Non-Fic NUF Historical Society ~ History of NUF since 2015

Nyann · Oct 14, 2019

yuzuki said: ↑

I'm also going to leave a memoir because I'm tired on a Sunday afternoon and not thinking very straight after driving for like three hours and want to take a nap. XD Since I usually go pretty deep into detail with things, maybe this can be helpful to anyone who decides to pick up this project in the future. Tagging @Nyann and @SummerForest because I think they would find this particularly fun to read.

Soooo~ Rewind to 2015...

Prior to coming to NU/NUF I was super involved in the translation community. This was way before wuxia/xianxia or webnovels were a thing, and really only JP light novel translations were on the Internet. For people who remember Baka-Tsuki, I used to be an admin there and was super dedicated to the translation community, but I'm reluctant to go into the details. I had many visions about where the translation community ought to go (some of them were naive/idealistic), and had been trying to collect people to make a link aggregator for novel translations for years before NU existed. We actually had 2-3 different prototypes for something like a Baka-TsukiV2 (keep in mind that BT even had a mobile app back then), but none of them were completed because volunteer collaborative work is really hard to complete successfully -- although we had programmers pooled together from multiple different places. Something like NU was basically the entirety of my dream during my uni years, but ultimately graduation happened and my group was never able to complete anything.

Anyhow I contacted Aho-Updates (NU's precursor) almost immediately after they made their link aggregator, and similarly I emailed Tony back in November 2015 when he made NU to see if he was looking for help with coding the site, but nothing ended up happening. Regardless though, I had a very very very powerful admiration for Tony since the beginning, and we sort of had a unique relationship because of the nature of the way that we first met each other -- since in a sense Tony represented the manifestation of a dream that I had dedicated myself to for years.

I didn't revisit the forum on NUF until almost April 2016, which was basically a month before I graduated from uni. At that point I also had a tiny wordpress translation blog, and I joined NUF to advertise my translations. Also, I had recently cut ties from many of my prior online communities (both BT and a beloved anime blogging community where I originally met @iampsyx), so emotionally speaking I was also pretty unstable.

@Nefasdetestasti and @akki were the first people to talk to me, and they both had a pretty big impression on me. Also, since my username was @matcha I also got roped into the fad of food-related NUF members, and I also got eaten/tasted a lot.

I also had a constant eye for @Tony. Similar to @Nyann (...we are really similar in this way), I couldn't help but pay pretty close attention to all of the forum activity surrounding him. I was able to PM and talk to Tony, and honestly the more I talked to him the more special I thought he was -- and as someone who used to be the admin of a big site myself, Tony really is genuinely the kind of admin that you will rarely find online. I still maintain that Tony is amazing in every way, and I will probably insist on this with every ounce of sincerity I have forever and ever.

Anyhow the week I joined, @Tony was going through the drama of being shipped to @Das (as well as @Little Dragon), so I remember this event vividly. Also, as an overly-serious (and unknown) new member, I was basically really worried for @Tony and concerned about how he was feeling because @Tony was quite clear about not wanting to be shipped to @Das (although @Tony has that tsukkomi aura so Tony can often appear un-serious regardless of what he says). There was also this ultimatum of some kind where @Tony only had X number of days before he'd be forced into a marriage with @Das.

Soooooooooooooo........ ......I pulled a classic @yuzuki plot.

I made a clone and shipped myself to @Das in order to prevent @Das from getting married to @Tony.

The clone was named @Sad (the exact reverse of Das), and I think I was pretty successful at disrupting things because I basically threw myself at @Das trying to get shipped with him, which clearly was confusing because suddenly there was a random person trying to interfere with the wedding ship. @Das ran away from me though because he thought I was male! XD

This series of events is what got me to know @DCLXVI. For those who don't know her, she was famous for having a title despite having zero posts. Additionally, she had a meme where she was everyone's clone (I also claimed that I was @DCLXIV's clone). With @Sad I even did the sneaky thing where I made 100 posts to get a title and then deleted them all to get back down to zero. Also, many people don't know this but @DCLXVI nee-chan is actually really romantic, sentimental, and empathetic. She was actually on of the first people to catch on with what I was doing and sympathized with me (I had this chuuni hobby of "playing the villainess" or "side character pulling strings behind the scenes"), and consequently we started talking to each other in PMs.

Later on, I forgot how it was that it happened but I almost ended up married to @hayyan as @Sad because he figured out my true identity. I went inactive for like 3 months at the time (because I went on vacation to Tibet), so I think I missed my own wedding (thank goodness lol ), and I guess the result of that was that I didn't get married? However, @hayyan said this really cute thing where he just wanted to me to be happy, so I changed @Sad's username to @happy.

Later on, @happy would end up as @DCLXVI's second daughter (with @Pyoo as my sister!), and seriously she was like the best NUF mom ever. @DCXLVI had these suggestive moments where she would imply that she was a single mom and the father of her kids was actually (-censored-) and I SHIPPED THEM SO HARD! ...Although maybe I just wanted to be related to Tony somehow. Actually, a lot of nuffians wanted Tony in their family (I think @OverlyFriendly is probably the most famous). Both Deesee-neechan and I are both super tricky with our words so I'm personally happy with the outcome......... it's in @happy's profile information:

On @happy's title it says "Contracted to Tony" and I actually forgot the details of the contract. I think it was something along the lines of me promising to always keep talking on NUF and never die, and in exchange I could have @Tony's heart internal organs when he dies. (Note: my obsession with internal organs at the time was because I was in my first year of medical school and we were dissecting corpses in anatomy lab -- consequently @happy had this organ collecting spree)

Things are slightly out of order here but I neglected to talk about @matcha (my main account).

So as @matcha back in 2016 my two biggest themes were "yandere" and "villainess". I had just watched Mirai Nikki around that time and I was a huge Yuno apologist. Consequently, my most "classic" avatar on NUF is a Yuno avatar.

Yandere and villainess were my big themes because I had tonnssss of negative and dark themes at the time. In this sense, @DCLXVI nee-chan and me were really similar. For the Hell Family at one point (the Hell Family often does family avatars) we were trying to split of the seven deadly sins between the each of us, and Vi-chan and me used to always want the same ones. XD For the record: we both wanted envy.

When we were doing madoka avatars, Vi-chan said that she thought madoka-chan suited me and that she she saw herself as homura-chan... actually I wanted homura... This actually brings up a really good point about the way I saw my own personality though. Back in 2016/2017, I was definitely the type that was superficially nice and friendly and cute, but deep inside I definitely saw myself as angsty and dark and full of negative energy. I always saw myself as a villainess character who was always fated to lose and never deserved the happy end.

With @matcha in particular, the best example is probably with @akki

So @akki was the biggest Internet crush I had on NUF (like a serious crush). He is suuuuuper nice (I can't say this more times!), and legitimately he is probably one of the nicest guys on NUF. @akki by the way was the polar opposite of @episod3ux, and they are like oil and water. @akki was also the only person on NUF that I talked to outside of NUF (on discord), and pretty much everyone who interacted with him closely would probably openly attest to the fact about how wonderful and amazing akki is.

In 2016 though... I wanted to be in a ship with akki. I was slightly akki-obsessed.

The issue was that at that time @akki was already in a (quasi-)ship with @Azuka, so it was impossible to do anything since he was already taken. This was pretty much the origin to my "villainess" phase because no matter how I looked at things, Azuka was definitely the heroine and I was clearly the villainess in every way.

I did a lot of fishy things like becoming @akki's shrine maiden (which is still @yuzuki's title), and I was absolutely committed to the idea that I would always be on @akki's side no matter what anything happened. There was a public joke at some point that I had a shrine to @akki in my closet at some point.

Anyhow... at some point I picked a fight with @Azuka which ended up being a brief spat of quite scary drama. @iampsyx sided with me (bless her a billion times over) and her profile wall got trashed with all her BL being burnt and stuff. This was because @Azuka was the more popular one and had a lot of friends, and obviously I was the "homewrecker" party who was in the wrong. The result of the drama was a truce and eventually Azuka ended up splitting up with akki (I guess because I'm way too much to handle ).

The Azuka drama was a pretty heavy event for me, and I posted on my profile wall that it's scary to be a relatively unknown/unpopular person with no friends. The response was really heartwarming for me though, and lots of people said they would be my "nakama" (friends in One Piece) -- and most notably @DCLXVI was one of the first to say this, so Vi-chan and @iampsyx (who was my friend all along) are generally the people who I considered my original "nakama" on NUF. I guess this would expand into the Hell Family? Although the Hell Family is mostly psyx-chan's work, so I don't know exactly how she found everyone, but I think the core of us was formed around here.

From this point onward things were pretty stable for me and the years are sort of a blur. I had a "canoe" with @akki instead of a "ship" , and at some point I was trying to form a harem for akki because there was no way that I could ever imagine being in a ship with someone so dazzling. Furthermore, akki was super popular with lots of people -- which can sort of be exemplified by the akki's entourage thread that existed at some point. Incidentally, I met @Matsurika at this time because we both liked @akki.

As @matcha I think my biggest claim to fame was that I brought mafia games to NUF. I made a handful of themed mafia games that were apparently really funny and popular, which sort of drew a lot of famous people together like @A5G_Reaper @Acarnina and @DCLXVI -- who would go on to make the KR and Twin Kingdom games. The mafia games were also the reason why @Tony expanded my PM invite limit to 100 people.

I also made tons of clones and had tons of ideas. There's probably too many to list them all. I met @Pyoo through a clone for poems. I participated on Adventurer's Guild with a clone called @selkie, who would later start an anonymous compliment service (which I think drew me closer to @Bielt and some others). @villain was made when I was playing with @DCLXVI and getting to know each other better. @paprika was how I got to know @BlancFrost and @trap was a really odd period when I had a run in with the infamous @Dragon God >.< As for ideas... well... I always had ideas. There's a monthly short story writing prompt thread that is mine, a handful of forum games, @lychee does polls, @happy does piano, @tiger.prince was secretly part of a translation group, @yuzuki (main account version 2) does anything serious...... well I knew a lot of people so stuff happened. It's hard for me to list them all. Oh, I played a role in convincing @Tony to add a blog section to NUF. Also I was the original translator when Tony started Blob Translations (Hell Family translated/edited Lord and Dragon) which brought me to @blee8 and @Action, which later led to blobs becoming a thing on NUF.

Months and years pass and with time my obsession with akki dies down more (and also Rika and Akki end up in a ship), and I change my username to @yuzuki. This sort of marks the end of my emotionally unstable period and the start of the more current me.

Slowly I got more and more inactive and had several gaps when I was away from NUF!

These days I log into @yuzuki to check PMs and @lychee became the main account I post with (I go on poll sprees every few months and then die down and go quiet; I also randomly make community games and have been working on a forum bot @hiori for like the past three years but am always too lazy to finish it). I also had a brief period when I was super active of ScribbleHub and met @SummerForest. Most recently I think I got known again for my polls and blog posts, and that's all!

Oh -- one final addendum -- they weren't mentioned in the body above but I'll always remember the really quiet, nice, and thoughtful older lurkers of NUF. They're some of my favorite people that I definitely didn't have secret crushes on even though they often drift by on the periphery: @CDLevit @doomeye1337 and most recently @OnceandFutureLurker fit into this category although there have been a few. @Tilgarial also gives off a popular bishounen vibe and like @Nyann I expect he'll become really popular Good luck Mr.Tiger!

Okay... I probably spilled a bit too many of my guts so please don't blackmail me later I have a lot of dark history too, so go easy on me!!!! I guess it is probably only fair if I dig out juicy embarrassing moments about people's pasts on NUF if mine is out in the open.

