Welcome to Gaia! ::

Keys? That's me! Oh, those were the good old days. Then my life got really busy.

Then in one of my ludicrous LJ posts, someone was like "hey, you're makyoku! come back to Gaia" ...well actually that happened several times but every time I tried to go back to go-gaia.com, I couldn't get the site to load. Then since I suppose the time was right, I took the next step and actually searched with google for Gaia's new address. ...and here I am. AG was talked about much in the HareStyles thread and I first came over here for HP7 talk.

This is the first avatar I posted to my LJ. I have always loved the pumpkin stump and for whatever reason liked the phat shirts with no pants and will forever love the goth boots.:


Less than two weeks later I changed my hair to its current state:


Actually I had heard about it earlier in Aimee's LJ whenever they introduced doll ears and she was showing off her avatar with them. I didn't feel much impetus to join at the time though until the big #anime-cel group-join.

So I heard about Gaia from...a snark site, actually. I grant that some of you are familiar with Fandom Wank?

Back in its early-ish Journalfen days, I used to see Gaia get mentioned a lot. And it kind of interested me, because, hey, I liked dramatics even if it was on kind of a girly site. So I decided to go check the site out, and I registered for it, not expecting to stay here for too long. I ran around like a noob acting the fool in AMC and eventually the AG regulars took pity on me. (I'm not quite one of the first AGers, though I'm fairly close. Like, I believe Baku was still around when I started hanging around the Anti-Sticky when it was ACTUALLY IN THE AMC. scream )

Four years later, and I'm still on Gaia and in the AG. It's changed a lot now; the site definitely caters more to teenagers than it does to young adults (which is what I think it aimed for before), and when I joined it was in the midst of that transformation. On the other hand, I take it that Cynder still hits on everything that has two legs and some things that don't. (Including myself. I...ah...have a third leg. redface ) I've been through Q&F (before the split into Q&A and F), helped run the GEN for a bit, and now I just celebrate "retirement," if you will, in the Ragnarok forum.

Wow, apparently I missed this thread. I really should check out the AG more. sweatdrop

So, a random friend I had on msn around five and a half years ago started talking to me about an awesome site called GaiaOnline where users had the option to create wonderful avatars cosplaying various Anime characters or characters which were fully customizable.

Half a year later I stumbled accidentally on Gaia and decided to create an account for the hell of it, back them my main interests were Anime and Manga and the merchandise connected to them so I eventually got into the AMC.

Now, we all know what kind of an idiot I was when I first joined Gaia so naturally I got into a lot of trouble with regulars, Stream, Kenny and even some moderators but eventually I learned from my mistakes and actually started being somewhat of a user that knows what they're talking about.

To say the least, I'm amazed I'm still here after almost 5 years on this site, things have changed a lot and as Phoenix said Gaia doesn't appear to have the same age group they are aiming for as back then.

Regardless of this all, these past 5 years have been a blast on Gaia where I made a lot of friends and even got as far as making it to a mod. (Surprising, I know)
I guess I owe a lot of the people in the AMC a thanks for that, as I owe a thanks to Phoe, WJ, Zero Rosa and Kansai for showing me the way, sort of.

This was my first avatar:

lol, I still love the shades. XD