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Post by Ginger on Jun 25, 2019 15:27:30 GMT
I suck so bad at titling. Anyway..
Ever Did something forgot about it, somebody comes up. "DUDE This is Amazing how did you do this?" You look at it go "oh yeah, i did do that... Wait.. The Heck How did I do that?" Or Ever Look at Older theme/skins and just feel impressed by them? Just the time you spent and various technics you had used to make them? Or Reread an Old Thread/Bio/Post/Paper and Vow that person wasn't you, even you know it was?
TLR; Ever Looked at something you've done in the past and was Baffled by your own Work being More amazing you can recall?
Added: What about the Reverse Situation? It was So bad, you wanna hide your head in shame?
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Post by spanky on Jun 26, 2019 7:22:17 GMT
I got way too excited when i saw this. Like, hello? A chance to act like boo-boo the fool? sign me up MHMMMM MHMMM.
Anyways, I'd like to introduce you all to my first ever OC from when I was 11 years old: Gin Everlance. Her FC was white haired anime girl from photobucket and as you can tell I was writing without spellcheck at the time because google chrome wasn't out yet. :pepehands:
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phantom of the black parade
3,102 posts
bits
she / her pronouns
that's why, of course, i don't want to forget
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Post by Kuroya on Jun 26, 2019 13:03:42 GMT
honestly by this point who wouldn't like to blast their first ocs from the face of this planet?
for me, mine was an oc named... terra. (honestly she had a last name but i've forgotten it because she ended up becoming a site meme so uh yeah; it's not important so we'll just stick with terra.) her fc was some random super obscure redhead character with yellow eyes that i got from anime characters database and had like two pictures for, if that, but i was that determined to make a convincing flareon gijinka for this pokemon site, so by that standard, hey, i managed. for context, she was also my first oc on my first "real site" (since i don't count the forum i was dragged onto by an irl friend since it was my introduction to rping and it was a rl-fc wolf shifter site, and i really wouldn't do rl fcs for another four years, so yeah, you can imagine things did not go well there). so uh. you can imagine the sort of terrible character you're about to see unfold.
no but okay, honestly, things might have been all right if it weren't for literally everything about her. i had decided to go for... i don't even know exactly what i was going for at the time. i think it was supposed to be super childish but in hindsight, it was really badly done (as in ho boy there's no way there's not developmental issues with her). on one hand, yeah, she was kind of a joke character and it didn't take me more than a couple of months to really treat her as such myself, especially when i started getting really into just spitting out random garbage and rolling with it for her canon (like the time when she was in a wild mod thread, a delibird threw a present at her eevee that exploded, and from that point onwards she was convinced santa was evil, which, again, would have been fine if it weren't for the fact that by the time the site ended up dead a year later, she had managed to graduate from "santa is evil" to "santa drives a woodchipper pulled by chainsaws and has a horde of murderous elves" so it's clear that we were going to extremes pretty fast). on the other hand, dear gods do i recognize now how painful it must have been for everyone else to rp with her, between me fully embracing the wildness by having her outright ignore any kinds of reactions she didn't like and the extreme end of "she's a flareon gijinka who thinks all of the other eeveelution gijinka are her family" thing i went for and found very quickly spiraling into sheer madness as i kept doubling down on the craziness. like i said. she became a site meme. in that mentions of her name always got "oh dear god" reactions from my friends on the site, even years after the place had closed and she was long abandoned alongside it. which in hindsight yeah i get that reaction and bless them for putting up with me playing her.
i really did love playing her partially because of all those factors. it was really fun to just. weave a super insane narrative that literally everyone other than the character themselves thinks is random and delusional. and it made it super fascinating to watch exactly how everything was going to go for threads. to this day, i really wish i could get back some of that magic since good grief i think that this character actually had some of my most entertaining moments of character development and storytelling. but i also recognize how much of a problem she was in terms of reacting to other players, so i honestly don't know if i would ever bring her back or try to incorporate too many of the outside workings of her character into another one now that i'm aware of how problematic it is for other players to try to work with.