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*Hugs tiiiiigggggghttttllllyyyyyyy* I was really moved reading it.

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Popular bishounen vibe? *blush*
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Yup! See? It's not just me who believes you'll soon officially be a notable member!

Arcturus · Oct 14, 2019

yuzuki said: ↑

I'm also going to leave a memoir because I'm tired on a Sunday afternoon and not thinking very straight after driving for like three hours and want to take a nap. XD Since I usually go pretty deep into detail with things, maybe this can be helpful to anyone who decides to pick up this project in the future. Tagging @Nyann and @SummerForest because I think they would find this particularly fun to read.

Soooo~ Rewind to 2015...

Prior to coming to NU/NUF I was super involved in the translation community. This was way before wuxia/xianxia or webnovels were a thing, and really only JP light novel translations were on the Internet. For people who remember Baka-Tsuki, I used to be an admin there and was super dedicated to the translation community, but I'm reluctant to go into the details. I had many visions about where the translation community ought to go (some of them were naive/idealistic), and had been trying to collect people to make a link aggregator for novel translations for years before NU existed. We actually had 2-3 different prototypes for something like a Baka-TsukiV2 (keep in mind that BT even had a mobile app back then), but none of them were completed because volunteer collaborative work is really hard to complete successfully -- although we had programmers pooled together from multiple different places. Something like NU was basically the entirety of my dream during my uni years, but ultimately graduation happened and my group was never able to complete anything.

Anyhow I contacted Aho-Updates (NU's precursor) almost immediately after they made their link aggregator, and similarly I emailed Tony back in November 2015 when he made NU to see if he was looking for help with coding the site, but nothing ended up happening. Regardless though, I had a very very very powerful admiration for Tony since the beginning, and we sort of had a unique relationship because of the nature of the way that we first met each other -- since in a sense Tony represented the manifestation of a dream that I had dedicated myself to for years.

I didn't revisit the forum on NUF until almost April 2016, which was basically a month before I graduated from uni. At that point I also had a tiny wordpress translation blog, and I joined NUF to advertise my translations. Also, I had recently cut ties from many of my prior online communities (both BT and a beloved anime blogging community where I originally met @iampsyx), so emotionally speaking I was also pretty unstable.

@Nefasdetestasti and @akki were the first people to talk to me, and they both had a pretty big impression on me. Also, since my username was @matcha I also got roped into the fad of food-related NUF members, and I also got eaten/tasted a lot.

I also had a constant eye for @Tony. Similar to @Nyann (...we are really similar in this way), I couldn't help but pay pretty close attention to all of the forum activity surrounding him. I was able to PM and talk to Tony, and honestly the more I talked to him the more special I thought he was -- and as someone who used to be the admin of a big site myself, Tony really is genuinely the kind of admin that you will rarely find online. I still maintain that Tony is amazing in every way, and I will probably insist on this with every ounce of sincerity I have forever and ever.

Anyhow the week I joined, @Tony was going through the drama of being shipped to @Das (as well as @Little Dragon), so I remember this event vividly. Also, as an overly-serious (and unknown) new member, I was basically really worried for @Tony and concerned about how he was feeling because @Tony was quite clear about not wanting to be shipped to @Das (although @Tony has that tsukkomi aura so Tony can often appear un-serious regardless of what he says). There was also this ultimatum of some kind where @Tony only had X number of days before he'd be forced into a marriage with @Das.

Soooooooooooooo........ ......I pulled a classic @yuzuki plot.

I made a clone and shipped myself to @Das in order to prevent @Das from getting married to @Tony.

The clone was named @Sad (the exact reverse of Das), and I think I was pretty successful at disrupting things because I basically threw myself at @Das trying to get shipped with him, which clearly was confusing because suddenly there was a random person trying to interfere with the wedding ship. @Das ran away from me though because he thought I was male! XD

This series of events is what got me to know @DCLXVI. For those who don't know her, she was famous for having a title despite having zero posts. Additionally, she had a meme where she was everyone's clone (I also claimed that I was @DCLXIV's clone). With @Sad I even did the sneaky thing where I made 100 posts to get a title and then deleted them all to get back down to zero. Also, many people don't know this but @DCLXVI nee-chan is actually really romantic, sentimental, and empathetic. She was actually on of the first people to catch on with what I was doing and sympathized with me (I had this chuuni hobby of "playing the villainess" or "side character pulling strings behind the scenes"), and consequently we started talking to each other in PMs.

Later on, I forgot how it was that it happened but I almost ended up married to @hayyan as @Sad because he figured out my true identity. I went inactive for like 3 months at the time (because I went on vacation to Tibet), so I think I missed my own wedding (thank goodness lol ), and I guess the result of that was that I didn't get married? However, @hayyan said this really cute thing where he just wanted to me to be happy, so I changed @Sad's username to @happy.

Later on, @happy would end up as @DCLXVI's second daughter (with @Pyoo as my sister!), and seriously she was like the best NUF mom ever. @DCXLVI had these suggestive moments where she would imply that she was a single mom and the father of her kids was actually (-censored-) and I SHIPPED THEM SO HARD! ...Although maybe I just wanted to be related to Tony somehow. Actually, a lot of nuffians wanted Tony in their family (I think @OverlyFriendly is probably the most famous). Both Deesee-neechan and I are both super tricky with our words so I'm personally happy with the outcome......... it's in @happy's profile information:

On @happy's title it says "Contracted to Tony" and I actually forgot the details of the contract. I think it was something along the lines of me promising to always keep talking on NUF and never die, and in exchange I could have @Tony's heart internal organs when he dies. (Note: my obsession with internal organs at the time was because I was in my first year of medical school and we were dissecting corpses in anatomy lab -- consequently @happy had this organ collecting spree)

Things are slightly out of order here but I neglected to talk about @matcha (my main account).

So as @matcha back in 2016 my two biggest themes were "yandere" and "villainess". I had just watched Mirai Nikki around that time and I was a huge Yuno apologist. Consequently, my most "classic" avatar on NUF is a Yuno avatar.

Yandere and villainess were my big themes because I had tonnssss of negative and dark themes at the time. In this sense, @DCLXVI nee-chan and me were really similar. For the Hell Family at one point (the Hell Family often does family avatars) we were trying to split of the seven deadly sins between the each of us, and Vi-chan and me used to always want the same ones. XD For the record: we both wanted envy.

When we were doing madoka avatars, Vi-chan said that she thought madoka-chan suited me and that she she saw herself as homura-chan... actually I wanted homura... This actually brings up a really good point about the way I saw my own personality though. Back in 2016/2017, I was definitely the type that was superficially nice and friendly and cute, but deep inside I definitely saw myself as angsty and dark and full of negative energy. I always saw myself as a villainess character who was always fated to lose and never deserved the happy end.

With @matcha in particular, the best example is probably with @akki

So @akki was the biggest Internet crush I had on NUF (like a serious crush). He is suuuuuper nice (I can't say this more times!), and legitimately he is probably one of the nicest guys on NUF. @akki by the way was the polar opposite of @episod3ux, and they are like oil and water. @akki was also the only person on NUF that I talked to outside of NUF (on discord), and pretty much everyone who interacted with him closely would probably openly attest to the fact about how wonderful and amazing akki is.

In 2016 though... I wanted to be in a ship with akki. I was slightly akki-obsessed.

The issue was that at that time @akki was already in a (quasi-)ship with @Azuka, so it was impossible to do anything since he was already taken. This was pretty much the origin to my "villainess" phase because no matter how I looked at things, Azuka was definitely the heroine and I was clearly the villainess in every way.

I did a lot of fishy things like becoming @akki's shrine maiden (which is still @yuzuki's title), and I was absolutely committed to the idea that I would always be on @akki's side no matter what anything happened. There was a public joke at some point that I had a shrine to @akki in my closet at some point.

Anyhow... at some point I picked a fight with @Azuka which ended up being a brief spat of quite scary drama. @iampsyx sided with me (bless her a billion times over) and her profile wall got trashed with all her BL being burnt and stuff. This was because @Azuka was the more popular one and had a lot of friends, and obviously I was the "homewrecker" party who was in the wrong. The result of the drama was a truce and eventually Azuka ended up splitting up with akki (I guess because I'm way too much to handle ).

The Azuka drama was a pretty heavy event for me, and I posted on my profile wall that it's scary to be a relatively unknown/unpopular person with no friends. The response was really heartwarming for me though, and lots of people said they would be my "nakama" (friends in One Piece) -- and most notably @DCLXVI was one of the first to say this, so Vi-chan and @iampsyx (who was my friend all along) are generally the people who I considered my original "nakama" on NUF. I guess this would expand into the Hell Family? Although the Hell Family is mostly psyx-chan's work, so I don't know exactly how she found everyone, but I think the core of us was formed around here.

From this point onward things were pretty stable for me and the years are sort of a blur. I had a "canoe" with @akki instead of a "ship" , and at some point I was trying to form a harem for akki because there was no way that I could ever imagine being in a ship with someone so dazzling. Furthermore, akki was super popular with lots of people -- which can sort of be exemplified by the akki's entourage thread that existed at some point. Incidentally, I met @Matsurika at this time because we both liked @akki.

As @matcha I think my biggest claim to fame was that I brought mafia games to NUF. I made a handful of themed mafia games that were apparently really funny and popular, which sort of drew a lot of famous people together like @A5G_Reaper @Acarnina and @DCLXVI -- who would go on to make the KR and Twin Kingdom games. The mafia games were also the reason why @Tony expanded my PM invite limit to 100 people.

I also made tons of clones and had tons of ideas. There's probably too many to list them all. I met @Pyoo through a clone for poems. I participated on Adventurer's Guild with a clone called @selkie, who would later start an anonymous compliment service (which I think drew me closer to @Bielt and some others). @villain was made when I was playing with @DCLXVI and getting to know each other better. @paprika was how I got to know @BlancFrost and @trap was a really odd period when I had a run in with the infamous @Dragon God >.< As for ideas... well... I always had ideas. There's a monthly short story writing prompt thread that is mine, a handful of forum games, @lychee does polls, @happy does piano, @tiger.prince was secretly part of a translation group, @yuzuki (main account version 2) does anything serious...... well I knew a lot of people so stuff happened. It's hard for me to list them all. Oh, I played a role in convincing @Tony to add a blog section to NUF. Also I was the original translator when Tony started Blob Translations (Hell Family translated/edited Lord and Dragon) which brought me to @blee8 and @Action, which later led to blobs becoming a thing on NUF.

Months and years pass and with time my obsession with akki dies down more (and also Rika and Akki end up in a ship), and I change my username to @yuzuki. This sort of marks the end of my emotionally unstable period and the start of the more current me.

Slowly I got more and more inactive and had several gaps when I was away from NUF!

These days I log into @yuzuki to check PMs and @lychee became the main account I post with (I go on poll sprees every few months and then die down and go quiet; I also randomly make community games and have been working on a forum bot @hiori for like the past three years but am always too lazy to finish it). I also had a brief period when I was super active of ScribbleHub and met @SummerForest. Most recently I think I got known again for my polls and blog posts, and that's all!

Oh -- one final addendum -- they weren't mentioned in the body above but I'll always remember the really quiet, nice, and thoughtful older lurkers of NUF. They're some of my favorite people that I definitely didn't have secret crushes on even though they often drift by on the periphery: @CDLevit @doomeye1337 and most recently @OnceandFutureLurker fit into this category although there have been a few. @Tilgarial also gives off a popular bishounen vibe and like @Nyann I expect he'll become really popular Good luck Mr.Tiger!

