Congratulations to new staff! Promotions and Retirements

[Tess]

Thank you to all of those who applied to join our mod teams! We were blown away by the number of amazing people who volunteered to help support the site, and although we'd love to take you all we only had space for a few awesome people

If you missed out this time, keep being awesome, and we wish you better luck next time round!

Without further ado, our new team members are:

GLOBAL MODERATORS
Raire
Seasonal <3
Simon
You may recognise Simon and Seasonal <3 as they have just been promoted from the General Helpers team

ROLEPLAY MODERATORS
John Murphy
solitudinarian

OTHER STAFF CHANGES
Lacuna is being promoted to Admin Assistant this month! Lacuna demonstrated excellent leadership abilities and dedication in both her past roles as a Roleplay Moderator and a Global Moderator, so we know she'll do well in her new role. Well done Lacuna!

Jack is hanging up his Oekaki Mod hat so he can move into the Global Moderators team this month! Congrats Jack

Metallic Dragon and Drizzle both re-joined the Global Mod team a few months ago, after each taking a brief retirement. We're a little late on the welcome-back party, but aren't we happy to see them back where they belong

Sadly we do have one retirement to announce this month too.
PitchBlack first joined the oekaki mod team way back in 2011! It's always tough to farewell long-term staff, but after all those years of service PitchBlack has earned a decent break and we wish her all the best

Let's offer our congratulations to the successful new team members, to those who got promoted, and wish our retiring staff all the best for the future!

[Dogian]

Congratulation!

[elizabethhher]

congrats to all the new staff!!

[imp.]

Congrats guys <3

[Shinryu]

SIMON MY BOY I'M SO PROUD OF YOU
I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT <33333
Ahhh I'm so excited, this is the best thing!
You're such an incredibly hard worker, you deserve the promotion every bit, friend <3

And the same goes to Sea <3 Gosh I'm having an irregular heartbeat right now because of how exciting this is for me. You guys make me so proud, I hope you'll still hang out with us <3

AND RAIRE I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW YOU APPLIED YOU BUTT CONGRATS
I'm sitting here screaming internally because this is the best thing ever, I couldn't be more happy for you guys
I love all three of you ok

Congrats to everyone else as well! Ahhh. I don't know Liddi and Jack as well as my salmon friends up there, but I've seen enough of both of you to know you deserve your new positions. Congratulations!

[*JACKAL*]

Congrats all! Sad to see you retire Pitch.

[Aaron✦]

Huuuge congratulations to everyone, I'm so excited for everyone on this list!! You're all going to do so well! 8D

[Sinbreaker]

Congrats everyone!

[nickjr]

-SQUEALS- Congrats, you guys! So happy to see the new faces and... upgraded faces? on the staff team <3

Best wishes, PitchBlack! </3

[Jayfrost]

congrats to all the new staff and the existing staff on their promotions!

raaaaaire!! :0 ♡ congrats friend!!