Today (at least in German time) on March 4th, 2018, I celebrate my 10th anniversary on dA.
With this story I want to take you on a trip to some key moments and look at single years and how things developed in all the time I've spent here.
A big thank you to everyone who takes time reading through this (probably boring) wall of text.
And also a big sorry to those who had hoped for a tickle or foot story by me.
I promise to fix that with the next story whatever it is going to be.
This time however, I felt like doing something to celebrate this milestone.
Enjoy and here's to the next 10 years!

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10 Years on dA - A special retrospective


A large building stands tall behind a wall and gate, with the looks of a school.
On a sign next to the entrance it says 'Pleasure's Peak Academy'.
As the gate opens and you walk towards the front door, it's unlocked by me, a man around 30 years of age, with very long dark brown hair, a beard and glasses.

"Ah, so you have already arrived. Please come in", I say as you enter the large building and steps aside so you can enter.
"Thank you very much for your interest in my story. I'm Blade, the owner of this academy. Welcome to Pleasure's Peak Academy, a place in which girls and women of all ages can live out their kinky fantasies", I explain and smile as you step into the main hall which looks like a regular school or university of some sort.

"As I recall you wanted to visit me for my 10th anniversary on Deviantart, where my 'career' as a writer of fetish fiction started. Well I'll gladly tell you about it, but just talking could be a little boring I guess, so I've prepared a little 'interactive' tour around this academy. I figured it could be a bit more fun. While on the way to the first stop, I'll start with a few basic things", I explain while leading you along the lower floors of the academy.

"After roaming the net and several foot and tickle fetish related websites and forums for a few years, I found Deviantart. Initially, I only registered to be able to look at the art I couldn't find anywhere else, but over time I felt that just lurking wasn't a good thing to do and decided to give a little something back to the community. So going by my love for writing, I started writing mostly tickle fiction. There was a few obstacles to take though. My english at that time was good already I dare say, but far from great either and while I had written several short stories, I had no idea about good fetish writing, pacing and writing techniques. Needless to say, my first stories were short, had no real build up to the action and too much laughter in them. My goal however was to keep improving over time", my explanation continues while stopping at what looks like a classroom from which laughter can be heard.

"This is our first little stop. In this room, we'll find the first two people I've ever written about. After being a lurker on deviantart for about 3 months after joining, I uploaded my first story on June 14, 2008 followed by the second one on July 3, 2008, which despite being very short were cut into two parts. The poor victims in these stories are both from the game Final Fantasy 8, a game I've loved for years and still do", I tell you as I open the door for you to see a normal classroom, with Rinoa Heartilly and Selphie Tilmitt being strapped down on desks that have been rearranged to have them lay next to each other, their wrists and ankles held down by other Final Fantasy girls as more girls tickle their armpits, bellies and feet. Their loud laughter roar through the room as they squeal loudly and squirm a lot on the desks.

"All these girls here from the Final Fantasy franchise have actually formed their own group that regularly meet up to tickle the hell out of each other. For this special occasion however Rinoa and Selphie were strapped down and tickled. Later on I heard they will tie down FF7's Tifa Lockhart who featured in my first story of 2009 as part of an art trade with my long time buddy AJ after ending the year 2008 with a story I've written for FireFox, who has become quite a legend in foot and tickle related artwork over the years. At that time I just wanted to leave my mark on the community, leave something behind for years to come and thought that if just one person likes my stories it would be worth it. Till this day, my first story about Selphie was read a bit over 40,000 times, which is a lot more than I ever expected. Last year I even reached 100,000 page views. It's amazing how things have developed and I'm really thankful for it", I explain while letting you enjoy the sight of the two pretty girls being tickled out of their minds for everyone's enjoyment, including their own.

Remaining silent for a while to let you gaze upon the surely fun scene, I slowly close the door again. Grinning a bit, I look at you. "I'm sure you would have loved to see more, but we still have a bit of a way ahead of us, so you'll get to see a bit of action still".
Leading you along to the next room, also a classroom, I keep telling you about my story.
"Early 2009 marked the beginning of my short-lived Ninjaz series. I wasn't the best with keeping up my own ambitions. I wanted to make it big, but in total it ended up with 4 stories or so, side stories included. The series however was important as it brought most of my OC's literally to live", I say and open the door to the second classroom, which only has two girls inside. One is Sakura, wearing a cute pink kimono with a flower print and the other being Risa wearing her blue kimono. They have discarded their socks and sandals and both girls' kimonos look messy and loose as they roll around on the floor and tickle each other.