Okay... I probably spilled a bit too many of my guts so please don't blackmail me later I have a lot of dark history too, so go easy on me!!!! I guess it is probably only fair if I dig out juicy embarrassing moments about people's pasts on NUF if mine is out in the open.

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You know, I've always found it rather ironic that they became my two sons. All of my children were so very different people.

lychee · Oct 14, 2019

Arcturus said: ↑

You know, I've always found it rather ironic that they became my two sons. All of my children were so very different people.
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Oh! Do you think you could tell this story? I've never actually heard how your family came to be?

In a sense... I think you technically sit at the root of a lot of famous family trees?

Arcturus · Oct 14, 2019

lychee said: ↑

Oh! Do you think you could tell this story? I've never actually heard how your family came to be?

In a sense... I think you technically sit at the root of a lot of famous family trees?
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While there were other relationships in terms of ships or siblings, we were in a sense the first real family. So it naturally follows that we became the root of so much of the chaos that was the families of NUF as the first family. But I'm about to go to sleep, so you'll have to wait for any stories.

Xigua · Oct 14, 2019

yuzuki said: ↑

I'm also going to leave a memoir because I'm tired on a Sunday afternoon and not thinking very straight after driving for like three hours and want to take a nap. XD Since I usually go pretty deep into detail with things, maybe this can be helpful to anyone who decides to pick up this project in the future. Tagging @Nyann and @SummerForest because I think they would find this particularly fun to read.

Soooo~ Rewind to 2015...

Prior to coming to NU/NUF I was super involved in the translation community. This was way before wuxia/xianxia or webnovels were a thing, and really only JP light novel translations were on the Internet. For people who remember Baka-Tsuki, I used to be an admin there and was super dedicated to the translation community, but I'm reluctant to go into the details. I had many visions about where the translation community ought to go (some of them were naive/idealistic), and had been trying to collect people to make a link aggregator for novel translations for years before NU existed. We actually had 2-3 different prototypes for something like a Baka-TsukiV2 (keep in mind that BT even had a mobile app back then), but none of them were completed because volunteer collaborative work is really hard to complete successfully -- although we had programmers pooled together from multiple different places. Something like NU was basically the entirety of my dream during my uni years, but ultimately graduation happened and my group was never able to complete anything.

Anyhow I contacted Aho-Updates (NU's precursor) almost immediately after they made their link aggregator, and similarly I emailed Tony back in November 2015 when he made NU to see if he was looking for help with coding the site, but nothing ended up happening. Regardless though, I had a very very very powerful admiration for Tony since the beginning, and we sort of had a unique relationship because of the nature of the way that we first met each other -- since in a sense Tony represented the manifestation of a dream that I had dedicated myself to for years.

I didn't revisit the forum on NUF until almost April 2016, which was basically a month before I graduated from uni. At that point I also had a tiny wordpress translation blog, and I joined NUF to advertise my translations. Also, I had recently cut ties from many of my prior online communities (both BT and a beloved anime blogging community where I originally met @iampsyx), so emotionally speaking I was also pretty unstable.

@Nefasdetestasti and @akki were the first people to talk to me, and they both had a pretty big impression on me. Also, since my username was @matcha I also got roped into the fad of food-related NUF members, and I also got eaten/tasted a lot.

I also had a constant eye for @Tony. Similar to @Nyann (...we are really similar in this way), I couldn't help but pay pretty close attention to all of the forum activity surrounding him. I was able to PM and talk to Tony, and honestly the more I talked to him the more special I thought he was -- and as someone who used to be the admin of a big site myself, Tony really is genuinely the kind of admin that you will rarely find online. I still maintain that Tony is amazing in every way, and I will probably insist on this with every ounce of sincerity I have forever and ever.

Anyhow the week I joined, @Tony was going through the drama of being shipped to @Das (as well as @Little Dragon), so I remember this event vividly. Also, as an overly-serious (and unknown) new member, I was basically really worried for @Tony and concerned about how he was feeling because @Tony was quite clear about not wanting to be shipped to @Das (although @Tony has that tsukkomi aura so Tony can often appear un-serious regardless of what he says). There was also this ultimatum of some kind where @Tony only had X number of days before he'd be forced into a marriage with @Das.

Soooooooooooooo........ ......I pulled a classic @yuzuki plot.

I made a clone and shipped myself to @Das in order to prevent @Das from getting married to @Tony.

The clone was named @Sad (the exact reverse of Das), and I think I was pretty successful at disrupting things because I basically threw myself at @Das trying to get shipped with him, which clearly was confusing because suddenly there was a random person trying to interfere with the wedding ship. @Das ran away from me though because he thought I was male! XD

This series of events is what got me to know @DCLXVI. For those who don't know her, she was famous for having a title despite having zero posts. Additionally, she had a meme where she was everyone's clone (I also claimed that I was @DCLXIV's clone). With @Sad I even did the sneaky thing where I made 100 posts to get a title and then deleted them all to get back down to zero. Also, many people don't know this but @DCLXVI nee-chan is actually really romantic, sentimental, and empathetic. She was actually on of the first people to catch on with what I was doing and sympathized with me (I had this chuuni hobby of "playing the villainess" or "side character pulling strings behind the scenes"), and consequently we started talking to each other in PMs.

Later on, I forgot how it was that it happened but I almost ended up married to @hayyan as @Sad because he figured out my true identity. I went inactive for like 3 months at the time (because I went on vacation to Tibet), so I think I missed my own wedding (thank goodness lol ), and I guess the result of that was that I didn't get married? However, @hayyan said this really cute thing where he just wanted to me to be happy, so I changed @Sad's username to @happy.

Later on, @happy would end up as @DCLXVI's second daughter (with @Pyoo as my sister!), and seriously she was like the best NUF mom ever. @DCXLVI had these suggestive moments where she would imply that she was a single mom and the father of her kids was actually (-censored-) and I SHIPPED THEM SO HARD! ...Although maybe I just wanted to be related to Tony somehow. Actually, a lot of nuffians wanted Tony in their family (I think @OverlyFriendly is probably the most famous). Both Deesee-neechan and I are both super tricky with our words so I'm personally happy with the outcome......... it's in @happy's profile information:

On @happy's title it says "Contracted to Tony" and I actually forgot the details of the contract. I think it was something along the lines of me promising to always keep talking on NUF and never die, and in exchange I could have @Tony's heart internal organs when he dies. (Note: my obsession with internal organs at the time was because I was in my first year of medical school and we were dissecting corpses in anatomy lab -- consequently @happy had this organ collecting spree)

Things are slightly out of order here but I neglected to talk about @matcha (my main account).

So as @matcha back in 2016 my two biggest themes were "yandere" and "villainess". I had just watched Mirai Nikki around that time and I was a huge Yuno apologist. Consequently, my most "classic" avatar on NUF is a Yuno avatar.

Yandere and villainess were my big themes because I had tonnssss of negative and dark themes at the time. In this sense, @DCLXVI nee-chan and me were really similar. For the Hell Family at one point (the Hell Family often does family avatars) we were trying to split of the seven deadly sins between the each of us, and Vi-chan and me used to always want the same ones. XD For the record: we both wanted envy.

When we were doing madoka avatars, Vi-chan said that she thought madoka-chan suited me and that she she saw herself as homura-chan... actually I wanted homura... This actually brings up a really good point about the way I saw my own personality though. Back in 2016/2017, I was definitely the type that was superficially nice and friendly and cute, but deep inside I definitely saw myself as angsty and dark and full of negative energy. I always saw myself as a villainess character who was always fated to lose and never deserved the happy end.

With @matcha in particular, the best example is probably with @akki

So @akki was the biggest Internet crush I had on NUF (like a serious crush). He is suuuuuper nice (I can't say this more times!), and legitimately he is probably one of the nicest guys on NUF. @akki by the way was the polar opposite of @episod3ux, and they are like oil and water. @akki was also the only person on NUF that I talked to outside of NUF (on discord), and pretty much everyone who interacted with him closely would probably openly attest to the fact about how wonderful and amazing akki is.

In 2016 though... I wanted to be in a ship with akki. I was slightly akki-obsessed.

The issue was that at that time @akki was already in a (quasi-)ship with @Azuka, so it was impossible to do anything since he was already taken. This was pretty much the origin to my "villainess" phase because no matter how I looked at things, Azuka was definitely the heroine and I was clearly the villainess in every way.

I did a lot of fishy things like becoming @akki's shrine maiden (which is still @yuzuki's title), and I was absolutely committed to the idea that I would always be on @akki's side no matter what anything happened. There was a public joke at some point that I had a shrine to @akki in my closet at some point.

Anyhow... at some point I picked a fight with @Azuka which ended up being a brief spat of quite scary drama. @iampsyx sided with me (bless her a billion times over) and her profile wall got trashed with all her BL being burnt and stuff. This was because @Azuka was the more popular one and had a lot of friends, and obviously I was the "homewrecker" party who was in the wrong. The result of the drama was a truce and eventually Azuka ended up splitting up with akki (I guess because I'm way too much to handle ).

The Azuka drama was a pretty heavy event for me, and I posted on my profile wall that it's scary to be a relatively unknown/unpopular person with no friends. The response was really heartwarming for me though, and lots of people said they would be my "nakama" (friends in One Piece) -- and most notably @DCLXVI was one of the first to say this, so Vi-chan and @iampsyx (who was my friend all along) are generally the people who I considered my original "nakama" on NUF. I guess this would expand into the Hell Family? Although the Hell Family is mostly psyx-chan's work, so I don't know exactly how she found everyone, but I think the core of us was formed around here.

From this point onward things were pretty stable for me and the years are sort of a blur. I had a "canoe" with @akki instead of a "ship" , and at some point I was trying to form a harem for akki because there was no way that I could ever imagine being in a ship with someone so dazzling. Furthermore, akki was super popular with lots of people -- which can sort of be exemplified by the akki's entourage thread that existed at some point. Incidentally, I met @Matsurika at this time because we both liked @akki.

As @matcha I think my biggest claim to fame was that I brought mafia games to NUF. I made a handful of themed mafia games that were apparently really funny and popular, which sort of drew a lot of famous people together like @A5G_Reaper @Acarnina and @DCLXVI -- who would go on to make the KR and Twin Kingdom games. The mafia games were also the reason why @Tony expanded my PM invite limit to 100 people.

I also made tons of clones and had tons of ideas. There's probably too many to list them all. I met @Pyoo through a clone for poems. I participated on Adventurer's Guild with a clone called @selkie, who would later start an anonymous compliment service (which I think drew me closer to @Bielt and some others). @villain was made when I was playing with @DCLXVI and getting to know each other better. @paprika was how I got to know @BlancFrost and @trap was a really odd period when I had a run in with the infamous @Dragon God >.< As for ideas... well... I always had ideas. There's a monthly short story writing prompt thread that is mine, a handful of forum games, @lychee does polls, @happy does piano, @tiger.prince was secretly part of a translation group, @yuzuki (main account version 2) does anything serious...... well I knew a lot of people so stuff happened. It's hard for me to list them all. Oh, I played a role in convincing @Tony to add a blog section to NUF. Also I was the original translator when Tony started Blob Translations (Hell Family translated/edited Lord and Dragon) which brought me to @blee8 and @Action, which later led to blobs becoming a thing on NUF.

Months and years pass and with time my obsession with akki dies down more (and also Rika and Akki end up in a ship), and I change my username to @yuzuki. This sort of marks the end of my emotionally unstable period and the start of the more current me.

Slowly I got more and more inactive and had several gaps when I was away from NUF!

