User blog:Cottonfur/For Those It May Concern:

Hello,

I am sure that if you are reading this, that you clearly know me, however for those who do not know me, I am Cottonfur, known by many as Cotton or one of my many aliases. May 31, 2012, I wandered onto this site with only the slightest knowledge of the workings of Clans and roleplaying. Of course, like I'm sure many of you, have already roleplayed before in a much more minor form. I, myself, had been brought here through Warriors Wiki which I had stummbled upon via Google Search looking for answers, spoilers, ect., yet no matter how many times I would edit or try to fix anything on Warriors Wiki, they would always revert it back to its original state and I soon tired of it, when I spotted a link at the bottom of the page titled simply "Warriors Roleplay" being not exactly new with the concept of roleplay, I decided to check it out and thought it looked very professional and well put together, being new like I was to everything, I foolishly made a Clan on my first day, a Clan I had thought up on my own, which at the time I thought impressive, but it was deleted and on my talkpage I found messages from people that I didn't know, people I now consider good friends. The very first of everyone, was Birdpaw, whom I now know as Bird. Bird scared me at first, being so much older and more powerful than I, a simple new user. The next was an eccentric person named Meadowwind5, known on here as Meadow, the person who has become my closest friend in the year and a half I've been on here. Then of course there was LunaDiviner7 (known as Luna) and Cinderstar of ThunderClan (known as Cinder) who also welcomed me on my talkpage. Soon, I discovered chat where all the people I got messages from were, and so many others like Eaglefur (Eagle; who is now gone), Deadraiser (Dead; who is now gone), and Violetofen4 (Vi). I remember coming on chat and reading what had been said a few minutes before I came on chat "What do you think of Cottonfur?" I remember one of them saying and a list of other things I won't go into detail about. They were talking about me. That made me nervous instantly. Everyone introduced themselves to me and I said hi to everyone, being very shy. However, I didn't get the feeling that Violetofen4 liked me very much, which was when I got my first Private Message (PM) from the eccentric Meadowwind. The very first thing she said to me was  "Don't be rude to Vi, she doesn't like new users." to which I simply replied "I wasn't planning on it." we were friends from that moment on. For a while after that, everything was fairly uneventful. My first Clan I made was WillowClan (I was a Chat Mod.) a simple Clan I came up with the help of Meadow. It was fairly active but it came and went and soon I made BriarClan which I'll let explain itself. Much of the next few months was a blur, nothing change much except the appearance of Littleleaf who I came to know as Leaf.

In my time on here, I have seen many fights. Meadow and I have gone through all of them together, though. Sometimes at the very center. Sometimes on the sidelines. She and I had always been the outcasts, outsiders on here and we knew it too, but we were okay with it. Around the time most of the fights died down, hardly anyone came on anymore besides Meadow and I and occasionally another would come on. She and I made new Clans, roleplayed, but soon we tired of it all and started trying to improve on things, but we could never change anything because then suddenly someone of a higher power would suddenly be on again and nothing would change and then they would leave again and Meadow and I would return to roleplaying. That cycle repeated over and over for months. Before we knew it, both Meadow and I had been on here for over a year, and still just as active as the day we arrived. We shared secrects, told eachother everything, and we stuck together. I don't think I'll ever be able to tell her how much all of that meant to me. She helped me through tough times and I hope that I helped her as well. Sometime around August 2013, Meadow and I both began to realize how alone we had become and that the wiki was no longer dying, it was dead, and by staying we would only kill ourselves with it in the process. We set out on our search for a wiki we could both agree on and we could call home, but we vowed we would never leave Warriors Roleplay Wiki. Never. It was where our Clans were, our memories, a whole years worth of memories, we can't just leave that behind.

I'm sure that by now you are wondering why I told this story, but honestly, I'm not sure, someday Meadow and I will no longer be on this wiki. We won't be able to help the new noobs that arrive or explain to them how great everything used to be. We won't be able to tell the lessons we learned from fights or the long list of unused Clan names we came up with together. We won't be able to tell them about the friends we made on here and the memories that we will remember for the rest of our days. This wiki is dead, we understand that now, but I like to think that we still left a mark out there and meant something. I only request that you leave everything as it was and that you alter nothing. Add everything you want, but leave our history behind and let our memory live on. I don't plan on leaving after writing this message, but it needed to be said before it couldn't anymore. Thank you everyone for reading this and listening to my story. I have been on here for 1 Year, 3 Months, and 18 Days (as of the day of posting this blog) and counting. Give this wiki a chance. If you know me, you already know I am not the nicest person, but I am sincere when I say, we need you. If you work with Meadow and I, we can pull this wiki back to its former glory and be at the top again with a new generation of Roleplayers.

Thank you for reading my story, again.

Cottonfur aka Cotton

Special Mention for Those Who Left Us:

Dead, Vi,  Eagle, Leaf, Destiny, Fox, Aspen, Wafflez, Mist, and many others I'm sure I've forgotton.

Please tell me what you think of me, Meadow, the wiki, my story, improvements we can make, or anything down in the comments.

This Blog Post Was Created At 4:30 PM 9/18/19 by:

Cottonfur I roleplay now,  roleplaying is cool.  20:30, September 18, 2013 (UTC)