Still moving, still advancing, swim on that story.

Mirage by me
OverlapHaters' Insane by dogeosu and me
Hard by me
Advanced by ErunamoJAZZ
Normal by TheShadowOfDark

HS by me

~~Saki~~ (rip) TtmnZk / Sparhten

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This is one of those maps with a long funny story that makes it very significant to me.

Around april last year I decided I would listen to all Kaf songs which would end up with me falling heads over heels for her and getting me to map many of her songs. This newfound motivation to map her songs was actually what got me into mapping seriously last year, starting with this in which I felt like I was suddenly REALLY good at mapping compared to before.

This single moment defined my mapping career. I wanted to map more Kaf songs, so I went with Swimmer, as it was one of my favorites so far. Here I decided "I'll try something slightly different here, maybe map a bit more similarly to dogeosu". Have any other of you mappers ever had an "era defining" map? Swimmer is one of those for me. The "new" ideas I used here are ideas I still use on all my maps to this day.

And so, this became one of my favorite maps ever. After I managed to get BNs for new world I decided to make a full set for Swimmer too. I learned how to make Hard diffs just for this set, and got a ton of help from a lot of people. It was ready around late december 2025, and so I went to try and find BNs for it.

That was definitely something. I used to keep a sheet for all BNs I requested: 47 requests. 44 Rejects. I went through almost half of all the BNs in the game for this map, and it was MISERABLE. At many moments I just wanted to give up on this map because apparently no one wanted to nominate it. But I didn't. I remember a rough day in february 2026 when I listened to this song and thought "I am not giving up on Swimmer. I love this song way too much to let it rot in graveyard after all the effort I put into it. I am not giving up."

So I didn't. Zero results for like a whole more month after that. Then finally one day, Saki took my map, and Sparhten as a 2nd shortly after. But this story doesn't end there, because then Saki got kicked a few weeks after. Thankfully I had my goat TtmnZk help me out so I didn't have to go through other 3 months of getting rejected by every BN in the game.

After some crazy stalls, and almost a whole year after I mapped it. Swimmer is getting ranked. This song and map mean a lot to me (this song can make me cry pretty easily). Like I said that one time with new world, I'm so glad I didn't give up. I love Kaf so much man.

KAF 4th Album: Fable

I plan to map all of these eventually and make a single map with all of the songs!

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