Let me tell you a story. Once apon a time, there was a teenager. A normal teenager. She liked to hoop and sing and smoke. She had real friends, and yes, real problems. She was one of those girls who flourished on the wings of fantasy, and took up new hobbies on impulse. At the tender age of twelve, she discovered fanfiction- in the form of The Rasmus. She wrote little things, and had some good times. Then her beloved site got hacked, and was offline for a year, perhaps more. She checked in almost every day, waiting for someone to fix it. Days became weeks, weeks became months. Eventually, she gave up and preoccupied herself with other things. Real life and all that jazz.

Then, years later, she chanced apon an old vcr recording of Digimon. And was inspired. She began to write again, and fell face-first onto FF.net. She wrote daft things, and got some interesting reviews- interesting in a good way. In fact, her first little bit of crack had more effect on her "career" than she would've dreamed... a certain pairing by the name of "Min-shiro", or IzzyXBox.. She made some good friends- some very good friends indeed. She gave good reviews. She shared ideas. She was even polite to the slightly creepy people who liked to read about cats and batpigs getting jiggy. She held her tongue, most of the time. And then, with her new found good friends and a few creepers, she created a challenge forum. Just for fun.

Great things emerged from the forum, and little by little, new members appeared. There was some trouble from a very sad person with far to much time on their hands, but the heroine of our story simply would not be disheartened. After a battle of wits, where they proved to be fairly equal- though she slipped up a few times- she saw the only way to bring back the peace would be to ban him. And so she did, to the jubilation of all around. The peace resumed, and the good times lived on.

Then, a better board was found, and naturally the forum moved. More friendships were formed, and funny ideas shared. Our heroine herself gave out some of her best ideas to her more capable comrades- her favourite being that of "Hamato". The forum grew close, and even more brilliant creations were born. The inside jokes were legendary- the likes of Mermaid Ken, The Shell, and KenXSuitOfArmour were shared, loved and typed into the stuff of legend. Our heroine- let's call her "Bastian"; like from The Never Ending Story- Bastian was yet to realise it, but the forum was becoming quite the success. The members to really joined in became jolly comrades one and all, and all was well. She even started making amv's as presents- those who've read Doctor Ken by emotionless-robot, click here.

Yes indeed, all was well in the World of Bastian.

And then one day, things got a little pear-shaped. Her oldest fanfiction buddie, and her oldest moderator, had warned a member on a thread. Which, in the eyes of Bastian (and indeed, the other staff) was a perfectly fine and common practice. It was honest and fair, provided the warning was polite and the cause clear- which it was in this case. Indeed, warning over threads seemed like the best course anyway- it stopped the same mistake being made twice. Unfortunately, the member in question didn't think along the same lines. He seemed to be having some trouble with a severe superiority complex. He would not stop with the constant PM's, nit picking and whinging about how he was wronged.

But Bastian and her moderator -Kermit- would not be budged. Truth be told, they were beginning to get a little annoyed with his High-and-Mighty attitude. Bastian in particular, as this was one of the creepers with the CatXBatPig fetish which made her skin crawl. Plushie (for that is what we shall call him now, for simplicities sake) realised that he was not going to wear down Bastian or Kermit, and so he decided to take it to the next level. And in doing so, crossed the line- the line that was keeping Bastian for using her infamous "Pata-Plushie" line...

One member- abet a particularly annoying member who was tolerated only out of the goodwill and restraint of the staff- left the forum after sending Bastian and Kermit rather snide, pathetic PM's about them mistreating Plushie (without hearing the whole story, which demonstrates the height of her intelligence). But the other members- members which read the whole story, complete with the PM's provided by Plushie himself, and made their own judgements. Judgements that proved to go against Plushie. Many of them were shocked at his behaviour- and indeed a little displeased with the way Bastian had handled it (in hindsight, the Pata-Plushie line had been a leetle mean... If true...) But Bastian and Kermit were able to explain their actions and admit where they'd been wrong, whilst Plushie down right refused- attempting to reach for the high ground, even though everyone had realised he was just being pathetic.

After finally seeing that it was hopeless, Plushie left. Peace returned- at last -to the forum. They laughed over it in the end. However...

Plushie and his Disciple started up their own forum, one where all seasons would be allowed (for that was the rule Plushie had tripped up on). Bastian was not particularly bothered, and kept to business as usual. A couple of new members registered, and Bastian let them in. A couple of days later, she recieved some e-mails informing her of account deletion, with some very snide remarks. She did a background check of the member in question, and found them to be a member of Plushie and Desciple's new forum. To say it pissed her off royally would be an understatement. And now, she has to attempt to screen new members before she can allow them to join her forum. Which is annoying, but necessary.

There are two morals to the story.
1. Make up your own mind. Don't be brainwashed by a "Plushie" with a superiority complex, or you'll be just another Disciple.
2. If you are one of "Plushie"'s Disciples, don't bother trying to stir more drama. You'll give yourself a headache if you put too much strain on your single brain cell.

Story aside, I'm quite nice really.
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