An Update and a Welcome

[Starlight Serenade 3,306]

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all doing well. I just wanted to take a moment to give you a quick update and share some thoughts.

First, I would like to apologize to everyone for my absence and for not posting anything in a while here. I have been very disorganized with all my personal projects in the past few months. Life has been hectic as I'm currently in the final stretch of my last semester at university. I'm on track to graduate next month, which is very exciting but also very overwhelming. On top of this, I've had a few new developments that I have not shared with anyone as of yet. Although I have not been able to spend as much time here as I would like, I still visit the forums from time to time. I truly miss everyone.

For the newcomers here: When I created my initial batch of discussion posts, my goal was to help and provide everyone here with a better understanding of the different sexualities on the spectrum. The more recent posts regarding sharing LGBT+ reads and introductions have been wonderful to read! I was touched by the incredible and heartwarming stories that some of you lovely people have shared with us. I would like to take the opportunity to welcome and encourage all the newcomers to our little community here to write your stories and experiences!

I would love to hear more about your stories and experiences about how you all came to be here. Your unique stories and experiences are what make this place so special. I created this club with the intention of helping others feel seen and valued. There are so many awesome people in this community! Everyone in this community makes a contribution in their own special way, whether it is big or small. Your life is much more awesome and beautiful than you could ever imagine.

For transparency reasons, I would like to remind all users that for all my previous posts, that I did use Copilot AI to help restructure and format my words for clarity and organization. My intention was to simply make the information in the posts more accessible for readers. The forums guidelines currently allow for the use of AI in posts as long as you are transparent about its use. However, I do want to note that as over a month ago (or maybe it's two months ago now lol) that I stopped the use of AI altogether as I would like to be more upfront with people and improve my writing. I realized that sometimes I get too passionate and type up a wall of text that does seem to scare off people, but it's a work in progress as you can see!

All the words and content that I have written are based on my personal knowledge and sources that I have come across over the years. I try to share common misconceptions, questions, and online databases, that attempt to clarify any questions someone might have and especially encourage users to go out and conduct more research on a topic they would like to learn more about.

For example, I recall having a user here reaching out regarding questions on the asexuality spectrum. They had questions on some things that I had very little knowledge on. We checked out some asexuality resources online and what we both learned was very eye opening for them. We both learned something new that day and I helped them become one step closer to finding out who they really are. They were so happy.

Over the past several months, I found out that I ended up helping a lot of people which really touched my heart. This has begun to formulate the idea in my head, that perhaps one day I would like to create a "one-of-a-kind" LGBT+ resource that is more comprehensive and accesible for everyone.

I would like to thank you for your understanding and for being so freaking awesome! I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone and reading more of your wonderful stories.

Your friend,

Starlight Serenade