REVELATIONS: Surf's Up! - Summer Ciddies '16

[Night Fury]

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[Night Fury]

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WELL DONE WOLF KANNNOOOOOOOOO

[Shauna]

Go Wolf Kanno!

[Shauna]

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[Wolf Kanno]

Thanks everyone!

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[Queen Award, First of Her Name]

PSYCHOTIC! with 21 points!

[Night Fury]

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[Karifean]

Congrats Wolf Kanno!

[Shauna]

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[Queen Award, First of Her Name]

That leaves us, like, with the podium and stuff.

[Night Fury]

psychotic well done you little burping egg pudding

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[Karifean]

Congrats Psychotic!!

And man, the top two are the two most deserving people for this award, in my humble opinion =)

Edit: Three, Karifean. Counting is not that difficult.

[Shauna]

Whooooo! Psy!

[Shauna]

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[Night Fury]

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[Pumpkin]

Will I get runner up as usual :lol:

CONGRATS EVERYONE!!

[Night Fury]

AM SCREAMIN HURRY UP

[Shauna]

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[Night Fury]

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I DONT HAVE ENOUGH MINION GIFS LEFT

[Freya]

Go go go go! You're all amazing!

[Night Fury]

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[Pumpkin]

Will Bubba win 2 ciddies ina row?????

PREEMPTIVE CONGRATS TO BUBBA

[Shauna]

if bubba doesn't win this i will toss my rum ham in the sea

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[Bubba]

I won last time!

It's Pumpkin's time!

[Night Fury]

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[Night Fury]

if bubba doesn't win this i will toss my rum ham in the sea

I will hoy you in the sea!

[Night Fury]

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[Shauna]

tara:

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[Freya]

Thanks for all the votes.

Bubba, I just said you liked vampires not that you sang it. You shared that yourself muahahha

[Wolf Kanno]

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[Pumpkin]

THE SUSPENCE

THE ANTICIPATION

THE SUSPENCITATION

[Night Fury]

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[Shauna]

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[Queen Award, First of Her Name]

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BUBBA!





FYNN!









PUMPKIN!!!!!

[Wolf Kanno]

Who will win!?

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[Pumpkin]

OH MY GOSH ARE YOU SERIOUS IS THIS A JOKE

[Pumpkin]

I NEVER WIN DIS

[Pumpkin]

I SO HAPPY GUYS THANK YOU SO MUCH

[Night Fury]

Well done Pumpers!

About time another Girlypants won it! :D

[Bubba]

YEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!

You had my vote, Pumpkin!

[Wolf Kanno]

Yay for Pumpkin!

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[Pumpkin]

I CRIE ERRYTIM

YOU ALL DESERVE IT, YOU'RE ALL SO AWESOME

THANKS SO MUCH AWARD DUDE FOR YOUR HARD WORK, YOU DA BEST LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS

[Karifean]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH

CONGRATS BUBBA!

CONGRATS FYNN!!

AND HOORAY FOR PUMPKIN!!!

[Pumpkin]

Kay going to the gym, peace out guys

[Shauna]

Congrats Pumpkin!

[Bubba]

I won last time!

It's Pumpkin's time!

[Bubba]

Totally deserved :D

[Loony BoB]

Congrats to Pumpkin on her win and to everyone who got votes over the week. :)

[Freya]

CONGRATS PUMPKIN FYNN AND BUBBA! You guys are the best and I am totally not bias voting for all three of you :shifty:

[Karifean]

But man, those scores, they're too close. You're all totally tubular.

[Pumpkin]

Seriously thank you everyone for making Ciddies fun, for votes, for speeches. Award Dude was awesome and I know he worked hard on this and he deserves all the praise.

CONGRATS TO EVERYONE
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[Night Fury]

Pumpkin tbh right now

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[Shauna]

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[Night Fury]

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[Night Fury]

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[Shauna]

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[Formalhaut]

WOOO! Congratulations Pumpkin! Such a tight contest for Best Member.

[Aulayna]

Grats Pumpkin!

[Slothy]

OH MY GOSH ARE YOU SERIOUS IS THIS A JOKE

Well it's about damn time.

[Bubba]

Okay drunk Skype everyone.

[Pumpkin]

Oh also a big thank you thank you to Bubba for running the speeches as well and writing so many of them and NF for doing so many also!

