I'm back.
Goodness, it's been a long while. It's hard to believe I've been on Gaia now for approximately eight years. Sure, it wasn't straight through - there have been some long periods of inactivity in there - but I never quite abandoned this site as I have others from my youth. Perhaps it's because it's remained somehow fun, even as I have ceased to truly roleplay and rarely have much to add to discussions. Perhaps because it's built to such a wide and expansive age range that it's not really something one can 'grow out of' even after such a long time. There are games to play, guilds to participate in, even forums to shadow if one is a chatterbox type.
I think I like the games best, and I think I always have...even when that was pretty much limited to ages of fishing for guppies and old boots. razz
Still, certain Guilds are great. I've mostly been in and out of them as they rise and fall in activity, but there's one I've stuck with for a long time: The Harry Potter Guild of Gaia. Years ago, I was a mod and the Head of Ravenclaw. I "retired" from the post when real life started catching up and Gaia began to slip behind my priorities, but I look in now and again and it's still going strong. It's really great to see that. smile
Otherwise...well, I've never done particularly well in the forums. I'm not up to loads of bumping to get any thread I start noticed and humming along, and I don't often have much to contribute to other threads. I've always liked the Adoptables circuit, and even now am tempted to start up another attempt at a shop there, but am held back because it seems somehow unwise to devote that much time to what is ultimately a frivolous endeavor when I should be dedicating any artistic efforts to creating at least moderately sale-worthy pieces.
At the same time, I still create fanart and upload it to DeviantArt as a form of practice. It might be about the same thing, and at least I've picked up a few tricks of Photoshop which would make the creation of Adoptables a much less time-consuming thing than it was in my earliest attempts. Then again, those early attempts weren't very popular perhaps in part because of my relative lack of ability in the artistic realm.
I'm still debating with myself. Go figure.
Ah well. It's ultimately unimportant, one way or another, and I'd rather not keep rambling on and on about the same subject in this journal; I did delete most of my old entries for that very reason, after all. They were, by and large, rather brief and limited in content.
Time to have some fun with this instead.
 Alutian · Thu Jun 06, 2013 @ 04:58am · 1 Comments |