These days I log into @yuzuki to check PMs and @lychee became the main account I post with (I go on poll sprees every few months and then die down and go quiet; I also randomly make community games and have been working on a forum bot @hiori for like the past three years but am always too lazy to finish it). I also had a brief period when I was super active of ScribbleHub and met @SummerForest. Most recently I think I got known again for my polls and blog posts, and that's all!

Oh -- one final addendum -- they weren't mentioned in the body above but I'll always remember the really quiet, nice, and thoughtful older lurkers of NUF. They're some of my favorite people that I definitely didn't have secret crushes on even though they often drift by on the periphery: @CDLevit @doomeye1337 and most recently @OnceandFutureLurker fit into this category although there have been a few. @Tilgarial also gives off a popular bishounen vibe and like @Nyann I expect he'll become really popular Good luck Mr.Tiger!

Okay... I probably spilled a bit too many of my guts so please don't blackmail me later I have a lot of dark history too, so go easy on me!!!! I guess it is probably only fair if I dig out juicy embarrassing moments about people's pasts on NUF if mine is out in the open.

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Whew, lass. That was a roller coaster of a ride. That was very brave of you! Thank you for sharing~

SummerForest · Oct 14, 2019

yuzuki said: ↑

I'm also going to leave a memoir because I'm tired on a Sunday afternoon and not thinking very straight after driving for like three hours and want to take a nap. XD Since I usually go pretty deep into detail with things, maybe this can be helpful to anyone who decides to pick up this project in the future. Tagging @Nyann and @SummerForest because I think they would find this particularly fun to read.

Soooo~ Rewind to 2015...

Prior to coming to NU/NUF I was super involved in the translation community. This was way before wuxia/xianxia or webnovels were a thing, and really only JP light novel translations were on the Internet. For people who remember Baka-Tsuki, I used to be an admin there and was super dedicated to the translation community, but I'm reluctant to go into the details. I had many visions about where the translation community ought to go (some of them were naive/idealistic), and had been trying to collect people to make a link aggregator for novel translations for years before NU existed. We actually had 2-3 different prototypes for something like a Baka-TsukiV2 (keep in mind that BT even had a mobile app back then), but none of them were completed because volunteer collaborative work is really hard to complete successfully -- although we had programmers pooled together from multiple different places. Something like NU was basically the entirety of my dream during my uni years, but ultimately graduation happened and my group was never able to complete anything.

Anyhow I contacted Aho-Updates (NU's precursor) almost immediately after they made their link aggregator, and similarly I emailed Tony back in November 2015 when he made NU to see if he was looking for help with coding the site, but nothing ended up happening. Regardless though, I had a very very very powerful admiration for Tony since the beginning, and we sort of had a unique relationship because of the nature of the way that we first met each other -- since in a sense Tony represented the manifestation of a dream that I had dedicated myself to for years.

I didn't revisit the forum on NUF until almost April 2016, which was basically a month before I graduated from uni. At that point I also had a tiny wordpress translation blog, and I joined NUF to advertise my translations. Also, I had recently cut ties from many of my prior online communities (both BT and a beloved anime blogging community where I originally met @iampsyx), so emotionally speaking I was also pretty unstable.

@Nefasdetestasti and @akki were the first people to talk to me, and they both had a pretty big impression on me. Also, since my username was @matcha I also got roped into the fad of food-related NUF members, and I also got eaten/tasted a lot.

I also had a constant eye for @Tony. Similar to @Nyann (...we are really similar in this way), I couldn't help but pay pretty close attention to all of the forum activity surrounding him. I was able to PM and talk to Tony, and honestly the more I talked to him the more special I thought he was -- and as someone who used to be the admin of a big site myself, Tony really is genuinely the kind of admin that you will rarely find online. I still maintain that Tony is amazing in every way, and I will probably insist on this with every ounce of sincerity I have forever and ever.

Anyhow the week I joined, @Tony was going through the drama of being shipped to @Das (as well as @Little Dragon), so I remember this event vividly. Also, as an overly-serious (and unknown) new member, I was basically really worried for @Tony and concerned about how he was feeling because @Tony was quite clear about not wanting to be shipped to @Das (although @Tony has that tsukkomi aura so Tony can often appear un-serious regardless of what he says). There was also this ultimatum of some kind where @Tony only had X number of days before he'd be forced into a marriage with @Das.

Soooooooooooooo........ ......I pulled a classic @yuzuki plot.

I made a clone and shipped myself to @Das in order to prevent @Das from getting married to @Tony.

The clone was named @Sad (the exact reverse of Das), and I think I was pretty successful at disrupting things because I basically threw myself at @Das trying to get shipped with him, which clearly was confusing because suddenly there was a random person trying to interfere with the wedding ship. @Das ran away from me though because he thought I was male! XD

This series of events is what got me to know @DCLXVI. For those who don't know her, she was famous for having a title despite having zero posts. Additionally, she had a meme where she was everyone's clone (I also claimed that I was @DCLXIV's clone). With @Sad I even did the sneaky thing where I made 100 posts to get a title and then deleted them all to get back down to zero. Also, many people don't know this but @DCLXVI nee-chan is actually really romantic, sentimental, and empathetic. She was actually on of the first people to catch on with what I was doing and sympathized with me (I had this chuuni hobby of "playing the villainess" or "side character pulling strings behind the scenes"), and consequently we started talking to each other in PMs.

Later on, I forgot how it was that it happened but I almost ended up married to @hayyan as @Sad because he figured out my true identity. I went inactive for like 3 months at the time (because I went on vacation to Tibet), so I think I missed my own wedding (thank goodness lol ), and I guess the result of that was that I didn't get married? However, @hayyan said this really cute thing where he just wanted to me to be happy, so I changed @Sad's username to @happy.

Later on, @happy would end up as @DCLXVI's second daughter (with @Pyoo as my sister!), and seriously she was like the best NUF mom ever. @DCXLVI had these suggestive moments where she would imply that she was a single mom and the father of her kids was actually (-censored-) and I SHIPPED THEM SO HARD! ...Although maybe I just wanted to be related to Tony somehow. Actually, a lot of nuffians wanted Tony in their family (I think @OverlyFriendly is probably the most famous). Both Deesee-neechan and I are both super tricky with our words so I'm personally happy with the outcome......... it's in @happy's profile information:

On @happy's title it says "Contracted to Tony" and I actually forgot the details of the contract. I think it was something along the lines of me promising to always keep talking on NUF and never die, and in exchange I could have @Tony's heart internal organs when he dies. (Note: my obsession with internal organs at the time was because I was in my first year of medical school and we were dissecting corpses in anatomy lab -- consequently @happy had this organ collecting spree)

Things are slightly out of order here but I neglected to talk about @matcha (my main account).

So as @matcha back in 2016 my two biggest themes were "yandere" and "villainess". I had just watched Mirai Nikki around that time and I was a huge Yuno apologist. Consequently, my most "classic" avatar on NUF is a Yuno avatar.

Yandere and villainess were my big themes because I had tonnssss of negative and dark themes at the time. In this sense, @DCLXVI nee-chan and me were really similar. For the Hell Family at one point (the Hell Family often does family avatars) we were trying to split of the seven deadly sins between the each of us, and Vi-chan and me used to always want the same ones. XD For the record: we both wanted envy.

When we were doing madoka avatars, Vi-chan said that she thought madoka-chan suited me and that she she saw herself as homura-chan... actually I wanted homura... This actually brings up a really good point about the way I saw my own personality though. Back in 2016/2017, I was definitely the type that was superficially nice and friendly and cute, but deep inside I definitely saw myself as angsty and dark and full of negative energy. I always saw myself as a villainess character who was always fated to lose and never deserved the happy end.

With @matcha in particular, the best example is probably with @akki

So @akki was the biggest Internet crush I had on NUF (like a serious crush). He is suuuuuper nice (I can't say this more times!), and legitimately he is probably one of the nicest guys on NUF. @akki by the way was the polar opposite of @episod3ux, and they are like oil and water. @akki was also the only person on NUF that I talked to outside of NUF (on discord), and pretty much everyone who interacted with him closely would probably openly attest to the fact about how wonderful and amazing akki is.

In 2016 though... I wanted to be in a ship with akki. I was slightly akki-obsessed.

The issue was that at that time @akki was already in a (quasi-)ship with @Azuka, so it was impossible to do anything since he was already taken. This was pretty much the origin to my "villainess" phase because no matter how I looked at things, Azuka was definitely the heroine and I was clearly the villainess in every way.

I did a lot of fishy things like becoming @akki's shrine maiden (which is still @yuzuki's title), and I was absolutely committed to the idea that I would always be on @akki's side no matter what anything happened. There was a public joke at some point that I had a shrine to @akki in my closet at some point.

Anyhow... at some point I picked a fight with @Azuka which ended up being a brief spat of quite scary drama. @iampsyx sided with me (bless her a billion times over) and her profile wall got trashed with all her BL being burnt and stuff. This was because @Azuka was the more popular one and had a lot of friends, and obviously I was the "homewrecker" party who was in the wrong. The result of the drama was a truce and eventually Azuka ended up splitting up with akki (I guess because I'm way too much to handle ).

The Azuka drama was a pretty heavy event for me, and I posted on my profile wall that it's scary to be a relatively unknown/unpopular person with no friends. The response was really heartwarming for me though, and lots of people said they would be my "nakama" (friends in One Piece) -- and most notably @DCLXVI was one of the first to say this, so Vi-chan and @iampsyx (who was my friend all along) are generally the people who I considered my original "nakama" on NUF. I guess this would expand into the Hell Family? Although the Hell Family is mostly psyx-chan's work, so I don't know exactly how she found everyone, but I think the core of us was formed around here.

From this point onward things were pretty stable for me and the years are sort of a blur. I had a "canoe" with @akki instead of a "ship" , and at some point I was trying to form a harem for akki because there was no way that I could ever imagine being in a ship with someone so dazzling. Furthermore, akki was super popular with lots of people -- which can sort of be exemplified by the akki's entourage thread that existed at some point. Incidentally, I met @Matsurika at this time because we both liked @akki.

As @matcha I think my biggest claim to fame was that I brought mafia games to NUF. I made a handful of themed mafia games that were apparently really funny and popular, which sort of drew a lot of famous people together like @A5G_Reaper @Acarnina and @DCLXVI -- who would go on to make the KR and Twin Kingdom games. The mafia games were also the reason why @Tony expanded my PM invite limit to 100 people.

I also made tons of clones and had tons of ideas. There's probably too many to list them all. I met @Pyoo through a clone for poems. I participated on Adventurer's Guild with a clone called @selkie, who would later start an anonymous compliment service (which I think drew me closer to @Bielt and some others). @villain was made when I was playing with @DCLXVI and getting to know each other better. @paprika was how I got to know @BlancFrost and @trap was a really odd period when I had a run in with the infamous @Dragon God >.< As for ideas... well... I always had ideas. There's a monthly short story writing prompt thread that is mine, a handful of forum games, @lychee does polls, @happy does piano, @tiger.prince was secretly part of a translation group, @yuzuki (main account version 2) does anything serious...... well I knew a lot of people so stuff happened. It's hard for me to list them all. Oh, I played a role in convincing @Tony to add a blog section to NUF. Also I was the original translator when Tony started Blob Translations (Hell Family translated/edited Lord and Dragon) which brought me to @blee8 and @Action, which later led to blobs becoming a thing on NUF.

Months and years pass and with time my obsession with akki dies down more (and also Rika and Akki end up in a ship), and I change my username to @yuzuki. This sort of marks the end of my emotionally unstable period and the start of the more current me.

