remember when
not super elegante but can you imagine
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magic i dont remember your tumblr teLL ME WHAT IT IS
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THIS FUNNY STORY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED ON THE ELEGANTE IS ARGUABLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK
and I have to upload the longer video to youtube, brb
What I forgot to mention; Herz later got drunk and cussed out Mikey on the stairwell, thinking he was Leonardo. He later befriended all of the Ninja Turtles (‘cept for Raph) and I don’t think they ever told him what really happened
GOOD
be as elaborate or as succinct as you want. i know elegante holds a special place in your heart, but i’d like to know why. write me a zeshat-damned essay.
(from plurk, the vicomte being dai and maid of hope being magic)
be as elaborate or as succinct as you want. i know elegante holds a special place in your heart, but i’d like to know why. write me a zeshat-damned essay.
Elegante, no two ways about it, saved my life and gave me perspective.
That probably may not make sense to some of you. I joined halfway through the game in ‘09, convinced to do so by a friend who was playing there and the fact that another friend I knew was there as well. When I joined, I met people I made friends with; Jas, who I consider my brother, Blu, who I’ve known forever but finally got to know more, Kat, someone who is thoughtful and awesome, Buggy, who shares my OTP’s and is the best drunk texter ever on top of being a great friend, Mari, who is one of my best friends in the world, P, who is a huge mama bear don’t ever let her tell you otherwise, Litzi, someone I love going crazy with, lots of other people that I can’t even recount.
Important because they’re at the end is Otana and Mana. About midway through ‘10 my dad tried to choke me and i didn’t feel safe at home. My mom wasn’t sure about taking me back in, and she wouldn’t have been able to get me that night anyway. Otana and Mana heard about it, came over, and got me out of there. They let me stay at their house, and I even lived there for a while.
I wasn’t in a good place after that incident. I stopped taking care of myself. They dealt with a lot of shit from me, basically living not with my parents for the first time and getting sick multiple times because of my diabetes. They invested a lot of time (and money) into me.
Eventually they had to contact my mother to let her know I wasn’t doing well. And my mom took me back in.
Far from being upset, this actually got through to my head that I had shit I needed to deal with. And I think if they hadn’t housed me and helped me and gotten me to my mom’s, I would have probably not taken care of myself, stuck in a cycle of not taking care of myself and ending up in the hospital and probably died.
Not a lot of that was about the rp. The RP was awesome; Elegante set standards that are so fucking high nothing else has seemed to meet them. But to me Elegante did more than that, it gave me a group of friends that mean a lot to me, more than they may ever know. And that’s what it means to me.
be as elaborate or as succinct as you want. i know elegante holds a special place in your heart, but i’d like to know why. write me a zeshat-damned essay.
Because it was the best RP that ever was and ever will be? Basically? I can’t count the number of characters I played at Elegante, but I’m so grateful to have gone through each of them, because with every character I had on the boat, I played with different types of characters already there and this connected me to so many people.
Of course… I sadly don’t talk to many people from Elegante anymore, but I feel as though if I wanted to reconnect, I’d have so many people right there waiting to chat. I still have everyone on my buddy list and some people here on Tumblr (who thankfully tolerate me even though I hardly post about things they even care about.) I know it’s got to be the same for everyone. We loved meeting and becoming friends with one another.
But I also loved the stories. If I need a pick-me-up, I dredge up some old threads and reread. Sal and his myriad of girls never gets old to me (SOB Sal and Riley.) I recently spent a couple days rereading every thread I ever did with John and remembering how much I missed it. And getting to take Andrew to a place where people actually liked him? Was strangely rewarding.
Also, can anyone say “best 4th wall days of any RP ever?!”
be as elaborate or as succinct as you want. i know elegante holds a special place in your heart, but i’d like to know why. write me a zeshat-damned essay.
elegante was my first ever lj rp
previously i had been rping on neopets and another thing called AOW which was essentially a shithole. jas introduced it to me early on and i stalked it for months because it was interesting and new but lol what do.
and then things went bad on aow and i took my chances with my first and god awful app for mimmi. at the time, i was also very depressed, and i remember quite clearly the excitement and exhilaration i felt after getting accepted the first time. the night i was accepted was new years eve and i was feeling terrible and upset up until molly pinged me. so it was a huge changing moment.
after joining i screwed up all over the place and had no idea what i was doing. and during my time playing at the game i grew and changed and learned a lot. mimmi 1.0 pales in comparison to my current mimmi, and now i have 34875346 set ocs when originally i used to make a new one on the fly as was the way of neopets rp.
i also dropped aow for good and it was elegante that made me realize how shitty of a place it was.
i contribute elegante as the thing that helped me beat my depression. i was genuinely excited and happy about the game and all the friendly nice helpful people in it and the amazing cast of characters. and the plot. and the real rp. my depression was a horrible nightmare i had nearly defeated by the summer of ‘09.
so i was seriously heartbroken when the game ended. and i will never forget it. ilu failboat. toot toot.
I met a lot of people, a lot of people who became immensely close and important to me. I have a lot of memories from the events there and the people with whom I played.
The problem with me trying to answer this is that I’m not sure there are any words that can convey how much I appreciated the game or the people in it. I wouldn’t trade my time there for anything else in the world. The experiences I had there always have a special place in my heart.
I often say I wish I’d been there until the end, but I’m beginning to see now that sometimes things happen for a reason. I think if I had been present, I couldn’t have put my heart into everything the way I would have wanted to. I’m going to try to stop regretting what I couldn’t do, focus on the good times I had, and all of the hopefully wonderful times I have with the same impeccable people in the future.
The Captain is a great man.
be as elaborate or as succinct as you want. i know elegante holds a special place in your heart, but i’d like to know why. write me a zeshat-damned essay.
