I know I'm a little late for this, but it's time for my one year forumsversary blog entry! There's so much I want to talk about and about the awesome experience I've had on these awesome forums!

My journey began on September 4th, 2018. I just stumbled across these forums because I was looking for topics about Celestia and Luna so I could discuss them with other people who loved MLP! But I saw I needed an account to join in the conversation, so I created an account just so I could talk about Celestia and Luna. I created my welcome post and told everyone who I was as how I had been an MLP fan for 3 years at the time.

I didn't know anyone here and I honestly thought I was just gonna be invisible to everyone else on here, but I didn't really care because I initially wanted to just talk about Celestia and Luna. Then, as other people started talking with me and welcoming to the forums with open arms, I started to get that itch of wanting to make some friends on here!

I consulted a veteran of the forums, @TheTaZe (who is an awesome person by the way) and I asked him what I can do to make some friends. He told me to just be a nice person, react and reply to other people's status updates and participate in topics. I took this advice to heart and I did start making friends on here, I started gaining followers and reputation and it was then that I realized: People actually like me on here.

I then discovered that I could make my own status updates and started posting and telling people how much I love Celestia and Luna, but I wanted a way to express my love for them more clearly. I saw that I could add pictures to my updates and that's what I did and all my posts had awesome pictures of the princesses and people were loving it.

Then, a few days later, I had noticed something incredible: I had won an award for gaining the most reputation in a single day! I did this in just eight days of my arrival, and this was something I never expected. But it kept getting even better, because I saw I had won another day after that... and the day after that... and the day after that! I had won the award for FIVE straight days in a row? How was this even possible? Was I seriously this popular after such a short time of being here? It was unprecedented!

But then again, this was all because of all the amazing friends that I know on these forums! So many people are just so awesome and friendly and it warmed my heart so much that it felt like I was gonna overflow with happiness! I couldn't have possibly made it this far without their friendship and support and I thank every single one of you for what you've done for me!

One year later and what have I learned? The most important thing I've learned is that no matter what, no matter how bad things are, you can always rely on your friends to be there for you... and they certainly have for me. I now have 21000 brohoofs, 73 days won, 108 followers and more friends than I can count!

Here's to another successful year and thank you to all of my awesome friends for being such amazing friends!

@Tacodidra @Twilight Luna @Rising Dusk @PoisonClaw @Phosphor @Rikifive @Treeglow Flicker @lyrabetes3939 @Partialgeek514 @TheTaZe @Lord Valtasar @Mirage @The Recherche @Emerald<3 @Arc Flash @Alexshy @FFF @R.D.Dash @Flutterstep @Mellow Mane @Totally Lyra @Sparklefan1234 @Dynamo Pad @Cash In @Sondash Studios @Deae Rising Shine~ and @TheRockARooster and so many more...

THANK YOU!!!