Maiden of Lost Memories

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Last Login: 02/13/2024 2:33 pm

Registered: 01/26/2007

Gender: Female

Location: Midwest

Birthday: 07/11/1990

Occupation: Data Analyst

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Back In The Saddle Again



A quote I live by:

'To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.' -EE Cummings

I'm back online after years of inactivity, and to see the way this place has grown and changed is a strange combination of curiosity, gratification, and unease at how alien it all is to me now. I used to laugh at the "old people" who didn't know their way around the latest version of Windows, only to find that I am now the old person and I sympathize more than ever with the thought of all the effort needed to figure out what's new and what has changed since my day. Reading my old profile bio was particularly revealing and painful, but I had to save it before re-writing it. On the plus side (and the reason I came back), I can still do the things I enjoyed the most here, which is creative writing, socializing, and last but certainly not least: modifying my avatar.

I still don't quite remember how to code new images back into the text, so I'm going to leave my old images here so I can hopefully come back and really start to learn about it again. I find myself quite surprised at how much time, energy and effort I put into this site, and not just on this profile. I have a feeling if this place still has that special something that originally kept me here I can get just as much enjoyment out of it. I can't say say something like that about MySpace lol



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When You See This at the end of posts, you'll know it was me. ;)

She danced flawlessly with the mistress of madness on the edge of oblivion in the wake of death's ominous shadow.

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My Avy Art! ^^

Thank you XxYouWontKnowxX for the wonderful drawing! It's FANTASTIC!
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Thank you ToxsickPanda for this FANTASTIC drawing! I love it to pieces, thank you so much!
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whee Thanks so much to Rurouni Lord Sesshomaru for this awesome drawing of me! xD It's EPIC!

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I Don't Believe In Withholding, What's On Your Mind?

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jinn in a bottle Report | 03/07/2022 10:59 am
jinn in a bottle
Awesome avi heart
How long have you been a data analyst? Good career?
C h i k a r i B e a n Report | 10/09/2021 10:47 am
C h i k a r i B e a n
Thanks so much for commenting on and rating my entry!
This is the background.

I love your profile. So old school cool. emotion_kirakira
And nice makeup in the 3rd pic!
D-BoyTheFighter Report | 09/25/2021 5:05 am
D-BoyTheFighter
I stumbled onto you from the Writers section of the forums. You got quite a beautiful avatar. You oughta try out the Avatar Arena if you haven't already.
Soulor Report | 07/25/2021 12:39 pm
Soulor
Uh welcome back to Gaia. gaia_contract
dontdiefox Report | 07/12/2021 7:46 pm
dontdiefox
I'm glad you like the idea uwu

Can you explain more about multiple settings and catering to the season?
dontdiefox Report | 07/12/2021 4:38 pm
dontdiefox
It seems like a good amount of people are interested in, or at least willing to consider, joining a roleplay~ but they are a weighty commitment, soo maybe some kind of no app/walk-in world, where there's a new narrative event each week or two--to keep things moving, even if there aren't many players interacting with one another at the time.

It could be some kind of dystopian version of an already est. world, which could allow for more freedom around themes and events that might come up.

What do you think?
dontdiefox Report | 07/11/2021 12:25 am
dontdiefox
Literally, the exact reasons I came back, as well.
Missing that writer's kinship/inspiration, and avi building is just fun and relaxing uwu

As far as a guild, tho~
What would you want, specifically, out of a little writer's community like that?
(I need a little inspiration to get my "managerial" wheels spinning.)
dontdiefox Report | 07/10/2021 12:18 am
dontdiefox
Hey, lady uwu
How are you?

I saw you mention in that thread you recently came back to Gaia.
What brought you back?
Vox_Diaboli56 Report | 02/18/2019 9:20 am
Vox_Diaboli56
Hot damn I'm back. You remember me at all??
Vox_Diaboli56 Report | 09/02/2016 9:05 am
Vox_Diaboli56
Hey maiden, still alive?
 

The Maiden's Muses

The Dragon Warden

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I've had several names for him over the years, each one less asinine than the last... I hope.

As a result I don't have one name to identify the personification of my creative inspiration, and am more comfortable with a dramatic title. I can't help but laugh as I post that.

I confess that personifying such a complex concept is a telling detail toward the stunted growth of my muse in the last decade. I hope that the enthusiasm garnered from coming back to this place will "trigger a growth spurt" and generate some truly inspired work.

Nyla Rane: The Maiden of Lost Memories

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Rane is pensive and quiet, quick to smile with a magnetic personality. There is a certain air of enigma about her, but her warm and polite disposition leaves most inquisitive, rather than threatened. Her most endearing quality would perhaps be her loyalty. She isn't too quick to love and trust, but once given is never taken back. She would willingly give her life for those she comes to love, and would never give it a second thought or bout of hesitation. Her cautionary approach to others and personal insecurities make it difficult for her to branch out, but Rane is quite capable of handling herself in public situations; as previously mentioned, she has an aura of mystery surrounding her, and her odd talent in contending with those of power are one of her most intimidating qualities, for despite her personal manifestation, she is an expert at displaying an individual of prestige.

A Message to my best friend

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You mean more to me than anything. Thank you for all your love an effort; I would not be here without you.

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The heart is always what sees before the head can see.
~Thomas Carlyle

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not the absence of fear. ~Mark Twain

What it lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do. ~Aristotle

Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. ~Will Durant

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~Confucius

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. ~Mathew Arnold

Life is what happens when you're making other plans. ~Anon

The first step of being wise is knowing that you know nothing. ~Socrates

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only what you are expecting to give-which is everything. ~Katharine Hepburn

You have to dance like no one's watching... and love like it's never going to hurt. ~Anon

There is always some madness in love. But there is also some reason in madness. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't want to be a doctor, and live by men's diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins; nor a lawyer to live by their quarrels. So I don't see there's anything left for me but to be an author. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everyone drinks water. ~Mark Twain

It's difficult to argue logically with someone who doesn't understand logic. ~Mr. Lycos

Don't cry because it's over... smile because it happened. ~Dr. Seus

It's never 'only a game' when you're the one winning. ~Olivia Courant

Never assume that just because a man's balls are there during sex that they'll be there after he puts his pants back on. ~Me

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