[s e r e n i t y]

Hey guys!

It's almost too incredible to believe, but we will be celebrating our 11 year anniversary in July. Yes, you heard right, eleven years.

While this year's party won't be as huge as last year's, we'd still love it if you participated in some ways and helped make this day special.

You can send us art/icons/comments/whatever else you can think of for the anniversary itself via PM until July 3, 2011.

OR you can simply help us make the appreciation threads (and any other threads of your choice) here at the board prettier just in time for the anniversary! Either send us these via PM or post them in the appropriate thread(s).

Thank you!

Sheida (s e r e n i t y) and Anja (wolkenfuehlen)

[Can't Have You]

Ahhhh!!!!! I can't make arts or anything, but maybe I can send in a little testimony thing!

[s e r e n i t y]

Oh that would be AWESOME

[wolkenfuehlen]

Thanks for the thread! I'm already sooo excited!

Tori, that sounds great! Anything you wanna send in is welcome

Gotta get started on making some arts soon!

[s e r e n i t y]

I posted about this on tumblr and ... also from there, Twitter, lets see if anyone from "outside" feels like helping

[Can't Have You]

Can you post the link to the tumblr on here? I can reblog/follow it!

[s e r e n i t y]

Here you go the link to this page should be the first post

[Can't Have You]

Passed it on to my 302 followers!

[wolkenfuehlen]

Originally Posted by Can't Have You (View Post) Passed it on to my 302 followers!

Thanks!

I still can't believe we're turning 11 this year! I feel so old.

[Can't Have You]

No problem!!!

I can't either! Such an amazing feat!!

[Finnegan]

Well, last year I wrote a sonnet ... but nobody seemed to like it.

So this year, something more practical -- an offer:

Anja, Sheida: If, when the current actor/character-appreciation threads expire (or before they expire, if you prefer), you'll make separate threads for character appreciation and for actor appreciation, I'll go back through the old threads and cull all the character appreciation comments for the new character appreciation threads.

That won't be a lot of work, because there aren't a lot of character appreciation comments. The few character appreciation comments that there are get buried and lost in a sea of actor appreciation comments. That may be one reason why there are so few posts about the characters - there's no possibility of a continuous discussion, the high volume of actor appreciation comments precludes it.

[s e r e n i t y]

Oh thats not true at all I enjoyed your sonnet very much

Hmm we could do that but its not exactly common around FF to have seperate threads anyways, let me speak with Anja and we'll get back to you

[wolkenfuehlen]

I liked your sonnet, too!

We've discussed your suggestion, and we've decided to stick with the system we have right now of combined character/actor threads. As Sheida said, it's not common around to separate them. If we were a superbusy board and had a daily input of 100+ posts in each thread, it would maybe make sense, but as it is, sifting through the handful of daily posts is something we should all be able to do. Some of our threads aren't the most active to begin with, so by separating them we might just end up creating two half-dead threads. But thank you for the suggestion!

[s e r e n i t y]

Yes thanks for the suggestion but like Anja said, some of the threads dont generate enough conversation as it is, we dont feel seperating characters from actors will help that

Ive start posting the 'where they were and where they are now' banners and descriptions Anja made last year on tumblr with links to the board, so far its gotten the blog some new followers, hopefully itll result in having people come here for the anniversary and help also stick by the board after it

[wolkenfuehlen]

Are you all as excited as I am? Only nine more days to go!