08-27-2015, 08:37 PM
I still (kind of) remember my earliest days of RPing....they were not pretty. I haven't been around long enough to remember ye olde golden days of AOL and such, but my very first days were on freaking Gamefaqs message boards, when the DBZ Budokai games were still shiny and new. From there on I moved on to a series of various different RP genres and sites, mostly situated on Proboards and other such forums.
My first real "taste" of actual RP bliss was on MSN Groups, when those were a thing. Stumbling onto a mass LoZ-themed board, I dove in headfirst and found it was something I liked, though unfortunately, all too soon that entire community (and much of Grops in general, to my memory) came crashing down. And I broke off mostly from RPing entirely for a while.
I didn't really hit my solid RP stride until around 2010, when I was dragged forcefully onto a mass-crossover site on Proboards by my cousin, and went from maybe a few sentences to full-blown multi-paragraph business. It was fantastic.
On and off over the next few years, I participated in, ran as staff for, and even just plain started and ran more sites than I can keep track of. Some were successful, some were not, all were fun.
A while back some things happened, mostly due to stupidity on the parts of multiple people, though almost entirely myself. I was left dead to RPing, and many other things besides, and feeling pretty depressed and anxious about everything, and actually seriously considered quitting not only RPing, but writing in general. After a number of weeks of depressed moping, though, I decided to give one last search to see if anything could spark up the ol' interest again, and lo and behold....I found The Omniverse.
I spent a little hwile -- the better part of a month, actually -- reading rules and generally poking around the site for information, and soon something started to ignite and that writing and RP spark was brought of isolation and put back in the ol' fire pit. I was ready to give it another go, and there I was.
And here I still am.
And I have to say, even through my spotty internet access and less than 100% presence and activity, the Omniverse has been nothing but a pleasant experience. It was around and accessible via a simple Google search at a time when I wasn't in a good place to do more thorough searching, and I am so very glad it was. It's been a source of much entertainment and many other things besides in the year or so since I found it, and I take every spare moment I have to at the least keep an eye on it to try and miss as little as possible.
I won't go into any more detail about my FEELINGS AND PERSONAL ATTACHMENTS because I don't like to do that if I can help it, but here's me wishing that the Omniverse sticks around for as long as physically possible.
Stay awesome, everyone.
My first real "taste" of actual RP bliss was on MSN Groups, when those were a thing. Stumbling onto a mass LoZ-themed board, I dove in headfirst and found it was something I liked, though unfortunately, all too soon that entire community (and much of Grops in general, to my memory) came crashing down. And I broke off mostly from RPing entirely for a while.
I didn't really hit my solid RP stride until around 2010, when I was dragged forcefully onto a mass-crossover site on Proboards by my cousin, and went from maybe a few sentences to full-blown multi-paragraph business. It was fantastic.
On and off over the next few years, I participated in, ran as staff for, and even just plain started and ran more sites than I can keep track of. Some were successful, some were not, all were fun.
A while back some things happened, mostly due to stupidity on the parts of multiple people, though almost entirely myself. I was left dead to RPing, and many other things besides, and feeling pretty depressed and anxious about everything, and actually seriously considered quitting not only RPing, but writing in general. After a number of weeks of depressed moping, though, I decided to give one last search to see if anything could spark up the ol' interest again, and lo and behold....I found The Omniverse.
I spent a little hwile -- the better part of a month, actually -- reading rules and generally poking around the site for information, and soon something started to ignite and that writing and RP spark was brought of isolation and put back in the ol' fire pit. I was ready to give it another go, and there I was.
And here I still am.
And I have to say, even through my spotty internet access and less than 100% presence and activity, the Omniverse has been nothing but a pleasant experience. It was around and accessible via a simple Google search at a time when I wasn't in a good place to do more thorough searching, and I am so very glad it was. It's been a source of much entertainment and many other things besides in the year or so since I found it, and I take every spare moment I have to at the least keep an eye on it to try and miss as little as possible.
I won't go into any more detail about my FEELINGS AND PERSONAL ATTACHMENTS because I don't like to do that if I can help it, but here's me wishing that the Omniverse sticks around for as long as physically possible.
Stay awesome, everyone.
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