To my favorite community within a community...
Someone pointed out to me that Grimfox is a rather common name on steam. I've edited my profile to make it pretty obvious which one is the real veteran of COH. Also, I've been using DA to look at all your unpostable arts for a really long time...so here is also my DA account...it's kinda mostly blank.
http://grim22x7.deviantart.com/
I might change that. I have some stories...no promises but I might post those. For now friend me, like me...I dunno what DA does, tip your hat? I might post all my screenies from the past few days, all my characters are going to be mine forever, and substantial chunks of the CC, cause those are stuck in there...eh.
Roxy On DA...Finally!
TLDR: Thanks everyone for everything the last three years on the forums and 7+ years ingame. You guys are the best!
Thanks TA, I was thinking to put up a farewell thread like this for the 606 but I couldn't
bring myself to do it just yet... somehow trying to delay the inevitable I guess.
Thanks everyone! I picked up drawing again after an almost 8 year hiatus and even started to learn some
digital art skillz. Thanks for all the insights, inspiration and the occasional kick in the backside.
Also for all the recent kind posts, notes, emails, PM's etc. Between losing a close family
member and the accident that broke my legs it's been a really tough year,
this great community made the ongoing circus easier to bear.
Special thanks to Bobby/LJ/BAquitania, his ridiculous generosity with his artz helped me cross the infinite divide between
thinking it might be fun to try drawing something again to actually creating my first CoH artz 3 years ago.
Also to Suichiro for giving such a great and thorough critique of it.
To Caemgen for taking one of my early works and making it his (still running) avatar.
Such a small thing but it had such a huge impact on my confidence in my work being worth a damn.
Also for blabbing in my thread so much... no seriously the guy never shuts up in there (ahem, thanks buddy).
DarthDelicious for being such a great friend and inspiration and for being so cool to hang out and
chat with (even though she lives 7 hours in the future... and on the wrong side of the
ocean and all ). That DD collab is still one of my favorites.
Speaking of Collabs... EddySwan, LordGoat, BW, the other BW, DD, Henri, Ransim, Vrykon,
LJ, Caemgen (Iknowright?), and Ruby (hope I got em all). Thanks for all the time,
effort and for combining your considerable talents to help me make some
truly unforgettable works (quadruple collab anyone? ).
Thanks to ImagesbyAlex for the DaD threads which inspired my 40in60 challenge and to PyroNympho
for TheHotPencil thread, (and for my shiny sig button) Juggertha, TA, Wassy, BW and DD for
hosting the FArts and putting up with all the nonsense that went along with it. I was
sooo rusty when I started drawing again, your guy's contributions
helped dramatically speed up my "recovery time."
Amerikatt for always sticking her nose (and paws, and tail) into
my art when I least expected it, and for keeping my artz in her sig. Thanks!
To all the other artists and artz collectors who have come and gone, your creations and commissions
were a huge motivation to me keep striving to improve (well a couple really gutted me
and made me wonder what the heck I was doing when I would never be able to
create art like that but, you know, for the most part... thanks )
Fan Artz and Gift Artz! To all who have done/commissioned art of my characters (Cami, DD, BW, Nojitsu,
Bobby, Swanzy, Pirate Cashoo, Lexi, Caemgen, JoeD, Omi, Nox etc) I love em all!
To all the people who let me draw their beloved characters over the years, thanks
for allowing me to hone my craft through your inspired and often personally significant creations.
For all those who took the time out of their real life days to leave kind words, constructive comments
and criticisms and to frequent my thread here and watch/fav my page on DA, I cannot thank you enough.
Finally a quick shout-out to the lurkers. Even though you never said a word I still seriously appreciate all your time
and repeated visits. I could not have built the most watched art thread on the forums without each and
every one of you. Throughout the "lean" times of the cycle when things got real quiet and I
was starting to wonder if anyone was still interested in my art seeing dozens (and often
hundreds) of daily pageviews was enough to keep me going. Thank you all.
I for one am hoping that this game can live on in some form or other but if this is truly the
City's end, farewell, I'll miss you all. It'll never be the same but those who want
to keep in contact can still find me on DA and I also frequent Skype.
...and thanks to anyone who just read all that. That's 5 minutes
of your life you're never getting back Mwahahah!
P.S.
Originally Posted by Foo
"You guys were the best. You made me force myself to be better so I could become the 2nd greatest FArt Champion of ALL TIME."
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Well I never knew the specifics of what you're talking about Mel, and never much cared. You were always cool with me and if someone else had their panties all bunched up about you and were unable to work it out, why should I care? I never much cared about the cliques and the politics of such, probably at least part of why I ran solo most of the time... I take people as I see them and try not to let other peoples opinions influence me. As I see you, you've always been good people
In general, all the regulars around this little community in a community were. Sure I had a couple flare ups with a couple of people but I, at least, got over them relatively quickly and was always willing to mend fences. Real life has enough grief, I don't come online, specially online to a game, to have more so I always did my best to avoid it when possible.
I suspect anyone who wishes to stay in contact with me knows how to get a hold of me... At least until dA pulls it's own disappearing act.