A little bit of rambling nostalgia - Follows forum story
Mar 8, 2017 16:55:41 GMT -5
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Post by »𝐹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌 on Mar 8, 2017 16:55:41 GMT -5
Hey, I've not posted here for months now. Life rushes ahead and I forget about that internet forum I spent a good 3 years of my life properly addicted too! I just wanted to reminisce a little about some of the rp's and friends/mates I've had on here, read on maybe you'll recognize some of the people or were you part of the same RP?
Ii first joined in September 2010 at the age of 13 (old enough to join without parental consent (; ) I'd been reading warriors for about a year and I was hooked, I would devour these books I got them from the library and finished them within a day! I got so excited when one I ordered finally came in and I could collect it. I would be moody when I couldn't read my book and had to do something productive like schoolwork or going outside, I used to fantasize about the warriors world invent myself as a character and in my head I would interact with Firestar and Greystripe, be a hero. I'm still the same as that now in some ways, except I get a LOT less time to read ^^'
When I discovered the forums it blew my mind, I joined straight away, I didn't even take a moment to look around at how things worked or stalk a little, nope. I just jumped straight in and landed myself with the oddest username (You know, before non warrior usernames were cool) follow>ur>hart, I faceplant now to think of it, not ever spelling heart right. (You can tell I was home-schooled!) It dawned on me quickly that most people were rocking users like 'frostpool,' 'Stormwind' and 'firelily.' I think my first ever role play was a reasonably successful Clan called GoldenSunClan, a friendly bunch ^^ that's where I first learned about 'mates' role playing and how the forums worked.
Sometime after I learned to be semi literate and became adept at using the forums I changed my name to follower (as Id grown fond of the nickname follow and it's many derivatives) and since then I've never changed ^^
I remember entering mate threads endlessly searching for the 'one' about 20 girls on each vying for the 'guys' attention and trying to prove how worthy they were ^^' I sadly can't remember the SN's of my older mates, I think there was a sharkfang, one of the earliest, Blackshadow? Could have been one. The only mates who really made an impact on me was a guy with the user sherlock (in fancy wordings) He was a cool guy, I nicknamed him sherry, :3 But! As is usually the way, he disappeared and never returned. Around this time I was friends with a guy called Dakota,(daks) he was my forum bro ^^ I'd love to know how that guy is getting on now. A girl who's had a few different screen names, but was then known as maple, (maps) I think for a good time we were very close as forum friends, she left for a time but came back again thankfully. Ashen - she had various SN's but they usually included ash. She was very sweet but often seemed depressed and I never knew what to do to help her. Whinny, I can't remember her full SN! something to do with wind xD and I was also very active on the art forum.
Now the ART FORUM I owe that place big, If it wasn't for people (Ebonycloud, cassie, serenity, stormfeather, bluestream etc) posting awesome drawings and me wishing I could be like them I wouldn't have started drawing again, I started off crap as pretty much every artist does But eventually I like to think I became reasonably well known. Around 2011-2012 it was a really nice community on there ^^ It's gone downhill since, though I can't say I really know how it is now. I hope it's nice again!
I made a few reasonably successful RP's, I reallly enjoyed designing threads and I had a small grasp of digital art and GIMP so I was able to create my own graphics maps and headers. My two favorite creations were NORTHCLAN and MASKED, masked being a point of particular pride as we had some very good quality role-playing there ^^ over the years I created tons of clans, most of which failed I'm sure, as I have a short attention span.
Round this time I met Nangijela/felyrah/morningsomething/blossomsomething(I'm afraid I can't remember) who is as lovely a duck as you ever will meet, she really encouraged me with my art and photography.
My last mate was --Jag, great guy, by this time I was 16? I wasn't into the whole treating your mate like your real life BF, we were just good friends who cared about each other. I'd really like to know how that guys getting on, he was as realistic as they came ^^
the last two years I've not had much to do with the forums, I've wandered mostly around offtopics and dabbled in the odd quick rp. But that's it, Does anyone remember me from those years? You know, when the official forums still looked like this?
drop in and say he It'd be nice to catch up
Ii first joined in September 2010 at the age of 13 (old enough to join without parental consent (; ) I'd been reading warriors for about a year and I was hooked, I would devour these books I got them from the library and finished them within a day! I got so excited when one I ordered finally came in and I could collect it. I would be moody when I couldn't read my book and had to do something productive like schoolwork or going outside, I used to fantasize about the warriors world invent myself as a character and in my head I would interact with Firestar and Greystripe, be a hero. I'm still the same as that now in some ways, except I get a LOT less time to read ^^'
When I discovered the forums it blew my mind, I joined straight away, I didn't even take a moment to look around at how things worked or stalk a little, nope. I just jumped straight in and landed myself with the oddest username (You know, before non warrior usernames were cool) follow>ur>hart, I faceplant now to think of it, not ever spelling heart right. (You can tell I was home-schooled!) It dawned on me quickly that most people were rocking users like 'frostpool,' 'Stormwind' and 'firelily.' I think my first ever role play was a reasonably successful Clan called GoldenSunClan, a friendly bunch ^^ that's where I first learned about 'mates' role playing and how the forums worked.
Sometime after I learned to be semi literate and became adept at using the forums I changed my name to follower (as Id grown fond of the nickname follow and it's many derivatives) and since then I've never changed ^^
I remember entering mate threads endlessly searching for the 'one' about 20 girls on each vying for the 'guys' attention and trying to prove how worthy they were ^^' I sadly can't remember the SN's of my older mates, I think there was a sharkfang, one of the earliest, Blackshadow? Could have been one. The only mates who really made an impact on me was a guy with the user sherlock (in fancy wordings) He was a cool guy, I nicknamed him sherry, :3 But! As is usually the way, he disappeared and never returned. Around this time I was friends with a guy called Dakota,(daks) he was my forum bro ^^ I'd love to know how that guy is getting on now. A girl who's had a few different screen names, but was then known as maple, (maps) I think for a good time we were very close as forum friends, she left for a time but came back again thankfully. Ashen - she had various SN's but they usually included ash. She was very sweet but often seemed depressed and I never knew what to do to help her. Whinny, I can't remember her full SN! something to do with wind xD and I was also very active on the art forum.
Now the ART FORUM I owe that place big, If it wasn't for people (Ebonycloud, cassie, serenity, stormfeather, bluestream etc) posting awesome drawings and me wishing I could be like them I wouldn't have started drawing again, I started off crap as pretty much every artist does But eventually I like to think I became reasonably well known. Around 2011-2012 it was a really nice community on there ^^ It's gone downhill since, though I can't say I really know how it is now. I hope it's nice again!
I made a few reasonably successful RP's, I reallly enjoyed designing threads and I had a small grasp of digital art and GIMP so I was able to create my own graphics maps and headers. My two favorite creations were NORTHCLAN and MASKED, masked being a point of particular pride as we had some very good quality role-playing there ^^ over the years I created tons of clans, most of which failed I'm sure, as I have a short attention span.
Round this time I met Nangijela/felyrah/morningsomething/blossomsomething(I'm afraid I can't remember) who is as lovely a duck as you ever will meet, she really encouraged me with my art and photography.
My last mate was --Jag, great guy, by this time I was 16? I wasn't into the whole treating your mate like your real life BF, we were just good friends who cared about each other. I'd really like to know how that guys getting on, he was as realistic as they came ^^
the last two years I've not had much to do with the forums, I've wandered mostly around offtopics and dabbled in the odd quick rp. But that's it, Does anyone remember me from those years? You know, when the official forums still looked like this?
drop in and say he It'd be nice to catch up