I don't recognise your handle specifically but I'd have been around in 2012, too! Nice to see you again!

We might've crossed paths back then - I joined in 2010 - but sadly I have a terrible memory for names so I don't remember if we interacted much at the time. Still, welcome back!

1. Its honestly just so comforting to know that PPC stuff is literally the same as it was back when I was a kid. Helps give a little bit of perspective in these days of a 24/7 news cycle and the worries of real life, that ultimately people are still the same as they always were.

2. I think I can credit a lot of who I am today to the PPC, ultimately. I wasn't doing very well in school back then (today I am a scientist and a PhD-in-training :P,) and getting home and turning on my mom's old Pentium and just reading the funny stories people would post was a source of escapism for me.

And I think in general, internet fanfiction has influenced a lot of the values I hold today, strange as that is to say. I grew up in a third-world country, and if I had instead taken things osmotically from the people around me, I could have ended up a very different person with very different beliefs.

1. I have a LOT of reading to do if I wanna catch up haha.

It's always nice to see a returnbie. Here, have a box of antigravity chocolates.

So, you say you were posting sometime from 2012-2014? Do you remember participating in any specific threads? If so, we might be able to figure this out.

--Ls likes mysteries