Quote Originally Posted by slavelucy
i always think it's a thoughtful thing to do to mention what you've gained from the boards up to this point, and those comments mean a whole lot to us.
just after joining (two days ago) i found this thread and thought "we-ell, this seems the place to tell someone (whoever they may be) that you've joined", so i posted something along the lines of "hi, i'm here, no need to bother about me, just looking around, and i'm oh so insecure ..." (all of that quite contrary to my own gender/role-definition). i didn't even think of reading posts on previous pages, just being happy about having joined.
today i did start working my way backwards along the thread, and i found
  • people who seemed to be a lot like me (or should that be 'myself'?)
  • people who seem really interesting
  • slavelucy's statement quoted above


so i'm now trying to be thoughtful:

i arrived at bdsmlibrary some late evening after having typed 'bdsm [+] stories' into google (they tell you to forget about '+' and the rest of the boole-stuff recently, because they figure they already know what you mean beforehand - which is mostly true, it seems), and i thought "wow!!! this looks like what would be named 'schlaraffenland' in german, so when does it say 'enter your credit card number here and you'll have access to x + sites of stuff you never asked for and whereon you'll never find what you're looking for but will have to pay for no matter what you hoped for in first place ...'?"
but - as everyone around here would know - this never happened (except for there being a 'members'-area, which i haven't quite understood yet).
so - after having read (at least parts of) quite a lot sories (most of which are - ahem!!! - too strong stuff for me [me having 'consensual' far up on my list of preferences]) - i started looking at the "forums" part, obviously called "the boards" hereabouts.

which finally brings me back to my starting point.

slavelucy, what i've gained from the boards is:
so much (self)confidence and interest in the people around that i decided to join

and i congratulate myself on having done so.

ps: how do i fit an avatar into my posts and one of them (mostly really witty quotes) regular bottom lines?
pps: ready to give any more information about myself as soon as required, but this post is long enough already, isn't it?