I'm sorry I haven't been on ^^"

babyoda1546 wrote:

I'm sorry I haven't been on ^^"

That’s alright, you’re here now <3

hey guysss I'm so sorry for crashing the forum dsklfjfdks I know how annoying it can be :sob: butttt I just wanted to say that the polar bears this session are Alana, Amethyst, Ris, and CJ <3
also, linden, sun, and moonlit are gHosts if you want some more to add to your list :>

okay I will disappear now ty for putting up with me :zany:

-BookDragon- wrote:

hey guysss I'm so sorry for crashing the forum dsklfjfdks I know how annoying it can be :sob: butttt I just wanted to say that the polar bears this session are Alana, Amethyst, Ris, and CJ <3
also, linden, sun, and moonlit are gHosts if you want some more to add to your list :>

okay I will disappear now ty for putting up with me :zany:

This is so helpful Mouse! And don’t worry about it’s <3

FireBlood23 wrote:

UPDATE TWO

FireBlood23 wrote:

Hi Alana. We've got a small group who's currently in the process of making a (unofficial) SWC interview program. We were wondering if you would like to be our first guest? It wouldn't involve much, just answering a few questions (that you're comfortable with answering) and talking a little bit about your role in SWC. Please let me know if you're interested, we would love to hear from you <33

Hi Livy! Ooh that sounds really ineresting! I'd definitely be up for being apart of it :D Would you be able to give me a few more details about the logistics of how this is going to work? I'd love to know more <33

Of course <3 So it's called Keeping Up With The SWCers and we'd invite you to an interview Forum to answer the questions. There'd be a variety of questions and you don't have to answer any you're not comfortable with. All the questions would come from fellow SWCer's who don't know who's being interviewed. (Aside from this interview, the first one, where most of the questions come from our team as we haven't sent out a poll yet) You'd also give a foreword, saying how you feel about being here, or giving any extra information you want the community to know.
Once we're finished with the interview it will be posted as a project, so that SWC can hear your answers to their questions. We thought it would open up a nice level of communication around the community. <33

Woahhh that sounds really cool :D I love the idea of bringing more transparency as to what actually happens behind the scenes <3 Only question I have is when you're planning to do this ^^

We'll interview you sometime this week and then the interview will be released the Friday (24) after Leader App results come out <33. Then the first poll will come out on the Monday (27) after. :D

Ooh ok! I'm actually amidst exam season right now and my app is quite far behind, unfortunately. But, I'll try to get my answers to you asap! (just wanted to let you know this beforehand in case you wanted to go with someone else – but I'd still be more than happy to do it :D)


Thank you so much! We’ll send you the questions soon. (Also thats okay, so long as you can finish the answers by the end of the week <3)



Do we want to open a new forum specifically for interviews or shall we just invite them to this forum?

FireBlood23 wrote:

Do we want to open a new forum specifically for interviews or shall we just invite them to this forum?

I think it would work better to have a separate forum for interviews, so that we could keep discussing other planning and stuff here without interrupting the interviews.

KitVMH wrote:

FireBlood23 wrote:

Do we want to open a new forum specifically for interviews or shall we just invite them to this forum?

I think it would work better to have a separate forum for interviews, so that we could keep discussing other planning and stuff here without interrupting the interviews.

Okay! I'll make a new one now <3

FireBlood23 wrote:

KitVMH wrote:

FireBlood23 wrote:

Do we want to open a new forum specifically for interviews or shall we just invite them to this forum?

I think it would work better to have a separate forum for interviews, so that we could keep discussing other planning and stuff here without interrupting the interviews.

Okay! I'll make a new one now <3

Alright I've made one - https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/799961/?page=1#post-8333520 <3

FireBlood23 wrote:

FireBlood23 wrote:

UPDATE FOUR

FireBlood23 wrote:

Hi Alana. We've got a small group who's currently in the process of making a (unofficial) SWC interview program. We were wondering if you would like to be our first guest? It wouldn't involve much, just answering a few questions (that you're comfortable with answering) and talking a little bit about your role in SWC. Please let me know if you're interested, we would love to hear from you <33

Hi Livy! Ooh that sounds really ineresting! I'd definitely be up for being apart of it :D Would you be able to give me a few more details about the logistics of how this is going to work? I'd love to know more <33