[Karifean]

Once more, congratulations to all winners! (https://youtu.be/EWPBKAqJgsw)

[Freya]

Thanks for the gif spam haha you guys made reading through this entertaining.

My mom said hi! (it was her birthday today so that's why I wasn't here most the time)

[Night Fury]

Oh also a big thank you thank you to Bubba for running the speeches as well and writing so many of them and NF for doing so many also!

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[Freya]

Also I hope you enjoyed my adventures of my crab

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[Bubba]

Oh also a big thank you thank you to Bubba for running the speeches as well and writing so many of them and NF for doing so many also!

Take a bow yourself, Pumpkin :D

[Queen Award, First of Her Name]

Tune in on Monday to see the results of the Totally Tubular Ciddies Lottery!

But before we end this, the Dude would like to take a minute to thank each and every one of you.

Everyone who nominated, voted, posted silly gifs, or even just lurked in here, whether they were nominated or not, whether they won a Ciddie or not - from the bottom of his heart, the Dude thanks you. For being there for the Ciddies and upholding this, awesome, one-of-a-kind tradition. You guys rock!

Special thanks go to all of the Dude's Beach Bunnies!

To Beach Bunny #1 - Formalhaut - my Beach Bunny of Reminders, who was, like, totally solid and professional in each and everyone of his reminders. The Dude can't think of any other person that would have handled it so well, being both cordial and firm, and gathering so many people to nominate and vote.

To Beach Bunny #2 - Bubba - my Beach Bunny of Speeches, who not only made the tubular thread where people like claimed speeches and stuff, but he also made up for all the missing speeches on his own, without me ever asking him. He went above and beyond his call of duty and has made this whole thing a whole lot easier for the Dude. You have been radical, my good dude!

To Beach Bunny #3 - Freya - my Beach Bunny of Graphics, who has created this beautiful face, the set that is the very essence of Surfing, and all those excellent graphics you guys could enjoy for all the Ciddies. Despite being immensely busy with her multitude of tasks, she gave it her all and made the Ciddies far more enjoyable than they could have ended up as.

And lastly, to Beach Bunny #4 - Pumpkin - my Beach Bunny of Death, who has offered me valuable counsel and advice on being Award Dude. Honestly, without her help and her substantial input into the speeches, the Dude would not have succeeded.


I also want to thank Award Dude, for letting me step into his shoes, and make this event totally tubular. You guys were awesome and congratulations to all the winners. Now I have to go, but I leave you with this closing speech by Night Fury.

And so, like that, I bid you...

COWABUNGA!



So there ends the Ciddies for another 6 months. Congratulations to all the winners, whoever you may be! I hope you accepted with grace (and then partied and cheered yourself on, because YOU ROCK!). And to those of us who didn't win the award that we wanted, I hope you lost with grace and did not get too upset.

See there's a thing about being 'the loser' that a lot of people don't realise, and that's that we take our losses and use them as fuel. In the case of the Ciddies, maybe what we take from losing 'Kindest Member' is that we can continue to grow and continue our journey to being a better person. Maybe not winning 'Funniest Member' will push us to make more people laugh and smile and we'll spread more funnies throughout the year.

What I'm trying to say is, even if you feel like you haven't been recognised - believe me - you have. I recognise you. That person you admire recognises you too. We're all here together, and this is our home - this is our dusty little corner of the internet that we come back to time after time after time after time.

Of course, there are many that we have lost - some who will never come back. But at one time, we all shared this home. This tiny forum that is just one tiny home amongst an endless galaxy of websites. Sorry, I feel like I'm getting a little bit Carl Sagan here....

We found each other here.

Whether it came from boredom, a need to find information, or a desire to find friends. We found each other here. We could have went to another place - and perhaps we did for a while - but we all came and collided here, together, right now. I think that's pretty special.

Some of us have found love here. Some of us have found soulmates here. Some of us have laughed til we hurt here. Many of us have cried here. We found each other here.

I think that's a way to look and reflect upon our actions - that we all came here through our love of just ONE thing. Final Fantasy. We came to Eyes on because at some time, at some point, for some moment - we loved Final Fantasy enough to want to find people who were the same kind of nerd as us. To discuss stupid things with.
We've grown up together.

