I didn't get my first mech until just last year, and subbed up on r/mk over the summer. I'd pop in once in a while to check out the pretty keyboards, and I'd lust over k95's and wonder if I would ever have such an amazing keyboard. I had an opportunity to trade for a pok3r with no case, and made my own. People liked it, so I started selling them on r/mm, which obviously meant I started being a lot more active in the community. I kept seeing pictures of some awesome keyboards with these amazing fruit keycaps, and wanted to know how I could get some. At the time, I assumed that they were some kind of artisan cap that had been around for a while, and I was just discovering them now. Then I found out about the upcoming sale for snackeys. I was pumped. I needed to have some. I didn't get any
. Fortunately, linkshine got in for a fruit basket, and very kindly split it up with a few people. I got a snozz and a kiwi, and they were (still are) amazing.
A little while later, I saw the preview for Furt, and that stirred something in me. They were creepy and cute, and unlike any other artisan out there. I was eagerly awaiting a sale for them. Then, one morning at work, I happened to glance at mechmarket the moment that kudos posted the "goodbye to furt" sale, and I panicked (I had missed a small sale of snackeys a few days before, and I had been on full alert for KK stuff since then). I was probably within the first 2 or 3 people to submit their entry for the Furt sale, and waited a few long days for the results. With hundreds of entries, and a handful of Furts, I wasn't hopeful... and my spirits dwindled as more and more people started announcing they received their invoices. But then I got it. The PM from Kudos asking if I wanted to adopt a Furt. I was overjoyed! When I got it, it was the most beautiful cap I'd ever seen, and it began a slight obsession...
In the subsequent months, I've become great friends with so many awesome people, and continued to diligently work on my own craft. I feel like KK caps have been fuel on my fire, and have inspired me to continue to innovate and contribute to the community.
Kudos and Koala, I love you guys, and I look forward to many more years together in this weird little hobby of ours!