Laughing happily and not evening noticing someone entered, they keep going with Risa digging her fingers into Sakura's sides and ribs as she kneels over her friend. With her hands on the floor on either side of the black-haired girl, Sakura scribbles her long nails along Risa's heels and arches as they are nearby.
"A perfect transition on our way through 2009. While Risa and Sakura appeared in the Ninjaz series, both had appearances in mid-2009 when Ninjaz ended, but a big project started that I managed to keep up for long, called the WTF, Women's Ticklefight Federation. It was a series of wrestling style stories involving several characters of friends and other fellow dA members starring in tickle fights. It was also the 'birth' of Cynthia Storms, a sexy gothic girl I've made up exclusively for the WTF. It wasn't until 2012 that I've made her part of my official roster of characters"
The two girls cackle, snicker and even scream with laughter as they tickle each other in an attempt to make the other submit.
"It's always fun to watch these two in a tickle fight, even though the winner is always the same...", I state and grin as Risa loves being tickled while Sakura can't take it.

As the fight ends, I leave the room with you to continue the path.
"With a busy 2009 ending in which I posted a lot, not just stories, but also pictures and revealing my face to the public even, 2010 started with a birthday gift to my friend Annie, who not long after vanished from dA, but luckily returned and is still around even till this day. One could say I watched her grow up and she's like a sister to me. In general it was a year of gifts and requests from and for friends that have been around for a while. Despite me being very busy and not having the time to talk to all of them, I still consider them friends to this day. Apart from that, my english skills and writing skills improved a bit. My writing style changed a little and I felt happier with my works and I had the feeling my readers were too".

Taking you along the halls I continue the conversation with you and move on to the next part.
"2011 was probably just like 2010. Lots of requests, art trades and other things, yet there was two highlights in particular I'd like to point out. One of them was a story called 'Rose Blade Project'. It was the first time I worked together with another writer to create a story together, which split at some point and had two endings, one ending up on my gallery, the other on my partner's so that both have the same chance for their part to be read", I start explaining as we stop at a room that says 'Music Room'.

"My second highlight of 2011 leads to this", I then add and open the door to reveal an interesting scene to you. There is instruments and everything else needed for a normal music room, but the main attraction is right in front of you. Holding a whip in her right hand you can see Vocaloid Luka Megurine sat on a desk, wearing her usual black and gold outfit, just with her stockings and boots off and her legs crossed. Kneeling in front of her are her fellow Vocaloids Miku Hatsune and Rin Kagamine, who passionately lick Luka's feet and suck on her pretty, light blue polished toes.
"Even though Miku and Rin weren't directly in the story, this scene you see represents my story 'Luckiest Fan Ever'. It's a story that is very special to me in many ways. It was by far the longest story I had ever written until then, with a long build up. I think it in some way stands for how I switched from just getting to the fun part as quickly as possible to making my stories more interesting and more pretty to read. To this day, with a total of 229, it is my most faved story. I was delighted with how well received it was, thus making me very proud of it. It's probably the best I've ever written thinking about it", I said while Luka threatens her two friends to lash their cute soles if they don't do better, showing the dominance she did in the first part of the original story, making Rin and Miku squeak and lick and suck all the more intense as a result.

Under the sounds of Luka's happy moans and the mouth noises the other two made while treating her feet, we leave the room and continue our way through the school.
"2012 started with something new as I posted my first story involving a boy being tickled. It happened a few times afterwards, but as they are my actual interest I focus on writing about girls. At that time, I was far from today's standard, but still I was already evolving and slowly improving as a writer. To me it's a constant process that never really ends. Nobody is perfect and there is always room to get better. At that time, there was a looooot of room for that left to fill".

As we walk, we see a beautiful, blonde teen girl with twin-tails wearing a cheerleader outfit, sat on a bench a bit of a distance away.
"Fits perfectly. In 2012 I took part in the writing contest of a foot fetish group which, as I recall, was about including oneself in a franchise and writing a foot fetish related story about it. Mine was about this girl over there. Juliet Starling who was the main protagonist in a game called Lollipop Chainsaw. Fun game and fun girl. It's always nice to have her around here. My story ended up 2nd in the contest, but I had to tone it down before entering as the innuendo and lewdness of the original material was a bit too much for the groups topic of clean fetish material. I posted both the normal and edited version. It was the first and so far only time I censored  one of my stories. It's one of those I still love to read every now and then and one of my personal favorites".

"Heya Blade!", Juliet shouts and waves as she looks over and spots us, interrupting my speech.
"Hey Juliet, how are you doing?", I ask her as she talks to me.
"I'm fine! I could use a foot rub and some loving sole licks and toe sucking though. Got time later on~?", she asks playfully.
"I sure do. I'll give you a ring and we'll meet up when I'm ready", I reply to which the teen girl nods.

"Sorry, where was I? Oh yeah in 2012 I also posted a Tournament Tree for  a tickle tournament. That was in April, but with me getting more busy and having a few other stories to do, the tournament didn't start before January 2013. Which takes me to exactly that year.
While being mostly about the tournament, which saw it's end in late 2014 though due to several life and work related things, there was a few other events that made this year an interesting one for me".