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259 posts
bits
she/her
he's suppose to be DEAD
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Post by yzma on Jun 29, 2019 2:08:23 GMT
one of my first oc's i remember was for inuyasha. she was a wolf demon named dark. i used this angsty emo goth furry dog girl picture to represent her.
to this day i look back on characters i made a month ago and ask myself "why did i think this one aspect of their history was a Good Idea"
i also to play furcadia
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Post by Ginger on Jun 29, 2019 2:33:25 GMT
rolling with it for her canon (like the time when she was in a wild mod thread, a delibird threw a present at her eevee that exploded, and from that point onwards she was convinced santa was evil, which, again, would have been fine if it weren't for the fact that by the time the site ended up dead a year later, she had managed to graduate from "santa is evil" to "santa drives a woodchipper pulled by chainsaws and has a horde of murderous elves" so it's clear that we were going to extremes pretty fast)
I'm sorry what? LOL this is amazing, if it was a character on a TV show or Book.. Or Hell even in a Roleplay I could join in with.. I'd love this character. Just... Grabbing something random and running with it. Best Early OC ever.
Here mine was just a ginger cat obsessed with the smell of ginger, admittedly got banned for bad grammar...
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phantom of the black parade
3,102 posts
bits
she / her pronouns
that's why, of course, i don't want to forget
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Post by Kuroya on Jun 29, 2019 3:07:50 GMT
I'm sorry what? LOL this is amazing, if it was a character on a TV show or Book.. Or Hell even in a Roleplay I could join in with.. I'd love this character. Just... Grabbing something random and running with it. Best Early OC ever.
Here mine was just a ginger cat obsessed with the smell of ginger, admittedly got banned for bad grammar...
yeah, uh. basically what happened was i was in a double mod thread and someone threw a fit over us getting rolled a lapras and a delibird, so i just shrugged loudly and took the delibird to solve the issue. the delibird used present, which has a chance to either give health to the target or explode; the mod's rng said it exploded, and since the character basically treated all of her eevees as her children to look after, it... kind of broke something inside her. she didn't get a lot of other threads outside of mod threads, for entirely understandable reasons tbeh, but honestly, her one mod thread was a ride from start to finish because i remembered that it featured a skitty that was trying to be evil (which was honestly probably one of the single best moments of pokemodding i've written with) and it had a pinsir, both of which were incorporated into the ever-involving conspiracy theory for santa being evil. .... honestly her eevees were p fun too, one of them was determined to more or less be the trainer and another one was an absolute crybaby and one of them basically napped the whole time. it was p good. also thanks i went through and found the old mod thread with the pinnacle of this insanity i regret like 100000 of my decisions now time to yeet myself into the sun
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321 posts
bits
she / her
got a secret, can you keep it?
Summer Bingo Completionist
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Post by Ven ☆ on Jul 3, 2019 14:46:31 GMT
I wrote something back in 2008 - 2009 and managed to finish one arc of a fanfiction based on Heroes (the TV show)
...now I can't even finish an entire story because WORK and WRITER'S BLOCK |
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bits
she/her
Breaking the silence of the night! Can't you hear me screaming?
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Post by shizuka on Jul 7, 2019 13:41:10 GMT
For the longest time recently, there was this old memory, a rp forum that I look back on and assume I must've had horrible activity on. I'm 100% convinced in both memory and self awareness that I probably like, made an app, probably posted once or twice at best, promised some threads and plots, then failed to make replies and left everyone hanging. Yanno, like how awful I am now. :'D
Then one day I actually decided to pull up the old site link and sift through it curiously, and my mind was blown. 6+ years ago me heckin... managed to keep up a whole THREAD going, large word counts and decent character interactions too. I couldn't believe it, I couldn't believe I did that, was capable of writing like that. U: Like, what the heck, me? How did you do that???? How??????
I thought my peak roleplay activity levels died midway through the very Warrior cat rps I got into rp with, but then apparently not quite. Strange how these things work. XD
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bits
any
I'm going to change, one step at a time, even if you won't forgive me
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Post by UMU on Jul 28, 2019 7:18:51 GMT
soo the sites I've been longest on either got themselves hacked and deleted, banned me off them after I had a mental breakdown (thanks to a lot of irl stuff that's probably too heavy to even mention sorry), the creator has blocked me or the member base hates my guts but aren't willing to admit it so just end up shutting me out if I come back. which is why when I leave sites, I ghost now instead of trying to discuss whatever problems I have with what's going on or try to bond with people \o/ which considering my mentality of I hate quitting, is extremely not like me.
more light hearted - 2 sites, 200 characters. what the hell was I doing, I have no clue but holy cow. and I will say, I had maybe 1 repeat character across all of that. yeah. oof.
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Post by wolfe on Jul 28, 2019 7:29:17 GMT
Within the past year I got access to some of my old writings from 2016ish from right before I took like a two year long break from roleplaying and I remembered thinking my posts/threads were super good but was kinda 90% thinking it was probably just nostalgia but I looked back and was like who the hell is this?
