I was a Teenage Fangirl.
Feb. 17th, 2007 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Inspection of my user info reveals a rather startling fact -- I recently missed the five-year anniversary of this journal.
Five years. I'd be a fandom dino if I'd stuck around in any given fandom for any length of time. I've adjusted to my role as a perpetual neophyte, though looking back, I'd really thought I'd be well on my way to internet famous by now. Oh, the fancies of youth.
Looking back, I also find it rather remarkable that anyone flisted me at all. My first entry is rather representative of the blathering, internet-awkward entries I used to post, often daily, and sometimes multiple times per day. As for the writing -- well, let's just say that at that point, I fit in perfectly at ff.net.
Look, I was 16, okay?
I've made a number of amazing friends through this journal -- some of you, I feel like I've known forever; some of you have taught me an amazing amount about writing, about approaches to visual design, about vidding, about constructing logical arguments; some of you never fail to make my day brighter; some of you I now consider in the same breath as the people I see every day.
I'd just like to say thank you, for that. And to those of you who've been around since the start -- thank you for putting up with me when I was just another teenage fangirl.
The one thing I do regret: Choosing the pseudonym 'Cherry Ice.' This is not a name that engenders confidence. I mean, it's not 'Princess Scarlett Darquemist Elvenstar,' but it's pretty darn close.
Five years. I'd be a fandom dino if I'd stuck around in any given fandom for any length of time. I've adjusted to my role as a perpetual neophyte, though looking back, I'd really thought I'd be well on my way to internet famous by now. Oh, the fancies of youth.
Looking back, I also find it rather remarkable that anyone flisted me at all. My first entry is rather representative of the blathering, internet-awkward entries I used to post, often daily, and sometimes multiple times per day. As for the writing -- well, let's just say that at that point, I fit in perfectly at ff.net.
Look, I was 16, okay?
I've made a number of amazing friends through this journal -- some of you, I feel like I've known forever; some of you have taught me an amazing amount about writing, about approaches to visual design, about vidding, about constructing logical arguments; some of you never fail to make my day brighter; some of you I now consider in the same breath as the people I see every day.
I'd just like to say thank you, for that. And to those of you who've been around since the start -- thank you for putting up with me when I was just another teenage fangirl.
The one thing I do regret: Choosing the pseudonym 'Cherry Ice.' This is not a name that engenders confidence. I mean, it's not 'Princess Scarlett Darquemist Elvenstar,' but it's pretty darn close.
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Date: 2007-02-17 10:03 pm (UTC)It doesn't seem like five years, does it? It's been probably three or four since I've been in #subcafe or #kjcorner.
Aww, now I am remembered the good old days. Back when LJ needed invite codes, and 15 icons was absolutely awe-inspiring. And none of this fancy C2 styling, either. *shakes cane, mumbles about kids these days*
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Date: 2007-02-17 10:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-17 10:40 pm (UTC)And oh, boy. In those days, I made icons with Power Point. And there wasn't really anything you could do, and you could only get the size right by approximation, and then pasting it into another program to check the size, but it always came out blurry and added one or two white pixels to a random number of sides.
I was so very, very proud of those icons.
*clings to Photoshop*