Slowly I got more and more inactive and had several gaps when I was away from NUF!

These days I log into @yuzuki to check PMs and @lychee became the main account I post with (I go on poll sprees every few months and then die down and go quiet; I also randomly make community games and have been working on a forum bot @hiori for like the past three years but am always too lazy to finish it). I also had a brief period when I was super active of ScribbleHub and met @SummerForest. Most recently I think I got known again for my polls and blog posts, and that's all!

Oh -- one final addendum -- they weren't mentioned in the body above but I'll always remember the really quiet, nice, and thoughtful older lurkers of NUF. They're some of my favorite people that I definitely didn't have secret crushes on even though they often drift by on the periphery: @CDLevit @doomeye1337 and most recently @OnceandFutureLurker fit into this category although there have been a few. @Tilgarial also gives off a popular bishounen vibe and like @Nyann I expect he'll become really popular Good luck Mr.Tiger!

Okay... I probably spilled a bit too many of my guts so please don't blackmail me later I have a lot of dark history too, so go easy on me!!!! I guess it is probably only fair if I dig out juicy embarrassing moments about people's pasts on NUF if mine is out in the open.

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Y'know what I liked most about this post? It's the way you can now look back into the past. It's all in the past now, isn't it? A part of happy memories.
I'm glad that I met you in SH and not in Nuf. Or I'd be really confused about all those clones

Pyoo · Oct 14, 2019

SummerForest said: ↑

Y'know what I liked most about this post? It's the way you can now look back into the past. It's all in the past now, isn't it? A part of happy memories.
I'm glad that I met you in SH and not in Nuf. Or I'd be really confused about all those clones
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Is okay i alrdy gave up
If some accts end up being her thats just a pleasant surprise

Nefasdetestasti · Oct 14, 2019

yuzuki said: ↑

I'm also going to leave a memoir because I'm tired on a Sunday afternoon and not thinking very straight after driving for like three hours and want to take a nap. XD Since I usually go pretty deep into detail with things, maybe this can be helpful to anyone who decides to pick up this project in the future. Tagging @Nyann and @SummerForest because I think they would find this particularly fun to read.

Soooo~ Rewind to 2015...

Prior to coming to NU/NUF I was super involved in the translation community. This was way before wuxia/xianxia or webnovels were a thing, and really only JP light novel translations were on the Internet. For people who remember Baka-Tsuki, I used to be an admin there and was super dedicated to the translation community, but I'm reluctant to go into the details. I had many visions about where the translation community ought to go (some of them were naive/idealistic), and had been trying to collect people to make a link aggregator for novel translations for years before NU existed. We actually had 2-3 different prototypes for something like a Baka-TsukiV2 (keep in mind that BT even had a mobile app back then), but none of them were completed because volunteer collaborative work is really hard to complete successfully -- although we had programmers pooled together from multiple different places. Something like NU was basically the entirety of my dream during my uni years, but ultimately graduation happened and my group was never able to complete anything.

Anyhow I contacted Aho-Updates (NU's precursor) almost immediately after they made their link aggregator, and similarly I emailed Tony back in November 2015 when he made NU to see if he was looking for help with coding the site, but nothing ended up happening. Regardless though, I had a very very very powerful admiration for Tony since the beginning, and we sort of had a unique relationship because of the nature of the way that we first met each other -- since in a sense Tony represented the manifestation of a dream that I had dedicated myself to for years.

I didn't revisit the forum on NUF until almost April 2016, which was basically a month before I graduated from uni. At that point I also had a tiny wordpress translation blog, and I joined NUF to advertise my translations. Also, I had recently cut ties from many of my prior online communities (both BT and a beloved anime blogging community where I originally met @iampsyx), so emotionally speaking I was also pretty unstable.

@Nefasdetestasti and @akki were the first people to talk to me, and they both had a pretty big impression on me. Also, since my username was @matcha I also got roped into the fad of food-related NUF members, and I also got eaten/tasted a lot.

I also had a constant eye for @Tony. Similar to @Nyann (...we are really similar in this way), I couldn't help but pay pretty close attention to all of the forum activity surrounding him. I was able to PM and talk to Tony, and honestly the more I talked to him the more special I thought he was -- and as someone who used to be the admin of a big site myself, Tony really is genuinely the kind of admin that you will rarely find online. I still maintain that Tony is amazing in every way, and I will probably insist on this with every ounce of sincerity I have forever and ever.

Anyhow the week I joined, @Tony was going through the drama of being shipped to @Das (as well as @Little Dragon), so I remember this event vividly. Also, as an overly-serious (and unknown) new member, I was basically really worried for @Tony and concerned about how he was feeling because @Tony was quite clear about not wanting to be shipped to @Das (although @Tony has that tsukkomi aura so Tony can often appear un-serious regardless of what he says). There was also this ultimatum of some kind where @Tony only had X number of days before he'd be forced into a marriage with @Das.

Soooooooooooooo........ ......I pulled a classic @yuzuki plot.

I made a clone and shipped myself to @Das in order to prevent @Das from getting married to @Tony.

The clone was named @Sad (the exact reverse of Das), and I think I was pretty successful at disrupting things because I basically threw myself at @Das trying to get shipped with him, which clearly was confusing because suddenly there was a random person trying to interfere with the wedding ship. @Das ran away from me though because he thought I was male! XD

This series of events is what got me to know @DCLXVI. For those who don't know her, she was famous for having a title despite having zero posts. Additionally, she had a meme where she was everyone's clone (I also claimed that I was @DCLXIV's clone). With @Sad I even did the sneaky thing where I made 100 posts to get a title and then deleted them all to get back down to zero. Also, many people don't know this but @DCLXVI nee-chan is actually really romantic, sentimental, and empathetic. She was actually on of the first people to catch on with what I was doing and sympathized with me (I had this chuuni hobby of "playing the villainess" or "side character pulling strings behind the scenes"), and consequently we started talking to each other in PMs.

Later on, I forgot how it was that it happened but I almost ended up married to @hayyan as @Sad because he figured out my true identity. I went inactive for like 3 months at the time (because I went on vacation to Tibet), so I think I missed my own wedding (thank goodness lol ), and I guess the result of that was that I didn't get married? However, @hayyan said this really cute thing where he just wanted to me to be happy, so I changed @Sad's username to @happy.

Later on, @happy would end up as @DCLXVI's second daughter (with @Pyoo as my sister!), and seriously she was like the best NUF mom ever. @DCXLVI had these suggestive moments where she would imply that she was a single mom and the father of her kids was actually (-censored-) and I SHIPPED THEM SO HARD! ...Although maybe I just wanted to be related to Tony somehow. Actually, a lot of nuffians wanted Tony in their family (I think @OverlyFriendly is probably the most famous). Both Deesee-neechan and I are both super tricky with our words so I'm personally happy with the outcome......... it's in @happy's profile information:

On @happy's title it says "Contracted to Tony" and I actually forgot the details of the contract. I think it was something along the lines of me promising to always keep talking on NUF and never die, and in exchange I could have @Tony's heart internal organs when he dies. (Note: my obsession with internal organs at the time was because I was in my first year of medical school and we were dissecting corpses in anatomy lab -- consequently @happy had this organ collecting spree)

Things are slightly out of order here but I neglected to talk about @matcha (my main account).

So as @matcha back in 2016 my two biggest themes were "yandere" and "villainess". I had just watched Mirai Nikki around that time and I was a huge Yuno apologist. Consequently, my most "classic" avatar on NUF is a Yuno avatar.

Yandere and villainess were my big themes because I had tonnssss of negative and dark themes at the time. In this sense, @DCLXVI nee-chan and me were really similar. For the Hell Family at one point (the Hell Family often does family avatars) we were trying to split of the seven deadly sins between the each of us, and Vi-chan and me used to always want the same ones. XD For the record: we both wanted envy.

When we were doing madoka avatars, Vi-chan said that she thought madoka-chan suited me and that she she saw herself as homura-chan... actually I wanted homura... This actually brings up a really good point about the way I saw my own personality though. Back in 2016/2017, I was definitely the type that was superficially nice and friendly and cute, but deep inside I definitely saw myself as angsty and dark and full of negative energy. I always saw myself as a villainess character who was always fated to lose and never deserved the happy end.

With @matcha in particular, the best example is probably with @akki

So @akki was the biggest Internet crush I had on NUF (like a serious crush). He is suuuuuper nice (I can't say this more times!), and legitimately he is probably one of the nicest guys on NUF. @akki by the way was the polar opposite of @episod3ux, and they are like oil and water. @akki was also the only person on NUF that I talked to outside of NUF (on discord), and pretty much everyone who interacted with him closely would probably openly attest to the fact about how wonderful and amazing akki is.

In 2016 though... I wanted to be in a ship with akki. I was slightly akki-obsessed.

The issue was that at that time @akki was already in a (quasi-)ship with @Azuka, so it was impossible to do anything since he was already taken. This was pretty much the origin to my "villainess" phase because no matter how I looked at things, Azuka was definitely the heroine and I was clearly the villainess in every way.

I did a lot of fishy things like becoming @akki's shrine maiden (which is still @yuzuki's title), and I was absolutely committed to the idea that I would always be on @akki's side no matter what anything happened. There was a public joke at some point that I had a shrine to @akki in my closet at some point.

Anyhow... at some point I picked a fight with @Azuka which ended up being a brief spat of quite scary drama. @iampsyx sided with me (bless her a billion times over) and her profile wall got trashed with all her BL being burnt and stuff. This was because @Azuka was the more popular one and had a lot of friends, and obviously I was the "homewrecker" party who was in the wrong. The result of the drama was a truce and eventually Azuka ended up splitting up with akki (I guess because I'm way too much to handle ).

The Azuka drama was a pretty heavy event for me, and I posted on my profile wall that it's scary to be a relatively unknown/unpopular person with no friends. The response was really heartwarming for me though, and lots of people said they would be my "nakama" (friends in One Piece) -- and most notably @DCLXVI was one of the first to say this, so Vi-chan and @iampsyx (who was my friend all along) are generally the people who I considered my original "nakama" on NUF. I guess this would expand into the Hell Family? Although the Hell Family is mostly psyx-chan's work, so I don't know exactly how she found everyone, but I think the core of us was formed around here.

From this point onward things were pretty stable for me and the years are sort of a blur. I had a "canoe" with @akki instead of a "ship" , and at some point I was trying to form a harem for akki because there was no way that I could ever imagine being in a ship with someone so dazzling. Furthermore, akki was super popular with lots of people -- which can sort of be exemplified by the akki's entourage thread that existed at some point. Incidentally, I met @Matsurika at this time because we both liked @akki.

As @matcha I think my biggest claim to fame was that I brought mafia games to NUF. I made a handful of themed mafia games that were apparently really funny and popular, which sort of drew a lot of famous people together like @A5G_Reaper @Acarnina and @DCLXVI -- who would go on to make the KR and Twin Kingdom games. The mafia games were also the reason why @Tony expanded my PM invite limit to 100 people.

I also made tons of clones and had tons of ideas. There's probably too many to list them all. I met @Pyoo through a clone for poems. I participated on Adventurer's Guild with a clone called @selkie, who would later start an anonymous compliment service (which I think drew me closer to @Bielt and some others). @villain was made when I was playing with @DCLXVI and getting to know each other better. @paprika was how I got to know @BlancFrost and @trap was a really odd period when I had a run in with the infamous @Dragon God >.< As for ideas... well... I always had ideas. There's a monthly short story writing prompt thread that is mine, a handful of forum games, @lychee does polls, @happy does piano, @tiger.prince was secretly part of a translation group, @yuzuki (main account version 2) does anything serious...... well I knew a lot of people so stuff happened. It's hard for me to list them all. Oh, I played a role in convincing @Tony to add a blog section to NUF. Also I was the original translator when Tony started Blob Translations (Hell Family translated/edited Lord and Dragon) which brought me to @blee8 and @Action, which later led to blobs becoming a thing on NUF.