Of course <3 So it's called Keeping Up With The SWCers and we'd invite you to an interview Forum to answer the questions. There'd be a variety of questions and you don't have to answer any you're not comfortable with. All the questions would come from fellow SWCer's who don't know who's being interviewed. (Aside from this interview, the first one, where most of the questions come from our team as we haven't sent out a poll yet) You'd also give a foreword, saying how you feel about being here, or giving any extra information you want the community to know.
Once we're finished with the interview it will be posted as a project, so that SWC can hear your answers to their questions. We thought it would open up a nice level of communication around the community. <33

Woahhh that sounds really cool :D I love the idea of bringing more transparency as to what actually happens behind the scenes <3 Only question I have is when you're planning to do this ^^

We'll interview you sometime this week and then the interview will be released the Friday (24) after Leader App results come out <33. Then the first poll will come out on the Monday (27) after. :D

Ooh ok! I'm actually amidst exam season right now and my app is quite far behind, unfortunately. But, I'll try to get my answers to you asap! (just wanted to let you know this beforehand in case you wanted to go with someone else – but I'd still be more than happy to do it :D)


Thank you so much! We’ll send you the questions soon. (Also thats okay, so long as you can finish the answers by the end of the week <3)

Here's the link to the interview forum <33 - https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/799961/?page=1#post-8333520

We've just got to wait for here to hop on the other forum and give her foreword and then we can post the questions to her! <3

FireBlood23 wrote:

FireBlood23 wrote:

FireBlood23 wrote:

UPDATE FOUR

FireBlood23 wrote:

Hi Alana. We've got a small group who's currently in the process of making a (unofficial) SWC interview program. We were wondering if you would like to be our first guest? It wouldn't involve much, just answering a few questions (that you're comfortable with answering) and talking a little bit about your role in SWC. Please let me know if you're interested, we would love to hear from you <33

Hi Livy! Ooh that sounds really ineresting! I'd definitely be up for being apart of it :D Would you be able to give me a few more details about the logistics of how this is going to work? I'd love to know more <33

Of course <3 So it's called Keeping Up With The SWCers and we'd invite you to an interview Forum to answer the questions. There'd be a variety of questions and you don't have to answer any you're not comfortable with. All the questions would come from fellow SWCer's who don't know who's being interviewed. (Aside from this interview, the first one, where most of the questions come from our team as we haven't sent out a poll yet) You'd also give a foreword, saying how you feel about being here, or giving any extra information you want the community to know.
Once we're finished with the interview it will be posted as a project, so that SWC can hear your answers to their questions. We thought it would open up a nice level of communication around the community. <33

Woahhh that sounds really cool :D I love the idea of bringing more transparency as to what actually happens behind the scenes <3 Only question I have is when you're planning to do this ^^

We'll interview you sometime this week and then the interview will be released the Friday (24) after Leader App results come out <33. Then the first poll will come out on the Monday (27) after. :D

Ooh ok! I'm actually amidst exam season right now and my app is quite far behind, unfortunately. But, I'll try to get my answers to you asap! (just wanted to let you know this beforehand in case you wanted to go with someone else – but I'd still be more than happy to do it :D)


Thank you so much! We’ll send you the questions soon. (Also thats okay, so long as you can finish the answers by the end of the week <3)

Here's the link to the interview forum <33 - https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/799961/?page=1#post-8333520

Yayyy thank you so much, Livy!

She's responded on the interview forum so I'm going to start with the questions! <3

Current Interview -

Hi Alana! Welcome to the interview and thank you for being here with us! <3

Before we ask the questions for you to answer would you like to say anything to the community that will be seeing this interview?

Well I'd like to start of by thanking you all for welcoming me to this community when I decided to join back in November 2022. I've come a long way since then, but I can't even begin to imagine what my life would be like without SWC. It's what keeps me going everday and I absolutely love all the amazing friendships I've been able to make over the years! So yes, I'm incredibly excited to be giving an interview today to share my SWC experience and hopefully inspire some others along the way <3
(Lana's foreword)

We're just as excited to have you here! I imagine a lot of our SWC journey's would not have been the same without you, so thank you for that!

Moving on to the questions, we've prepared 16 of them, most given by our team but a few given by the community!
We'll be giving you 4 questions at a time, and if you're comfortable with it, we'll also ask a few follow up questions. Feel free to deny any question you're not comfortable with answering, and now, without further ado here are your first four questions!



How'd you find SWC?

What's been your favourite cabin you've lead?

What is one of your Favourite SWC memories?

How many sessions have you been in?

