Two years ago, on July 17, 2023, after a lot of overthinking, I made my very first post on this wiki. It was so long ago that I didn't even have a name (and I will never stop thinking it's hilarious that I decided to go by AC. I really thought that the best thing to do was call myself air conditioning.)
Fair warning, this post is going to be pretty long and rambly, but hopefully somewhat funny and nostalgic. (will my sense of humor make sense to anyone else? probably not!)
Fun fact you might already have known: this is not my first fandom account. My alt account (@/Just a random violist) was actually my first account, and it was made because I saw some pretty horrific vandalism here and wanted to report it. Of course, I couldn't do that, since my account had to be at least 3 days old to post. I didn't like the username and didn't realize I could change it, so I just made a new account.
Another (kinda) fun fact: I'm still using the same pfp that I was using when I first joined the wiki. (not currently, though - i'll change it back after disability pride month is over.) I've only deviated from that pfp three times - october 2024, december 2024, and june/july 2025
Some things that happened in those two years, both specifically for me and for the wiki in general (definitely not in chronological order):
I got to know many of the wonderful beings who responded to my intro post (specific shoutouts in no particular order to Adrian, Aspen, and Aether (I think that's the name they're currently using?? they're most well-known here as @/JuniperTheChaoticLesbian)) (why am i a magnet for people with A names, my 4 closest irl friends' names all begin with A as well /ot)
I also got to know many other wonderful beings who weren't there at that time (specific shoutouts in no particular order to Moth, Xen, Larkspur, Ash, Piper, Tasselflower, Colossal Vessels, Stellar, Shane, Rillow, and anyone I missed (i'm sorry i'm very forgetful))
I've done 2409 edits and 3523 posts, averaging 3.341 edits per day and 4.886 posts per day (wow, I thought I was more chronically online than that)
I've created exactly 400 pages, if I counted right
I acquired a name
I was adopted into the wiki family by Piper and @/Bi ve candy. I think I still have my adoption certificate somewhere on my phone
The great staff upheaval of 2023 (made it through without being globally banned!!)
I had my first edit reverted by Bo even though there was nothing wrong with it. Smh. /j /lh (proof)
The reign of Bill Cipher
I proved that I am not power-hungry (unlike certain administrators (Xen) and b-crats (Adrian) /j /silly) by taking over a year to apply for c-mod
Off-topic threads and spotlight genders were introduced
I ran spotlight genders, which was very fun (spreadsheets!!)
The reign of cheese
A certain wiki revolution that also involved cheese
The departure of Bo :,)
I've coined . . . a lot of genders. And made a lot of flags. And they all *definitely* have pages, because I am a responsible wiki editor.
I learned how to archive references. It took an embarrassingly long time.
I'm pretty sure that when I joined, the wiki had about 2000 pages. As of writing this, there are 7,692 pages.
I finally joined the wiki discord server last week
I made the medals list (instead of doing hw) bc I was just really sick of the gender wiki:medals page being impossible to read. And this was months before I even considered applying for staff lol
I found my gender!! Can't believe I didn't mention this earlier
Many, many beautiful themes (including cheese)
Many, many rules changes. And debates over rules changes. And debates that became not-so-civil arguments that made posts have to be locked
I changed from an always dark mode user to an always light mode user (unless dark mode just objectively looks better. which isn't often.)
So yeah. There's a lot that's happened over the past two years. Users have come and gone, and activity has ebbed and flowed. The wiki's grown a lot, and there are and have been a lot of great beings here, love yall /platonic
I have no idea how to end this, but I also can't think of anything else to say.
I know this post cannot compare with Xen's fandomversary post, but I tried.
-Theo, they/he