Without love, it cannot be seen.
I've been an internet surfer since the early early age of probably seven to eight years old. You might be asking yourself what a child at that age was doing on the internet. Well, rest assured! I was (getting my parents permission, mind you) to play games on noggin.com and later nickjr.com! At least, I think those were the domains! It's been years, so I don't remember. That was (one) of the earliest activites I got up to on the internet!
My love for silly little web browser games held strong for a long time. But there was only so long a web game could hold my attention. When my Sonic hyperfixation took hold at around nine or ten years old, I had found a website called emeraldgames. That became my new home for the forseeable future. It was also my first taste of what the internet truly had to offer, for better and for worse!
From there, I took my internet exploration deeper. I never dove too deep into the waters, that wouldn't be for another few years. To me, "diving deeper" was exploring a new website on occasion. Something like newgrounds... which I spent a bit of time on, if only to watch Super Mario Bros Z and Brawl Taunts. Neither of which I'd recommend to anyone nowadays.
I grew up a neurodivergent child. So I struggled to make friends among my peers. That and I had undiagnosed autism, which my Mom neglected to tell me was legitimately diagnosed. Found that out when I was twenty-one and looked my medical records for the first time. Very cool. (Not.)
All of my interests were geeky and things that people didn't really want to talk about. Since my main hyperfixation was Sonic, a lot of my time was spent playing games like Sonic Rush, Sonic Adventure for the Gamecube, Sonic Heroes (which I never beat...), Sonic Rush Adventure, and SOMETIMES Sonic Colors. Which I didn't really like all that much, both the Wii and DS version. I think I was still salty about the voice actor change. I got used to it, though.
So right, anyway, I didn't have many friends. I found a cool Sonic community on Facebook, but Mom didn't want me talking to internet strangers. Can't imagine why. So I went to another internet forum that was made for kids. Mom was chill with that one for a while and then decided it wasn't chill. Don't remember why. I think my best friend's mom at the time went "blah blah blah it shows advertisments not made for kids blah blah blah" and then I had to delete my account. Which sucked. I did find some old folks from that old website I used to frequent online though. YEARS later, at that!
But that didn't stop me. Me being removed from that forum was simply a minor inconvenience at best. I took about two years off from getting too heavily involved in online spaces... and then dove right back in when Animal Crossing: New Leaf released. So you might be thinking: "Ah! So they got involved in the Animal Crossing community!
And that would be a logical conclusion! But that would be the incorrect guess. Unfortunately, this is where I stop that bit of history. Because from there, things in my life get messy. Maybe that's for another page, maybe I never share that bit of lore about myself. Who knows?
I'm a creator. I've been creating since I was young, writing silly little fanfictions on fanfiction.net. Writing when I should have been asleep. Writing when I should have been paying attention in class. Writing until the wee hours of the morning. Writing when I should have been studying. And when I wasn't writing, I was reading fanfiction and talking to other folks in the fanfiction community (sneakily) on my DSi.
I had this thing growing up where my hand would cramp if I had to write for long periods of time. I think it's gone away after my years of journaling and writing things down by hand in notebooks, though. But as a kid, it wasn't great, and my hand would cramp and hurt. So I was allowed to have a tool that would let me type essays. Something called an Alphasmart. I was about to type I don't think I would have been nearly into writing without it, but that's not true. I was typing stories on the family computer in notebook or Microsoft word for a long time.
I have a lot of characters that have been swimming around in my head for over ten whole years. Stories that have kept me busy during boring times. My creativity is an endless source of entertainment. So even if my phone dies, I'm never in crisis cause all I have to do is lean my head back and daydream.
But I can sit here and tell you about my creative past and how much I love creating all day. I'd much rather you just go look at everything I've made.
...But as I was doing that, I realized how boring it was turning out. Like, it was just straight up a list. Like, everything else on my page is a gigantic ramble, but this is just a list? I've always said before that everything I surround myself with makes up a good part of what I am and who I am as a person.
Instead I made another page for it, because trying to include all of that here would be loooooooong...
