Thank you all for the applications! We enjoyed looking over each and every one of them. Although everyone who applied was wonderful in her own way, we had to narrow down our choice for admins to three special applicants. So, without further ado, we are very pleased to welcome three new admins to our blog!
Please welcome our new EunHae admins, Laila and Alia, as well as our new KyuMin admin, Han! Their applications were very impressive, and we believe they will be great additions to our blog! Please greet them nicely!
Unfortunately, this post has to turn a little bittersweet as we address Zai’s departure and Rhea and Amy formally announce our departure from this blog. Because Amy is going to get all emotional and wordy, we’ll be putting our goodbye notes under the cut.
Zai: Admin Zai left a while ago (unfortunately, we’re not exactly sure of the exact date) due to personal reasons. She left a goodbye note in our inbox, which we would like to post, just so she can explain it a little further herself.
Hello! This is Zai. I just want to apologize for my sudden disappearance. I am just here to make an apology for you guys, especially Amy. TT_TT I also want to apologize to Miyah, I wasn’t able to answer your ask last week. I have to let go of my internet habit, so I’ve decided to delete all my accounts. You guys are the best! ^^ I also want to apologize for the subscribers of this page. Hopefully, in the near future, we’ll meet again!! Lots of love to you guys! Mwaaah! :*
We just want to say that we’re gonna miss Zai a lot ;; She was a wonderful admin (she put the masterlist back together when it died, which is no easy feat!), and she was an absolute sweetheart to everyone.
We wish her the best of luck in real life, and many thanks for being a part of this blog! It really breaks our heart to see an admin leave so suddenly, but we respect her wishes! We’re going to miss her so much! ;;
Rhea: I’m sorry ahead of time, I’m terrible with words so I’m going to try to keep this short. Being a part of this blog was an honor for me. It’s been a nice and rewarding journey. I’ve seen this blog grow from when it was almost nothing into the what it is today. I remember when it was less than 100 and now we’re past 1k. I’ve met so many great people (I don’t know what I would do without Amy really), read and shared so many wonderful fics, and had so much fun. I’m sorry that I slipped so much on my duties as an admin these past months. I’m truly very sorry. But this is why I think it would be best for me to leave at this time. I’m sad to let this go, this blog is so important to me, but I think it’s for the best. I want to leave you in better hands :) So, thank you Amy for bringing me onboard as an admin in the first place and I love you wowie. Thank you Miyah and Zai for being terrific and helpful admins. Thank you to Alia, Laila, and Han for joining; Good luck and I’m sure you’ll do great here! And finally, thank you guys for letting me be a part of this blog and your admin for while it lasted. Thank you and good luck! Happy reading! ♥
Amy: Who’s ever heard of an easy goodbye? Not me, that’s for sure. I’m more emotional than I would ever like to admit, which is going to be incredibly evident in this post. So reader beware!
First of all, I want to say that this departure was unavoidable. Rhea and I have been talking for a while about how bad we feel for not updating this blog and reading SJ fics these days, but it’s always been hard for us to leave because this blog used to mean so much to us. (This blog will always have a large place in my heart honestly.)
After much inner debate, I decided that leaving this blog would be for the best. It wasn’t fair calling myself an admin when I barely was around to do anything; that took credit from Miyah and Zai, who worked so hard without us. Despite this, I am incredibly sorry to everyone – admins and followers alike, I should have worked harder. I gave this blog my all, only to let myself fall in the end.
As the founder of this blog, I have so many things to say that I’m afraid I’m going to bore you guys with my emotions ;; But I really can’t stress how proud I am of this blog and its admins. I started this with the simple of idea of sharing all the fics I read, because I just read so many.
I love recommending fics for so many reasons honestly. I like the feeling an author gets when s/he sees his/her hard work being recognized; the feeling I, as the recommender, gets when an author sincerely thanks us for reccing them; the feeling I, as the recommender, gets when a reader enjoys the new fics; and the feeling I get when I know that I’ve done something and made an impact, even one as small as a fic rec blog may be.
At first, I thought this blog was going to be a simple side blog for me to update every now and then when I read enough fics for long updates (for those who have been around since the very early days, I used to recommend in lists instead of individual fics). I really didn’t expect it to have so many admins and so many followers! I didn’t know how many amazing writers and readers I’d meet through it.
I’m blessed to have been able to share this experience with my hard-working admins, past, present, and future. Even though I started this blog, I really cannot say it’s mine anymore – that would be unfair to the admins who worked hard on this.
I want to thank Miyah for sticking through this blog even when Zai left and the rest of us were MIA. She’ll be the one in charge of teaching our new admins the ropes, so she has a big job to undertake, and I appreciate her for doing it so well so far. She really is a trooper, and I don’t know what we’d do without her :) Thank you, Miyah!
The admin I would like to thank most for this is Rhea. She became not only the first co-admin to this blog, but a very, very dear friend to me. My twin, in fact :) I met people I will remember for a very long time through this blog, and I can’t even put into words how they have impacted my life. I want to extend my thanks and love to everyone I’ve met through this blog; I have not forgotten any of you. You’re all wonderful, insightful people, and I thank you for our interesting conversations.
And lastly, I would like to thank you. You allowed for all of this to happen, from your asks to your recommendations. You are the reason I stand here today, torn to leave even though I know it’s for the best. Thank you for everything. You are as important to this blog as its admins.
Before I leave, I do want to say one last thing: this blog is not as easy as it looks. To you, it’s a fic rec blog, something you can go to when you’re in a mood for a certain fic and maybe ask about specific suggestions to people you truly trust for an opinion. But for us, it’s kind of like work (except we don’t get paid, mind you). We have to go out there and find these specific asks. We don’t have to, but we do. For you. And unfortunately, there’s more than one of you – there are tens of you, and we don’t always get to our replies on time. We really do look for them, but it’s harder than you think. So please, please respect the admins and give them the time they need to look for your requests.
So to our admins, thank you from the bottom of my heart and good luck! You’re all the best this blog could ever wish for :) And to our followers, thank you for your support and patience! I’m sure the admins will work hard for you all!
(Wow, I’m really sorry I wrote so much o.o I tried cutting stuff out, but what can I say? I’m a writer u_u A rambling one at that, too. Anyway, if you read everything, an extra kiss and hug for you!)
I’ll miss this, really. ♡