There's something very special about people like us, that a lot of people who are our age don't get to know. We're 'Forumgoers' and that makes you special. Why? Because you came to something new and exciting when it was still new and exciting and you met us all on the Forum. Never before our generation, were people making friends on the Internet. Friends who were 10,000 miles away, or friends that you discovered lived in the next town over.
Even more uniquely, we can go back and look through our memories and thoughts and posts and lives like a scrapbook here. We can flip back the pages and see our mistakes and triumphs, our ups and downs - and next to those very moments we can see each other too.

I haven't been a member of Eyes on Final Fantasy for as long as some of you, but I have been through other places and known other people in similar forums. But there's something special about Eyes on, isn't there? There's something about each of us being here when we needed to be.

Coming to Eyes on Final Fantasy often feels like coming home.

There will come a day (and maybe it's already here) that our members will be younger than our home. We have all grown up here. We've shared our lives - or kept them secret - but we've been here as time has went on, years have passed. Ciddies have come and gone. Our members remain.

New people join us and older members leave - and that is always sad, and sometimes you wonder if it's because they're too cool for us - have they moved on? Do they dislike this place now? Who can tell the answers to those questions because they're beyond us now.

We've fallen apart together. People argue, and we fall out - and we call each other names - and we threaten to never come back home. But we always do. Somehow we manage to find the glue to put ourselves and our friendships back together and mend ourselves. It's all just part of the process of growing. If I have ever fallen out with you, I hope you know that I am not that person anymore, and I know you're not the same either. I hope we can rebuild and be friends again.

I've often wondered how important I am to the Eyes on family. As I'm sure many others have before me. I often feel like what I have to contribute is not enough, and so I feel saddened and as if the wheel just keeps rolling and I'm running behind it, dying to keep up. I've often always wanted to only be the best version of myself that I can be here. Perfect. But there's no such thing. Sometimes it's okay to go a little coocoo crazy and have moments where you don't feel 'perfect'. Afterall, a family always forgives. If you've ever felt like this (and I know so many of you have) just know that I don't judge you. I remember that image of you at your best, and even now, if you're at a low. I still love you, and I still know that you are that level of greatness and you will never be any less.

Back to the Ciddies. I know what it's like to feel like your efforts have been ignored, and that people don't care. But let me tell you that people care - and we see you. You are just as much a part of this crazy family as the most popular members. You are just as funny as the funniest member, you are just as hard-working as the best Staffer.

Afterall, you came and you found us here. We're a family.

[Bubba]

No THIS is the one that made cry! I was proper blubbing!

[Shauna]

That's it. Another Ciddies done.

I know that Night Fury and I were complaining all the way through about it being slow and then fast, but honestly, we know how it goes for running the Ciddies. We had a great time with all our gifs. I hope you didn't take it to heart Award Guy! You did a great job hosting! Thanks very much for all your time and effort!

Thanks to everyone for participating - either with the nominations, the votes, the thread here or with the speeches.

[Shauna]

That's a lovely message. Thank you very much.

[Night Fury]

It was only in jest :p I think as spectators we get carried away in the hype. We meant no offence!

[Freya]

You guys are the best :jess: That was sweet! You're all amazing! Keep being amazing! Even if you didn't win, you still make an impact, like they said. WE LOVE YOU ALL!

[Fynn]

Guys


What did I miss

[Night Fury]

everything tbh

[Bubba]

Guys


What did I miss

God, where have you been?

Slacker.

[Fynn]

everything tbh

well poop

[Karifean]

Many thanks to Award Dude for making this as great as it was.

Awesome final speech Night Fury. Next time I will win one of those Ciddies!

[Bubba]

Fynn Legend sings All of Meme.

I'm drunk...

[Night Fury]

I have been sat in the same position that long I have sweaty pits lmao.

[Shauna]

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[Shauna]

I have been sat in the same position that long I have sweaty pits lmao.

ugh right

[Bubba]

This has been my favourite Ciddies. Feeling the love you guys!

[Wolf Kanno]

Thanks for an awesome Ciddies Award Dude and the Award Bunnies, Special mention to all the great speeches this year as well. I dedicate this to everyone on Eyes on Final Fantasy, we're all the crazy backup dancers for this crazy place called EoFF.

