time I was known as beatssaem. Beats was a nickname I recieved from my Brian-half, Alex. Saem because once upon a time I was a teacher in Korea. Now you know me as kissBea2play and I'm most likely to stay with this user for 5ever. You can thank Jae Joong for this wonderful username. 

I'm still here because AFF has been wonderful to me. I've tried many times to open new accounts on different websites but in the end I always come back here. I may not fit in here anymore as a writer, but I don't care. I make the most of it and continue to support a great website creator, my friends, my stories, and everyone else on AFF. I just can't get away from you AFF. I just really like it here and when you've been through all the changes AFF has been through and as much as I miss those old days, time for progress. Positive progress. 

I am still here because I have met so many wonderful and amazing people on here who share the same interests and have opened me up to other things. I can't name you all and I would love to leave you all individual messages but then this post will never end haha. I really owe it to AFF and Jason for giving me a great community to write and share my stories. For giving me courage and a fighting chance at posting up my stories that I will never feel will be worth any ones read. 

I am not as active as I once was but I'm still here and I do my best to make new friends and keep in touch with old ones. AFF has been my safe haven, a place for me to escape my own reality and share my daydreams with you. And AFF is where I will continue to stay.
 

Don't eat yellow snow.

Just kidding.

No--but seriously, don't eat it. 

What to say? I feel like my messages will only end up being me nagging you guys for all the things that annoy me lol. 

Let's see, how to end this...

To my friends from the beginning and the ones who I will eventually make friends with, thank you for being you. For giving me great laughter and encouragement to continue what I do. I hope that I can and have done that for you as well in some point in time. I adore you guys and I really REALLY appreciate your friendship these past five years. Let's keep it going!

To my readers, I don't know how many times I can tell you guys that hearing you re-read my stories over and over again and still finding joy in them makes me so humbled and thankful. To know that you even love my non-DBSK stories--whew that's like happiness overload for me haha. I will never be as epic as some authors and I may never make it as a New York Best Times novelist but for you that I have continued to stay with me and will continue to support even my weirdest of ideas, thank you from the bottom of my kokoro. Let's keep making more adventures into my imagination. 

To the rest of AFF, be easy yo. Continue to do as you do but with respect to everyone on the website. Continue to love and help AFF grow--progress and change is a slow and hard process but it can happen with your positive support. Keep working hard and don't be afraid to fail or even try out something new. Don't hold yourself back from the wonderful possibilities that comes from fanfiction. Have fun my fellow AFFers and let's make the next milestone anniversary even bigger than the last. 

And remember...don't eat yellow snow. d(-_-)

Happy 5 Years AFF. I have zero photoshopping skillz and I'm too immersed in my current story to write a small drabble that will end up being it's own chaptered story about my fictional journey to AFF. So to end...Fighting AFF!! Let's make it 5EVER!!