Months and years pass and with time my obsession with akki dies down more (and also Rika and Akki end up in a ship), and I change my username to @yuzuki. This sort of marks the end of my emotionally unstable period and the start of the more current me.

Slowly I got more and more inactive and had several gaps when I was away from NUF!

These days I log into @yuzuki to check PMs and @lychee became the main account I post with (I go on poll sprees every few months and then die down and go quiet; I also randomly make community games and have been working on a forum bot @hiori for like the past three years but am always too lazy to finish it). I also had a brief period when I was super active of ScribbleHub and met @SummerForest. Most recently I think I got known again for my polls and blog posts, and that's all!

Oh -- one final addendum -- they weren't mentioned in the body above but I'll always remember the really quiet, nice, and thoughtful older lurkers of NUF. They're some of my favorite people that I definitely didn't have secret crushes on even though they often drift by on the periphery: @CDLevit @doomeye1337 and most recently @OnceandFutureLurker fit into this category although there have been a few. @Tilgarial also gives off a popular bishounen vibe and like @Nyann I expect he'll become really popular Good luck Mr.Tiger!

Okay... I probably spilled a bit too many of my guts so please don't blackmail me later I have a lot of dark history too, so go easy on me!!!! I guess it is probably only fair if I dig out juicy embarrassing moments about people's pasts on NUF if mine is out in the open.

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Such a long paragraph... And also... Did I really gave you such a big impression?
Wow..

Stealth · Oct 14, 2019

@fuyuuri beware of the #numbers

Potato · Oct 14, 2019

fuyuuri said: ↑

Open assignment for any historical society researchers and private investigators who are good at this kind of shipping thing~ @OnceandFutureLurker @Nyann

Can anyone fact-check my interpretation of this?

On 10 November, @FlowingSong and @Lachiel became NUF’s first official couple to be shipped in the The great Chip building of LachielxFlowingSong thread created by @Das (note: the typo is intentional). The ship had been developing unofficially for several days on profile posts prior to the official thread. @FlowingSong expressed support for the ship, but @Lachiel initially refused to give a straight answer and instead responded with a secret code. While the details are ambiguous and private, the thread officially resulted in a sunken ship after a few days of cryptic posts. However, a week after the conclusion of the thread, it is unclear if @FlowingSong and @Lachiel ultimately re-entered a ship.

This thread is pretty complicated and it's unclear to me if @Lachiel and @FlowingSong ultimately ended up in a ship. @Lachiel's profile wall is locked, so I'm unable to dig through that. There is a lot of mysterious posts early on @FlowingSong's profile that I'm not sure what to make of it.

Can @Das or @Potato confirm whether they ended up in a ship?
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i vaguely remember there being something(?) that came of it and lachiel x fs does sound familiar enough but it was so long ago that i dont remember lmao

Hell_ping · Oct 14, 2019

yuzuki said: ↑

I'm also going to leave a memoir because I'm tired on a Sunday afternoon and not thinking very straight after driving for like three hours and want to take a nap. XD Since I usually go pretty deep into detail with things, maybe this can be helpful to anyone who decides to pick up this project in the future. Tagging @Nyann and @SummerForest because I think they would find this particularly fun to read.

Soooo~ Rewind to 2015...

Prior to coming to NU/NUF I was super involved in the translation community. This was way before wuxia/xianxia or webnovels were a thing, and really only JP light novel translations were on the Internet. For people who remember Baka-Tsuki, I used to be an admin there and was super dedicated to the translation community, but I'm reluctant to go into the details. I had many visions about where the translation community ought to go (some of them were naive/idealistic), and had been trying to collect people to make a link aggregator for novel translations for years before NU existed. We actually had 2-3 different prototypes for something like a Baka-TsukiV2 (keep in mind that BT even had a mobile app back then), but none of them were completed because volunteer collaborative work is really hard to complete successfully -- although we had programmers pooled together from multiple different places. Something like NU was basically the entirety of my dream during my uni years, but ultimately graduation happened and my group was never able to complete anything.

Anyhow I contacted Aho-Updates (NU's precursor) almost immediately after they made their link aggregator, and similarly I emailed Tony back in November 2015 when he made NU to see if he was looking for help with coding the site, but nothing ended up happening. Regardless though, I had a very very very powerful admiration for Tony since the beginning, and we sort of had a unique relationship because of the nature of the way that we first met each other -- since in a sense Tony represented the manifestation of a dream that I had dedicated myself to for years.

I didn't revisit the forum on NUF until almost April 2016, which was basically a month before I graduated from uni. At that point I also had a tiny wordpress translation blog, and I joined NUF to advertise my translations. Also, I had recently cut ties from many of my prior online communities (both BT and a beloved anime blogging community where I originally met @iampsyx), so emotionally speaking I was also pretty unstable.

@Nefasdetestasti and @akki were the first people to talk to me, and they both had a pretty big impression on me. Also, since my username was @matcha I also got roped into the fad of food-related NUF members, and I also got eaten/tasted a lot.

I also had a constant eye for @Tony. Similar to @Nyann (...we are really similar in this way), I couldn't help but pay pretty close attention to all of the forum activity surrounding him. I was able to PM and talk to Tony, and honestly the more I talked to him the more special I thought he was -- and as someone who used to be the admin of a big site myself, Tony really is genuinely the kind of admin that you will rarely find online. I still maintain that Tony is amazing in every way, and I will probably insist on this with every ounce of sincerity I have forever and ever.

Anyhow the week I joined, @Tony was going through the drama of being shipped to @Das (as well as @Little Dragon), so I remember this event vividly. Also, as an overly-serious (and unknown) new member, I was basically really worried for @Tony and concerned about how he was feeling because @Tony was quite clear about not wanting to be shipped to @Das (although @Tony has that tsukkomi aura so Tony can often appear un-serious regardless of what he says). There was also this ultimatum of some kind where @Tony only had X number of days before he'd be forced into a marriage with @Das.

Soooooooooooooo........ ......I pulled a classic @yuzuki plot.

I made a clone and shipped myself to @Das in order to prevent @Das from getting married to @Tony.

The clone was named @Sad (the exact reverse of Das), and I think I was pretty successful at disrupting things because I basically threw myself at @Das trying to get shipped with him, which clearly was confusing because suddenly there was a random person trying to interfere with the wedding ship. @Das ran away from me though because he thought I was male! XD

This series of events is what got me to know @DCLXVI. For those who don't know her, she was famous for having a title despite having zero posts. Additionally, she had a meme where she was everyone's clone (I also claimed that I was @DCLXIV's clone). With @Sad I even did the sneaky thing where I made 100 posts to get a title and then deleted them all to get back down to zero. Also, many people don't know this but @DCLXVI nee-chan is actually really romantic, sentimental, and empathetic. She was actually on of the first people to catch on with what I was doing and sympathized with me (I had this chuuni hobby of "playing the villainess" or "side character pulling strings behind the scenes"), and consequently we started talking to each other in PMs.

Later on, I forgot how it was that it happened but I almost ended up married to @hayyan as @Sad because he figured out my true identity. I went inactive for like 3 months at the time (because I went on vacation to Tibet), so I think I missed my own wedding (thank goodness lol ), and I guess the result of that was that I didn't get married? However, @hayyan said this really cute thing where he just wanted to me to be happy, so I changed @Sad's username to @happy.

Later on, @happy would end up as @DCLXVI's second daughter (with @Pyoo as my sister!), and seriously she was like the best NUF mom ever. @DCXLVI had these suggestive moments where she would imply that she was a single mom and the father of her kids was actually (-censored-) and I SHIPPED THEM SO HARD! ...Although maybe I just wanted to be related to Tony somehow. Actually, a lot of nuffians wanted Tony in their family (I think @OverlyFriendly is probably the most famous). Both Deesee-neechan and I are both super tricky with our words so I'm personally happy with the outcome......... it's in @happy's profile information:

On @happy's title it says "Contracted to Tony" and I actually forgot the details of the contract. I think it was something along the lines of me promising to always keep talking on NUF and never die, and in exchange I could have @Tony's heart internal organs when he dies. (Note: my obsession with internal organs at the time was because I was in my first year of medical school and we were dissecting corpses in anatomy lab -- consequently @happy had this organ collecting spree)

Things are slightly out of order here but I neglected to talk about @matcha (my main account).

So as @matcha back in 2016 my two biggest themes were "yandere" and "villainess". I had just watched Mirai Nikki around that time and I was a huge Yuno apologist. Consequently, my most "classic" avatar on NUF is a Yuno avatar.

Yandere and villainess were my big themes because I had tonnssss of negative and dark themes at the time. In this sense, @DCLXVI nee-chan and me were really similar. For the Hell Family at one point (the Hell Family often does family avatars) we were trying to split of the seven deadly sins between the each of us, and Vi-chan and me used to always want the same ones. XD For the record: we both wanted envy.

When we were doing madoka avatars, Vi-chan said that she thought madoka-chan suited me and that she she saw herself as homura-chan... actually I wanted homura... This actually brings up a really good point about the way I saw my own personality though. Back in 2016/2017, I was definitely the type that was superficially nice and friendly and cute, but deep inside I definitely saw myself as angsty and dark and full of negative energy. I always saw myself as a villainess character who was always fated to lose and never deserved the happy end.

With @matcha in particular, the best example is probably with @akki

So @akki was the biggest Internet crush I had on NUF (like a serious crush). He is suuuuuper nice (I can't say this more times!), and legitimately he is probably one of the nicest guys on NUF. @akki by the way was the polar opposite of @episod3ux, and they are like oil and water. @akki was also the only person on NUF that I talked to outside of NUF (on discord), and pretty much everyone who interacted with him closely would probably openly attest to the fact about how wonderful and amazing akki is.

In 2016 though... I wanted to be in a ship with akki. I was slightly akki-obsessed.

The issue was that at that time @akki was already in a (quasi-)ship with @Azuka, so it was impossible to do anything since he was already taken. This was pretty much the origin to my "villainess" phase because no matter how I looked at things, Azuka was definitely the heroine and I was clearly the villainess in every way.

I did a lot of fishy things like becoming @akki's shrine maiden (which is still @yuzuki's title), and I was absolutely committed to the idea that I would always be on @akki's side no matter what anything happened. There was a public joke at some point that I had a shrine to @akki in my closet at some point.

Anyhow... at some point I picked a fight with @Azuka which ended up being a brief spat of quite scary drama. @iampsyx sided with me (bless her a billion times over) and her profile wall got trashed with all her BL being burnt and stuff. This was because @Azuka was the more popular one and had a lot of friends, and obviously I was the "homewrecker" party who was in the wrong. The result of the drama was a truce and eventually Azuka ended up splitting up with akki (I guess because I'm way too much to handle ).

The Azuka drama was a pretty heavy event for me, and I posted on my profile wall that it's scary to be a relatively unknown/unpopular person with no friends. The response was really heartwarming for me though, and lots of people said they would be my "nakama" (friends in One Piece) -- and most notably @DCLXVI was one of the first to say this, so Vi-chan and @iampsyx (who was my friend all along) are generally the people who I considered my original "nakama" on NUF. I guess this would expand into the Hell Family? Although the Hell Family is mostly psyx-chan's work, so I don't know exactly how she found everyone, but I think the core of us was formed around here.