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[Bubba]

This has been my favourite Ciddies. Feeling the love whiskey you guys!

[Night Fury]

This has been my favourite Ciddies. Feeling the love you guys!

I think so too!

:)

[Galuf]

I have no idea what happened since page 2. Ill look tommorw. Congrats to everyone who won though.and good work on all the speeches i havent read yet. (dw i sure they will be funny and good lol)

[Bubba]

I have no idea what happened since page 2. Ill look tommorw. Congrats to everyone who won though.and good work on all the speeches i havent read yet. (dw i sure they will be funny and good lol)

YOU'VE WON A CIDDIE, GALUF!

[Night Fury]

YEEV WON A WEE CIDDIE LADDY!

[Shauna]

Indeed!

[Bubba]

MLT to have the username Galuf

You came second to Loony BoB but he was disqualified. Congrats!

[Galuf]

Oh. Wel... Ok lol. Thank everyone who voted me lol. Though going through 90 pages on this phone isnt gonna work so ill see tommorow lol. But seriously thank you. Lol. Umh. Yep.

[Bubba]

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[Colonel Angus]

Can I get the Cliff Notes on who won?

[Bri]

Congratulations to everyone, you are all spectacular winners! Wow beautiful speeches as well! Oh and behalf of me and Escobert we thank you for the noms and votes. We will continue to support and be part of the Ciddies. Congratulations again everyone! Never stop being awesome and never forget who each and everyone of you are! Rock on!!

[Shauna]

It looks like we had quite a few first time winners this Ciddies!

Skyblade, Vermachtnis, harmonixer, Galuf, Mirage, CimminyCricket...

Unless our list is horribly wrong and you have all won in the past.

[Pheesh]

Congratulations to all of the winners! My time zone prevents me from ever participating in a full ciddies but it was a lot of fun reading through everything after the fact. All the nominees were deserving and all of people who weren't nominated play just as important a role on the site. Final Fantasy news and discussions were what brought me here but it's been a long time since I actually used EoFF for that purpose. I come back because of the people, many of whom I've grown up with. Some of you I've met, others I've yet to meet, and many I may never get to meet. No matter which of those groups you find yourself in you're all a big part of my life, this site is a big part of my life, and I don't regret knowing or spending time with any of you.

Night Fury often gets onto me about never nominating or voting in these awards and there's two reasons for that. The first is the embarrassing but true admission that I remember being the 14 year old kid that was legitimately 'head in hands' crushed at never receiving a nomination or vote in these awards. I can look back and laugh at that now, but when I have gone to fill in a nomination sheet I would lie if it wasn't an image that popped up in my head, and it bums me out to think that may be something I'd be causing. The other, more sensible reason, is that every single person on here has made me laugh at some point, so you're all the funniest member; every one of you has helped me at some point, so you're all the kindest member. As cheese as it sounds, if it were up to me the ciddies would boil down to 'you all get an award and then we just get drunk together.'

So congratulations to all of you, you collectively keep this place active and make it a forum that people like to come back to, so you're all winners.

[qwertysaur]

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wow what a lovely portrait of myself and my friends :love:
Brings back memories. Then i went and evolved. :shobon:

Congrats to all the winners.

[theundeadhero]

You did it!

[Psychotic]

Congratulations Pumpadour, that is a well deserved Ciddie for a truly lovely person.

Also big thumbs up to Award Dude for all his hard work. These were the most thematic Ciddies ever and it really worked! Good show.

[Night Fury]

It looks like we had quite a few first time winners this Ciddies!

Skyblade, Vermachtnis, harmonixer, Galuf, Mirage, CimminyCricket...

Unless our list is horribly wrong and you have all won in the past.

maybee too!

[Midgar Mist]

I'm just gonna post once in this thread i think. I havent seen every winner but....