We're just waiting for her response at the moment <3

What follow up questions do you want to ask her about this (I'm kinda at a loss, she's so thorough xD) -

1. How'd you find SWC
I think I was going through the front page after just joining Scratch and honestly just looking through the site. One of the projects under the front page curators tab was made by an SWC-er. Intrigued to see their other projects, I went to their profile and saw a lot of SWC-related things. From cabin projects, to a whole studio - this was all so new to me and that's when I began actually looking into SWC. I found myself in the Main Cabin soon thereafter, and from there I went to camper signups!

I believe it was around Nov 6th so I decided to signup as a backup and give it a try. I didn't really know many people who were apart of the community, but it looked so fun from afar, and I wanted to see how it'd feel! I honestly don't regret a thing – Naan-Fi was the best way for me to start my SWC journey and I'm so lucky to have made so many friendships in that cabin <3 I feel like Birdi, Daisy, and Sophie inspired me to apply for leader the following session because the whole cabin was just so magical, and I wanted to give others the same experience I had ;D

2. What's been your favourite cabin you've lead?
Ahh this is honestly so hard because I tend to pre-plan cabins so each one is like bringing one of those ideas to life and there's really no way to describe the feeling of seeing what you've dreamed of as a physical thing <33 Right now it's kind of a tie between Trapped in a Fairytale (March ‘24) and The Boba Tavern (Nov ’24), with Bi-Fi Minion Mania being a close second. I worked with absolutely amazing people during both of these sessions (as well as all my other ones!) and there was just something almost iconic about these cabins that make me feel so happy.

Fairytales was honestly an experience like no other- it was actually supposed to be the theme of my SWC Leader App the session I got to lead Myth so yeah, the idea was definitely in my head for a while XD One thing different about Fairytales as opposed to a lot of my other cabins was that this was the first “storyline intensive” cabin I was leading. I had doubts of even putting it down as a preference because I didn't want it to fall short of everything that I had imagined it to be. From the Archetypes, to the goats, to all the different realms, I loved planning this cabin with Amethyst and Sienna and it will always have a place in my heart <3

Coming to The Boba Tavern this past session; although I was not as active this time around, the theme was really whimsical and I loved designing the aesthetic with Clev and CJ! Above all, the boba pals were so cute ahhh and I feel like I loved the cabin environment and all my campers so much. Cabin wars was absolutely crazy when we finished about 16 wars during the second one XD In general, I feel like we were also so close and bonded in more ways then one, and for those reasons, I absolutely loved this cabin!

3. What is one of your Favourite SWC memories?
Again- how do I even begin to choose ahhh. You guys are making this really hard. I think I'll narrow it down to two - one of them being during Fairytales cabin planning and another being the second cabin wars when I was in Bi-Fi. Starting with Fairytales, I remember that I was busy with exams and Sienna and Amethyst were designing some things on the Canva. I told them that I'd be on and off between tabs - they had a lot of fun and goofed off (honestly our late night Canva designing was iconic, which is why we ended up creating that memory book ;D) and then they started talking about lore stuff! They wanted my thoughts and in order to summon me, they created this summoning thumbnail board thing which I still laugh at since Amethyst occasionally uses it when we're doing Polar Bear planning and stuff <3 Honestly the whole planning of the cabin was such a vibe and logging on each day to plot what was to happen next was so fun and memorable!

Onto Bi-Fi cabin wars! I typically love warring a lot of cabins during cabin wars, which is why I was so disappointed when I initially thought that we were leaving for a trip on the day of cabin wars. We were actually leaving the day after, which was just perfect! In the midst of packing I would take a break to write words towards my cabin total and then I'd also just use that time to send wars when shields were down! I think I ended sending about 25 wars during those cabin wars and I honestly just loved all the chaos <3 Definitely something I'd love to do again ;D

4. How many sessions have you been in?
I've participated in a total of 7 sessions! This coming one in March 2025 will be my 8th – these are the cabins I've been in in the past: Naan-Fi Breadhouse (Nov ‘22), Non-Fi Fossil Dig (March ’23), Myth: War Between Two (July ‘23), Script Misfits (Nov ’23), Trapped in a Fairytale (March ‘24), Bi-Fi Minion Mania (July ’24), and Magical Realism: The Boba Tavern (Nov '24).

Questions asked -

How'd you find SWC?
What's your favourite part of SWC?
With so many amazing applications, what's your process like for deciding who will be leading SWC for the next session?
What advice do you have for anyone who wants to go for leader, but isn't sure?
What is the camper sorting process like?
What, in particular, about the results makes them so hard to get out?

