Twenty Years on The Bell Tree

[roseflower]

Happy birthday TBT, thank you and thank you staff and all members for being a great community for all past and upcoming years! <3

 

[Muna]

Happy 20th birthday TBT!!!
This place truly is something special

The Community Time Capsule is so sweet! I wish I'd been active at that time, but it was still heartwarming to look through the thread.
And I just love the idea of the bounties! Such a clever way to make the raffles more interesting.
Also Communist Bounty, what a cute name

 

[Nougat]

Well here I am tearing up to a letter I wrote to myself 5 years ago and had forgotten about.

Happy birthday TBT, thanks for everything!

 

[Coach]

Okkkkk 6x2!

 

[Nougat]

And now I'm also getting all emotional with the old forum layout!

 

[axaniao]

Unfortunately, I hadn't even joined the site for the last time capsule, but I will most definitely be participating in the new one! Happy birthday TBT ^_^

 

[Roxxy]

Happy 20th birthday The Bell Tree! Thank you Jeremy and staff team This place has got me through the hardest time in my life and honestly without the friends I have made here I don’t know how I would have coped.

Thank you to my dear friends, I am so grateful Here’s to the next 20!!

 

[Airysuit]

Happy birthday TBT!! thanks for everything, especially all the work staff put into all the events this year! I had an absolute blast and looking forward to all the other events to come

This looks like a cute little event, definitely need to take my time this weekend to read everything !

 

[Crash]

the 2010s theme made me unexpectedly emotional lmao. happy birthday tbt, can't believe i've been here almost ten years

 

[-Blue-]

I just got back from work, so I'm going to look through this more thoroughly when I have some time.

But, congrats on 20 years tbt! I joined in 2017 to get get some help with my NL town. Then life happened and I didn't return until 2020 with the launch of NH. I think I might've hopped by once or twice in 2018...but I missed the time capsule thing. It's cool you all can read back on what you posted.

Hope everyone enjoys the event and thanks staff for organizing another! You all have worked hard this year with all these various events.

 

[Liz!]

Happy 20th TBT
Thanks Jeremy and all the staff for their hard work.

 

[Giddy]

Oh whoa, I just put the 2010's fourm style on...and it's so teeny tiny!
It's so adorable~ My eyes are more adjusted to the original, but I can try it out this way for a bit

Either way, without further ado

(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ ~HAPPY BIRTHDAY TBT!!!!~ ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)

I wanted to say how grateful I am to have such a grand site dedicated to not just Animal Crossing, but being able to make threads and connect with others on other basis that I don't think we would've found each other without this site.
I feel like my time here in the past, has been very static; and no fault in not coming to this site 24/7, but it has made me feel good about the stuff I enjoy and express here on the site which I haven't really felt before.
I have so many branching hobbies, and experiences that I could never connect with people in real life because they didn't have that love for it, and I am happy there is a place that does make me feel better about the stuff I do, or have to say.

And i am also thankful for all the events and effort the staff put into, when I'm not doing creative stuff, the TBT can get me into line and dedicate myself to my arts and crafts once more~

Oh lord, I also don't remember what I wrote back then.
I was so worried I wrote something that would make me feel bad but honestly, I'm glad past me made me vague and uplifting.
I definitely feel more social here than ever before, it's always a nice outlet that I go to rather than any other social media.

Those 'shirt' stories and novels are definitely on the back grinder I wonder who put them there.. but my stories are definitely mentally getting there at least. XD Just organise and planning is needed.

Jobwise, I rather keep that in the past. I'm doing more opportunities that could be hopefully something, and after today out, I do feel better.

Welp, not Japan but past Giddy you did visit Poland with an amazing friend, and visited family in Mexico again!

I would be so intrugied to see what my profile pic and sig was like back then XD

 

[LambdaDelta]

The daily bonus resets and can be earned again after 22 hours has passed.

is this meant to be 24 hours, btw

 

[Wildtown]

Happy bday TBT! Wow.. I don't remember writing a post on the time capsule board at all

 

[Jeremy]

The Canvas Crossing Exhibit is now live! This new panel at the top of the forum's main page will rotate three community drawings of fellow TBTers every 30 minutes.

Also, the original post of this thread has been updated with a few more images.

 

[skarmoury]

is this meant to be 24 hours, btw

i think it's intentional? so you miss less hours in case you're not able to post right after the cooldown. if it was 24 hours, every minute you miss the 24 hour time it eats into the next day and it can add up for subsequent days (e.g. if the event was 4 days and each day you post 6 hours after the 24 hour cooldown, you miss an entire 24 hours). idk how to explain it properly lmao

 

[Dunquixote]

Ah that is so cute seeing the canvas crossing drawings! I really loved that activity so much. I hope there will be another one in the near future, maybe with a smaller event so I can do more drawings and not be burnt out as much .

 

[Alolan_Apples]

About the event archive, I’m ready to see all of these old mirrors, like in 2013 and 2014.

 

[LambdaDelta]

i think it's intentional? so you miss less hours in case you're not able to post right after the cooldown. if it was 24 hours, every minute you miss the 24 hour time it eats into the next day and it can add up for subsequent days (e.g. if the event was 4 days and each day you post 6 hours after the 24 hour cooldown, you miss an entire 24 hours). idk how to explain it properly lmao

ah, I was just thinking the countdown was irrespective of personal posting, but maybe not

 

[-Blue-]

Ah that is so cute seeing the canvas crossing drawings! I really loved that activity so much. I hope there will be another one in the near future, maybe with a smaller event so I can do more drawings and not be burnt out as much .

Yeah this was a cool surprise! I wasn't sure what the event meant by the canvas crossing thing, but this is a cool feature!

And since CC is getting relevance again, I'm going to post this here since the original thread locked before I had a chance to share it to the members who made me art and I never got around to drawing for them.

@Rosch @JemAC I think you two are the only ones that weren't notified when I posted this originally. I think since I @'d so many it muted all of the mentions. If you actually did see this, you can ignore this. I just wanted to do draw something for you all since you made art for me. And I was honored and touched that you did. Thank you!