I'm the third best flirt on this site....wasn't expecting that but....thanks I take it as a compliment. Carny really deserved that one because...after all...it is Carny we are talkiin' about. You also deserved Best Newbie mate. Midgar Mist is humble and gracious in defeat....I'm glad I got nominated though :-)

Congrats to Starlet and Mirage for Best Couple, i guess the big meet up is what did it for you guys :-D

Also, it is interesting how well you understand me Night Fury. A postmodern poet who has crushing self doubt and runs out of the forest in floods of tears because she's desperate for the Golden Pen. You have my number exactly :-)

Congrats to all who took part, got nominated and won :-)

EDIT: Now that I've looked at things better, I wanna congratulate Pumpkin on her Best Member win

[Night Fury]

Also, it is interesting how well you understand me Night Fury. A postmodern poet who has crushing self doubt and runs out of the forest in floods of tears because she's desperate for the Golden Pen. You have my number exactly :-)

Congrats to all who took part, got nominated and won :-)


Heh! :blush:

When I wrote the speech I really just rattled off a lot of the things we face as writers and randomly assigned them but it's cool you can relate! :p I think we all can! Just gotta keep going :D

[Mr. Carnelian]

So, I won Best Newbie?! Woo-hoo! :D Winning MLT Flirt with the lfeguard was good too, but after all, I did write the book on that.
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[Rantz]

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Wolf Kanno...........................1
Freya....................................2
Fynn.....................................3
Psychotic...............................3
Pumpkin...............................3
sharkythesharkdogg...............3

And the winner is...

RANTZO PANSA! with 11 points!

Thanks for this, though I absolutely think it's undeserved this time around, even more than the last time I got it. xD Hope it goes to someone more deserving next time!


Well done Pontus. I love you so freaking much and even though you're not here too often, please know that we love you and you're always the go to for help with lots of things.

You're still my Papa and I'm gonna make a promise to myself to talk to you a lot more my darling <3
Aww you're the best! I'm gonna hold you to that!! <3

[Formalhaut]

So, I won Best Newbie?! Woo-hoo! :D Winning MLT Flirt with the lfeguard was good too, but after all, I did write the book on that.
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That picture has a woman on it, it can't have been written by you!

[Galuf]

K. proper thanks.

except i forgot how just like i forgot the treasure :3

[Rocket Edge]

Congrats to all the winners. :bounce:

[Fynn]

I am really, really thankful for the Writer and Creative Ciddies, guys! Those are the two I wanted the most, and yet, at the same time, I don't really feel like I deserve them this time around as I've hit a creative block that I'm still fighting to get over.

Still, I hope this helps motivate me into doing stuff creatively again. Thank you guys so, so much, again!

[Scotty_ffgamer]

Ok, I'm here for the Ciddies.

[Quina]

Congratulations to all the dinners.

[Galuf]

Congratulations to all the dinners.


*bows before the God*

[Scotty_ffgamer]

So who was voted emperor of EoFF? Who was most likely to eat a sandwich? Who was the rum ham?

[Queen Award, First of Her Name]

Attention all Ciddie fanatics!

The Dude has an important announcement to make.

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The Dude has consulted with staff and, as it turns out, there has been a mix-up in the "MLT Win a Ciddie for the first time" category. As it turns out, our winner, maybee, had already won a Ciddie last year. Because of this, she isdisqualified from that category.

The prize thus goes to the first runner-up - Congratulation, pudgy bird! And apologies for the mix-up to you both.

[Quina]

Who was most likely to eat a sandwich?
:colbert:

[Shauna]

Sorry for the mix up maybee! But you still got a Ciddie this time round! And a big ol' congrats to pudgy bird for winning a Ciddie for the first time!

[Bubba]

Congrats pudgy bird! :D

[Galuf]

Congrats Plump Moomba

I mean Pudgy Bird.:)

[fat_moogle]

MY FIRST CIDDIE! Thanks to those that voted :) I don't feel that I deserve it to be honest because I didn't even vote myself, but thanks again, and congratulations to all the other winners!

[Shauna]

Just make sure you get voting next time, eh? x}

[fat_moogle]

Just make sure you get voting next time, eh? x}
I promise :)

[Pete for President]

Late to the party but thanks so much for the Ciddies guys! Never thought I'd get the best sig Ciddie and the artist Ciddie made my day! Congrats to all the winners and mad props to all the other artists in Relm's studio. Keep it up and I'm looking forward to seeing new works out there ;D

[Midgar Mist]

Who won Most Hardworking? I've just had a look now. I can't see it.....surely that was between Fynn and Pumpkin?

[Shauna]

This guy. :cool:

[Midgar Mist]

....................okay, i think I've cracked your code......