What's been your favourite cabin you've lead?
What motivates you to write?
What's your favourite book?
How did you choose your nickname?

What is one of your Favourite SWC memories?
What’s your favourite beverage?

How many sessions have you been in?
How crazy are you?
How much arson have you committed?
What's your favourite fruit?

Oooh I think those answers a great so far from my perspective - I have no follow-up questions to ask!

Milkysplash wrote:

Oooh I think those answers a great so far from my perspective - I have no follow-up questions to ask!

Okay, I’ll go ahead and ask the next round of questions

Hey guys. I’ve realised that I have a camp over the 24 (when we’re releasing the interview) and next to no internet access till the 27-28 - Monday/tuesday. So depending on who’s releasing the interview (although I was thinking we could do something like mangoes and mayhem where we make a joined about for it?). I won’t be able to be online. And it’s highly unlikely I’ll be able to be around for the poll as well.
Just wanted to let you guys know, so we could sort something out <3

FireBlood23 wrote:

Hey guys. I’ve realised that I have a camp over the 24 (when we’re releasing the interview) and next to no internet access till the 27-28 - Monday/tuesday. So depending on who’s releasing the interview (although I was thinking we could do something like mangoes and mayhem where we make a joined about for it?). I won’t be able to be online. And it’s highly unlikely I’ll be able to be around for the poll as well.
Just wanted to let you guys know, so we could sort something out <3

I’d be happy to post it in your place!

Milkysplash wrote:

FireBlood23 wrote:

Hey guys. I’ve realised that I have a camp over the 24 (when we’re releasing the interview) and next to no internet access till the 27-28 - Monday/tuesday. So depending on who’s releasing the interview (although I was thinking we could do something like mangoes and mayhem where we make a joined about for it?). I won’t be able to be online. And it’s highly unlikely I’ll be able to be around for the poll as well.
Just wanted to let you guys know, so we could sort something out <3

I’d be happy to post it in your place!

Ahhh thank you so much!

Just a question though, what would you guys feel about doing something like Mangoes and Mayhem, where we have a joined account where we post the pillas and interviews? It would save having to decide who’s posting each episode? - only a suggestion though! Let me know you thoughts <3

FireBlood23 wrote:

Milkysplash wrote:

FireBlood23 wrote:

Hey guys. I’ve realised that I have a camp over the 24 (when we’re releasing the interview) and next to no internet access till the 27-28 - Monday/tuesday. So depending on who’s releasing the interview (although I was thinking we could do something like mangoes and mayhem where we make a joined about for it?). I won’t be able to be online. And it’s highly unlikely I’ll be able to be around for the poll as well.
Just wanted to let you guys know, so we could sort something out <3

I’d be happy to post it in your place!

Ahhh thank you so much!

Just a question though, what would you guys feel about doing something like Mangoes and Mayhem, where we have a joined account where we post the pillas and interviews? It would save having to decide who’s posting each episode? - only a suggestion though! Let me know you thoughts <3

Scratch doesn’t allow joint accounts unless it’s between siblings - and possibly irl friends, however I’m not too sure on that - since your email address is visible in account settings so it would have to be one person only, sadly In the past, people have been banned for sharing an account

Milkysplash wrote:

FireBlood23 wrote:

Milkysplash wrote:

FireBlood23 wrote:

Hey guys. I’ve realised that I have a camp over the 24 (when we’re releasing the interview) and next to no internet access till the 27-28 - Monday/tuesday. So depending on who’s releasing the interview (although I was thinking we could do something like mangoes and mayhem where we make a joined about for it?). I won’t be able to be online. And it’s highly unlikely I’ll be able to be around for the poll as well.
Just wanted to let you guys know, so we could sort something out <3

I’d be happy to post it in your place!

Ahhh thank you so much!

Just a question though, what would you guys feel about doing something like Mangoes and Mayhem, where we have a joined account where we post the pillas and interviews? It would save having to decide who’s posting each episode? - only a suggestion though! Let me know you thoughts <3

Scratch doesn’t allow joint accounts unless it’s between siblings - and possibly irl friends, however I’m not too sure on that - since your email address is visible in account settings so it would have to be one person only, sadly In the past, people have been banned for sharing an account

Okay no problem! So you’ll share the first interview and you or kit would share the first poll.
Also does one of you want to run the next interview?
And we’ll need to figure out what we want to project description to say as a group?
Aside from that I think we’re pretty organised.