!!! DISCLAIMER !!!
If I’ve sent you a link to a chapter within this “book”, I either trust you an insane amount or this is my first time ever speaking to you and I doubt we will ever make contact again. If it’s the latter, I don’t really care, but if it’s the former, please note the following:
- By giving you the password to read one chapter, I have given you the password to read every chapter. If I haven’t given you my explicit permission to read other things, I’d kindly ask that you don’t be a dickhead and scroll on. I’m not going to be sitting checking who’s viewing what, because the amount of trust I have in you to even let you here is phenomenal, but it would be much appreciated. By all means, if you’d like to read something else, just ask and I’ll probably say yes – I’d just appreciate you asking me beforehand.
- There are too many trigger warnings to list here, or at the start of every chapter. In these chapters I am writing the deepest, darkest, most personal details of my life so far – there will be huge amounts of information here that I will never have told anyone, ever. If you get icked out by self-harm, suicide, sexual assault, attempted murder, blackmail, graphic depictions of blood, death, or basically anything, be careful about what you’re reading. The post name should give away whether it’s a positive story or a negative story so keep that in mind.
- I have probably “talked shit” about you somewhere here. If I’ve given you the password to read stuff here, and you come across something I’ve written in a rant, know that I see you as close enough of a friend to actually show you what I was thinking at the time. I don’t really hold grudges against anyone, and it’s hard to make me stay mad for more than a week, so also know that whatever I was thinking at the time does not apply now and I have most likely calmed down since (lol).
- And finally, don’t be a dick – there’s really personal details here, be a nice person. I’ve sent you the link here for a reason and I doubt any of you will actually be cunts but I feel like I just have to say it. Don’t go looking for shit you don’t want to find.
PUBLISHED CHAPTERS
An introduction to what this is all about is below this section.
introduction
Hæhæ, haigh, moikka 🙂
Since the second chapter of CloudCraft’s Nordic Era drew to a close in October 2022, I began to look forwards the future of the server and how I could honour the people and memories that shaped me over the years, especially as we got closer to November 2024 when the server turns a decade old.
Bjoggi and my idea was always to create a sort of “ári að orsdá 2024” (‘anniversary’, in Cloudic, lit. ‘year of birth’) – a sort of documentary-type video instead of a streamed live performance with hundreds of moving parts and players like we’ve put together every year for the majority of CloudCraft’s history.
However, with school turning into university (and a full-time job), along with plenty of other personal issues and my severe lack of motivation, I wasn’t able to pull anything together in time. The whole time though, I’ve thought about writing an “autobiography” sort-of-book about CloudCraft over the years, from my perspective: the good memories, the drama, the friendships come and gone, the relationships and everything that I had to balance in my personal life at the same time.
Some day, I will be able to sit down and actually write for more than 15 minutes at once, but for now, my personal experience of growing up alongside random strangers from half way around the world, will live here on my wee website.
Hope you enjoy reading it 🙂
I’m not going to actually compile chapters until I finish the majority of this thing and decide it’s time to put it into an actual book format. For now, I’ll just be making small posts, which will follow the title format:
E#-yy/mm [TITLE]
For example: E17-24/08 Adventures while interrailing, would relate to August 2024 in Era 17 (the Iceland Era).
THE ERAS
For those who aren’t familiar, the life of CloudCraft has been split into distinct “eras” – periods of time usually defined by a great change in the server (and therefore, generally, my personal life and friendships). I’ll be splitting the book roughly up into these – there will be a little overlap because things just make sense that way.
Section 1 – Childhood
- E1: Before CloudCraft (July 2005 – October 2014)
- E2: Classic Era (November 2014 – March 2015)
- E3: Public Release Era (April 2015 – December 2016)
- E4: City Era (January 2016 – December 2016)
- E5: Whodunnit Era (January 2017 – April 2017)
- E6: RainbowSquad Era (May & June 2017)
Section 2 – High School
- E7: Roleplay Era (July 2017 – November 2018)
- E8: TDS Era (December 2018 – November 2019)
- E9: Monarchy Era (January 2020 – December 2020)
- E10: Nordic Era I (January 2021 – December 2022)
- E11: Nordic Era II (January 2022 – October 2022)
Section 3 – The Real World
- E12: Paul Fan Club Era (November 2023 – May 2023)
- E13: Queermobile Era (June 2023 – October 2023)
- E14: Larne Era (November 2023 – February 2024)
- E15: Relapse Era (March 2024 – May 2024)
- E16: Donegal Era (June & July 2024)
- E17: Iceland Era (August 2024 – Present Day)
