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 Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:31 am
Dear Anya,
I just don't know what to say that will express how very impressed I am by your talent, patience, and creativity, and how very thankful I am that you've created this game and the community that goes along with it.
Thanks to you, I've taken on the biggest writing project I've ever taken on. It's given me much more confidence in my own skill and a great deal of practice at creative and collaborative writing. It's pushed my creativity and kept me sociable and sane, even sometimes when I haven't been so sure about the latter. wink I was shocked and amazed to have gotten the chance to bring Anen to life with my words, and you've so beautifully brought him to life in your images.
Your art has inspired me both to write and to develop as an artist - I've made a lot of progress in digital art from observing you grow and improve over the time I've seen you doing this project. Your dedication to it impresses the hell out of me. I don't know how you keep going sometimes, but you just keep getting better.
I was deeply impressed by the sense of community I saw when I first stumbled across the thread, and it was the feeling of family I got from everybody that gave me the courage to post, chat, and play, hoping to be part of it in even a small way. I'm glad to be a part of it. Like so many of the rest of us have said, the Fa'e game has kept me on Gaia a few times when I've considered just taking off. Even through the arguments and bad feelings, we've been a group; we've been friends. That's important to me.
... wow, that all sounds cliche and mushy. xd I mean it, though. Thank you. *showers heartbubbles down on Anya*
yrs sincerely,
Liz
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:01 am
Anya,
I can't believe it has been a year. . . . I haven't been around as long as some of the other guardians, but the moment I saw the infant image of Aylana in Krista's sig in my old shop, I knew I had to learn who the artist was, and just what was the story behind this wonderful child.
Ever since that day, I have admired your work, and the wonderful progress you have made. And I am still in awe that Nyoka was brought to life by mere chance. I am grateful to you for allowing me to try and bring justice to one of my favorite mythological beings, and for me to improve on my writing, and my conventional art as well.
It never ceases to amaze me how you can get a basic (though more often than not a very detailed) decription, and bring exactly what the person had in their head to life without losing your own artistic voice in the process. I remeber commenting to Puchiko after Nyoka's last transition that you seemed to have captured the exact way I see her. And, indeed, she is the very picture I see when she is slithering around in my head and scowling at me, so that she my "socialize."
It's an honor to be in such a great communtiy, many of whom I view as an extended family - with squabbles and all.
I don't think I have said anything that hasn't aready been expressed before, but that doesn't matter. Now you shall have it all memorized in your mind!
Thank you for your trust in all of us, your hard work and constant dedication to the Fa'e.
Love,
Lenore S-N, and Lenore P.
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Lenore Silme-Natenhar Crew
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:30 am
Dear Anya,
A year, already? Time sure flies. And, no, I'm not great at writing stuff like this, so, I'll keep it simple.
Thank you for making the Fa'e thread. Without it, I probably wouldn't have half my Gaian friends. Your thread has brought people together, cliche as it may sound. Look at what's been said by others, though. Without the Fa'e, they might've left Gaia Online for good.
The Fa'e were, and still are, a terrific idea. Sprouting creativity from one person after another. Getting people to create a dream and reach for a goal. Heh. And you do what you can to make those dreams come true, so, nobody can really complain.
So, basically, I'm glad I could be a part of it, even if it was just a little bit of more to come. ^__^ For now, live long and prosper! Just don't tire yourself, okay?
With love,
koko.
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:40 am
O_O
WOW!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
OMG .... you guys are so nice *red as a beet* OH WOW. WOW.
*bounces off to read*
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:58 am
To Anya, the dearest and most amazing damn, uh, whatever you call someone who has accomplished something so great as the fa'e,
Despite the fact I sometimes feel like a fa'e newbie, I've been with the fa'e for a long time... stalking and stalking for months before I finally managed to win that auction, and now I've had Zevulon for months, and, uh... there's nothing really I can say that everyone in front of me hasn't. ^^; I suppose this is what happens for being a day late, eh?* But there's something special about the fa'e, something magical, that is almost tangible to people from the outside and almost completely lost once you get in, but it's there. I suppose it's just the fact that the guardians love their fa'e. That isn't something that normally appears in this forum. Many of us like our pets, and collect pets, and love this or that about our pets, but nothing seems to quite match the love between a guardian and his or her fa'e.
It really seems longer than a year with all the plots I've seen unfold... fa'e falling in and out of love, growing and having great adventures... it really feels like more than a year! Perhaps because in such a short time fa'e have grown from babies to parents! Where else can you observe such things in rational beings outside of Gaia? It certainly makes all of our fa'e seem more than one year old. They've all had my twenty years of life compressed into a few months.
I don't really know what I'm saying, except that fa'e are amazing and special and unique, and I don't just mean they all have unique pictures and personalities. It goes beyond that. Fa'e are more than just a "pet," they're a phenomenon, often imitated but never equaled.
So, uh, here's to one year! And to the next!
~Em
* Not my fault! I was on an aeroplane yesterday, else I would have posted a message. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:23 am
Dear Anya,
Once again, I am late. It's really quite embarassing that I don't or can't always give Gaia and Roth the time they deserve. (Okay, so Gaia itself is a bit of a s**t at times and, yeah, so is Roth, but I always love Roth anyway. Gaia can go jump.) After all the time and effort you put into Roth's art I feel a little guilty that I can't give him the time that I feel I should, like I should be RPing lots just to prove how much I love him and adore you for giving him to me.
I know it's probably silly of me, but I can't help feeling that way since, really, his journal is the only way to tell what he's been doing lately or whether or not I've been active... I do try.
When I was first given Roth, I doubt I was very coherent so let me say it now. Honestly, thank you so much for Roth. Thank you for the opportunity, and it really was a wonderful opportunity considering what little I had in mind for him to begin with. I wasn't someone like Lenore or Neith or Puchi who came to you with a great bio full of the character they wanted to have. Roth was sketchy and patchy (secretive little paranoid b*****d) and I'm well aware that what I had back then wouldn't stand a chance in a contest or anything today. So thank you for taking a chance on an under-developed profile and giving me my baby.
Roth has been a great learning curve for me. I've had character development for profiles, character development through RPing or writing as you go (something that would have panicked me a year or two ago and gave me no worries at all for Nano in Nov just gone), GMing experience, gained a lot of experience through fantastic RPs with others...
And I've met some truly wonderful people here. So many of these other fa'e Guardians I would have been too scared of to approach outside of HQ initially. Others I would prolly never have met. And these people are some of the sweetest, most creative people out there. And because of you and Roth I get to meet them, talk with them and even have my baby play with theirs.
Roth and the other Guardians have been a big comfort to me during my move this year. There have been times when I just retreated to my apartment and didn't feel like going outside to be reminded that I was somewhere so different. Whenever I was on AIM, another Guardian was always on. Whenever I was online and visiting Gaia, there was always someone in the HQ thread (Guardian or non) and they would be willing to talk to me - it was like I'd never left. And writing for Roth, even just a small diary update, or talking to these people made me feel better.
Maybe you didn't realise just what an impact the fa'e can have on our lives. We often trivialise the Net and things that hapenn on it, "it's just digital", "it's not real". But anyone who's ever written or created a character can tell you how emotionally invested you can get in your characters, especially after writing them so intensely for so long.
So I'd just like to say again: thank you so very much for Roth. He's never been good, he's not quite evil either, but whatever he is, I love him and I love writing and RPing him.
Thank you so much for something that is truly beyond price.
Love and worship and sparklies,
Kali
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