It was a period where I felt like I was being challenged really hard RP-wise by being surrounded by better writers so I was always trying really really hard to impress them and shit, one of whom I still keep in touch with even today who wrote literally exactly the same style I do except... better. Even when I was at 100% of my power she was like at 130-140%. Now I'm like at 70% of my power so I looked back like why can't that be me anymore.
I never played that OC again but holy shit did I have fun with them though, you can just kind of tell when a writer loves an OC to bits and it was completely obvious in my posts. I've only gotten that high with one other OC since then tbh and even then it wasn't as intense so I will look back on that time in fondness and also proof to myself that I was at one point pretty good at this writing thing before I TOOK A LONG BREAK AND LOST ALL MY POWER.
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Post by rafflesia on Aug 17, 2019 20:59:03 GMT
So I used to be a magician when it came to photoshop color editing, like I could recolor things beyond what anyone would be able to believe, and it was something that I enjoyed doing, but as time went on I started to do it a lot less and less, and this led to me one day deciding to color a manga scan of something for a friend...and realizing I didn't remember my old process, so I have all of these amazing color edits saved in my hard drives and no way to replicate that process, so when others come to me saying "This is so cool, but who did it?" It makes me really sad because my new style is just really gross when compared to how it used to be...the worst part is it feels like I traded those skills for learning stupid things like lazy rendering (rendering made easy so that it only takes about 20 minutes). It's sad because I use rendering more than coloring, but I wish I had the coloring skills still. If I could go back and choose what to harness instead, I'd stick with coloring instead of rendering.
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259 posts
bits
she/her
he's suppose to be DEAD
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Post by yzma on Aug 18, 2019 20:39:33 GMT
So I used to be a magician when it came to photoshop color editing, like I could recolor things beyond what anyone would be able to believe, and it was something that I enjoyed doing, but as time went on I started to do it a lot less and less, and this led to me one day deciding to color a manga scan of something for a friend...and realizing I didn't remember my old process, so I have all of these amazing color edits saved in my hard drives and no way to replicate that process, so when others come to me saying "This is so cool, but who did it?" It makes me really sad because my new style is just really gross when compared to how it used to be...the worst part is it feels like I traded those skills for learning stupid things like lazy rendering (rendering made easy so that it only takes about 20 minutes). It's sad because I use rendering more than coloring, but I wish I had the coloring skills still. If I could go back and choose what to harness instead, I'd stick with coloring instead of rendering. never 2 late 2 learn |
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praise the cats!
590 posts
bits
he/him
accidentally fell in love with hawks and i now can't get out please send help.
Summer Bingo Completionist
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Post by utter hawks trash. on Oct 26, 2019 3:02:29 GMT
consistently wrote 500w+ posts.
me: wtf
consistently wrote 500w posts in 25-30 minutes
me: WTF
only replied to people in a minimum of a month
ok maybe i've improved ...
wait holy shit i had like 1000 posts+ on this one site that i was only one for a couple of years? i had TWO sites like that? holy fuck, where hath my posting motivation gone? |
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125 posts
bits
she / her
wait a minute my head's a mess
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Post by apple on Dec 19, 2019 21:17:21 GMT
i once kept up with 5+ characters long enough that they were fully plotted & thriving with more than one other rp partner. i remember those days fondly :''')
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bits
Open for Art Commissions
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Post by 「イオタ」 on Feb 16, 2020 16:31:15 GMT
Yes. I was looking up "Dark Kusuriuri Mononoke" in Google and incidentally came across this:  And I stared and it and I was like "whoa, whoa, that looks like something I made for an RP friend eons ago. But is it? It can't be, I wasn't that decent years ago. So, I clicked on it to see it better and the original tag was "Aphe @ Fidelius" which is my old name and where I used to RP. I was like "THAT IS DEFINITELY MINE, WHAT IS IT DOING ON GOOGLE?!" I clicked to it is was placed and apparently it's on Google because of my old Gungnam-Style coding/graphic gallery that I completely forgot about. It's up there as one of my "graphics" as I made it into a 200x300 avatar for a friend. Sometimes, I feel like a big dumdum. Pretty cool to see it after all these years, though! New PC, so don't have the original file unless. Trying to find my old thumbdrive (still looking for it) because I know it'd be on there. At the moment, it looks so blurry on twitter because it's so small. xD P.S. It came up under dark kusuriuri because my old coding/graphic gallery had a few Mononoke graphics |
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