Pokecommunity History, Vol. 2

[Saryka]

tl;dr story time~

Okey-dokey. I joined on March 10, 2007 simply because I wanted that ROM hack, ShinyGold (like a thousand other people haha). I seriously don't remember how I came across ShinyGold, why I wanted it, and how I managed to find PC, but I was here and I joined. My first username on this account was akaxrai - one of my friends used to call me "Aka Rai," which is roughly "Scarlet Thunder" (my old online alias) in Japanese (yes, it's not correct, but I digress). I added the "x" because I disliked underscores and "akarai" looked weird to me. XD;

BUUUUT ANYWAY. I joined in 2007, nabbed ShinyGold and left for about a year or so. What possessed me to come back in early 2008, I don't know, but I'm glad I did now that I look back on it. I somehow stumbled upon the DCC and it became my home ever since. There, I met a whole bunch of people who are still my friends to this day (including Harmony, kidpunk, and BeachBoy when he just joined; bawwww the memories ;o;). At some point then I changed my name to Scarlet Lynn and then eventually Saryka. The 2008 DCC is probably about half my current post count right now; I was the highest poster there by a long shot because I was ALWAYS THERE. D: Good times.

Most of my current friends I met over MSN through people I met on PC (namely the DCC). The MSN conversations of '08-'09 hold some amazing and hilarious memories. I still have some of the chat logs and I miss those days when our conversations were random and wildly inappropriate, haha. I met some amazing people, some of whom I still talk to to this day.

And in May 2008 and 2009, I met a few PC-ers irl by going to Anime North :D! I still laugh at some of the hilarious memories from those days and think about just how awesome it was to meet someone you've only ever talked to on MSN/PC in real life. I remember meeting Marz, Sorano, Lightning, Aegis, and Live in Color. Yaoi North 2008 still makes me lol/horrifies me greatly, that's all I'm gonna say. :'D Aaaand I met Kyoko irl last year too which made me happy. <3

About 2009-ish I lost interest in the site and kept leaving and coming back. Around then, I lost contact with a bunch of old friends, some of whom I have now regained contact with, others whom have remained lost. I still miss a few people I used to talk to. In the few times I came back, I changed my name to Aurélie Fey and Sariya for absolutely no reason. Thank goodness I was able to change back to Saryka before they removed name changing for good haha. :( I left for good-ish in late 2009 or something, I think and came back just last month. I miss being a part of this community because it's been so good to me. Without it, I wouldn't have met amazing people here and lol bawwww emotional sappy sentence. This forum's changed so much for me, most of the people I hung out with here have left (for good for the most part) so few people actually remember me. XD; S'cool. I love PC, though, and I have no intentions on leaving anytime soon.

So... yeah. Congratulations if you read that text mountain. (b'-')b

 

[Misheard Whisper]

Hmm, I don't know how to access my post history past the last 500, but I'm fairly sure my first post was in the introductions thread.

Not much was different when I joined two years ago - PC seems to have stayed relatively constant. We used to be able to change our usernames every four months or something back then, though. Actually, I think the loss of name-changing was a fairly recent event. Hmm.

 

[Uecil]

My Story goes like this:

I started way back in late 2009, where I was a total noob who wouldn't listen to anybody. I found this place and joined it after one of my friends told me about how cool this forum was and that I should join it. So, after some convincing I did that. I joined in with the username sspokemon because at that time my grammar and my use of trying to think of a decent username was just fail. and it still is anyway after being here for the first several weeks I made some really nice friends, just by talking to the friend who told me to join here in the first place. (benthekid was his username if you're wondering ;) ) However, during those weeks we use to have arguments about really silly things that weren't even a point of arguing in then, but after getting good advice from a Super moderator here, I took it and moved on. Christmas started coming closer and closer, I soon started to remember about the noobish things I did such as swear and argue with people so I apologized to all of those people and then started a clean new leaf.

During the time around 21st December I soon started to acknowledge that this forum was huge and it contained a lot of members and I mean A LOT. So, I started to post because my friend use to boast about How many posts he had and I was very competitive at that time; I first started to post in three or four different sections of the forum: OT, OV, OC, Pokemon general and the Art corner because those sections were pretty interesting to post in. After, I had reached about 100 and above posts I soon started to take more action in the OT section, now that is where I met more of my good friends and we're friends still now. (ahh.. memories are bliss) So, after 2009 ended I got my first emblem :D
The 2009 emblem celebration looking one and I was so happy, but then I thought "these are pretty cool" and I wanted to get more somehow.
Around January, I turned 16 years old and my activity started to gain on this forum. I met even more friends a long the way of posting here also, I started to gain what you call a "crush" on some of my friends, but I admitted all of those later in the year. Then on around April, I started to post more and more and also I started up a PC family and it is pretty huge now and around that time my Nan died so it took a while for people to settle in around me when I was depressed at times because of it all. I also started getting more and more into anime other than watching just Yu-gi-oh and Pokemon, I hunted down several animes and started watching them and now I am pretty much obsessed with them.

I also won PC's PPC around that time too and I started to gain more and more emblems :P

Then soon after around June, July I went from about a total of 3 pairings, but now I am in a very stable one. I hope. Considering the arguments started to happen again around then, I mainly blame hormones for that though. If I remember correctly, some of my friends started to leave the forum then because they either have had enough of it or they're busy with their lives. In September 2010, I also became Year 12. Yup, I am a 6th form student! and I decided I should come on more or maybe less because ya' know this year is defiantly important. Sure, it was! I loved 2010 here at PC it was the year I will treasure the most. I met the most coolest people ever. In October, PC's Halloween thing was on and I remember I entered a graphics contest and/or before that I also won second place in one of the art events for the Tiger I drew and still, I got people making jokes out of how bad my grammar can be. [ROFLMAO]

After having the great Halloween then, um.. one of my best friends left this place (WonderGirl), she's also like a little sister as well. So, once the New year events and the member of the year event came on too. I made sure I voted for her for most missed because she's one of the members I think, made this forum very lively. Also, around November it was my first anniversary of being a member here and that's when I donated and became a supporter and got another emblem (Yay for emblems!!) and one of my friends made me a thread (Thank you for that, Erik. I appreciate it). Soon later it became the end of 2010 and right at the beginning of it, my birthday was on January (17 years old.. ugh.) then I took several breaks from here because of the amount of stress I was having with my parents and friends at the time and now, here I am. A pretty much Happy PC member. still haven't got over 2,000 posts :/ (and also I started up a graphics thread, I think around April of last year too. Mainly because I was bored Idk).

Edit: and I got my username changed from sspokemon to Galukxy around February of last year too.