So I registered in GG in October 2014 to discuss D&P when I somehow grew this silly infatuation with them, and I pretty much read (hardly ever posted) the threads actively up until the point when all the shit went down recently. When GG was down I happened to see a link to this forum in the blogpost comments and I must say I do prefer this place, GG seemed to toxic especially outside of the D&P threads.
I guess the main reason I find it so hard to post regularly and participate in the discussion is that I used to post and overshare a lot on forums over a decade ago when I was a teenager and I regretted it so much I've pretty much kept mum everywhere online ever since
Now I tend to overthink everything I write and pay too much attention to what others think of me, but I'm trying to work on that I do feel slightly more comfortable posting here than GG since this seems a bit more intimate, I guess.So yeah, I'm 25, nearly 26 years old and hopefully I'll have a Master's degree in English philology within the year. After that, I have no idea what I'll do so not in a real hurry to graduate, probably why my master's thesis (do you call this a dissertation?) is not really advancing atm...
I have no idea what it is about D&P that has kept me interested for this long but here I still am... I am far too ashamed to share my passion with them with people irl so I'm glad I have some place to feel like I'm not alone
I do have to say thank you for the hours upon hours of entertainment and even deep discussions I've read over the years so cheers
I post tons of things on IDB but if you look at my actual posts you'll notice I rarely actually express any opinions, or at least not any controversial ones. 
It's nice to read about similar experiences, and I suspect there are many more lurkers still lurking about...