From this point onward things were pretty stable for me and the years are sort of a blur. I had a "canoe" with @akki instead of a "ship" , and at some point I was trying to form a harem for akki because there was no way that I could ever imagine being in a ship with someone so dazzling. Furthermore, akki was super popular with lots of people -- which can sort of be exemplified by the akki's entourage thread that existed at some point. Incidentally, I met @Matsurika at this time because we both liked @akki.

As @matcha I think my biggest claim to fame was that I brought mafia games to NUF. I made a handful of themed mafia games that were apparently really funny and popular, which sort of drew a lot of famous people together like @A5G_Reaper @Acarnina and @DCLXVI -- who would go on to make the KR and Twin Kingdom games. The mafia games were also the reason why @Tony expanded my PM invite limit to 100 people.

I also made tons of clones and had tons of ideas. There's probably too many to list them all. I met @Pyoo through a clone for poems. I participated on Adventurer's Guild with a clone called @selkie, who would later start an anonymous compliment service (which I think drew me closer to @Bielt and some others). @villain was made when I was playing with @DCLXVI and getting to know each other better. @paprika was how I got to know @BlancFrost and @trap was a really odd period when I had a run in with the infamous @Dragon God >.< As for ideas... well... I always had ideas. There's a monthly short story writing prompt thread that is mine, a handful of forum games, @lychee does polls, @happy does piano, @tiger.prince was secretly part of a translation group, @yuzuki (main account version 2) does anything serious...... well I knew a lot of people so stuff happened. It's hard for me to list them all. Oh, I played a role in convincing @Tony to add a blog section to NUF. Also I was the original translator when Tony started Blob Translations (Hell Family translated/edited Lord and Dragon) which brought me to @blee8 and @Action, which later led to blobs becoming a thing on NUF.

Months and years pass and with time my obsession with akki dies down more (and also Rika and Akki end up in a ship), and I change my username to @yuzuki. This sort of marks the end of my emotionally unstable period and the start of the more current me.

Slowly I got more and more inactive and had several gaps when I was away from NUF!

These days I log into @yuzuki to check PMs and @lychee became the main account I post with (I go on poll sprees every few months and then die down and go quiet; I also randomly make community games and have been working on a forum bot @hiori for like the past three years but am always too lazy to finish it). I also had a brief period when I was super active of ScribbleHub and met @SummerForest. Most recently I think I got known again for my polls and blog posts, and that's all!

Oh -- one final addendum -- they weren't mentioned in the body above but I'll always remember the really quiet, nice, and thoughtful older lurkers of NUF. They're some of my favorite people that I definitely didn't have secret crushes on even though they often drift by on the periphery: @CDLevit @doomeye1337 and most recently @OnceandFutureLurker fit into this category although there have been a few. @Tilgarial also gives off a popular bishounen vibe and like @Nyann I expect he'll become really popular Good luck Mr.Tiger!

Okay... I probably spilled a bit too many of my guts so please don't blackmail me later I have a lot of dark history too, so go easy on me!!!! I guess it is probably only fair if I dig out juicy embarrassing moments about people's pasts on NUF if mine is out in the open.

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Wait, who in the world are you on Baka Tsuki again?

Matsurika · Oct 14, 2019

yuzuki said: ↑

He is suuuuuper nice (I can't say this more times!), and legitimately he is probably one of the nicest guys on NUF.
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@akki is not nice D: he's an evil bully!

fuyuuri · Oct 14, 2019

Stealth said: ↑

@fuyuuri beware of the #numbers
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Numbers?

Hell_ping said: ↑

Wait, who in the world are you on Baka Tsuki again?
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Iced Tea-sama forgot me I PM’d you but it’s a secret!

Arcturus · Oct 14, 2019

Potato said: ↑

i vaguely remember there being something(?) that came of it and lachiel x fs does sound familiar enough but it was so long ago that i dont remember lmao
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It might have been a thing briefly in November I guess. It was dead by December when I started lurking though.

Kiwionwheels · Oct 15, 2019

Sorry I'm too lazy >.<

Nyann · Oct 15, 2019

Kiwionwheels said: ↑

Sorry I'm too lazy >.<
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You're alive!

AliceShiki · Oct 15, 2019

fuyuuri said: ↑

Updated status of the November history... only halfway through the month

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November
At the start of November, @Lachiel and @JJ were unquestionably the most active members on NUF. Multiple threads joked about their frequent posts and activity on NU. This was the origin of the “Is Lachiel a human?” meme, which claimed that Lachiel was a bot.

On 1 November 2015, the Novel Pickup Request subforum was added after @Scrya made the suggestion. The first thread in this subforum was RED STORM (NOVEL) Translation? [Raws Provided] by @StaticHD.

On 4 November 2015, the first community game The Novel Writing Game was created by @Scrya. It is unclear when the Community Games subforum was added.

On 6 November 2015, @Tony added the trophy point for following @Satan. Multiple forum members cried conspiracy and swore never to become followers of Satan.

On the same day, the Hello Newbies! A Welcome Thread for You Reader! thread was created by @FlowingSong and pinned to the General Chat subforum. FlowingSong would later become immensely popular. She was notable for always using pink text in her posts and speaking in the third person.

The Novel Writing Game: The Dethrone of Satan (TNWG) was also created by @Zone Q11 on November 6th. This thread was notable for being the longest thread to exist on NUF at the time and generated over 500 replies in less than one week. It was the origin of multiple NUF memes including the “dethrone Satan”, “Astolfo”, and “Pinku” memes. It is mentioned in @Mousa4’s memoirs as the thread that suddenly caused an increase in activity on NUF (from ~10 users to 30-40 users online daily). He also credits it as the thread that launches @FlowingSong @brianf @Das and @LivingCorpse into the community. A summary of the thread compiled by @FlowingSong is available for reading.

Multiple different TNWG games would later be created during the month of November. None of the latter ones would reach the same degree of infamy as the original game.

On 7 November 2015, @Mrgameandwatch77 posted Help?, the first life advice thread in General Chat, regarding his first date. He would continue to post more similar threads a periodic basis throughout November.

On 8 November 2015, @qwerty was recognized as the first NUF member to spam likes. In particular, he was infamous for liking literally everything (note: the Like Limit did not exist at this time). In Mousa4’s memoirs, @qwerty was the original “Liker” on NUF.

On 9 November 2015, @Das became @FlowingSong’s NUF elder brother due to a profile post conversation about @FlowingSong looking for a long lost sibling with white hair (which coincidentally matched @Das’s profile avatar). This was the first time that a NUF family relationship was formed between users on the forum.

On the same day, the Describe the poster above you community game was created by @JJ. This community game would eventually survive many years and reach over 4000 posts. Additionally, the Community Creations subforum was created after the suggestion was made by @Lachiel. The first thread in this subforum was Lachiels Work In Progress things.. by @Lachiel.

On 10 November 2015, @JJ and @FlowingSong overtook @Lachiel on the Notable Members ranking by points. @FlowingSong also posted a thread on hijacking, thus initiating the NUF tradition of spamming threads with off-topic posts unless a “no offtopic” tag was added to the thread (later: “no hijack”). The initial hijackers were listed as @FlowingSong (leader), @Mrgameandwatch77 (famous hijacker), @Das, @JJ, @Animester, @Scrya, @canaria23, @AkeShiro, @LivingCorpse, @ouroboros, @fluffymigs, and @Sproutling.

On the same day, @FlowingSong and @Lachiel became NUF’s first official couple to be shipped in the The great Chip building of LachielxFlowingSong thread created by @Das (note: the typo is intentional). The ship had been developing unofficially for several days on profile posts prior to the official thread. @FlowingSong expressed support for the ship, but @Lachiel initially refused to give a straight answer and instead responded with a secret code. While the details are ambiguous and private, the thread officially resulted in a sunken ship after a few days of cryptic posts.

On 11 November 2015, the The Coffee (and Tea) Lounge was created by @LivingCorpse. This would later become an iconic location on NUF for off-topic chat and roleplay. It would remain continuously active for many years and collect over 11,000 posts.

On 12 November 2015, the first NUF fad occurred when @sal880612m posted the thread Anonymous Rainbow Rangers suggesting that NUF members use a question mark avatar of a certain color. Briefly, most of the notable members on NUF used a colored question mark avatar. Simultaneously, @Catacus posted a thread recruiting users to join a cult of masked men (notable members included @maskedcerf) — the earliest precursor to a sect on NUF.

On the same day, @FlowingSong overtook @Lachiel on all three metrics of the Notable Members leaderboard.

On 15 November 2015, @Tony created The Slap Game! Satan vs Kanye West. This game contained NUF’s first bot and can be interpreted as an early precursor for the later infamous Pinata Game. This was also @Tony’s first silly thread.

By mid-November, @Mrgameandwatch77 posted his fourth dating/love advice thread of the month. Each one was very popular, and the series ultimately solidified his reputation as a love guru. In @Mousa4’s memoirs, both @Mrgameandwatch77 and @FlowingSong are recognized as the original love experts. According to Mousa4, the love advice threads would draw even members to NUF, including @Linley @Ldyrdy and @AicilaXI.

On 16 November 2015, a zombie invasion fad was started by @Mrgameandwatch77. A thread summarizing current fads/groups/allegiances on NUF was also simultaneously created by @Mrgameandwatch77. The most popular groups at the time were the Thread Hijackers, Team Satan vs. Anti-Satan, Cult of Astolfo, and Team FS (FlowingSong) vs. Team Lachiel.

Notable Threads that exceed 100 posts:

@Lachiel and @jj (well the title should now be changed to just @Lachiel) by @Mousa4

The Official "Is Lachiel a Human" thread by @Lachiel

if you could have one super power what would it be? by @Mousa4

A novel that you dropped, and why by @Lachiel

Satan's Follower by @Zone Q11

Hello Newbies! A Welcome Thread for You Reader! by @FlowingSong

Novel Writing Game: The Dethrone of Satan by @Zone Q11

First web/light Novel by @Animester

What character would you want to be? (could be side character or main character) by @Mousa4

Sovereign Sparks by @Saitama

Describe the poster above you by @JJ

Thread Hijackers (Please Read if You want your thread safe from Funny and Ridiculous Hijacks) by @FlowingSong

The great Chip building of LachielxFlowingSong by @Das

Anonymous Rainbow Rangers by @sal880612m

Recruiting Mask Men of UMM! By @Catacus

Help? The 2nd coming by @Mrgameandwatch77

Confessional by @Jesus

Wacky (Funny) Videos by @Raphael

Zombies Unite! By @Mrgameandwatch77

What are your allegiances? by @Mrgameandwatch77

The Aftermath Part 2 by @Mrgameandwatch77

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@aicilaXI changed username to @Aicila btw~

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Curses! I have been found! And will hereby be tried for my war crimes! However, there is one thing you never accounted for!
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GLORY TO BRASCOVIAAAAAAA
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yuzuki said: ↑

I'm also going to leave a memoir because I'm tired on a Sunday afternoon and not thinking very straight after driving for like three hours and want to take a nap. XD Since I usually go pretty deep into detail with things, maybe this can be helpful to anyone who decides to pick up this project in the future. Tagging @Nyann and @SummerForest because I think they would find this particularly fun to read.

Soooo~ Rewind to 2015...

