PC families

Started by acatfrommars February 9th, 2016 2:24 PM
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acatfrommars

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Posted January 9th, 2023
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I remember when I joined back late in 2013, PC families were a big deal on here. It seemed like everyone was in some sort of family and being a newbie at the time it was a little intimidating. Soon though, I had made friends and eventually had a PC family of my own. I was active for a few months, left after about a year came back and families were still big but not as big as when I joined. Then I was active again, and left and came back recently and like they stopped existing. So what the hell happened to them, were you in a PC family; what do you think their decline was? Are you still in a PC family?

Mawa

The typo Queen

Age 30
Female
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Seen August 13th, 2020
Posted March 1st, 2020
I wasn't here those days, but I don't think I would have like this..

I mean, you are new on a big forum. Then you realize you don't fit... what's next?
Or, you have a family, but you really want to be in this other group but you can't.


It looks intimidating. And a bit - sorry for those who like it/live it - juvenile, as it reminds me of the way teenagers are acting at school.

For sure, if I would have been new here and I'll realize hat everyone is a close group of online friends and I'll need to found mine, I am not sure I would have stay long..

But hey, maybe I am wrong! ;)
I miiiiight be back?
And why am I not a supporter anymore >.<

Christos

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Seen April 16th, 2020
Posted December 16th, 2019
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I wasn't here those days, but I don't think I would have like this..

I mean, you are new on a big forum. Then you realize you don't fit... what's next?
Or, you have a family, but you really want to be in this other group but you can't.


It looks intimidating. And a bit - sorry for those who like it/live it - juvenile, as it reminds me of the way teenagers are acting at school.

For sure, if I would have been new here and I'll realize hat everyone is a close group of online friends and I'll need to found mine, I am not sure I would have stay long..

But hey, maybe I am wrong! ;)
Families weren't actually groups, they were more like the "pairs" people have these days. So instead of having two or three close fiends as your forum pairs, you'd have an evil twin, a partner in crime, a brother, sister, father, etc. listed in your signature.

But yes, the majority of people back then were teenagers

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Audy really said it all. PC isn't a young forum anymore. The forum is either full of people who did join when they were young and stuck around all these years, and then there's the new members who join, most of which are also older people. And as people grow up and mature, there's no real need to have friends be listed as "pairs," "cousins," or whatever. You just know who you're close to already, and the friendship might even be a little more distant than it was a few years ago.

The only part of a PC family I'm in that's still played out is Ludger/Sydian calling me "momma" because I adopted her as my PC daughter when I first joined. The nickname stuck.

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Tsutarja

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I have a PC family, but it's been so long I feel disconnected from it D: aahh thank you Janna for keeping me in yours though <3

Skip Class

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Once upon a time in the good times of 2009-2011 I went through about 5 sisters, 10 brothers, my father who somehow happened to be my son, 4 mothers, god knows how many cousins and 3 pairs which was shared on multiple forums.

5 years later it's only me, myself and I :c My family have long left the forums and I've been pairless for a few years.


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Dusk

Age 29
she/her
Kanon Town
Seen November 18th, 2022
Posted September 24th, 2022
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8.4 Years
I never had a family or a pair.

Been feelin' kinda estranged from the friends I've made here as of late, anyway.
VPP: Vulpix @ 3,086 &Wobbuffet @ 3,012 ✩

Palamon

Silence is Purple.

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PC families?

My pair is Zen, and that's all I need, tbh. I'm not going to go around and get into a big "PC family". I'm too old for that. It's 2016. I'm also not really close to anyone here besides user Zen, so.
On a forum I used to go to we had a ridiculously huge forum family, including the most terrifyingly convoluted and incestuous family tree I've ever seen; it was pretty awesome. Trying to keep track of it was half the fun, as we'd all usually refer to one another by our relations, develop mock rivalries and enmities based on our family tree relationship, and so on. It was more a game than a half-serious thing which families seem to be a lot of the time elsewhere.

I guess that's why they typically fall out of fashion - it seems like a good idea at the time, but people don't really know how serious they should take it, so the idea kinda loses momentum and it becomes really awkward. It's more of a new forum thing where it kicks around for a few years to tie members together, then falls out of fashion as people develop friendships strong enough not to need that internet family tie, or leave the forum, or just lose interest if it's mostly treated as a game.

I kinda want a pair on here for giggles I'm so lonely why doesn't anyone like me but I'd feel extremely creepy if I asked, and most people I know have pairs anyway, so. I'm nobody's second (or third or fourth) wheel!

Dusk

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Posted September 24th, 2022
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I kinda want a pair on here for giggles I'm so lonely why doesn't anyone like me but I'd feel extremely creepy if I asked, and most people I know have pairs anyway, so. I'm nobody's second (or third or fourth) wheel!

I like you a lot!! As a friend, of course. :3c
*attempts to use Cute Charm*
Wanna pair up?

Uh... something something Harmony Power!


It's okay if you don't want to. Who even does this pair thing, anyway?! It's almost 3 in the morning and I hope this is all a dream... x'D
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I like you a lot!! As a friend, of course. :3c
*attempts to use Cute Charm*
Wanna pair up?

Uh... something something Harmony Power!


It's okay if you don't want to. Who even does this pair thing, anyway?! It's almost 3 in the morning and I hope this is all a dream... x'D
Waaaah you're totally destroying my little loner vibes stop it
OMG, you totally friendzoned me and then proposed to me in the same post. That's awesome. xD
Sure~~ Don't people already ship us anyway? I think Sun is already writing fanfiction...or if he's not he will be after reading this, ahaha
*insert that cheesy line about not wanting to wake up if this is a dream here* /shot

Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
50,214 posts
12.2 Years
I never really invested in a PC Family, because it only had one member who was Starry Windy who is already a pair of mine. I had gone through a lot of different pairs but these days it's just Windy and Sun who stick with me.
Gone forever for personal reasons.
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Treecko

the princess without voice

Age 31
He/Him
St.Louis,Missouri
Seen November 30th, 2021
Posted November 29th, 2021
6,311 posts
11.2 Years
I don't remember families being a thing when I joined. I thought they died out before then. This forum family concept is interesting to me. I probably would have had one if I joined when I was like 15.
"Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere"