Kazamatsuri has been incredibly special to me. After joining, it didn’t take very long to say that I really would love to do something for the community. One of the first memories I have was just going into discord and talking to people and after like a week, @Gnashes gifted me 100% OJ and planetarian on steam. I also loved listening to the podcasts, and at the time, the Charlotte bookclub was happening. The 30 second recaps were always awesome, especially for that bookclub. After hanging around for a while the general air of Kaza led me to open up more, both on discord and in writing posts on the forum itself. Something about being on Kaza always motivated me to try my best. Because of Kaza I could write things I could truly be proud of, especially these five.
The first post I was ever proud of was probably the Harmonia one. Then of course the second one was what got me the title of smol mod. Then the third was this essay that I wrote for my first year college class. I originally posted it in the guild but since the site will be archived, those posts will be unaccessible so I just moved it. Anyways, it answers the question of what Kaza means to me. The fourth one was incredibly satisfying because I got to do it in collaboration with my peeps in Vitamin C. Then finally the fifth and most recent post I loved to write was my conclusion on planetarian and the identity I discovered here.
Shoutouts to the people who made Kaza so good and influenced me a lot along the way. Shoutouts to @Aspirety for making the whole thing and teaching me how to manage the community in an empathic way. To @Pepe for being an overall bro and encouraging me to sing. To @Bizkitdoh for teaching me how to mod and being very, very cool. To @HeliosAlpha for not being an asshole to me even though he describes himself as one. He inspired me in some ways to attempt some translation, and maybe one day it’ll be coherent like his. To @RyuuTamotsu for always sending me extra stuff. I’m grateful for these five especially because I got to interview them for my essay.
Then, shoutouts to Vitamin C: @BeanCurd, @KaiMiang, @Naoki_Saten, @Celeskastel, @Mogaoscar, @Meyvol, @ArtiFedEx, and @AustinDoujin. Especially when it came to the crossover fic. I really, really love the art done by BeanCurd and the avatar I have from ArtiFedEx.
Finally outside of that, shoutouts to @liclac for being really helpful back when I was still into compsci and maintaining the forum. To @Hardscope for all kinds of random crap like dotabata. To @Bonecuss for memes and namirin. To @Kanon because Five. To @Idiology and @stupid for planetarian and stuff. To @soggysadboi, @NotKyon and @LinkThinks for uh… To @ghagler for civ 5. To @IkaCZ for good shooting. To @daysofsummer, @BlackHayate02, and @grooven for being fellow moderators and chanops here. Finally, to my bro @bionic who I don’t actually need to shoutout here. I’m sure us two took the record for longest Kaza DM from Link. To everyone else I forgot to mention, thank you for being here and I hope to see you around!
Edit: I can’t believe I forgot @Yerian. We never forget the dream. Long live the rebellion!