Turning left, we are close to the quarters.
"In mid-2013 I took part in a writing contest held by illionore, who is a long time artist now known as Flek-Lola, who blessed the community with unique and rather odd, yet fun characters and created a whole universe if you will. It had to be a story that had to do with characters making me write 'Amanda's Lucky Day', a story about foot fetishist Amanda meeting my cute OC Risa and ending up being allowed to play with her feet. I did my best with it and in the end I've actually won the contest, which made me very proud", I explain with a sparkle in my eyes as the sound of loud moans echoes through the halls from one of the rooms, which are like small apartments to live in.

Moving towards the source of the moans, I continue talking.
"The same year I did an art trade with a friend who enjoyed the whole thing with 'headless' characters and asked for me to write a story about it. While not my thing, I wrote a foot and tickle story revolving around it. 3 years after posting the story I got a message that someone made fun of the story on youtube. Ironically posted on the exact day of my 8th dA anniversary it was a video about two guys reading this exact story and pointed out mistakes and stupid moments in a funny way. Some would probably have been annoyed about it, but I had a good laugh about it and even let the guys know so. After all... Not everybody can say about themselves that they had one of their tickle stories thoroughly reviewed and so wonderfully ripped apart in a 52 minute long Youtube video", I say with a laugh as we reach a room that is slightly open.

"This will conclude the look back at 2013", I say and gently push the door further open for you to see two beautiful teen girls, one with long, blonde hair who is laying on her bed with her perfect size 7.5 feet hanging over the edge of the bed and her blue-haired friend kneeling in front of the bed and dragging her soft and warm tongue all over her friend's smooth, pink soles and dainty toes.
"Kirino Kousaka and Ayase Aragaki. These two pretty models starred in an anime most commonly known as Oreimo. I wrote a story about Ayase living out her foot fetish with Kirino and getting caught. As you can see, it's based on real events hehe", I jokingly say as we watch Kirino gently wriggle and arch her back from the sensations of Ayase's soft tongue lapping away at her tender feet.

Watching on as the two of them enjoy themselves greatly, we continue our walk to the backyard where a bunch of different sport are currently being played. Basketball, volleyball, table tennis and also beach soccer.
"2014 was a mixed year for me. While it had some great events like the grand opening of Pleasure's Peak Academy together with my friend Bad-Remedy who I hope will return someday to run this place with me again, it was also when my decline in activity started. As things got a lot more busy for me, it took me months to write something new", I explain as we watch a group of girls, one half in blue, the other in black jerseys, play beach soccer in the designated area.

"Which is also why we are almost at the end of the tour. In 2014 I started an ambitious and also so far my last big project, the Beach Soccer Project. A tournament in which 8 teams competed to find out who the best Beach Soccer team is. With great help by my buddy Fulltimebaka, who designed the jerseys and helped with inviting the girls to their teams, it was a fun project, but admittedly had it's potential killed by how long it took me to write each part. One might think I decided to stop doing such projects due to lack of responses, but that's not it. Projects like this are fun, but they are a lot of work and do best if parts are posted in regular and quick succession. Taking months to post a part slows everything down and takes away a lot of momentum. Being very busy still, but trying to post more again in the future, it's best to focus on one shot stories rather than something bigger", I tell you as we watch the girls play, sometimes interrupted by the goalkeeper getting tickled and switched whenever a goal is scored against them.

"I mean... You can have the best idea in the world, but if it takes exactly 1 year and 7 months to post 6 story parts, the interest flattens quickly. The final story of the Beach Soccer Tournament was also the only story I posted in all of 2016. It wasn't until almost a year later when I made my return by writing a short story for a project Fulltimebaka had", I say as we slowly walk around the campus and back to the front gates.
"There still are too many things keeping me busy in life, but after posting my first regular sized story last December, I hope that I'll be able to get more writing done and from the looks of it, material for it just appears... The future is here one could say...", I add as I point to a large group of girls behind you who walk towards the Academy.


This marks the end of our trip. I'm sorry if there wasn't too much action, but in the next story there will be. Thank you for your interest and thank you to everyone who took the time to take this trip down memory lane with me. Some of you have been on this path with me for a long time, some not so long but I'm thankful for everyone I've gotten to meet and talk to over the years. While I'm not around as much to talk anymore, you're still very important to me and a huge part of these past 10 years on dA.
There was a lot of ups and downs throughout the years, but we all made it through.
When I started writing on here, all I wanted was to give something back to the community.
I never cared about how many views or favs I had on my stories.
As long as I could make at least one person happy or could entertain them with my work, I was satisfied.

I thought that if I got 200 views on a story it would be a great achievement already.
Looking at a bunch of my stories now, I have a 5-digit number of views on them.
Last year I even passed 100,000 pageviews.
It's insane how far I've gotten in all this time.
I never expected this and that makes me proud.
Once again I wanna thank everyone who has supported me in the past 10 years and hopefully in the years to come.
I greatly appreciate it and aim to get better still so my works will be more enjoyable.

But now, I've bored all of you enough.
It's time to get off my lazy ass and get to work on some actual content!
Till then, have a wonderful time my friends!