Forewarning- it's gonna be a long journal (and probably a little corny at times too, but oh well it's what I have in mind)

First things first- thank you all so very much for everything, I truly enjoy spending my time here and being friends with ya! Despite everything over 2009 and whatnot this is probably one of my most memorable years, I first actively decided to join da and the world of Felarya (I lurked for a long time, what can I say, I was nervous!) after reading the many stories and watching the community to try to be a part of it- to which I'm very glad I had made that decision. I only wish I had done so sooner XD. It's a great feeling to just come here and relax seeing how much everyone cares for each other and work towards developing this world and push each other to improve on their work. I say with no doubt in my mind I look forward every day to the time I can get back to being here, thank you for that.

As for my end, the focus now is on 's contest- if you read through here you probably already know about it though but it doesn't hurt to give it some more publicity . realize this also forces my focus away from the Ciel story stuff some but I had an idea in regards to that while I work on this currently as I am only one person who has a very hard time finding time to write- I'm going to be posting a fairly large chunk of it in scraps as a WIP open to critique, there's more beyond that portion but little (ha) steps at a time. Something to review and think over as I continue working on the contest story which I'm enjoying tinkering with (what happens when the Protector of Safe Harbor meets a certain Dridder warrior? ). The basic game plan, barring massive hours of work interfering, is the contest, that way freaking overdue Ciel story, and then working on a wikified set of notes for Mantoids (using various works of to piece together and give due credit/verify with her). Still love those Mantoids XD! Once THAT is all done I also have a side story idea again panned out- the last one is a bit dissected/used for the contest but a different one emerged. Where that pans out in priorities I'm not sure but oh well, time will tell.

Sorry if I burned anyone's eyes with all that text haha, anyway the short of it is: thanks, and some info on the work goin on/ upload incoming.

Edit: bah forgot to mention that WIP was being posted in scraps, so don't look if you avoiding spoilers or go look if you want to critique haha.