Prior to coming to NU/NUF I was super involved in the translation community. This was way before wuxia/xianxia or webnovels were a thing, and really only JP light novel translations were on the Internet. For people who remember Baka-Tsuki, I used to be an admin there and was super dedicated to the translation community, but I'm reluctant to go into the details. I had many visions about where the translation community ought to go (some of them were naive/idealistic), and had been trying to collect people to make a link aggregator for novel translations for years before NU existed. We actually had 2-3 different prototypes for something like a Baka-TsukiV2 (keep in mind that BT even had a mobile app back then), but none of them were completed because volunteer collaborative work is really hard to complete successfully -- although we had programmers pooled together from multiple different places. Something like NU was basically the entirety of my dream during my uni years, but ultimately graduation happened and my group was never able to complete anything.

Anyhow I contacted Aho-Updates (NU's precursor) almost immediately after they made their link aggregator, and similarly I emailed Tony back in November 2015 when he made NU to see if he was looking for help with coding the site, but nothing ended up happening. Regardless though, I had a very very very powerful admiration for Tony since the beginning, and we sort of had a unique relationship because of the nature of the way that we first met each other -- since in a sense Tony represented the manifestation of a dream that I had dedicated myself to for years.

I didn't revisit the forum on NUF until almost April 2016, which was basically a month before I graduated from uni. At that point I also had a tiny wordpress translation blog, and I joined NUF to advertise my translations. Also, I had recently cut ties from many of my prior online communities (both BT and a beloved anime blogging community where I originally met @iampsyx), so emotionally speaking I was also pretty unstable.

@Nefasdetestasti and @akki were the first people to talk to me, and they both had a pretty big impression on me. Also, since my username was @matcha I also got roped into the fad of food-related NUF members, and I also got eaten/tasted a lot.

I also had a constant eye for @Tony. Similar to @Nyann (...we are really similar in this way), I couldn't help but pay pretty close attention to all of the forum activity surrounding him. I was able to PM and talk to Tony, and honestly the more I talked to him the more special I thought he was -- and as someone who used to be the admin of a big site myself, Tony really is genuinely the kind of admin that you will rarely find online. I still maintain that Tony is amazing in every way, and I will probably insist on this with every ounce of sincerity I have forever and ever.

Anyhow the week I joined, @Tony was going through the drama of being shipped to @Das (as well as @Little Dragon), so I remember this event vividly. Also, as an overly-serious (and unknown) new member, I was basically really worried for @Tony and concerned about how he was feeling because @Tony was quite clear about not wanting to be shipped to @Das (although @Tony has that tsukkomi aura so Tony can often appear un-serious regardless of what he says). There was also this ultimatum of some kind where @Tony only had X number of days before he'd be forced into a marriage with @Das.

Soooooooooooooo........ ......I pulled a classic @yuzuki plot.

I made a clone and shipped myself to @Das in order to prevent @Das from getting married to @Tony.

The clone was named @Sad (the exact reverse of Das), and I think I was pretty successful at disrupting things because I basically threw myself at @Das trying to get shipped with him, which clearly was confusing because suddenly there was a random person trying to interfere with the wedding ship. @Das ran away from me though because he thought I was male! XD

This series of events is what got me to know @DCLXVI. For those who don't know her, she was famous for having a title despite having zero posts. Additionally, she had a meme where she was everyone's clone (I also claimed that I was @DCLXIV's clone). With @Sad I even did the sneaky thing where I made 100 posts to get a title and then deleted them all to get back down to zero. Also, many people don't know this but @DCLXVI nee-chan is actually really romantic, sentimental, and empathetic. She was actually on of the first people to catch on with what I was doing and sympathized with me (I had this chuuni hobby of "playing the villainess" or "side character pulling strings behind the scenes"), and consequently we started talking to each other in PMs.

Later on, I forgot how it was that it happened but I almost ended up married to @hayyan as @Sad because he figured out my true identity. I went inactive for like 3 months at the time (because I went on vacation to Tibet), so I think I missed my own wedding (thank goodness lol ), and I guess the result of that was that I didn't get married? However, @hayyan said this really cute thing where he just wanted to me to be happy, so I changed @Sad's username to @happy.

Later on, @happy would end up as @DCLXVI's second daughter (with @Pyoo as my sister!), and seriously she was like the best NUF mom ever. @DCXLVI had these suggestive moments where she would imply that she was a single mom and the father of her kids was actually (-censored-) and I SHIPPED THEM SO HARD! ...Although maybe I just wanted to be related to Tony somehow. Actually, a lot of nuffians wanted Tony in their family (I think @OverlyFriendly is probably the most famous). Both Deesee-neechan and I are both super tricky with our words so I'm personally happy with the outcome......... it's in @happy's profile information:

On @happy's title it says "Contracted to Tony" and I actually forgot the details of the contract. I think it was something along the lines of me promising to always keep talking on NUF and never die, and in exchange I could have @Tony's heart internal organs when he dies. (Note: my obsession with internal organs at the time was because I was in my first year of medical school and we were dissecting corpses in anatomy lab -- consequently @happy had this organ collecting spree)

Things are slightly out of order here but I neglected to talk about @matcha (my main account).

So as @matcha back in 2016 my two biggest themes were "yandere" and "villainess". I had just watched Mirai Nikki around that time and I was a huge Yuno apologist. Consequently, my most "classic" avatar on NUF is a Yuno avatar.

Yandere and villainess were my big themes because I had tonnssss of negative and dark themes at the time. In this sense, @DCLXVI nee-chan and me were really similar. For the Hell Family at one point (the Hell Family often does family avatars) we were trying to split of the seven deadly sins between the each of us, and Vi-chan and me used to always want the same ones. XD For the record: we both wanted envy.

When we were doing madoka avatars, Vi-chan said that she thought madoka-chan suited me and that she she saw herself as homura-chan... actually I wanted homura... This actually brings up a really good point about the way I saw my own personality though. Back in 2016/2017, I was definitely the type that was superficially nice and friendly and cute, but deep inside I definitely saw myself as angsty and dark and full of negative energy. I always saw myself as a villainess character who was always fated to lose and never deserved the happy end.

With @matcha in particular, the best example is probably with @akki

So @akki was the biggest Internet crush I had on NUF (like a serious crush). He is suuuuuper nice (I can't say this more times!), and legitimately he is probably one of the nicest guys on NUF. @akki by the way was the polar opposite of @episod3ux, and they are like oil and water. @akki was also the only person on NUF that I talked to outside of NUF (on discord), and pretty much everyone who interacted with him closely would probably openly attest to the fact about how wonderful and amazing akki is.

In 2016 though... I wanted to be in a ship with akki. I was slightly akki-obsessed.

The issue was that at that time @akki was already in a (quasi-)ship with @Azuka, so it was impossible to do anything since he was already taken. This was pretty much the origin to my "villainess" phase because no matter how I looked at things, Azuka was definitely the heroine and I was clearly the villainess in every way.

I did a lot of fishy things like becoming @akki's shrine maiden (which is still @yuzuki's title), and I was absolutely committed to the idea that I would always be on @akki's side no matter what anything happened. There was a public joke at some point that I had a shrine to @akki in my closet at some point.

Anyhow... at some point I picked a fight with @Azuka which ended up being a brief spat of quite scary drama. @iampsyx sided with me (bless her a billion times over) and her profile wall got trashed with all her BL being burnt and stuff. This was because @Azuka was the more popular one and had a lot of friends, and obviously I was the "homewrecker" party who was in the wrong. The result of the drama was a truce and eventually Azuka ended up splitting up with akki (I guess because I'm way too much to handle ).

The Azuka drama was a pretty heavy event for me, and I posted on my profile wall that it's scary to be a relatively unknown/unpopular person with no friends. The response was really heartwarming for me though, and lots of people said they would be my "nakama" (friends in One Piece) -- and most notably @DCLXVI was one of the first to say this, so Vi-chan and @iampsyx (who was my friend all along) are generally the people who I considered my original "nakama" on NUF. I guess this would expand into the Hell Family? Although the Hell Family is mostly psyx-chan's work, so I don't know exactly how she found everyone, but I think the core of us was formed around here.

From this point onward things were pretty stable for me and the years are sort of a blur. I had a "canoe" with @akki instead of a "ship" , and at some point I was trying to form a harem for akki because there was no way that I could ever imagine being in a ship with someone so dazzling. Furthermore, akki was super popular with lots of people -- which can sort of be exemplified by the akki's entourage thread that existed at some point. Incidentally, I met @Matsurika at this time because we both liked @akki.

As @matcha I think my biggest claim to fame was that I brought mafia games to NUF. I made a handful of themed mafia games that were apparently really funny and popular, which sort of drew a lot of famous people together like @A5G_Reaper @Acarnina and @DCLXVI -- who would go on to make the KR and Twin Kingdom games. The mafia games were also the reason why @Tony expanded my PM invite limit to 100 people.

I also made tons of clones and had tons of ideas. There's probably too many to list them all. I met @Pyoo through a clone for poems. I participated on Adventurer's Guild with a clone called @selkie, who would later start an anonymous compliment service (which I think drew me closer to @Bielt and some others). @villain was made when I was playing with @DCLXVI and getting to know each other better. @paprika was how I got to know @BlancFrost and @trap was a really odd period when I had a run in with the infamous @Dragon God >.< As for ideas... well... I always had ideas. There's a monthly short story writing prompt thread that is mine, a handful of forum games, @lychee does polls, @happy does piano, @tiger.prince was secretly part of a translation group, @yuzuki (main account version 2) does anything serious...... well I knew a lot of people so stuff happened. It's hard for me to list them all. Oh, I played a role in convincing @Tony to add a blog section to NUF. Also I was the original translator when Tony started Blob Translations (Hell Family translated/edited Lord and Dragon) which brought me to @blee8 and @Action, which later led to blobs becoming a thing on NUF.

Months and years pass and with time my obsession with akki dies down more (and also Rika and Akki end up in a ship), and I change my username to @yuzuki. This sort of marks the end of my emotionally unstable period and the start of the more current me.

Slowly I got more and more inactive and had several gaps when I was away from NUF!

These days I log into @yuzuki to check PMs and @lychee became the main account I post with (I go on poll sprees every few months and then die down and go quiet; I also randomly make community games and have been working on a forum bot @hiori for like the past three years but am always too lazy to finish it). I also had a brief period when I was super active of ScribbleHub and met @SummerForest. Most recently I think I got known again for my polls and blog posts, and that's all!

Oh -- one final addendum -- they weren't mentioned in the body above but I'll always remember the really quiet, nice, and thoughtful older lurkers of NUF. They're some of my favorite people that I definitely didn't have secret crushes on even though they often drift by on the periphery: @CDLevit @doomeye1337 and most recently @OnceandFutureLurker fit into this category although there have been a few. @Tilgarial also gives off a popular bishounen vibe and like @Nyann I expect he'll become really popular Good luck Mr.Tiger!

Okay... I probably spilled a bit too many of my guts so please don't blackmail me later I have a lot of dark history too, so go easy on me!!!! I guess it is probably only fair if I dig out juicy embarrassing moments about people's pasts on NUF if mine is out in the open.

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*hugs tight* I already knew most of this, but some details are new... Gosh, you went through a lot~

Not that I'm one to talk... >.>

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Wait, who in the world are you on Baka Tsuki again?
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I'm surprised you found this! Thought you didn't lurk on NUF anymore! xD

Kiwionwheels · Oct 15, 2019

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You're alive!
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hahahaha yes, before I was history, now im in the future

drealicious · Oct 15, 2019

Wow i feel old all of a sudden hahaha
Its been 4 years. This is my only forum and most used site in the past years.w

Nyann · Oct 19, 2019

Bumps this thread

Nuf turns 4 tommorow

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