I figured that with just one day left it is the perfect time to show up. So, hi there.

Welcome to the forum Aithiopika!

I had already approved you and wrote you a welcome post, but it was when the old forum was "disabled" and apparently nothing from that time transferred over. So here we are again.

I don't remember exactly what I wrote and a lot of things are happening now, so I'll keep it short: It's better never than late I say.

Anyway, you may be here to post in the forum or you were confused and thought you needed to be a Full Member to participate in non-forum things. You don't actually. Whichever it was, means you can post in the forum whenever the urge hits you, if you want. Now I will tell you about the strange tradition aimed at newcomers.

At one time there were Pesterers who pestered you for poetry, but that tends to be very rare nowadays. Even though you may not be pestered, if you do go and post an original poem--usually haiku but any (clean) type is accepted--written by you, you will most likely receive a gift in return. The "gift" will most likely be useless or maim you...a little. Whichever it may be, it should be interesting and surprising. Lastly, this strange tradition applies to the pestering not the poetry. You are not required to do anything more to be a member here...unless you want a gift.

Now go forth and do (almost) whatever you want, just don't speculate in Reactions.

Haiku, really?
Haiku is just not my thing.
What about some prose?

I know haiku sucks
Just became the tradition
Before my time here

Now for no apparent reason, I want you have this thing that has been bugging me to...hug it. It's a 1.2 m tall fluffy teddy bear android. It just wants to be loved and hugged all the time. Also it has a micro fusion reactor powering it, so you won't have to worry about powering it. Nor powering the two built-in six kilowatt pulse lasers it uses to deal with people who don't like to hug.

It's yours. Enjoy!