So it’s New Year’s Eve and I wanted to take a minute or two to discuss this year, the massive changes that have happened and my hope for the future. This year fuckyeahoutsidexbox hit its one year anniversary, I created the discord which would later be known as Outsidefanstra and the spin off Twitter from there and I became a co-founder of @silvercrowmedia, a result of meeting 5 other amazing people on the Outsidefanstra discord and spending many hours playing and streaming DnD with them. And this was only the online stuff.
This year has been interesting for me. There were a lot of downs this year. My grandfather died in April, my PTSD kicked my arse and I didn’t get the grades I needed for my original university course. However, for all those downs, there were ups. I may not have got into my original university course but I was accepted onto a different one that was so, so much better than my original. I hit 6 months clean. And finally, I met all the wonderful people through Outsidefanstra and played a hell of a lot of DnD.
I can’t express how grateful I am to all of you, whether you follow fuckyeahoutsidexbox, whether you follow outsidefanstra or whether you’re a part of our discord community, thank you all for a wonderful year/last few months.
Thank you to the creators who have made this community so vibrant. From Jack’s soundboard and everyone who helped on that to the art produced to the articles we have shared with one another. Thank you for the gaming nights and the Cards against Humanity games and just everything we’ve done as a community.
And a big, big thank you to @outsidexboxofficial and @outsidextra who have made me smile and laugh, even when I didn’t really want to, and without whom, I wouldn’t have made these accounts and the discord. And a thank you individually to Mike, Jane, Andy, Luke, Ellen and James. Especially to Luke who tuned in to watch us play DnD, even for a few minutes (your reply tweet is still in our discord’s pinned messages) and to Mike who humoured my drinking game on the Halloween stream and replied to my subsequent tipsy tweet (also you’ve made me try and dig up the old racing games from my childhood). Thank you to Johnny who has also been a wonderful DM to watch and also was very kind in responding to tweets from us.
Thank you to everyone whose read this and who has made this year great, even though it’s been one hell of a rocky one. Bring on 2018!