Board Thread:New on Bleach Wiki/@comment-5398287-20130923083838

Today marks my one-year anniversary of being on this wiki. It's been a strange but fun ride, and I've met many, many different people in my tenure here. Some of them have simply been nice people to meet, but others have had a lasting and positive effect on me, and I feel it is only correct to thank those people for, well, existing and helping shape the person I am today.


 * SunXia: I believe I owe the most to SunXia out of all the users I've met over the past year. She's one of my few overarching role models: despite living with an acutely terrible condition and basically being in a ludicrous amount of pain on a daily basis, Sun remains positive and cheerful, and is always willing to help others with their problems, something I'm not sure I would be able to do in her position. On top of this, she opened my eyes to the true nature of He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named and taught me about her rules for images, which I have had a great deal of fun collecting. She's one of the all-around best people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting, and I'm glad to be able to call her mon amie.


 * Lemursrule: Lemurs is just the right type of crazy that I need in my life. She's down-to-earth, puts up with a ton of crap, and continues to surprise and bemuse me every time I'm in chat with her. She's open to the absolute craziest crack theories (often coming up with her own) and has one of the most amusingly twisted views on life I've ever encountered. In addition to all of this, she knows her stuff about fencing, Kingdom Hearts, the most efficient ways to dispose of a raving fanboy/girl...I'm lucky in all the wrong ways to have met her.


 * Salubri: Where to begin on this guy. Despite having some....questionable preferences in capitalization, Sal is a very positive influence on me because he's never been reluctant to put me in my place. I can't count how many times he's proved me wrong on various topics, and believe it or not, that is a great thing - it keeps me from making those same mistakes again. On top of this, Sal knows pretty much everything about Bleach, is one of the more intelligent people I've met in these 16.5 years, and has taken me under his wing while teaching me how to become a better editor around here. I owe much to him, but I doubt he'll even notice now that I've gotten him hooked on the Shingeki no Kyojin anime.


 * Arrancar109: It's only fair that I admit how much I owe to this guy. While he hasn't been as prevalent in my inner circle as Sun and Lemurs, Arrancar is still a great friend, and has a deliciously dark sense of humor. He quite enjoys being dead, and he's given me helpful advice on a number of occasions, most recently on getting rid of malware. Arrancar's a good guy, and I still wish to see him and Sal direct an anime filler just to see how many characters they kill off/bring back to life.


 * Yyp: I can't claim to know Yyp too well - I've only spoken directly to him in chat once - but I know that he's a nice guy who also happens to edit everything ever. He does a lot of cleanup and maintenance on the wiki, and for some time he was cleaning up after me (sorry about that, by the way, twas a bug in Wikia). Yyp's a positive example of the kind of editor I want to be, and thus I owe him thanks.


 * Kamikaze839: Because I now know why puns are terrible, terrible things. 