User blog comment:Artimas Hunter/This is NOT a Leaving Blog/@comment-4751506-20130316235141

I've held off making my comment on this blog, because I knew if I wrote it as soon as I saw this, I would be so angry, I would explode, I would blame everything on you, and I didn't want that to be your last impression of me - of us, really.

But you were literally the first one to welcome me here. When I asked you my noob-ish question about how to do those boxes that have the books following each story and the ones preceding it, and whatnot, and you provided me with the coding and I felt so happy that the head admin had talked to me! And then whilst stalking other blogs, I was afraid of the girl with the blue tiger as her profile picture, because hse looked big and frightening - but I never got to see you as the loving sister I've seen you as now. <3

'Cause often times, the Wikians say you're like our mother, keeping us in line and whatnot. But you're really our sister, the best supporter anyone could ever have. You actually cared when I left, unlike other people whoa sked me if I would finish my contest or said they would miss me, you actually really cared. And I love you so much for that.

And I honestly can't say what this is going to do to me. Never being able to talk to you again? Never being able to see your nick on IRC? The others might have Facebook on which to talk to you, but I don't. I'll never get to see one of your :)'s whenever I get upset and then you can make me happier.

I'm going to miss you so much. I don't want you to reconsider - I mean, I want you to - because I odn't want you to be torn between what you want to do and what others want you to. I love you too much and I just want to be able to talk to you - and what happens when you do leave?

Fork, Wetty, and me? Birchy's probably gone, and without you, we don't have any backbone. If Fork leaves, it will be Wetty and me, and then we can appoint Zaffie, Bird, or Star as a fellow staffmember, but when one of them leaves? Then what? We don't want to appoint noobs, however many edits they have. We're going to miss you so much, because the wiki just isn't itself without you. It hasn't been, lately.

It's like, I imagine the wiki as this giant pot, say. All the noobs - no offense, heh - combine to form the stewy broth, whereas Fork is like, the saffron or chicken flavoring, Stareh is the pepper because she's so sweary, Zaffie is the cinnamon 'cause she makes you snort, Wetty is the cheese 'cause she can make you cringe or make you smile, Birchy was the tomatoes, because she was so sweet and so genuinely good, Bird was the meat because she has personality, and you were like, the thickening ingredient. You sucked us together. <3 And without you, it's just gone. There's no more color, no more flavor. We're just that blank, empty canvas broth again.

Anyways, I'm going to miss you so much - just saying your name brings a smile to my face. But when you get that book published, I'll be sure to look for it. :) I'll be one of its first buyers, okay? I love you. <3